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JC: I remember when I was young my dad did the same thing! He put trash back in the window of a guy's car who had just thrown it out. The guy didn't get out and...... scared with eyes wide open: believe what you see. They want us to see it. It cost them billions to build this airport that wasn't really needed, No paints a giant mural for public display without prior...... Captain Obvious: What really grates about Quebec's degenerate infrastructure, is that they have not only incredibly high taxes, but they *also* have incredibly high subsidies from all the more productive provinces, BOTH.
To have billions poured into a...... Peter: wow, the comments in korean are fascinating... i mean, im as prone to think that america is the global authority on conspiracy, but i think its a bit of a reach to say that america...... Peter: also, for those that dont know:
##"...Two famous stone lions guarding the entrance were sculpted by Edward Clark Potter. They were originally named Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, in honor of the library's founders. These names...... Peter: isnt there a legend thats says those lions roar every time a virgin passes? hahaha...... Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Julian
My grandparents who owned Platts of Irlam retired to Flixton, Brooklyn Avenue, we visited often as children.
I love the film Stand By Me it has such a summery and nostalgic feel -...... Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Hi Alan,
I agree with Rob, please keep trying... and I am keen to know what your response to me is.... my email is msi31309@bigpond.net.au if you don't have any luck here.
Norma, my dad didn't...... sage: Guy McLaren says in an earlier post:
"All wild animals are dangerous. Especially African ones."
My response:
All domesticated humans are dangerous. Especially american ones.
I've lived with raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and opossums my whole life--and...... Camara: "And all u Toronto losers. Nobody in your country likes you, i spent 2 months in canada last yr and everyone agrees you ppl are butt ugly, im sorry but its true. me and my...... riiiiiight: i was born and raised in bk. i just checked out a new "luxury condo" developement out there a whim (when i was told my rent was being jacked up another 300 bucks). ...... Anonoymous: I will try to be succinct with my words. The symbols, ideology, artwork, whatever you prefer to call it serves one grand purpose, and this purpose, I will reveal in the conclusion of this...... Anony Mouse: They had no plan except to sink millions into it which they weren't going to spend themselves. The train station is another fine example of the excellent work of the Heritage group. ... Gary: Much of what I read here reminds of comments about what gentlemen the German officers were in restaurants after they had invaded France! Listen here: The Hells Angels, each and every...... mr. pINk: there is absolutley nothing to do here except all those ignorant "city leaders" that do nothing to better this place as a whole. and why do they want to waste billions on some pointless salt...... Larry, here is an article about this in the paper today in Toronto:
The Toronto Star
THE FIXER
Irresponsible kite-flyers need to clean up their act
Oct 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Jack Lakey
Staff Reporter
Telling someone to "go fly a kite" is a rather gentle rebuff, but kite flying can cause serious problems.
Few...... Hutch Hater Too: I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm...... jack: good grief, i have no idea of the name of these streets are but it looks like down by atlantic avenue, somewhere near the old navy terminals? can't guess, it looks really great, not...... EvilGentleman: The Olympic Stadium is one of the most beautiful of Montreal's vast collection of White Elephants. Originally expected to cost 134 million dollars, it wound up costing 1.61 **billion** dollars, or about 1200% of its...... Peter: you can blame the "tagger" all you want, but be leary about voting for officials who would rather blow millions of dollars (that could be spent on programs that need it) on cleaning up "tags".
priorities...... Give Your Head a Shake: GRAMZ is Graham UNIAC, 22 year old from Toronto goes back and forth between Montreal and Toronto. There are limits to everything and with the millions in damage he has done in each city...... Prem Isaac: Great shot...really captures the everyday view of millions ... EX HAMC MEMBER: I was a Hells Angel for 30 years and quit. I became a born again christian. most of them were meth dealers or crank dealers. Hells Angel member Kenny Owen still a member in...... Nando: Hey guys I have to say this is definitely one of my favorites entries ever. I am a native of Corona (on which the park lies) and I can honestly say that my life...... Tom: Just saw on the news that police in Brazil and Norway staged coordinated raids on suspected criminal activity in Natal, Brazil by Norwegian mafia, knicknamed by the police as the "B-gang". Assets for more than...... jack: you should talk to upfromflames, he or she knows all about urban renewal and is doing a great job in his or her neighborhood. sorry i don't know whether upfromflames is male or...... WhereAmI?: In the picture W7, you're looking north over the Cambie Street Bridge at the Downtown core. The big white bubble on the far right is BC Place Stadium, where the BC Lions football team plays....... SULLIVAN: The Prospect Park zoo had elephants, polar bears, monkeys, lions, tigers, and a pony track where kids could get a ride in a poney wagon. In addition, there were row boats & peddle boats on...... Kevon: Eric: 22nd Aug 2006: the detroit pics are realy nice and most of the pics are too except for that loser who thinks 4 buildings means albany deserves a pic. My personal favorites are Sydney...... kruzer:
Ya know... it's an art what he's doing.
