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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: OneMoreRep on December 26, 2010, 03:33:34 PM
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We've been hit hard.
My partner and I were stuck at the Monster (Gay Bar) due to no cabs being available. It took us over 2 hours to get to our Chelsea apartment.
Anyone else tormented by the snow?
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"Cover me in snow"
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Yes, i'm 55 miles from NYC...
took me an hour to shovel..We received about 6-10 inches thus far..Hopefully, there won't be to much more new snow by tomorrow morning.
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No doubt we will get it in a weeks time. The snow over here has started to melt. Rained earlier and helped a lot.
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Suppose to get 12-16 inches of snow tonight....got some leftover steak, potaoes, and pasta from yesterday.
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Suppose to get 12-16 inches of snow tonight....got some leftover steak, potaoes, and pasta from yesterday.
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How's your bar stock looking?
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It's Snowing here in Charelston Sc I guess that doesn't happen very often. I moved here about 14 months ago from Buffalo I'm very use to the snow. We got a snowfall last year here to I guess I brought it with me. Sucks when its bad and you are trying to travel!
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How's your bar stock looking?
12 pack of Corona light,2 bottles of Goose,a bottle of Effen Black Cherry vodka,a bottle of Ciroq vodka,a bottle and a half of Southern Comfort,a bottle of Patron tequila,a bottle of Black Label,and a bottle of Hendricks gin.
....hopefully I'll make till tomorrow :-\
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You don`t know what snow and cold weather is until you live in northern N.Y. !! :(
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North Carolina got a few inches but rednecks shit everything down when white powder falls so Im str8 chillaxin - drinkin heinekens and playing black ops and NBA 2K11
got 2 paks of zig zag cigarillos so when my parents go to sleep I throw on the carhart and smoke me a few fatties outside in the snow ;D
then take some gh on my way back upstairs to my lair
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You don`t know what snow and cold weather is until you live in northern N.Y. !! :(
I lived right bye Lake Erie. Man did it get cold. We would get so much freaken snow.
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North Carolina got a few inches but rednecks shit everything down when white powder falls so Im str8 chillaxin - drinkin heinekens and playing black ops and NBA 2K11
got 2 paks of zig zag cigarillos so when my parents go to sleep I throw on the carhart and smoke me a few fatties outside in the snow ;D
then take some gh on my way back upstairs to my lair
It's funny you say that, all of my neighbors are out on their balconies smoking weed and/or cigars..
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just getting a brush of snow in Albany
SUCK IT EVERYONE ELSE
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I`m about 4 hours north of Rochester and the weather up here is brutal.
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12 pack of Corona light,2 bottles of Goose,a bottle of Effen Black Cherry vodka,a bottle of Ciroq vodka,a bottle and a half of Southern Comfort,a bottle of Patron tequila,a bottle of Black Label,and a bottle of Hendricks gin.
....hopefully I'll make till tomorrow :-\
Looks on the light side good luck. 8)
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Lots of guys bragging about how many inches they got last night!!!!!
Outed - all of you :-X
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It's funny you say that, all of my neighbors are out on their balconies smoking weed and/or cigars..
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;D
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Lots of guys bragging about how many inches they got last night!!!!!
Outed - all of you :-X
Who said anything about last night? ::)
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Who said anything about last night? ::)
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Haha my post didn't include you, who is another league altogether, in this matter ;D
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I covered your mom in cum
OH SNAP!!!! ;D
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fuck the snow, whats up with acting like being gay and stuff is not a big deal??
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You're on a site that idolizes professional bodybuilders that strut on stage weighing around 230-270 pounds in nothing but a thong, covered in baby oil, while posing to sensual music to a large audience of predominantly gay men.
What do you expect to find here, chief?
The nerve of some people..
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you mean getbig is a gay site and lots of homos hang out around here?
Not at all, you completely misunderstood..
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just getting a brush of snow in Albany
SUCK IT EVERYONE ELSE
Yeah but you live in Albany...
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Yeah but you live in Albany...
stalker
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stalker
Wrong gender.
...and like I said,you live in Albany.
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Wrong gender.
...and like I said,you live in Albany.
pw3nd
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You're on a site that idolizes professional bodybuilders that strut on stage weighing around 230-270 pounds in nothing but a thong, covered in baby oil, while posing to sensual music to a large audience of predominantly gay men.
