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Offline GScholz

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2016, 01:24:23 PM »
The population of Norway is about the same amount as San Francisco. Sounds like some of the regular weirdness that takes place out of the Castro district year round except in Norway it's probably just goofy, hetero and not pushing a "XXXX" label. The population of Norway is about 1.3% of the population of the USA. Can we discuss a 1:1 trade of populations?

Currently our libertarians and "republicans" are moving to the States and your liberal-socialists are moving here. If we can reverse that I'm all for a 1:1 trade of populations.
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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2016, 01:26:44 PM »
Tell me about it.  I used to live near the San Fernando valley.  (That's the ancestral home of valley girls.)  Nightclub bombings, beheadings, knifings, various assaults . . . They even massacred the local Charlie Hebdo office for having a magazine cover that said, "Oh my gosh!  Gag me with a spoon!" and ran down a bunch of people on Venice beach in a truck loaded with bikinis.  Now, I know that most valley girls are just fine, but those that aren't -- oh, my gosh!  I had to get out for my own personal safety to a place that wasn't trying its hardest to commit cultural suicide.  Back to my hometown of Detroit maybe.

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(I have to laugh... Otherwise I'll cry.)
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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2016, 01:36:38 PM »
Back to my hometown of Detroit maybe.

 Hey, Brooke just wait few years;

Detroit 2024 
https://twitter.com/always_trump/status/762862170673602560    the flying cars are missing , good luck with that .  :rofl

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2016, 02:23:44 PM »
thats funny ghi.  In reality, just outside downtown, other side if the highway, grass fields are dotted with houses, not a place for a stranger.
The picture trump paints is not far away, the grass is already there, just the darn people are in the way.  really poor people.  but there is a revival happening, millionaire Illich has teamed up with the tax payer to buy up property, tear down buildings, put up high rent business and apartments.  The midwest valley girls and their hip boyfriends are buying the lot, rent and property values are skyrocketing.  Oh yeah, had to get rid of the locals, check.  And around the corner, the fabled wayne state university, they too are buying , destroying and building the neighborhood, funded big time HOPE and CHANGE and a 8% graduation rate.  Go Detroit!  And remember, the rest of the state own half of it.

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2016, 02:37:24 PM »
Haven't I seen this movie? I think it had Peter Weller in it...
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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2016, 03:26:50 PM »
Haven't I seen this movie? I think it had Peter Weller in it...

Ah, Robocop -- such an awesome film, and quite realistic regarding Detroit except for very recent days (as NatCigg relates).

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2016, 03:32:27 PM »
Hey, Brooke just wait few years;

Detroit 2024 
https://twitter.com/always_trump/status/762862170673602560    the flying cars are missing , good luck with that .  :rofl

I am all for it.

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2016, 03:58:21 PM »
The midwest valley girls and their hip boyfriends are buying the lot, rent and property values are skyrocketing. 
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Yeah -- I was amazed by that.  I was born in the Detroit suburbs in the early '60's and moved away in the mid '80's.  During all that time and longer (as my parents and relatives lived there, and I'd visit from time to time), Detroit continued on its terrible slide into the abyss.  Then, the last time I was in Detroit about a year ago and after not having visited for a decade, I couldn't believe it.  People moving into Detroit and property prices increasing?  What the . . . ?  Have we seen the nadir of Detroit's misery after half a century of decline?

I used to discuss it with my pals at work.  "We should move the company to Detroit," I'd say.  "We could afford an entire sky scraper.  We'd just need to dedicate the first several floors to death traps and autonomous robots with gatling cannons.  For the price of your houses in the Seattle area, each of you could own a mansion -- you just need to operate like the Omega Man."

I even saw a story about what house $500,000 could buy in San Francisco.  This was several years ago when things were even less insane than today.  It was a tiny weather-beaten shanty on a weedy postage stamp of ground.  For $500,000 in Detroit, you got a mansion on its own leafy compound with wrought-iron gates.  For $250,000, you got a mansion that looked sort of like a castle on a normal plot of land.  I had to go down to $50,000 to find merely a beautiful Tudor-style house on an attractive plot.

I guess those days are gone.

By the way, for anyone interested in an awesome book about how to ruin a city, I recommend "Detroit:  An American Autopsy," by Charlies LeDuff.  Truly excellent writing.  I see that many American cities these days are working hard to follow the steps required.

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« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2016, 04:11:36 PM »
Røyksopp's "Senior" was filmed in Detroit. "We shot it in Detroit because it is exists as a contemporary dystopia."

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #24 on: August 30, 2016, 04:51:51 PM »
is that Norway's idea of a music video?  quite the journey.  :uhoh



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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #25 on: August 30, 2016, 06:02:32 PM »
No that's Røyksopp's idea of a music video. Their name means "puffball mushroom" so yeah, they're a little "out there". But they do make eargasmic music if you're into this genre...




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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #26 on: August 30, 2016, 06:07:49 PM »
Røyksopp's "Senior" was filmed in Detroit. "We shot it in Detroit because it is exists as a contemporary dystopia."


I like the music, and nicely shot.  A bit disturbing . . .

All of that wasteland, those locations are dotted around near the heart of the city, not on the outskirts.  Several of them are within 3-5 miles of city center and the depressingly named Renaissance Center.

Here's what some city blocks of housing look like in downtown Detroit these days.  This is 1.5 miles from the Renaissance Center:

https://goo.gl/maps/PYQSy3XDai52

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #27 on: August 30, 2016, 08:35:16 PM »
Doesn't look too bad, but I'd sure want my 2nd amendment rights intact if I were to move there...
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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #28 on: August 30, 2016, 08:40:41 PM »
We can't have a Royksopp thread without some flashlights and explosions.

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Re: People of Norway
« Reply #29 on: August 30, 2016, 08:55:10 PM »
This thread was supposed to be about giving thanks to Thor.
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