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CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html -
Oh so it's the old if we can't do everything we might as well do nothing routine.salemcoog said:
Your lack of any understanding of the relationship between the amount of water introduced to an area in a certain timeframe is duly noted.CirrhosisDawg said:
Good point. The logical conclusion then is to let Texas drown.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
*gurgle
You and your master seem to think that human engineering has the ability to solve any situation that Mother Nature throws at it. But at the end of the day it's just another displayed distortion from reality for the both of you.
It's probably just everyday life when you're a cooger. -
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html -
Most of the areas that were hit hard had not been hit hard (or for a lot at all) before...go look in Fort Bend county, Energy Corridor, Friendswood , West side of Beltway 8, etc. That is why the number of homes hit is about 5-10X the number hit from any of the previous floods...BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html
But yeah...whatever you say...
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If we're talking about Dutch I really need some van houten tits.
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I just want SF to fall in the ocean so Sacramento becomes ocean front property
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Just shut the fuck up you clueless donkey.dflea said:
Oh so it's the old if we can't do everything we might as well do nothing routine.salemcoog said:
Your lack of any understanding of the relationship between the amount of water introduced to an area in a certain timeframe is duly noted.CirrhosisDawg said:
Good point. The logical conclusion then is to let Texas drown.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
*gurgle
You and your master seem to think that human engineering has the ability to solve any situation that Mother Nature throws at it. But at the end of the day it's just another displayed distortion from reality for the both of you.
It's probably just everyday life when you're a cooger. -
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDYellowSnow said:
There are those who thinktenndawg said:When I see fat people rolling around in a Walmart chair, smoking through their neck hole and eating sticky buns, I don't T&P them for a sluggish thyroid and being defeated by a tragic nicotine addiction...
RULE : When the resultant harm is foreseeable and flows freely from their chosen course of conduct, I tend to think "what a dumbass"
However I don't believe the rule / maxim should apply to unfortunate minorities trapped in an area due to their lack of economic opportunity...
Just kidding, fuck them too...save those T's & P's for a more worthy cause
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotusland
All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill -
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance? -
Can we please build another oil refinery in the annual hurricane zone so gas can go up 20% or more every year at the end of the summer?
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Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html
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Try English next time, assface.salemcoog said:
Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html -
Better yet, don't bother at all. He's not as clever as he thinks he isdflea said:
Try English next time, assface.salemcoog said:
Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html -
So ya got nothin' then.BearsWiin said:
Better yet, don't bother at all. He's not as clever as he thinks he isdflea said:
Try English next time, assface.salemcoog said:
Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html -
Who could fucking tell ?salemcoog said:
So ya got nothin' then.BearsWiin said:
Better yet, don't bother at all. He's not as clever as he thinks he isdflea said:
Try English next time, assface.salemcoog said:
Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html
Go learn English and then come on back, dumbfuck. -
Noone's talking to you, Donkey.dflea said:
Who could fucking tell ?salemcoog said:
So ya got nothin' then.BearsWiin said:
Better yet, don't bother at all. He's not as clever as he thinks he isdflea said:
Try English next time, assface.salemcoog said:
Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html
Go learn English and then come on back, dumbfuck. -
Truth be told, I kinda hate RUSH and am more of a determinist vs a free willer. Just liked the quote in the case...AZDuck said:
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDYellowSnow said:
There are those who thinktenndawg said:When I see fat people rolling around in a Walmart chair, smoking through their neck hole and eating sticky buns, I don't T&P them for a sluggish thyroid and being defeated by a tragic nicotine addiction...
RULE : When the resultant harm is foreseeable and flows freely from their chosen course of conduct, I tend to think "what a dumbass"
However I don't believe the rule / maxim should apply to unfortunate minorities trapped in an area due to their lack of economic opportunity...
Just kidding, fuck them too...save those T's & P's for a more worthy cause
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotusland
All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill
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When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance? -
I'll decide that so you can go ahead and fuck off.salemcoog said:
Noone's talking to you, Donkey.dflea said:
Who could fucking tell ?salemcoog said:
So ya got nothin' then.BearsWiin said:
Better yet, don't bother at all. He's not as clever as he thinks he isdflea said:
Try English next time, assface.salemcoog said:
Any news on Jacksonville's small government fucktardedness that has kept the Messiah aka as big government fucktardedness from saving them?BearsWiin said:
Fake News! NYT did a thing in the immediate wake of Harvey on how Dutch water engineers are amazed at how poorly Texas handles flooding. Not just Harvey-level flooding, but regular flooding. It's about channeling, diversion, and protecting areas that are regularly threatened. It's not like they don't do it; they do. But they don't do it very well because few Texans want to pay to do it right.RedRocket said:
CNN wrote a pretty good article about how Houston's terrible urban planning contributed.YellowSnow said:
@BearsWiin can you elaborate what manner of public works projects could have mitigated the disaster in Houston? I'm familiar with how the Dutch keep the sea out, but that's different engineering challenge than 40- 60 inches of rain in a few days. Doesn't seem like you'd ever be able to build enough dykes and pumping stations to handle that amount of water. To me this seems like more of a land use issue - i.e., building homes in 100- 500 year flood plains - vs not spending enough on public works.BearsWiin said:
So you don't understand the meaning of the word mitigate, and you don't know that the Houston area floods regularly. You'd rather pay a lot more to repair damage than take steps to prevent damage, because socialism. The Dutch are laughing at you.salemcoog said:dflea said:When the Cascadia fault mega-quake finally grows a fucking pair and smites this area down with a 9+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami that scrubs Washington and Oregon's coastal cities and towns right off the map - we're probably going to get dick in the way of federal dollars with Trump and the GOP holding the purse strings.
