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« Reply #30 on: June 18, 2008, 06:27:39 PM » |
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Like, I was in Mexico last week and they had Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Just like we do. Its a global movement, you know.
Yea, before it was "global" it was "colonial" I don't think critique's of the current trendy "Globe sameness" world is fit without a base understanding of colonialism by the United States in places like Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, Cuba, DR, etc... That said the die is cast, Globalism is alive and well but I'm not sure where who's court the ball will end up in. Just be happy you saved a buck... Or, more precisely, the Portuguese and Spanish in S.America, the Belgians and French in Africa, the Britsh in S. Asia and the Caribean, etc. It'll be awesome when everything everywhere is exactly the same. Don't forget the good ol' Dutch! |
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« Reply #31 on: June 18, 2008, 06:35:20 PM » |
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Like, I was in Mexico last week and they had Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Just like we do. Its a global movement, you know.
Yea, before it was "global" it was "colonial" I don't think critique's of the current trendy "Globe sameness" world is fit without a base understanding of colonialism by the United States in places like Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, Cuba, DR, etc... That said the die is cast, Globalism is alive and well but I'm not sure where who's court the ball will end up in. Just be happy you saved a buck... Or, more precisely, the Portuguese and Spanish in S.America, the Belgians and French in Africa, the Britsh in S. Asia and the Caribean, etc. It'll be awesome when everything everywhere is exactly the same. Well since we are from "here" and not from Portugal, Spain or Belgians I'm not sure it's relevant to point at others before we point at ourselves, no? Also, last I heard the following companies you mentioned 'Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company' are all from here, American companies. I'm not sure it will be "awesome" when everything is the same but I am sure the human instinct to be different and other manifestations of human individuality will kind of Rock & Farking Roll. I guess it all depends on the way you look at things. When every 16 year old in the burbs is driving around in a BMW 3 series the young kid pimping out a '58 low-low is going to stand out. I see sh1t like this all the time. The 'sameness' has a way of birthing difference. Case in point, Our man Psycho. His ability to manufacture cool brown trout out of almost anything, astonishes me. To a lesser extent, I find difference in the 'sameness' in things I do, I used a Crate and Barrel Wine rack (garbaged picked) to hold my cucumbers in place. Beauty, sameness or difference is in the eye of the beholder I guess. |
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« Reply #32 on: June 18, 2008, 07:16:09 PM » |
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Like, I was in Mexico last week and they had Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Just like we do. Its a global movement, you know.
Yea, before it was "global" it was "colonial" I don't think critique's of the current trendy "Globe sameness" world is fit without a base understanding of colonialism by the United States in places like Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, Cuba, DR, etc... That said the die is cast, Globalism is alive and well but I'm not sure where who's court the ball will end up in. Just be happy you saved a buck... Or, more precisely, the Portuguese and Spanish in S.America, the Belgians and French in Africa, the Britsh in S. Asia and the Caribean, etc. It'll be awesome when everything everywhere is exactly the same. Well since we are from "here" and not from Portugal, Spain or Belgians I'm not sure it's relevant to point at others before we point at ourselves, no? Also, last I heard the following companies you mentioned 'Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company' are all from here, American companies. I'm not sure it will be "awesome" when everything is the same but I am sure the human instinct to be different and other manifestations of human individuality will kind of Rock & Farking Roll. I guess it all depends on the way you look at things. When every 16 year old in the burbs is driving around in a BMW 3 series the young kid pimping out a '58 low-low is going to stand out. I see sh1t like this all the time. The 'sameness' has a way of birthing difference. Case in point, Our man Psycho. His ability to manufacture cool brown trout out of almost anything, astonishes me. To a lesser extent, I find difference in the 'sameness' in things I do, I used a Crate and Barrel Wine rack (garbaged picked) to hold my cucumbers in place. Beauty, sameness or difference is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Yeah true that, America has been and currently f*cking the Carribean nations royalluy no vasciline!, in terms of produce and high interest loans. |
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« Reply #33 on: June 18, 2008, 07:25:17 PM » |
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a little late to this thread, but dragging something back from page 1: I'll take the sunset view from The Wharf, Gil Hodges or Marine Park Bridge over Red Hook any day of the week.
For me, the most beautiful sunset in the world is the mid-late summer sunset from the bay side of Breezy Point looking across Jamaica Bay as the sun settles and sets behind the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. I cant even tell you how many summer evenings I actually made a point of being there to see it. I think maybe I have to do it again one of these days.  OK, now back to discussions of colonialism and imperialism.  |
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« Reply #34 on: June 18, 2008, 07:34:58 PM » |
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a little late to this thread, but dragging something back from page 1: I'll take the sunset view from The Wharf, Gil Hodges or Marine Park Bridge over Red Hook any day of the week.
For me, the most beautiful sunset in the world is the mid-late summer sunset from the bay side of Breezy Point looking across Jamaica Bay as the sun settles and sets behind the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. I cant even tell you how many summer evenings I actually made a point of being there to see it. I think maybe I have to do it again one of these days. OK, now back to discussions of colonialism and imperialism. Yeah, I love that sunset spot, actually I like going to the end of 116 and sitting in the new park by the bay to watch it. I also love long walks on the beach, chinese food and love movies, and candle shopping! |
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« Reply #35 on: June 18, 2008, 07:53:50 PM » |
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a little late to this thread, but dragging something back from page 1: I'll take the sunset view from The Wharf, Gil Hodges or Marine Park Bridge over Red Hook any day of the week.
