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[sabreene]

Sarah1281 wrote...

yukidama wrote...

I'm from New York City and moving to Vancouver for school in the fall. I previously attended college in Olympia, Washington but had a meltdown over how difficult it was to get anywhere without a car. I don't drive, so I couldn't even go grocery shopping (unless I pestered someone to take me) without getting on about three different buses and walking about a mile. I can't do suburban life, I think I'd die in the country lol.

See, my high school wouldn't let you graduate withut a licence so it wasn't a big problem people would be facing.

And I have really non-nosey neighbors. I think part of it is that so many of the houses are simply rented so they families are only there for a year so they don't really care.

Los Angeles/Orange County is like one big sprawling city intertwined with suburbs, it's hard to distinguish where one starts and the other stops. For all that I dislike the materialism that runs rampant here, your neighbors really don't bother you. My grandfather always wants to go talk to his neighbors, and everyone looks at him in horror. You just don't *do* that anymore, at least not here. Ignore thy neighbor, and they will ignore you!

The public transit system... I really have no idea how people get around here without a car. It's very much like the Steve Martin, "LA Story" movie. You need to go to your friend's house up the street? You drive there, of course! There are little pockets of places where you can walk. When my sister lived in West Hollywood, we could walk to a few restaurants on Melrose & the grocery store. But other than that, everyone has their own car and no one carpools, and we wonder why the freeway traffic is so effing bad!

[Serissia]

Herr Uhl wrote...
No crappy cars that scrape the roads with their spoilers (not low rides, they're broken) painted with regular house-paint while playing music like this obnoxiously loud to attract females around the ages 13-16 (after that they're too old, and the males are 24-35)?

I could come to like the Spanish kind.

That song made me lulz.

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

Herr Uhl wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

No. They don't even fly Spanish flags. they just get mullets to look more like their football heroes. That's about the extent of their nationalism.

No crappy cars that scrape the roads with their spoilers (not low rides, they're broken) painted with regular house-paint while playing music like this obnoxiously loud to attract females around the ages 13-16 (after that they're too old, and the males are 24-35)?

I could come to like the Spanish kind.

Actually, that's far more like it here. Beat up old bangers that aren't even road legal, but because their cousin's nephew's husband is in the Guardia Civil, they never get done for it. The music is the same. They play it on their way to buy coke for the disco where they can pick up 12-16 year olds, or get in fights with Romanians.

[sabreene]

Addai67 wrote...

So, for the experts here, I'm having a strange problem with Fraps video.  On that swooping kiss, I start the video capture and end it as I normally would.  However, when I go to shut down, I get an error message which I think means it's still recording, and when I look at the video it starts at the fade-to-black rather than the actual beginning of the conversation.  It did it before and I finally got it to work after 6 or 7 tries.  Now I want to re-do the video in a more scenic place, without the dog barking, but I'm having the same problem and it's making me tear my hair out.  Any ideas?  I've tried closing and re-opening Fraps, changing the key etc.

Did you get it  fixed? Is it only doing it for the one kiss, or is it doing it for everything now?

[Lady Jess]

Squeeee speaking of Aidan!!

[Gilsa]

Lady Jess wrote...

Squeeee speaking of Aidan!!

THIS IS FANTASTIC. I AM GETTING JEALOUS OMG.

[Sarah1281]

Lady Jess wrote...

Squeeee speaking of Aidan!!

I still can't over the adorableness. They look really good togeter. Are you goin to post it in the Zev thread as well? It's Friday so it's a bit..yeah...in there but it's really on-topic.

[mellifera]

Mel_Redux wrote...

yukidama wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

yukidama wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Yuki...Where in Manhattan are you, if you don't mind saying? My friend lives near Gramercy, so I'm down there all the time.

Waaay uptown. I'm only a 5 minute bus ride away from The Bronx. 10 minute ride from Yankee Stadium *boo hissssss*

So like, Harlem?  Honestly, I think the farthest uptown I've ever been is around 86th (except when driving to the Bronx Zoo).  I was an Art Histroy major from Rutgers, so the Met was a monthly trip for me.

