if New York can die so can London

[maxi]

we were saying a big difference between NYC and london is that the people who want to have fun are somehow more in charge, unlike the NIMBYs who rule london with our 11pm closing times and harsh public noise laws. it's much more vibrant and lively and there's more music and life in the streets

 

[IdleRich]

Best pizza slice I had was the vodka slice at Norm's Pizza in park slope

What's vodka slice?

 

[luka]

presumably just a vodka tomato sauce

 

[luka]

pretty standard fare.

london has definitely successfully elimated fun. we've all internalised the no fun rule too. i havent heard anyone playing loud music from a car in over ten years for example.

 

[Mr. Tea]

saw some insanely crazy shit on the subway multiple times which I won't even go into lolol

Oh come the fuck on.

 

[version]

I've just read they're building a 300ft skyscraper jail in NYC Chinatown.

 

[WashYourHands]

Snake Plisseen raised eyebrow

 

[WashYourHands]

You could fly a Plissken hand-glider off it no worries fuckin yanks no imagination why not just designate an entire city, like Tallahassee

 

[WashYourHands]

To be fair, the US system of privatisation of prisons boggles the mind

Biases everywhere but to make profit the kicker too? Uncle Sam extends a heavy heavy price

 

[version]

It's like something from Judge Dredd.



the guardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/new-york-jail-chinatown-rikers-island

 

[IdleRich]

pretty standard fare.

london has definitely successfully elimated fun. we've all internalised the no fun rule too. i havent heard anyone playing loud music from a car in over ten years for example.

Fucking loads of that today in Hackney, London Fields etc I wanted to shout Turn It Down in fact...

 

[IdleRich]

We had some Vietnamese food, two starters, two mains, two cokes... bill came out as £93. I couldn't believe it, checked it, turned out the bitch had added it up completely wrong, it came to £48 but for ages she refused to accept it.

 

[IdleRich]

But Broadway Market, the canal etc is so busy now, just mad. When I lived there it wasn't like that and then it started to change and that was exciting, I liked it... but this is the logical end point I guess. I wish I could have frozen it when it reached exactly how I wanted it, but it doesn't work like that.

 

[linebaugh]

Maxi just haf an amazing vaction

 

[Mr. Tea]

Maxi just haf an amazing vaction

Sounds like the death of New York has been prematurely reported.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

pretty standard fare.

london has definitely successfully elimated fun. we've all internalised the no fun rule too. i havent heard anyone playing loud music from a car in over ten years for example.

Are you expecting this to turn up?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I've just read they're building a 300ft skyscraper jail in NYC Chinatown.

It's a reverse panopticon.

 

[luka]

Fucking loads of that today in Hackney, London Fields etc I wanted to shout Turn It Down in fact...

well thats a special case. rich peoples playground. sense of entitlement.

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah, when I lived there was so much more mixed... still, no point in complaining when I spent so many years (internally) cheering on the process. Kinda weird to admit that the people who moaned about it from the start - people I laughed at as old, bitter and out of touch - might have had something of a point.

 

[version]

I think the 'no fun' thing's England in general, isn't it? Nation of curtain twitchers.