lol
Fuck us.
Except when you get 40-60 inches of rain, your blessed big government massive pub works project wouldn't have really mitigated much now, would it?BearsWiin said:
Harvey was a case of small-govt. Texas fucktards refusing to spend money for massive public works projects to mitigate what has become regular flooding in the greater Houston area, but yeahRedRocket said:Harvey was a case of bad things happening to good people. Every other socioeconomic problem is the result of bad life choices made by bad people.
So yeah government hand outs for Harvey are alright. Sandy was a different story though because it hit north of the Mason Dixon line in a more godless part of the country. Sandy bailout was also all pork which is why it was OK for conservatives in congress to reject it. Cruz said Harvey will be 100% pork free so no problem there plus the good people of Texas wouldn't waste government money.
Speaking of flood control, California better figure out their Sacramento delta situation or they are F.U.B.A.R.
cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html
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Hallstatt. Took the kids there for the first time this April. Told them not to drink the water.YellowSnow said:
When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance?
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Oh yes, basically the most picturesque lakeside town on the planet. I seem to recall one of Rick Steve's episodes passing through there.BearsWiin said:
HallstattYellowSnow said:
When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance?
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Rick Steves ruined it for those of us who knew about it before. My mother first went there in 1961, then took her family (myself included) back in 1967, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, and 1990. After she died in 1997 without leaving any instructions, the family decided that Hallstatt was the place to put her ashes. I went there first, in 1998, so the task fell to me. I put them in the waterfall above town so she would have one last journey through town on her way to the lake.YellowSnow said:
Oh yes, basically the most picturesque lakeside town on the planet. I seem to recall one of Rick Steve's episodes passing through there.BearsWiin said:
HallstattYellowSnow said:
When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance?
Went there again this last April. Even in 1998 it was getting too crowded during the day with daytrippers on big tour buses parking in Lahn, but you'd have the town to yourself after they left in the evening. Now it's overrun with Asians. It seems the fake Hallstatt that the Chinese built doesn't compare to the original. -
Rick Steves or no - and I'm sure he's probably given away some hidden gems no doubt for the sake of selling his books - not much that can be done about the rise of China and how that impacts tourism in Europe. It's an though the swarming hordes from the East were once again at the Gate of Vienna.BearsWiin said:
Rick Steves ruined it for those of us who knew about it before. My mother first went there in 1961, then took her family (myself included) back in 1967, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, and 1990. After she died in 1997 without leaving any instructions, the family decided that Hallstatt was the place to put her ashes. I went there first, in 1998, so the task fell to me. I put them in the waterfall above town so she would have one last journey through town on her way to the lake.YellowSnow said:
Oh yes, basically the most picturesque lakeside town on the planet. I seem to recall one of Rick Steve's episodes passing through there.BearsWiin said:
HallstattYellowSnow said:
When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance?
Went there again this last April. Even in 1998 it was getting too crowded during the day with daytrippers on big tour buses parking in Lahn, but you'd have the town to yourself after they left in the evening. Now it's overrun with Asians. It seems the fake Hallstatt that the Chinese built doesn't compare to the original. -
The thing that bugs me more than the influx of the eastern lidless is that, with the EU and Schengen and whatnot, the people doing much of the gruntwork in the tourist industry (waiters/waitresses, housekeeping staff in hotels and apartments, even a fair amount of the touristy music stuff in Vienna) are now staffed by Turks, Romanians, and Czechs/Slovaks. A generation ago, with the Iron Curtain up, there was no real influx of cheap labor, so a tourist experience in a place like Austria was very Austrian. Now it's more international and less, well, quaint and "authentic."YellowSnow said:
Rick Steves or no - and I'm sure he's probably given away some hidden gems no doubt for the sake of selling his books - not much that can be done about the rise of China and how that impacts tourism in Europe. It's an though the swarming hordes from the East were once again at the Gate of Vienna.BearsWiin said:
Rick Steves ruined it for those of us who knew about it before. My mother first went there in 1961, then took her family (myself included) back in 1967, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, and 1990. After she died in 1997 without leaving any instructions, the family decided that Hallstatt was the place to put her ashes. I went there first, in 1998, so the task fell to me. I put them in the waterfall above town so she would have one last journey through town on her way to the lake.YellowSnow said:
Oh yes, basically the most picturesque lakeside town on the planet. I seem to recall one of Rick Steve's episodes passing through there.BearsWiin said:
HallstattYellowSnow said:
When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance?