Wish someone can donate engineering time and material to make sure the structure will stand. If some of you bitch about these things... how about the leaning tower...... singleMaN:
Would you like to have a brief chat before engaging in any kind of “face to face” relations? Welcome to site www.ourdatingsites.com that offer an array of chat rooms and communities for all kinds...... singleMaN:
Would you like to have a brief chat before engaging in any kind of “face to face” relations? Welcome to site www.ourdatingsites.com that offer an array of chat rooms and communities for all kinds...... singleMaN: Would you like to have a brief chat before engaging in any kind of “face to face” relations? Welcome to site www.greatourdating.com that offer an array of chat rooms and communities...... colavitos ghost: i guess the designers' intention could be to make a statement against ads cluttering the public space. most observers, however, probably won't "get it" and it will serve the same purpose as a place...... sarah: I saw this piece of Banksy work when I moved home to Liverpool for the first time in 6 years and i agree.. his work has turned an eyesore into a work art, that I...... colavitos ghost: he was actually wondering how he screwed up so bad that he managed to kill millions of indigenous people!... Andrew Smith: Let's just get along. I love USA and Uganda and Wales and India and New Zealand and Chile and Cuba and Angola and Afghanistan and ...... well, at least I love the millions of decent...... aer suzuki: zagg & joey : no reason to go unless you're a gambler or you want to see the spectacle for yourself. we had fun, can't explain why. it's expensive and we didn't even gamble that...... ReaL SFC: yo b he's been rocked nyc for years he doesnt have to do anymore graff ever, hes still a legend regardless. 5000 wouldnt cover the damage this man has done lmao, DESA was locked down...... Sally: That's funny, Moore.
Like you, we would like the millions of Irish out of England too. Reminds me of the joke: Why are the Irish over in England singing about the green grass back...... Cosmo: I'm a bit late on this discussion but I want register my agreement that these kinds of laws are a clumsy answer to the problem. Yes, I believe that smoke is harmful, and that...... formol: CANADA IS NOT MY COUNTRY
Frenchmen came from France
To exterminate indians
Satisfy their appetite for genocide
They proliferated like vermin
So today we are millions
Dreaming of destruction
Waiting for secession
Preparing the final assault
To avenge the plains of Abraham insult
Dreaming of...... Eric: the detroit pics are realy nice and most of the pics are too except for that loser who thinks 4 buildings means albany deserves a pic. My personal favorites are Sydney and Montreal, beautiful orange...... Maxime: It made 1.4 million at the box office in the first weekend 4 millions in the first week...... in Quebec only.
Guess you guys were wrong.
Maxime
... Patrick McMahon: Its ha tobe the Irish inme. Aye,aim part o irish but more oft the roman in me. Hackneyed as I am, wot wid the Mohican of bakyard descent, I find it difficult not to...... TheTruth: "I see it more as a class war than a race war."
"...But that doesn't explain why, poor or not, the residents of Bushwick didn't have enough self-respect to take care of their neighborhood."
Dave, did you...... Sally:
Today is memorial day in America. THEY ARE HOLDING PARTIES AND BBQs and HAVE TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THE ABOUT 2 WORLD WARS WHERE I LOST FAMILY MEMBERS, NOT TO MENTION THEIR OWN TROUPS IN THIS LATEST...... Jamie: I'm certainly no lawyer, but as i understand it, there is no law in the uk about taking photos of peoples houses. Aerial photography companies for examples endlessly fly over our homes taking photos in...... Microbe: Thousands, no millions, of cows, sheep, chicken and heavens know what other animals are killed every day for food and you all whine over a single cat?
Get real.... MY NAME IS SWITCH1: COPE I HAVE 2 SECOND THAT..U DO INDEED PUT A DENT IN THE GAME...BUT 2 RESPECT THE MAN THAT INTRODUCED GRAFFITI TO ME WHEN I WAS 13 ALONG WITH MILLIONS OF OTHERS ILL SAY...... Elicar: ##"elderly as opposed to the young and beautiful. "##
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When I was in my first year high school, for some reason, our English teacher asked the class, "Who...... EvilGentleman: I wonder how the damage occurred? The freezing and thawing cycle? Lightning? A malicious window-cleaner? A collision with a 50-pound pigeon? Someone opening the window between the lions and whacking icicles off of the lion's...... GGP: i hate it when that happens!
but it seems to happen to a lot of stone lions, you know?
