Their “needles” won’t penetrate the average human’s skin.
But do NOT, for the love of god, put your tongue in one.
Is that personal experience speaking? And if so, why would you put your tongue into the reach of an anemone?
We are not fat.
Speak for yourself.
How do you know this?
Some marine biology student tried it, back in the '70s. Had to go to the hospital. Wasn’t me.
You are…zaftig.
In a most delicious way.
At this point I’ll just stick my head over the parapet and say,
New York sounds like an interesting scene.
Other than that I got nothing…I’m just absorbing all the information offered, like a little non-New-Yorker sponge…
The only first-hand observation I can make is that all the most interesting (American) cultural phenomena seem to emanate from New York City.
Hardly.
Here in the Chicago area 1 to 1-1/2 hour commutes are routine for Loop workers. I imagine NYC has two hour commuters.
Commuting into Manhattan does not take two hours unless you are in one of those 3 fare zones at the edges of the borough. I have a 2 hour one-way commute and it is extreme. Most people look at me in horror when I tell them this. However, I live in Brooklyn and work on Long Island.
That reminds me. . . I’d like to give a shout-out to the Long Island Railroad-- the worst commuter train system not running on coal to date.
The Chicago commuters are driving in from the 'burbs, right?
Most NYCers take public transit. Only the bat-shit insane (a fairly sizeable minority here, incidentally) try to drive cars around the city.
Park Slope, Brooklyn, to midtown Manhattan should take a half-hour or less, as long as the IRT is running properly. Plus the time it takes to walk to and from the stations – picking up your daily newspapers, coffee regular no sugar, bagel with a schmear, etc. – in a civilized fashion.
One might even say, European fashion.
A 2-hour one-way commute within the bounds of NYC is a stretch, but there are people whose commute from the outer burbs runs that long. Just for grins I just checked the Metro-North schedule… the trip in to Grand Central from Dover Plains is 119 minutes, and from New Haven, 105 minutes. Getting in from Port Jervis to Penn Station via NJ Transit takes 137 minutes. And those travel times don’t take into account extra subway time if you need to go any distance from the train stations. So while there is no way I would ever want to do that myself, there are lunati- people who do it. 
Life does go at a faster pace here, and New Yorkers have adapted to it by learning to make quick decisions - for everything. I am a pretty patient person myself, and have no trouble waiting calmly when circumstances are beyond my control (e.g., waiting on line at the DMV). But honestly, any discussion lasting more than a few minutes about something like where to go first in a museum (not exactly a decision of earth-shattering importance requiring extended negotiations, IMHO) would have me a little itchy too. Let’s just GO already!
Just pointing out that London accounts for almost a third of daily trading in the foreign-exchange market, the world’s biggest, compared to about a fifth for the U.S. London also has a market for over-the-counter derivatives that’s about twice as big.
Cite, pages 2 and 19.
One of the classic urban legends this place has addressed. I don’t have the modem speed to do the requisite search, but people have cited the post-Civil War Supreme Court case, based on a Texas incident, that defines that no state, including Texas, has the right to secede. (Whether Congress could consent to, e.g., Hawaii declaring independence is debatable. Based on the Philippines Independence Act, I suspect it would be quite constitutional for a state to declare independence with the consent of the Federal government.)
I believe that the previous thread addressing this debunked the idea that the Texas admissions act granted them that right.
For people like yourself who have long train commutes, is it anywhere near as bad as having to drive for a comparable period of time? At least on the train you can read or sleep, whereas in the car you are like a slave to the wheel. Or is being on the train not as relaxing as it seems?
I can’t speak for Biggirl, but I had a forty minute train commute to NYC last summer, and it wasn’t too bad. Some days I’d read, or listen to music; sometimes I’d just watch out the window. It’s worse if you have to switch trains–you certainly can’t fall asleep or concentrate on anything too too long, for fear of missing the switch.
I have to take the subway or bus to the Long Island Railroad, then switch trains in Jamaica (the station, not the island), then take another bus for about 3 miles AND THEN I have a 10 minute walk. Not pleasant at all.
However, on the Long Island Rail Road we have a posse. After 3 years you get to see the same people every day. There are about 7 of us who ride in from Brooklyn and switch trains at Jamaica too. On the Ronkonkoma train there are several more regulars. It gets to be quite social. I’ve made good friends on the train. I’ve also had lots of fights on the train too-- so there you go.
Yes and no - some drive in, but most people who work in the Loop take mass transit. Those commute times I quoted are on commuter trains.
Mine is about an hour and fifteen minutes - but then, I’m coming about 45 miles out. There are co-workers who have even longer daily commutes.
Ditto for downtown Chicago.
Last statistics I heard, 400,000 people a day go to the Loop to work, but there are only about 60,000 parking spaces. You do the math.
Back when I lived within the city limits my commute was still about an hour on mass transit - though admittedly I lived on the very edge of the city.