Posted May 2, 201213 yr Not sure if this should go here or in the Urban Bar section. Anywho, this thread is to document any appearances UO makes in the media! Let's keep elevating the narrative. Quimbob, cincySAL, and I were recently quoted on Cincinnati's Fox19. http://www.fox19.com/story/17961244/city-tries-to-buy-building-in-otr-for-streetcar-mainten
May 2, 201213 yr ...and I saw this first on FB. Apparently the UOers are also on facebook. Anyhow, wonder if UO gets much attention like this? I always thought of us as sort of this urbanist underground....our own little thing....
May 2, 201213 yr Anyhow, wonder if UO gets much attention like this? I always thought of us as sort of this urbanist underground....our own little thing.... I found it looking for city history crap. It's been mentioned that a lot of students find it, similarly. As there is a lot of discussion comparing Ohio cities to other cities in the US & beyond, it seems like Ohio news people should be looking at the site. -especially given their budget cuts & their laying off senior reporters.....
May 2, 201213 yr Anyhow, wonder if UO gets much attention like this? I always thought of us as sort of this urbanist underground....our own little thing.... Even with all of our billboards and planes flying around with the urbanohio logo banners trailing behind?
May 2, 201213 yr I don't think it's a common occurrence, but it might become more of one, as local media seems to be stretched thin for resources. Why interview when you can just pull quotes from the Almighty Internet? Rather than being quoted, though, I wish they would use us for finding directions for research on topics. So much of the topics we breach never shows up in the media, and we are constantly debunking things that do. If some depth could be added to the mainstream conversation based on things found here, using us could be a positive resource. I don't know if the quotes they pulled added to the discourse or fueled the tendency of media sensationalism. If the latter, I don't know what the implications are that we should take away. I know sometimes the conversation goes in directions that would be poison if given the media treatment. For example, I would definitely prefer some of Eighth and State's more off-the-wall contrarianism not be given the news treatment. That stuff is much more suitable to staying in the forum setting where nuance and consensus are explicit.
May 2, 201213 yr Not sure if this should go here or in the Urban Bar section. Anywho, this thread is to document any appearances UO makes in the media! Let's keep elevating the narrative. Quimbob, cincySAL, and I were recently quoted on Cincinnati's Fox19. http://www.fox19.com/story/17961244/city-tries-to-buy-building-in-otr-for-streetcar-mainten That news clip is a riot. I guess I'd forgotten how bad local TV news can be.
May 4, 201213 yr What is the protocol for saying the word "quim" on broadcast TV before 10pm? Is it OK to say it as long as it's followed by something else such as "bob" or is it not covered? Perhaps the producers haven't read that many '70s Hustler stories.
May 4, 201213 yr What is the protocol for saying the word "quim" on broadcast TV before 10pm? Is it OK to say it as long as it's followed by something else such as "bob" or is it not covered? Perhaps the producers haven't read that many '70s Hustler stories. Oh, hell no; I had no idea! LOL! Urban Dictionary: quim The noun quim was a Victorian-era word that was used specifically to refer to the fluids produced by the vagina, specifically during orgasm. In modern usage it is primarily heard in British slang and is a derogatory or vulgar term for the vagina itself. The word is rarely used today in English slang but used in Wales as an insult rather than the above meaning. The word may be related to Welsh 'cwm' meaning 'hollow' or 'valley'.
May 4, 201213 yr Quimby as in Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby of Springfield, means. "of the womb". Quimbob means..... redneck cunt? beats me check out Harriet Quimby - a badass fer sure.
May 4, 201213 yr congrats i think thats pretty effing cool. that thread goes back what? two decades at least? ha. so lets give'm a break - what better place for them to look and pull up opinions?
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