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[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 142 points 8 months ago

Fun fact, the NYC metro moves more people daily than ALL flights in the entire continental US by a wide margin, I think it is close to twice the amount of people.

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago

That fact is mind blowing, but in no way is that fact fun. Hula hoops are fun.

[-] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The NYC Metro moves a number of hula hoops greater than 0 per year.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

There’s a better then 50% chance someone wants to fuck you in a half-full subway car.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

And a 100% chance if you're on the same half-full subway car as Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I recently got banned from a solar punk community for saying 'I used to date hippies, but vegan farts are terrible.'

I'd make an exception to that rule for you ;-)

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, vegans aren't known for their sense of humor and that goes double for the ones here on Lemmy lol.

I'll have you know, though, that while I'm a hippie in the "far left anti-authoritarian pacifist" way, I am not nor would I ever abstain from meat and cheese, so my farts remain glorious! 😁

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Well both the viking and hippie side of you would like my dreaded pubes.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

As in dreadlocks or have people bean known to feel dread towards your pubes?

I'm gonna guess "both" 🤷

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

One of my existingest qualities!

[-] uis@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

3.5M vs 7.54M in my shithole. My shithole is Moscow btw.

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

wow, didn't know that, I had no idea Moscow has such a big metro system that is a lotttt of people

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Does that include the people who don’t pay? Because that number might still be way bigger than it already is. A not insignificant amount of people jump the turnstile. Almost no one pays for the busses. The “emergency door” opens when someone walks out with shit in their hand? Probably ten people slip in lol

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gotta love that one of the most powerful cities on earth with empty luxury apartments rising into a speculative sky above homeless and the precariously homed (one rent raise away from eviction) is so full of rich miserly conservatives that the everybody has to pay to use one of the most efficient collective forms of transport on the planet. It is like charging people to use an escalator, but even dumber because making mass transit free supercharges commerce by putting a couple extra bucks in the pocket of everyone who uses it (to inevitably spend at the coffee shop, or grocery store, or restaurant… economy go brrrr).

Jump those turnstiles fam, the rich are stealing so much from you that you could jump turnstiles all day like an Olympic hurtle jumper and it wouldn’t even begin to settle the score, at this point no amount of money can.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Well, while I wholeheartedly agree with you, there are routinely like 2-6 cops hiding and waiting for someone to jump and not pay the $2.90.

https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent-150-million-to-catch-farebeaters-who-cost-the-mta-104000

I was just hearing from someone who saw 8 cops run after some kid who jumped the turnstile. All heil mayor Landleech and his blue overtime army.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 77 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Is this meme older than the modern Internet? The Anastasia movie that poster belongs to was released in 1997.

EDIT: Never mind, the dude in the vest is on a large Android phone and the poster says it's for a Broadway musical.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Actually if you enhance that poster is for the broadway run of the musical, making this probably 2017-2019

Edit: also before 2020, because i don't see a single mask

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago
[-] habahnow@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Not been to NY sfter COVID, but I'd a dample size of 4 people not wearing a mask that indicative? It feels like now, most people don't wear masks in public transit

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Did cameras from 1997 suddenly get better?

[-] Hootz@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

We've retcon the 90's everyone has smartphones, I choose to believe.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 60 points 8 months ago

I want to believe this story, but looks like they are just cheers-ing with their own smuggled booze. One has Hennessey and the other has champaign. Maybe on the train home on new years? Still pretty wholesome.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

The gentleman on the left has his own bottle, so I don't think two strangers just found wine and started sharing it.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Also looks more like a champagne bottle to me. (Which would also be easier to pop open without an opener than a wine bottle, I still remember trying to open a wine bottle with a stick)

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[-] corvi@lemm.ee 33 points 8 months ago

I want to know who had the corkscrew.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

I’d say - nobody!

One had liquor and the other popped champagne.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I know this will sound severely alcoholic but for years I carried around a corkscrew just in case. I was kind of traumatized by how I managed to buy a bottle of wine when I was 15 (in Germany wine is legal from age 16) but I had no opener so we tried for hours to push the cork inside with a stick and I did not want to repeat that. It worked but the cork broke and we had very crumbly wine. Don't recommend it.

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 13 points 8 months ago

Fabulous shoes

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

New Yrok City is a fuckin trip. Anyone who has a chance to visit definitely should it's one of a kind.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Absolutely.

New and old lessons I can share about NYC:

  1. This place has seen everything. Don't worry about it.
  2. Nobody cares about your clothes, mannerisms, or dining preferences.
  3. People here are not rude, just honestly indifferent. Nobody will feign interest to make you feel better.
  4. Don't know where you're going? Get out of the way, then look at your phone.
  5. Train platforms are smaller than the interior of the train you just left. KEEP MOVING.
  6. Do NOT cross against the light. Drivers in NYC will remind you that it's not your turn.
  7. Eats are available for every budget. You may not like your options, but you won't starve.
  8. Lodging costs are also on a big spectrum. But you must learn how to spot bedbugs.
  9. Do you like walking slow? Might want to "speedwalk" instead.
  10. In general, do NOT be in anyone else's way.
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Honestly aside from #6 and the bedbugs bit (pun intended), you're describing every city I've ever been to.

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Man's sitting like he's been castrated

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago

You're physically allowed to cross your legs, even as a guy. Your masculinity can't be emaciated by the way you sit.

[-] Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 8 months ago

Sitting cross legged is so comfortable and can convey so much emotions. I don't know why anyone would see it as feminine

[-] Iapar@feddit.de 17 points 8 months ago

Because it is comfortable and conveys emotions. If you are not uncomfortable and push those emotions down till you reach the point of critical hear failure, you are not acting masculine.

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[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

emaciated

I guess that's my word of the day.

Not sure why you brought up masculinity, though — I'd argue that getting your balls cut off doesn't make you any less of a man. It certainly does expand your repertoire of safe and comfortable seating positions, though.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 12 points 8 months ago

They meant emasculated, emaciated means dangerously low weight, typically as a result of starvation or illness.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

No, I meant crossing your legs won't thin your masculinity like I said. I brought masculinity into this because the person I responded to had already interjected it with the castration statement.

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I'm the person you responded to. I never brought up masculinity.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Saying someone has no balls is attacking their masculinity.

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Ive been sitting like that for years before coming out as a trans woman and I didnt even know it was feminine

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[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Mans sitting like he's comfortable

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Go fuck yourself

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