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Here where I live, in New York City, (Brooklyn), you can’t really go anywhere without seeing people letting their emotions out in ways that can both make you uncomfortable and make you feel better for when you have to let your own emotions out but are in public. As we speak, there is a person screaming outside my window. Often when you take the train, there will be a person crying on the train, or there will be a couple fighting on the train, or there will be a crazy person on the train who is shouting at no one in particular. People scream at their cell phones while walking, constantly. People laugh at podcasts they’re listening to while they sit on a park bench by themselves. People invite the person they’re having brunch with to be their sex partner and then explicitly list what that will entail while they are AT BRUNCH and THE ONLY OTHER TWO PEOPLE in the backyard area of the brunch restaurant last weekend. It’s as if everyone is under the impression that they are in a soundproof room far away from anyone else when, in reality, they are standing right next to you in open-air. And that is why New York City is home to all of the most mentally stable people in the entire world. LET THOSE EMOTIONS OUT, EVERYBODY! What are you waiting for?! To NOT be on TV doing your news anchor job, while you for some reason watch a viral #FAIL video of a woman trying to go up an escalator in a wheelchair, before you begin laughing at the woman in the video to the point of not being able to speak? Don’t wait for that! Let it out! Laugh it out, lady!
There we go. (Via GotchaMedia)
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Fox News Anchors openly having callous disregard for someone less fortunate than themselves? I hope it doesn’t give them a reputation…
Is she less fortunate? She seems to be able to walk fine AND she has a sweet powered wheelchair. Seems to me she might be more fortunate than most of us.
Jeez. I get the hint, Kelly. I’ll keep it down at brunch next time.
And, for the record, a “reverse cargo shorts” is perfectly legal for two consenting adults.
Why would you reverse cargo shorts when you can pretty much skinny cut chinos in what is essentially the same position????
You’re thinking of an inverse cargo shorts. The reverse requires a wizard hat.
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you blookhead.
They showed this clip on our local news last night. At the end of it our anchor said, “Fortunately, she okay and was able to walk away on her own after the incident.”
Thanks for clarifying that Brooklyn is part of New York City Kelly!
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Which part of New York are you in though Kelly?!!
The part where you pay higher taxes!
Is it okay to laugh or not?
If you believe in “god” then no.
If you believe in “good,” then no.
i hope this was a clip for next week on the newsroom
More on this story as it escalates.
Sounds like all of you New Yorkers need a Screambody!
Speaking of talking about private things out in the open air, did we all see this comedienne live tweeting a public breakup? It’s pretty great.
thank you for sharing that!!! That is so good!
I bookmarked this so I can read it again.
I fuckin’ YELLED at a vending machine today. Right here at work, surrounded by total strangers who had no way of knowing that I woke up late and didn’t have time for breakfast, have class right after work which means no time for dinner, was denied two different promotions I applied for for two consecutive days now, and that this was the 2nd vending machine I had tried, because the first one stole my money and I didn’t want to walk across the building and down two floors to get my money back, so I went to a different break room and tried another one, and this one just straight wouldn’t take my money, not even coins, and this was pretty much just the last straw for me today. But as far as those strangers knew, I’m just some lunatic yelling at a machine.
What I’m trying to say is, FUCK some vending machines.
This vending machine is way better:
Unless the power goes out, or something you buy gets caught and won’t get out. Then it is infinitely worse.
I know her boyfriend.
I have emotions and I want to let them out! This morning I was at the doctor’s office and they had FOX NEWS on the tv in the waiting room and it made me SO ANGRY! So angry, you guys. I guess since because I never watch it I don’t realize how obviously Republican it is. I don’t hate most Republicans, you can believe whatever you want to believe in politics, but the fact that these people CLAIM to be A NEWS ORGANIZATION and they’re derisively scoffing at the president and some stuff he said and the fact that the “anchor” directly called Obama a socialist in a context that …ugh…I can’t even type about it anymore.
It helps if you try to think of it as a comedy show.
Watching couples fight and/or break up in public is basically the greatest thing in the world. It may be the only thing left about New York that I miss.
Yes! The couple of times I’ve been somewhere and I realize I’ve eavesdropping on a breakup or fight…instant stopped conversation to listen to everything. Greatest thing ever!
I was in a restaurant in L.A. one time and witnessed a really bad couple fight. (Il Capriccio on Vermont, sort of long communal table, so this was right next to us.) It was the woman’s birthday, and they came in on good enough terms that they told the waitress. While they ate, they got into this raging argument and were so pissed by the end that they weren’t speaking. The poor waitress did not pick up on this and insisted that they get dessert (which I’m assuming was on the house?) for her birthday. They refused politely, but the waitress was all, “Come on, it’s your bur-ur-ur-urthday!” They got a creme brulee, no candles, but they did get the waitress and another waiter coming in with a very theatrical happy birthday song. (Since this was Los Feliz, and they were good-looking, they were likely actors.) The couple sat through the song in this terrible silence, and the girl left crying.
I love that restaurant! Their gnocchi is AMAZING and they’ll add spinach if you ask nicely.
Much better story: I went for a drink with a friend in a tiny bar in the Village years ago and it was just him, me, the bartender and a couple that proceeded to break up for two whole hours. It was amazing. I think we skipped the movie we intended to see because their breakup was so so *so* much more entertaining. Ultimatums were thrown down. Tears were shed. Hands were held. Faces were slapped. I really thought a drink was going to be tossed in someone’s face but, alas, no.
I mentioned it because I thought it was possible you knew the place. I had an impression based on past comments that you lived near me when you were in L.A. Too bad you moved. My dog is very friendly.
Oh I know it well!! My old neighbors / friends are waiters and waitresses there. It was my standard decent meal place when I had visitors in town, besides Alcove and The Vermont (pending on expense accounts and timing). We took my family there once and also sat next to a birthday… but I think it was Gwen Stefani or someone from No Doubt because they all sang and were on key. My aunt was *incredibly* impressed that this was just my go-to Italian spot. Because hahaha, yeah, I dine with Gwen all the time. The funniest thing about that night was that no one really noticed famous people were in the restaurant (except my aunt) until the Birthday Song was sung and everyone was actually on-key.
I once watched a woman end her engagement after finding her (ex)-fiance cheating on her at Applebee’s. Threw the ring down dramatically at the table in front of the other chick and everything. This was the only place to escape Southern MD with drinks at the time. Her friends caught the guy with the other woman and called the fiance there to see. It was hilariously sad.:’-( Sucked for her but it was like a real life Real Housewives episode for me.
For shame, Fox News. Where’s the Benny Hill music?
As a Midwestern Lutheran, discussing the existence of emotions is making me extremely uncomfortable. Can’t we just talk about the weather?
i have been the guy crying on the train, and at my desk, and pretty much everywhere this week. had to put my dog down yesterday. it’s been so hard that even videogum hasn’t been able to cheer me up…but i keep coming back because i know it will soon enough. keep up the good work, everyone.
very sorry to hear that
thanks.
I am so so sorry.
I’m sorry explainer guy. Cry wherever you want to.
I am so sorry. That is one of the worst things in the world to have to go through.
That sucks so much. I know from experience what a terrible thing that is, so I’m going to offer you a gif in the hopes of a momentary distraction.
nicely done….you are all the best.