Yet another GAF thread - I still haven't got over it :( (No spergfits allowed)

[nudemacusers]

you guys are so yaoi

fuck my life
*deletes google history*

tupac would make a great yaoi shotacon

[Squiddy]

what the fuck is going on here 

Beef Cutlet Son Sale?

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[Don Flamenco]

just like inuits have 20 different words for "snow," the japanese have a hundred different words for "porn"

[Shaka Khan]

you guys are so yaoi

fuck my life
*deletes google history*

You never heard/googled yaoi until this post. I totally believe that.

[Rahxephon91]

I consider myself an anime fan, but I really have no idea what most of these terms even mean.

[Tasty]

you guys are so yaoi

fuck my life
*deletes google history*

You never heard/googled yaoi until this post. I totally believe that.

Lmao yeah, stop playing PD.

[Shadow Mod]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=574449

 

[Polari]

The suburbs do suck though.

[Shadow Mod]

Not anymore than blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house just to live in the city limits.

[nudemacusers]

The suburbs do suck though.

I like 10k person towns (with some degree of well-nurtured community/history) that sit about 30 minutes-hour from a city.

[Positive Touch]

Not anymore than blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house just to live in the city limits.

well you could rent someplace instead of buying property in a city. or, you know, just stick with the cultural dead zones that are the suburbs.

[thisismyusername]

this page

Shush, furry. 

Who's your fave HardBlush character bb?

None, because I'm not a furry and HardBlush is shit.

[nudemacusers]

Not anymore than blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house just to live in the city limits.

well you could rent someplace instead of buying property in a city. or, you know, just stick with the cultural dead zones that are the suburbs.

well, let's be honest here. a lot of cities have like zero culture.

[Positive Touch]

  suburban culture is cool if your favorite places in the world are wingstop and kmart and you say shit like "this is a fine day for yardwork."

[tiesto]

The suburbs do suck though.

I like 10k person towns (with some degree of well-nurtured community/history) that sit about 30 minutes-hour from a city.

Sounds kinda like the area I'm in now. Got cute historic areas and all your typical suburban amenities (huge shopping mall, big box retailers) all within a few minutes. Not to mention schools far better than comparable ones in the city.

[Polari]

The suburbs do suck though.

I like 10k person towns (with some degree of well-nurtured community/history) that sit about 30 minutes-hour from a city.

Oh sure. Especially here in England where there's a lot of places with a nice village vibe. The problem then is commuting though. I was referring more to living in the purgatory of urban sprawl, where there's no identity, history or culture and everything is reasonably generic and faceless.

[nudemacusers]

suburban culture is cool if your favorite places in the world are wingstop and kmart and you say shit like "this is a fine day for yardwork."

hey whoa. I like doing yardwork. I even have my special yardwork designer sneakers  :'(

[Atramental]

I just want to live in a place where I don't get guilt tripped for not worshipping the sky god on Sunday.

Oh, and there has to be easy access to recreational drugs and a low douche canoe population as well.

[Himu]

suburban culture is cool if your favorite places in the world are wingstop and kmart and you say shit like "this is a fine day for yardwork."

word, i hate suburbs

[thisismyusername]

I just want to live in a place where I don't get guilt tripped for not worshipping the sky god on Sunday.

Oh, and there has to be easy access to recreational drugs and a low douche canoe population as well.

So, anywhere not the bible-belt then?

[nudemacusers]

I just want to live in a place where I don't get guilt tripped for not worshipping the sky god on Sunday.

Oh, and there has to be easy access to recreational drugs and a low douche canoe population as well.

it's gonna suck when you try drugs and hate them, and end up realizing that you feed on the judgement you receive from those around you.

[Huff]

kids growing up really love it when they live in a culture filled area

[Atramental]

I just want to live in a place where I don't get guilt tripped for not worshipping the sky god on Sunday.

Oh, and there has to be easy access to recreational drugs and a low douche canoe population as well.

So, anywhere not the bible-belt then?

Basically, yes.

it's gonna suck when you try drugs and hate them, and end up realizing that you feed on the judgement you receive from those around you.

I have The Bore for that.

And seeing how I drink every chance I get there's no way I'm not going to like drugs. I love being in altered states of consciousness, man.

[nudemacusers]

what if you have like, a really bad trip and freak out.

[Atramental]

I don't think that's going to happen.

So long as I'm in a safe environment with people I trust I think I'll be alright. Also, my inner demons are not that dark and menacing like those of other folks I know.

[Don Flamenco]

Oh, and there has to be easy access to recreational drugs and a low douche canoe population as well.

recreational drugs can bring out fronting douches big time.  it all depends who you're hanging out with.  Some crews just supplement evenings with them, some crews are friends just because of them and derive all their cred from how much they do, how hooked up they are. 

[nudemacusers]

Oh, and there has to be easy access to recreational drugs and a low douche canoe population as well.

recreational drugs can bring out fronting douches big time.  it all depends who you're hanging out with.  Some crews just supplement evenings with them, some crews are friends just because of them and derive all their cred from how much they do, how hooked up they are.

yeah the latter types are the worst.

