Wow. Really? My friend Juan said KFC is in Ecuador and they have rice and beans as a side, lol. I think in Japan they have Teriyaki chicken. I didn't know Popeyes was global though. I wonder if their sides are different.

 

I wish there was a Popeyes in Canal when I lived there.

 

Looks like there's a ton of them particularly in the Istanbul area.  Some rich Turkish student in the US probably fell in love with them and started franchising.

Fried Chicken is my guilty pleasure.  I think I'm becoming addicted to KFC and Popeyes. I hate how Popeye s chicken is exclusively located in the ghetto and often times right next to KFC (at that point I can't decide between the two.)

 

Popeyes seems to be closing urban stores and opening suburban ones in Cincinnati! I try to avoid fried foods, but I do love fried chicken every so often, and I always lament that the Walnut Hills location was closed and bulldozed a few years ago. I've always thought KFC was gross, especially when they dove head first into that whole stoner food monstrosity bullshit with the "double down" sandwich. A bacon, cheese, and 'sauce' sandwich between two pieces of fried chicken. The marketing for that alone pretty much turned me off to KFC.

Haha, everybody cued in onto KFCs move into stoner territory.

^ I eat celery, baby carrots, and cucumber all day long. Baby carrots are the easiest/quickest because you don't have to rinse or chop or peel. I also like seaweed crisps/crackers/sheets/whatever that you find at Asian food stores.

all of these are especially good with hummus, as are tortilla chips (okay, they're not that healthy).

powerful explosion in Chelsea...still developing

 

http://nypost.com/2016/09/17/explosion-rocks-chelsea-in-new-york-city/

http://www.freelance.com/en/mission/view/Web-Site-Developer-Designer/dbf9112256f9e6500157046e518f57f5

 

Has anyone used a freelance website to get work? Some of the people on this site are absolutely insane! Tight-wads... Do they think its like a numbers game? 100 people view your ad and there's going to be that one sucker who will work for literally $0.25 an hour? This person's budget is $100 and this backlog would literally entail a 1-2 week sprint for an entire team of software engineers plus requires a graphic designer. That's assuming all goes well because as she says, "all redesign when done must be approved by me." You know what that means... entire days wasted adding features and changing designs and showing this idiot what you came up with, only for said idiot to respond with "could you just change it to this and add that." Even if the job paid well, this person is so horrible at describing exactly what this project is and what they want done - I'd consider it too risky to get myself involved.

 

I knew graphic design freelancing was bad. People think its so easy and the field doesn't get the respect it deserves. I had countless people approach me and say "Hey, if you design my logo for free, I have a lot of friends who I can recommend you to for paying work." Or I'd do a project and they were never satisfied with really good graphics that I came up with. Every element had to be modified several times to the point where I was probably averaging $4 an hour by using these sites.

 

I thought coding would be different but it looks like the same old BS in some cases.

Just spotted two Chinook helicopters flying faster than normal, south of Mentor heading east.  Probably to Burke or CuyCo.

powerful explosion in Chelsea...still developing

 

http://nypost.com/2016/09/17/explosion-rocks-chelsea-in-new-york-city/

 

This scared me to death.  I knew my nephew was going out in that area and I called him multiple times - and he didn't answer.  Thank goodness he was at the movie with his phone off.

South Park has already hit it out of the park this season. Unbelievable how good the show continues to be.

South Park has already hit it out of the park this season. Unbelievable how good the show continues to be.

 

Loved the oblique reference to Trump trying to subcontract the Presidency to Kasich.

Portland turning their back on Portlandia may be the most Portland thing ever.

^ I can't believe that is real, it has to be viral marketing for Portlandia. If not, the "Women and Women First" bit has captured them perfectly.

South Park has already hit it out of the park this season. Unbelievable how good the show continues to be.

 

Loved the oblique reference to Trump trying to subcontract the Presidency to Kasich.

 

 

oblique, now there is an underused word.

