Comments on: Public apple, private apple

By: hrw

hrw — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:16:01 +0000

#6 — my experience in eastern Europe is similar. Canadians demand double the personal space of most Americans, we also demand that the volume of one’s voice be as low and monotone as possible. Eastern Europe was a constant migraine for my Canadian sensibilities.

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By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:30:47 +0000

Arcadia,

YOU WRITE:… “NJL, I do agree that most here have not explicitly done so. However I do think that more than a few find it convenient to preach economic selflessness while enthusiastically dancing to the tune of tax cutting, government assistance slashing, Republicans.”

Arcadia, get past “most here” and lets see who are the “more than a few” who you don’t name, but make mention of by their absent names, post numbers and thread names.

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By: arcadia

arcadia — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:14:39 +0000

llama: In point of fact, I grew up near, occasionally lived in, and worked in The City. It’s a long way from the hills of Appalachia where I now live, and enjoy much more, not for the people, whom I find generally not as well educated and almost universally not as wealthy, but because I am but a couple of minutes from fields, mountains and streams.

I guess you attribute the massive overpayment of executive New Yorkers to some catastrophic failure of capitalism? All those boards and compensation committees and shareholders and stockpickers are just dumb? Do you really think that any old bohunk country boy can rape, pillage and step over bodies quickly enough to keep the Exxons and Lockheeds going?

As for New Yorkers being untrustworthy liars, my guess is that more business is done or a handshake every day in New York than in most entire states of this union.

NJL: I do agree that most here have not explicitly done so. However I do think that more than a few find it convenient to preach economic selflessness while enthusiastically dancing to the tune of tax cutting, government assistance slashing, Republicans.

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By: NJLawyer

NJLawyer — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:37:53 +0000

Arcadia wrote: “It is interesting that those here, who purport to highly value things like hard work, the accumulation of wealth, and the competitive market claim to despise the most successful practitioners of such values.

When have the Christians here said that they highly value the accumulation of wealth? I think we all know that coffins have no pockets.

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By: llama

llama — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:26:06 +0000

#4 ARCADIA,

I can see that you have never ever lived and worked in New York. Yeah, I know that the left thinks that New York is the cats meow but it is not. New York suffers the same fate as the largest most succesful city of any major country. They make more money because they have to pay more for their horrible, if expensive, lifestyles. They ar eovercompensated for little thought or work. They naturally think they are better than everyone else as a result, can prove it if you ask them, and it shows even to blind, deaf and dumb people. They are no worse than Londoners, Moscovites (who are the worst) Parisians etc.

They are also mostly lefties so they are, liars, cannot be trusted, will steal you blind and are insnae too.

You need to get out and see the real world.

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By: Bob Buckles

Bob Buckles — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:05:18 +0000

Ask people who give answers over the phone about whether New Yorkers have earned a reputation for rudeness. My friend who answers questions about Epson printers thinks they are really special. (Really, they think they are special.)

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By: John M.

John M. — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:39:40 +0000

I think we might be confusing “rude” with “blunt” or “edgy”. They’re not necessarily the same thing.

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By: adios

adios — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:36:43 +0000

Have-a-nice-day is the state motto of CA. If rudeness is–as Pauline says–a matter of where you live I think I’d be a very poor judge of it.

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By: kBells

kBells — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:24:31 +0000

My husband works with people from all over the country and so far his most unpleasant experience was working with a crew from New York. They talked to and about the local crew like dogs, they complained about every little thing and they totally trashed the production truck. He was not impressed with their work ethic either.

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By: hopesprings

hopesprings — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:47:53 +0000

I’ve been to NY several times. The first cab ride I ever took was hair raising! I thought, “Where’s the fire?” I’ve also never walked so much in my entire life! But what a city! There’s no place like it!

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