March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! Just because you are afraid to show off your nasty feet doesn't mean you have to be discriminating against flip flops! :wink:
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! Just because you are afraid to show off your nasty feet doesn't mean you have to be discriminating against flip flops! :wink: PUMPKIN, my feet are flawless. I have a standing mani/pedi weekly.
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! Bad spelling! (Crocs) :) If you can spell Fendi and Hermes, surely you can learn to spell a few other things MTS. :)
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! Bad spelling! (Crocs) :) If you can spell Fendi and Hermes, surely you can learn to spell a few other things MTS. :) What she sad! lol. Shouldn't we be used to his bad spelling? :-P I kid, I kid.
March 20, 200916 yr I never get used to it, it stings my eyes every time. Maybe I should start posting some really bad fashion mistakes to counteract it. :)
March 20, 200916 yr I never get used to it, it stings my eyes every time. Maybe I should start posting some really bad fashion mistakes to counteract it. :) And talk about Shaker Circle.
March 20, 200916 yr LOL. Good old Shaker circle, I love that city. Yeah, I used to love going to the theatres over in the square in Shaker Heights...
March 20, 200916 yr I don't need to know how to spell crocs or craps as I prefer to call them. The company is not financially stable and may go under. You will each pay for the Shaker Square jokes. Sleep with one eye open! >:D Having said that......Yall can all............
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! a few weeks ago, on a very cold day, I saw a woman in my neighborhood wearing pink crocs w/white socks. I've really gotta get a camera. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! a few weeks ago, on a very cold day, I saw a woman in my neighborhood wearing pink crocs w/white socks. I've really gotta get a camera. Did you (attempt) to kill her? Sounds like crime fit for capital punishment.
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! a few weeks ago, on a very cold day, I saw a woman in my neighborhood wearing pink crocs w/white socks. I've really gotta get a camera. Did you (attempt) to kill her? Sounds like crime fit for capital punishment. It does sort of justify the right to carry a lethal weapon. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! a few weeks ago, on a very cold day, I saw a woman in my neighborhood wearing pink crocs w/white socks. I've really gotta get a camera. Did you (attempt) to kill her? Sounds like crime fit for capital punishment. It does sort of justify the right to carry a lethal weapon. You should have shot her on sight! Where are the Fashion Police when you need them? I guess the EV is out of their jurisdiction. :?
March 20, 200916 yr I see enough fashion crime every day on the rapid, it causes my gorge to rise. All that overbleached hair and women in skirts and white tennis shoes. I just want to shake them and scream "WHY!?!" I have little nicknames for some of the regulars.
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! a few weeks ago, on a very cold day, I saw a woman in my neighborhood wearing pink crocs w/white socks. I've really gotta get a camera. Did you (attempt) to kill her? Sounds like crime fit for capital punishment. It does sort of justify the right to carry a lethal weapon. You should have shot her on sight! Where are the Fashion Police when you need them? I guess the EV is out of their jurisdiction. :? let's try to be a little more compassionate (at least for a first offense); as an alternative, maybe we could try waterboarding. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
March 20, 200916 yr I see enough fashion crime every day on the rapid, it causes my gorge to rise. All that overbleached hair and women in skirts and white tennis shoes. I just want to shake them and scream "WHY!?!" I have little nicknames for some of the regulars. Do tell. I love the pregnant RnR, you're so fiesty and you can blame it hormones! LOL This is part of the reason women started wearing those white sneakers. This is from one of my ALL TIME favorite movies! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADmi-5BjYGQ
March 20, 200916 yr Flip Flops Crocks 'nuff said!! a few weeks ago, on a very cold day, I saw a woman in my neighborhood wearing pink crocs w/white socks. I've really gotta get a camera. Did you (attempt) to kill her? Sounds like crime fit for capital punishment. It does sort of justify the right to carry a lethal weapon. You should have shot her on sight! Where are the Fashion Police when you need them? I guess the EV is out of their jurisdiction. :? let's try to be a little more compassionate (at least for a first offense); as an alternative, maybe we could try waterboarding. If she was wearing pink craps, I can gaurantee you that was not her first offense! Off with her head!
