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Si, Borger senza "2 dots," quella persona alla destra ha qualche cosa di particolare. Pensavo la stessa cosa!

It's probably not your style, but as you can see, I've gotten hostile....and I want to embarrass these people in a public place in front of others, given the opportunity.As far as the post-college adults go, NOT ONE OF THEM has a normal demanding career such as doctor/lawyer/architect/consultant/CPA/etc. They are all cogs in a wheel buried deep in the bowels of an organization, because if they were satisifed with their jobs/income, they wouldn't have the time and desire to do this. I mean, what loser wants to invest their evenings to lurk around bookstores or coffee places to bait people? They are nothing short of SICKENING.

Amazing that there is ANYBODY in Seattle who takes offense to this streetcar acronym. It's great, but then, it's typical Seattle where some uptight/smug a-holes can't laugh at themselves. You wouldn't even begin to believe the contortions done with MARTA....Atlanta's fixed rail subway type system. Yep, Seattle doesn't get it. The biggest problem is the 520 bridge which should have 3 lanes + 1 HOV lane in EACH direction. It's inexcusable. Having commuted over it at least 1000 times, there is enough right of way to pull this off through the "rich neighborhood" that opposes it. Then there should be a rail line (light, heavy, I don't care) across one of the two floating bridges with some rail artery up the East Side. Is Sounder even running? I think so. The rail into the airport is a good start but it's wimpy. It doesn't even go to Northgate as the north terminus. By contrast, it is amazing how much rail transit capacity Portland has been adding, with a new north-south line up the east side coming by September 2009.

Rehoboth Beach

Glad you chimed in, as you know it well.Buckhead: too pretentious...and I've always hated the name, not knowing where it originates....plus it rhymes with "f@#khead" Dunwoody: ding-ding-ding (I lived a stone's throw from Dunwoody) Midtown: too alternative North Fulton: bingo, again Emory area: like off of LaVista? I'm not Jewish....LOL I've sort of added Northlake/Tucker immediately outside the perimeter onto the list but it doesn't make my blood boil. As for the others, I agree. Gwinnett and Cobb are kind of vapid. The southern and western counties are...well...why even bother to move to Atlanta?

What is this movie? Like an "Office Space" or such pop-culture comedy?

Il fait trop froid en cette etat...$h!, we need to start a "Foreign language only" thread to piss a few people off...

Just move back to the 77077 and hang out with (Ruth) Westheimer.

OK, so I go to one of the chain bookstores and am sitting in the cafe peacefully looking at travel books. This NERD, mid 40s or more, who has "the day planner" sits next to me and starts chatting me up. The approach is all too familiar. I cut him off coolly. Soon enough, this kid sits down with him (obviously pre-arranged) and starts doing the usual pitch, including the tag line "the only way to make money is to trade time for..." or something like that. (I have been approached at least 25 times at B&N, Borders, Starbucks or the gym with a multi-level come on and have heard this over the last 10 years or so). I got up to throw away my cup and told him off loud enough for everyone to hear "I don't appreciate being chatted up with the ulterior motive of multi-level marketing. You are a loser and people at these places don't want to be approached for your kind of crap. They are here to check out the books or have a drink. This is THEIR time." He dismissed it. I then went to the manager. The manager went over to him, and I followed, and asked him if he was soliticing. He denied it and I went for his throat again, loud enough for everyone to hear. If he started it on me, despite my cutting it off, and then proceeds to explain multi-level to the guy he's sitting with, the intent was to solicit. I told him "You need to take it elsewhere" loud enough for everyone to hear. I was fuming. He got up and left the store. A couple of people around me nodded. Sidebar: I have had awesome conversations about travel, cars, jobs and the economy with perfect strangers at such places and am open to that....in those cases, there was no ulterior motive, just a sincere interest in having a conversation about a common interest. What have you done with such "pimple on the ass of the earth" garbage when approached?

No, babe, preoccupied more about where to move to, actually...

Indianapolis

I used to live right at I-285 and Ashford Dunwoody Road. LOVED that area. Next comment: Yes, and it has gotten worse...not being laid out in a grid doesn't help Next comment: Oh, yes, it can't function

Like they say, "there's a lot of truth in jest"

Will have to learn archery and keep the bow and arrow nearby....

I just don't see a "Brenda" making it onto the bench of the Supreme Court, if you catch my drift....it's just got a different feel to it than "Sandra" or "Ruth."

