The Wire

[Zanshin]

Okay. Wrapped up season one and started season two. It's a good show and I'm going to keep watching it. To this point, I haven't seen the transcendence that warrants 100 pages about it on a football message board...but it's certainly entertaining.

[Diomedes]

This is a football mb?  As in, American Football?

No wonder most of the people here are born idiots.

[ice grillin you]

worked down at our crackamore office today
traffic was a nightmare trying to get out from downtown so i was like wtf lets rock n roll thru mecca...so i cut up 83 to north ave and went thru ground zero thru pennsy fulton monroe ect

definitely got hard

[SD]

did you make a pit stop at Hamsterdam

[MDS]

are slim, rick and the rest of them still running the connect?

[Diomedes]

up.  you worked up here.

north is up.  south is down.

this is simple stuff

[ice grillin you]

down means downtown

the liquor store is south of my cribbo but i dont say im going down the liquor store...i say im gonna go up to it

down is like florida and up is like maine...but when we are talking about a couple mile trips those directives lose all meaning

got it?

[Diomedes]

wrong.

north is up.  south is down.  if you want to conflate the two, don't bother using them at all.  instead of saying 'I'm going up to the package store' which is in fact south/down from you, why not just say, I'm going to the package store

the answer in your case is, because you are teevee dumb

[Sgt PSN]

Wouldn't this all be relative to the direction you are facing at the beginning of your journey?  If you are facing south at the starting point, then heading south would actually be going up, right? 

What if you are in South America?  It's all backwards there, isn't it?  Or if you are on the South Pole, any direction you walk in is technically on a downward slope, no? 

Let's spend at least 10 pages talking about this.

[Diomedes]

North is up.  South is down.  Nothing relative about it.

[SD]

 if I'm going East or West, would I use up or down?

[ice grillin you]

hipster

Wouldn't this all be relative to the direction you are facing at the beginning of your journey?  If you are facing south at the starting point, then heading south would actually be going up, right?  

What if you are in South America?  It's all backwards there, isn't it?  Or if you are on the South Pole, any direction you walk in is technically on a downward slope, no?  

Let's spend at least 10 pages talking about this.

next time you are goin out to grab a new pair of birkenstocks tell you wife which direction you are headin and then plug your ears so you dont have to hear her hyena laugh

[PhillyPhreak54]

"be back soon baby. I'm heading  northwest to purchase a lovely new pair of burks"

[Munson]

if I'm going East or West, would I use up or down?

If it's directly east or west, you're going "over to"

If it's north-east/west or south-east/west, you use "down" or "up" accordingly.



Also this entire conversation reminds me of City Slickers 2

[General_Failure]

An abortion that never should have happened, and can be blamed on a Jew?