New York vs. London

I have a GCSE in Fortran and can just about get by in High Elvish.

petergunn said:

you're missing the big picture

there is a certain type of person who cannot get that many jobs in the straight world.

society's underclass.

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...also, be glad they're on their meds for the moment and probably living at a Y...most homeless in NYC are schizophrenics, etc., with no families--and hence nobody to force them to stay in mental hospitals. there are laws here that prevent the state from keeping people on involuntary holds for longer than 48 hours without threat of violence.

@peter

That chef guy Anthony Bourdain just went to the taco stand outside the Tortilleria on Starr St. (Jeff stop in Bushwick) on his show. If you haven't been you should go it's amazing. The one with the big mural of mary on the factory door.

I used to eat there all the time it was right outside my doorstep. Never thought I'd see it on TV.

i will go to new york one day. im sort of prejudiced against it though. seems like a grubbier version of london where they force all the black people to live together in some giant prison camp on the outskirts and they dont have any pretty churches and stuff to take the edge off the grim modern architecture.
plus they havent had any good music for 15 years.

nomad
if you have any sense you will not rise to the bait.

luka said:

London's the most ethnically and culturally diverse city on the planet, the most cosmopolitan place ever to exist in the entire history of the world. We speak over 340 languages, compared to New York's 170.
FACT!
I PERSONALLY SPEAK OVER 340 LANGUAGES!

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haha.
they speak 658 languages in Toronto, mind you.

nomadthethird said:

@Peter

That chef guy Anthony Bourdain just went to the taco stand outside the Tortilleria on Starr St. (Jeff stop in Bushwick) on his show. If you haven't been you should go it's amazing. The one with the big mural of mary on the factory door.

I used to eat there all the time it was right outside my doorstep. Never thought I'd see it on TV.

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that sounds well lush N

Bourdain does like his tacos

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further OT but purely from the Mexican food in the States pov that stretch from Texas to California and Chicago are quality.

AA Gill seems to crop up a lot on here, maybe we should get him to post?

nomadthethird said:

@Peter

That chef guy Anthony Bourdain just went to the taco stand outside the Tortilleria on Starr St. (Jeff stop in Bushwick) on his show. If you haven't been you should go it's amazing. The one with the big mural of mary on the factory door.

I used to eat there all the time it was right outside my doorstep. Never thought I'd see it on TV.

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ha!

i was home at my parent's house watching their cable this weekend and saw this episode at the same time you did (3am)... i have been to that taco joint, damn good... tho, at this point, there are dozens of amazing taco spots in NYC... he hit up the flushing mall food courts for chinese, which was cool... the bronx and staten island got a little shorted, but PUNK ROCKER bourdain (nice thumb ring, dude) got to kiss David Johanson's ass, so all is well...

bourdain lost me when he started jizzing over Diner... it actually made me angry when the geek he was eating with said Diner's burger was his fav in the city... Diner used to be my only food option w/n 5 blocks and i grew to loathe the place, but the burger is specifically TOTALLY OVERRATED... a very mediocre meatball of a burger served on a (YUCK) brioche... brioche is such a shit option for hamburger buns... and w/ those meatball burgers, it means the first two and last two bites are nothing but bun... LAME! the burger at Corner Bistro destroys the one at Diner... shit, they should have tooken that spindley geek to Donovan's Pub in Woodside, Queens... that's a proper burger (order w/ cheddar and grilled onions)...

anyways, i still like bourdain, but sometimes i think is he is an ass... the whole pretense of "WOW, I AM GOING TO LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND AND MOVE HERE" whenever he is in rural asia really starts to play on my nerves...

yeah i'm torn on bourdain. on one hand, he's a) obviously kind of a dick and b) has an irrational jihad against vegetarians, but on the other he did once interview mutabaruka and has talked a ton of shit on rachel ray

To bring it back to US vs UK, he's not nearly half as much of a shithead as Gordon Ramsay.

pajbre said:

he did once interview mutabaruka

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Really?! I'd like to see Mutabaruka having a go at Gordon Ramsay.

STN said:

Really?! I'd like to see Mutabaruka having a go at Gordon Ramsay.

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