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New investment coming to Washington, D.C.!

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Participants Jack Cook7Emily Smith77Charles Lopez3David Parker3Jesse Fisher2Larry Johnson3Joshua Davis79darkmoose5hiddenharbor33Ethan Allen4dustymarlin10placidtinker39coastalridge64
Jack Cook7 Jack Cook7 RegularOP
376 messages
joined Aug 2017
#1 ·
So, our beloved Mayor of Washington, D.C., Bill de Blasio, just dropped some news. Apparently, he’s rolling right along with all these big city projects meant to make life "better" for everyone living in D.C. Get this—he's talking about a whopping $4 million! Yeah, you heard me right. Just a tiny little drop in the bucket.

Since the Snow White competition was such a massive hit, I honestly feel like we’re just one or two more lakes at the top of Mount Rainier away from turning this whole thing into a full-blown festival for figure skating and speed skating too!

Man, this gondola project just keeps going and going and going... it's like a never-ending saga! And hey, let's hope it actually happens one day, right? We’re talking about using a tiny slice of our already super tight city budget—money that could probably go toward something more useful than helping skiers who can just drive their own cars anyway. I mean, I get it, skiing is supposed to be fun, and nobody wants to hike up Mount Rainier just to get to the slopes, but still. It feels like we're prioritizing people who have vehicles over everything else, instead of fixing the stuff that actually matters. Like, we’ve got those seats that are basically falling apart and need a total overhaul, but sure, let's build a lift instead. Just my two cents!

Central Park, fireworks over Central Park, and just fireworks over water in general... man, there’s nothing like seeing those colors hit still water. It’s gorgeous. And honestly? If we don't have enough lakes around to make that happen, we could just build some! We could totally drop a lake right on top of Mount Rainier if we felt like it.

So I’m standing there at the MTA stop, looking at these new plexiglass and stainless steel shelters, and honestly? Total letdown. The "stainless" steel is already starting to rust after just two years. Like, seriously? You can’t even expect these things to last five years before they fall apart. It’s such a massive disappointment with the contractor—they clearly botched the job. I mean, who actually thinks stainless steel needs replacing every ten years anyway? Total amateur hour.

MTA’s fancy-schmancy WCA bathrooms that passengers can’t even step foot in because... (pick the right answer. And seriously, this isn't an IQ test, so don't go getting all nervous about looking stupid):

They don't even need it. Seriously.
Honestly? They don't even know how to handle all that heavy-duty tech they've got at their fingertips.
They didn't even get the heads-up that they were allowed in!
They don't have any right to step foot in there!
They just don't have the cash for the cover charge.
'cause they're just straight-up rednecks.

Those plastic tactile paths for the blind? Total joke. They’re all ripped up and falling apart, so they don't even help people with good vision find their way around, let alone anyone actually relying on them. And don't even get me started on those clicking devices at the crosswalks—they drive everyone living in the nearby apartments absolutely insane!

So they’ve got these lowered curbs for wheelchairs and cyclists, right? But then they pair them with these rustic, rough-cut granite blocks that basically act like speed bumps from hell. And don't even get me started on the bike lanes—they’re designed specifically so you can plow straight into pedestrians. It’s like an invitation to send someone flying into next week! But hey, thank God for those 5,000 surveillance cameras watching every single inch of Washington, D.C. Every little collision and shouting match is caught on tape, documented, and billed. Honestly, it gives me some pretty twisted business ideas: just bait people into crashing and fighting, film the whole mess, and then cash in on the fines, the medical bills, and the "mediation" fees. Sounds suspiciously familiar, doesn't it?

Man, you look at some of these arenas and just wonder how they haven't collapsed yet. Take Madison Square Garden, for example—it actually held up under all that snow on the roof. Unlike some other places that struggle the second things get heavy. Maybe it’s because it stays empty most of the time? Like, if there aren't crowds jumping around, you don't get those crazy vibrations messing with the building's physics. Plus, without a massive crowd pumping out body heat, you aren't stressing the structure with all that extra thermal pressure. Just a thought!

Man, there’s just an endless list of wins for Washington, D.C. that locals love to brag about whenever they see people from out of town looking all impressed and jealous. Honestly? It’s high time we go after another big investment. Because let's be real—we can totally pull it off!

Man, things are getting brutal for Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country! Water prices are jumping about 30%, the MTA just hiked transit fares by 50%, and electricity is right on the edge of exploding. As for gas? People are using it so sparingly it’s practically a death wish—and they’re being real cautious about it too! Honestly, thank God winter is winding down, otherwise we'd be looking at a massive spike in gas prices. And I'm not even talking about heating.

