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[Buckeye Native 001]

Have you ever thought about walking around with a recorder so you can catch some of that as it happens?

[Buckeye Native 001]

DP Delete /stupid

[vid]

If I had the equipment, I would have HD webcams with sound mounted all over my building's exterior so that people could get "The Simpson Street Experience™" from the comfort of their own homes.

My camera can barely take photos, let alone video.

[LMich]

Originally Posted by vid

Fat Old Hooker: "Get away from mah curnur! Ah'm doing dis tur raise money fer mah kids! Yer just doin it ter stick needles in yer arms!"

Skinny Drug-addict Hooker: "Whatever bitch! Wherever you stand, I'ma stand beside'dja!"

Wisdom from the mouth of hookers. Whoever would'a thunk there was a hooker heirarchy?

So, I was working minimal security for a parking lot during a festival here, today, and was the victim of a walk-by preaching. These two guys about my age walk by, but slowly and strangely as if they are trying to be normal, but knowing that they weren't being. One of them says, hello, stops (while the other ones stands to the side of me) for a second, and then immediately launches into "Jesus" this-and-that, have you repented, what church do you go to...usually, I'd have some words to politely but firmly cut them off, but for some reason I was caught totally off guard, and answered a few of their questions. All I was able to get out was questioning if they where down at the festival particularly to preach, asked them what church they were from (if they'd have been Mormons, I'd have been a bit more prepared), etc...after giving them a few one-word answers and a few firm, dismissive thank you's, they got the hint and left, but were still yelling stuff at me as they continued to walk down the street.

Next time this happens, I want to let these folks know how awkward it is for both the preach and the preached to to deal in this kind of evangelizing, and how incredibly ineffective it is. While I was mostly polite because they were, there were a few times when I lied to their faces and they could tell because I wasn't able to hold in some of my laughter. I really wanted to get out that I'd gone to a religious primary school, and how I know all of their tricks and talking points by heart, but they take advantage of the general kindness/politeness of strangers in this country. I've only been approached this before one other time, and it was by Mormon missionaries, and they were far easier to get rid of.

[rockyi]

I remember the days when hookers were as common as flies on most street corners in certain neighborhoods in downtown Davenport and Rock Island. No more, though. I believe it was the great skank plague of '89 that wiped em out.

[LMich]

In all seriousness, the internet sent all but the most desperate and/or flashy and vain of them indoors.

[rockyi]

Except in Thunder Bay where they roost on the sidewalks.

[LMich]

Well, that goes without saying; I mean, Thunder Bay is a whole other world, eh? Lions sleeping with the lambs, and dogs laying with cats and the whole nine. Surely, Thunder Bay is a precursor of the End Times.

[Buckeye Native 001]

We've got at least three Jesus Freaks in Flagstaff. Two walk all over town carrying giant crosses and another one picks random street corners and reads from Revelations.

The latter can usually be found at some of the busiest intersections in town, where its impossible to be heard with all the cars zipping by at 40+ mph.

[LMich]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

We've got at least three Jesus Freaks in Flagstaff. Two walk all over town carrying giant crosses and another one picks random street corners and reads from Revelations.

The latter can usually be found at some of the busiest intersections in town, where its impossible to be heard with all the cars zipping by at 40+ mph.

You know, I don't mind the in-your-face stuff, so much. At least you can spot them. They let you know that they want to be confrontational, and you can prepare yourself for such ravers. I have a real problem with the insidious, concern troll style of evangelizing.

[Buckeye Native 001]

The best one was the guy I saw in Downtown Phoenix last weekend. He wasn't confrontational, just reading out of the bible as people walked by not giving him much thought.

However, it 1pm, 112 degrees and he was wearing a black shirt and black slacks...He wasn't there when I went by the intersection an hour later, which meant he either gave up after it got too hot, or suffered from heat stroke and had to be rushed to the ER.

[vid]

Originally Posted by LMich

Well, that goes without saying; I mean, Thunder Bay is a whole other world, eh? Lions sleeping with the lambs, and dogs laying with cats and the whole nine. Surely, Thunder Bay is a precursor of the End Times.

We're also building condos on the waterfront, and have a gay pride festival now. Port Arthur and Fort William are surely the new Sodom and Gomorrah.

There is also an old guy that I see riding a bike around the neighbourhood sometimes (sadly, I never have my camera with me when he appears), and he has a cardboard sign on his back saying something like "Hitler was a genius, the Jews destroyed my body" and then a bunch of bible quotes or something, and it's so hilarious because he obviously isn't disabled, just lazy.