Went there again this last April. Even in 1998 it was getting too crowded during the day with daytrippers on big tour buses parking in Lahn, but you'd have the town to yourself after they left in the evening. Now it's overrun with Asians. It seems the fake Hallstatt that the Chinese built doesn't compare to the original. -
That's a good point. Last time I was on the continent was in '94 (have been to the UK a few times since) and it was all natives working in hospitality regardless of where you were. When I when I was in London this last spring - and I know it's a not the best example of a quaint little town - it was like checking into a hotel in Warsaw.BearsWiin said:
The thing that bugs me more than the influx of the eastern lidless is that, with the EU and Schengen and whatnot, the people doing much of the gruntwork in the tourist industry (waiters/waitresses, housekeeping staff in hotels and apartments, even a fair amount of the touristy music stuff in Vienna) are now staffed by Turks, Romanians, and Czechs/Slovaks. A generation ago, with the Iron Curtain up, there was no real influx of cheap labor, so a tourist experience in a place like Austria was very Austrian. Now it's more international and less, well, quaint and "authentic."YellowSnow said:
Rick Steves or no - and I'm sure he's probably given away some hidden gems no doubt for the sake of selling his books - not much that can be done about the rise of China and how that impacts tourism in Europe. It's an though the swarming hordes from the East were once again at the Gate of Vienna.BearsWiin said:
Rick Steves ruined it for those of us who knew about it before. My mother first went there in 1961, then took her family (myself included) back in 1967, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, and 1990. After she died in 1997 without leaving any instructions, the family decided that Hallstatt was the place to put her ashes. I went there first, in 1998, so the task fell to me. I put them in the waterfall above town so she would have one last journey through town on her way to the lake.YellowSnow said:
Oh yes, basically the most picturesque lakeside town on the planet. I seem to recall one of Rick Steve's episodes passing through there.BearsWiin said:
HallstattYellowSnow said:
When @BearsWiin posted this I tried to respond with Branau am Inn? But Vanilla kept saying my post wouldn't go through until it was approved. How can the name of some pudunk Austrian town trigger Vanilla like that?AZDuck said:
naziBearsWiin said:
I scattered my mother's ashes in an Austrian mountain lake twenty years ago. I live in my wife's basement.DerekJohnson said:
Wait... you don't live in your mom's basement?BearsWiin said:Is it OK not to have T's and P's for people who choose to live in hurricane zones? I see these asshats bitch about not wanting the gubmint to tell them where and how to build their rickety stilt houses right next to the fucking Gulf Coast (DON'T TREAD ON ME GODDAMMIT), then keen like new widows for gubmint assistance when a storm comes through and levels their cheap shit white trash matchstick houses. This goes for the dumbfucks who choose to live under sea level (Fuck you, NOLA), some lowlying coastal spot anywhere in the Redneck Riviera (anywhere between Galveston and Tallahassee), gator-infested swampy South fucking Florida, and to a lesser extent up the coast of Carolina. YOU FUCKERS KNOW HURRICANES ARE GOING TO HIT ON A REGULAR BASIS. FUCKING PREPARE FOR IT. BUILD FOR IT. CALIFORNIA HAS EARTHQUAKES, SO WE HAVE DRACONIAN BUILDING CODES SO WHEN ONE INEVITABLY HITS THERE ISN'T MUCH DAMAGE. IT'S CALLED CONCRETE AND REBAR. FUCK, PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR PUT SVEN IN CHARGE
Now, I know there are probably some good people in these areas who don't really deserve to have their lives ruined. I'm mostly thinking of the children. They didn't ask to be born to trash. And maybe some old people who were stuck in nursing homes by their trash children. But these states in danger sent Ted Fucking Cruz and Marco Fucking Rubio to Washington. Texas elected Rick Fucking Perry, who once called for a pray-in at the Astrodome to pray for rain during a statewide drought. It's hard to have sympathy for these people whose electoral decisions end up fucking the rest of us.
So I ask you, Damone, is it OK not to give a shit about the natural disaster destruction in Texas and (upcoming) in Florida? Or is BearsWiin an unmitigated asshole who deserves to have a sinkhole swallow his overpriced CentralCaliCoast house? Abundance?
Went there again this last April. Even in 1998 it was getting too crowded during the day with daytrippers on big tour buses parking in Lahn, but you'd have the town to yourself after they left in the evening. Now it's overrun with Asians. It seems the fake Hallstatt that the Chinese built doesn't compare to the original. -
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Europe deserves to get plungered by the islamofucks, just as they are getting plungered by loss of tourist dollars. Watch them vote Merkel in for a 4th term. Asia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Europe