Look, we’ve got hope. We really do. We’ve got the folks running the country and the crew running the city. We gave them our votes, didn't we? That's the deal. They’re the leaders—they know the drill, and we handed them the keys because we trust 'em. They believe in us, too. It's all three of us working together. Us, them, and that gut feeling that they'll pull through. Together, we're unstoppable.

So, what’s actually the big, logical move for our mayor? Like, seriously, what is this magic project that’s supposed to jumpstart the whole local economy? What’s gonna get the business owners pumped up again and actually give some hope to the regular folks who have been stuck in this endless, soul-crushing crisis for twenty years straight? It feels like there's no end in sight, right? Meanwhile, you just see interest rates spiraling out of control in this total, shameless frenzy of financial nonsense. I mean, come on! What is that one key investment that’ll finally shake people in Washington, D.C. and all of America out of this massive funk and despair? We need something that creates actual jobs and gives people a future—even if the profits only end up landing in the pockets of the chosen few.

What kind of wild, tangled web of tech and science are we even talking about here? On one hand, you've got this massive revival of R&D—stuff people claim doesn't even exist anymore—and on the other, you need an actual economic engine to take those proven, profitable scientific breakthroughs and turn them into reality. We’re talking about building industries that actually hire people! Real jobs for engineers, designers, researchers, sales crews, marketing gurus, and all the corporate suits running the show, all working together to make the USA better. (Though, honestly, I'm not sure if our local economy even has the muscle to pull that off, but hey, let's not get carried away with sci-fi fantasies.)

But how do we give hope and a real future to... well, everyone? The unemployed, the underemployed, the "ghost" employees, the guys working under the table, the ones who only got a job because their uncle knows someone, the broke, the spiritually bankrupt, the ones lacking knowledge, the ones lacking yachts and mansions, the vampires, the geniuses who have zero vision, the sick, the disabled, the activists fighting for human rights, animal rights, plant rights, fungal rights, lichen rights, the rights of water, air, rocks, fire, dark matter, and—let's not forget—the true power: the right of the stupid and the lazy. How do we offer any perspective to that 99.9% of the population that basically has no say in anything, knows next to nothing, yet somehow, for reasons beyond logic, still demands things?

Well, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. just cracked the code! 🙂 I mean, did you really doubt him for a second? In this era of water shortages, constant crises, and the desperate need to unite the citizens and jumpstart both industry and science, the answer just fell out of the sky!

We’re gonna build a fountain!

So, I'm throwing this out to the group: what should this fountain actually look like?
- A little kid peeing all over Washington, D.C.
- A gold subway train shoved up someone's butt
- A solid gold toilet
- A brothel
- A factory making plexiglass and stainless steel waiting rooms for the MTA
- Just another Madison Square Garden
- A guillotine

PS: Apparently, like 47% of the water from the Washington, D.C. water works just leaks out through crappy old pipes. Has anyone actually checked the fountains?
Emily Smith77 Emily Smith77 Newcomer
7 messages
joined Apr 2011
#2 ·
Brothels plus the legalization of prostitution—both the spiritual and the physical kind. 😁
Charles Lopez3 Charles Lopez3 Active Member
149 messages
joined Apr 2013
#3 ·
🤣

I’m definitely putting my money on the gold standard transit option here.
Either way you slice it, we're looking at a massive, high-impact investment that's going to pull in huge crowds and really kickstart things.🤣
David Parker3 David Parker3 Active Member
53 messages
joined Jun 2009
#4 ·
I honestly think we need something fresh, but let’s keep it classy—European style, you know? I had this brilliant idea: for just about $10 million, we could build a fountain featuring those little chubby golden cherubs in that classic, slightly creepy Baroque style. But instead of them just spraying water, imagine if they sort of... burst? Like they're shooting out jets of water from behind like they've got explosive diarrhea caused by a bad case of pneumonia. It would be the perfect installation right in front of a place like Mayo Clinic. That way, people dealing with actual medical issues can look at it and realize, "Well, at least things aren't *this* bad." Plus, it’d give commuters a good laugh after a brutal day dealing with corporate nonsense at a place like Goldman Sachs or just fighting through bureaucracy at City Hall. To make sure nobody asks where all that taxpayer money actually went, we could embed a tiny speaker in each little boy's mouth that periodically blasts Mozart's classics, occasionally interrupted by breaking news updates from the NHL.
Jesse Fisher2 Jesse Fisher2 Member
10 messages
joined Dec 2012
#5 ·
The fountains are going to be a symbol for North America, featuring 28 jets🤦
Larry Johnson3 Larry Johnson3 Newcomer
3 messages
joined Nov 2012
#6 ·
Imagine a massive statue of Bernie Sanders scribbling all over a model of Chicago. Instead, we get this grotesque monument of Harvey Weinstein defecating on the city, while the fountain features some speedboat spinning around with a Jack Nicholson statue inside it.
Joshua Davis79 Joshua Davis79 Member
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joined Sep 2015
#7 ·
Larry Johnson3 said:Imagine a massive statue of Bernie Sanders scribbling all over a model of Chicago. Instead, we get this grotesque monument of Harvey Weinstein defecating on the city, while the fountain features some speedboat spinning around with a Jack Nicholson statue inside it.

