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I love it. Is that looking at Brooklyn or Staten Island? Is that bridge one level or double-decked, I've forgotten?

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Yeah, yeah, I know, that of a misogynist as you've previously said ... and that must mean something, right?.......sorry, but I like hanging on to my "valuables" and I've fielded such accusations before...

Eh...it looks like the marriage of the current Pontiac Grand Prix and the Nissan Altima. I'm not convinced. It appears to have the little fish-eye lamps up front again. The rear might be promising in terms of its proportions, but it would depend on how the taillamps are treated. Having just spent a week in an Allure up in Canada, I think that, with the new grille, I could very well own the current model. It made for a very relaxed week of motoring around Quebec.

Wow, were there any pretty and fairly slender Italian girls with brown hair/brown eyes who might actually finish their degrees and maybe even spoke the language? I guess I grew up on the wrong coast if there were?

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You are my effin' hero based on the incisiveness of the above post. I swear. Most of these generalizations have validity, that's why they career profile and use this stuff for career/personality fit tests. To me, ANY chick in an artsy and/or granolafied field of study is generally in the "stay away" category. They would have not liked someone like me, even in architecture, because I looked, acted and talked like a business major. They are out to "change things," make a useless statement, work at being different for the hell of it, or whatever. If they like you, I guess they might bed you, but to conservative me, a chick with piercings, tattoos, funky hair and the like would just seem...well...kind of dirty. Women in architecture - can be weird, reclusive, alternative, granola, and generally not personable. I enjoyed hanging with very few of them. They can be dour and combative. Oh, yes, the sorority and/or attractive chick who gets in there with the "Oooh, I think it would be neat to be an architect": give them, at the most, 2 years before they've moved over to a generic liberal arts curriculum. When I was in my grad program for unrelated bachelor's degrees, the only people I hung around with were: 1) those in the joint MArch/MBA program because they were normal, 2) those coming from other schools to do the +2 masters part because they were open to meeting new people as opposed to those coming straight through from the undergrad portion at U of I who kept to themselves, and 3) believe it or not, a few undergrads who actually sought out and wanted to hang with the grad students from other places because they found us intriguing or something. Women in engineering - about 80:20 between cold bitches:nice down to earth girls. I have worked in an A/E firm that wanted both disciplines so badly but the culture dictated that architects were not respected. The young female engineers weren't particularly friendly, except for one who liked my warped sense of humor and would send me racy and politically incorrect video attachments (but then, no surprise, she was doing at MBA at night at the same place I was). The rest of them there were rags. Women in business - in my mind, the best of the lot and I had no problem getting along with them...except for the obvious get-ahead-at-all-costs vibrator-kick-startin' dykey types. Most of the chicks in business were smart and practical though not stellar enough to be in the real rigorous fields. Most of them wanted to work in a company or at a firm and do some analytical or meaningful work. Most of them had no problems finding boyfriends and were easy to get along with, for the most part, minus the few sorority chicks who thought that their A-list status would carry them forever....always great to see grades passed back and the looks on their faces. Women in the health fields - eh, we disagree here, once on the bio-chem treadmill to med/dental school, you are on a different path. That becomes a fraternity in itself and once they get into upper division, it's really hard to cross paths with those people. They tend to hook up with each other as well as socialize. This extends into the work world. They operate in such a specific arena that they generally don't befriend people in other professions....plus, why would they want to hang around architects or bean counters who can't spend what they can at restaurants, while traveling and so forth. Women who become teachers - get along with them, but can also be kind of weird. I've found that hanging around 3rd graders all day long tends to stunt them chronologically. It's just not like talking to someone in your own age group any more. Case in point: Mary Kay Latourneau and her ugly mo-fo now husband --- what a train wreck that is! Ocnblu, babe, where are you? Revel in the stereotypes a bit, will you? :AH-HA_wink:

I couldn't stand most of them, but never let on...you know, preservation of the GPA. The other thing that always went through my head is what my friends in other departments would think if they sat in on one of our reviews/crits. So, my thinking went like this: black clothes, mock turtle necks, little round glasses, "gracefully" crossed legs and pissy highbrow language. Nah, won't be bringing my friends from other departments.

The ONLY time I wonder about this is if the car has been involved in an event that would cause it to go off the road...like down the side of an enbankment or wedged between trees in a forest...whatever...and the person had to get out of a mangled door when the door lock mechanism was in the locked position. Then, which design would make more sense?

highbrow sei un cornuto!!!

Thanks for your honesty as you are one of the more accomplished people here.Amen to the gray despair part. Then, please put Portland and Seattle on your "do not move to" list. The gray is starting to get to me and did a number on me when I lived here previously as well.