A bit above Harlem, Washington Heights. I don't really like it here either though... I'm picky xD

I don't think you're picky.....Washington Heights isn't fabulous.  Maybe that's jsut the North Jersey/Princeton snob coming out

ToP again??  Well, its' been too long since we've seen this:


Maker he's gorgeous.....Is it normal to melt so mcuh from a VG character?

Lol! I don't really mind the area itself, actually. I live down the block from a really gorgeous church and cemetery from the 19th century and a block away from the Hudson river. Riverside is really nice, I think. The problem is the people. So freaking loud and rude and ugh. I hate the summer especially because they're all outside. They overtake the stoop of my building like it is theirs and smoke and drink and blast loud music and make out and are generally disgusting. I've seen more 13 year old girls making out with grown ass men than I think anyone should in their lifetimes.

[Herr Uhl]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

Herr Uhl wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

No. They don't even fly Spanish flags. they just get mullets to look more like their football heroes. That's about the extent of their nationalism.

No crappy cars that scrape the roads with their spoilers (not low rides, they're broken) painted with regular house-paint while playing music like this obnoxiously loud to attract females around the ages 13-16 (after that they're too old, and the males are 24-35)?

I could come to like the Spanish kind.

Actually, that's far more like it here. Beat up old bangers that aren't even road legal, but because their cousin's nephew's husband is in the Guardia Civil, they never get done for it. The music is the same. They play it on their way to buy coke for the disco where they can pick up 12-16 year olds, or get in fights with Romanians.

Well, it's mainly the same in Sweden and Spain then, but without the coke and with nationalism.

And exchange Romanians with Kurds and Persians (not cats).

[Serissia]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
Actually, that's far more like it here. Beat up old bangers that aren't even road legal, but because their cousin's nephew's husband is in the Guardia Civil, they never get done for it. The music is the same. They play it on their way to buy coke for the disco where they can pick up 12-16 year olds, or get in fights with Romanians.

That sounds somewhat eventful at least.  My town is full of slightly upper middle class white people that work for EMC or own a landscaping company.  They all want to believe that they have far more money than they do so they all buy white Mercedes SUVs or Ford F350/F450s.  They don't want their little town to look poor so they banned any big name stores/restaurants. 

So, if I'm w/o the car and there's no food in the house it costs me about $25 to go next door and get chicken salad, rolls and a soda.  The only place to get coffee is $5 a cup.  There's only 2 reestaurants a Mom & Pop place that is hardly ever open and a chinese food place w/ a bar.  All of the guys go there to hide from their wives and get drunk.  

Modifié par Serissia, 29 mai 2010 - 01:40 .

[MelRedux]

yukidama wrote...
I hate the summer especially because they're all outside. They overtake the stoop of my building like it is theirs and smoke and drink and blast loud music and make out and are generally disgusting. I've seen more 13 year old girls making out with grown ass men than I think anyone should in their lifetimes.

.....and Yuki further solidifies my desire to move to the "country"

[mellifera]

Mel_Redux wrote...

yukidama wrote...
I hate the summer especially because they're all outside. They overtake the stoop of my building like it is theirs and smoke and drink and blast loud music and make out and are generally disgusting. I've seen more 13 year old girls making out with grown ass men than I think anyone should in their lifetimes.

.....and Yuki further solidifies my desire to move to the "country"

I always say that I like NYC from about seven feet up from the ground and above. Meaning, as long as I don't have to see people, I am good. That's why I like the winter, all these morons go back into their loser drug addict teen pregancy caves and hibernate.

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

Herr Uhl wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

Herr Uhl wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

No. They don't even fly Spanish flags. they just get mullets to look more like their football heroes. That's about the extent of their nationalism.

No crappy cars that scrape the roads with their spoilers (not low rides, they're broken) painted with regular house-paint while playing music like this obnoxiously loud to attract females around the ages 13-16 (after that they're too old, and the males are 24-35)?

I could come to like the Spanish kind.

Actually, that's far more like it here. Beat up old bangers that aren't even road legal, but because their cousin's nephew's husband is in the Guardia Civil, they never get done for it. The music is the same. They play it on their way to buy coke for the disco where they can pick up 12-16 year olds, or get in fights with Romanians.

