Well since I'm in NJ I'm able to go here and there. I was there a few weeks ago got to see Groundhogs day on Broadway. And got a slice of pizza and a pretzel. Gotta love the food. Also I been the Nintendo world store a few times I think I remember them playing Nintendo themed music in the background

Although I do get a lot of anxiety becuase of how unpredictable and busy the city can get but I'm always glad I get out alive at the end of the day. How about you?

Yes, it's an overpriced, overcrowded vice-ridden shithole just like SF, only with even shittier people and shittier (and more expensive) weed.

No but I've been to Newark, New Jersey before.

At 7/25/17 07:25 PM, SkimblixWalker wrote: No but I've been to Newark, New Jersey before.

How did that work out?

At 7/25/17 07:30 PM, Wegra wrote:

At 7/25/17 07:25 PM, SkimblixWalker wrote: No but I've been to Newark, New Jersey before.

How did that work out?

Bricks and crime rate.

I've always wanted to go to the top of the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center.

At 7/25/17 07:42 PM, Jurornumber3 wrote: And drop a sock full of pennies off?

Maybe just one penny to see if it can penetrate a person's skull...

At 7/25/17 07:56 PM, sjwgenocide wrote:

At 7/25/17 07:40 PM, Painbringer wrote: I've always wanted to go to the top of the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center.

i've got some bad news on the second one

I have never been to NYC, and seeing the pictures of the WTC replacement, I don't intend to ever go.

In the times after 9/11, I expected the Twin Towers to rebuilt, and I was confident it would eventually happen. The official plans were nothing to take seriously, from the birdcage Freedom Tower to the 20-story bunker based tower that stands today, along with the waterfall pit memorials. I mean, that bunker would be the ultimate act of cowardice, not to mention the exorbitant costs for such a tower, the memorial, and the security to run such a site. But it happened. And don't give me that "1776 foot height because of an antenna" crap. This is inferior to the former WTC. No taller than the former 1 WTC, and smaller in overall size. We came back from the attacks a weaker, more cowardly nation.

In addition, everything from the former WTC is either underground or obscured. From outside the memorial and museum, the Twin Towers never existed. I am also convinced that the site, owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was conceived as a result of fraud and corruption.

Seeing this happen, and seeing that the Twin Towers would never be rebuilt, it caused me to lose faith in America. Since then, I expected my country, if not the whole world, to progressively deteriorate until it collapsed or got taken over by an oppressive regime.

I know this sounds like a "wah" kind of statement, but seeing this stuff happen wrecked my beliefs regarding my country. It's just the way I feel about this; I believed that America rebuilt what was destroyed, only bigger and stronger. As such, I don't intend to ever go to NYC, or to anywhere around it where I could see that WTC replacement.

I'm one of the very few genuine New Yorkers left. I'm not rich, I'm actually from here, and there are other things about me that give me away as a New Yorker when I visit other places, but I think the first two bits are the most important. New Yorkers are born, not made. There's brilliance in some of us that just can't be found anywhere else.

Unfortunately, one of the worst among us is now President of the United States, thanks to his ability to pander to desperate coal miners, bigots and all-around morons just like himself. If someone's proud trademark phrase is "You're fired" that person isn't fucking going to get you any new jobs, and if you insist otherwise, how stupid can you be?

Keeping my kind requires erecting strong barriers to entry. Don't think just physical walls. I've already thought it through but I don't think this is the best time or place to talk about what's on my mind.

For those of you that plan on visiting NYC either for the first time or again in the future, please understand that the instant I can tell you're a tourist, you've done something wrong. My favorite tourists are those that I can't tell are tourists. The more you blend in, the more I like you.

I somehow end up there about once a year. Took a filmmaking course in NYC in 2006, bought wedding rings with my wife in the diamond district a few years ago, and have gone on a few nice dates to Italian restaurants like Patsy's and Pelligrinos

At 7/25/17 09:37 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote:

Unfortunately, one of the worst among us is now President of the United States, thanks to his ability to pander to desperate coal miners, bigots and all-around morons just like himself.

Keeping my kind requires erecting strong barriers to entry. Don't think just physical walls.

You see no irony in this?

My favorite tourists are those that I can't tell are tourists. The more you blend in, the more I like you.

Conform. Conform

At 7/25/17 10:46 PM, stafffighter wrote: You see no irony in this?

I completely see it, but I'll dismiss it on the grounds that I'm a lot smarter than Trump is, and any of my walls would be much more powerful and more than just literal "walls." My desire of self-preservation is more rooted in economics rather than race. I don't want rich people having too much bargaining power. There's nothing even remotely moronic about that. Part of how we get there is by severely limiting the influx of new arrivals with very, very few exceptions.

