Streets Should Get One of These

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:30 pm

Party Pals Say Let the Good Times Roll—On a Bicycle Built for 16
Companies Offer a Seat at the Bar, Which is Also a Giant Bike; Perils of Ill-Chosen Footwear

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087 ... 97006.html

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:28 pm

There is one of these in the Old Market.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:46 pm

Yeah either that or some midol.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:58 am

Yep, I'm a woman having her period and I'm just grouchy. Funny. And mature. Good job.

Yeah, Jessep, there's totally a company that runs one or two of those around the Old Market. I feel pretty ambivalent about them, but people seem to enjoy them.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:15 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Yep, I'm a woman having her period and I'm just grouchy. Funny. And mature. Good job.

Yeah, Jessep, there's totally a company that runs one or two of those around the Old Market. I feel pretty ambivalent about them, but people seem to enjoy them.

You understood it! Â Good job!

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:38 pm

I didn't know Omaha has those mobile bar carts already. I thought it was just the Pedibikes, or whatever they call them.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:41 pm

jessep28 wrote:I didn't know Omaha has those mobile bar carts already. I thought it was just the Pedibikes, or whatever they call them.

Yeah there is one I am pretty sure in the old market.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:32 pm

Linkin5 wrote:
jessep28 wrote:I didn't know Omaha has those mobile bar carts already. I thought it was just the Pedibikes, or whatever they call them.
Yeah there is one I am pretty sure in the old market.

I don't doubt you. I just didn't know.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:27 am

Linkin5 wrote:
StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Yep, I'm a woman having her period and I'm just grouchy. Funny. And mature. Good job.

Yeah, Jessep, there's totally a company that runs one or two of those around the Old Market. I feel pretty ambivalent about them, but people seem to enjoy them.
You understood it! Good job!

You may think that counts as a comeback, but your original assertion (that I am a grouchy, menstruating woman) is still just as lame and immature.

NovakOmaha · Post by **NovakOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:43 am

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:
Linkin5 wrote:
StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Yep, I'm a woman having her period and I'm just grouchy. Funny. And mature. Good job.

Yeah, Jessep, there's totally a company that runs one or two of those around the Old Market. I feel pretty ambivalent about them, but people seem to enjoy them.
You understood it! Good job!
You may think that counts as a comeback, but your original assertion (that I am a grouchy, menstruating woman) is still just as lame and immature.

Well, the fact is that you are grouchy. Â I still say that if you substitute the word communism for interstates and suburbs your rants make for interesting reading.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:29 pm

Congratulations! You all win genius awards for picking up on the fact that I'm "grouchy." I've really been trying to hide it. I'm not at all surprised that my hyper-honesty regarding American cities and society is perceived by many as "grouchy." So simplistic. Anyway, I get it; no one likes hearing that their way of life is a mistake that should never have happened.

NovakOmaha wrote:I still say that if you substitute the word communism for interstates and suburbs your rants make for interesting reading.

Yeah? Let's try it:

The suburbs are bad. Substitution: Communism is bad.

The interstates are bad. Substitution: Communism is bad.

I think you are missing something.

Post by **nebugeater** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:37 pm

Do you ever entertain the thought that maybe you are wrong and others are correct, or even somehwer in between.

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Congratulations! You all win genius awards for picking up on the fact that I'm "grouchy." I've really been trying to hide it. I'm not at all surprised that my hyper-honesty regarding American cities and society is perceived by many as "grouchy." So simplistic. Anyway, I get it; no one likes hearing that their way of life is a mistake that should never have happened.

NovakOmaha wrote:I still say that if you substitute the word communism for interstates and suburbs your rants make for interesting reading.
Yeah? Let's try it:

The suburbs are bad. Substitution: Communism is bad.

The interstates are bad. Substitution: Communism is bad.

I think you are missing something.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:39 pm

nebugeater wrote:Do you ever entertain the thought that maybe you are wrong and others are correct, or even somehwer in between.

Absolutely. Oh, wait. That was a rhetorical question, wasn't it?

NovakOmaha · Post by **NovakOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:48 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Congratulations! You all win genius awards for picking up on the fact that I'm "grouchy." I've really been trying to hide it. I'm not at all surprised that my hyper-honesty regarding American cities and society is perceived by many as "grouchy." So simplistic. Anyway, I get it; no one likes hearing that their way of life is a mistake that should never have happened.

NovakOmaha wrote:I still say that if you substitute the word communism for interstates and suburbs your rants make for interesting reading.
Yeah? Let's try it:

The suburbs are bad. Substitution: Communism is bad.

The interstates are bad. Substitution: Communism is bad.

I think you are missing something.

Simplistic? Â I'll own that. Â It's simple. Â My way of life is a mistake and never should have happened. Â And you and Mumford and the enlightened ones should decide how, where, and with whom I should live? Â Yes, you and your wife need to leave at once as I just don't see that happening. Â If I may ask, where do you and your beloved intend to live?

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:03 pm

I don't want to dictate how, where, or with whom (not sure where that one came from) you should live. I just wish Americans had had the wherewithal, foresight, and self-restraint to do things right the first time (indeed, out of cultural self-preservation!).

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

We intend to emigrate to France (or, as I prefer to think of it, to seek cultural asylum in France).

Post by **nebugeater** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:06 pm

By who's definition?

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:I don't want to dictate how, where, or with whom (not sure where that one came from) you should live. I just wish Americans had had the wherewithal, foresight, and self-restraint to do things right the first time (indeed, out of cultural self-preservation!).