March 20, 200916 yr all right, you asked for it. Here's a little excerpt from my blog, where I posted about some of the regulars: Generally the train is fine, though it's more downscale than the bus even. The local public transit authority simply does not have the budget to keep things up the way that systems in other states do; our transit budget is like 1/100th of the next closest state to ours, it's a piddling amount compared to most states, because our state's residents don't want their tax dollars going towards public transit, they want it going towards the support of sprawl - bridges, roads, etc. So most of the train stations are pretty run down; parking lots with lots of potholes, patching and broken glass, a ride to and from that is littered with horrible things to look at, like empty buildings, tons of trash and lots of graffiti, etc. Generally speaking I would say the train riders are a tougher bunch than the bus riders. They are definitely more interesting characters. Some of them are so annoying I can barely stand riding with them in the same car. You see the same people over and over again and yesterday I started realizing that I have little nicknames in my head for various people that I regularly see on my train, so I thought I'd share a few with you. The Crusty Hippo: This woman is a really pretty looking lady but she is so very, very obese she can hardly move around. Which, whatever, that's your deal, but the reason I cannot help but notice her is I noticed last year that when the weather is warm, she wears sandals as much as possible. When you are that big, there is probably only so much you can do to take care of yourself. Lots of people are, of course, guilty of not having their little toenails properly taken care of and throwing sandals on in warm weather, I'm used to that, but what was most disturbing were this woman's HEELS. It's obvious from one look at them that she cannot reach them and doesn't take care of them in any way. They looked like elephant's feet, and by that I don't mean fat, they were GREY. And so, so deeply cracked and dry that it's like looking at something in a medical textbook. It's flabbergasting, really. I'm sorry but I would NOT wear sandals if my feet looked like that. Maybe she can't see them, I don't know. The Bullfrog: This woman is a fifty-something, overweight person who looks just like Michigan J. Frog from the WB cartoon before he gets up and sings and dances - you know, the grumpy, schlumpy one. She has really bad, streaky highlights in her stringy hair and she wears extremely unflattering clothes. She's one of those people who are really big/thick in the middle but has little tiny stick legs and she often wears leggings, which just make her look worse. She kind of looks like an oompa loompa, how they had the pants that were really big in the middle and then the little legs? The Marine: This guy is completely nutty, he is an enigma. He always wears an iPod and carries a black leather briefcase. He is a big guy and looks to be in pretty decent shape and wears his hair in an approximation of a high and tight, hence the nickname. He has big, scary, dark black eyes and never makes eye contact with anyone else on the train, ever. He walks EXTREMELY fast and furious, kind of like a cyborg in a horror film. He sort of charges more than he walks, really. He never sits in a seat, ever, he just stands at the front of the car. Every single day that I have seen him, and it has probably been 40 times at least, he takes this sheaf of papers out of the side of his bag. They are about 8 pages stapled together and have really, really teeny tiny print on them that takes up the whole length of the page. On some pages there is a chart of some kind, and there are section breaks where some parts are bolded/headlined. But the text is so very small you can't really see what it says, even if you are standing right next to him. You'd have to lean way over and then he would punch your nose up into your brain and kill you. When he finishes the papers, he goes back to the first page and reads them again. And again. And again. And it's always the same ones. They never appear dog-eared, as though he prints out new ones every once and awhile, and he never reads anything else. One time, after trying really hard, I managed to see one tiny phrase in the middle of one paragraph on the page. It was something like, "and crush their heads like tiny ants in the sand." He actually works somewhere in my building, though not for my company, I've seen him charging into it. The gay man and his hag: There are these 2 people that ride together, I see them all the time. They are both in their 50s and the male is obviously gay; my theory is that they carpool together to the train station. I have never seen one without the other. The woman is SO LOUD. She talks the entire commute about whatever trivial crap is going on in her life that NOBODY CARES ABOUT and he nods and occasionally quietly comments. Why she has to have such a big mouth, I don't know. She looks kind of like Maude, but shorter, with a lot of pancacke makeup and hats and scarves that never match, like someone's crazy grandmother or the neighorhood cat lady. I don't know why he puts up with her but he seems to like talking to her. Well, listening to her. For example, "AND THEN I TOLD HIM, THERE WAS JUST NO WAY I WAS GOING TO PAY THAT ALL AT ONCE, HE HAS TO BE CRAZY. I MEAN, WHAT AM I, MADE OF MONEY? I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH HIM FOR AN HOUR, I SWEAR. SO THEN HE SAYS, I SWEAR, HE SAYS THAT I HAVE TO PAY IT ALL OR ELSE. AND I SAID "OR ELSE WHAT?" HE THOUGHT HE WAS PRETTY FUNNY I BET BUT I TOLD HIM! YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD ME TALKING TO HIM, MAYBE HE THOUGHT I SHOULD ROB A BANK OR SOMETHING TO GET THE MONEY, I DON'T KNOW." The Speedway chick: This woman is about my age and is really close to looking normal except she always just misses it because of her lack of taste. She always drinks coffee from a giant Speedway gas station cup. Today she had on a fairly decent looking outfit but then ruined the whole thing with these giant, plastic, bright blue sunglasses that looked like something you'd find in the gutter. Other times she'll have on an ok pair of pants but then a top that just doesn't go with it at all and you want to go, why would you pick that top to go with those pants, WTF? Or she'll have something really outdated in her hair, like a banana clip or a scrunchie. Yesterday in addition to the usual suspects we had a big crackhead on there, he was a lot like David Crosby in his freebasing days. You could tell he was all cracked up and he kept running his hand through his greasy, stringy hair and looking around nervously. At one point he leaned over and started this shouting conversation with this black guy in the seat across the aisle and the guy just nodded and tried to ignore him until he got off the train at his stop. Crackhead kept getting up and sitting down and getting up and sitting down, real nervously, like he had to meet his connection at a particular stop and was late. Of COURSE, this is the day the train had some kind of problem and we ended sitting on the tracks for like 10 minutes til they fixed whatever was wrong. He kept getting up and announcing really loudly, "NEXT STOP! 117TH! NEXT STOP! 117TH!" At one point he turned around to me and the woman I was sitting next to and told us to "save his seat" while he went up and tried to get the conductor's attention, she just ignored him, which was smart. Then the lady next to me started talking to me, which would have been fine except she had BIG POCKMARKS all over her face and her breath smelled like ass. Or a combination of cigarettes and coffee and then eating 1000 bugs. It was awful.
