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Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

serlingrod: Here’s a list of contact numbers for city services….. ##NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES## City Hall Operator 215.686.1776 Abandoned Car (Automated Service) 215.683.2278 Abandoned Car Supervisor 215.685.9500 Barking Dogs, PAACA 215.685.9040 Citizen Crime Commission 215.546.TIPS Illegal Dumping (Neighborhood Services) 215.685.3097 Nuisance Bar, Underage Drinking 215.726.6200 Public......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Mitch: The reason we have giant pot holes and roads in such terrible shape has to do with the Quebec government's cutting corners. They use lower quality asphalt and put down only a very thin layer......

in response to: Potholes by EvilGentleman

?: I got respect for JA, but can someone give me a reason why he went over Saber's piece? It took Saber like 35 days or something like that to make such amazing piece. Why would......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Peter (nsw) Small world isnt it? I had the greengrocery business opposite Boundary road on Fiddlers lane amd my Mum and Dad had the fish and chip shop next door until I opened the shop......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Matt Parde: I was born and raised in Belleville, lived there for almost 30 years. I always had something to do and had a lot of fun. It's nice to know who lives in your......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 3 by Scott Sargent

Stan Hodgson: Hi Great site, was directed to it by Benny Hilton, I was born in Windsor Ave 1944 then moved to Carlisle Drive about 1963,along with my older sister Patricia and brother Bill, . We all......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

A Proud Montrealer : Thanks Assholes for giving our city another kick in the crotch. We want to attract tourist to our fine city., but they won't come if they have to put up with Bullshit like this. I was at......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Anne Fahy: Hi Cyril, The man your sister-in-law married - J Massey could this be the son of Millie and Dick? Years ago before we came here we would go to the Cadisheads Cons on a Saturday......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila The hairdresser you mention, actually was opened by Eleanor Cooke, wife of an old friend of mine Tom, whose parents had the grocers shop at the Nags Head end of Twenty Row, which they......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne Thank you for your kind thoughts. Yes it was a large blue van that I made my deliveries in, but finished up concentrating building up the business which I had just transferred to The......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cherie: Okay, can someone help me out? I'm looking at an apartment at corner of Broadway and Hart in Bed-Sty or is it Bushwick? Landlord says Bed-Sty. It's a good deal and the Myrtle subway's close.......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Arnie: When I lived in NYC, the Biker Gangs where almost non-existent. When they started to show up in the 60's, the other pedestrian gangs would kick their asses, for being loud mouth assholes. I now live in......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Post-84 New Jack: See, thats the general difference in our perspectives, "W-Bear". I prefer to look to the future, and push things to new heights than to dwell on the past and the past's faded glories and talk......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Tex: Re: to Tex: "Why if you hated something, anything, so much would you devote so much of your time to it, to degrading it, to bashing it. Why if you had such a void in your life from......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Cody Heitschmidt: Why if you hated something, anything, so much would you devote so much of your time to it, to degrading it, to bashing it. Why if you had such a void in your life from......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

noname: I was driving to WORK this morning and saw something that truly pissed me off. I left my house to see 1 million plus dollar crane picking up Tree limbs! Along with this crane were......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

jack: the people are watching the ozone layer, there are ozonians all over the world and they're job is to watch the holes in the ozone layer because of the fart zone above the ozone layer,......

in response to: Moon by barry

steve kettle: bliney smithy, you have created something awesome. just reading through some of these names takes me straight back to my childhood. i remember living in the shop Joyces fabrics (mum jean kettle (nee dixon) never changed the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma The building at the junction of Ferry rd was James Goodier, wholesale potato and corn merchants.They supplied the area chip shop and greengrocery businesses with a very wide variety of potatoes from......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: If you don't think about what's in them, faggots are delicious. Pig arseholes are finger-lickin' good....

in response to: 2 Faggots in Gravy by Elicar

NZer: You CAN paint it and even patch holes...the answer to older wooden sided homes that paint cannot fix!...

in response to: Vinyl Siding by CE

Peter: procyon: interesting observation about the parks department... frankly, i was surprised at how easy it was to just walk right into the place. i mean, theres a fence, but it has several door-sized holes/flaps cut/pried......

in response to: Abandoned... NY State Pavilion by Peter

maddog: its really unfotumate for the young and old in these hell holes.dont have kids if you cant afford to take yourself.thats just basic common sense.educate yourself.that way you dont have to live like that. if......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

ndgcatlady: It took them a year to fix a broken window, and actually they only put tape over the holes. A real eyesore!...