 

speaking of oblique...oblique strategies...cycles...having breakthrough days...

 

I just joined a big facebook group for Shaker Heights to see whats going on in the community. It's still really interesting to me, living in the inner city most of my life, seeing the little quiks and things people concern themselves with, here in well-established suburbia. Not that I don't like it here, some things (people) are just weird to me. Apparently deer are considered a really big nuisance. I heard on there that the city started a sharpshooting program so I looked it up and was just sort of amazed that even though there's obviously some opposition now, that it actually got passed in the first place and people are just now being vocal 7 months after it was passed. Folks here are pretty liberal, into animal rights, you know - that sort of crowd.

 

I looked at a news article about it that literally cited deer in Shaker as a threat to our *gasp* "children and pets". Come on, now.  Seriously, when is the last time you've heard of a deer attacking kids or pets. If your kid gets attacked, the little sh!t terrorist was probably taunting them.

 

Seriously, though. I'll tell you what its really about. People in Shaker are absolutely obsessed and addicted to maintaining their impeccable gardens / landscaping. The extent of their gardening projects are just mind-blowing. So deer come along and eat from the plants and trees (that they've paid landscapers to transplant three times because they ran out of projects and don't know what else to do with their money, I guess) in the yard they literally spend thousands upon thousands of dollars a year on designing and maintaining. Can't have that!

 

So they resort to this:

 

"Shaker actually fronted the $54,000 to cover that cost, and after reimbursement the local bill coming to about $8,000 and determining an average of 10 deer per square mile, although the density is much higher in certain neighborhoods."

 

.... After the first year and associated start-up costs, the annual allocation is expected to be about $48,000."

 

http://www.cleveland.com/shaker-heights/index.ssf/2016/03/shaker_council_oks_deer_sharps.html

 

Really? You spent $8000 towards some fancy infrared aerial study and when it determined that there were 10 whopping deer per square mile, you weren't embarrassed for wasting it - instead, decided to allocate $48,000 a year and God knows how much up front just to protect your precious gardens with a deer sharpshooting program? If you can't put up with ten deer per square mile in Shaker, why the hell did you move to a forest?

 

How absurd. Am I missing something? Haven't these people ever heard of deer and rabbit repellant?

 

I really hope they would at least make use of the deer meat but I don't see that happening since butchering and prepping it alone probably costs a lot of money. Not sure how that would work out.

No way can someone work full time and keep those yards up themselves. The weather is too unpredictable around here and you can't just do things only on days off. You have to strike at 2PM on a Tuesday ONLY! sometimes. You can't do that if you're stuck at work.

I just joined a big facebook group for Shaker Heights to see whats going on in the community

 

Those big groups get interesting, especially when they are at least partially "nostalgia" groups.  I co-moderate the one for Maple Heights and we have had to effectively ban some topics.  I've heard the one in Garfield Heights is even more contentious.

Portland turning their back on Portlandia may be the most Portland thing ever.

 

Already nuked.

Portland turning their back on Portlandia may be the most Portland thing ever.

 

Already nuked.

 

UrbanOhio is censoring the URL. Try this: http://tae.st/2dP7ANc

Portland turning their back on Portlandia may be the most Portland thing ever.

 

Already nuked.

 

UrbanOhio is censoring the URL. Try this: http://tae.st/2dP7ANc

 

So the bookstore is is slamming the show the mayor has a part in as not representative of the city.  In well-vetted PC terminology of course.

 

I'd say they are the opposite side of the same coin.

I never watched an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.  I hated that when I lived other place people constantly brought up the show.  I'm sure that the influx of obnoxious people to Portland has to be extremely irritating to people who have lived there for several generations. 

I don't think anyone moved to Cincinnati because of WKRP.

I never watched an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.  I hated that when I lived other place people constantly brought up the show.  I'm sure that the influx of obnoxious people to Portland has to be extremely irritating to people who have lived there for several generations. 

