apparently, your cities are now "underrated" (which, of course, means overrated). Get ready for the inevitable influx of (more) aging hipsters and (even more) retired boomers.
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-38446701
Good. The price of meat was going up. This should fix that.
QuoteA renewed waterfront, vibrant arts scene, and sophisticated dining have turned this small college town into New England's most exciting city. Edgy galleries like New Urban Arts and AS220 host parties as well as exhibitions, while the RISD Museum shows French Impressionists, 20th-century masters, and rising young artists (including alums). The once-derelict West End neighborhood is now the city's epicenter of cool, with friendly dive bars, vintage stores, terrific eateries, and indie record stores. Swill cocktails at The Avery before moving on to the E&O Tap, a local institution.
WHAT THE FUCK YAHOO?! DON'T TELL THESE FUCKERS ABOUT THE E&O! OH GODDAMNIT. FUCK YOU, WEST END MY ASS...PEOPLE GET RAEP'D THERE.
Luna lives in the West End, technically. HIPSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I have no idea wtf and where the hell "The Avery" is. Nor do I care.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 10, 2011, 09:40:07 PM
QuoteA renewed waterfront, vibrant arts scene, and sophisticated dining have turned this small college town into New England's most exciting city. Edgy galleries like New Urban Arts and AS220 host parties as well as exhibitions, while the RISD Museum shows French Impressionists, 20th-century masters, and rising young artists (including alums). The once-derelict West End neighborhood is now the city's epicenter of cool, with friendly dive bars, vintage stores, terrific eateries, and indie record stores. Swill cocktails at The Avery before moving on to the E&O Tap, a local institution.
WHAT THE FUCK YAHOO?! DON'T TELL THESE FUCKERS ABOUT THE E&O! OH GODDAMNIT. FUCK YOU, WEST END MY ASS...PEOPLE GET RAEP'D THERE.
Luna lives in the West End, technically. HIPSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so the west end is where hipsters get raeped in the rear end??
"Friendly dive bars"....
These people obviously took their oppinions of Providence while heavily influenced by Prozac and Aderall purchased 2nd had from college students. I hope that they take this sort of drug addled positive attitude out of my fucking state, it has no palce here. Providence is gold plaque on a rotting apple. There's a piece that's all shined up and proud planted smack in the middle of urban neglect and economic decay that makes Worcester look cosmopolitan. The high holy fuckers then stand in a circle on this golden placcard, and while sipping wine and keeping personal distance that demonstrates their loathing for self and others, congratulate and harp on how nice it is, and how much like Boston it is. They remain blissfully, and purposefully ignorant to the fact that there are too amny of them, and they're slowly sinking their ivory tower back into the morass.
These are the sort of people, who when cast into the depths of Olneyville, thrown to the hipsters of the west end, or sent for the pleasure of the proper filth in the south, will be eyed with the same feral hunger normally reserved for a Big Mac in the hands of a crazed diabetic. Lusted upon before they are torn assunder. Providence will accept its own, but will eat the rest, and this article is another angler fish ploy for food.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 11, 2011, 06:09:37 AM
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 10, 2011, 09:40:07 PM
QuoteA renewed waterfront, vibrant arts scene, and sophisticated dining have turned this small college town into New England's most exciting city. Edgy galleries like New Urban Arts and AS220 host parties as well as exhibitions, while the RISD Museum shows French Impressionists, 20th-century masters, and rising young artists (including alums). The once-derelict West End neighborhood is now the city's epicenter of cool, with friendly dive bars, vintage stores, terrific eateries, and indie record stores. Swill cocktails at The Avery before moving on to the E&O Tap, a local institution.
WHAT THE FUCK YAHOO?! DON'T TELL THESE FUCKERS ABOUT THE E&O! OH GODDAMNIT. FUCK YOU, WEST END MY ASS...PEOPLE GET RAEP'D THERE.
Luna lives in the West End, technically. HIPSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so the west end is where hipsters get raeped in the rear end??
"Gentrification"
Hipsters have been moving into the really rough areas of Providence in attempts to be "edgy".
First of all. I lived in Elmwood because I had no choice. That's where the cheapest place I could find at the time was. Before I moved last month, I had seen several hipsters that had infected my goddamn ghettofab neighborhood with their tight jeans and irony.
Second of all. There is no gentrifying Olneyville. I really hope they try.
Third of all. There are no friendly dive bars in Providence if you're a hipster. You're either a local, an angry waitress, or a stripper to drink at those places. Anyone else walks in, and they're usually skeeved off pretty quickly.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 01:18:33 PM
Hipsters have been moving into the really rough areas of Providence because they don't want to get a job and that's all they can afford.
