Subways are for sleeping: NYC Transit survival thread

OK, I may have been trying too hard to look for downtime to his douchiness

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.

LOL, I am thinking about the needs of everyone on the fucking train!

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?

i am going to sneak into your apartment building and hide fried chicken in the vents.

don't get any on your shirt! :D

lay a deuce in his oven

priorities plz

eating on train >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumping your gum on the platform

All I like on a train is a minimum of personal space and comfort. And the other passengers occasionally don't reach this benchmark.

YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION YOU ARROGANT FUCKING YUPPIE.
DO YOU HATE THE HOMELESS?
DO YOU HATE FAT PEOPLE?
DO YOU HATE SCREAMING BABIES?
ALL OF THESE AND MORE MAY INCONVENIENCE YOU WHILE YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THE NEEDS OF "EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING TRAIN."

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eating on the train is rude. hands down. If you were raised in a crowded urban area you'd see how annoying it can be. Who cares if people are from the suburbs, but eating on the train has its closest equivalent to guzzling down Big Macs in your SVU

http://www.tvsquad.com/images/2005/12/SVU.jpg
"fuckin' yuppies!"

As far as I can tell all people in Crown Heights who were RAISED in an URBAN AREA are the first people to bring fried chicken on the C train. Keep trying, though.

xp haha

LOOK let's just agree to fight the real enemy, dudes that open their legs really wide and take up two seats

or alternately, dudes who press their junk against you just because the train is a teeny bit crowded

I will fight that guy for you, labs.

i will knife him.
with MY dick.
it's razor sharp.

the thing is, the train is so crowded that if you say "get your dick off me, creep!" he'll just be like, "whoa, it's a crowded train, it wasn't intentional!" and you'll be the one that looks like a jerk.

you know, so many people these days just don't measure up to my standards of what is presentable appearance when it comes to public transportation. i mean, i'm FORCED to see these people. it's just so wrong.

the thing is, the train is so crowded that if you say "get your dick off me, creep!" he'll just be like, "whoa, it's a crowded train, it wasn't intentional!" and you'll be the one that looks like a jerk.

"hey, i don't know how it wound up on your shoulder, honest!"

wear a rat-trap on your ass (xp)

Laurel, just because you saw some black people from Crown Heights eat chicken on a train doesn't give you a free pass to eat god knows what on the train, too( also, "urban" does not always mean "black"). It's the same principle behind people who stand in front of the door in the subway - it's rude, and p yuppies from the suburbs are the people who not only do it, but defend it.

hey BURT, you're the one to bring skin color into this.

Not really - Crown Heights is where that huge riot took place between the black dudes and Chasids (remember that?). When people say Crown Heights they usually mean the black folk. That is, if you're actually from here

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me and laurel both live on the cusp of crown heights. actually, she just moved, so perhaps you ought to settle down mr. i know all about urban living. xp

Moving there in 2007 and living around here in 1991 are completely different things.

so which racist troll is "burt_stanton" again?

burt tell us what it's like to be from here. i guess you're a pretty hard guy huh

ITT privileged upper middle class kids invading NYC play the "you racist scum!" card whenever you mention skin color or neighborhoods known for certain ethnicities.

hahaha privileged upper middle class kids YEAH RIGHT.

born in Midwood, then moved to some shithole in NJ (the place where Lean on Me t was set)

watch it with the ad hominems, bud

you sound like a motherfucker with some dark secrets

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I moved to Crown Heights in 2002 but don't let that stop you!

xp wow, he's on a roll.

i didn't call you racist scum, just a racist troll. meaning that you come to this website under different names and try to rile everyone up by taking unpopular opinions.

Loosen up, baby [unwanted shoulder rub]

Moving there in 2007 and living around here in 1991 are completely different things.

-- burt_stanton, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:43 PM (Tuesday, December 4, 2007 1:43 PM) Bookmark Link

yeah dudes, if you were really cool you'd be living a decade and a half in the past like turd_scranton or whoever.

burt stanton: racist, chauvinist, prick.

oh god that's creepy

i meanm, i doubt you'r really a racist (at least in any active way), but it sure is fun to attack people!

born in Midwood, then moved to some shithole in NJ (the place where Lean on Me t was set)

i wouldn't admit to living in paterson, either.

burt, are you sure you don't live in astoria, queens?

i don't think it's spock....but he seems familiar

Also re "urban": I can't think of anyone more urban than someone who's grown up without the benefit of being able to escape the city whenever they wanted to via travel or other opportunities. And in Crown Heights, that means Black West Indians, really, many of whom are still living on the same blocks where they were born & grew up, and a fair number of those people have seen that neighborhood right through the '80s and '90s without going to summer camp in the country or family vacations to the Grand Canyon or much of anything, really. And since I've lived there and witnessed whole families being served dinner on the C train, that's the experience I drew on to comment.

If you paid attention to ILX much you'd know that I'm highly likely to go on screeds about public transit behavior, but do you really want to take the side of gabbneb in this thread, who thinks you shouldn't even carry CLOSED food containers from other neighborhoods on the subway, lest your seat-mate inadvertently smell it? Good thing he apparently has every kind of cuisine he might want available within walking distance of his apartment.

Nah, Williamsburg.

Truce, Laurel. Let's go to Soca Fest 2008.

i am down [unwanted shoulder rub]

xp You know, you've got really strong hands

I would like to meet Burt Stanton. Put a face with the name. Piss on his leg, tell him it's raining. Hide sausages in his pockets. Grab his nuts, unasked...

let's get bizzy in the e-sauna