What do you expect to find here, chief?
The nerve of some people..
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Have you ever been to a BB show? I've never seen an audience of predominantly gay men. I understand that you are looking at it much differently than a straight person would though.
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You're on a site that idolizes professional bodybuilders that strut on stage weighing around 230-270 pounds in nothing but a thong, covered in baby oil, while posing to sensual music to a large audience of predominantly gay men.
What do you expect to find here, chief?
The nerve of some people..
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do gays look at a oiled up bodybuilder in a thong like I look at an oiled up blonde with big tits in a thong?
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Don't whine titties. I just did 1,5 hours worth of "snowjob" to get out of my yard.
And this ain't first time this winter... and probably not last >:(
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You don`t know what snow and cold weather is until you live in northern N.Y. !! :(
lol, Americans... ::) ;D
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I love California.
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I love California.
Maybe I would personally still prefer snow over earthquakes ;D
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My GF is stuck in New Jersey visiting her parents and was suppose to fly down here tonight. She's now stuck there until Wednesday because all flights are canceled! This snow is affecting my sex life! >:(
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My GF is stuck in New Jersey visiting her parents and was suppose to fly down here tonight. She's now stuck there until Wednesday because all flights are canceled! This snow is affecting my sex life! >:(
But I bet not your girlfriends ;D
"Darrrrn snow, would be so nice to come home tonight.." :D
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We've been hit hard.
My partner and I were stuck at the Monster (Gay Bar) due to no cabs being available. It took us over 2 hours to get to our Chelsea apartment.
Anyone else tormented by the snow?
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Probably my cousin. He lives in Chelsea as well. And he also happens to be gay... ;D
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Maybe I would personally still prefer snow over earthquakes ;D
After experiencing the Northridge quake in '94, I'll definitely second that!
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I'm fucking sick of snow - I've forgotten what my street looked like without it >:(
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I'm fucking sick of snow - I've forgotten what my street looked like without it >:(
time to hit up french polynesia bro
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time to hit up french polynesia bro
Damn I'm so gonna go there before I die 8)
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Have you ever been to a BB show? I've never seen an audience of predominantly gay men. I understand that you are looking at it much differently than a straight person would though.
Yes.
To answer your question in a broad sense, I've competed in 3 NPC Metropolitan NYC shows during the early 1990's.
I trained with Victor Martinez for over 4 years during the 2001-2005 era along with Dean and Hector (Both training partners of his) and his former Cuban trainer Victor, and during that time I was there for his GNC show of strength win, all of his Arnold shows and even went to a few NY pro shows held at BMCC here in the city.
I was actually even backstage at the show where Bob Chick got his first IFBB professional win. I was there side-by-side with Bob Chick and Rusty Jeffers as they posed for pictures in the back portion of the building. I remember it very clearly even to the point that once Chick won, his wife was standing right next to him in the back of the building where he posed for pictures and she kept asking him, "Hey, are you going to call Tom to let him know?"
I also trained a little with Rob Lopez and Kamali, back when they used to go to an old NYC gym called Johnny Lats and while they were there, I attended many NPC and IFBB shows. To this day, I've attended 3 Mr. Olympia shows, 2 Arnold classics, Most NYC IFBB shows and a crapload of NPC events as well.
MORAL OF ALL THIS NONSENSE: The vast majority of the audience consisted of openly GAY men.
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We've been hit hard.
My partner and I were stuck at the Monster (Gay Bar) due to no cabs being available. It took us over 2 hours to get to our Chelsea apartment.
Anyone else tormented by the snow?
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i am not stuck in a gay bar (no homo)
but Brooklyn has been hit very hard..the worse part of this is that my morning cardio routine has been interrupted.
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for those of you not in the know:
one more rep makes gaybay look like chad mower muscle wise.
his only downfall (or that may be the trend now) is that his chest is way too hairy. when he shaves it, it's much better and you could see his definition (no homo).
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for those of you not in the know:
one more rep makes gaybay look like chad mower muscle wise.
his only downfall (or that may be the trend now) is that his chest is way too hairy. when he shaves it, it's much better and you could see his definition (no homo).
Seems like the george michael avatar should have tipped off these newbies but I guess not.
Anyway, we had snow flurries in north florida. It looked more like ash than snow to me but the rednecks who have never seen real snow seemed to enjoy it..
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I shoveled about 20 inches of global warming in the bronx this morning.
