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UpperWestside

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  1. This is probably the quickest and easiest to ride part of the system. I liked the LIRR when I had to ride it. Well the drunk train back to Long Island at 2am on Friday and Saturday was not so much fun, but I did not have to take it for a lengthy period of time. The Metro North was the best though. Easily the best of the public transportation I took. I spent one year living in Stamford and every morning I could take an express at 6am or so and be at Grand Central within 45 minutes. That was about a 35 mile or so train ride I believe. Pretty quiet going to and fro. The LIRR getting the connection now to Grand Central was pretty cool as well.
  2. I do not miss the subway rides in NYC. Some of the absolute rudest people I have ever encountered in my life ride those trains. No respect at all for their fellow riders. The homeless smoking in a car? Why not. Homeless guys pissing on the platforms no matter the time of day was normal. Police more interested in being on their phones than stopping fare evasion or evicting any of the other stuff mentioned was absolutely a daily occurence. Random clowns smoking weed whenever they feel like it? Sure. The buses were better only in the respect that you had no impromptu concerts or speakers blasting on them.
  3. Yep you would be dead within three days of living in the mountains. If you think black bears are scary, well, yeah that would not be in my top three things to avoid in the mountains. Black bears have no interest in attacking you unless you get between a mom and her cubs. Moose and badgers were far more of a concern to me when I’d set off hiking through a forest or wilderness area.
  4. Denver, but I lived up in the Rockies before and enjoyed the solitude of life in a very small town. I saw Denver maybe once between October-May. It was not worth trying to drive down there if there was any kind of snowstorm. As you want a city though I would say Denver. A childhood friend lives in Castle Rock last I checked and he owns a business in Boulder. He loves being near the mountains, but not so much on being in them.
  5. The country that would quietly be the happiest in this scenario would be Japan. Anyone that thinks they still wouldn’t want to stick it to China eight decades later does not need to do a whole bunch of reading (although I’d encourage reading up on their animosity towards communism) to know they’d enjoy joining in on the carnage.
  6. I was cool with the result either way, but yes if you’re going to run your mouth be sure to back it up when it matters most. Don’t go full Matt Hasselbeck against the Packers and declare victory at the OT coin toss. I would also add that anyone crying conspiracy about a loss is full of it. The Horns were better at almost every position. They should have won and they made plays in OT when they needed to. I am new to the ASU fanbase, but I am not new to listening to dumb conspiracy theories. You just take the loss and move forward and look towards next year. Dillingham gets that, but some of these fans who are new to winning do not.
  7. Miss my dogs right now, but they have to get all their shots updated before joining me on Oahu. I am glad they are getting to spend time with my young niece and nephew. Each one took one of them and gives it all of their attention. Pretty cool getting on FaceTime with my mom and watching them play with them. Both of them have a whole ton of patience and love to share with my girls. My nephew is getting ready to turn three and he tells me a few days ago “Thank you for bringing the dogs home.”
  8. I like to think I can relate to human beings in a peaceful way. I listen to folks every single day and sometimes I feel too much of people’s pain and suffering. My main mission in life is helping others on the road we all travel on and just listening to folks. I feel empathy for the people who are really going through it in life. I have studied enough history to know how being the opposite turns out for those who want to willingly do harm to others. With that said, the cretins at fox are scum. They are absolutely, positively the worst of the worst in our country. Day after day after pitiful day these traitorous clowns weaponize the masses with blatant lies and disinformation. To say I wish the worst upon them and anyone in their orbit is an understatement. How many of those 77 millions idiots that voted for the most hateful person to ever be our president watch the nightly propaganda shows? How many of them got brainwashed by that channel? Dwight Eisenhower is rolling over in his grave right now. I do not feel bad for the people that voted for that moron. They will get what’s coming to them. However, the greater sin is these scumbags leading people astray with lie after verifiable lie. They took many of our parents, brothers, sisters, friends and associates and completely brainwashed them with nothing but lies and telling them this orange buffoon is the only one that can save the country. I will forever be upset for what they did and there are not enough bad things that can happen to them to make up for the damage they have caused to the country and the world as a whole.
  9. Never forget that 77 million terrible human beings voted for this.
  10. I would wager he’d say it’s a country and have no idea where it is at on the map.
  11. I’m so glad y’all are able to add some young players to such a talent deficient team. Really scrapped and clawed your way out of mediocrity to get that World Series. One can only imagine what the Dodgers might look like if they ever get some elite players on the roster.
  12. A good movie will do that to you. This was an incredibly good one that got me as well. For all the talk about cinema being dead and what not, I still keep seeing new movies that are really well done like this that keep advancing cinema forward and in a positive direction.
  13. Arizona State football. I poured literally minutes upon minutes of energy into the 2024 season, my first as a supporter. My thoroughly detailed research of the program shows they have mostly sucked until this past year. I look forward to 2025 where I may decide to really expand my horizons and perhaps devote an hour of my life to this juggernaut of a football program.
  14. The erosion of our public education system over several decades combined with abject laziness by millions of our fellow citizens in even marginally attempting to educate themselves on the world around them will give a partial reason for where we are at. Throw in people’s addiction to 10 second sound bites that double as news/blatant misinformation and you will get the rest of the way to this current reality. It’s easier to believe a lie that confirms your bias versus actually taking time to read things based on fact, reason and logic.
  15. I see this at least 4-5 times a week because it is near a spot I enjoy reading at. If you told me this thing would set your house on fire, murder your family and then have Elmo say “All the telemetry came back okay” I wouldn’t bat an eyelash. Stuff like this makes millions of people in America think he has a high level of intelligence when in actuality his IQ is on par with the temperature of a frozen pond.
  16. This is the first I’ve heard of this. Tell me about these dumb people.
  17. Neither are a good choice as both are just white trash human beings to their core. Just incredible that we share a country with 77 million people who think either of these horrific people care even one iota about them.
  18. I hope his ghost shows up with the grim reaper on Inauguration Day and does one last good thing for the country.
  19. I saw this story and the smear campaign isn’t cool. Other than that it’s really, really wealthy people taking on people who also have money. Just don’t care. Life is way too short for stuff like this.
  20. I love my two dogs, but I would not take them to a restaurant with me. I know people that do and it’s their choice to do it. In general though I agree about dogs not being in restaurants unless they are service dogs. Those should be allowed without question.
  21. One of the things that really was not fun about NYC was once it was fully legalized I could not even sit in a park without smelling it everywhere. I was fully in support of it being legal, but one unintended consequence was the entire city smelling like it. When I had first moved there I really enjoyed sitting in the park at Union Square. Eventually I just stopped going to parks altogether outside of one place where you couldn’t smoke anything.
  22. Oh for sure. I mean you can never say with 100 percent certainty what a coach will do, especially if a blue blood shows up on your doorstep offering you whatever you want in terms of money. I guess the hope would be that he is more in the vein of a Mark Few who likes where he is than a coaching nomad like Larry Brown was.
  23. I think he will be where he’s at for a good long time. It’s always been home for him and he now is going to get the support he needs to get some talent upgrades. I said it a few days ago, but sometimes coaches and schools meet at exactly the right time. I believe this is one of those instances. I was honestly not expecting much from this game and thought the moment might be too big, but Dillingham stayed the course and Skattebo had himself a game. Hopefully it portends good things going into next season.
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