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

We intend to emigrate to France (or, as I prefer to think of it, to seek cultural asylum in France).

My guess is you will never be happy here so I would sugest you start packing for your own health and peice of mind.

NovakOmaha · Post by **NovakOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:19 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:I don't want to dictate how, where, or with whom (not sure where that one came from) you should live. I just wish Americans had had the wherewithal, foresight, and self-restraint to do things right the first time (indeed, out of cultural self-preservation!).

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

We intend to emigrate to France (or, as I prefer to think of it, to seek cultural asylum in France).

Having spent time in France I am inclined to say you may want to rethink. Â They may not be sinking into the 7th level of ..... Â but they aren't exactly paradise either. Â Surprising.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:28 pm

NovakOmaha wrote:Having spent time in France I am inclined to say you may want to rethink. They may not be sinking into the 7th level of ..... but they aren't exactly paradise either. Surprising.

That's a little cryptic; I'm not sure what you're referring to. I, too, have spent a great deal of time there and speak the language fluently. Do you? It's hard to understand a nation or it's people if you don't speak their language.

Anyway, I've come to my conclusions in life and you have come to yours. One of the conclusions I have come to through experience in the US and in France is that the French have a functioning society and a culture that acknowledges and values human dignity, rationality, and the human soul. None of which I can say about America or its people, which, in all honestly, truly breaks my heart. I wish it wasn't like that. It's like having a father that beats you; you want to love him because he's your father, but you can't deny the fact that he repeatedly hurts you and has no regard for your well-being.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:25 pm

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:28 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:I don't want to dictate how, where, or with whom (not sure where that one came from) you should live. I just wish Americans had had the wherewithal, foresight, and self-restraint to do things right the first time (indeed, out of cultural self-preservation!).

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

We intend to emigrate to France (or, as I prefer to think of it, to seek cultural asylum in France).

Oh nos!!!

http://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/ ... e/c3s3972/

As a result, commute times are increasing. The average French person now lives 15 kilometers from his or her place of employment. Although the largest cities have good public transportation, elsewhere the car dominates ever more as the primary mode of transportation.

“We are following the American model of urban sprawl, which presents a problem for municipalities,” says Jean-Loup Msika, an urban planner who opposes this kind of "horizontal" development. “It is much more expensive to bring services to far-off areas that are not densely populated.”

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:59 am

New French development, even auto-oriented suburban development, makes America's suburbs and exurbs look like the ninth circle of heck.

Many French people might look at certain forms of new construction that are automobile-oriented and say "this is so American" because (pathetically) "America" is virtually synonymous with automobile-orientation. But it would be like an American looking at, say, Village Pointe, and saying, "man, we are really following the European model with developments like this."

What I'm saying is that it is laughably inaccurate to say that France is doing ANYTHING by the American model.

What they have done is managed to observe and avoid the failures of the American model while still accommodating 21st Century appetites for private automobile mobility (i.e. maintaining a safe, civilized road system that subordinates the automobile in appropriate contexts), rather than rearranging their entire society to accommodate the automobile, which is what we have done here, with spectacularly dreadful results.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:47 pm

The funniest thing about you still posting is nobody believes or cares about anything you say, probably pretty similar to your actual life. Â You are a walking talking sad joke.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:35 pm

That no one cares about what I'm saying (which is pretty much totally true) isn't so much a funny thing about me or the fact that I still post, nor is it so much that I am a walking talking sad joke (as you say), but rather is the most tragic thing about this country and how truly sad it is that Americans have so blindly and obliviously walked right into their own cultural demise.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:43 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:That no one cares about what I'm saying (which is totally true) isn't so much a funny thing about me or the fact that I still post, nor is it so much that I am a walking talking sad joke (as you say), but rather is the most tragic thing about this country and how truly sad it is that Americans have so blindly and obliviously walked right into their own cultural demise.

And even funnier, this is how you view the world. Also the reason you feel entitled to speak down to and insult people. In the words of Jeffrey Lebowski, you're not wrong you're just an assh0le.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:53 pm

No. Not the world. Very much just the unique aberration that we call "America."

Being considered an assh0le comes with the territory of speaking honestly and frankly about our country in our country; it's something I've accepted and come to terms with. So at the risk of being considered an assh0le, for as long as I am still stuck here I am going to beat America into the ground with honesty about her own failures.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:58 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:No. Not the world. Very much just the unique aberration that we call "America."

Being considered an assh0le comes with the territory of speaking honestly and frankly about our country in our country; it's something I've accepted and come to terms with. So at the risk of being considered an assh0le, for as long as I am still stuck here I am going to beat America into the ground with honesty about her own failures.

You are a martyr streets, a true visionary.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:05 pm

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:35 pm

jessep28 wrote:

Nah.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:05 pm

Linkin5, you're giving away more and more of your own sense of inferiority with each post. Let it go.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:22 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Linkin5, you're giving away more and more of your own sense of inferiority with each post. Let it go.

You are so right.

NovakOmaha · Post by **NovakOmaha** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:28 am

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Linkin5, you're giving away more and more of your own sense of inferiority with each post. Let it go.

Hey Nancy, Pot-kettle

Zilla · Post by **Zilla** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:21 am

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:We intend to emigrate to France (or, as I prefer to think of it, to seek cultural asylum in France).

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:49 pm

What does France have to do with a bicycle bar?