in response to: Hingston Body Work by EvilGentleman

Choad: Re: Yeah I live in Hutch: You have stated the same things that everyone else has. What makes Hutchinson boring to me is the lack of any good looking women. You go anywhere to meet......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Larry, Curly & Moe raccoon removal?: The bright woman that lives next to us, has allowed a tree to grow against the foundation wall to three stories high. This is a perfect stepladder for our raccoons. Now "we need trees for......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Born in Hutchinson: That weird church/apartment building you describe used to be called St. Elizabeth's Mercy Hospital. I was born there. I lived for several years about three blocks east of that building, in a very nice neighborhood.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

G: Yes, Catford is in for a wholesale regeneration project over the next decade. If you want the cat to be preserved, make sure you tell the council, as well as having your say on......

in response to: The Giant Cat of South London by I.T.U.C.

Former Salt Hawk: I read this multitude of comments with bemusement, shock and sorrow. I was born and grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and, like the old familiar Neil Young lyric, "All my memories are there". ......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

CartLegger: The most photogenic memory of my 1995 pre-camera trip to Instanbul was the huge winding wholesale markets where everything is for sale. Could you capture some photos of that still?...

in response to: Some Thoughts on Istanbul by elif

EvilGentleman: Um, I think the vows went something like "I-87, do solemnly swear, to cross the Hudson, and to connect New York, Albany and Montreal, for rich cars and for poor cars, in potholes and in......

in response to: Tappan Zee Bride. by barry

Rayny: Yes, and they are a bunch of assholes at the new store too! I want to punch to manager in the face....

in response to: Fuck the IGA by CE

whiteP: Ahh Bushwick, what is funny is how young professionals live like kings while blacks and hispanics can barely afford wholesome food. Whats even funnier is the way these so called thugs have the biggest mouth......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Local ASS: Hey, Hutchinson is growing! With old folks homes and fat women having worthless children. READ THE HUTCHINSON NEW ASSHOLE. LAST YEAR THE JOB GROWTH IN THIS TOWN WAS 1 JOB!!! WOW it is growing! And......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

WINAZZ: ive been there alot and never saw any cops there we never broke shit or stole shit. when we where in a small bulding right down the way from hilltop i we saw a cop car......

in response to: Haverford State Hospital by Nairi

tony: try - read between the holes in the fence...

in response to: Warning by joey

EvilGentleman: You know, I had never thought of the unicycle bit. I was thinking that this was another example of a society that cannot afford enough doctors or school textbooks spending my tax dollars on a......

in response to: Bike Trail for Drunk Drivers by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Actually jack, I generally agree on the need for incresed security. The lessons of 9/11 are not lost on me. What frustrates me though, is when we have very restrictive security for the average person,......

in response to: Airport Security, My Ass! by EvilGentleman

CE: I don't think it means to say it that elegantly. The French word "retard" is written in a way that would just mean "late" in English. I think it's just stating that ##blocking......

in response to: Don\'t Block the Doors! by CE

joey: the place is full of holes....

in response to: Subway Icicle by Michelle

colavitos ghost: that guy's stare is basically saying to us all, "why the f*ck do you a**holes use the g**damn fahrenheit scale?!?!"...

in response to: Anders Celsius by little ukraine

kori : sound's like this blok has a fedish for - "HOLES" ...

in response to: Popcorn Tree by elaine

jack: WELL NOW, A TRIP TO THE PAST...the last time i was at the fair was when it was in it's actuality. it was in full bloom, you kids should have seen it. it......

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

joey: the most dangerous potholes in the USA are in ohio. i once knew a guy in cleveland that got two flat tires from one pothole on euclid ave by e. 222nd street. ...

in response to: Road Trip, Part I by procyon

EvilGentleman: I must agree with some of this quite heavily. To repeat a comment I posted on VampireFreaks, my opinion about the human race, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion, subculture, style of dress, or social "class"......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

people are assholes and are worried about other peoples shit: JA does his own shit you do your own shit and stop talking shit....

