Where to live?

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Asher

What makes the City great is universal and timeless, beyond these temporary and imaginary distinctions you seem to crave.

The only difference between a city and a country is the distance from one side to the other.

With modern transportation and modern technology, one does not need to live in squalor in high-crime areas to get "culture" and take in the "cosmopolitan nature" of cities that park their rotting garbage on their front steps and cram people like sardines into crowded tin cans moving under ground. Do you ever get to leave your little city? Or do you think going to Little Italy is just like going to Rome?

to be fair i dont think gepap does think that. people from the midwest who go to new york new york in vegas or epcot center in florida believe it is just like the place it purports to be

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap


your complainst about NY are a bad rehash of some 1970's article. Keep up with the times.

I'm sorry, has New York City become less densely crowded and less smelly since the 1970s? I can't even imagine how awful it was back when you were a teenager in the 70s.

[Drake Tungsten]

Itf funny because it is 100% wrong.

You fit the profile perfectly. Not from New York but from some undesireable part of the world (Panama, in this case). Ashamed of where you came from, you move to NYC and immediately begin calling yourself a New Yorker and singing the praises of the city. It's completely bogus, but it makes you feel superior to others so you stick with it. You eventually internalize it and start to believe you actually are a cosmopolitan sophisticate instead of a fomer country yokel running from who you really are. Pretty common story...

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

You really think my postings on Apolyton are me "craving for acceptance"? If I were craving for acceptance I'd be more pedestrian and bland and nonconfrontational in everything I do, like you.

You are worst than someone seeking acceptance. you are seeking attention. you are an attention whore, like Paris Hilton, or Britney Spears.

And in a community like poly, that cherishes its trolls, that gains you acceptance as well.

This continuing insult doesn't even make any sense on any level. I'm not going to ask you to stop, because it makes you look like a complete fool with no other ammunition.

"YeAH! WELL! NEW YORK REJECTED YOU!! TAKE THAT ASHER!!!"

I am heartbroken.

Hey, when somebody like you starts complaining about New York, and what you complain about is people who are into the "scene", I have to wonder where you would have met these people, and the only logical place you would have met them is trying to go into that "scene". its pretty simple, because if all you were doing was walking down the street, that complaint of yours would make no sense.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Itf funny because it is 100% wrong.

You fit the profile perfectly. Not from New York but from some undesireable part of the world (Panama, in this case). Ashamed of where you came from, you move to NYC and immediately begin calling yourself a New Yorker and singing the praises of the city. It's completely bogus, but it makes you feel superior to others so you stick with it. You eventually internalize it and start to believe you actually are a cosmopolitan sophisticate instead of a fomer country yokel running from who you really are. Pretty common story...

Except that doesn't work when you grow up in the place, go to middle school and high school there, like I did in NYC. Maybe for the masses of midwestern kids that flee the midwest after they graduate from some state schoool, that makes sense.

You know, like some Nebraska kid who starts travelling the world and now acts like he is some sort of grand international traveller. Now who do we know acts like that?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

I'm sorry, has New York City become less densely crowded and less smelly since the 1970s? I can't even imagine how awful it was back when you were a teenager in the 70s.

I could not tell about the smell. It is more crowded though, because more people want to live here now.

[Drake Tungsten]

You know, like some Nebraska kid who starts travelling the world and now acts like he is some sort of grand international traveller. Now who do we know acts like that?

Are there any Nebraskans on the board?

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
You are worst than someone seeking acceptance. you are seeking attention. you are an attention whore, like Paris Hilton, or Britney Spears.

And in a community like poly, that cherishes its trolls, that gains you acceptance as well.

Funny way of showing me acceptance, people keep reporting my posts and mods keep threatening to ban me.

Me, I kill time here at work extensively.

Hey, when somebody like you starts complaining about New York, and what you complain about is people who are into the "scene", I have to wonder where you would have met these people, and the only logical place you would have met them is trying to go into that "scene".

Yes, when I'm in NYC on business, all I was trying to do is enter "the scene" in the lower east side. That was a good call on your part.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

Funny way of showing me acceptance, people keep reporting my posts and mods keep threatening to ban me.

well, even Paris Hilton has detractors. That doesn't stop her, why should bans deter you?

Yes, when I'm in NYC on business, all I was trying to do is enter "the scene" in the lower east side. That was a good call on your part.

Actually, it is. Like you said, you don't work 100 hours a week, and yet even those people spend all their after work hours trying to be part of the "scene." Hell, if anything, saying that you were in NYC working only makes it more likely that I was right.

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Actually, it is. Like you said, you don't work 100 hours a week, and yet even those people spend all their after work hours trying to be part of the "scene." Hell, if anything, saying that you were in NYC working only makes it more likely that I was right.

I can see why you're only a menial paper pusher in a bureaucratic machine.

[Dinner]

NYC was great when I was there and the people seemed very nice. Lots of down to Earth working class types as well as the Lower Manhattan crowd. Gepap was even nice enough to go with me for a couple of beers. I still remember that awesome little hole in the wall near the university we went to. Oh, and Zum Sneider was a great German pub where I got just a bit to drunk on their 1 liter beers.

Getting drunk was great though some how in my drunken condition I ended up singing "Oh, Canada" with KH.

That last part Venom and Mike have never let me forget.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

I can see why you're only a menial paper pusher in a bureaucratic machine.

Another funny little misconception of yours.

Though you are right, my job has only been tied to one poly thread posted by another poster.

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157638&highlight=Playmate

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Oerdin
NYC was great when I was there and the people seemed very nice. Lots of down to Earth working class types as well as the Lower Manhattan crowd. Gepap was even nice enough to go with me for a couple of beers. I still remember that awesome little hole in the wall near the university we went to. Oh, and Zum Sneider was a great German pub where I got just a bit to drunk on their 1 liter beers.

Getting drunk was great though some how in my drunken condition I ended up singing "Oh, Canada" with KH.

That last part Venom and Mike have never let me forget.

He stole your brain.

He substituted it for a model that had been subject to particle acceleration.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Asher

People are really fat there. Like GePap.

Gepap is actually a thin guy. Didn't you see the NYC meet picture over at CG?

[notyoueither]

He resembles a dumpling in those photos.