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[trinityvixen]

In order to facillitate my DVD addiction, I need to find a certain website. Hence, I look to my friends for help.

Is there a website people use to check on various editions of DVD releases to pick the best one? 'Cause I am friggin' sick of the thirteen different releases for movies--each one more ultimate than the last! Anyone?

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Can I just say, pet peeve here, as someone who is able to walk and read at the same time (without being annoying or getting in the way or tripping myself up), I really fucking hate people who go out of their way to fuck with me when I'm trying to read?

No, I'm being totally serious here. I can read and rely on my peripheral vision to guide me along and twice in the past two weeks someone (two different someones) have felt the need to throw an arm out in my way. In both cases, it wasn't because they especially needed to talk to me or get my attention: it was just to be obnoxious. Because they either assumed that I'd see them and look up (their motive being to disturb my reading) or that I wouldn't and would, I dunno, flail about or trip and fall (that being their motive). Either way? That is goddamned rude. I don't bother anyone when I walk and read. I walk around people more often than I do through them, and I'm frequently the first person to notice the other (I've had more people just wander into me than I've wandered into others while reading).

Why is this okay to do? Why does fucking with someone who is clearly enjoying something they're reading enough to multitask seem like a cool or funny thing to do? Am I in grade school? Are people going to put "KICK ME" signs on my back when they go by? Or pants me? These are fucking adults here, and they see no reason not to purposefully disturb my reading for no other reason than because they can and because I might fall on my goddamned nose or something.

GRRRRAAAAAAGH

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[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I've been living in the city for a looong time now, and I've always been amazed at how many New Yorkers are proud of being assholes. Sure, there are plenty of dickwads everywhere -- put a Bostonian behind a wheel and you'll see reverse evolution in action, for example -- but only in New York are people so unabashedly open about their asswiperdom. I think it explains Ed Koch as well as anything.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think this isn't just a New York thing--I think the compressed density of humanity we find in New York just exposes us to more assholes on a given day. It's like this book I was reading--are there more cannibals today verus older days--and the answer is probably not, we just know more about the recent ones.

Not that I'm saying the asshole to human-fucking being is like the cannibal to normal person ratio, but that's the best illustration I had.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

The phrase, "human-fucking being" brings to my mind images of a Star Trek-esque energy being having sex with a human.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's where my mind went too.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

When my brother was visiting, he and his wife were commenting on how many pregnant women they saw in one day. And it's true--in New York you see more pregnant women. And more blind people and more wheelchairs and more everything because you see so many damn people everyday. (That could be a study. How many different people do I actually see each day? I'd guess somewhere near a thousand.)

But I also think NYers are proud to be assholes. I always thought of New Yorkers as like creampuffs--crispy on the outside and soft and gooey on the inside. But then, I have a whole theory about this, and work has officially ended, so I think I'll stop typing.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The idea of a city full of creampuffs is oddly disturbing.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

I think the compressed density of humanity we find in New York just exposes us to more assholes on a given day.

While I think this is part of it, I'd wager that the compressed conditions and infinite population density here actually create more pricks.

I mean, I know I'm much more likely to start hacking apart random strangers when I'm trying to get on a crowded rush hour train than at any other time of my life...