*marks all read*

[Star Ocean 3]

Some of these topics are ridiculous. Poster tournament? TSM Wiki? How anyone could be so interested in this board to participate in activities like those is beyond me.

 

The 20 greatest threads will start soon, by the way. By the end of the Hermetic Lunar Week Calendar year.

[DrVenkman PhD]

That method of joke telling never gets old.

[Star Ocean 3]

C'mon, thread of the week! C'mon!

[Star Ocean 3]

I was watching Cheers today, and I laughed at something Carla said. However, there was no laugh track for her line. I felt weird and scared. Was that supposed to be funny? I thought it was.

[BUTT]

Still LOL'ing at Czech catching feelings from Star Ocean.

[Star Ocean 3]

Some of my spam is becoming avant garde. This tagline does contain a certain brilliance in its effectiveness: I now wish to purchase pharmaceutical products online.

 

think big Ask women infer lose control Adequate? flak

 

The sparse punctuation, and genius capitalization do more than any dire pharmacy could. If only all advertisements could be this vague and thought-provoking.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Czech reserves frothing, vituperative animosity for some, tender pathos for others. Explain yourself, The Czech Republic.

[Red Baron]

Only anyone who's not from L.A. actually realizes that Anaheim is actuall an entirely different city on its own an hour south, and not a suburb.

 

I believe you can only classify a suburb as one being within at least the same county or 30 minutes' driving distance, depending on the size of the main city. From the cities I've lived in:

 

L.A.: Pretty much everything in Los Angeles County until you start getting real far out east, I'd say anything past I-15 is no longer L.A.

Miami: Fort Lauderdale, Sweetwater, Kendall, Homestead is kinda iffy because it's rather far south. Pinecrest, Aventura as well.

Portland: Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Gresham, and Vancouver, WA.

 

I find Portland to be a more traditional big city, because it's not this convoluted urban sprawl like Los Angeles, that just looks like an infectious growth on a map, or a city that's exploding at the seams in all the wrong places because it was never meant to be a metropolis like Miami. I mean, you've got your downtown, surrounding neighborhoods, and then the suburbs and everything linking them together by mass transit and freeway. Simple.

 

 

Isn't LA just a bunch of suburbs? I mean what area of Los Angeles is called Los Angeles and where are the bounderies between Hollywood, Sunset Strip, Malibu, Rancho Cuccamongo, Compton, etc..

[Guest Vitamin X]

All those areas you mentioned are in the L.A. area. But yes, L.A. is essentially a giant urban sprawl, although the closer you live to downtown, in some areas, particularly West and East L.A., you can still have your address as Los Angeles, CA. But I define the area as anything within the county itself, and possibly the eastern part that includes San Bernandino, although it's iffy. Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Orange County et. al. has its own flavor and distinct civic feel, much like I can't count Ft. Lauderdale as part of the Miami area, since it's an hour north of Miami (and all its distinctive parts, including SoBe) and you can speak English there. We call it "Miami for Americanos."

[Star Ocean 3]

I get the jobber treatment in the feedback folder. That's what an average of one post a day across 5 years gets? Well!

[Star Ocean 3]

Well, I found out that you shouldn't flush the toilet if you're still sitting on it. Some might think this was an obvious thing, and perhaps they would be correct. But I might have enjoyed it more if my excrement wasn't splashing back up. Actually, with a clean toilet, it could be a cool way to get refreshed.

[Guest The Minor Threat]

I clicked this thread because I thought you wanted all the marks to read it. Boy, was I mistaken.

[Star Ocean 3]

↑ Well, I succeeded in some capacity, then.

 

There`s no stupidity like moving to a foreign country, and forgetting your atm pin. It is now that I know the value of rationing. General Chat seems to be full of travel stuff lately, I think I`ll start one about my travels there.

 

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Why are you using ` instead of ' ?

[Star Ocean 3]

I hadn't figured out where the right apostrophe is on these Japanese keyboards. Don't worry, though, I found it.