Comments on: Austin inhabitant eschews Twitter; employs extremely inefficient low-tech communication device

By: speedbudget

speedbudget — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:54:10 +0000

Windswept: Not to mention when people leave the lights wrapped around the branches and trunks, the tree grows into the wires, eventually killing the tree.

By: Windswept

Windswept — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:57:41 +0000

Now what I hate is when the citizenry (of Austin, at least) decides to decorate random trees along the road for christmas time. Up go the strings and the glass balls and piles of tinsel.

Guess who cleans it up?

Nobody. Ever. If you ever try calling authorities about it during christmas when you see the guilty parties at work, the ass on the other end of the line will tell you to lighten up and get with the holiday spirit.

By: speedbudget

speedbudget — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:45:32 +0000

blondie: You should see outer space! The Great Garbage Patch is only the beginning. People have been talking about shooting our shit up into space for a while cause you can't have too much junk floating around.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:10:59 +0000

Lookit all the plastic junk that person has released into the wilderness!

I am hoping this person is under the age of ten, and thus is capable of learning better. Besides, this is kind of demented behavior for a grown-up.

By: blondie

blondie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:35:03 +0000

Humans are sure hard on the planet. Reading about the Great Garbage Patch has depressed me anew. We have not only altered the climate of our globe, impacted the weather, and eliminated many species, we are hastily replacing its old-fashioned carbon-based forms with indestructible, destructive plastics.

Who knew that guy in The Gradate was so prescient?

By: alphabitch

alphabitch — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:02:03 +0000

Ciccina — I had an 85-lb rottweiler/shepherd who would try to eat anything even remotely edible that appeared on our walking routes. And get sick if she actually swallowed anything. It’s amazing how much food people throw out their car windows, especially near schools, parks, and YMCAs.

I have a new dog and new yard now, and we’ve excavated a surprisingly large number of plastic infantrymen, doll heads, and sippy cups. Also there is an apparently endless stash of Skoal containers, which are made of a very brittle green plastic, shards of which appear in, well, you know where that’s going. I can’t figure out where she’s finding them, but I’m pretty sure it’s not an air-drop.

By: Ciccina

Ciccina — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:29:42 +0000

If I had a dollar for every time I had to pry open the jaws of my bull terrier and stick my hand down her throat to retrieve a Not-For-Dogs object, I’d be able to pay my taxes. And that’s saying something. Though she hasn’t sucked down a balloon or an small plastic infantryman. Yet.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:13:40 +0000

Ladybird was a notorious balloon-hata.

By: barbieanddonna

barbieanddonna — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:50:38 +0000

Where I come from social networking is all about drunken fishing.

Totally Get it.

By: B. Dagger Lee

B. Dagger Lee — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:24:20 +0000

You can probably take the Psmith out of Texas, but you apparently can’t take the Lady Bird Johnson out of the Psmith.