Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 990 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 12:11 am: | |
Coming out of the UK a journalist writes that Detroit is hell and lost more people except for Katrina victims. http://www.moneyweek.com/file/ 30445/why-london-property-is-o n-top-of-the-world.html "But we’re here in London; what’s the worry? No cars are built in London. Instead, financial services are our trade. And is there any better game to be in?" Me: London will soon find out how financial markets can even go wrong. |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 1191 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 12:42 am: | |
Plastics my boy, that's where the future is! |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 78 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 12:50 am: | |
Eff that Limey, if it were not for the Arsenal Of Democracy in Detroit during WWII his lovely London might have been crushed completely underneath the jackbooted Nazis. Too bad our pathetic leadership in Washington since the 60s, has allowed the nation to lose most of our manufacturing base to countries like Communist China and Japan, whose people consider us to be "gajin", meaning barbarians. "All your base are belong to us"...yeah, I guess so. |
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 995 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 12:52 am: | |
A graduate fan are you. I say selling Carbon credits online to unsuspecting liberals would be more profitable or even selling imported Canadian prescriptions to old folks online. |
Kris Member Username: Kris
Post Number: 19 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:22 am: | |
"gajin", meaning barbarians." gaijin is just a japanese word meaning foreigner, not barbarian. |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 80 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:40 am: | |
Gaikokujin means foreigner, the contracted version can be used as an insult. I misspelled it anyway it is gaijin. |
Hunchentoot Member Username: Hunchentoot
Post Number: 63 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:51 am: | |
The David Stott building is 32 floors above ground, not 65. A lot of the other things he said were inaccurate by a similar margin. |
French777 Member Username: French777
Post Number: 315 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 8:16 am: | |
What is the point of the article to Denoce Detroit? |
Aiw Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6517 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 9:29 am: | |
quote:Eff that Limey, if it were not for the Arsenal Of Democracy in Detroit during WWII his lovely London might have been crushed completely underneath the jackbooted Nazis. Gotta love the Yankee arrogance. That's the reason most of the world despises you. |
Matt Member Username: Matt
Post Number: 1244 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 10:39 am: | |
And don't forget, all the world makes fun of Canadians. ;) |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 81 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 11:10 am: | |
"Gotta love the Yankee arrogance" The author of that article which was posted in a circulated magazine, compares Detroit's plight to biblical hellholes like Sodom and Gomorrah, that God allegedly smote down? Seems to me that he was the arrogant gauntlet thrower. Why compare London to Detroit anyway, when it is more closely related to the bleak industrial areas of England such as Birmingham. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 2021 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 11:32 am: | |
I would be Varwy interested in that Propewrty.........
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Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1000 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:00 pm: | |
Point of article here is to show what other journalists or people think of Detroit, not to knock it down. Sometimes it takes an outsider to get a better objective opinion. Detroit will find it's niche sometime soon (years, decades?) and then will be near the top once more. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 1806 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:39 pm: | |
I think this is one mans opinion. I read a lot of british mags and they love Detroit. MOJO even named it the top place to visit in 04. My uncle who is a VP for GM travels a lot and says the Europeans are very interested in the D |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 84 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:05 pm: | |
"Detroit will find it's niche sometime soon (years, decades?) and then will be near the top once more" Can't even begin to imagine what that would be, unless it becomes a location to film reality shows such as "Survivor: Motown" or maybe a serial such as "Lost" where a plane crashes in the City Airport area....whose survivors learn to deal with strange occurences, haunted long abandoned mansions, ghost-town neighborhoods and discover what remains of the magical street of Heidelberg. |
Jjw Member Username: Jjw
Post Number: 510 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:20 pm: | |
"I think this is one mans opinion. I read a lot of british mags and they love Detroit. MOJO even named it the top place to visit in 04. My uncle who is a VP for GM travels a lot and says the Europeans are very interested in the D" -yep--learning what not to do |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4497 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 3:55 pm: | |
All depends on how you consider risk of fatalities. Which has been more dangerous in recent history? 2005 Commuter Train bombings 52 dead, 700 injured 1952 The great London smog of 1952 12,000+ dead 1953 Thames Flood 300+ dead 1941 Battle of Britain 13,000+ dead and going back a wee bit: 1666 The Plague 56,000+ dead But then rush hour drive has be safer in London with average speed being 7 MPH |
Trainman Member Username: Trainman
Post Number: 638 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 8:31 am: | |
I used to live in London and that's where I got interested in mass transit and why I work in the mass transit industry today. Detroit will come back but we must vote in leaders who truly care about our inner cities. The public money that we pay to our government is being shifted away from our inner cities and suburbs like Detroit and Livonia. So, we must get people elected that will go to Lansing and fight. Unfortunately, the leaders that represent Livonia came to our city hall and said that Michigan is a hopeless State and that they can not or will not fight for tax dollars to fix Detroit. So, we must vote these people out. There are good leaders though that will never quit on you. So, forgive them if they make a few mistakes and help them. For example, get Mayor Kilpatrick to come to Livonia city hall and support the many good efforts and industry support to get the SMART buses back into Livonia. SMART did a good job before they left and their buses were full on the Middlebelt 285 route. So, it's time for the Detroit mayor to get back to work and help SMART and DDOT out. This was one of the promises he made to get elected. |
Fmstack Member Username: Fmstack
Post Number: 40 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 11:09 am: | |
Y'all do realize that the last line in the article is sarcastic, right? |
Renfirst Member Username: Renfirst
Post Number: 187 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 7:14 pm: | |
I don't think they get it Fmstack... London's poised for a tailspin in the real estate market due to the same financial woes in the UK... Anyone heard of Northbank??? The writer's making fun of the fact that they're the "financial capital" of the world... they're in deep sh**. London real estate prices are being slashed due to a lack of financing for more pricier jaunts. Detroit has the respect of many Britons, and Europeans for that matter, as it is the home of America's automobile industry, and the mecca for Motown and Electronic Music... |