I have over twenty female friends who are NYC residents and 95% of them (19) have a brooklyn rooftop profile pic. Most are current, some aren't current but have been used recently. Every other profile pic is nyc-centric.
I love NYC and have lived there for a portion of my life, but if there's one thing regarding the area that drives me wild is things like this.
pics?
Well I'm not gonna post my friend's photos, but essentially variations of this guy:
http://www.catster.com/files/styles/424_200sc/public/fields/JiJiHero.jpg
Who cares? Jesus Christ, what a stupid thing to worry about. I can't believe it bothered you enough to make a thread here.
Never been to NYC, but my childhood friend owns and operates a recording studio up there...near Prospect Park I believe. Yeah, he often rails on this kind of thing too. In fact his latest complaint is that they opened an "artisanal" mayonnaise shop across from him. You can go in there and buy a $100 jar of mayo...seriously.
Big John wrote:
Never been to NYC, but my childhood friend owns and operates a recording studio up there...near Prospect Park I believe. Yeah, he often rails on this kind of thing too. In fact his latest complaint is that they opened an "artisanal" mayonnaise shop across from him. You can go in there and buy a $100 jar of mayo...seriously.
Wow, "this kind of thing" is so closely related to taking a photo on one's rooftop.
NYC is so overrated it's not even funny.
I'd rather be in almost any West Coast city (not Frenso or Bakersfield) over NYC. NYC is an old dingy shi*thole.
Ex-nyc wrote:
I have over twenty female friends who are NYC residents and 95% of them (19) have a brooklyn rooftop profile pic.
19 isn't 95% of any number greater than 20.
might be wejo wrote:
Ex-nyc wrote:I have over twenty female friends who are NYC residents and 95% of them (19) have a brooklyn rooftop profile pic.
19 isn't 95% of any number greater than 20.
its not 95% of any number lesser than 20 either
The OP probably has some amputee friends.
Sounds like you couldn't hack living in da big apple.
math man wrote:
might be wejo wrote:19 isn't 95% of any number greater than 20.
its not 95% of any number lesser than 20 either
It's also not its not, it's it's not.
What would you prefer, then? Something more true-to-life, like these women slumped in front of their laptops with bedhead and a frowny face? Or maybe something kind of avant-garde, like them yarn-bombing an abandoned factory in Detroit?
In all seriousness, the profile pic as a genre involves people trying to make themselves look attractive, often while doing "cool" things. Yes, the result is often corny and hackneyed, but does that really matter? Even profile pics that are just landscapes could be construed as a humble-brag: look how unconventional and non-egotistical I am! I'm sure people could find something to criticize if they're looking for it.
For the sake of comparison, I'd be interested to hear how many of your runner friends have profile pictures of them doing something running-related: racing, posing with teammates, wearing a singlet, etc. I can guarantee you that there are those in the non-running population who find those at least as annoying as you do the NYC pictures.
NYC is for finance douches, poor people and hipsters (the bad kind)
is there a good kind of hipster?
Brooklyn rooftops are so boring. Manhattan 20-30, sometimes older, women like to go topless or totally nude on rooftops.
Oh, look, someone is proud to have passed 7th grade math. Congrats, bro.
might be wejo wrote:
Ex-nyc wrote:I have over twenty female friends who are NYC residents and 95% of them (19) have a brooklyn rooftop profile pic.
19 isn't 95% of any number greater than 20.
True NYer wrote:
Brooklyn rooftops are so boring. Manhattan 20-30, sometimes older, women like to go topless or totally nude on rooftops.
Pics?
If you spend an evening in the bar of the Dream Hotel you'll see plenty of nudity in the apartment building across the street. The waitress said she could more or less give you a schedule of which apartment and when.
Which Dream Hotel location is this?
Randy Oldman wrote:
True NYer wrote:Brooklyn rooftops are so boring. Manhattan 20-30, sometimes older, women like to go topless or totally nude on rooftops.
Pics?
If you spend an evening in the bar of the Dream Hotel you'll see plenty of nudity in the apartment building across the street. The waitress said she could more or less give you a schedule of which apartment and when.
left coast best coast all day wrote:
NYC is so overrated it's not even funny.
I'd rather be in almost any West Coast city (not Frenso or Bakersfield) over NYC. NYC is an old dingy shi*thole.
I don't like the West coast, but I have to agree with this description of NYC. I live only 2 hours from the dump but I never understood the fascination. With the exception of some great jazz clubs, the rest of the Apple is urine-stenched dump.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
