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Tag: culture
Dull Games
wow. i find mainstream games like halo super dull, i had no idea there is a whole subculture for simulating crap jobs.
Although the gameplay in Road Construction Simulator might not make you physically go out and lay in front of an advancing steamroller, it comes close. The very first mission involves marking a road with red-striped warning signs so virtual motorists can drive by safely. “That’s all you do,” complains a dismayed reviewer in the play-through below. “The length you have to do it for is looooooong.”
Dumbphone
We should stop calling it Smartphone. Most people don’t use theirs in cognition-enhancing ways. All you see are people texting each other.
Events becoming franchises
In recent years we’ve seen a trend of globalization that’s relatively new: local bottom-up culture, events and ideas spread virally across the world and become branded products.
an interesting phenomenon, and i’d rather take restaurant day (where you play restaurateur for a day) over restaurant week, a terrible idea.
Keep the junk in the suburbs
sentiment expressed near my place due to 7-11 construction. a new generation of arrivals in nyc is indeed trying to bring their suburban ways to the city, instead of escaping from them like previous generations, and some neighborhoods like murray hill have already completely surrendered to bros, while the east village is under attack by WOO girls and stretch limos.
2012 phenomenon
is there a good place in nyc to watch the crazies on friday? i am particularly interested to see them pack up shop after the end of the world fails to materialize.
pitbulls are for noobs.
The Hyena & Other Men
by Pieter Hugo
Zurich being neat again
ah zurich. always such zeal in sweeping unsightly things under the rug. a few years ago they standardized newsstands and public trash cans, arguing that the wide variety of shapes was an eyesore.
Zurich is to open drive-in sex boxes in an attempt to rid the town of street prostitution.
Beard tax
A beard tax is one of several taxes introduced throughout history on men who wear beards. In 1705, Emperor Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax to modernize the society of Russia following European models. Those who paid the tax were required to carry a “beard token”. This was a copper or silver token with a Russian Eagle on one side and on the other, the lower part of a face with nose, mouth, whiskers, and beard. It was inscribed with 2 phrases: “the beard tax has been taken” and “the beard is a superfluous burden”.
IHop
14th st is now a strip mall.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 