I thought it was hilars. I tip my tam o'shanter to you.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:24 AM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
;)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
it's true, go to the east village today on a friday night, it's like a ghost town
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
also smoking is really bad, i suggest that if you smoke you should quit
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
how could any city create nightlife without a foundation of cigarettes, the one and only fuel for having fun
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
p sure that's speed.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
its funny cause i dont know one smoker now who doesnt approve of the ban, theyre all my clothes dont reek of smoke i realized i i like smoking but not second hand smoke i get to take a lil break on the side walk and make new friends so on and so forth
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
i meant put the band outside of the pub next to the smokers on the sidewalk or wee footpath or w/e tf u call it― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:15 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:15 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This would obviously add to more noise problems for neighbours etc. Plus outdoor music licenses are basically impossible to get hold of these days.
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
yah i was jus joking, it would be a funny innovation tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
i do like going outside you get conversations starting and it makes a pleasant break from being bombarded by loud shitty music
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Plus outdoor music licenses are basically impossible to get hold of these days.
again, sounds like the uk has other problems to deal w/
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
drizzle
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
iatee's solution for uk nightlife: a. let anywhere get a liquor licenseb. let anywhere be open 24/7c. increase cigarette taxes and use the money hire a team of american consultants to teach uk people how to have fun without smoking
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
NV: Yes, this is an advantage. I'm pretty used to it now and I do like to get out of the stuffy pub and chat with people. Still, there's no denying it's impacted severely on bar-trade and venue-trade in our town. Not so much in bigger cities where venues have the advantage of being next to other venues in built-up areas in nightlife district. Smaller towns that once used to have a bustling number of pubs are now awfully quiet, especially in the week - obv not helped by the recession, but mostly cos pubs just aren't much fun anymore cos everyone's standing shivering outside or guarding the table before their mates get back. The biggest club in Hitchin, an 800 capacity venue that has always hosted live music was closed down and turned into a massive echoey gastropub with no music, simply because live music isn't drawing crowds anymore.
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
itt iatees discourses on fun
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
dl it sounds like somebody needs to.... SHAKE UP your little town
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2011/09/Footloose-Kevin-Bacon-1984.jpg
I have studied fun for many years and believe it can be created using fun-science
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
places that are boring are not boring on accident they are boring on purpose, because the people there want it to be boring, they used fun-science but they used it for evil
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
dl it sounds like somebody needs to.... SHAKE UP your little town― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:42 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:42 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good grief, I'm trying. We do a pretty good job with our shows, but gone are the days where audiences will go to a gig just for the sake of it (i.e. never having heard of the band).
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Smaller towns that once used to have a bustling number of pubs are now awfully quiet, especially in the week - obv not helped by the recession, but mostly cos pubs just aren't much fun anymore cos everyone's standing shivering outside or guarding the table before their mates get back.
this is so weird. UK ppl: is this really true? US ppl: has anything similar happened here? cuz i've seen no change at all. people still go to bars, they just spend a bit more time outside them now, and everyone seems to have adjusted happily. plus smoking seems to have gone way, way down in general.
maybe americans use the bar less as a general social space that appeals to the entire community, and more as a den of iniquity with appeal only to a fallen few, so the fact that certain people are now staying home isn't a problem, cuz they were always staying home. it's only the dedicated that made it out in the first place.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's how it happened in Ireland, all the smokers just went "Oh well I was planning on giving up anyway"
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
irish people have studied fun science for centuries tho
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/8/88907/1339674-tremors1_super.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
j. I'm okay w/ semi-privitizing the postal service. probably. makes it more expensive to send shit far away isn't nec bad in itself and it'd be a catalyst for making more bills, etc. all go digital.
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
that LRB piece on the mess that is the privatized dutch postal service made me stop flirting with post office privatization
― max, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
well ups and fedex are fine if you reallly need to send sometime
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
something
like they are more expensive and they prob should be cause 'sending shit far away' shouldn't be an activity we encourage when there are alternatives
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
I like the smoking ban.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Prostitution, drugs, sex. Let people do what they want.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
human sacrifice
― Cruller, Cobbler, Poffert, Pie (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, the sun god needs to be fed sometimes
I've noticed for a while that more socializing goes on among smokers outside than among drinkers inside. Sidewalks are the new bars. This could lead to smokers reproducing more than the general population.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
reproducing infants with low birth weight and cleft palates
― kate78, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2011/12/Lagasse_Photo.jpg
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
This actually swayed me a little towards privatizing the Canadian postal service: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/17/rain-or-shine-the-monopoly-must-end/
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's a pretty dumb article.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think 'is mail service something that should be subsidized in 2012?' is an question worth asking tho.
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n09/james-meek/in-the-sorting-office
― max, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
privatizing the postal service doesnt seem to have worked out v well for the netherlands
― max, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sunday-review/the-junking-of-the-postal-service.html
The fact is that the primary beneficiary of the United States Postal Service today is arguably the advertisers whose leaflets and catalogs flood our mailboxes. First-class mail — items like bills and letters that require a 44-cent stamp — fell 6.6 percent in 2010 alone, continuing a five-year-long plunge. Last year was the first time that fewer than 50 percent of bills in the United States were paid by mail. There were 9.3 billion pounds of “standard mail” — the low-cost postage category available to mass advertisers — but only 3.7 billion of first-class mail.
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's less privitizing and more 'our system for sending packages already is privitized, our reasons for sending paper stopped existing'
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I actively avoid UPS and FedEx tbh
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
so do I, because they're more expensive. but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
merits asking, definitely
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
UPS works awesomely in my area, the postal service does a reasonable job with the exception of their delivery of some other guy's mail to me, occasionally. I like postal mail for magazine delivery but I'm pretty sure iatee will tell me that magazines should be read at the library because the use of paper and transportation to get them to me is destroying the world.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
well iatee's vision of the future is locking everyone into densely-packed urban gulag camps where only billionaires can afford to do anything more than 20 blocks away from their residence, including work, so I think we can pretty much ignore anything he says
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I guess my main point is from an environmental pov if anything instead of subsidizing the transportation of 'unnecessary' parcels we should be taxing it. making the decision to go for the physical magazine should be more expensive. and ups/fedex have proven to be reliable. xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
ups/fedex have proven to be reliable in concert with an exising postal service.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
yep, they use the USPS for the "final mile" delivery of packages where they don't maintain routes, because it isn't profitable for them to do so.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link