Well, it's mainly the same in Sweden and Spain then, but without the coke and with nationalism.

And exchange Romanians with Kurds and Persians (not cats).

We actually had a Swedish guy (there's a sizable number of ex-pats from all over Europe, and they are about as much fun to be around as the locals) who actually quite liked it here. he was from some small town up north in Sweden, so I'd imagine you could successfully transplant rednecks from both regions and they would adapt well to their new habitats.

[Sarah1281]

No crappy cars that scrape the roads with their spoilers (not low rides, they're broken) painted with regular house-paint while playing music like this obnoxiously loud to attract females around the ages 13-16 (after that they're too old, and the males are 24-35)?



I could come to like the Spanish kind.

I would rather have to listen to that all the time than crappy country or ghetto music.

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

Serissia wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
Actually, that's far more like it here. Beat up old bangers that aren't even road legal, but because their cousin's nephew's husband is in the Guardia Civil, they never get done for it. The music is the same. They play it on their way to buy coke for the disco where they can pick up 12-16 year olds, or get in fights with Romanians.

That sounds somewhat eventful at least.  My town is full of slightly upper middle class white people that work for EMC or own a landscaping company.  They all want to believe that they have far more money than they do so they all buy white Mercedes SUVs or Ford F350/F450s.  They don't want their little town to look poor so they banned any big name stores/restaurants. 

So, if I'm w/o the car and there's no food in the house it costs me about $25 to go next door and get chicken salad, rolls and a soda.  The only place to get coffee is $5 a cup.  There's only 2 reestaurants a Mom & Pop place that is hardly ever open and a chinese food place w/ a bar.  All of the guys go there to hide from their wives and get drunk.  

I'd kill for some Chinese food. Or any food that doesn't contain obescene amounts of olive oil, salt, mayonaise, and pork products of some description.

[Serissia]

yukidama wrote...
I always say that I like NYC from about seven feet up from the ground and above. Meaning, as long as I don't have to see people, I am good. That's why I like the winter, all these morons go back into their loser drug addict teen pregancy caves and hibernate.

When I lived in Providence all I had was white crack-heads on my stoop.  We had a transexual hooker worked our street corner though.  Across from my apartment was a empty lot full of broken glass and people would have picnics there in the summer. 

[MelRedux]

yukidama wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

yukidama wrote...
I hate the summer especially because they're all outside. They overtake the stoop of my building like it is theirs and smoke and drink and blast loud music and make out and are generally disgusting. I've seen more 13 year old girls making out with grown ass men than I think anyone should in their lifetimes.

.....and Yuki further solidifies my desire to move to the "country"

I always say that I like NYC from about seven feet up from the ground and above. Meaning, as long as I don't have to see people, I am good. That's why I like the winter, all these morons go back into their loser drug addict teen pregancy caves and hibernate.

I NYC....love love love love.  And I ahve pipe dreams about living there.  But then I think about having 1+ acres for my pups to run around, and that sounds a lot better.  I can always visit my friends in NYC.

Honestly, I am very jealous of all the people in NYC that are so close to all the culture and museums.....but my puppies need room to run!  And there is nothing better than planting gardwens and seeing fireflies on a summer night, and hearing nothing but crickets (except when those crickets get in your basement)

[Addai]

sabreene wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

So, for the experts here, I'm having a strange problem with Fraps video.  On that swooping kiss, I start the video capture and end it as I normally would.  However, when I go to shut down, I get an error message which I think means it's still recording, and when I look at the video it starts at the fade-to-black rather than the actual beginning of the conversation.  It did it before and I finally got it to work after 6 or 7 tries.  Now I want to re-do the video in a more scenic place, without the dog barking, but I'm having the same problem and it's making me tear my hair out.  Any ideas?  I've tried closing and re-opening Fraps, changing the key etc.

Did you get it  fixed? Is it only doing it for the one kiss, or is it doing it for everything now?

Seems to work normally otherwise.  I'm wondering if it is something with the mod, since the screen goes black, if somehow that is confusing the program?  Not sure why it would erase everything before that though.