March 20, 200916 yr I can't stand able-bodied people who interrupt my 7-story elevator ride just so that they can go up or down one floor. Take the stairs!
March 21, 200916 yr I can't stand able-bodied people who interrupt my 7-story elevator ride just so that they can go up or down one floor. Take the stairs! Thing is, buildings today usually make the stairs nearly impossible to find and lead to several parts of the building that you aren't even supposed to be in. Meanwhile, the elevators might as well have flashing arrows and a tour guide leading to them. In older unmolested buildings the stairs are a grand extension of the architecture.
March 23, 200916 yr I wanted to buy liquor at Kroger and no one was at the liquor counter so I went to U-Scan. I'm standing at the U-scan station waiting for the woman that works the U-Scan to stop talking to her friend. I'm staring at her the whole time and she keeps talking to her friend for like 5 minutes, knowing I'm staring dead at her. She finally walks over to me and she's like "you have to hit the button on the left to start scanning". I'm like.. I need a bottle of Maker's Mark before I do anything! Stupid ___.
March 23, 200916 yr all right, you asked for it. Here's a little excerpt from my blog, where I posted about some of the regulars: Generally the train is fine, though it's more downscale than the bus even. The local public transit authority simply does not have the budget to keep things up the way that systems in other states do; ... Nothing like an eloquent rant to start my day! I love it! :-D
March 23, 200916 yr I can't stand able-bodied people who interrupt my 7-story elevator ride just so that they can go up or down one floor. Take the stairs! It may not be their fault - where I used to work, the stairwell doors were locked (aka you could get IN the stairwell, but to get out you could only exit via the emergency door to the outside on the first floor). It was allegedly due to security and the insurance company for the building required it. Years before I worked there, someone was attacked by an intruder and they're guessing he got in via the stairwell. I used to work on the fifth floor, but had to go to the third every now and then. I was having a rather bad day when someone (I'm guessing new to the building) scoffed at me as I was getting off on the third, something along the lines of "like he couldn't just take the stairs". I turned around, stopped the door from closing and "You DO know that the stairwell doors are locked, right? If you want people to take the stairs - and believe me, I'd love to, go yell at building management - and from the looks of it, YOU could use a few trips up the steps as well!". clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
March 23, 200916 yr I can't stand able-bodied people who interrupt my 7-story elevator ride just so that they can go up or down one floor. Take the stairs! It may not be their fault - where I used to work, the stairwell doors were locked (aka you could get IN the stairwell, but to get out you could only exit via the emergency door to the outside on the first floor). It was allegedly due to security and the insurance company for the building required it. Years before I worked there, someone was attacked by an intruder and they're guessing he got in via the stairwell. I used to work on the fifth floor, but had to go to the third every now and then. I was having a rather bad day when someone (I'm guessing new to the building) scoffed at me as I was getting off on the third, something along the lines of "like he couldn't just take the stairs". I turned around, stopped the door from closing and "You DO know that the stairwell doors are locked, right? If you want people to take the stairs - and believe me, I'd love to, go yell at building management - and from the looks of it, YOU could use a few trips up the steps as well!".
March 24, 200916 yr I can't stand able-bodied people who interrupt my 7-story elevator ride just so that they can go up or down one floor. Take the stairs! It may not be their fault - where I used to work, the stairwell doors were locked (aka you could get IN the stairwell, but to get out you could only exit via the emergency door to the outside on the first floor). It was allegedly due to security and the insurance company for the building required it. Years before I worked there, someone was attacked by an intruder and they're guessing he got in via the stairwell. I used to work on the fifth floor, but had to go to the third every now and then. I was having a rather bad day when someone (I'm guessing new to the building) scoffed at me as I was getting off on the third, something along the lines of "like he couldn't just take the stairs". I turned around, stopped the door from closing and "You DO know that the stairwell doors are locked, right? If you want people to take the stairs - and believe me, I'd love to, go yell at building management - and from the looks of it, YOU could use a few trips up the steps as well!". You know that I'm better than that!! I'm taking examples from the office building where I've worked for the past three years. The stairwell doors don't lock. There is no mechanical reason that impedes one from taking the stairs.
