... Every weekend of this summer I went down to the Briton Beach area (next to Coney Island in NYC) which has a big Caspian-Russian/Ukrainian populace. Me and my friend try to arrive early in the morning in order to take full advantage of our day, because by lunchtime is when all the non-locals from other parts of the city start pouring in.

The beach is noticeably cleaner and quieter in the morning even when there are several people running about, generally getting a tan or going in for a quick swim. And as soon as 10:30am hits, locals start folding their beach towels and walk off, and you begin to see the non-locals and tourists moving in. You start to hear loud music, you hear vendors selling water and beer, cellphones and loud laughter.

Over the past few months I've noticed a major difference between beach habits of locals and non-locals, which is that non-locals usually brought big coolers filled with food and drinks, while as the locals didn't. Those who were hungry usually had some fruits or a piece of pastry in plastic bags, and left no crumbs on the sand. Meanwhile the non-locals were having a feast, opening bags of chips, fried chicken and what have you, and the seagulls start showing up.

When we arrive at the beach in the morning there were maybe 1 to 0 seagulls to be seen. In the afternoon, packs of seagulls with about 4 or 5 seagulls per pack were roaming around on different areas of the beach. Then you start hearing such complaints from these people as "Omaigawd this beach is so dirty" or "F*cking seagulls, they're everywhere!" This goes to tell you that it isn't just the seagulls that are annoying, it's the people who lack proper beach etiquette that ruin it for the rest of us. Tourists are bad, but it's mostly the non-locals coming in from other parts of the city that are the worst, because they 'think' they know the city. They mouth off the tourists coming outside of NYC, and yet to the locals of Brighton Beach, the non-local New Yorkers are the most annoying rats of all.

Anyways, don't bring food into the sand people. Goto a deli and eat it at the boardwalk or something.

>> ^rottenseed:

I wasn't trying to argue about the existence of a god, I was expressing my anger that she is a shitty parent that thinks a higher being is going to do her parenting for her. Essentially we're on the same page if for different reasons...>> ^thumpa28:
Yeah, the theological angle is the one to concentrate on, how fucking predictably boring. Back on topic, the mother needs a slap.



I'm curious: did you read the links I posted? Did you research this story at all? Because it sounds like you're judging this woman based on one quote you cherry-picked from a YouTube description which was itself cherry-picked by a reporter covering the story. It doesn't bother you at all that your rant at this woman is completely based on your imaginary conjecture of who she is or what actually happened?

EDIT:

This news story seems to confirm your assumptions that this woman is not a great parent, though how religion fits into all of that is still unclear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/mother-coney-island-plunge-girl-kayla-mccree-thanks-savior-steven-st-bernard-article-1.1116593

That wasn't much consolation to Topsy, who was dead, nor to Luna Park, which was eventually destroyed in a horrible fire. Today, nothing remains of either except for Edison's film. If you ask the folks at the Coney Island Museum, they'll show it to you.

I bet that would gather quite the strange looks from someone.

Either way Edison was still a bit of a dick. He was really pissed off after the World's Columbian Exhibition and tried everything he could to discredit the use of AC, including this. There was alot invested into DC power distribution so there was alot to lose.

now.. to be SLIGHTLY fair to Edison:

"On one of the more notable occasions, in 1903, Edison's workers electrocuted Topsy the elephant at Luna Park, near Coney Island, after she had killed several men and her owners wanted her put to death"

so, at the very least he didn't walk into a circus and think "Alright, what can I zap today?"

I'm a New York City native living in Taipei for a bit and I heard that Coney Island is getting totally shut down, everything except two or three landmark rides. Is this what getting old feels like?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'coney, vintage, relgion, what if' to 'coney island, vintage, religion, what if' - edited by calvados

random fact, the poster for the warriors movie, where the gang is standing infront of their tag on the wall, they actually painted over another gang tag and to appease that gang they gave them a role in the movie. The movie also had alot of equipment damaged and various threats from the actual gang that was in Coney Island.

I went to their show at Coney Island. INCREDIBLE. I can now die happy.

Later I read a "behind-the-scenes" article about what the inside of the pyramind actually looks like. There looks to be a lot of live mixing going on, though there's still no guarantee that it's actually them. Could easily have been some hired DJs.

Here's a copy: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/44892-daft-punks-magical-pyramidspaceship-infiltrated

And it's true what they say -- only Daft Punk can mix Daft Punk.

My unforgettable smile. For some reason I'm not able to get this Weegee photo out of my mind: http://www.ubugallery.com/phpwcms/phpwcms_tmp/thumb_preview/1_1242_2lcFmufgAt.jpg

The girl was a model Weegee had hired and they happened upon the scene while walking down the beach at Coney Island.

Aww. I wanted to see Coney Island of "the 1903 and 1904" but this is *dead.

"Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco. Mermaid Avenue is the street in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on which Guthrie lived after being discharged from the Army."

from wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Avenue

Turner Classics just showed this last weekend. Great movie...We accept you, one of us! Gabba Gabba! Oops,no, that was the Ramones not Browning. There's a wonderful promo film on Coney Island from the 1940's that has the pinhead women Zip and Pip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqiPjM_mNE