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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2015 21:11:37 GMT
Nice! Win-win all the way around.
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Post by tod2 on Dec 29, 2015 13:35:38 GMT
Kerouac, when I saw your photos of the New Rosa Parks station I had a feeling I had seen those modern tower blocks before.....Yes, It was when we stayed in Rue Crimee last year. Must have seen them from a bus.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 17:10:56 GMT
About a week ago, I saw a solid concrete base installed in the little ' place' in front of my building, but I did not immediately figure out what it was for. Yesterday, the horrible truth was revealed to me when a work crew arrived. Life goes on, and fuck you, JC Decaux, even if this helps to pay for the Vélibs, the sanisettes and the directional signs in Paris. Put your crap somewhere else.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2016 2:03:44 GMT
Oh no! How LOUD is it going to be? Any idea how long it will remain there?
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Post by htmb on Feb 14, 2016 2:19:12 GMT
It looks fairly permanent to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 5:09:44 GMT
Yes, it is permanent. It won't be noisy because it just will have rolling billboards on both sides.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2016 5:34:25 GMT
Oh -- I thought it was some kind of sports event screen. I can't believe that a city which so fosters its own beauty as Paris does is allowing those monstrosities. From the last picture in the sequence, it appears that they tried to ugly up the views of as many residents as possible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 6:12:27 GMT
Well, JC Decaux pays for the installation and upkeep of all of the things I mentioned above and also the bus shelters and taxi stations in exchange for advertising space. I presume that this emplacement was indeed chosen in relation to the upcoming sporting events since I live on the street between the Stade de France and the centre of Paris so it is most definitely a prime location.
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Post by rikita on Feb 17, 2016 12:38:35 GMT
this is a different garbage can in a different street, picture taken by a different person - but i took one just like it in front of my building the other day. just too lazy to upload it from my phone ...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 18:16:52 GMT
Not showing for me.
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Post by rikita on Feb 17, 2016 23:18:01 GMT
now not for me anymore either. oh well, then i guess i gotta upload the one from my phone at some point ...
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Post by htmb on Feb 22, 2016 21:18:23 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 22, 2016 22:14:53 GMT
The Wizard of the Intersection?
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Post by htmb on Feb 22, 2016 22:15:34 GMT
I assume he's stumping for Bernie.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 22, 2016 22:21:12 GMT
Ahhhh. Okay, I squinted at his tee shirt & see what you mean. Bernie needs the non-muggle votes, too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 17:09:29 GMT
They removed the sign in front of my building this morning, but the post is still there. I don't know if it is a temporary technical difficulty or the response to a neighbourhood protest. Time will tell.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2016 17:25:35 GMT
Hope your neighborhood gets rid of the damned thing!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 23:04:54 GMT
back to square one?
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Post by htmb on Feb 27, 2016 23:49:46 GMT
That's really nice having it gone!
Did you file a complaint?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 23:55:16 GMT
I am too sweet to complain about anything.
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Post by htmb on Feb 27, 2016 23:56:36 GMT
Yes, I should have remembered.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 28, 2016 0:47:06 GMT
It sort of looks Big Brother-y now, but an improvement nonetheless. Can you knit? You should yarn bomb it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 12:25:53 GMT
All gone after just one week.
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Post by htmb on Feb 29, 2016 13:00:20 GMT
Amazing.
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Post by mossie on Feb 29, 2016 14:11:29 GMT
Perhaps someone in the mairie reads this
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Post by htmb on Feb 29, 2016 14:53:53 GMT
Excellent guess!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 29, 2016 14:55:37 GMT
That is great! It was so unfair to drop a giant metal turd right in the middle of a thriving neighborhood.
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Post by htmb on Mar 1, 2016 18:49:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2016 18:59:56 GMT
Colorful local color ~ go Gators!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 16:20:13 GMT
So, here I am standing in the check-out queue in a hypermarket in the wilds of Normandy, surrounded by yokels buying their brain damaging processed food when they are living in a treasure chest of agricultural products. The man behind me greets the woman in front of me because he knows her. In fact everybody in the store knows each other because they are all striking up conversations with everybody in earshot. That's how you know you're in a small town anywhere in the world.
"What are you doing here?" the woman asks the man. Menfolk are still a rare commodity in a food store during the work day, or any other day for the most part.
"I'm going to Paris tomorrow to see some friends, so I'm getting some camembert. Parisians really like cheese from Normandy." Duh, and we can't find any in our stores either. We're deprived.
So she says, "I'm just picking up a few things because we're leaving next week."
"Oh yeah, going back to Africa again?"
"Yes," says the peasant woman. "This is our 3rd trip to Madagascar. We go to more and more obscure places there, so we're taking more than 3 weeks this time. It takes 3 days by bush taxi just to get to our destination."
"Great," says the man. "We went to Namibia last time, but in November we're going to Botswana."
My pre-conceived Parisian notions were shattered. Except for the camembert.
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