I haven't been approached by Mormon kids in a long time but I want it to happen again so after they ask me if they can talk to me about Jesus or whatever, I can ask them "do you wanna talk about anal sex? " and they'll be all or something. I'll definitely have to have my camera for that one.

You know they won't fight back because they're Mormon. Oh, and let's not forget that time shortly after I moved in when kids in a moving car yelled at me out the window, "Hey! Check out Mormon.org!". I suppose that's what they do for fun on Wednesday nights.

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by canadaonstrike

I like highways and roads and driving........ Am I a bad person

No, check this out, I don't even like cities as much as I do the wilderness.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...22#post5350022

Yeah. I started a Colorado photo thread.

I showered today for the first time since Thursday, and the water turned black.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I'm what they call a "road geek" (sort of like why we're here for skyscrapers) so I'm probably a bad person as well.

[canadaonstrike]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

I'm what they call a "road geek" (sort of like why we're here for skyscrapers) so I'm probably a bad person as well.

Let it out, brotha

I'm a roadgeek too. A big one

People on here need to realize the way they feel about buildings, I feel about roads. Both can be critiqued on the way they look and are designed

[canadaonstrike]

Originally Posted by LMich

Wisdom from the mouth of hookers. Whoever would'a thunk there was a hooker heirarchy?

So, I was working minimal security for a parking lot during a festival here, today, and was the victim of a walk-by preaching. These two guys about my age walk by, but slowly and strangely as if they are trying to be normal, but knowing that they weren't being. One of them says, hello, stops (while the other ones stands to the side of me) for a second, and then immediately launches into "Jesus" this-and-that, have you repented, what church do you go to...usually, I'd have some words to politely but firmly cut them off, but for some reason I was caught totally off guard, and answered a few of their questions. All I was able to get out was questioning if they where down at the festival particularly to preach, asked them what church they were from (if they'd have been Mormons, I'd have been a bit more prepared), etc...after giving them a few one-word answers and a few firm, dismissive thank you's, they got the hint and left, but were still yelling stuff at me as they continued to walk down the street.

Next time this happens, I want to let these folks know how awkward it is for both the preach and the preached to to deal in this kind of evangelizing, and how incredibly ineffective it is. While I was mostly polite because they were, there were a few times when I lied to their faces and they could tell because I wasn't able to hold in some of my laughter. I really wanted to get out that I'd gone to a religious primary school, and how I know all of their tricks and talking points by heart, but they take advantage of the general kindness/politeness of strangers in this country. I've only been approached this before one other time, and it was by Mormon missionaries, and they were far easier to get rid of.

What about the preacher types that come to your front door? I've only had it happen once. They were these 2 korean exchange students preaching the word of christ and how he's so great. The funny part is one of them (a girl and a guy) was actually a hot girl. So I kind of let them barge into my place and start schooling me on Jesus. After about 10 minutes I blurted out "So is she your girlfriend?". Both their faces got really red and the conversation went south after that and they left

[Centropolis]

St. Louis is moving into a Texas-lite weather pattern. It will most likely be over 100 for 5 days in the urban core, St. Louis has a decent urban heat island effect due to the brick homes and patchwork tree canopy. Thank God we are at the confluence of the two biggest rivers on the continent, and I can fill my pool up and get the misters going and water my vegetable garden and bermuda grass without any social or governmental pressure. The extra water ends up back in the river, anway. I can't imagine living somewhere hotter and drier.

[Strange Meat]

Yeah mid to upper 90s all week here. Sucks. At least it's not humid. Still hot, though, and it was about perfect up in the mountains - about 72 for a high, and down in the 40s at night.

[Centropolis]

I'm going to the black mtns in North Carolina in a couple weeks, it's high 60s and 70s during the day and low 60s (or lower) at night. I'll be camping at only 5,500 ft, but in the humid, scorching southeast, that makes a bigger difference than in the west for some reason. The waves of cool air as you ascend from 98 degrees with sauna like humidity is amazing, because it's sort of unexpected.

I camped at Great Basin Natl Park a couple of years ago, went from something like 110 in the valley to having snow on the campsite, wearing a patagonia winter coat. That was bad ass.

[rockyi]

One good thing about the heat is the demand for more power causing scattered blackouts.....Went to work this morning, no power. "Sorry guys, it looks like you all have to go home." Awwww, DAMN!!