the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

All Eagles fans aren't high-class?  Weird.

[Rome]

Being gutter trash is fine.

Being NASCAR fans is bad enough but actually driving down here to see the race?

I ain't havin' that, man.   

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I would think that if NASCAR fans annoyed you so much, you might not live in DAYTONA.  Moron.

[Rome]

They're here twice a year.  And I'm not usually here during the race weekends.  We go to Amelia Island for the weekend most years.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

your mom

[mussa]

" i can't stand NASCAR fans yet i live in or somewhere near Daytona! " 

[rjs246]

I can't stand racist hicks or cold weather, yet I live in Boston.
I can't stand NASCAR fans either, yet I would happily live in Daytona over Boston.

Less clothes on dumb bitches > Bitches in lots of clothes with less teeth

[mussa]

you lose

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

credit cards for illegals - yay!

[MDS]

I get to get up at 930 tomorrow, the latest ever for me this year. Hip hip hooray.

[Geowhizzer]

I get to get up at 930 tomorrow, the latest ever for me this year. Hip hip hooray.

5:15 as always.

[Diomedes]

http://www.builtstlouis.net/eaststlouis/eaststl00.html

Check out this tour of East St. Louis.  Fascinating.  Never been there, but I gather it's something like their version of Camden?

We have some St.Louis people here, I'm sure they can shed some light. 

Found the link at fark.com

[Father Demon]

East St. Louis was once the recipient of the distinguished title "Poorest City in America." Not sure what year that was, but it was within the last 10 years.  When I used to live in Illinois and needed to get to Blues games, I would often take a short cut through ESL, always praying I didn't have a flat or a breakdown. 

Many of the buildings in those pictures can be seen from the highway as you rush by. ESL isn't very big, but the downtown is hidden pretty well.  But as shown on this page, there is some hope.  One of the largets construction firms in the St. Louis area built up this housing area (I work with the son of the owner -- why he works in telecom instead of joining his dad, I have no idea), and it is a ray of hope.  It is sealed off from the rest of the town in what is supposed to be security.

I've always thought, if you had the money to raise the entire riverfront to about 3 miles back across from downtown St. Louis, you could put up a very exclusive and expensive area with plenty of clubs, restaraunts, and hotels.  It would be like printing money, if you could live with the guilt of all the poor, welfared people you displaced.

True story -- one freezing night in December back in the 90's (when Phanatic and I both lived in Illinois), he and I went to a concert in St. Louis, parking our cars in the ESL metro parking lot and took the train into the city. After the show, we hit a few more clubs and bars, and before we knew it it was after 2:00 am. The trains stop running at 1, so we were SOL.  We didn't have enough money to take a taxi, so we hiked across the river on the metro bridge, careful not to fall through and into the Mississippi.  Once we got across, we then had to walk about 4 miles to our car along the tracks.  I'm convinced the only reason we weren't mugged/killed was the freezing temperature kept all the criminals inside. 

[Diomedes]

So it's really as dangerous as all that?

[Father Demon]

Very.  The nightclubs they have pictured in the tour (there are about 4 or 5 in ESL that I'm aware of) each host several murders each inside the clubs or in the parking lots.

Wiki on ESL Crime