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[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Does this mean I've graduated past newb status yet? I'm not usually one to complain, but the things that TM asks me to do under the guise of "initiation" are just icky.

Y'know, TM (or someone) could have taken the "never before has a boy wanted more" and run with it.

Disappointing.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Does this mean I've graduated past newb status yet? I'm not usually one to complain, but the things that TM asks me to do under the guise of "initiation" are just icky.

who you calling boy? ain't no boys here.

[Tables R Us]

Is Phillipe better looking than Witherspoon? Or is this just a bad picture of Reese?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Why do people in NYC smoke so much?

Possible reasons:

• 1. Social networkers head to Manhattan, and social networkers smoke.
  
  2. In Manhattan it is more important to signal you are cool.
  
  3. Air pollution is higher, so the marginal health cost of smoking is less.
  
  4. New York is colder, and that makes cigarettes more enjoyable.
  
  5. The "artsy" variable is doing most of the work; of course this is related to #1 and #2.
  
  6. NYC life is more stressful, and smoking calms some of these people down.
  
  7. Many of them are poseurs, and these smokers don't have such valuable human capital.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why do people in NYC smoke so much?

Possible reasons:

• 1. Social networkers head to Manhattan, and social networkers smoke.
  
  2. In Manhattan it is more important to signal you are cool.
  
  3. Air pollution is higher, so the marginal health cost of smoking is less.
  
  4. New York is colder, and that makes cigarettes more enjoyable.
  
  5. The "artsy" variable is doing most of the work; of course this is related to #1 and #2.
  
  6. NYC life is more stressful, and smoking calms some of these people down.
  
  7. Many of them are poseurs, and these smokers don't have such valuable human capital.

Dunno, don't go there, don't care, but the NYT is kinda stupid in this quote from a 2005 article:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/06/1...11smoking.html

"In New York City, 18.4 percent of adults smoke, according to a city survey released this week. That compares with 19.2 percent a year earlier and 21.6 percent two years earlier, making for one of the steepest declines recorded in any place over a similar period... In the last few years [with new antitobacco campaigns], New Yorkers have become significantly less likely to light up than people in the rest of the country... The most recent survey from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a national smoking rate of 21.6 percent in 2003."

Two years before 2005 was 2003. Thus, in 2003, 21.6% of adult NYCers smoked. The national smoking rate (presumably of adults) found by CDC in 2003 was 21.6%.

It is sad when the mall stores run out of candy and you have to watch the little kids get told no candy.

[Jack Manfred]

Has anyone noticed that Jon Stewart is no longer wearing Canali on TDS? Ralph Lauren is now providing the wardrobe.

Canali is better. The RL stuff doesn't look good on Jon, especially the slimmer ties.

And Brooks Brothers stuff isn't supposed to be that great, but Stephen Colbert wears it very well.


Oh, and I don't like sushi. And yes, I've gone to good sushi restaurants. Why is it that sushi eaters are such proselytizers? I'm not a big fan of Vietnamese food (why not just have Thai?), and I've never met anyone who has said, "Oh, you just haven't had GOOD Vietnamese food. Once you do, you'll totally love it.... I can't believe you don't love it. How can you not love it? You must have just had some bad Vietnamese food; that's the only explanation."

I've had the sushi variant of that conversation at least ten times.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why do people in NYC smoke so much?

Possible reasons:

• 1. Social networkers head to Manhattan, and social networkers smoke.
  
  2. In Manhattan it is more important to signal you are cool.
  
  3. Air pollution is higher, so the marginal health cost of smoking is less.
  
  4. New York is colder, and that makes cigarettes more enjoyable.
  
  5. The "artsy" variable is doing most of the work; of course this is related to #1 and #2.
  
  6. NYC life is more stressful, and smoking calms some of these people down.
  
  7. Many of them are poseurs, and these smokers don't have such valuable human capital.

I didn't click the link because I'm all lazy like that, but I note that in my recent experience, Washington, DC is a giant stinky ashtray. How do people survive in places that don't enforce smoking bans? California dry cleaners must weep for their lost revenue.



