Brooklyn Ikea

[YouBetcha'Berry]

your right actually I messed that all up. Arawak were the overall group with taino and caribs getting into it from time to time, according you Europeans that thought they were in India

[Joe Bama!]

your right actually I messed that all up. Arawak were the overall group with taino and caribs getting into it from time to time, according you Europeans that thought they were in India

Stupid white people, probably white people originally of the Visigoth tribe in Europe (Spainish and Italian).

Athough they were not purely Visigoth since the Moors of Berber and Arab decent from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa had ruled much of Southern Europe for almost 300 years.

[HydroGlide]

The Visgoth tribe originally learned the art of knock down furniture making, ligonberry cultivation, and meatball construction from the Ikea tribe in the area we now call Brooklyn (the follow the line on the floor thing they learned from the Disney Indians of California and Florida). 

[SeaCliff]

ummm hello....the Taino are Arawak who invaded Puerto Rico from South America-they killed the earlier dudes.  Um, fully modern humans like spread out from Africa.....Neanderthals got pushed out by Cro Mags......europe as well know it was populated from Turkey, pushing out and interbreeding with the earlier populations....all of Africa was recolonized by the Buntu tribes....."globalization" is the biggest intellectual circle jerk since phrenology...

PEOPLE HAVE, AND ALWAYS WILL:

 MOVE, INTERACT, SEEK TO EXPLIOT, HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER DESPITE EXTERIOR DIFFERENCES, KILL, and COMPLAIN. 

Excellent point. Especially the HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER part. I'm all for that. 

This is all similar to a point I made in another thread about how globalization (of commerce) wasn't a convention that came in the late 20th century and exploded with NAFTA, it goes back to the earliest recorded times of the human race - trade routs of ancient times, etc. At least that's what I think I said. Frankly, I'm still distracted about the sex with each other comment to think too much about anything else. Ahh..so easily distracted. 

[Joe Bama!]

ummm hello....the Taino are Arawak who invaded Puerto Rico from South America-they killed the earlier dudes.  Um, fully modern humans like spread out from Africa.....Neanderthals got pushed out by Cro Mags......europe as well know it was populated from Turkey, pushing out and interbreeding with the earlier populations....all of Africa was recolonized by the Buntu tribes....."globalization" is the biggest intellectual circle jerk since phrenology...

PEOPLE HAVE, AND ALWAYS WILL:

 MOVE, INTERACT, SEEK TO EXPLIOT, HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER DESPITE EXTERIOR DIFFERENCES, KILL, and COMPLAIN. 

Excellent point. Especially the HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER part. I'm all for that. 

This is all similar to a point I made in another thread about how globalization (of commerce) wasn't a convention that came in the late 20th century and exploded with NAFTA, it goes back to the earliest recorded times of the human race - trade routs of ancient times, etc. At least that's what I think I said. Frankly, I'm still distracted about the sex with each other comment to think too much about anything else. Ahh..so easily distracted. 

Thats the problem with tryin to think with two heads at the same time

[SeaCliff]

ummm hello....the Taino are Arawak who invaded Puerto Rico from South America-they killed the earlier dudes.  Um, fully modern humans like spread out from Africa.....Neanderthals got pushed out by Cro Mags......europe as well know it was populated from Turkey, pushing out and interbreeding with the earlier populations....all of Africa was recolonized by the Buntu tribes....."globalization" is the biggest intellectual circle jerk since phrenology...

PEOPLE HAVE, AND ALWAYS WILL:

 MOVE, INTERACT, SEEK TO EXPLIOT, HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER DESPITE EXTERIOR DIFFERENCES, KILL, and COMPLAIN. 

Excellent point. Especially the HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER part. I'm all for that. 

This is all similar to a point I made in another thread about how globalization (of commerce) wasn't a convention that came in the late 20th century and exploded with NAFTA, it goes back to the earliest recorded times of the human race - trade routs of ancient times, etc. At least that's what I think I said. Frankly, I'm still distracted about the sex with each other comment to think too much about anything else. Ahh..so easily distracted. 

Thats the problem with tryin to think with two heads at the same time

Hahhahahahhaaa....uhh..yeah. 

[Mims]

Commuters using Ikea shuttle bus to bypass MTA routes

Think there's no such thing as a free ride? You haven't been to Red Hook lately.

Countless commuters are taking advantage of Ikea's free bus and ferry - without ever setting foot inside the giant Swedish furniture store that opened last month in the waterfront neighborhood.

The posh, coach-style shuttle buses, equipped with footrests, reading lights and music, are quickly becoming popular with travelers tired of shelling out $2 for overcrowded - and, by comparison, uncomfortable - city buses.

"It's like a free car service," said Bianca Colon, 19, who works at a summer program at Public School 27 on Huntington St. in Red Hook, and takes the bus from downtown Brooklyn near her home. "It takes us straight downtown and I don't have to wait for the bus to stop every block to let people on and off."

Colon took the city bus to her summer job for several weeks before discovering the swank Ikea alternative.

"It's got AC; it doesn't get overcrowded," she said. "You have your own space. It's strange, but people are more behaved on this bus. It's just more relaxing."

The free bus service transports passengers from Red Hook to stops on Court St. and to subway stations at Fourth Ave. and Smith and Ninth Sts. every 15 minutes during store hours.

Thrifty bus riders aren't the only ones taking advantage of Ikea's services. City residents are also saving $6 each way and taking the store's free water taxi to and from Wall Street.

"It's such a nice ride, I'd almost be happy to pay for it," said Steve Riley, 40, who lives in Park Slope, takes the Ikea bus and then transfers to the Ikea water taxi for his job in SoHo. "It was so very different from the miserable experience of the subway and I got to see all four of the waterfalls."

Brooklyn News found last week that only eight of 19 passengers on the first shuttle ride entered Ikea - and two of them were employees.

"I'd say before one o'clock, about half the riders from Smith and Ninth Sts. don't even go into Ikea," said a bus driver, who added many riders are going to a local methodone clinic for treatment.

Ikea had kind words for those using the free transportation. "We are thrilled that we are providing free transit options for the people of New York to come to Ikea and to come to Red Hook," said Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth. "We support mass transit, and if people are using our services and not going to Ikea, that's fine with us as well."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/07/07/2008-07-07_commuters_using_ikea_shuttle_bus_to_bypa.html