Many cars are buried to the point you cant even see them.
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OneMoreRep,
how short is David Barton?
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After experiencing the Northridge quake in '94, I'll definitely second that!
I lived in Reseda when that happened. But I still prefer earthquakes over snow!
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Check out this bullshit -
I just went outside and my block (Woodlawn, Bronx) is covered with snow and the plows literally burid tons of cars. the mounds are life 4 feethigh and many cars had to try to dig out a little and have to back in a park diagnal wise.
The cops are out ticketing all cars parked diagnally now.
WTF?
Damn I cant stand NYPD.
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Check out this bullshit -
I just went outside and my block (Woodlawn, Bronx) is covered with snow and the plows literally burid tons of cars. the mounds are life 4 feethigh and many cars had to try to dig out a little and have to back in a park diagnal wise.
The cops are out ticketing all cars parked diagnally now.
WTF?
Damn I cant stand NYPD.
Didn't they suspend alternate street parking?. That sucks bro
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OneMoreRep,
how short is David Barton?
Size queen ::).....anything under 8" not enough for you, stud?
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Didn't they suspend alternate street parking?. That sucks bro
Yeah, but many blocks on side streets are blockaded by the plows and there is nowhere to put all the snow.
So cars have to park diagnally and the cops are out busting balls already. And these tix are expensive!
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Yeah, but many blocks on side streets are blockaded by the plows and there is nowhere to put all the snow.
So cars have to park diagnally and the cops are out busting balls already. And these tix are expensive!
City needs to get all the money they can by the end of the year I suppose
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City needs to get all the money they can by the end of the year I suppose
Its literally robbing people. Even muggers and looters are better than the cops.
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Its literally robbing people. Even muggers and looters are better than the cops.
You're not kidding.
True Story....
On the verge of that massive snowstorm that hit New York City on Sunday, the following Monday (Our Recovery day), traffic cops (or metermaids as I lovingly call them) were out about town looking for expired meters in order to give New Yorkers tickets.
I even saw a metermaid wiping the snow off the front of cars in order to properly scan their sticker to pin them with a $60 fine. They would jump over mountains of snow just to fine a helpless person who can't get their car out due to the snowplow trucks piling snow over the cars as they clear the main roads redistributing the excess snow to their left and right sides.
ScumBags, I wouldn't touch a traffic cop in a million years and I don't even own a car..
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You're not kidding.
True Story....
On the verge of that massive snowstorm that hit New York City on Sunday, the following Monday (Our Recovery day), traffic cops (or metermaids as I lovingly call them) were out about town looking for expired meters in order to give New Yorkers tickets.
I even saw a metermaid wiping the snow off the front of cars in order to properly scan their sticker to pin them with a $60 fine. They would jump over mountains of snow just to fine a helpless person who can't get their car out due to the snowplow trucks piling snow over the cars as they clear the main roads redistributing the excess snow to their left and right sides.
ScumBags, I wouldn't touch a traffic cop in a million years and I don't even own a car..´
gay and broke, how cute ;D
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Not broke at all stud.
You would have to be a fool to live in Manhattan and own a car..
That just makes no sense.
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Updated: Thu., Dec. 30, 2010, 7:45 AM
Sanitation Department's slow snow clean-up was a budget protest
www.nypost.com
By SALLY GOLDENBERG, LARRY CELONA and JOSH MARGOLIN
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These garbage men really stink.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.
Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action, several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions, attrition and budget cuts.
"They sent a message to the rest of the city that these particular labor issues are more important," said City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens), who was visited yesterday by a group of guilt-ridden sanitation workers who confessed the shameless plot.
Halloran said he met with three plow workers from the Sanitation Department -- and two Department of Transportation supervisors who were on loan -- at his office after he was flooded with irate calls from constituents.
The snitches "didn't want to be identified because they were afraid of retaliation," Halloran said. "They were told [by supervisors] to take off routes [and] not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner. They were told to make the mayor pay for the layoffs, the reductions in rank for the supervisors, shrinking the rolls of the rank-and-file."
New York's Strongest used a variety of tactics to drag out the plowing process -- and pad overtime checks -- which included keeping plows slightly higher than the roadways and skipping over streets along their routes, the sources said.
The snow-removal snitches said they were told to keep their plows off most streets and to wait for orders before attacking the accumulating piles of snow.