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Last week was my last goof-off trip of summer as I plan to move within the next month. Up in Canada, I had two rental cars...an Allure (LaCrosse) for a week followed by a Camry for a day. In the Allure and in all GM products, when the door locks are in the closed position, you cannot open the door from the inside. In the Camry (and I believe in Chrysler and Ford products), when the door locks are in the closed position, you still can open the door from the inside. Maybe I'm showing bias for GM (so what else is new), I think that the closed door lock should also mean one cannot open the door freely with the handle inside the car. I've never understood why Toyota and others would do this differently. Your preference and thoughts?

nudity hey, ocnblu, no more of the above, since summer is over

Don't know what to say. Growing up on the westside of LA, I had several Jewish friends. I think that they view the Holocaust as something they have gotten past and have overcome as a people. I have never spoken to anyone who showed anger, which surprises me. The weirdest thing was when I was in college and used to work part time in the accounting department of a hospital...I was speaking to this always-friendly elderly lady, Jewish and with some kind of Eastern European accent, and standing at her desk while she was seated. As she was moving her hands, I noticed what looked like serial numbers near her wrist. I think that the Nazi flag probably brings a chill of sorts but have never had that confirmed by the Jewish people I know. Also, I don't discuss that subject since we usually have other intellectual discourse (most of the Jewish people I knew tend to be intellectual). I don't know about the confederate flag. Why now is what I ask? It segregates an area of the country from "the whole." Maybe that's what I liked about Atlanta where this wasn't so prevalent and is now even less Southern as it has people from every damn corner of the globe. In fact, one of Atlanta's founding fathers encouraged integration of Northerners into the city after the war to help prop it up. Did you know it billed itself as "the city too busy to hate"? I thought that was cool. I know one thing -- the Southern people I knew when I lived there were certainly nice but tended to hang with other locals while, as a Westerner, all of my friends were transplanted Northeasterners and Floridians.

This time, for a change of pace, the expatriate was the culprit.

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Don't let that gate hit you on the ass on the way out, ok!

True...it's a place where profs can vaunt their points of view safely.FOG, I like the way your accounting teacher thinks...the most realistic of the bunch. Mustang, I'm glad your getting these perspectives and getting into debates, even though it's frustating. Too many architecture students seem to sleep in their other classes, partly because they're tired and partly because they're tunnel-visioned.

$h!, you're STILL here...I thought that you weren't going to post anymore now that you have this highbrow Swiss job.Heads of companies have gone to therapy for marital issues, substance abuse and the like. You ought to go to one to trim your inflated ego a bit.

The concept of a "model" per smallchevy is pretty good and pretty accurate, after all, they study patterns in their training and see patterns in practice. That's why, when you listen to a talk show, the invited psychologist or psychotherapists explains things in broader generalities based on what they have studied and encountered. Plus, you (the patient or client) is who needs to put things into practice.

Whoa, hold your horses, there.I found the opposite to be true. Sorority chicks tend to do fraternity guys, for the most part. Non-sorority chicks, but who are still attractive, appear to put out easier because they don't have a "collective" group of expectations to live up to. Plus, once they leave the college setting, sorority girls will always be sorority girls...for life. There I go again, stereotyping...

Thank you...and a much better post than the one immediately above it...sorry, Fly, like you're exempt and I only mean that "globally" since I don't know you?There is nothing to be ashamed about in seeking any kind of help for physical or psychological conditions. The important thing is that you get help from professionals who are good at what they do. I don't know how one would line up a good therapist, per se. It might be weird to get a referral from a friend but perhaps you can get a referral from a university's counseling department or a member of the clergy with whom you feel comfortable. And, yes, as stated above, the right credentials and amount of experience are important...and you will need a baseline for your area to gauge that from. (And don't listen to PCS, Germans are only good at engineering and other RIGID things, thus lacking completely in people skills. ) Good friends are super important. My friends are my therapists in a way and, God, am I ever their therapist. I say to myself: this is what I should have done so I could charge for it! The problem is that there are different gradations of friends and some are too superficial while others are deeper. And remember, there are also TERAPISTS, without an h, according to Dr. Ruth Westheimer. I love that lady!

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I am not convinced that being a law enforcement person is a true indicator of one's stability or good character.Some people I grew up with just fell into it because it seems like they couldn't do anything else. Two people I know who went into it from my high school years were "wusses" who are now "real men" because they have a badge. I only know one guy who was in fraud investigation for LAPD and who is married to a chick who grew up in my street and now lives up north near me who is nice. It's impossible to screen everybody. Think of all the almost pathological people you may have worked with or for...for those of us in the work force. That alone is a frightening thought.