Like hell it is!

I figured no malice was intended, so I considered it was a teachable moment for everyone. :)

>Holy Grail was too packed plus it's not appropriate for a 15-year-old

 

You obviously did not grow up on the west side. 

 

It also has some of the coolest, densest, neighborhoods in the state as well.

 

Just a reminder that we do not slam any city within Ohio, here at urbanohio.com.

 

The above quote may not have been intended as an insult, but it could be perceived that way.

 

I apologize if it was (and i kinda thought about it an hour or so after I wrote it).  I do enjoy going down to C-Bus as both my sisters are down there.  Especially the Victorian Village, Short North and German Village areas.  its just unfortunate how disconnected DT feels at times.

 

One big factor is the quarries and flood plains. So in many cases, it wasn't the work of bulldozers or apathy but topography and geology.

Paul in Cleveland asking the tough question

 

I know of one of the restaurants/clubs to open is going to get mixed reaction on here - but it is going to be large and likely will be a large regional draw

 

Does it rhyme with "Schmapplebees?"

 

From JYP on the Cincinnati Streetcar thread:

 

If you try to get yourself hurt, there's a 100% success rate. Did you try walking across the rails too? I hear they're a pretty hefty pedestrian trip hazard. Oh nos!

COAST constantly complains about government inefficiency and red tape, meanwhile they're the only people running around with the red tape dispensers.

Attendance and work ethic are "skills" now?  Somewhere off in the distance, I can hear Hank Hill's exasperated sigh.

Ohio has more state border covered in water than any other inland state outside of Michigan.  Reputation or lack thereof might be Ohio's biggest hurdle on the path to relevance.

 

One of the best ones I've read recently!

The reason why a lot of women are in a nasty mood is because they're just plain hungry.

CDM tickles me to death!

 

From the Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) thread

 

Thank God.  The terminals are out-dated and need a bigger facelift than Goldie Hawn.

I'm sorry but I just found this little exchange hilarious:

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,27876.0/topicseen.html#quickreply

 

A $%#@! dishwasher?

I thought you didn't want to share. Maybe the person in Northside who wants someone to do composting will swap for dishwashing?

Good lord man, just buy some daggone rubber gloves!

 

I guess no matter where I choose to live, there will always be somebody there to scold me for making the incorrect choice. Unless you're offering to come over and do my dishes for me, then I don't think you're in a position to criticise my dishwashing preferences.

 

Die if you want

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dishwashers-recalled-due-fire-hazard-141046185.html

Don't send your ghost running to me for salvation after your mortal butt goes up with the dishes.......

I agree that there is something funny about malls, but I've been thinking that since I was a kid, when working at the Northgate Mall Athlete's Foot was the single most prestigious job to be had in Colerain Township. 

Sums it up nicely for me

 

Cleveland is the place where your corner office is carved out of a repurposed building with a view of bricks and bridges and barges and the lake and grit and steel and the weather. It's where creativity and hard work can result in things that have never been accomplished before.

My favorite garage is the one on 4th between Race and Elm. It's there, its big, its ugly and proud of it. Like a pig wallowing in the filth of peeling paint and broken concrete it exclaims, "Hey I'm a garage. Park here, I got plenty of room!"

 

It'll even scoop you up off 4th street if you want. Wow what service!

 

Classy.

There is a difference, per Wikipedia. Paradise Restaurants Group LLC (Cheeseburger in Paradise) and Margaritaville Holdings LLC (Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville) are both subsidiaries of  Cheeseburger Holding Company, LLC.

Now if you are caught listening to any 90s rock, you're "stuck in the 90's".  The same people who make fun of 90s rock are the same ones who still think it's funny to sit around and talk about bacon. 

Now if you are caught listening to any 90s rock, you're "stuck in the 90's".  The same people who make fun of 90s rock are the same ones who still think it's funny to sit around and talk about bacon. 

 

How dare you insult BACON!

That comment was inspired by my roommate, who the other night made a big deal out of having bought 2 pounds of bacon and declared he was going to eat "nothing but bacon".  That joke is over 10 years old, it came from a bit some up-and-coming comedian did on Jerry Seinfeld's 2002 documentary "Comedian".  Now it's like a comedic genre, like a Western or a Cop Drama. 

 

" This may be a post-literate culture, but is it really necessary to broadcast this fact to visitors from other places where the average person who communicates with the public *does* know how to spell multisyllabic words?"

 

Am I the only person who never heard of this guy until yesterday? 

 

You may be.  He was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy as a defensive only player, which is just as unheard of as having a dead girlfriend online hoax.

I think everyone in this thread needs to calm down...there's a lot of hostility over a discussion of a public toilet.

 

It's funny because it's true.

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OMG -- so creative! Love it!

I think a lot of my high school and even college classmates are getting paid by the Koch brothers for their status updates.

I think a lot of my high school and even college classmates are getting paid by the Koch brothers for their status updates.

 

I wish....

There is a very simple reason why young people are driving less, They Simpley Can't Afford It. Invent any other reasons you desire, but that is the main one. The jobs they can get are lucky to hold down the payments on a used car, let alone a new one. Have they suddenly become addicted to a carless socieity? No, what they have become addicted to is being broke most of the time.

 

Just because something doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it's not true. As I get older I accept that there's things I just don't understand because of my age and that's OK with me. Pokemon for example. But I don't try to tell younger people how Pokemon works because I don't know. And this is something you don't understand. And it should be OK with you. But it isn't.

