lemming Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Figures. American cities really are designed around cars' date=' aren't they?[/quote'] For the most part since the 30s iirc. There's been some retrofitting, but it runs up against a lot of aggression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Not designed; they aren't designed at all. But most have evolved around them; the railroads had similar influence. Further, the general layout of the city was settled within a single human lifetime, which is generally not true for European cities. Seattle was founded in the 1850s, and most of the downtown part was destroyed in a fire in 1889. With horse carriages being common, it wasn't much of a stretch to evolve toward automobiles from streets suited for wagons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Imagine trying to negotiate the alleys in Stockholm's Old Town in a car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I guess I'm thinking more about malls. Speaking of which: Dead Malls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Who killed 'em? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Speaking of which: Dead Malls Heh. I'm sending them a mall to add to their list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Who killed 'em? Well, if Video killed the Radio (star), then I'd have to say that Teh Interwebs killed the Mall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I would disagree with that, since the dead mall I know most about was killed by idiot ownership and corrupt city politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I would disagree with that' date=' since the dead mall I know most about was killed by idiot ownership and corrupt city politics.[/quote'] Psst, I was being more than a bit tongue-in-cheek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Damn those idiot ownerships and corrupt politics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, I don't live there, so it's no skin off me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wouldn't your epidermis grow unnaturally thick, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My kids grate on me enough so that isn't a problem for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sandblasting yer soul much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Lots of abrasive comments and dialog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So, yes, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER One aspect of the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER A certain point of view, as Obi-Wan said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Two more lab sessions left. Unfortunately, the last one is two weeks away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER oh well, not long now about a week or ten days till I know my uni result this semester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER With the new forum software, there's a button that says "Blog this Post" under each item in a thread. What does "blog" mean in this context? Make baseless, incoherent, emotionally-saturated profane rantings about the politics/ethnicity/sexual deviance/faeco-cerebro surrogacy of the person who made the post? Because that's what I think the verb "to blog" means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I guess if you want to take a post off thread into your own blog area. So I guess so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm not gonna experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 20, 2009 Report Share Posted November 20, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I still think of blogs as write-only memory, and that all bloggers have about 40 interesting posts in them. Once they use 'em up, it's just humdrum drivel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted November 20, 2009 Report Share Posted November 20, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That's not what I heard... Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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