 

On the other hand there was Drew Carey up here.  Though if Mike Polk ever made a national show I suspect I’d be similarly disgusted. 

 

The Portland case is funny because it’s one stereotype going after another.

 

I remember watching WKRP one time where they did some exterior shots around one guy's neighborhood. I got bummed out becuase it was clearly filmed in California.

I remember watching WKRP one time where they did some exterior shots around one guy's neighborhood. I got bummed out becuase it was clearly filmed in California.

 

Yeah when I was a kid I could tell Dukes of Hazard wasn't in Kentucky.  It was like near Bob Hope Airport. 

 

 

Anyone else thing this Kim Kardashian robbery is a fabricated publicity stunt?  The fact that Kanye West walked off the stage mid-song made no sense.  Did he check his phone while singing or something like that?  I'd believe it all a little more if someone had come out between songs and told him, but that's not what happened. 

I don't think anyone moved to Cincinnati because of WKRP.

 

xumelanie[/member] and I actually know someone who moved here from Germany because of that show.  He might be the outlier though.

Anyone else thing this Kim Kardashian robbery is a fabricated publicity stunt?  The fact that Kanye West walked off the stage mid-song made no sense.  Did he check his phone while singing or something like that?  I'd believe it all a little more if someone had come out between songs and told him, but that's not what happened. 

 

Or worse.  Ten million bucks worth of jewelry???

I remember watching WKRP one time where they did some exterior shots around one guy's neighborhood. I got bummed out becuase it was clearly filmed in California.

 

Yeah when I was a kid I could tell Dukes of Hazard wasn't in Kentucky.  It was like near Bob Hope Airport.

 

You can tell that Wipeout is filmed where they did the rural chase shots on the Dukes

Anyone else thing this Kim Kardashian robbery is a fabricated publicity stunt?  The fact that Kanye West walked off the stage mid-song made no sense.  Did he check his phone while singing or something like that?  I'd believe it all a little more if someone had come out between songs and told him, but that's not what happened. 

 

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/10/03/kim-kardashian-robbed-fabricated/

I remember watching WKRP one time where they did some exterior shots around one guy's neighborhood. I got bummed out becuase it was clearly filmed in California.

 

Yeah when I was a kid I could tell Dukes of Hazard wasn't in Kentucky.  It was like near Bob Hope Airport.

 

You can tell that Wipeout is filmed where they did the rural chase shots on the Dukes

 

Wait. Did I miss something?  Pretty sure Dukes was set in the made-up Hazzard (notice the spelling) County, Georgia. But, yeah...the brown southern California hills didn't look like anything in Georgia...or KY for that matter.

I remember watching WKRP one time where they did some exterior shots around one guy's neighborhood. I got bummed out becuase it was clearly filmed in California.

 

Yeah when I was a kid I could tell Dukes of Hazard wasn't in Kentucky.  It was like near Bob Hope Airport.

 

You can tell that Wipeout is filmed where they did the rural chase shots on the Dukes

 

Wait. Did I miss something?  Pretty sure Dukes was set in the made-up Hazzard (notice the spelling) County, Georgia. But, yeah...the brown southern California hills didn't look like anything in Georgia...or KY for that matter.

I remember once on Cagney & Lacey I saw a palm tree in the background while they were in the police cruiser. I'm pretty sure that they don't grow naturally in the five boroughs.

The first six episodes of the Dukes actually were filmed in Georgia.

I really took for granted the low cost of living in Columbus. Columbus is truly amazing in that regard. I've been playing around with features on payscale and glassdoor. For one thing, the job I've been trying to get (just at the junior / entry level) pays on average $12k more per year in Columbus! That's pretty damn significant considering they're both pretty large cities. It's not because Columbus has a particularly thriving tech scene either, their avg is only $300 more than the national average! Cleveland seems to have a lot of tech jobs too, in all fairness. It's just that for some reason the pay really sucks in Cleveland. To add to this disparity, I entered in the avg Cleveland salary for this job ($48,000) and entered that I was moving to Columbus. It said that I would only have to make $42,000 in Columbus to live the same lifestyle! So there's a hidden raise involved as well, for moving.

