When they sell loose cigarettes, toilet paper by the single roll, and crack pipes as a single rose vase. Unfortunately, I’ve been there.
Filomeno Reyes
July 31, 2016 1:11 am
You see: a pair of running shoes hanging off a lamppost. Somebody pushing a grocery cart two or three blocks from the nearest Walmarts. Grown men riding a kid’s bicycle. Teens wearing their pants around there knees. A young couple begging on the driveway into a shopping center, bonus if they have small kids with them. Sheriff’s deputies converge in six cop cars to a house in the neighborhood. Half the cashiers in Walmarts and Target are now black. People out walking there pitbull.
More signs: Katt Williams is said to live in that neighborhood. Your hood is known as North Compton.
Iska Waran
July 31, 2016 2:07 am
Some pretty good ones, there, Filomeno. Especially grown men riding kids bikes. What the actual fuck? I guess if they never stray further than 2 blocks from where they “stay at”, they don’t exactly need a touring bike.
Quickest way to assess a neighborhood: amount of trash on the street. In DC they sweep the streets every two weeks throughout the year. Not for leaves – for trash. So the streets are temporarily clean, but the boulevards are full of fucking garbage. Damn honkies driving in from the suburbs and strewing litter everywhere!
My visit to the area was in a lovely suburb of Columbia, Maryland, where I never saw one little bit of trash or any of the indications EC provided concerning bad neighborhoods. Why, it is right next door to Baltimore and I can’t imagine any of the lovely folks I met on morning walks by the pond in the neighborhood park being involved in any of that mess. The one day my friend and I visited the Holocaust Museum, I was a bit horrified by all the traffic and trashy people around the National Monuments, so there must be some “bad neighborhoods” somewhere up there. Obviously, those trashy people were NOT from the same area where I was staying.
This was meant to be sarcastic, if anyone really thinks I’m that stoopid. I just really can’t get over the extreme contrast in neighborhoods one sees in the D.C. area, over very short distances, sometimes literally across the Beltway.
Indeed the differences are stark, I always say compare the French Riviera to Northern Africa.
Its almost like the whole thing could be broken down into an experiment with a single variable difference between the exp and control groups… but that would be rayciss to insinuate for sure
Maggie
July 31, 2016 3:19 am
Well, since I seem to be the only survivor at TBP tonight (due to a sick dog again), I guess I’ll just have to go read a REAL book.
Lars
July 31, 2016 7:05 am
Graffiti – if its not cleaned up in short order, the neighborhood will go to hell.
anarchyst
July 31, 2016 8:01 am
…any street that is named after Martin Luther King…
A good example of disparity exists in retail establishments in urban areas for good reason. . . .
Compare hardware stores in urban areas and suburban / rural areas.
The suburban / rural hardware store has everything out in the open. Customers are free to pick and choose, examine the merchandise, take it to the cashier and purchase their products. Help is readily available.
The urban hardware store has everything behind Plexiglas. One cannot even purchase a twenty-five cent plumbing fitting without having to ask for it. The employees are safely sequestered behind Plexiglas and may be unwilling to venture beyond their safety barriers. Quite often, a security guard is posted at the door to “inspect” purchases and act as a deterrent to “shoplifting”.
On a personal note, my local (rural) hardware store experienced a power outage. The proprietor of the store gave incoming customers flashlights so that they could shop while power was being restored. Try doing that in an urban hardware store. Both flashlights and merchandise would be picked clean . . .
The minorities have their own cultural norms. I had the experience
of living in a city downtown area/apt. building…long ago and in
another land. Folks just chucked their garbage right out the window,
to fall onto the alley way below…Yikes!
Maggie,
dog is sick…oh no. Not a good sign. Start lining up a source
for a new dog, might as well introduce it now. Consider a Dobe.
They do have health issues, but a reliable breeder will work.
The Doberman makes a great watch dog. They love to train and
are super smart. Don’t train for attack…no one will ever be safe
on your property again. They are the most affectionate of breeds.
Dobe will never leave your side.
Good luck with your dog…we love them so, and losing one is sad.
But they are dogs, and live at our pleasure. Do not spend a fortune.
The dog we “rescued” at age one has gotten ehrlichnea, which is one of the new strains of tick disease. We had an brief thaw in March, but did not think about treating dogs for a three day sunny spell. In May, when my son came for a visit and found the tick, we paid for that lapse. Jason is the dog we felt Nick’s Dad sent our way after he passed away and when the three of us were standing at the emergency veterinarian’s clinic staring at the big guy on an IV, barely able to lift his head, we realized that the dog has become part of our family in spite of his resistance to training. He has trained US.
Maggie, I give my dogs large doses of Nutribiotic brand sodium ascorbate powder mixed with milk or cottage cheese instead of antibiotics. It has worked better for me. Dogs can synthesize Vitamin C to a degree, but they need help when it comes to illness.
Try it. Amazon has sodium ascorbate powder in 16 oz. jars and you can get next day delivery. That’s one treatment to try if you vet won’t give your dogs IV Vitamin C.
When they sell loose cigarettes, toilet paper by the single roll, and crack pipes as a single rose vase. Unfortunately, I’ve been there.
You see: a pair of running shoes hanging off a lamppost. Somebody pushing a grocery cart two or three blocks from the nearest Walmarts. Grown men riding a kid’s bicycle. Teens wearing their pants around there knees. A young couple begging on the driveway into a shopping center, bonus if they have small kids with them. Sheriff’s deputies converge in six cop cars to a house in the neighborhood. Half the cashiers in Walmarts and Target are now black. People out walking there pitbull.
