I wonder if OP is curious by nature or collecting information for some nefarious purpose
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I wonder if OP is curious by nature or collecting information for some nefarious purpose
Old enough, yes. Living there, no. I was no older than 5.
However, there was a proposal roughly 5 months ago to rename San Francisco International Airport after both Milk and Moscone. Some idiots complained saying that it will change the entire makeup of the airport, because they weren't named after national figures, and that the IATA airport code could end up changing to something like MLK..
.. which is totally untrue, because for example, BOS isn't Boston airport, but General Edward C. Logan Int'l Airport; OMA isn't the Omaha Airport, but Eppley Airfield (named after a hotel magnate in the 1940s), and MSY isn't New Orleans Int'l Airport, but Louis Armstrong Airport.
Renaming it to the Milk/Moscone International Airport would have been apropos, will SFO remaining as the airport code.
BL.
I know of that proposal, and I'm glad they didn't do it. I was against it too, and the airport didn't want it.
I wonder if OP is curious by nature or collecting information for some nefarious purpose
I don't know.
Moreover, I'll be honest when I say that I hadn't spotted this tendency of the OP until it was pointed out by another poster.
However, now that it has been drawn to my attention, I'll readily admit that I find the idea of someone starting (and manifestly not returning to) a number of threads which ask questions of a curiously personal or private nature somewhat unsettling. The is particularly noteworthy when you realise that the OP has not started any threads on less peculiar - or more mundane - topics.
Now, it could be that the OP is one of those youngsters who has yet to understand that there are boundaries to what ought to be asked (especially when one is a newbie and the community have yet to get to know you better), especially if these are the only things that the OP asks; or, it could be that the OP is into marketing and is merely trying to collect and harvest information; or, the OP could be simply one of those insanely nosey individuals for whom the crumbs and details of the lives of others are a subject matter of endless fascination.
I wonder if OP is curious by nature or collecting information for some nefarious purpose
If the OP is just trying to get past the 100-post mark so as to be able to post in PRSI, at least it's a novel way of approaching that task, more so than posting a hundred variants of "Me too, I never liked that" to assorted threads.
If the OP plans a segue into more obvious collection of data that could work as answers to security questions, good luck to him or her. Most of us annoyed by those useless things understand it's fine to set up a security answer like "Orange and Green" to a question like "What street did you grow up on?", or "NoneOfYourBiz" to "What is your favorite restaurant?" We might post replies to these threads but we're not going to supply the real name of our first real house pet as the answer to some stupid bank's security question.
There does seem to be a tendency nowadays for people not to recognize boundaries. I'd be shocked if I were still shockable. On one or two occasions I've actually had to resort to "I don't mind your having asked if you don't mind my not replying."
Well some writer amongst us could start a nice dime novel about the hacker who stalked a particular person in some tech forum by posing as a nosy and somewhat neurotic teenager asking idle questions, meanwhile gathering data to finalize a socially engineered identity theft. Have at it, guys, I have to get back to trying to engineer a soup out of the usual veggies and, as a Greek grandmother of my acquaintance used to say, "the memory of a chicken wing."
Not to threadjack, but why be against it? Being named for a mayor? Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta is named after 2 mayors.
Political influence? Look at Thurgood Marshall Int'l airport in Baltimore, McCarran Int'l in Vegas (named for Sen. Patrick McCarran), or Ted Stevens Int'l Airport in Anchorage.
There was actually no reason that it couldn't be renamed, as it would only be on a marquee. As far as the airport being against it, there was a nice debate on this, and the fact, while you were right that 60% of the people were against it, the airport was welcome to it, on KQED's Forum.
BL.
There is already a space named after Moscone and they could find something else to name after Milk. I think the airport said they would maybe open to naming a terminal but not the whole airport. In any case, no, they can find something else. I'm not a fan of naming things after people except in certain instances. JFK in New York, or De Gaulle in Paris (which everyone refers to as Roissy anyway) that's appropriate. That's my opinion.
Excellent and thoughtful response and thank you for taking the time to write it.
As I observed earlier, I cannot determine whether this is cheerful nosiness, an inability to set, or recognise boundaries, or a desire to add extra posts to his (and here, I'm assuming that what we are dealing with is comes under the heading of 'his') post count which lies behind these threads.
However, the fact that his (or her) threads comprise nothing but this sort of thing, and the fact that he (or she) hasn't bothered to return to any of the threads he (or she) has started does strike me as odd.
Normally, when an OP starts a thread, one assumes that the topic is of interest, or has some meaning, or that there is something as mundane as a reason for starting it; this reason usually supplies sufficient motivation for OPs to return to respond to whatever has been said on threads they have started, if only to thank those who took the time to respond.