 

Aside from higher rent in Cleveland , the other major cause of higher cost of living is undoubtedly the lack of Kroger grocery stores in Cleveland. I miss Kroger so much :( It has the perfect combination of selection, value / low prices. I don't know if it's the type of lighting they use in the stores but it looks so clean inside. There's a couple Giant Eagles here but Giant Eagle isn't that great either and big grocery stores like that are few and far between in the city. IMO, Daves on Heinens are only practical if you're either rich or on food stamps. It doesn't make sense for the average person. For what you pay at Heinens, you might as well buy everything at Whole Foods where there's a better selection. I can't believe Clevelanders are so loyal to these places. They suck!

Honest, I never shop at Walmart, but I did yesterday because I needed to purchase a bike tube, cheap and quick.

 

 

So yesterday I'm checking out through the self-checkout kiosk and an older couple (mid-to-late 60's) comes up to the self-checkout area. The Walmart clerk notices them stop and she says to them; "one of these should be free any minute, sir." ... He then says, "no thanks. I will not use these because I am eliminating someone's job."

 

I almost lost it. I'm thinking, does he realize the irony in this scenario?

whats with all the clowning around these days??? 

 

https://t.co/s5NgmuRpAk

 

I really took for granted the low cost of living in Columbus. Columbus is truly amazing in that regard. I've been playing around with features on payscale and glassdoor. For one thing, the job I've been trying to get (just at the junior / entry level) pays on average $12k more per year in Columbus! That's pretty damn significant considering they're both pretty large cities. It's not because Columbus has a particularly thriving tech scene either, their avg is only $300 more than the national average! Cleveland seems to have a lot of tech jobs too, in all fairness. It's just that for some reason the pay really sucks in Cleveland. To add to this disparity, I entered in the avg Cleveland salary for this job ($48,000) and entered that I was moving to Columbus. It said that I would only have to make $42,000 in Columbus to live the same lifestyle! So there's a hidden raise involved as well, for moving.

 

 

 

Columbus isn't cheap. Only Linden and the West, East and South Sides are cheap. Those areas make up a large percentage of the city in land mass and population. A lot of people making $48,000 a year refuse to live in them though.

Overall, it seems like rent is about $100 a month more than it would be in a comparable area of Columbus.

I was pricing a move to Columbus a few years back, and found I would need to pay a ton more in rent to match my Lakewood neighborhood.  Biggest problem is the lack of such neighborhoods outside the expensive part of Columbus. 

So the start of construction on the new Brent Spence Bridge will be delayed by a few years....

 

90 Pounds of Cocaine discovered on a boat owned by the family of Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate

http://nevo.news/index.php/2016/08/14/90-pounds-of-cocaine-discovered-on-a-boat-owned-by-the-family-of-mitch-mcconnell-the-majority-leader-of-the-u-s-senate/

That's how our government raises money and it's one of the main functions of the CIA.

 

It's like when Ollie North, Bill Clinton and the CIA set up the air base in Mena, AK to bring in plane after plane full of cocaine. If you have any sort of understanding of supply and demand you could easily see why he'd be so heavily opposed to drugs :)

Looking at the article's date, I can see that is from back in August. Funny how it never became mainstream news. I suppose no one would give a sh!t, anyway. Just like no one gives a sh!t that Donald Trump was clearly high as hell from sniffing coke or Adderall right before the presidential debate.

Looking at the article's date, I can see that is from back in August. Funny how it never became mainstream news. I suppose no one would give a sh!t, anyway. Just like no one gives a sh!t that Donald Trump was clearly high as hell from sniffing coke or Adderall right before the presidential debate.

