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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...... 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...... 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...... ?: 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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....... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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,...... 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...... 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...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: If you don't think about what's in them, faggots are delicious. Pig arseholes are finger-lickin' good.... NZer: You CAN paint it and even patch holes...the answer to older wooden sided homes that paint cannot fix!... 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...... 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...... ndgcatlady: It took them a year to fix a broken window, and actually they only put tape over the holes. A real eyesore!... 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...... 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...... 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....... 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...... 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". ...... 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?... 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...... Rayny: Yes, and they are a bunch of assholes at the new store too! I want to punch to manager in the face.... 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...... 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...... 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...... tony: try - read between the holes in the fence... 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...... 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,...... 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...... joey: the place is full of holes.... 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?!?!"... kori : sound's like this blok has a fedish for - "HOLES" ... 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...... 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. ... 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"...... people are assholes and are worried about other peoples shit: JA does his own shit you do your own shit and stop talking shit.... 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...... 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.... EvilGentleman: Imagine filling all the potholes around here with tiles like this. Cool.... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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
... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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. ...... 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....... 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...... 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...... 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...... joey: the holes probably once held neon tubing... 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!... Chris Erb: What are the holes?... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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... 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....... 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...... EvilGentleman: Timbits are also known as doughnut holes outside Canada, and if you frequent Dunkin' Donuts, I believe they are called Munchkins.... 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...... 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...... 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.... 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...... 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...... 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.... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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....... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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...... 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......
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