By groupthink, I meant "no pressure to conform." I spent the first 24 years of my life in LA (intersection of I-10 and I-405, so the thick of it) and people are very self-styled...it's a real mosaic and nobody I knew "tightly" fit into any particular group. Yes, there are groups, such as surfers, the South Orange County crowd, the WeHo crowd, the wannabee waiters and waitresses in waiting, the kids of entertainers, all of which are identifiable, but there is no pressure to conform to anything unless you want to be accepted by these smaller sub-niches. The majority of people are self-styled. When I was in Atlanta in the 90s, there were very wordly companies such as Coca-Cola and others where the people are too multifaceted to support a stereotype, but there are also some smaller entities and regional entities (I worked at BellSouth ) where the typical up and coming exec went to a good Southern school, was in a fraternity, is white and reasonably handsome, is married to Sorority Suzie, has a subtle "refined" Southern accent as opposed to a heavy one, dresses a certain way, rabidly follows his college football team and plays golf. It would be described as a "good 'ole boy." My best friend in ATL from work was a Florida grad but raised in central FL and born in Philly, so...a Yankee...and fit no stereotypes. The good ole boy type appears to still be much in evidence whereas you don't see many people like that in LA, SD or the Bay Area (you see the PNW version of that in Seattle and Portland). In general, I can't stand "checklist packaged people" and they don't like me, so I take note of it.

iron

She is an average looking 40ish brunette, from a quick pic I saw where she was crouched down and hiding...probably posted by CD/BP(now Chris Doane).I've stated how much I couldn't stand the name Brenda. Every single Brenda I've ever known could keep company with Tonya Harding and I've seen some cocktail waitress/waitresses in Nevada casinos/coffeshops elsewhere named Brenda whose gravelly voices are pretty

...and (my response to thread): die

Yeah, right, like that's the REAL reason you go to Lancaster PA. Didn't you say you like "menage a trois" in your profile?Botched names The name Oregon is constantly botched as "oreh-gone" when it's pronounce "oreh-gun" as dsuupr pointed out -- Washington states has some weird ones: Poulsbo - across the sound from Seattle - thought it was "pools-bow", it's "Pauls-bow" Steilacoom - near Tacoma - thought it was "styl-a-coom", it's "still-a-cum" (no dirty thoughts) The humdinger: Puyallup - near Tacoma - thought it was "Pooy-a-loop", it's "Pew-al-lip" Still, my biggest pet peeve isn't these but rather how so many Americans say "acrost" when it's "across" --- there is no 'effin "T" at the end of that word.

Congrats to you, S.H. It's a good thing to get onto standard employment. I know some people who bounced around some archi firms in Cali, ultimately to take a job at "the state" for many of the same reasons.I'm ramping up for a job search since I'm returning to my first occupation...and relocating to boot. I'm not looking forward to it, since I again have to ask firms for a job. It'll work out since I have passed the licensing tests already. I'm being cautious, having been involved in "bad fits" before. A "good fit" makes work MUCH easier. Did you just pull an application and apply? How did you land on this? Let us know.

First comment: The Pac-10 stuff is nothing, actually, as people don't do the flags and only have school bumper stickers/license plate frames. In OR and WA, you will see the UofO/OSU and UofW/WSU cross-state rivalry thing played up, but not like in the South.The reason I find it bothersome is because, in the past when I lived there, some Southerners (some who didn't even go to those schools, let alone ANY school) will start talking to you passionately about Auburn or 'Bama or the Gators and if you can't keep the conversation going, they turn real cool on you. My attitude: get a f@#king life, you can't expect a transplant from another region to be THAT interested or informed. However, there are many cosmopolitan type people that you can ignore that. Second comment: Funny that I have a friend from Birmingham AL who is Southern, Italian and Catholic (there is a smattering of Italians and Greeks in select Southern cities, as I learned) and he chooses to live in PHX. Now, he is about 5'9 and 150 lbs, so being that thin, he isn't as bothered by the heat. He's been there about 4 years now. The low-humidity nights in the desert are in fact appealing, but I know them more from the P.S. and L.V. areas.

snoring

How can that be possible at THOSE schools you went to? :AH-HA_wink: back atcha.Seriously, though, in the last year BV must have gone through an accelerated puberty because he doesn't look like such a kid anymore (referring to other pics and not the current one).

Not done AT ALL in Southern California....there's NO groupthink type of mentality there whatsoever.Done some in Northern California...with Berkeley (Cal) alumni, but definitely not the norm. Westerners are cut from a different cloth from the rest of the country IMHO. So, what's your thought on Atlanta, per the question?