Cosmogrl Member Username: Cosmogrl
Post Number: 21 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:05 pm: | |
It's a burned out shell for the most part. I love those cool signs on that other post. I like that Detroit is unique in that it is a total wasteland in most areas. |
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289
Post Number: 1080 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.61.183.223
| Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:10 pm: | |
<----- *quickly and quietly shuffles Cosmogrl out of the room* |
Cosmogrl Member Username: Cosmogrl
Post Number: 23 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:13 pm: | |
Hey, I was complimenting the city's uniqueness!!! LOL |
Boo Member Username: Boo
Post Number: 117 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 68.72.244.70
| Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:14 pm: | |
and *burnt out wastelands* are cool because? |
Machoken Member Username: Machoken
Post Number: 1162 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.85.155.145
| Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:19 pm: | |
Cosmogrl, don't you just love the taste of toejam in the afternoon? |
Bussey Member Username: Bussey
Post Number: 150 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.212.215.86
| Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:27 pm: | |
i love the badlands of South Dakota.... |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 2106 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.100.44
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 2:03 am: | |
This is almost like a left handed compliment about Detroit. It's akin to saying "I think your sister is really cute despite being 450 lbs., having bad breath and the warts on her forehead." Unique yes, but complimentary?? |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 2992 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.68.120
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 8:30 am: | |
Hey, I had a blind date with her once.....I was told she had a nice personality. |
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313
Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 72.229.136.103
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 4:38 pm: | |
SMOGBOY is right. "DETROIT is soooo cool because of it's trash, and oh don't you just love the beautiful rotting buildings"!! Hey jackass (cosmogrl)say nice things about DETROIT, wasteland is not one of them.313 |
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 558 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 69.246.0.197
| Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 11:54 pm: | |
A legitimate cool thing about the D is the street grid. After going to some of the east coast cities and driving in loops that don't seem to connect to anything, I'm always so glad to get back home. |
Leoqueen
Member Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1195 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 207.74.195.249
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 11:08 am: | |
If you cant say something constructive, dont say anything at all, cosmogrl. why bother to start this thread? what is your agenda? |
Cosmogrl Member Username: Cosmogrl
Post Number: 26 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 70.233.2.16
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 11:41 am: | |
OMG!! Please, it was a joke. Obviously it was not taken as such. I do love Detroit. And I think it has a lot to offer. I'm glad it's coming back (although somewhat slowly, Rome was not built overnight.) So please refrain from calling me a jackass. Thank you. |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 7075 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.20
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 11:45 am: | |
Jackass. Just kidding. |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 2121 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.100.44
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 12:08 pm: | |
Cosmogrl, you of all people should realize the power of words. Like I said earlier, this was taken by many as a left handed compliment at our proud city. If it was a joke it was a horribly written and badly delivered. You completely missed your target and the humor was sorely lacking. Consider the people that are on this thread. It's about Detroit so obviously the people who post here care about Detroit in their own unique way. It's not that we can't make fun of our own quirks & stumbles (Lord knows we all do!) but we at least try to frame it in such a way where we can laugh at it together. |
Leoqueen
Member Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1197 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 207.74.195.249
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 12:26 pm: | |
Read this thread... What's the WEIRDEST thing you have ever seen in Detroit? It was truly funny, and allowed us to laugh at ourselves |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 9967 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 12:44 pm: | |
Cosmogirl is a jackass. The fact that she is a jackass and most likely stays far away from Detroit is one of the many cool things I like about Detroit. The day she begins to think Detroit is cool is the day my little piece of utopia crash and burns. |
Itsjeff
Member Username: Itsjeff
Post Number: 5703 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125
| Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 12:49 pm: | |
Actually, I like Cosmogirl. She's pure trailor trash. That's what so cool about her. |
Mpow Member Username: Mpow
Post Number: 181 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 200.65.7.62
| Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:56 pm: | |
I think it is a great post, I like detroit for its emptiness and abandonment too..remember we are posting on the "ruins of detroit" not some pta board. Detroit is free and full of imagination. Cheers. |
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2
Post Number: 21 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177
| Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 9:23 pm: | |
What did you expect, Cosmogirl? Hey Cosmogirl, did you get your payoff! Love me, hate me but don't not pay attention to me!! On to the next thing!!! |
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 1331 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 141.213.173.94
| Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:00 pm: | |
The emptiness is okay only in the sense that it represents a clean slate with so much future potential. Other than that, the extreme emptiness of some areas takes away our urban character. It is not good that in many neighborhoods we cannot enjoy traditional urban living in dense, side by side, beautiful 2 story brick houses the way one could 50-100 years ago, but half of them aren't there anymore. Thus the neighborhood has been scarred. Other areas are so empty they don't feel like a city anymore. When I was in Brightmoor yesterday, which I desribed in my Detroit Project Day thread, it hardly felt like an inner city neighborhood. |
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313
Post Number: 22 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 12.45.2.184
| Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:48 pm: | |
I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings when I called you jackass, but you hurt mine when you dogged my city out. This may be a ruins website about DETROIT, but this is a DETROITYES!!!! forum. So say nice this about DETROIT. Or start a DETROITNO!!!! forum. 313 |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 996 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.2.148.51
| Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:57 pm: | |
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Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313
Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 12.45.2.184
| Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 11:31 pm: | |
I love it! DETROIT has character! Besides being V-iolent. But what city can say that it has rode the waves with the big boys, fallen to bottom of the barrell and come back again. DETROIT is still a grand ol city. Say what you want about the D' but don't jock it when it returns.313 |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 59 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 1:30 am: | |
How are we supposed to say nice things about DETROIT when our corrupt city govt can't run the damn city!I'm sick of the propoganda put out by the inept city gov, telling us to say nice things to outsiders while the defacate all over the legacy of the city I love. I have put so much faith into this city over the years and constantly watch it let me down.And then were stuck with that halfass ignorant corporation General Motors as our biggest economic reliance. If anything we citizens deserve some kind of reward for putting up witht this horsesh#t. Sorry to vent to ya'l,l today I was reading an article about the once grand Belle Isle Aquarium, it just really pissed me off. I don't see myself leaving the city anytime soon, but for godsakes enough is enough! PS thank god for the Pistons. They make me proud |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 2197 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.100.44
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 2:15 am: | |
okay okay... we get it already Chitaku! I think a lot of us feel the same way with the frustration about the local government, BUT there's obviously something here that keeps us lingering around. If it's for you the Pistons, then so be it. But obviously there has to be something appealing here for us to stay- if not, what does it say about us? Detroit's got many things wrong with it but it's also got some of the kindest people, phenomenal food, great architectural gems, cultural institutions, loyal fans to some pretty decent sports teams and many other things that make this area a great place to live. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 62 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 2:17 am: | |
I hear ya Smogboy, just a little frustrated. |