From log house to farmhouse. Farmhouse to townhouse. Townhouse to apartment house. Apartment house to crack house. Crack house to our house. Our house to our home.
Pffft. The human race is really disappointing sometimes.
I'm reading the book "Tipping Point" and they devote a whole chapter to the NYC subways, and how cleaning up the cars (ie, removing graffiti DAILY and never letting a tagged car be seen) ended up making a huge difference in the culture of the subway. They just keep cleaning it up until the taggers realize it wasn't worth wasting their spray paint on. It goes into depth about how little things like that helped to drastically reduce crime in NYC. Good book, and a great example of how the appearance of a place can make people act one way or another.
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same thing here...no matter how hard you try some asshat has to try harder to mess it up...
Pffft. The human race is really disappointing sometimes.
I'm reading the book "Tipping Point" and they devote a whole chapter to the NYC subways, and how cleaning up the cars (ie, removing graffiti DAILY and never letting a tagged car be seen) ended up making a huge difference in the culture of the subway. They just keep cleaning it up until the taggers realize it wasn't worth wasting their spray paint on. It goes into depth about how little things like that helped to drastically reduce crime in NYC. Good book, and a great example of how the appearance of a place can make people act one way or another.
Anyway.... hope they leave it alone this time.
I saw that, too, a couple days ago. It's difficult for me to understand that mentality.
I bought my first legal beer there on August 2, 1959 when it was Kelly's Bar.
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