Is it Just Me?

Every time I hear Billy Idol's Mony Mony it reminds me of this commercial because I thought it was really inappropriate to have school girls singing "ride the pony" (21 sec). Assholes. I love Billy Idol.


Is it just me?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/13/a-landlord-obliterated-dozens-of-graffiti-murals-now-he-owes-the-artists-6-7-million/?utm_term=.7f963c8817eb

N.Y. landlord obliterated dozens of graffiti murals. Now he owes the artists $6.7 million.

Virtually overnight, nearly all of it was destroyed. Under the cloak of night in 2013, the building’s owners instructed a team to blanket the murals with white paint. The warehouses would be torn down a year later to make way for high-rise luxury residences.

Artist Akiko Miyakami said that when she saw her artwork mutilated under a layer of white paint, according to a court document, she felt as though she “was raped.”



She felt raped? WTF are we becoming as a country? It's paint on someone else's building. This is why trump is the president. People are sick and tired of the PC shit. There has to be a common sense party. No Trump, no lunatic pc left.

Is it just me?

People complain their neighborhoods are neglected, then when people make parts of it nice, they are accused of gentrifying.
Seems like an unwinnable contest to keep everyone happy.

It seems that the judge was pissed that the building owner took matters into his own hands over that eight day period when the court was supposed to make the decision. The Court HATES when one doesn't defer to their omnipotence, even when one owns the property in question. That's what this case was really about...

tyler.durden said:

It seems that the judge was pissed that the building owner took matters into his own hands over that eight day period when the court was supposed to make the decision. The Court HATES when one doesn't defer to their omnipotence, even when one owns the property in question. That's what this case was really about...

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God complex. He owns the bldg. Demolished it a year later, so it was going away anyway. Sad it even made it to the court system.

ClaytonBigsby said:

God complex. He owns the bldg. Demolished it a year later, so it was going away anyway. Sad it even made it to the court system.

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It goes to show that no one really ever owns anything in the true sense of the word. The State just allows you to purchase it and use it, unless and until THEY decide differently. Smh...

ClaytonBigsby said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/13/a-landlord-obliterated-dozens-of-graffiti-murals-now-he-owes-the-artists-6-7-million/?utm_term=.7f963c8817eb

N.Y. landlord obliterated dozens of graffiti murals. Now he owes the artists $6.7 million.

Virtually overnight, nearly all of it was destroyed. Under the cloak of night in 2013, the building’s owners instructed a team to blanket the murals with white paint. The warehouses would be torn down a year later to make way for high-rise luxury residences.

Artist Akiko Miyakami said that when she saw her artwork mutilated under a layer of white paint, according to a court document, she felt as though she “was raped.”



She felt raped? WTF are we becoming as a country? It's paint on someone else's building. This is why trump is the president. People are sick and tired of the PC shit. There has to be a common sense party. No Trump, no lunatic pc left.

Is it just me?

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This is my problem. You shouldn't deface others property. What does it matter if building is going down anyway? Then we clog up the courts about it?

I don't watch the news. I rarely read the news and I ignore politics in so far as I can.

tyler.durden said:

It goes to show that no one really ever owns anything in the true sense of the word. The State just allows you to purchase it and use it, unless and until THEY decide differently. Smh...

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That fallacy of ownership reminds me of something I read recently when looking into how the government monitors us. It said how we have never really had privacy in this country. At any time, any number of legal authorities could potentially search you or your belongings, through different legal means, or illegally sometimes. But we had anonymity, we could move about without being tracked and that's what we've lost. Freedom, huh?

curious2garden said:

This is my problem. You shouldn't deface others property. What does it matter if building is going down anyway? Then we clog up the courts about it?

I don't watch the news. I rarely read the news and I ignore politics in so far as I can.

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It wasn't defacing. There was an agreement between the artists and the owner. Another artist had stepped up to manage it.

Either way, owners building, no written contracts or agreements=Artists lose. The ruling is complete BS, even though it was a douche move on the owners part.

tyler.durden said:

It seems that the judge was pissed that the building owner took matters into his own hands over that eight day period when the court was supposed to make the decision. The Court HATES when one doesn't defer to their omnipotence, even when one owns the property in question. That's what this case was really about...

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Kinda seems like it. But once the prelim injunction was denied, the owner had every right to paint the exterior. It will be appealed.

If you want your art to be permanent, mobile, and worth something, put it on a GD canvas. So some guy spray paints a train car and now he gets to sue if BNSF paints over it? FFS

ANC said:

People complain their neighborhoods are neglected, then when people make parts of it nice, they are accused of gentrifying.
Seems like an unwinnable contest to keep everyone happy.

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Usual shit, ain't it, the local knucklescrapers decide to live like animals, then the snowflakes come along and tell them that someone else MUST give them "things" for nothing. The problem is that the snowflakes don't tell the knucklescrapers to stop behaving like vermin, so when the improvements come the locals realise how shit they truly are and start whining because the usual suspects on the so-called "liberal" left belt fed them a massive dose of "sense of entitlement" so they believe everyone else must change to suit them.

It's even worse in the UK, loads of handouts to a whiny minority whilst the honest hard working Joe gets shafted to pay for the parasites.

It's time they had a massive reality check, they have to have some ideals inserted into their heads, ideally with a cricket bat, ideals that make sure they realise that they don't get squat for nothing. And if that means they end up on the street because they think they somehow deserve to live their entire life bludging off the dole, so be it, things have to change and nothing will unless a very hard line is drawn and stuck to.

Hazydat620 said:

3 hours away, damn that would be fun to watch you rip apart the front end and then get you soo stoned you forget how to put it back together again,lol. Next time I'm in PDX I'm getting a hold of you we gonna blaze or hit up a titty bar.

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do both

Maybe do it in the bar, gives you something to do other than catch VD.