The meme is a reference to New Yorkers who really do make a bunch of weird claims that NYC summers are somehow magically hotter than anywhere else, because NYC has to be #1 in EVERY CATEGORY, or else they can’t go on living.
I don’t have a replay of every conversation I’ve had (or overheard) about that topic, over the last forty fucking years. But it’s been plenty of times.
Also, I don’t have a problem with city-dwellers. I have a problem with NEW YORKERS, in this context. Let’s be clear on that. No other city feels the need to do crap like this. All cities have their specific things they brag about, but they don’t all insist on having the best of ALL THE THINGS.
Maybe London and San Francisco fight about who’s the foggiest. Maybe Detroit and Chicago fight about who’s got the most murderers. Maybe L.A. and Miami and Atlanta fight about who’s got the best hawt summer nightlife. But they don’t ALL SAY THEIR CITY IS THE BIGGEST, GREATEST, BESTEST, MOSTEST AT EVERYTHING.
You know what the sick joke really is? New York City hasn’t really been hot shit since the 1930s. It’s been coasting downhill, ever since. Almost all their great buildings and bridges, almost all their infrastructure, almost all their cultural institutions come from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. But the superiority complex just keeps on rolling. Watching from the outside, it’s more pitiful than anything, really.
Okay. I don’t really get that. Out of the things I hear new yorkers brag about, they are basically correct. I am not a new yorker, but their pizza, entertainment, and culture is basically what the western world runs on. I know someone who lives in LA who cannot miss a single opportunity to shit on any other city/town. So yeah, I don’t really see the issue here, or if there is one, being unique to NYC.
Oh really? Everyone else likes their pizza with toppings. New Yorkers like it with just plain cheese, dripping in disgusting excess grease, and if you don’t fold it in half while you eat it, they will GET ALL UP INTO YOUR FACE. Nobody else folds pizza. It’s not normal behavior.
entertainment
You mean all those movies and shows that get made in HOLLYWOOD? Last time I checked, that sign isn’t overlooking fucking Brooklyn. If it was, it would probably say “Brooklyn” instead of “Hollywood.”
culture
Like what? What culture are you talking about? Sure, some of the great artists and musicians and writers have been from New York. But a lot of them have been from the Midwest and California and the South and the West, too. And even (gasp) from places outside the USA!!! Imagine that!
New York’s own native culture is basically based on looking down their noses at everyone else on the planet, as if we’re lower creatures. What else do they have? Bodegas? They actually think those goddamn things are a legit cultural element. What even is supposed to be the appeal of those fucking places? All the selection and quality of a fucking Dollar General, with all the prices of DEFINITELY NOT A DOLLAR GENERAL.
Hey, maybe that’s the legendary cultural output you’re talking about. New Yorkers invented the cultural meme of ridiculously, unsustainably, civilization-threateningly inflated prices on basic consumer goods and necessities.
It would obviously be a waste of time to continue here. You have a weird chip on your shoulder about NYC that practically no one else has, outside of rural people who hate cities.
Which by the way is what I theorized at the beginning of this exchange. You’ve just provided a lot of evidence that you’re mad at New York, not that NeW yOrkErS hAvE tO bE tHe BeSt At EvErYtHiNg
The meme is a reference to New Yorkers who really do make a bunch of weird claims that NYC summers are somehow magically hotter than anywhere else, because NYC has to be #1 in EVERY CATEGORY, or else they can’t go on living.
I don’t have a replay of every conversation I’ve had (or overheard) about that topic, over the last forty fucking years. But it’s been plenty of times.
Also, I don’t have a problem with city-dwellers. I have a problem with NEW YORKERS, in this context. Let’s be clear on that. No other city feels the need to do crap like this. All cities have their specific things they brag about, but they don’t all insist on having the best of ALL THE THINGS.
Maybe London and San Francisco fight about who’s the foggiest. Maybe Detroit and Chicago fight about who’s got the most murderers. Maybe L.A. and Miami and Atlanta fight about who’s got the best hawt summer nightlife. But they don’t ALL SAY THEIR CITY IS THE BIGGEST, GREATEST, BESTEST, MOSTEST AT EVERYTHING.
You know what the sick joke really is? New York City hasn’t really been hot shit since the 1930s. It’s been coasting downhill, ever since. Almost all their great buildings and bridges, almost all their infrastructure, almost all their cultural institutions come from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. But the superiority complex just keeps on rolling. Watching from the outside, it’s more pitiful than anything, really.
Okay. I don’t really get that. Out of the things I hear new yorkers brag about, they are basically correct. I am not a new yorker, but their pizza, entertainment, and culture is basically what the western world runs on. I know someone who lives in LA who cannot miss a single opportunity to shit on any other city/town. So yeah, I don’t really see the issue here, or if there is one, being unique to NYC.
Oh really? Everyone else likes their pizza with toppings. New Yorkers like it with just plain cheese, dripping in disgusting excess grease, and if you don’t fold it in half while you eat it, they will GET ALL UP INTO YOUR FACE. Nobody else folds pizza. It’s not normal behavior.
You mean all those movies and shows that get made in HOLLYWOOD? Last time I checked, that sign isn’t overlooking fucking Brooklyn. If it was, it would probably say “Brooklyn” instead of “Hollywood.”
Like what? What culture are you talking about? Sure, some of the great artists and musicians and writers have been from New York. But a lot of them have been from the Midwest and California and the South and the West, too. And even (gasp) from places outside the USA!!! Imagine that!
New York’s own native culture is basically based on looking down their noses at everyone else on the planet, as if we’re lower creatures. What else do they have? Bodegas? They actually think those goddamn things are a legit cultural element. What even is supposed to be the appeal of those fucking places? All the selection and quality of a fucking Dollar General, with all the prices of DEFINITELY NOT A DOLLAR GENERAL.
Hey, maybe that’s the legendary cultural output you’re talking about. New Yorkers invented the cultural meme of ridiculously, unsustainably, civilization-threateningly inflated prices on basic consumer goods and necessities.
It would obviously be a waste of time to continue here. You have a weird chip on your shoulder about NYC that practically no one else has, outside of rural people who hate cities.
Which by the way is what I theorized at the beginning of this exchange. You’ve just provided a lot of evidence that you’re mad at New York, not that NeW yOrkErS hAvE tO bE tHe BeSt At EvErYtHiNg