I know this because that's why I started living in JP 10 years ago. Now I own property there. I'm so edgy...
Meh, my place isn't so bad... I've had no trouble walking home at o-fuck-thirty in the morning... but that might be due in some part to the borrowed brass "don't-fuck-with-me" that I carry in my pocket...
The brass only works if you actually show people that you have it, and still, that could be considered a threat as well.
This is why I wear earbuds, you know. Instant garrotte.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 01:53:54 PM
The brass only works if you actually show people that you have it, and still, that could be considered a threat as well.
This is why I wear earbuds, you know. Instant garrotte.
Nah... It's a confidence thing. I know I have it, I feel better prepared to deal with any fuckwit who wants to start shit, so I move less like prey and more like predator.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 01:53:54 PM
The brass only works if you actually show people that you have it, and still, that could be considered a threat as well.
This is why I wear earbuds, you know. Instant garrotte.
In both cases, earbuds or kubotan, you're now behaving as if you are armed (even if you're not), becasue you're convinced you have a viable weapon on hand.
Also, advice form dad, never brandish. If you have to take it out, you better be applying it fast, hard and dirty. Then GTFO.
If I ever DO have to use it, guy won't know I have it until he's wondering what hit him, preferably when the EMTs are asking him that question in the back of the ambulance.
Today, however, I don't think it'd matter WHAT I am carrying, I'm moving like the walking wounded. I hit the floor last night a bit harder than I thought, feels like half my butt is bruised.
SEND MORE HIPSTERS!
CENTRAL FILTH IS STILL HUNGRY!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 11, 2011, 02:19:05 PM
SEND MORE HIPSTERS!
CENTRAL FILTH IS STILL HUNGRY!
Bring a net, you may feel free to come hunt them down in the West End. Take 'em alive and ship 'em back to your place so they're fresh when you want 'em.
Quote from: Luna on March 11, 2011, 02:21:06 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 11, 2011, 02:19:05 PM
SEND MORE HIPSTERS!
CENTRAL FILTH IS STILL HUNGRY!
Bring a net, you may feel free to come hunt them down in the West End. Take 'em alive and ship 'em back to your place so they're fresh when you want 'em.
Somewhere near 11th and Drachmann, there is a pit full of Buddy Holly glasses, fur-trimmed jackets, "fixies", and bones.
And in the end, gun means yield. FFS.
Other than that, I need to watch what I do anyway. A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon. If that kid whose wrist I broke back in August ever found me and decided to press charges, I'd be in jail for assault with a deadly weapon DESPITE the fact that I executed the move in an act of self defense.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 02:23:36 PM
And in the end, gun means yield. FFS.
Oh, hell, yes. Sensei taught us that REALLY early. If somebody has a gun or knife and all he wants is your wallet, shut up and hand it over. (Which reminds me, once things warm up enough for the bastards to actually be outside, I need to grab an old wallet, toss ten bucks and assorted crap in it, and carry it as a "here ya go" in my coat.)
QuoteOther than that, I need to watch what I do anyway. A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon. If that kid whose wrist I broke back in August ever found me and decided to press charges, I'd be in jail for assault with a deadly weapon DESPITE the fact that I executed the move in an act of self defense.
Well, THAT blows. Though Dad always said that he'd rather come bail me out than ID me at the morgue. (My first kubatan actually wound up in his pocket, as they were illegal in his state and he couldn't find one.)
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 02:23:36 PM
And in the end, gun means yield. FFS.
Other than that, I need to watch what I do anyway. A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon. If that kid whose wrist I broke back in August ever found me and decided to press charges, I'd be in jail for assault with a deadly weapon DESPITE the fact that I executed the move in an act of self defense.
:| ITT, I am glad I never belted in anything.
Quote from: Richter on March 11, 2011, 02:42:20 PM
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 02:23:36 PM
And in the end, gun means yield. FFS.
Other than that, I need to watch what I do anyway. A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon. If that kid whose wrist I broke back in August ever found me and decided to press charges, I'd be in jail for assault with a deadly weapon DESPITE the fact that I executed the move in an act of self defense.
:| ITT, I am glad I never belted in anything.
No kidding.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 02:23:36 PM
A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon.
A quick search of Rhode Island laws doesn't indicate that.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 11, 2011, 02:59:02 PM
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 02:23:36 PM
A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon.
A quick search of Rhode Island laws doesn't indicate that.
