Humans of New York

[Pæs]

I always find out about tumblrs well after they become well known so I don't know if this is old news, but this thing is pretty cool.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/

I want to see humansoftuscon.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like it.

[Suu]

New York is a pretty amazing place, but you either love it or hate it. There's not much in between.

[Left]

NYC people seem to be really freaking cool.
...Well, not always, but on the whole.

[Suu]

They are. There's a misconception that they are rude and evil. It's all in the approach. Don't be a fucking idiot. Be yourself and they will be themselves. I can't tell you how many times I got asked for directions when I lived there. The city is big and confusing, we know this, if you're genuine, then we'll be genuine. If you're a douchebag...well, then you're going to New Jersey.

Now, if I were to try this in Providence:

"WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT FUCKING CAMERA?"

"I'm going to sue you!"

"Fuckin' Hipstah!"

"Ia ia..."

"Do you go to RISD?"

"My bruddah is the AG, he will sue your ass if you take my pickcha."

"What the fuck is wrong with you?"

"Hey man, do you have a cigarette? I'll give you a quarter."

[East Coast Hustle]

NYC is an overblown craphole. It's not even the most important city in the US, never mind in the whole world. Stop calling yourselves "THE City" and maybe the rest of us will find something other than revulsion or disdain to feel towards you. Also your mayor sucks and your accents make you sound like assholes. That is all.

[Doktor Howl]

NYC is an overblown craphole. It's not even the most important city in the US, never mind in the whole world. Stop calling yourselves "THE City" and maybe the rest of us will find something other than revulsion or disdain to feel towards you. Also your mayor sucks and your accents make you sound like assholes. That is all.

It's still my favorite.

[East Coast Hustle]

For all the wrong reasons, I hope.

I hate the place like fire. Especially since they ruined all the good parts in the name of "improving" the place. If I had to spend time in an East Coast city I'd rather spend a year in Boston or DC than a month in NYC (note: those are the only actual cities on the east coast regardless of what people who live in overgrown suburbs think) and jesus FUCKITY FUCK THOSE ACCENTS. SHUT THE FUCKING FUCK UP YOU MONGLOID-SOUNDING MOTHERFUCKERS.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I don't understand how you can complain about the New York accent and be totally okay with Boston.

[Doktor Howl]

For all the wrong reasons, I hope.

I hate the place like fire. Especially since they ruined all the good parts in the name of "improving" the place. If I had to spend time in an East Coast city I'd rather spend a year in Boston or DC than a month in NYC (note: those are the only actual cities on the east coast regardless of what people who live in overgrown suburbs think) and jesus FUCKITY FUCK THOSE ACCENTS. SHUT THE FUCKING FUCK UP YOU MONGLOID-SOUNDING MOTHERFUCKERS.

I love it because it's retarded.  Nobody can afford to live there, but they do.  Nobody can park, but they do.  Nobody can DRIVE, but they do.  They're fun to get drunk with, if you have no survival instincts (for varying reasons in varying places).  They get mad and lose their shit about EVERYTHING, which I can get behind.

[Suu]

I don't understand how you can complain about the New York accent and be totally okay with Boston.

There is a difference between coyfee and cahfee.

[Cainad (dec.)]

For all the wrong reasons, I hope.

I hate the place like fire. Especially since they ruined all the good parts in the name of "improving" the place. If I had to spend time in an East Coast city I'd rather spend a year in Boston or DC than a month in NYC (note: those are the only actual cities on the east coast regardless of what people who live in overgrown suburbs think) and jesus FUCKITY FUCK THOSE ACCENTS. SHUT THE FUCKING FUCK UP YOU MONGLOID-SOUNDING MOTHERFUCKERS.

I love it because it's retarded.  Nobody can afford to live there, but they do.  Nobody can park, but they do.  Nobody can DRIVE, but they do.  They're fun to get drunk with, if you have no survival instincts (for varying reasons in varying places).  They get mad and lose their shit about EVERYTHING, which I can get behind.

It is a city that makes no fucking sense at all, and yet it keeps happening.

I got to take a tour of the East Side Access Project under Grand Central a few months ago. Imagine four enormous, 20 ft diameter tunnels stacked two over two, leading into even more enormous 60 ft square tunnels. Only place I've ever been that could probably agitate claustrophobics and agoraphobics at the same time.

For those who don't know, these tunnels are carved out using giant machines called Sand Hogs. Two of them were used to carve these new tunnels, and they're so huge that one of them was simply buried at the end of its tunnel, because it was too expensive to get it back out.


All of this, so that people can get from the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central more efficiently. Fucking amazing.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I don't understand how you can complain about the New York accent and be totally okay with Boston.

There is a difference between coyfee and cahfee.

I didn't say they're the SAME accent, they're just both fucking awful.

[Suu]

Also: Call my city a fucking suburb of Boston to it's face.

Little brother, sure. But suburb? Dude, CRANSTON is a fucking suburb. QUINCY is a fucking suburb, PROVIDENCE IS NOT A SUBURB.

Fall River IS A SUBURB OF PROVIDENCE. As much as they don't want to admit it. We don't want to admit it either, I mean, who would?

Goddamn Downeaster, stay the fuck out of the populated states or move to Canada like Vermont. Syrup-chugging prick.

[Suu]

I don't understand how you can complain about the New York accent and be totally okay with Boston.

There is a difference between coyfee and cahfee.

I didn't say they're the SAME accent, they're just both fucking awful.

and nobody really has them anymore. There's this annoying as hell fucking radio commercial for Inskip in Warwick, and this guy is like...trying to sound Rhode Island and is sounding Brooklyn, but totally fake Brooklyn. I heard it and went, "Wow, that's fucking terrible. Why can't they even try?"

Rhode Islanders sound like Longeyelanders, only with bigger clams.