They said crews normally would have been more aggressive in com bating a fierce, fast-moving bliz zard like the one that barreled in on Sunday and blew out the next morning.
The workers said the work slowdown was the result of growing hostility between the mayor and the workers responsible for clearing the snow.
In the last two years, the agency's workforce has been slashed by 400 trash haulers and supervisors -- down from 6,300 -- because of the city's budget crisis. And, effective tomorrow, 100 department supervisors are to be demoted and their salaries slashed as an added cost-saving move.
Sources said budget cuts were also at the heart of poor planning for the blizzard last weekend. The city broke from its usual routine and did not call in a full complement on Saturday for snow preparations in order to save on added overtime that would have had to be paid for them to work on Christmas Day.
The result was an absolute collapse of New York's once-vaunted systems of clearing the streets and keeping mass transit moving under the weight of 20 inches of snow.
The Sanitation Department last night denied there was a concerted effort to slow snow removal.
"There are no organized or wildcat actions being taken by the sanitation workers or the supervisors," said spokesman Matthew Lipani.
Joseph Mannion, president of the union that represents agency supervisors, said talk of a slowdown "is hogwash." But he admitted there is "resentment out there" toward Mayor Bloomberg and his administration because of budget cuts.
His counterpart at the rank-and-file's union, Harry Nespoli, has also denied there is a job action, though he admitted his guys are working lucrative 14-hour shifts.
Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser said only: "We would hope this is not the case."
But multiple Sanitation Department sources told The Post yesterday that angry plow drivers have only been clearing streets assigned to them even if that means they have to drive through snowed-in roads with their plows raised.
And they are keeping their plow blades unusually high, making it necessary for them to have to run extra passes, adding time and extra pay.
One mechanic said some drivers are purposely smashing plows and salt spreaders to further stall the cleanup effort.
"That is a disgrace. I had to walk three miles because the buses can't move," said salesman Yuri Vesslin, 38, of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg -- quickly becoming the public face of failure this week -- spent a second consecutive day yesterday defending himself to critics of his administration's handling of the storm.
He took reporters to The Bronx to explain that the city is coming back to life and to tout his administration's efforts.
"Can't work much harder," Bloomberg said.
But Hizzoner admitted, "We didn't do as good a job as we want to do or as the city has a right to expect."
Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty promised that every street will have been plowed by 7 this morning, but then he offered this hedge: "Will somebody find a street that I missed? Maybe."
Bloomberg and Doherty also offered a series of excuses for the failed response to the blizzard. They blamed residents for shoveling snow into streets that had already been plowed and for tying up 911 with non-emergency calls.
"This was a failure in the operations and ultimately, as the mayor tells us very often, the buck stops with him," said Councilman Vincent Ignizio (R-SI).
Additional reporting by C.J. Sullivan and Anthony Affrunti
jmargolin@nypost.com
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in my town (thank god, i'm just outside Chicago city limits), our sanitation dept basically went broke because they were paying village workers to pick up the garbage.
so last year, the village outsorced the garbage collection to a private company (either waste management or root, i forget, either way some huge disposal company), and our sanitation bill went from $40 to $19, and they doubled the pickups now.
maybe NYC can outsource some sanitation services.
another glorious City of Chicago dept of sanitation story is one of the city plumbing foremen would do side jobs as a plumbing contractor, which is fine. The only problem was he'd use city workers and city materials to do plumbing in front of people's houses. People got suspicious when 4 City of Chicago semi trailers would be parking in front of a house to change one toilet.
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You're not kidding.
True Story....
On the verge of that massive snowstorm that hit New York City on Sunday, the following Monday (Our Recovery day), traffic cops (or metermaids as I lovingly call them) were out about town looking for expired meters in order to give New Yorkers tickets.
I even saw a metermaid wiping the snow off the front of cars in order to properly scan their sticker to pin them with a $60 fine. They would jump over mountains of snow just to fine a helpless person who can't get their car out due to the snowplow trucks piling snow over the cars as they clear the main roads redistributing the excess snow to their left and right sides.
ScumBags, I wouldn't touch a traffic cop in a million years and I don't even own a car..
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bitch about the metermaids all you want, but I'm sure they are just doing exactly what they are told to by the higher-ups....your beef should be with them.