Well, it's San Francisco so crazier things have happened but I haven't lived here for long:
Body parts found in suitcase left on San Francisco sidewalk
Body parts found in suitcase left on San Francisco sidewalk
It really depends on how you define "shocking", and how you define "town/city".
A woman murdering one of her children, and attempting to murder her other child - by throwing them off a bridge into the river at night would probably be the most "shocking" in the traditional sense. But who knows, some people might consider "scandalous" to be shocking, so Tonya Harding's issues/existence would probably be top of the list. Others of a more puritanical sort might consider the annual "World Naked Bike Ride" (yes, exactly what it sounds like) to be the most shocking.
And if "town/city" means just within city limits, then the ones above are probably tops. But if it includes suburbs, then mass shootings might qualify.
Of course, anyone in Brzezinka, Poland would top all other claims in this thread...
A woman murdering one of her children, and attempting to murder her other child - by throwing them off a bridge into the river at night would probably be the most "shocking" in the traditional sense. But who knows, some people might consider "scandalous" to be shocking, so Tonya Harding's issues/existence would probably be top of the list. Others of a more puritanical sort might consider the annual "World Naked Bike Ride" (yes, exactly what it sounds like) to be the most shocking.
And if "town/city" means just within city limits, then the ones above are probably tops. But if it includes suburbs, then mass shootings might qualify.
Of course, anyone in Brzezinka, Poland would top all other claims in this thread...
That makes me think twice about the suitcase chained to a tree that I walked past yesterday...
Recently there have been some interesting things going on in my hometown in Connecticut. It's your stereotypical quaint, homogenous, affluent sleepy Connecticut town where nothing interesting ever happens (think Sandy Hook/Newtown, CT). I haven't lived there in 8 years but I still hear the news.
1. Recently, a woman in town attempted to hire a guy for $5000 to murder her ex-husband. Apparently there was a custody battle over their child who may or may not carry a $50 million trust fund that the sole guardian would control. The parents accused each other of drug use, gambling problems, abuse, etc and the trial was declared a mistrial. I believe their kid should not be in the custody of either parent.
2. Around the same time as that trial, a woman was jogging after dark and was found on the side of the road murdered, with a stab wound to her chest. She was a triathlete, mother, and high powered insurance company executive. They haven't made any arrests as far as I know nor have they released much information. She was divorced in 2012 (talk of the town said it wasn't pretty), had joint custody of her children, but was paying $8,000/month ($96,000 a year!) in alimony to her ex-husband who is a lawyer.
I'm sure this kind of stuff happens all the time in big cities. But when you're in a small town with virtually zero crime, it's shocking. For some reason it becomes more interesting when large sums of money are involved.
1. Recently, a woman in town attempted to hire a guy for $5000 to murder her ex-husband. Apparently there was a custody battle over their child who may or may not carry a $50 million trust fund that the sole guardian would control. The parents accused each other of drug use, gambling problems, abuse, etc and the trial was declared a mistrial. I believe their kid should not be in the custody of either parent.
2. Around the same time as that trial, a woman was jogging after dark and was found on the side of the road murdered, with a stab wound to her chest. She was a triathlete, mother, and high powered insurance company executive. They haven't made any arrests as far as I know nor have they released much information. She was divorced in 2012 (talk of the town said it wasn't pretty), had joint custody of her children, but was paying $8,000/month ($96,000 a year!) in alimony to her ex-husband who is a lawyer.
I'm sure this kind of stuff happens all the time in big cities. But when you're in a small town with virtually zero crime, it's shocking. For some reason it becomes more interesting when large sums of money are involved.
It was genuinely serious. You don't know the meaning of "scandal" until you've read about things going on in China.
If we go to my hometown, in Europe that is, things also turned for the worse over time. It's not an "event" per se though. Due to changes in busses and trains, the route to an asylum center (that's the word, right? For refugees, not insane people) was rerouted through this small town. All of a sudden the supermarkets saw a spike in thefts, and the local news even reported on drugs being sold out here.
It was genuinely serious. You don't know the meaning of "scandal" until you've read about things going on in China.
If we go to my hometown, in Europe that is, things also turned for the worse over time. It's not an "event" per se though. Due to changes in busses and trains, the route to an asylum center (that's the word, right? For refugees, not insane people) was rerouted through this small town. All of a sudden the supermarkets saw a spike in thefts, and the local news even reported on drugs being sold out here.
I believe because of the rapid industrialization of China, there will be a heavy price to pay, that is if the powers of China pay it, or simply let their abundance of workers just die from poisoning. They got plenty to spare.