 

Carl Lindner's son got caught with cocaine on his boat in New Zealand back in the late 90s or early 2000s.  Seemingly everyone from wealth families or in politics or in senior management is a cokehead.  Just drive for Uber on a weeknight and you'll ferry their coked-up asses from strip clubs to hotels and back. 

 

 

I heard cocaine was caught coming in, on ship in Chiquita Banana crates. Didn't Lindner have journalists at the Enquirer fired over reporting on that?

Here is the story from 1998 (yes The Enquirer reported it):

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1998/01/08/loc_udf08.html

 

There are always rumors about cocaine importing by Chiquita (formerly Lindner-owned), the Castellini fruit importing business, and Jungle Jim's.  Bananas come from the only part of the world where cocaine can be produced, so anybody in the banana business should be looked upon with suspicion. 

 

Didn't Lindner have journalists at the Enquirer fired over reporting on that?

 

You're thinking about the separate Enquirer expose of Chiquita's business practices in Central and South America that got one reporter fired and the paper fined $10 million.  As part of the settlement, The Enquirer agreed to never report negatively on any Lindner-owned buseinss again.  So one of the wealthiest business families in the city has been able to operate without fear of investigative journalism since that time. 

 

 

Honest, I never shop at Walmart, but I did yesterday because I needed to purchase a bike tube, cheap and quick.

 

 

So yesterday I'm checking out through the self-checkout kiosk and an older couple (mid-to-late 60's) comes up to the self-checkout area. The Walmart clerk notices them stop and she says to them; "one of these should be free any minute, sir." ... He then says, "no thanks. I will not use these because I am eliminating someone's job."

 

I almost lost it. I'm thinking, does he realize the irony in this scenario?

 

I agree with them 100%.  Refuse to use them (but I also don't shop Wal Mart).

Honest, I never shop at Walmart, but I did yesterday because I needed to purchase a bike tube, cheap and quick.

 

 

So yesterday I'm checking out through the self-checkout kiosk and an older couple (mid-to-late 60's) comes up to the self-checkout area. The Walmart clerk notices them stop and she says to them; "one of these should be free any minute, sir." ... He then says, "no thanks. I will not use these because I am eliminating someone's job."

 

I almost lost it. I'm thinking, does he realize the irony in this scenario?

 

I don't use them because someone always has the need to "inspect" your receipt, so it doesn't take any less time and can often take more.

Honest, I never shop at Walmart, but I did yesterday because I needed to purchase a bike tube, cheap and quick.

 

 

So yesterday I'm checking out through the self-checkout kiosk and an older couple (mid-to-late 60's) comes up to the self-checkout area. The Walmart clerk notices them stop and she says to them; "one of these should be free any minute, sir." ... He then says, "no thanks. I will not use these because I am eliminating someone's job."

 

I almost lost it. I'm thinking, does he realize the irony in this scenario?

 

I agree with them 100%.  Refuse to use them (but I also don't shop Wal Mart).

 

Maybe we should outlaw self serve gas, ATM machines, Netflix and Redbox kiosks too while they are at it.

^ I seem to be the only person who misses Blockbuster. Redbox sucks, Netflix is super limited, and while you can rent from iTunes, you have to have a cord to connect your computer to the TV. I loved being able to go to Blockbuster, browse around, ask the employees for recommendations, pick up your candy and stuff all in one place. Plus, the Blockbuster by the house I grew up in was next to both a TCBY and Dairy Queen and a LaRosas, so we'd often get pizza and ice cream in the same trip to get the movie. Made for much more of an experience than just downloading a movie on your computer or picking one from a very small selection in the entryway of a grocery store.

Netflix's streaming options are limited, but if you use the DVD by mail option (which still exists, as far as I know), I bet their selection is better than Blockbuster.

I miss Blockbuster for those reasons (picking something out was an event) and because they contributed to the local economy.  Yes, it might be time to reconsider how many jobs we really want machines to replace.