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im in LA right now and its cold as fuck too.. the high is 55
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im in LA right now and its cold as fuck too.. the high is 55
haha.....they are calling for 65 as a high here on Saturday.....NY....pffff fffttttttttttt.......
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The Union thugs and mini-madoffs are about to face a riot by the taxpayers with their work slowdown.
One lady lost her baby and another lady died because of what they did.
Unions suck and I hope every one of these dirtbags is fired, penion revoked, and they are forced into poverty in Hunts Point for what they are doing to this state.
The asshole cops have een busting balls on my block spitting out $100 tickets like nothing this last week.
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bitch about the metermaids all you want, but I'm sure they are just doing exactly what they are told to by the higher-ups....your beef should be with them.
Of course they are..
Have you seen the average metermaid? They barely have a GED and carry around a bag of doritos and orange soda everywhere they go.
I have no particular bone to pick with them, since I don't own a car, but what I see them do to the average car owner here in New York is terrible.
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Of course they are..
Have you seen the average metermaid? They barely have a GED and carry around a bag of doritos and orange soda everywhere they go.
I have no particular bone to pick with them, since I don't own a car, but what I see them do to the average car owner here in New York is terrible.
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I understand, it would piss me off too....but people should just be relentless complaining to the depts and MAYBE something would change. On a related note, I spoke to my dad this morning and he mentioned my aunt apparently got a "parking ticket" from NYC. Some enormous amt, mailed to them here in NC, threatened litigation, fines, etc... well....problem is my aunt nor her husband have ever set foot in NYC. They called about it and the lady was a bitch saying "we have your tag number" When my aunt asked the make of auto it was on, the lady got pissed that my aunt told her they had never owned a vehicle of that make/model.....this crap went on for a year before it was finally cleared up.
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I understand, it would piss me off too....but people should just be relentless complaining to the depts and MAYBE something would change. On a related note, I spoke to my dad this morning and he mentioned my aunt apparently got a "parking ticket" from NYC. Some enormous amt, mailed to them here in NC, threatened litigation, fines, etc... well....problem is my aunt nor her husband have ever set foot in NYC. They called about it and the lady was a bitch saying "we have your tag number" When my aunt asked the make of auto it was on, the lady got pissed that my aunt told her they had never owned a vehicle of that make/model.....this crap went on for a year before it was finally cleared up.
Damn so they ran the tag and it came up in NC? They probably typed the numbers in wrong so now your aunt has got to straighten the shit out time for marshall law.
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Damn so they ran the tag and it came up in NC? They probably typed the numbers in wrong so now your aunt has got to straighten the shit out time for marshall law.
Yep...its been straightened out now, but it took a whole year. Probably just one digit or numeral off in the number they wrote down and used. Sad part is, all they should have done was contact NC DMV and checked to see if that make/model of car was ever registered to her or my uncle..... :-\
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Yep...its been straightened out now, but it took a whole year. Probably just one digit or numeral off in the number they wrote down and used. Sad part is, all they should have done was contact NC DMV and checked to see if that make/model of car was ever registered to her or my uncle..... :-\
This wouldnt happen in the south. ;D
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I had to go down to the courthouse just now and then back to morris park in the bronx. FFFFUUUCCCKKKININNNHGGGG HHHOOORRRIIBBBLLLEEEEE! ! ! !
Grid lock everywhere, cant fucking move, snow mountains everywhere. Trucks blcking everything.
What normally takes me an hour, just took 3 hours. Damn they did a shit job!
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I had to go down to the courthouse just now and then back to morris park in the bronx. FFFFUUUCCCKKKININNNHGGGG HHHOOORRRIIBBBLLLEEEEE! ! ! !
Grid lock everywhere, cant fucking move, snow mountains everywhere. Trucks blcking everything.
What normally takes me an hour, just took 3 hours. Damn they did a shit job!
oh damn, hope you didn't take the cross bronx
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oh damn, hope you didn't take the cross bronx
Grand Concourse up to Fordham Road. Fucking terrible.
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Is it wrong that I'm an adult but still throw snowballs at passing cars ???
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Meet The Hundreds Of NYC Sanitation Workers Who Earn Over $100,000
Business Insider ^ | 12/30/10 | Gus Lubin
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New York City sanitation bosses think they've got it so bad that they intentionally delayed snow-removal, according to the NY Post.So how bad have they got it? City workers enjoyed steady employment through the recession, killer benefits and a generous pension package. Then there's the pay. 315 sanitation workers earned over $100,000 in 2009, according to SeeThroughNY. The top guy, John Doherty, earned $205,180.There are also perks that come with the job.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
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Is it wrong that I'm an adult but still throw snowballs at passing cars ???