ETA: Fine. I clicked the link and I strongly disagree with this person's hypothesis. My guess is thata bunch of New Yorkers were smoking outside because they have to now (so there appeared to be more of them), as compared with all the Northern Virginia/DC folks who smoke wherever the hell they please. G-ross.

[ltl/fb]

Speaking of Thai food, I am ISO pad see eiw (or however you want to spell it) with noodles that are wider than fettuccini. Or however that is spelled. Like, twice as wide. The places I have been here, the noodles are rice noodles, but they aren't as wide as I am used to and I don't think they are as thick as I am used to. I like the wider and thicker noodles in this dish.

ETA somewhere on the west side, more or less, is highly preferable. Or wherever, if they deliver to where I live.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Oh, and I don't like sushi. And yes, I've gone to good sushi restaurants. Why is it that sushi eaters are such proselytizers? I'm not a big fan of Vietnamese food (why not just have Thai?), and I've never met anyone who has said, "Oh, you just haven't had GOOD Vietnamese food. Once you do, you'll totally love it.... I can't believe you don't love it. How can you not love it? You must have just had some bad Vietnamese food; that's the only explanation."

I've had the sushi variant of that conversation at least ten times.

I think it is related to fish-eaters. I don't eat fish, and I have the conversation you cite not infrequently. Well, now I glare and pepole and speak ridiculously emphatically when I say I don't like fish, and they usually back off. And hold two pencils up in the sign of the cross.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Oh, and I don't like sushi. And yes, I've gone to good sushi restaurants. Why is it that sushi eaters are such proselytizers? I'm not a big fan of Vietnamese food (why not just have Thai?), and I've never met anyone who has said, "Oh, you just haven't had GOOD Vietnamese food. Once you do, you'll totally love it.... I can't believe you don't love it. How can you not love it? You must have just had some bad Vietnamese food; that's the only explanation."

I've had the sushi variant of that conversation at least ten times.

Simply ask: "Have you ever gotten sick from Sushi?"

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I didn't click the link because I'm all lazy like that, but I note that in my recent experience, Washington, DC is a giant stinky ashtray. How do people survive in places that don't enforce smoking bans?

On the one hand, the smoking ban in DC for bars doesn't go into effect until next year (it's voluntary this year). On the other hand, it will join the long list of DC laws, such as speeding, red-light running, and homicide, that go unenforced. My prediction is smoking cameras.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Tables R Us
Is Phillipe better looking than Witherspoon? Or is this just a bad picture of Reese?

I thought that was Federline for a second.

And yes, that's a terrible pic of Reese.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Speaking of Thai food, I am ISO pad see eiw (or however you want to spell it) with noodles that are wider than fettuccini. Or however that is spelled. Like, twice as wide. The places I have been here, the noodles are rice noodles, but they aren't as wide as I am used to and I don't think they are as thick as I am used to. I like the wider and thicker noodles in this dish.

ETA somewhere on the west side, more or less, is highly preferable. Or wherever, if they deliver to where I live.

Pad See Ew.

The noodles are the same rice noodles as used in chow fun.

Flat, and wide. really wide.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Has anyone noticed that Jon Stewart is no longer wearing Canali on TDS? Ralph Lauren is now providing the wardrobe.

Canali is better. The RL stuff doesn't look good on Jon, especially the slimmer ties.

I was noticing the slimmer ties recently, and was worrying that this meant they were coming back. I don't think they look good on him, or just about anyone else.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I didn't click the link because I'm all lazy like that, but I note that in my recent experience, Washington, DC is a giant stinky ashtray. How do people survive in places that don't enforce smoking bans? California dry cleaners must weep for their lost revenue.



ETA: Fine. I clicked the link and I strongly disagree with this person's hypothesis. My guess is thata bunch of New Yorkers were smoking outside because they have to now (so there appeared to be more of them), as compared with all the Northern Virginia/DC folks who smoke wherever the hell they please. G-ross.

I haven't noticed much smoking in either NYC or DC, which (hopefully) means I haven't been paying attention, but may (more realistically) confirm that I am not cool.