At 7/25/17 11:06 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote:

At 7/25/17 10:46 PM, stafffighter wrote: You see no irony in this?

I completely see it, but I'll dismiss it on the grounds that I'm a lot smarter than Trump is,

There's an easy joke here but balancing the line for people who only express politics or marriage through sheer muscle mass while also seeming nonthreatening enough that liberals feel safe staying home that night is a craft.

and any of my walls would be much more powerful and more than just literal "walls." My desire of self-preservation is more rooted in economics rather than race.

Because race relations and economic distribution are completely unrelated issues. Here's a movie you probably won't see as a completely trite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLNTmNj5bI

I've heard second hand that the salsa it produces is substandard.

It's a literal hell.

At 7/25/17 09:37 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote: The more you blend in, the more I like you.

Do the gay men there dress a certain way?

I live there... It sucks

At 7/25/17 09:37 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote: I'm one of the very few genuine ...

Keeping my kind requires erecting strong barriers to entry. Don't think just physical walls. I've already thought it through but I don't think this is the best time or place to talk about what's on my mind.

You're the poop guy, right?

NO and I probably never will.

At 7/25/17 07:56 PM, sjwgenocide wrote:

At 7/25/17 07:40 PM, Painbringer wrote: I've always wanted to go to the top of the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center.

i've got some bad news on the second one

At 7/25/17 07:51 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: also i will campaign wholeheartedly for smoking to be banned entirely in NY

based on my limited experience, it seems all the cigarette smoking in america is concentrated in the east coast. i knew more people in the south that smoked weed than cigarettes, and it doesn't seem to be a thing on the west coast either

Huh? What are you talking about? I live in California and plenty of people smoke cigarettes. Or vape. I work at a gas station and sell cigarettes. It may not be as much as the south, and I doubt there are any places where weed is used more than tobacco due to the fact that cigarettes are more accessible and more likely to be used because they are so addictive.

No, I never been in to New York City, but I've watched many episodes of "CSI: New York".

I've never been. I want to go so that I can see a Mets and a Yankees baseball game, though. They both have interesting stadiums.

Let me sleep on your couch Wegra.

At 7/28/17 02:00 PM, ZJ wrote:

Let me sleep on your couch Wegra.

Be my guest ;)

I don't even want to go out of my house. Yeah, nope. although going to NY sounds fine i guess. >.>

I've never been but it's high up on my bucket list. After living in the middle of nowhere for so long I want to live in a city for a while, and NYC would be top of the list if I could choose any.

Lemme crash on ur couch, Wegra.

At 7/25/17 07:20 PM, Dynastywarriors5 wrote: No, but I've seen Taxi Driver a few times

If I'm not mistaken NYC was extensively 'cleaned up' in the '90s, both literally and metaphorically, so Taxi Driver's portrayal may be a tad outdated.

At 7/25/17 09:37 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote:

Unfortunately, one of the worst among us is now President of the United States, thanks to his ability to pander to desperate coal miners, bigots and all-around morons just like himself. If someone's proud trademark phrase is "You're fired" that person isn't fucking going to get you any new jobs, and if you insist otherwise, how stupid can you be?

Please, take him back to where he belongs. I desperately want him out of Office.

At 7/30/17 12:05 AM, sjwgenocide wrote:

At 7/29/17 10:34 PM, HexMagnificus wrote: Please, take him back to where he belongs. I desperately want him out of Office.

yes, have the dumb monkey president resign and be replaced with actual competent politician Mike Pence who has a greater ability to damage america

So, the more incompetent and idiotic the guy is, the better? The worse, the better.

That's one way of looking at it, considering we are stuck with the Republicans this term...

At 7/30/17 03:16 AM, Dynastywarriors5 wrote:

At 7/25/17 07:20 PM, Dynastywarriors5 wrote: No, but I've seen Taxi Driver a few times

If I'm not mistaken NYC was extensively 'cleaned up' in the '90s, both literally and metaphorically, so Taxi Driver's portrayal may be a tad outdated.

Are you talking about ethnic cleansing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification Mad expensive, might be OK for a vacation, I'll let you know after my buddy's family stays in lower Manhattan for 2 days. Was there right before and right after 9/11, only a few visits in the 70's and 80's. Shame the place is terrorist target #1, especially for something big, our price for exporting so many Hollywood/news fictions, and CIA orders.