For me, the most beautiful sunset in the world is the mid-late summer sunset from the bay side of Breezy Point looking across Jamaica Bay as the sun settles and sets behind the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. I cant even tell you how many summer evenings I actually made a point of being there to see it. I think maybe I have to do it again one of these days. OK, now back to discussions of colonialism and imperialism. I love Rock sunsets.   The ones down in Florida aren't too shabby either...  So yeah, how 'bout that Brooklyn Ikea, eh? |
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« Reply #36 on: June 18, 2008, 09:07:12 PM » |
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« Reply #37 on: June 18, 2008, 09:54:15 PM » |
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When I say gorilla glue I mean that like Jello or band aid or q-tip. For all I care you could use boogies to glue ikea stuff, it doesn't really matter to me.
Sunsets at Gateway Marina... insane!
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« Reply #38 on: June 19, 2008, 09:07:41 AM » |
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I'm going to smother vaseline all over you and Drop you off in the Blue Oster, vaseline not petroleum jelly!
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« Reply #39 on: June 19, 2008, 09:17:30 AM » |
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I'm going to smother vaseline all over you and Drop you off in the Blue Oster, vaseline not petroleum jelly!
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« Reply #40 on: June 19, 2008, 09:23:21 AM » |
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Small businesses and big businesses all suck in there own special way.
so only medium businesses don't exploit or suck - or do you prefer no businesses - so you can go back to the harmonious myth of the noble savage hand weaving, cooking by open pit wood fire, and hunting rodents for dinner with a badly shaped clovis point you flaked yourself? |
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« Reply #41 on: June 19, 2008, 09:30:05 AM » |
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« Reply #42 on: June 19, 2008, 09:39:13 AM » |
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scott, the day you went was basically a test run for them, a kind of dress rehearsal. We went earlier in the day and it wasn't that bad.
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« Reply #43 on: June 19, 2008, 09:41:32 AM » |
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Like, I was in Mexico last week and they had Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Just like we do. Its a global movement, you know.
Yea, before it was "global" it was "colonial" I don't think critique's of the current trendy "Globe sameness" world is fit without a base understanding of colonialism by the United States in places like Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, Cuba, DR, etc... That said the die is cast, Globalism is alive and well but I'm not sure where who's court the ball will end up in. Just be happy you saved a buck... Or, more precisely, the Portuguese and Spanish in S.America, the Belgians and French in Africa, the Britsh in S. Asia and the Caribean, etc. It'll be awesome when everything everywhere is exactly the same. Well since we are from "here" and not from Portugal, Spain or Belgians I'm not sure it's relevant to point at others before we point at ourselves, no? Also, last I heard the following companies you mentioned 'Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company' are all from here, American companies. I'm not sure it will be "awesome" when everything is the same but I am sure the human instinct to be different and other manifestations of human individuality will kind of Rock & Farking Roll. I guess it all depends on the way you look at things. When every 16 year old in the burbs is driving around in a BMW 3 series the young kid pimping out a '58 low-low is going to stand out. I see sh1t like this all the time. The 'sameness' has a way of birthing difference. Case in point, Our man Psycho. His ability to manufacture cool brown trout out of almost anything, astonishes me. To a lesser extent, I find difference in the 'sameness' in things I do, I used a Crate and Barrel Wine rack (garbaged picked) to hold my cucumbers in place. Beauty, sameness or difference is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Like, I was in Mexico last week and they had Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Just like we do. Its a global movement, you know.
Yea, before it was "global" it was "colonial" I don't think critique's of the current trendy "Globe sameness" world is fit without a base understanding of colonialism by the United States in places like Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, Cuba, DR, etc... That said the die is cast, Globalism is alive and well but I'm not sure where who's court the ball will end up in. Just be happy you saved a buck... Or, more precisely, the Portuguese and Spanish in S.America, the Belgians and French in Africa, the Britsh in S. Asia and the Caribean, etc. It'll be awesome when everything everywhere is exactly the same. Well since we are from "here" and not from Portugal, Spain or Belgians I'm not sure it's relevant to point at others before we point at ourselves, no? Also, last I heard the following companies you mentioned 'Dominos, Subway, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company' are all from here, American companies. I'm not sure it will be "awesome" when everything is the same but I am sure the human instinct to be different and other manifestations of human individuality will kind of Rock & Farking Roll. I guess it all depends on the way you look at things. When every 16 year old in the burbs is driving around in a BMW 3 series the young kid pimping out a '58 low-low is going to stand out. I see sh1t like this all the time. The 'sameness' has a way of birthing difference. Case in point, Our man Psycho. His ability to manufacture cool brown trout out of almost anything, astonishes me. To a lesser extent, I find difference in the 'sameness' in things I do, I used a Crate and Barrel Wine rack (garbaged picked) to hold my cucumbers in place. Beauty, sameness or difference is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Yeah true that, America has been and currently f*cking the Carribean nations royalluy no vasciline!, in terms of produce and high interest loans. why stop at the US and European colonialism? - although there may be no writen history - odds are real high that the indigenous Caribbean people behaved like the rest of the human race over the course of our existence and formed tribes with the intent of survival of the group by any means possible, inculding taking over neighboring tribes land and belongings by force and keeping the losers as slaves. Humans have been defeating each other and taking each other as slaves forever, read about the greeks or the romans or read the classics like Candide, Arabian Nights, etc. where slavery was just something that people fell into and out of via fate through the course of a lifetime. Look at the studies of the successful north and south american "indian" tribes for endless stories of dominance and submission (great BOC tune). the difference now though is the submitted have a legal right to endlessly whine about there dominators. re. sameness - people who think they are idividualistic because of the retail shops and restaurants they frequent (add music they listen to) are kind of missing the point of individualism. |
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« Reply #44 on: June 19, 2008, 09:48:31 AM » |
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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...
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