March 24, 200916 yr Well you didn't specify!?! There's another one of my pet peeves - people who leave out essential details! ;-) clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
March 25, 200916 yr People not answering their PMs!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 26, 200916 yr People who cannot post a link and the text of an article when posting here on UO Here are the instructions http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,13440.0.html I don't like having to open and read the article in another window, because I may want to respond and having to go between windows is annoying! Please post the article and text. Thanks MTS
March 26, 200916 yr But what if the article is REALLY, REALLY LONG? I can't think posting the whole article is a good idea in that case. Should we post a portion? If so, how much?
March 26, 200916 yr But what if the article is REALLY, REALLY LONG? I can't think posting the whole article is a good idea in that case. Should we post a portion? If so, how much? When the link dies, you wont have the full article. So how will you be able to comment on a partial posting?
March 26, 200916 yr But what if the article is REALLY, REALLY LONG? I can't think posting the whole article is a good idea in that case. Should we post a portion? If so, how much? When the link dies, you wont have the full article. So how will you be able to comment on a partial posting? It's not a perfect world. Life moves on, and you have to do your best to keep up with what you can and let go of the rest. :-)
March 26, 200916 yr But what if the article is REALLY, REALLY LONG? I can't think posting the whole article is a good idea in that case. Should we post a portion? If so, how much? When the link dies, you wont have the full article. So how will you be able to comment on a partial posting? It's not a perfect world. Life moves on, and you have to do your best to keep up with what you can and let go of the rest. :) Sorry all. I'm just and irritable bitch this morning.
March 26, 200916 yr But what if the article is REALLY, REALLY LONG? I can't think posting the whole article is a good idea in that case. Should we post a portion? If so, how much? It seems just posting an excerpt plus the link should be sufficient if the article is excessively long. An introductory paragraph usually contains the basic elements and thesis of what the article is about, or at least it should; but if not, pick out one or two paragraphs that best summarize the overall message of the story and post them. It just seems redundant to post both the link and the whole text of the article--but if that's the official policy, so be it. Maybe there should be further clarification to avoid any ambiguity. Re mts's concern about dead links, I don't think that happens too frequently (not like it used to), assuming the information in question is from a legitimate source. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
March 26, 200916 yr I understand both of your concerns, but what if you are new to Ohio and Urban Ohio? In the above example, you may not be able to follow the full story as the link may have died as only select portions of stoies are posted.
March 26, 200916 yr I'm with EVD, giant posts are kind of annoying. I'm more likely to skip over them. And usually, it's not the poster's intent to discuss every paragraph of the article. There ought to be room for discretion. I mean the poster's discretion-- not a certain individual's discretion over everybody.
March 26, 200916 yr Okay, everyone is making good points, but there also has to be some common sense. A couple of weeks ago I posted a New York Times Magazine story about the housing problem in Cleveland that was--I think--at least 10 pages long. I just provided the first couple of paragraphs and the link. Obviously I couldn't post all of it. I hope everyone at least agrees that sort of thing shouldn't be required, or even permitted. Right? http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
March 26, 200916 yr Okay, everyone is making good points, but there also has to be some common sense. A couple of weeks ago I posted a New York Times Magazine story about the housing problem in Cleveland that was--I think--at least 10 pages long. I just provided the first couple of paragraphs and the link. Obviously I couldn't post all of it. I hope everyone at least agrees that sort of thing shouldn't be required, or even permitted. Right? I don't like that another page opens. I want to be able to comment and quickly refer to points in the above post. Flipping between two pages can be annoying when attempting to respond. I guess it personal preference.
March 26, 200916 yr Okay, everyone is making good points, but there also has to be some common sense. A couple of weeks ago I posted a New York Times Magazine story about the housing problem in Cleveland that was--I think--at least 10 pages long. I just provided the first couple of paragraphs and the link. Obviously I couldn't post all of it. I hope everyone at least agrees that sort of thing shouldn't be required, or even permitted. Right? I agree with EVD. I think this is just a personal preference thing. If the article is more than just a few paragraphs long, I want to go read it on the original site. If the link is dead and I missed it (which usually doesn't happen for about 30 days), then it wasn't that hot of a topic for me anyway. If I am new to the site, I'm not likely to want to spend hours reading months/years-old 3rd party articles about a particular topic.
March 26, 200916 yr I agree, post all of small stories. Longer ones that require me to spend 30 minutes perusing, I'll take the link and excerpts, please. UO isn't the library. If someone's reading archives and a post refers to something in a dead link, if it's that important to look up, go to the microfiche. (do they still use microfiche?)
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