i saw this amazing guy in the morning sitting passed out on the crowded subway car with his head propped on a starbucks cup on his knee. it kept leaking coffee with each lurch, until the inevtiable fall came which woke him up and pissed everyone around him off. it was fascinating to watch.
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
It's SHARED public space, ian. If you enter my nostrils (or some other orifice)....
"Excuse me, young fellow, but your amateurish, lame rapping is not up to my standards of entertainment."
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
that's just obnoxious.
so's bringing your smelly food on the train/bus
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost - haha, i almost dropped my unused JAM awards tix in lame-neuron-invading-rapper's hat last night, but that probably would have been a disproportionate response
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
morbius, do you also hate street corner kebab sellers? how about people eating popcorn at the movies?
and gabbneb, i feel there's a big different between passively violating someone's idea of personal space and actively harassing them.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
you're from somewhere else
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
and you're a douchebag, if we're going to be stating the obvious.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
the subway is not outdoors - you're forced into a compartment with other people and limited ability to move
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
my douchebaggery has well-defined and -defended contours, tho
forced is a bit of an extreme word choice. you can select any car you choose, and if you're unhappy with it, then you can move.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys are such nazis about the food on the train thing.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no godwins law bell labs loses ;_;
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up. There are lots of people taking take-out on the train even in CLOSED containers and you can still smell it. Depending on how I feel, greasy McDonald's or whatever may not be my idea of a good time but it's the TRAIN, it's EVERYONE'S transpo.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
outdoors, if you want to yell at me, i can walk away from you. in a subway, i am forced to listen to what you say after the train leaves unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars, where you'll probably follow me shortly.
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
you get your dinner at home
unless i want to take life in hand by walking between cars,
^^^ i doubt you have ever done this. it is in fact quit easy if you have four working limbs.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i understand that travel time is some peoples' only time to eat - i don't wanna lock people up for the shit - but i'm not gonna pretend that that's everyone who brings food on the train or that it isn't fucking annoying
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
who is forcing you to take the subway? take a car haughty-pants
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxp You suck.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
i used to ride the bus next to l.a.'s famous thai elvis. he always smelled, somewhat incongruously, of kimchee.
once i was tripping really hard and couldn't get him to stop vibrating
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i probably car-hopped before you'd ever been to ny, if you want to get personal about it
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
it's smelly & obnoxious, but sometimes people can only eat on the run. so the way that i see it, it's just as obnoxious for me to make a stink (no pun intended) as it is for them to eat on public transportation.
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
u old
subway food is always preferable to subway farting
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, you're old. yes, you've lived in new york a long time. no, moving between cars is not "taking your life into your hands" any more than crossing a street against a light is. stop being a baby. xppp
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys take me too seriously :D
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
also, i don't take cars
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
you'd be happier if you did. private, cozy, no odd smells...
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, i'm more than familiar with cars but i take them only in extremis. fyi.
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
how bout you...MOVE TO THE SUBURBS
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
extremis like what, you gonna get out a station early and switch to a car cuz you don't like the dude eating fried chicken? or extremis like, you're only a downtown brooklyn tourist and are scared of walking from train to destination...?
xpxpxpxppxpxpx
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i want fried chicken now
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not pro-eating on the subways, but what I said earlier since everyone has glossed right over it is that plenty of unpleasant food smells result from people just carrying prepared food, not nec eating it IN THE SUBWAY. Gabbneb are you SERIOUSLY saying that people should only get take-out from within walking distance of their apartments? Because you know god forbid I misjudge you but that would be some asshole pronouncement.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i have always wanted to get a really greasy fried chicken meal and stroll around the santa monica promenade eating it as messily as possible out of a giant bucket
― remy bean, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
It should run all the way to Jackson Heights EVERY TIME Are you sure about this, Dan? I have never, ever seen a G train at Roosevelt, I think it is only supposed to be there at some weird hour.
On nights and weekends (I think), the G is supposed to run all the way to 71st/Continental. It hasn't done so regularly for a long time (though it was last weekend), they just post a new service advisory at the begining of every month.
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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excuse me, but THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
in london they had signs on the train saying "please do not eat stinky food on the train, it is rude!" or something. and i ate burger king on the train just because it seemed stuck up and i am a rude american.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
ian: I'm walking past kebab sellers, plus kebabs smell OK.
I don't think people should eat ANYTHING at a movie less than 2-1/2 hrs long (I miss the old Film Forum -- it sold no food), and I often want to put the popcorn-crunchers and plastic-bag rustlers in a headlock.
Don't think the 'Neb was suggesting you can't carry food.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
And how else are you supposed to get your dinner home? ...
-- Laurel
-- gabbneb
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I may have been trying too hard to look for downtime to his douchiness
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i just hate people who live in a huge city and think only about their own needs for personal space and comfort. that is not what city living is about, move to the goddamn suburbs if those are your priorities.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL, I am thinking about the needs of everyone on the fucking train!
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe you would get it if you didn't grow up in the burbs!
do you also hate homeless people on the train in the winter? sometimes they smell funky, so do you stop thinking about their needs?
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i am going to sneak into your apartment building and hide fried chicken in the vents.
don't get any on your shirt! :D
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
lay a deuce in his oven
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
priorities plz
eating on train >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumping your gum on the platform
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
All I like on a train is a minimum of personal space and comfort. And the other passengers occasionally don't reach this benchmark.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link