13 Replies to “Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting Thirty Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car”

    1. Order, thrift, cleanliness, public manners are racist!
      Turd world is turd world and should be embraced in all its squaller. ( Also, pay more taxes, fines, fees, permits, licenses. 45 year old Public employees don’t retire to Florida on unicorn skittles you know.)

      1. Order, thrift, cleanliness, public manners are racist!

        I was reminded of that this morning. One of the numerous cultural diversifiers that live in my apartment complex was clearing snow off her car but she didn’t do a very good job of it. There was still lots of snow on the roof and the hood, as well as partly covering a headlight.

        I told her to clear it all off because as it was, she’d be a hazard on the road. She looked at me as if she either didn’t understand me (which is possible–there’s a reason why there’s someone on staff her who acts as a translator) or she thought I was being a white trash racist.

        Sure enough, she took off with all that snow still on her vehicle. No wonder my car insurance has been going up a lot in recent years.

          1. It’s not just that. I’ve driven behind vehicles from which a large sheet of snow suddenly falls off. Some of it might land on my windshield, temporarily blocking my view.

            I thought she might have had the good sense to appreciate that. But, like I wrote, I’m sure that pointing out that she didn’t finish the job was–or would be–considered an act of racism.

          2. steakman, OK, that was a good one. My father-in law was blind yet did not have his licence removed or his moose hunting licence taken. . That may give my identity away to some but we always laughed about it as did his sons who would go hunt on his tag and take him along. He was in the draw every year and almost always got a licence. He always loved being in the outdoors even though he was blind.

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      got your bedbugs… and i’ll raise you some bodily fluid…

      In a list published by the Mexico City Metro system on Tuesday,
      corrosion due to urine” was listed as one of the top five causes
      of escalator malfunction.

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  1. Is this another crime against humanity that should be laid at Rachel Carson’s feet? Malaria, bedbugs, … two things DDT rid us of, that are now coming back…

  2. “We’ve got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown
    What a mess, this town’s in tatters, I’ve been shattered”

    Lyrics by -Jagger/Richards 1977

    NYC under the fine leadership of Werner Wilhelm Deblasio is devolving back to the “gritty” NY of Taxi Driver and Death Wish. More homeless, more crime, more vermin, less safety. Pee in the streets? Jump the subway turnstile? Panhandle? Sell drugs on the street? Not a crime, maybe the cops will write a ticket. More than likely they will ignore it. They remember the lessons of Eric Garner. Welcome back to the crime ridden 1970’s. Back to when NYC was broke, broken, and the Murder Capital of the US. When the brash, young Donald Trump was called an idiot and a fool for trying to redevelop Manhattan properties.

    What happens when the New York Stock Exchange decides to rename itself the United States Stock Exchange, and then moves to a friendlier climate? It is all run by computer servers, open outcry trading is so llast century. Why do the servers need to be in NYC? Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte and a dozen other cities would love to be the home of the US Stock Market.

    What happens then? NYC Dies. Broadway dies. The city’s finances collapse as all the 5,000 taxpayers that keep NYC afloat exit. These millionaire and billionaire financial people along with their salaries and taxes leave. Once it starts it will be irreversible. And NYC will look and feel like Detroit.

  3. So the transit employees couldn’t sleep on the job?

    Was that the urgency regarding fumigation?

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    i’ll see your bugs… and raise you some bodily fluid…

    In a list published by the Mexico City Metro system on Tuesday,
    corrosion due to urine” was listed as one of the top five causes
    of escalator malfunction.

    i’m afraid to ask about the other four.

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  5. media have been lying to us, telling us bed bugs are because of tourism.

    well maybe 1 or 2 % of them are, but the main source of bed bugs is refugees, illegals and various immigrants from third world nations where hygiene and such things are about 500 years behind the west

    eventually diversity will get us all killed, not with bed bugs but with a virus

    diversity is our greatest threat, yes threat, not strength

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