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Karlo: Well observer,i have to be honest and say they are not all tattooed thugs. There are assholes and hardmen where-ever you go,but regrettably,the macho thug image certainly is synomonus with Loyalism. There are however,huge efforts on the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Lee: I am interested in whether Scott Lake had an augmentation well and whether the sinkholes may have been caused by pumping water from underground aquifers to keep the lake levels up....

in response to: The Case of the Disappearing Lake by sine

EvilGentleman: Imagine filling all the potholes around here with tiles like this. Cool....

in response to: Toynbee Tiles by Cosmo

Chris Erb: I find that vinyl siding gets pretty crappy looking at around the 10-15 year mark. it gets faded and warped and might have holes and dents in it. With vinyl siding, you can't......

in response to: Vinyl Siding by CE

Chris Erb: There does seem to be some hypocracy here. The fish on the English drain was painted right over the drain holes. I imagine this was done with spraypaint which means that some paint......

in response to: Please Don\'t Dump by CE

tricia: raccoons like to hang in my yard at night and trash stuff. last night they kept revisiting, mamma and babies, they slashed big holes into a chair, dug up my cactus, and in my......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

EvilGentleman: I have also been experimenting with taking hool-style photos using car mirrors while parked on the side of a busy street, since it is exponentially less likely that the subjects will become aware of the......

in response to: Passenger Side Rear View Mirror by groovehouse

groovehouse: Mile marker 1 on Spur 529! LOL!!! I don't know the mile marker... but I will tell you this. In order to take this photo, one has about a one minute window of opportunity to......

in response to: Passenger Side Rear View Mirror by groovehouse

EvilGentleman: You forgot to mention the mile marker. Actually, you are almost as bad as me for overdescribing things, but better safe than sorry. By the way, great shot, especially considering that it was taken from a......

in response to: Passenger Side Rear View Mirror by groovehouse

TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

GUS BRENNAN: [[img:12871]] this is the view down the butts, note the road has been surfaced, after all the years of pot holes, puddles and bumpy funeral rides, from duxbury`s ...

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

white boy: I live in bushwick. I'm a "white boy" and I'm reminded dayly by my neighbors on my way to work, the grocery store, the laundromat... pretty much every time i leave the house. I have......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

shandy: I'm white and my place in Bushwick was the first I moved to when I came to New York. I had no idea what neighborhood meang what, I moved there firstly because my friend lived......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

EvilGentleman: They were paved over, but only by a centimetre or so. In many places, the road had worn dowm to expose parts of the rails, and lots of the potholes were very shallow with metal......

in response to: Goodbye, Streetcar Rails by EvilGentleman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: EvilG, your potholes made me think of the Monty Python sketch about how bad things were. I had remembered that there was a bit about the hardship of living in a hole in the middle......

in response to: Potholes by EvilGentleman

jack: holes, i've seen holes, its your foot size! you would only be a size 10 1/2 it's your long toes evil. those are long toes with nice nike sandals. my toes are......

in response to: Potholes by EvilGentleman

Rob: Thanks Rick for your mini review and google search and paste for the words “buddy bike.” But as the owner of the above bike, let me clear a few things up: Regarding the bike pictured: It is......

in response to: Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle: by Peter

Rick Paulos: Every thing old will be new again. First invented and sold in the 1890s. They were called Sociables in the 1890's. They used to make 2 or 3 wheel versions. Regarding the bike pictured: I own one too. ......

in response to: Side-by-Side Tandem Bicycle: by Peter

EvilGentleman: I think the concept of smoking and non-smoking bars would work, until some militant non-smoker files a lawsuit saying their rights are being infringed by denying them the right to work in a smoking bar.......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Carmen: the last time some perv flashed me I gave him a shoe in the nuts. The next time I saw him my boyfriend broke the perv's nose. The third time we tied him......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

Jane Minty: Damn, I wish I'd had a camera phone for all the times guys have exposed themselves in the subway (I do now!). I notice a few assholes who don't seem to think this is a......

in response to: 7 Train Pervert by CC

anon (cpe-66-108-20-146.nyc.res.rr.com): What’s with racking this guy over the coals. All we know about him is the one thing he did that made him the biggest piece of shit on earth. I know many people with less......

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

joey: the holes probably once held neon tubing...

in response to: Old Sign by GGP

GGP: that would be guess; something to do with lights. they're a little big for bullet holes, which grace plenty of the signs around here!...

in response to: Old Sign by GGP

Chris Erb: What are the holes?...

in response to: Old Sign by GGP

grange: Elicar , see if you can take the pic of the statue of the two fat white guys in hats and put the homeless people in the same picture . Fucking Bay Street assholes ....Excuse my......

in response to: Only in Toronto... by Elicar

EvilGentleman: jeeff, your mind works in scary directions Peter, a few blocks west of here is a 6-foot diameter water main that has broken repatedly over the last 20 years, causing periodic rapids down Peel Street that......

