Brooklynites shouldn't throw stones

modsquad wrote: Oh now I see he thinks Park Slope has a high crime rate and is a slum. I suppose it's relative. Do not you think?

Actually, I _do_ think. Sometimes two, even three times a day. I like to take a thought and turn it over and over in my mind, examining it from all sides. Thoughts arise, thoughts fall. In time, things can begin to look different. Motivations, aspirations, connotations. Ya know, the usual.

About relatives, yes I _did_ have some in Florida. They are all dead now, thank you very much for bringing up such a painful subject.

"JESUS HAROLD CHRIST ON A FUCKING RUBBER CRUTCH, IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?"

I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. Pensacola Beach. What a place. A paradise (ha!) most of the year, a scary Hurricane ravaged wasteland for several months. I was once stung so badly by jellyfish there that I was laid up for a week! Highest continuous fever I believe that I have ever had. Meat tenderizer all over my body. Mmmm.

Maybe I'm thinking of a different time.

Anyway, picture it. Basically a long island, with a single main road. Houses on either side, with the ocean in their backyards. ON BOTH SIDES. There are places like that around here, I suppose. But they have big ole hurricanes down there. Scary underwater fun. At home.

In any case, on the off chance that you were speaking as the relativity as opposed to my relatives, although I find that highly unlikely after the "Do not you think" crack, I'll go there as well.

It was titled "Brooklynites shouldn't throw stones," yet look at all the stones cast at Brooklyn. I think that it is great that someone making $18-35k/yr can own a home in whatever part of Florida they are in. Fabulous. Live the American dream. _Be_ the American dream. Why the need to disparage Brooklyn though? A "slum area?" NYC has the LOWEST crime rate of any large city in the US. Fact. Florida is great, however, let us see that $18-35k/yr income buying a home in Park Slope. Ha! Ha ha!

Yup, that is right, TWO (count 'em, TWO!) ha's.

In fact, let us see that $18-35k/yr buy a home in _Crown Heights_, a "slum area." The claim is that the crime rate where they are in Florida "is like a ripple in the water." I have no idea if that is true or not, because the covers like four counties and umpteen "cities" and I'm not sure what to look up. Are they near those folks that couldn't figure out how to vote? I _do_ know that FL has a _WAY_ higher crime rate than NY. FWIW.

Fucking glass houses.

I _THINK_!

modsquad wrote: Do you feel better now?

*pokes self*

Hmm.

Still a little flabby around the middle, I fear.

Very punny!

People who live in glass houses should throw these stones.