Don't worry, you're not an adult, Calvin. ;)
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Don't worry, you're not an adult, Calvin. ;)
haha, boom !!!
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Don't worry, you're not an adult, Calvin. ;)
Whew,wow!!! thanks I needed that :)
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Whew,wow!!! thanks I needed that :)
Don't tell me you could'nt see that one coming. Unless your halfway through your first bottle of vodka already (fuck, I could use a drink, it's 8pm in France)
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Don't tell me you could'nt see that one coming. Unless your halfway through your first bottle of vodka already (fuck, I could use a drink, it's 8pm in France)
A funny at your own expense is still a funny ;)
....why can't you drink if its 8pm ???
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A funny at your own expense is still a funny ;)
....why can't you drink if its 8pm ???
By 8pm most nights Calvin is well into his 2nd bottle.....
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A funny at your own expense is still a funny ;)
....why can't you drink if its 8pm ???
Still at the office. About to leave though and go for a little wining and dining trip to Lyon for a couple of days. I'll seize that opportunity and wish you all a happy new year.
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Still at the office. About to leave though and go for a little wining and dining trip to Lyon for a couple of days. I'll seize that opportunity and wish you all a happy new year.
Cool,enjoy 8)
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The cops have been on a ticket blitz too through all of this.
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Blue sky's, little windy here in northern Cali. I'd trade any of u NYC folks in a minute. Love that town.
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Blue sky's, little windy here in northern Cali. I'd trade any of u NYC folks in a minute. Love that town.
Its dog eat dog here. Lived here my whole life in the Bronx area. I'm ready for a change.
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Its dog eat dog here. Lived here my whole life in the Bronx area. I'm ready for a change.
What part of the Bronx?
The Grand Concourse by the courthouse and in between Yankee Stadium isn't terrible, but not necessarily the safest area.
Although, some parts (Like Pelham) are pretty nice with beautiful homes and lots of green acres, yet other parts (South Bronx - By Hostos and even other dirty parts like Trinity Avenue and those areas) are downright terrible.
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What part of the Bronx?
The Grand Concourse by the courthouse and in between Yankee Stadium isn't terrible, but not necessarily the safest area.
Although, some parts (Like Pelham) are pretty nice with beautiful homes and lots of green acres, yet other parts (South Bronx - By Hostos and even other dirty parts like Trinity Avenue and those areas) are downright terrible.
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Live in Woodlawn right now but a all over the place all the time.
I want to move to the poconos and become a redneck. After 35 years, I'm worn out of the Bronx.
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Death of newborn baby among several blizzard tragedies as city is accused of 'dropping the ball'
New York Daily News ^ | 12/29/10 | Alison Gendar, Tina Moore, et al.
A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.
The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesday night at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 call from the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights.
"No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plowed, and no medical aid came for hours," said the student's mother.
By the time a horde of firefighters and cops finally trooped to her aid through snow-covered blocks, the baby was unconscious and unresponsive, sources said.
Details of the tragedy emerged as the abominable snowstorm continued to wreak havoc across a city still digging out from the wintry blast. Some of the other blizzard horrors include:
- In Queens, a woman tried to reach 911 operators for 20 minutes Monday and then waited for three hours for first responders to arrive. By then, her mom had died, state Sen. Jose Peralta's office said.
Laura Freeman, 41, said her mother, Yvonne Freeman, 75, woke her at 8 a.m. because she was having trouble breathing. When the daughter couldn't get through to 911, she enlisted neighbors and relatives, who also began calling.
One of the callers reached an operator at 8:20 a.m., but responders stymied by snow-clogged streets didn't reach the Corona home until 11:05 a.m., said Peralta, who wants the death investigated.
"The EMS workers walked down the block trudging through snow," Freeman said. "They tried. I could tell by the look on their faces. I really would just like [Mayor] Bloomberg to admit that there were casualties."
- A woman in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was forced to spend the night with her dead father after the medical examiner's office took more than 24 hours to claim his body. Ismael Vazquez died at 10:31 a.m. on Monday, and the 82-year-old man's body remained in his bed until 1 p.m. yesterday. His daughter kept vigil in the living room.