Really? That's what I was told when I first moved here by one of my instructors.
...This of course, just means I can go out and break more wrists.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 03:01:12 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 11, 2011, 02:59:02 PM
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 11, 2011, 02:23:36 PM
A black belt in the state of Rhode Island is considered a concealed weapon.
A quick search of Rhode Island laws doesn't indicate that.
Really? That's what I was told when I first moved here by one of my instructors.
...This of course, just means I can go out and break more wrists.
Heard the same thing here and in Chicago, and in both cases it turned out to be bullshit.
If you think about it, it would be impossible to codify that into law, for two reasons.
1. Equal protection: Some brawlers are just as dangerous as a black belt.
2. How do you "disarm"? Have someone amputate your limbs? And if you can't disarm, you'd be arrested if you ever walked into a courthouse, even if you're there because the court required it.
Yeah, true...Meh.
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 11, 2011, 03:12:26 PM
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
If you're deemed to have used "reasonable force" to disarm an attacker then you're golden. "Reasonable force" varies. Breaking arms and legs is borderline. The kind of thing you'll need a bloody good excuse to explain away... unless, of course, it was accidental :evil:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 11, 2011, 03:12:26 PM
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
Can happen. Tyson was, IIRC, charged with assault with a deadly weapon for punching somebody, years ago.
Quote from: Luna on March 11, 2011, 03:22:33 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 11, 2011, 03:12:26 PM
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
Can happen. Tyson was, IIRC, charged with assault with a deadly weapon for punching somebody, years ago.
In 1987, when he was 20...And it was for shoving a guy and throwing a rolled-up tee shirt. That particular charge was laughed out of court.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 11, 2011, 03:20:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 11, 2011, 03:12:26 PM
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
If you're deemed to have used "reasonable force" to disarm an attacker then you're golden. "Reasonable force" varies. Breaking arms and legs is borderline. The kind of thing you'll need a bloody good excuse to explain away... unless, of course, it was accidental :evil:
"Could explain to the court how Mr. Douche O'Saurus ended up with multiple fractures of the hands and wrists?"
"I broke them your honor"
"Could you please explain why you felt that necessary?"
"Mr. O'Saurus would not stop punching at me and was making it difficult to leave the area, he was also drunk, belligerent, and out weighs me by approximately 100 pounds"
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 11, 2011, 03:30:01 PM
Quote from: Luna on March 11, 2011, 03:22:33 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 11, 2011, 03:12:26 PM
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
Can happen. Tyson was, IIRC, charged with assault with a deadly weapon for punching somebody, years ago.
In 1987, when he was 20...And it was for shoving a guy and throwing a rolled-up tee shirt. That particular charge was laughed out of court.
Ah, here it is.
http://www.nndb.com/people/257/000023188/
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/user/blog/potato_fish/view=80812943
QuoteIn June 1987, Tyson allegedly tried to kiss a woman in a parking lot, and struck the lot attendant who came to the woman's defense. Tyson was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery and assault with a deadly weapon, but paid $105,000 to settle the case out of court.
The simplest solution is to just kill them and be done with it. Leave the body on Snooki's front porch.
Quote from: Khara on March 11, 2011, 03:41:54 PM
The simplest solution is to just kill them and be done with it. Leave the body on Snooki's front porch.
That is a solution I've considered for other problems, but I only have one hole the cops won't look in again, I must use it wisely.
Quote from: aedh on March 11, 2011, 03:37:32 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 11, 2011, 03:20:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 11, 2011, 03:12:26 PM
I think that, if you did do something horribly violent to someone and got caught, then the prosecuter might use your skill in TKD to show increased intent to cause physical harm, or some shit like that.
If you're deemed to have used "reasonable force" to disarm an attacker then you're golden. "Reasonable force" varies. Breaking arms and legs is borderline. The kind of thing you'll need a bloody good excuse to explain away... unless, of course, it was accidental :evil:
"Could explain to the court how Mr. Douche O'Saurus ended up with multiple fractures of the hands and wrists?"
"I broke them your honor"
"Could you please explain why you felt that necessary?"
"Mr. O'Saurus would not stop punching at me and was making it difficult to leave the area, he was also drunk, belligerent, and out weighs me by approximately 100 pounds"
In theory, that would work.
With my luck, he'll have a better attorney, even though mine is pretty damn good.
Hipsters! Yay! They're so much fun to play with, I hope they come in droves. I can't walk to the cliff on the opposite side of the golf course yet. Not enough bodies.