[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 14-Mar-2000 16:26:23 GMT
> > From: chris brudzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: U.S. vs U.K.
> >
> > i don't consider myself much of an "american" because i live in new york
> > city which is the center of the universe anyway. it's culturally more
> > diverse than any place on earth, put jazz on the map, created punk in
> > turn giving malcom maclaren the idea for the sex pistols, created the
> > velvet underground, warhol, blondie, where john lennon chose to call
> > home (unfortunate for his untimely death), etc.; new york's influence is
> > too far reaching to continue.
> >
> > you can fit all of london into one of our five boroughs. the rest of
> > america is a cultural wasteland in comparison to new york.
> >
> > so i say - it's new york against the world. we're bigger and better than
> > you are...
> >
> > i'm sure i'll get lots of angry responses to this. i just had to shake
> > things up a bit...
> >
> >
> > -chris
> >
>
> Congratulations. You've just fit the stereotype of a New Yorker. When
> exactly
> did New York secede from the Union? I'll happily stay in the "cultural
> wasteland"
> of San Francisco over New York anyday. Actually there's enough pushy,
> loudmouth New Yorkers here complaining how nothing compares the the Big
> Apple.
> Put 'em on the next plane home I say.
>
> Dan
>
sorry i ruffled your feathers by calling the rest of america a cultural
wasteland. i've been to san fransisco and the west coast in general and
all i have to say is that the collective i.q. isn't much larger than my
age, and people are just plain lazy. too much sun i suspect - warped
their brains of basic intelligence and ambition. that was, however, my
own experience.
funny that you picked the aspect out of my post that was the most tongue
and cheek. i mean how can you actually take the line "new york city is
the center of the universe..." seriously? it was meant to be taken with
a grain of salt and was said in jest.
but, seriously, you couldn't actually be trying to compare the
importance culturally and historically of san fransisco to new york
could you? please sit down young man. you're way out of your league.
-chris
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