More signs: Katt Williams is said to live in that neighborhood. Your hood is known as North Compton.
Some pretty good ones, there, Filomeno. Especially grown men riding kids bikes. What the actual fuck? I guess if they never stray further than 2 blocks from where they “stay at”, they don’t exactly need a touring bike.
Quickest way to assess a neighborhood: amount of trash on the street. In DC they sweep the streets every two weeks throughout the year. Not for leaves – for trash. So the streets are temporarily clean, but the boulevards are full of fucking garbage. Damn honkies driving in from the suburbs and strewing litter everywhere!
My visit to the area was in a lovely suburb of Columbia, Maryland, where I never saw one little bit of trash or any of the indications EC provided concerning bad neighborhoods. Why, it is right next door to Baltimore and I can’t imagine any of the lovely folks I met on morning walks by the pond in the neighborhood park being involved in any of that mess. The one day my friend and I visited the Holocaust Museum, I was a bit horrified by all the traffic and trashy people around the National Monuments, so there must be some “bad neighborhoods” somewhere up there. Obviously, those trashy people were NOT from the same area where I was staying.
This was meant to be sarcastic, if anyone really thinks I’m that stoopid. I just really can’t get over the extreme contrast in neighborhoods one sees in the D.C. area, over very short distances, sometimes literally across the Beltway.
Indeed the differences are stark, I always say compare the French Riviera to Northern Africa.
Its almost like the whole thing could be broken down into an experiment with a single variable difference between the exp and control groups… but that would be rayciss to insinuate for sure
Well, since I seem to be the only survivor at TBP tonight (due to a sick dog again), I guess I’ll just have to go read a REAL book.
Graffiti – if its not cleaned up in short order, the neighborhood will go to hell.
…any street that is named after Martin Luther King…
A good example of disparity exists in retail establishments in urban areas for good reason. . . .
Compare hardware stores in urban areas and suburban / rural areas.
The suburban / rural hardware store has everything out in the open. Customers are free to pick and choose, examine the merchandise, take it to the cashier and purchase their products. Help is readily available.
The urban hardware store has everything behind Plexiglas. One cannot even purchase a twenty-five cent plumbing fitting without having to ask for it. The employees are safely sequestered behind Plexiglas and may be unwilling to venture beyond their safety barriers. Quite often, a security guard is posted at the door to “inspect” purchases and act as a deterrent to “shoplifting”.
On a personal note, my local (rural) hardware store experienced a power outage. The proprietor of the store gave incoming customers flashlights so that they could shop while power was being restored. Try doing that in an urban hardware store. Both flashlights and merchandise would be picked clean . . .
refreshing
The minorities have their own cultural norms. I had the experience
of living in a city downtown area/apt. building…long ago and in
another land. Folks just chucked their garbage right out the window,
to fall onto the alley way below…Yikes!
You just reminded me that the first apartment I ever rented on my own was a similar POS place in a rundown suburb of Houston, Tx. I was an idiot then.
The minorities? WTF is that, gays?
Maggie,
dog is sick…oh no. Not a good sign. Start lining up a source
for a new dog, might as well introduce it now. Consider a Dobe.
They do have health issues, but a reliable breeder will work.
The Doberman makes a great watch dog. They love to train and
are super smart. Don’t train for attack…no one will ever be safe
on your property again. They are the most affectionate of breeds.
Dobe will never leave your side.
Good luck with your dog…we love them so, and losing one is sad.
But they are dogs, and live at our pleasure. Do not spend a fortune.
Aw, one of them huge dogs? Pore Mags. I still have that picture of her and the ‘little fella’.
The dog we “rescued” at age one has gotten ehrlichnea, which is one of the new strains of tick disease. We had an brief thaw in March, but did not think about treating dogs for a three day sunny spell. In May, when my son came for a visit and found the tick, we paid for that lapse. Jason is the dog we felt Nick’s Dad sent our way after he passed away and when the three of us were standing at the emergency veterinarian’s clinic staring at the big guy on an IV, barely able to lift his head, we realized that the dog has become part of our family in spite of his resistance to training. He has trained US.
Maggie, I give my dogs large doses of Nutribiotic brand sodium ascorbate powder mixed with milk or cottage cheese instead of antibiotics. It has worked better for me. Dogs can synthesize Vitamin C to a degree, but they need help when it comes to illness.
Try it. Amazon has sodium ascorbate powder in 16 oz. jars and you can get next day delivery. That’s one treatment to try if you vet won’t give your dogs IV Vitamin C.
When it is time, we’ll get a new Pyr. Probably a female. But, I haven’t given up on the J-dawg yet.
Why don’t you just cook up J-dawg and put him in a glass jar … like you do bunnies. Make sure you post pics, and the recipe.
Damn! That was cold, Stuck.
Good luck Maggie.
Aw, somebody loves bunnies. Unless Stuck is a vegan. Where does Trump stand on bunny soup?
Stuck, Maggie went to survival school, she can broil bunnies, saute squirrels, roast rats and prepare snake sushi.
Why do you want the recipe?
He is healthier, but he is having intermittent seizures and we are resistant to giving him phenobarbitol.
Yeah, that stuff killed Marilyn Monroe. I’m sure your dog won’t start knocking little old ladies on the head to get his paws on more of it.