"This is New York City, and I'm a New Yorker, and this is not the first storm we've ever had," said Florence Simancas, 51, holding back tears. "Somebody dropped the ball ... big-time."
- A Brooklyn woman was left sobbing at a Bay Ridge bus stop yesterday when the driver said there was no way to get her to a doctor's appointment in Bensonhurst.
"Please help. I have a doctor's appointment that is important and I can't get nowhere," 64-year-old Ludmila Kowalow said. "I don't know what to do," she added, throwing her hands in the air.
A 76-year-old Bay Ridge heart attack victim nearly died when an FDNY ambulance became stuck in a snowbank, but he was rescued by a gang of good Samaritans lugging him through the unplowed streets on a sled fashioned from a gurney.
"My husband could be dead right now," said Lucy Pastore, whose husband, Salvatore, was in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center. "The mayor acts like this is a minor inconvenience. Makes me sick."
Still, nothing approached the tragedy of the newborn on the busiest day for 911 calls since Sept. 11, 2001.
The pregnant woman was walking from her home to the nearby hospital in the still-swirling snow when she ducked into the building lobby, unable to make it any farther.
The young woman had not told her family she was pregnant - she didn't want to disappoint relatives - or that she and her college boyfriend had decided to put the child up for adoption.
An 8:30 a.m. 911 call was made, with the caller saying the birth wasn't imminent, a Fire Department source told the Daily News. The call received a low priority, and the city unsuccessfully tried twice to contact the caller during the next few hours, the source said. A second, more urgent 911 call at 4:30 p.m. reported the woman was bleeding and the baby was crowning - and the call was upgraded to level two, the source said.
An hour later, the NYPD contacted the FDNY/EMS to report the baby had been delivered but was unconscious. Cops cut the umbilical cord and tried to revive the newborn, police source said.
The call was then upgraded to level one - highest priority - and an FDNY crew arrived in 12 minutes, sources said. EMTs were on the scene at 6 p.m.
"The mayor was spouting nonsense to say Crown Heights was plowed. It wasn't," the woman's mother said. "No one could get to her ... any other day she would have gotten to a hospital."
The city medical examiner will do an autopsy today on the baby.
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Disgusting. Even i teared up a little reading this for this woman.
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damn!...some crazy shit right there!
it was 107F yesterday and will be 115F here today.
town just north of here was 116F yesterday...hotter today.
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Updated: Fri., Dec. 31, 2010, 7:52 AM
Sanitation workers targeted specific neighborhoods
By SALLY GOLDENBERG, JOHN DOYLE and JOSH MARGOLIN
There was a method to their madness.
The selfish Sanitation bosses who sabotaged the blizzard cleanup to fire a salvo at City Hall targeted politically connected and well-heeled neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn to get their twisted message across loud and clear, The Post has learned.
Their motives emerged yesterday as the city's Department of Investigation admitted it began a probe earlier this week after hearing rumblings of a coordinated job action.
Sources told The Post several neighborhoods were on the workers' hit list -- including Borough Park and Dyker Heights in Brooklyn and Middle Village in Queens -- because residents there have more money and their politicians carry big sticks.
"It was more targeted than people actually think," said a labor source. "Borough Park was specifically targeted [because of] . . . its ability to sort of gin up the p.r. machine."
The plan worked. Residents of those neighborhoods -- who, after three days, were still trying to dig out their cars -- are apoplectic.
"It's hurting people for greed," seethed Barry Coogan, 60, who lives on 64th Road in Middle Village. "Whoever made those decisions should lose their jobs.
"Don't hurt the neighborhood so you can't get medical help."
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In Brooklyn, Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind called the clean-up "an absolute disaster."
"You have the most unbelievable anger I've ever seen," he said of his Borough Park constituents.
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The revelation came as:
* A Queens baby was brain dead last night after poorly plowed roads hampered efforts to rescue him.
* Sources said Sanitation bosses issued verbal directives during the clean-up to give priority to streets near the homes of agency heads and other city bigwigs. "This happens all the time," one Sanit worker said. "They make sure the bosses and politicians get taken care of."
* Despite Mayor Bloomberg's insistence that all roads would be plowed at least once by yesterday morning, many were untouched, with snow still piled high. "We still have work to do," Bloomberg later said.