😂😂 👍
darkmoose5 darkmoose5 Member
15 messages
joined Aug 2015
#8 ·
It’s nothing short of modern-day feudalism!
hiddenharbor33 hiddenharbor33 Member
15 messages
joined Dec 2013
#9 ·
Just soaking up the sophisticated vision of Bloomberg's and his unique little talents🙂 Honestly, you all should be embarrassed. Instead of actually celebrating the upgrades and progress happening in our city, we're sitting here acting like this is normal. It’s like if some penniless New Yorker decided to build a plain old hundred-foot cross just for the sake of it. How incredibly uninspired.

Down by the site of the future Slomsky gondola, they're planning to erect a life-sized, seventy-foot statue of the mayor, designed specifically so the cable cars can zip right through his massive, hollowed-out gut. We could probably take it even further—turn that tunnel into a full-blown haunted house experience. You know, plenty of screeching, creaking, and skeletons jumping out of closets to really round out the ride.☕
Ethan Allen4 Ethan Allen4 Member
33 messages
joined Apr 2013
#10 ·
If a guy actually has the guts to say it, I’m voting for the fountain to be shaped like a pair of hands—we can just call it Bloomberg's little sprinkler system
Ethan Allen4 Ethan Allen4 Member
33 messages
joined Apr 2013
#11 ·
I’m starting a little movement here to get us a sprayer in Clovis that looks just like this one ☕
dustymarlin10 dustymarlin10 Active Member
238 messages
joined Nov 2015
#12 ·
The point?

When the smart ones stay quiet, the idiots run the show.
Jesse Fisher2 Jesse Fisher2 Member
10 messages
joined Dec 2012
#13 ·
The Grand Opening of the Chicago Water Features

Actually, the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the fountains wasn't all smiles. A group of activists showed up to protest the whole project. Things got heated enough that they actually called the police to report an assault. According to them, one girl was attacked, and they're claiming Pavle Kalinić and his crew were the ones responsible.

Kalinić, though, tells a different story. He insists he didn't lay a finger on anyone; instead, he says he was the victim of a cowardly sneak attack from behind while he was just trying to take a phone call. In the end, everyone just went their separate ways—some were fuming, some were freezing, and some were actually happy. I guess the only things left standing were the fountains themselves.
🙂
placidtinker39 placidtinker39 Member
39 messages
joined Nov 2015
#14 ·
The Golden Tramway...

If people in this city elect Bloomberg as mayor one more time, he might just decide to build a pyramid during his next term. If he thinks he can pull off a monument like Khufu, then Miles certainly thinks he’s got what it takes...
coastalridge64 coastalridge64 Active Member
90 messages
joined Oct 2011
#15 ·
Scanning through all the comment sections on various news sites lately, I’ve really gotten the sense that Billy the Kid has managed to score quite a few points with this whole fountain project. ☕
Charles Lopez3 Charles Lopez3 Active Member
149 messages
joined Apr 2013
#16 ·
coastalridge64 said:Scanning through all the comment sections on various news sites lately, I’ve really gotten the sense that Billy the Kid has managed to score quite a few points with this whole fountain project. ☕


I mean, his buddies probably already have their hands in the cookie jar,
but on those news outlets, 😁
darkmoose5 darkmoose5 Member
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joined Aug 2015
#17 ·
coastalridge64 said:Scanning through all the comment sections on various news sites lately, I’ve really gotten the sense that Billy the Kid has managed to score quite a few points with this whole fountain project. ☕

Look, whether these things actually pay off depends entirely on where you put them. This specific part of town is just a wasteland—basically nothing but empty fields.

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