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Canada isn't even a real country.

A real country requires quality beer or possession of nuclear weapons.

Canada has neither.

I'd also pay good money to watch Wally the Green Monster knock those two Canuck Green Men senseless in an epic melee outside the penalty box.
 
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Problematic glass staircase in new courthouse

Franklin County, Ohio Judge Julie Lynch is advising people in dresses to avoid a staircase with glass risers in the middle of a new $105 million courthouse that opened Monday. From CNN:
She speculates that men, who didn't take half the population into account, designed the stairs.

Attorney Lori Johnson was startled by the transparent stairs. She worries not only about stares, but also how many cell phones have cameras attached.

"The next thing you know, you're on the internet," Johnson said, according to 10TV. "It sounds like a lawsuit in the making."

While security guards warn women about taking the stairs, it seems most are just hoping people will be mature about the situation.

"They hope people will be mature? That's not a solution," Lynch said to 10TV. "If we had mature people that didn't violate the law, we wouldn't have this building."
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Note: The treads are not even transparent. It's just the risers. See the link above for the picture.

/facepalm
 
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Men don't typically understand the need for skirt friendliness. Hence whey many balconies and catwalks in modern spaces have horrible viewing angles with regards to womens' modesty.

It has been known for several years now that glass stairs need to be opaque and not transparent because of this problem! All they need to do is sandblast the glass or install a film on the back of the risers. Very inexpensive fix.
 
Let's not forget about street grates!

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Lurker said:
If you had lived in the South End during the 80s and 90s you would have seen the same stupidity. There's some nutjobs that really want a neighborhood to stay a shithole for the benefit of cheap rent or simply because they like it that way. Many of the anti-gentrification people in my area preferred waist deep trash in the alley and half the buildings being boarded up simply because it kept their cheap rooming house residences in operation and drugs readily available.

In J.P. the scenario is playing itself all over again, though it's even worse: People on government subsidy want to tell private property owners how they want the neighborhood run because of an entitlement culture. Then there are these stupid rich kids that want to pretend they're "slumming it" and want the neighborhood to stay "edgy" or "gritty" simply to have something to gloat about in conversations with fellow assholes. Lot's of brain dead "anarchists" that don't understand what an "anarchist" are also taking the opportunity to make trouble out of a sense of playing revolutionary.
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While I agree one Whole Foods isn't the end all be all. You do realize that metro regions NEED affordable (aka poor) areas. Your logic seems to be everyone should just become rich. The micro event here paints the bigger picture of another affordable area no longer being that. The poorer people who live there will get kicked out. Maybe that's just the natural cycle of things, but they will have to go somewhere. And offices will still need to get cleaned. So where do they go? Pretty much every suburb around here has an anti density, anti affordable, anti public transportation, ( IMO anti minority/immigrant) policy. A neighborhood can go from poor to rich and the neighborhood will improve, of course the people who lived in it when it was poor won't feel the improvment, they will have gotten forced to move to another poor area where the same problems exist or will occur. They're are not enough good paying jobs out there for everyone, embrace that fact then tell me how evil food stamps and rent assistance are.
 
There's plenty of affordable housing in Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Chelsea, Somerville, and Everett for those people to move.

It's wrong to entitle people to live in an expensive city with subsidies. Wastes properties that would otherwise be contributing more to the tax base and distorts market conditions. Everyone works hard to afford the homes they live in, why should one group get a deal by crying poor?

The lack of REAL affordable housing, i.e. dense transit connected and walkable neighborhoods with micro sized units such that people can afford them on a cost per square foot basis, is the fault of the BRA and snob zoning practices. If more of the city was built out like Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton, with ubiquitous dense 1920s style courtyard apartment buildings, and transit at the doorstep, there'd be less of a housing problem. Hell, even if BU managed to suck all of its students out of Brighton there would be a large swathe of affordable housing for most of Boston's working class.
 
The skyline looks fine to me. =/

Left to right: Pru, 111 Huntington, 101 Huntington, Avalon (?) condos (at Prudential Center), Boston Marriott: Copley Place, Westin Copley Place, Hancock, 500 Boylston (The Newbry in front), Old Hancock.

Actual photo:
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Edit: Is this just a sarcastic joke about the giant spaceship in the middle of our city?
 
Data, it was a bit of both. According to the photos I compared it with, it looked as though they had done a bit of editing but in your photo it looks like a complete match. Except for the alien structure.
 
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Data, it was a bit of both. According to the photos I compared it with, it looked as though they had done a bit of editing but in your photo it looks like a complete match. Except for the alien structure.
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The way they rendered the image made the Newbry look really weird to me. When I first saw the pic you posed, I thought they moved City Hall to the Back Bay, lol.
 
Lurker said:
Canada isn't even a real country.

A real country requires quality beer or possession of nuclear weapons.

Canada has neither.

I'd also pay good money to watch Wally the Green Monster knock those two Canuck Green Men senseless in an epic melee outside the penalty box.
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Wally can just push those green men over...he doesn't need to throw a punch

To be fair...Canada has the bomb...haven't you seen Canadian Bacon?
 
You know what seems really embarrassing now? Hosting a rally for Ray Bourque after he won the Cup for another city. It was embarrassing then too but now even more so.

That was the nadir of the Loserville era.
 
I admit to feeling smug about the Bruins win. I watched Game 6 at a bar in Montreal. It was all:

"You Boston people are a bunch of thugs, eh?"
"Your team is a bunch of cheats, eh?"
"You Yanks are all uncivilized boors, eh?"
"Canada is going to beat your Yank ass, eh?"
"The Cup is coming back to Canada where it belongs, eh?"
"Good thing you Yanks are going to lose so we don't have to see some fat Yanks turning over cars, eh?"

Ah, Canadians. So full of grace, manners and the power of prognostication.
 
^^ You want to shut up Canadians when talking sports, simply say play us in ANY other sport. And even then we gave them a run for the money in the Olympic finals.
 
Anybody go to the parade? There was a ton of people there. Mostly annoying high school kids. The line 'I remember my first beer' was uttered a lot yesterday
 
I was going to go in with my dad to see if we could go get in the Suffolk University library on Tremont but I wasn't sure if it was open during summer courses or not. Also, when a doubledraft leaves Lowell already FULL and makes no stops, cops tell people in Swampscott waiting on a crammed platform that there will be no more trains stopping after several packed trains roll past, and the Providence line runs completely out of trains... you know you're not getting close...
 
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