Open Thread Wednesday

By on January 17, 2018 6:44 am in open thread

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  • StudioBrooklyn

    Beautiful scene at Sydney Pl and Joralemon just now: a garbage truck couldn’t complete the left turn onto Joralemon and was blocking a fire truck coming down Joralemon. He couldn’t back up into Sydney Pl because there was already a line of cars behind him. The reason he couldn’t turn left? Wait for it…

    …a minivan parked illegally with a fake placard.

  • Orange St. Julius

    What a ridiculous post. Nevertheless, even if your premise was correct, hate crimes are up as well!!! But hey, that’s another high point for you trumpers, isn’t it!?!

  • redlola

    uh yeah. you are an anti-semite. whatever your background is, the obvious common possibility is asshole tendencies.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Sorry hon, I have not disparaged the religion. Nor do I condone bias over anyone based on ethnicity, religion etc. I only made a factual point about the dubious practices of a cult.

  • Reggie

    corrected

  • gcarl

    Can someone tell me why, when there is this invitation “Get BHB in your inbox everyday. Enter your email below.” in the center of the first page of the blog, nothing happens. I have signed up a few times (after second and third attempts, I was told that I am already signed up), but never have I received the emails. Years ago, I used to get them, but for a long while now I have not, even though the page still asks people to sign up to receive it. Why?

  • redlola

    1. You stereotyped Hasidic Jews in a negative manner even though the conclusion about them being at fault for construction delays was erroneous
    2. Please do call me hon. That is sexist. I am an adult and not a hon to you in any way.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    It was a projector TV, the image was maybe 6′ diagonal but the colors were not properly aligned and it was quite blurry, as I recall.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    LOL how funny, you call me a sexist while your are defending Hasidism. Talk about Irony…
    I never made a conclusion, I only postulated a possibility. The premise may be wrong but not the reasoning.
    Hypothetical Example:
    Say a local abortion clinic is bombed, at first the perpetrator is unknown. People post here, “It is likely the work of Christian Fundamentalists”
    Would you get your panties in an uproar, would you call them out as “Anti Christian”? Perhaps you might even agree.
    Then it is discovered the bomber was a disgruntled employee, not motivated by any religious ideology. So the theory may have been wrong, but it wasn’t an unreasonable assumption.

  • redlola

    I stay away from making uniformed assumptions based on stereotypes. All your comments here are laced with anti-semitic snark. Pretty sure, you’d have your panties in a bunch if whatever group you belong too was stereotyped and insulted. As far as sexism, clearly, one doesn’t need to be part of a “jewish religious cult,” to be that. Right hon? And the fundamentalists components of every religion are sexist.

  • Banet

    A projection TV? I had no idea those existed prior to the mid-1980s. And this ad has to be what? Eatly 1970s? 1960s? It refers to the “7th Ave IRT” — when did that become the 2/3?

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    The TV I remember was indeed in the mid 70’s and I believe, the technology was developed way before then.
    My Mom still refers to the subway lines by their original designations. IRT, BMT & IND.
    https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_FAQ:_A_Brief_History_of_the_Subway

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    “I stay away from making uniformed assumptions based on stereotypes”

    “the fundamentalists components of every religion are sexist”

    Uh hu…

  • CassieVonMontague

    Yes, traditional values! Now I can say “Merry Christmas!” to the porn star my husband was sleeping with while I was pregnant!

  • Andrew Porter

    Because when original BHB owner Homer died abruptly, he took all the passwords that control that and many other functions to the grave. They no longer work.

  • gcarl

    I have heard this as well, but I have two questions about that: 1) I was receiving the emails before he died, so why wouldn’t they just continue for the existing list members?, and 2) It has been quite some time since he passed, wouldn’t you expect the people who are now running this blog to have been able to reset the password with a new one? Any other enterprise or any IT person should have been able to do that, or at least take down the invitation to join the blog.

  • Andrew Porter

    There are ways to hack the site, but it’s up to Claude Scales to do this.

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