[Broseidon]

this page

Shush, furry. 

Who's your fave HardBlush character bb?

None, because I'm not a furry and HardBlush is shit.

[Shadow Mod]

All I'm gleaming from this is some of the suburbs y'all have been in just suck.

Anyway I'm biased because my city and suburban life overlap more than they are different.

[etiolate]

Subarbs suck. Yes, living in a place that has something of interest around is worth more money. The biggest lie is that the burbs are a great place raise a kid. Lack of stimuli is suffocating. That's why chemical stimuli is so profitable in such areas.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Agree 100%

It's either going to be city life or country life.
No boring urbs.

[Phoenix Dark]

I spent my tween and teen years in the suburbs and enjoyed it. But there's definitely an ugly underlining to it at times, or at least in my experience. We moved in to a subdivision neighborhood right as all the houses on the block were completed, so basically we and all our neighbors were the first people there. Every single family within eye distance put down sod and quickly got their lawns in order, while my parents decided to grow our grass naturally. So our lawn was the ugly stepchild of the block for a long ass time until the grass grew, and I remember some of the kids telling me that their parents said we were poor. Our house was also smaller than everyone else's; it's a (big) ranch, whereas just about everyone else had the big ass two story houses.

Now every time I go to my parents house the grass looks way better than most of the neighbors who once gave us shit lol.

[Don Flamenco]

All I'm gleaming from this is some of the suburbs y'all have been in just suck.

I grew up in a wealthy, high pressure one.  They had me in special ed classes at my public school.   Got kicked out and sent off when I was 15 cause me no fit in so goodly.  I just stopped going to school for a few weeks and took the el train downtown to walk around and observe whatever was going on in the city.  It was a blast and eye-opening.   My folks would never let me go on my own without warning me of the black people who would jump out with knives or whatever, so venturing on my own and seeing life outside the burbs was great.  A semester after I got kicked out and sent off, I was in honors courses and happier than ever, ended up at a good college, doing a ton of post-grad work etc.

but they had sworn up and down I had learning disabilities and mental illnesses-- I was diagnosed with a different one every few months, it seemed, and sent to different specialists and stuff.  really, I just hated pretty much everyone because of how cut throat and pissed off both the adults and the kids were.  I had to develop all of my self-confidence from scratch after I got sent off and could be away from those people and my own family!  The people I still keep in touch with from there are still competitive shits with tons of prejudices and crappy ideas about what it means to be a sophisticated person.  It's like they're tainted. 

so yeah, fuck the suburbs.     

not to say I want pity, everyone's dealt their own hand and it could be much worse.  the mental abuse was out of control for me though.  And i've got a lot of other stories of how others have cracked under the pressure...I'm lucky I didn't end up like some of my friends and family who didn't get an opportunity to shine anywhere else.

[thisismyusername]

this page

Shush, furry. 

Who's your fave HardBlush character bb?

None, because I'm not a furry and HardBlush is shit.

(Image removed from quote.)

 :xbone

[Positive Touch]

the suburbs i grew up in were just boring as shit. my family also moved into a house right after the neighborhood was built, so we were on the ass end of the suburbs. it took 15 minutes to get to the highway and about 45-60 to get downtown so going anywhere was always a drive. and everything close by was a boring chain or some bland-ass small business. nothing fun unless you were grown and liked going to crappy bars with other people that'd given up on life.

also the area was like 50/50 black and white with black people moving in and white people moving out, so i remember lots of white people had these cold and hostile personalities to everyone. me and my friends had shit-all to do and hated those damn hillbilles (well they weren't really hillbilles, but close enough for us) so we spent a lot of time wandering around and tearing shit up. it was purgatory and ALL of us moved away as soon as we could.

and i dunno if it means much but ive been back there plenty of times since, and even tho i graduated from a class of 500 ive never seen a single person that i went to school with around.

[thisismyusername]

Suburbs aren't really the problem. Lack of city planning/zoning to have suburbs within a city and all that is the problem. But I'm not an urban planner, so I'm mostly talking out of my ass and I dunno if crime-rate/other things are what prevent suburbs from being integrated into a city.

[Broseidon]

[Steve Youngblood]

To me, while I agree that it's worth examining the benefits of cities versus suburbs going forward for both philosophical and pragmatic reasons, I think the personal preference is largely subjective and doesn't necessitate the level of elitism often exhibited from either side. Further, not all cities and suburbs are created equally. I like having a back yard and not sharing a wall with someone else for a reasonable price, so the 'burbs seem like the right call for us. But that doesn't mean I don't see the appeal of city living. There are trade offs no matter which choice you make.

[Broseidon]

[Himu]

All I'm gleaming from this is some of the suburbs y'all have been in just suck.

Anyway I'm biased because my city and suburban life overlap more than they are different.

Every suburb i've been to has been the same.

[Atramental]

Are suburbs around Portland pretty dope, Devo?

[Mr. Gundam]

To me, while I agree that it's worth examining the benefits of cities versus suburbs going forward for both philosophical and pragmatic reasons, I think the personal preference is largely subjective and doesn't necessitate the level of elitism often exhibited from either side. Further, not all cities and suburbs are created equally. I like having a back yard and not sharing a wall with someone else for a reasonable price, so the 'burbs seem like the right call for us. But that doesn't mean I don't see the appeal of city living. There are trade offs no matter which choice you make.