I've never written a text message, I refuse to respond to them, I don't understand what the hell their purpose is.

 

I really appreciated this old post in the Facebook thread. I had the same attitude around 2007, but that quickly changed.

I still hate them, but they've become necessary because that's how everyone else wants to communicate.

They're so slow as compared to just talking.

But they don't require talking, which is kind of the point.  I think they're a good intermediate between email and talking as far as expected commitment and time to respond, although I think they should be obsoleted in favor of chat services that work over the internet instead of the archaic SMS messages.

They're so slow as compared to just talking.

 

I disagree. I am definitely not a big texter (I don't have long conversations via text message), but it is much easier to text someone a question and get a quick response than to call / play phone tag / get stuck in a long conversation.

I’m a big time texter, and I despise talking on the phone.  It’s easier and more accurate, especially when you have a brief question that you don’t need answered this exact minute.  If you’re giving someone information, they don’t necessarily  need to write it down, just don’t delete the text.  It’s not so good if you are trying to say different things to different people, but to me, that’s an advantage.

 

Perhaps more to the point, a conversation can be carried on in the background.  Answer five seconds or five minutes later, read it five seconds or five minutes later.  No need to be concerned if you are calling someone at a bad time, no need to fill gaps with inane “small talk”.

Also, if you're in meetings and you've got multiple projects going on, I need to be able to text to give direction and answer questions on projects without having to walk out of a meeting to take/make a phone call, especially when we're working on tight deadlines.

Interesting conversation, but we probably need to move it to urban bar

Craft beers. You mean that stuff which smells like a shunk and tastes worse. Just what is the attraction to craft beers? Might as well go back to home brew laced with moonshine. That stuff had a kick too, but who wanted to drink it? I can't think of anything which can kill the gentrirication of OTR faster than craft beer.

 

I am entertained. :drunk:

I take pride in my city. Fact is, Columbus does have some parts of town that resemble things seen in Western cities.

 

Columbus reminds me of Dallas minus the world class BBQ/Mexican food. I mean that as a compliment (I think Dallas is probably the best Texas city culturally and structurally). It's a nice, flat, inland city with a decent light rail system, affordable neighborhoods near downtown, a terrible inner ring highway, and lots of urban infill right now on empty lots in the core. Columbus shares those qualities (well, not the light rail system since it's in Ohio). It's also friendly and outgoing in a drunken Texan sort of way.

 

*Just realized this post is two years old. Does Columbus or any Ohio city outside Cleveland have light rail yet?

 

**And if the hipster invasion of Columbus is as bad as my friends back there say it is, Columbus could also claim Austin.

 

***When you think about it, Columbus is kind of a Texas city. Economically, it has more in common with Texas boomtowns than the rest of Ohio, and it's completely obsessed with football.

*Just realized this post is two years old. Does Columbus or any Ohio city outside Cleveland have light rail yet?

 

Are you not aware of the most popular and active thread on UrbanOhio? The Cincinnati Streetcar thread?

I've never written a text message, I refuse to respond to them, I don't understand what the hell their purpose is.

 

I really appreciated this old post in the Facebook thread. I had the same attitude around 2007, but that quickly changed.

 

I finally got around to buying a smart phone in 2013, because I didn't want to become the old curmudgeon who relentlessly tops the stories of younger coworkers and acquaintances, but I quickly became bored with it, and am about to revert to my company's dumb phone.  I turned off my email, which I thought would be a great thing to have, but it caused me to consider emails with no more thought than the periodic work text message.  I also thought I would use the iPhone 5 camera a lot for legitimate reasons, but looking back on a year of photos and videos, basically none of them are of any importance.  All of it is frivolous and all of it is destined for the trash bin.  People will look back on their smart phone activity decades from now and recognize that it was all a waste of time and brain power.  They wasted their youth gabbing and trying to look clever, which I suppose prior generations did too, but they didn't create a record of it. 

 

It is sad, but also one of our greatest strengths is the ability to pull together against a foreign enemy no matter how divisive politics might be at the time...... and politics always have been and always will be divisive, as that is a necessary component of our political system.

 

True, and the unity was most clearly evident in the WWII era with clear battle lines and strategy. Post Iraq war I sincerely hope we don't pull together without reason.

Until then, I want enough political unity so that we can at least fix our roads correctly. The neglect of Madison Ave in Lakewood has accomplished something Al Qaeda never could - destroy my Honda Civic.

 

ROFLMAO

 

Don't make fun of Surf.  The Civic is a very economical car

Don't make fun of Surf.  The Civic is a very economical car

 

I'm laughing at the "destroy" part!  That tickled me!

From the Have You Been a Witness to or Victim of Satanic Activity? topic.

 

hey, natininja, you want to PM me some toenail clippings?

"Bros will be here in 2024. Will hipsters?"

 

C-Dawg on the Bros thread.

 

 

From the Cleveland: Public Square Redesign

 

Its a power play for a powerplay's sake.

@TheTweetOfGood

 

What would Jesus do? Officiate a gay marriage. And then cater it using only a loaf and a fish.

 

Cater it?  You should see Him bartend.  He kind of invented the open bar. :-P

^ Actually, there is no limit to what a bad mime can do to you.

These people need to quit listening to NPR and tune into real stuff...overnight trucker talk, country preachers, 30-minute reverse mortgage infomercials, etc. 

 

This is the best sentence I have read so far today.

Would it be safe to say that you also berate people on the "right" for characterizing a whole group of people based upon horrific acts committed by a select few?

 

No, really. Actual qoute