My dad when he first immigrated to NYC in 1986.

NYC went bankrupt in the late 70s and the president said 'fuck you I'm not bailing you out." The subway system was like Mad Max and that's how we have american punk music. It took a long time to clean up the city to become the Disneyland it is today.

why exactly is that depressing...?

We'll, since there's interest in it, I will just share the recipe with everybody. First, I think maybe I should explain how to jurn beans. Once you know that, the rest is really just adding rice and some seasoning. In order to jurn beans, you need five things. Those things are beans, denim, water, feet, and time. Step 1: Beans. Get yourself five pounds of navy, black or (in a pinch) pinto beans and seven gallons of sewer water. Step 2: Denim. Pants are, of course, the preferred type of denim, but you can use a shirt or jacket if that's all you have lying around. Get two five gallon buckets. Split the water, beans and denim evenly between the two buckets. Then with one foot in each bucket proceed to mix everything together by stepping up and down. This process can take quite a while, so you may want to get a friend or two. The more people that have their feet in your jurned beans, the more depth there is to the flavor profile in the end. I suggest you play around with the cleanliness of yours and your friends' feet until you find out what you like. You have to jurn your beans for six hours. Any less and you're wasting your time because it won't have that authentic flavor. That's what makes this a family recipe. I've spent many memorable hours with my family, stomping buckets of beans and jeans. Those are some of my best childhood memories. Once you've properly jurned your beans, it's really just a matter of adding them to rice, whichever way you prefer to prepare that. I like to use the water from the jurning process to make the rice. Keeps all the flavors together. Once you have everything made you can serve it all on a platter made from any leftover denim you may have laying around. That's it! I'm glad to have the opportunity to share this entirely made up recipe with everybody. I'm tryping this on mobile, and I've had a few beers. So, please forgive any grammatical transgressions. Also, if you've read this far, thank you for indulging my silliness, I'm done now. Byeeeeee! Edit: my first platinum. Thank you! Grandma would be proud that her recipe has inspired such friendliness!

We boil all our denim

People jerk off in front of you in McDonald's? Talk about beating your meat.

Damn. I mean depending how quickly the promotion could become effective, you could still take it and leave as soon as you find something else. Might as well make more money while you're still there.

My dude, you're a hero. I love all of you, I bartend so I have a personal three am relationship with my homies at my mcdicks.

Nailed it completely. Portland’s become a shithole in the last 3 years. It was becoming a problem for a few years before that, then sped up to what it is now. No one running the city planned for the population to quadruple in the time that it did. And we already were a running joke for years with how poorly laid out our roads and infrastructure are. Now the city can’t keep up with the influx of people. Hell, I’m renting my first house out to some people 5-6 years younger than me for almost double what i charged when I first bought a place closer to my job. And I charge almost nothing compared to the average rent in that neighborhood. The cost of everything has gone up. It’s clear it’s bad and people are **still** moving here in waves. Like wtf? The ship sailed, pick a new fucking city to unintentionally destroy.

That is probably the difference between “taking care of the homeless” Giuliani style and actually taking care of the homeless.

Hello?

Exactly. My dad is better off in the UD considering the political climate of Laos and all that, but I can understand his nostalgia for the simpler days of Laos when he was a child.

My mom has to go to Mexico a couple times a year. Has a couple houses there, but sold the car she had and Ubers everywhere because motherfuckers will fuck with your car, hang around until you come back and can't start it, and then conveniently help you out by selling you the exact part you need. They're even nice enough to install it for you. The incident that drove her to ditch the Mexican car was in summer 2017

Haha I don't doubt he still has some PTSD from that interaction. He's risen up the ranks quite a bit now but all I remember is that his projects involved like NJ, Flushing, North Carolina, and they eventually expanded the office to include all of the Americas so he had a project in the Bahamas too (Bahamar Resort I think). I know for a fact since I was 10 to now late 20s, he has never taken another project in Harlem even after the stigma sort of died down. Only time I've seen him talk about Harlem for work was the office that Bill Clinton eventually got there since his company had a bid on the building but didn't get it.

I think it was more like "want to buy some tires? Because you better fucking pay or you aren't getting them back" was more the tone.

My mom grew up in the Bronx in the 60s and 70s. She refused to let a male student grope her. He found her after school, went to his truck, got a shotgun, and threatened to kill her.

Basically Escape from New York and The Warriors are considered semi optimistic futures for NYC. People showered, it was just that you’d wake up to your shower running and you’d find that somebody broke in to take a shower then stole all of your copper tubing.

Catskills Betsy, Catskills. The Catskill and Delaware Aqueducts are our two main sources of water. While I love Adirondack mountain spring water as much as the next hiker, that’s not what we use.

Yeah, it looks amazing and it's one of my favorite movies! I was just giving an example of a movie's aesthetic being totally affected by the real-life trashiness of 1970's NYC. I meant "looks like hell" in a good way

People who didn’t live through this should check out “The Duece” if you want to get a feel for the neighborhoods in the 70’s. I agree with you walking through midtown/TS/42 during that time didn’t phase you as a kid, it was just part of the landscape.

It can be pretty tough if you live in a Borough that isnt Manhattan. Often, the only line I can use to get in the city is running on limited service or not at all. Especially on weekends and late nights

Holy shit lol it's on fire at least a couple times a week.

Yeah hate to sound racist but Portland is the only city that somehow got worse when poor black people left