... Tyfoid Kid: I'd heard that China was planting billions of tree. South Korea must be part of this then.
From the ChinaDaily online -
Last year, nearly 560 million people planted more than 2.5 billion trees throughout China. The...... chiamattt: [[http://www.macleans.ca/switchboard/columnists/article.jsp?content=20050718_109113_109113]]
What the provinces conveniently ignore is the fact that Canada began extracting billions from the tobacco industry long before the U.S. did. While the Americans relied on slow and costly litigation, Canada opted for a...... Peter: i am growing very leery of how insular, provincial and xenophobic america is becoming... it smacks of fascism and... dare i say it... prewar germany. after all, every single one of us living in america...... Peter: lol jamie! check the comments on [[1680:this entry]]. blech! {yummy taco} is one of zillions of "ghetto-chinese" places that are a phenomenon in {brooklyn}, that though they serve cheap, fast (and often low-quality) chinese take-away,...... EvilGentleman: No matter how open-minded or compassionate I may consider myself to be, I am ashamed to realize that I have never actually thought about the fact that the events of that September day have been...... jack: i have to tell you that i am particularly frightened by spiders. i don't like lions or big cats or wild boor. snakes make me scream (quietly of course)and mosquitos, oh yes mosquitos,...... jack: racoons wear masks over their eyes so you won't recognize them in a line up. they are somewhat harmless at night but don't go near them in the day. i believe racoons are...... xen: The environmental damage caused by littering doesn't compare to that caused by car spew. It's ugly, but does a good job of showing city goers what happens when you jam millions of people together. That...... PBass: To the pretty young lady in the white vest, you could get any guy you want with the snap of your fingers. Why are you putting up with this childish, bad tempered, psycho with...... lol: people in Canada haven't got the character or the intelligence to demand majority political party accountability that waste Billions of taxation dollars time and again, but we are consumed with littering..lol.
this situataion is...... jack: words, millions of words trapped in a tape. let me out, let me out they screem and all the while they wait but help never comes and then the street sweepers scoop them up...... oneon: Coney has a vibe unlike any other place I’ve been to. Sometimes I think the pure joy of millions of people, for over a century has left it with an indescribable energy that is etched...... elaine: if you confide in lions it's best to tickle them as well, or they might think you are lunch(ette) and forget themselves... Darwin8: hands up who believes in evolution? if not then you'll be happy to know that as evolution doesn't exist, then the bird flu virus will not evolve to becoming transmissable human to human ths killing...... kc: I like these photos. Especially because I've walked this way millions of times and somehow never noticed the grids...another new dimension, thanks to citynoise. ... joey: millions of bricks... Peter: yeah, i love series like this... these sorts of glimpses are amongst my favorite content on this site... the postcard-style images are cool, but i always enjoy seeing the day-to-day stuff... the real vibe of...... Peter: when i lived in {hell's kitchen}, i had a view of that building from my window. we'd sit there and watch the colored lights change as it flashed, from red to white and back again,...... benrox: Alright - I've read a good amount of these posts. Let me start off by saying that I am white. I've been living in "the hood" my whole life. I don't live in Humboldt Park,...... GGP: i grew up going to the central park zoo. one of the best things there--I think it's gone now--was a big blue cement whale whose gaping mouth you could walk into. Inside, where the whale's...... elaine: well, it's history and geography. the romany gypsies are one thing, then there are irish gypsies, and then there are elective 'new age' travellers. the new age travellers came out of a long standing squatting...... Lili: Sometimes, I should rather say often, to understand,
discern and "translate" the profound you must simply
watch. Great works, manifest and in progress, are
often passed over or destroyed "having been subjected
the lions-den of fools...... jeeff: for the record jamjar, i really liked your photo of the butcher shop. but if it's discussion you're looking for, maybe you should give us some opinions along with your photos. tell us...... Peter: i know, right? whos genius idea was it to make clear {garbage} cans? now the garbage will cake up all over the innards and show through, heh. nobody wants to see that, im sure... this...... Alberto: It may be well possible that Mr. Gallego is a mad man... but surely he's less so than millions and millions of people in the world. With regards to security, I would like to point...... nairi: I SEE A LIONS BALLS!
I don't think it's disgusting though.... Peter: probably not much, as there are zillions of em, and its only a disused sign after all...
but yeah nyc did switch over to the hand/silhouette format over the past coupla years.
... hasslehoff: you know, they had to close that bridge not long after first unveiling it as the swaying motion whilst walking along it made people feel ill. They stregthened it or something, no doubt spending millions...... chris: that lions ass is kinda disturbing......
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