* Even as streets in the outer boroughs waited for a single plow to arrive, crews were clearing bicycle lanes on the Upper West Side. Bloomberg, however, insisted that was not happening.
Across the city, residents still confined to their homes by the storm's after-effects had plenty of blame both for Bloomberg and the rogue Sanitation workers.
Moshe Pollack, 55, of Borough Park, said, "It's disgusting. And we pay them overtime for this? People could have died."
John Delliliune, 42, of Penelope Avenue in Middle Village said he was "very disappointed" but "not surprised."
"I saw plows driving around with their shovels up," he fumed, adding, "I would like to see some disciplinary action to whoever made the call."
Hikind said his phone had been ringing off the hook.
"I just know that something went wrong, and God is not to blame," he said.
Hikind said he had been told months ago that Sanitation Department unions were planning some sort of slowdown or job action to protest budget cuts.
Chaya Schron, who lives in Midwood, Brooklyn, said she didn't hear any plows passing by her bedroom window Sunday night or Monday morning.
"I suspected a slowdown from the very beginning. It didn't make sense," she said.
On Monday, she saw a plow drive down her street with its blade up.
"When we asked why his plow was up, he said he had instructions not to plow side streets because it wastes gas," she said. "I was in disbelief."
Gov. Paterson yesterday morning called for a criminal investigation, and Bloomberg said such a job action would be an "outrage."
A DOI spokeswoman told The Post her agency has been probing the actions of plow drivers and supervisors all week, trying to determine "whether there was intentional misconduct in connection with snow removal. We are in the throes of that."
The slowdown was confirmed Wednesday by City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens), who met with a group of guilt-stricken plow drivers and supervisors who dropped a dime on their colleagues.
Yesterday, Halloran provided The Post with two videos showing a plow driver in Queens driving his truck on a snow-covered road without plowing it.
The snitches said they were told to leave many roads unplowed and skip streets that were not on their routes.
The hostility stems from a series of labor and budget cuts that are culminating today with demotions -- and resulting salary declines -- for 100 supervisors.
The president of the sanitation supervisors union continued to deny any subversion.
And Harry Nespoli, president of the union that represents the Sanitation Department's rank and file, also denied a slowdown and welcomed all investigations. He admitted, though, that some plow drivers could be slowing down on their own.
"Look, individually, if you walk around, you're going to see a truck doing something [wrong]? Yeah," Nespoli said. "You're going to have people that are annoyed."
Not as annoyed as the people whose streets were left buried.
"It makes my blood boil. Those people should be reprimanded," said Marlon Singh, 33, who lives on 94th Street in Middle Village.
"They made us feel like we live in a Third World country."
Additional reporting by David Seifman
jmargolin@nypost.com
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Unions fucking suck. i hope every one of these mini-madoffs gets fired and their pensions fluhed down the toilet.
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Storm's baby nightmare (NYC Sanitation Union Body Count Climbs...)
NY Post ^ | 12/31/10 | ANNAIS MORALES, JOHN DOYLE and LEONARD GREENE
A 3-month-old Queens boy was left brain dead last night after snow-clogged routes prevented medics from reaching him quickly -- and unplowed streets later forced the EMS workers to ditch their ambulance and sprint with the ailing baby to the hospital.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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NYC blizzard: Feds open criminal probe into alleged city worker
conspiracy during storm response
By John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, January 4th 2011, 2:59 PM
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The city Department of Investigation is also looking into allegations of a work
slowdown in retaliation for budget cuts and demotions of supervisors within the Sanitation Department.
Federal proscutors have opened a criminal probe of allegations that public employees conspired
to paralyze the city in last week's blizzard, sources said Tuesday.
The investigation by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's public integrity unit comes in response to
Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens) revelation that guilt-wracked sanitation and transportation workers
confessed the alleged work slowdown to him.
If their claim is true, the feds would examine whether the wire or mail fraud statutes were violated
by pocketing overtime pay during an illegal job action, sources said.
Halloran vowed Monday to keep confidential the
names of the three sanit and two Department of
Transportation workers who came forward.
A spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta
Lynch refused to confirm or deny the existence of
an investigation.
The city Department of Investigation is also looking
into allegations of a work slowdown in retaliation
for budget cuts and demotions of supervisors
within the Sanitation Department.
Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty has said he
saw no evidence of a job action.
Union officials have also decried the claims.