I've got a house with separate walls and a small yard in the city. Short walk to shops, restaurants, bars, movie theaters, concert venues, etc. Granted, I don't have a gigantic house with a massive yard or anything, but I love what I've got.

[radioheadrule83]

That is a fuckin work of art!

"By the way, I am a samurai" haha

I enjoyed the original documentary, Cliffy B speaks truth so lucidly and easily - he could easily have a future as a bit of a pundit. Very well spoken. Pachter came across well too. It made me hate certain bitchy whiny GAF posters even more than I already do.

[Huff]

All I'm gleaming from this is some of the suburbs y'all have been in just suck.

Anyway I'm biased because my city and suburban life overlap more than they are different.

Every suburb i've been to has been the same.

thus they are all the same!

[Himu]

I didn't say all suburbs are the same. I said all subrubs I've been to are the same. However, Devo says that she lives in a great suburb so surely they exist. The point I ineffectively conveyed is that good suburbs seem so rare that pointing about that "hey you guys must lived in shitty suburbs" seems an odd point to make considering the shit:quality ratio of suburbs.

It really depends on the city I'm guessing. Houston is like 70% suburbs and they all suck. Every experience I've had in every suburb I've visited, no matter the city, from Dallas, to San Fran, to LA, to goddamn Orlando, Raleigh have been shit and pretty much copy pasta. Because Devo thinks her suburb is great, doesn't really change my own personal experience.

I don't like suburbs, but not all suburbs are god awful either. I'm sure they are out there, but they are so minuscule I'd rather to talk in objectives because goddamit, I'm lazy and I'd rather just pimp city/country livin' than be assed to find these so-called mythical burbs.

New York City probably the most decent suburbs I've ever seen, honestly. Long Island ain't bad.

[Tasty]

Himu the expert, as usual.

Or should I say sexpert?

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[Steve Youngblood]

To me, while I agree that it's worth examining the benefits of cities versus suburbs going forward for both philosophical and pragmatic reasons, I think the personal preference is largely subjective and doesn't necessitate the level of elitism often exhibited from either side. Further, not all cities and suburbs are created equally. I like having a back yard and not sharing a wall with someone else for a reasonable price, so the 'burbs seem like the right call for us. But that doesn't mean I don't see the appeal of city living. There are trade offs no matter which choice you make.

I've got a house with separate walls and a small yard in the city. Short walk to shops, restaurants, bars, movie theaters, concert venues, etc. Granted, I don't have a gigantic house with a massive yard or anything, but I love what I've got.

That just falls under the "not all cities and suburbs are created equally" category. I won't pretend to be an expert in regards to every big city and their surrounding suburbs. I like what I know of the 'burbs, but I won't pretend to be an expert in terms of all the possible inner-city real estate in big cities. From what I do know, my house would be impractically expensive if it were in a desirable part of the city as opposed to being in a small town 20 miles from downtown. But, again, I'm not looking down from my perch on urbanites. I see the appeal, even if I don't ultimately think its for me.

As a reference point -- and I promise I'm not trying to brag because it's not that impressive a feat -- our house is 2,000 sq. feet on a half acre lot. In a desirable part of the city, that's be crazy expensive. I know of people renting in the city very modest places for more money than I pay for my mortgage.

[Positive Touch]

LOOK AT ALL THESE SQUARES

[Steve Youngblood]

LOOK AT ALL THESE SQUARES

If that's a reference to the square foot comment, I'll again say that I don't mention that to inspire awe in the hearts and minds of city dwellers. The point to me is simply that the trade off is obvious. In terms of how far your dollar will go, you can pick between the desirability of the size of your home/property or the desirability of the location. I could turn my nose up at inner-city inhabitants and extoll the virtues of my town to them and wonder why they're not living here too, but I'm fairly certain I know what their response would be. "Why would I want to live in your shitty town where there's nothing to do?" To which I'd simply respond "touché."

[Tasty]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=60867353#post60867353 (GoT spoilers)



 

[thisismyusername]

What was the .gif ben posted since Duckroll nuked the post from orbit?

[Tasty]

No idea, hope someone saved it.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Agree 100%

It's either going to be city life or country life.
No boring urbs.

I lived most of my life in the country.  It sucks ass, especially during the winter.

[thisismyusername]

No idea, hope someone saved it.

So you post the freakout but you don't know the actual freakout?  Oh, Andy, that deserves a spanking. 

[Tasty]

Relight having the meltdown was the meltdown, moron.

He also posted in the book spoiler thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=60868921#post60868921

[thisismyusername]

That meltdown isn't as bad as people going "OH GOD WTF BEN" and duckroll having to nuke posts, dude.

[Tasty]

If you say so.

[Don Flamenco]

you can really tell which juniors tried hard to make long, quotable logins 

[Atramental]

Suburbia. Not even once.

[Tasty]

you can really tell which juniors tried hard to make long, quotable logins

Here or on GAF?