in response to: Overflowing Manhole by EvilGentleman

Big REd: Irish mike is definetly right, i think were forgetting that england is a graff writer but whatever, the point is everythings fucked up and instead of fighting eachother, we should be joining up to fight......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

jeeff: all hail the information age. [[http://sageauthoring.com/fdny/construction/vacant.pdf]] Fire Department, City of New York __FIREFIGHTING PROCEDURES__ __VOLUME 1 BOOK 3__ **MARKING OF VACANT BUILDING** **1.3.1** As vacant buildings shall be identified and marked to indicate the degree of hazard involved. In marking vacant......

in response to: Slated for Demolition by Peter

elaine: 'espirit' de boston. do the pilgrims make progress? that church spire is nice, i like the holes, a bit like st giles in edinburgh...

in response to: The Other Boston by Jamie

Ronald Underberg: Though only a resident of Brooklyn for just over six months, I have long been one who has an appreciation for urban and cultural heritage and the value of having or allowing it to persevere.......

in response to: Underberg Building, Goodbye by GGP

jack: so this guy is crouched over one of those holes and taking a crap and there is this other guy perched over another hole and the first guy has a 50cent peice fall out of......

in response to: Chinese Toilets by stinkyben

EvilGentleman: Timbits are also known as doughnut holes outside Canada, and if you frequent Dunkin' Donuts, I believe they are called Munchkins....

in response to: The focus in these captures are all in the details by zagg

Viceroy Snuffleupagus: This forum discussion is an excellent example of discursive disintegration by virtue of anonymous expression. I'll explain, as this message board was an opportunity squandered. Sure, an argument can be made on behalf of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

James: The move he made to dump her bike, the foot against wheel and pull on seat is a move taught to cops, so I doubt if he was charged for anything. Why did he......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

NotACurier: It would have been great to see that damn currier with no teeth to tell the story. In fact, that could apply to all these assholes. They do believe they own the streets....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Exbluejob: I take my hat off to the courier. Our cities and countryside is being slowly ruined by these thoughtless assholes. Perhaps if we find where he lives and dump the contents......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

JimboToronto: I live on Augusta Ave about a block north of where this occurred but missed it due to being out of town. I am neither a bike courier nor a motorist, but my sympathies lie......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Americans=Assholes: Reply to canadian loser, Ignorance and Illiteracy seem to go hand in hand, sure is a lot of that south of the border....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

canadian losers: reply to american=assholes yeah your right you idiot for example toronto last year had zero shootings because your so civilized just dont forget that when the shit comes down you always relly on us americans not to......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Responsible Biker: She was the first to commit assault by throwing food into his car. She started the fight by taking it upon herself to play litter-vigilante. He didn't behave appropriately, but it's hypocritical to act like......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

EvilGentleman: re: Canadian Citizen 19:22 You did not fully read my post, did you? I explicitly said I do NOT beat up men if I just 'learned' a man beat up a woman, unless the guy said......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

EvilGentleman: On Littering: First off, let me mention that as a native Indian, I am so deeply saddened to see the land that once held the bones of my ancestors being converted into a cesspool of trash.......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

anonymouse: From I heart Kensington: 31st Jan 2006 - 22:23 GMT "he was driving a 4 cylinder car NOT an SUV." The SUV belongs to the son of the egg wholesale lady on the opposite side of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Timothy_Ronin: Gender should not be an issue here. Stupidity is all the issue here. Yes..he was a #1 asshole for littering. I am sick to death of seeing people litter these days. It's starting to look......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Chris: So where do we sign up to send money to Leah for a new bike, regardless of whether or not her old bike is damaged? While I'm crushed that such assholes exist and continue......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

poprad99: I have been riding bikes for 32 years and burning fossil fuels for 22 years. I have been commuting year-round by bike for 9 years. I was assaulted and battered by a motorist in 1990 for......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Matthew Bergin: If you litter you deserve to get it thrown back in your face. If he had taken his garbage home and disposed of it properly none of this would have happened. Littering is DISGUSTING it......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

JAC02000: Thank god someone stepped up to the plate or more a$$holes like this would get away with anything out there. She should be commemerated for her actions rather than down played by society for......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jinx32: Everyone has a right to be an asshole even psycho van dude, some are just more so then others (psycho van dude) , its the self rightous assholes who were the first to rat you......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Matthew Bergin: If you litter you deserve to get it thrown back in your face. If he had taken his garbage home and disposed of it properly none of this would have happened. Littering is DISGUSTING it......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Matthew Bergin: If you litter you deserve to get it thrown back in your face. If he had taken his garbage home and disposed of it properly none of this would have happened. Littering is DISGUSTING it......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

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