[MelRedux]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
We actually had a Swedish guy (there's a sizable number of ex-pats from all over Europe, and they are about as much fun to be around as the locals) who actually quite liked it here. he was from some small town up north in Sweden, so I'd imagine you could successfully transplant rednecks from both regions and they would adapt well to their new habitats.

Don't mock the Swedes....I come from Swedes, and I'm pretty awesome!

[Serissia]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
I'd kill for some Chinese food. Or any food that doesn't contain obescene amounts of olive oil, salt, mayonaise, and pork products of some description.

That combination sounds really gross.

[sabreene]

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...

Serissia wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
Actually, that's far more like it here. Beat up old bangers that aren't even road legal, but because their cousin's nephew's husband is in the Guardia Civil, they never get done for it. The music is the same. They play it on their way to buy coke for the disco where they can pick up 12-16 year olds, or get in fights with Romanians.

That sounds somewhat eventful at least.  My town is full of slightly upper middle class white people that work for EMC or own a landscaping company.  They all want to believe that they have far more money than they do so they all buy white Mercedes SUVs or Ford F350/F450s.  They don't want their little town to look poor so they banned any big name stores/restaurants. 

So, if I'm w/o the car and there's no food in the house it costs me about $25 to go next door and get chicken salad, rolls and a soda.  The only place to get coffee is $5 a cup.  There's only 2 reestaurants a Mom & Pop place that is hardly ever open and a chinese food place w/ a bar.  All of the guys go there to hide from their wives and get drunk.  

I'd kill for some Chinese food. Or any food that doesn't contain obescene amounts of olive oil, salt, mayonaise, and pork products of some description.

From all the talk, I guess I'll put up with the extraordinarily high housing prices, traffic, general stupidity and materialism that is LA. At least I can always get a cheap cup of coffee, good chinese food and don't have to deal with rednecks and junkies... that is, as long as my car is working.

[mellifera]

Serissia wrote...

yukidama wrote...
I always say that I like NYC from about seven feet up from the ground and above. Meaning, as long as I don't have to see people, I am good. That's why I like the winter, all these morons go back into their loser drug addict teen pregancy caves and hibernate.

When I lived in Providence all I had was white crack-heads on my stoop.  We had a transexual hooker worked our street corner though.  Across from my apartment was a empty lot full of broken glass and people would have picnics there in the summer. 

They just ****** me off because they're so disrespectful. It's ridiculous. Why the hell do you tag and grafitti your own building? If someone wants to know building number they can look at the sign outside, they don't need to be reminded that this is building XYZ and ElDouche lives here or whatever.

They also tag the old church and even the goddamn gravestones.... sigh.

[Serissia]

yukidama wrote...
They just ****** me off because they're so disrespectful. It's ridiculous. Why the hell do you tag and grafitti your own building? If someone wants to know building number they can look at the sign outside, they don't need to be reminded that this is building XYZ and ElDouche lives here or whatever.

They also tag the old church and even the goddamn gravestones.... sigh.

Everything gets tagged in Providence too.  There was this huge wall that was painted w/ whales and other sea life that was right near the highway and someone tagged it.  People even tag the barriers inbetween the highway and the sides of the over passes!

[Herr Uhl]

Sarah1281 wrote...

No crappy cars that scrape the roads with their spoilers (not low rides, they're broken) painted with regular house-paint while playing music like this obnoxiously loud to attract females around the ages 13-16 (after that they're too old, and the males are 24-35)?

I could come to like the Spanish kind.

I would rather have to listen to that all the time than crappy country or ghetto music.

Well, that is only when they are on the prowl for prey. Otherwise we have this, a song about masturbation for those who don't know Swedish and wish to know.

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

Serissia wrote...

Skadi_the_Evil_Elf wrote...
I'd kill for some Chinese food. Or any food that doesn't contain obescene amounts of olive oil, salt, mayonaise, and pork products of some description.

That combination sounds really gross.

It best describes the local cuisine. They abhor anything that isn't deep fried, or didn't come from a pig, or has any sort of flavor or herbs and spice, with the exception of parsley. Which is a real shame, because the mountain sides are covered with wild herbs that are excellent in cooking. In order to get any decent food, you have to drive about 1 1/2 hours. So I cook at home alot.