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(NYPost) Cool NYC infrastructure is crumbling, and there are few funds for repairs, but one artist may have a solution: Legos   (nypost.com) divider line 53
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2010-03-09 01:04:00 PM
Hopefully they're load-bearing Legos.
 
2010-03-09 01:04:44 PM
Cement is *much* cheaper than Lego.
 
2010-03-09 01:05:14 PM
Oh good. Flammable brickwork. This can't go wrong.
 
2010-03-09 01:05:21 PM
He did this in Europe last year, IIRC.
 
2010-03-09 01:05:45 PM
It's only a matter of time before someone steals them.
 
2010-03-09 01:07:19 PM
It's too bad the city buildings are made by Tyco.
 
2010-03-09 01:08:25 PM
If the WTC was made of Legos® the planes would've flown right through them!
 
2010-03-09 01:08:30 PM
The obvious solution is to raise taxes some more. I'm sure that the government there will undoubtedly use any new funds raised in a responsible and honest manner.
 
2010-03-09 01:11:21 PM
I refuse to click on nypost.com links until their mobile site doesn't redirect you to the main page.
 
2010-03-09 01:19:21 PM
I think now I found a use for that paternalistic little twerp Bloomberg: throw him in a large pothole and let vehicles run him over.
 
2010-03-09 01:21:05 PM
If there ever was a beautiful city in rapid decline, NYC is it. I think I'm done with it. Couple more years and I'm out of here, and I'm not looking back.
 
2010-03-09 01:26:44 PM
Old news is old.
 
2010-03-09 01:26:58 PM
H31N0US: If there ever was a beautiful city in rapid decline, NYC is it. I think I'm done with it. Couple more years and I'm out of here, and I'm not looking back.

THIS. I love all that this city has to offer, but I think I have only another year or so left here. Personally, I certainly will not raise children in Manhattan.

NYC was great when my pay raises coincided with the ever increasing cost of living. Now my salary is cut 30% down from where it was in 2008 but things keep getting more expensive (except rent for once).
 
2010-03-09 01:27:07 PM

Anhydrous Dihydrogen Monoxide:

I refuse to click on nypost.com links until their mobile site doesn't redirect you to the main page.


Thought I was the only one. The least they could do is make it searchable. But we'll never know if they fix the redirect if we don't click occasionally.
 
2010-03-09 01:28:35 PM
sparrow794: The obvious solution is to raise taxes some more. I'm sure that the government there will undoubtedly use any new funds raised in a responsible and honest manner.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*gasp*

AHHHHH hahahahahahahahahahah
 
2010-03-09 01:41:38 PM
This guy again?


/old news is stale now
/wash it down with haterade
 
2010-03-09 01:43:05 PM
That, and... wooohoo! free legos!
 
2010-03-09 01:47:12 PM
I remember an article quite similar to this from several months ago. I'm pretty sure it was on FARK.

Too lazy to search for it, though.
 
2010-03-09 01:50:47 PM
Lego is the plural form of Lego. Lego is a substance, not a name for a piece.
 
2010-03-09 01:58:46 PM
stupid elves. Go back to the forest and stay outta NY.
Ohhh. Lego. Never mind then.
 
2010-03-09 02:42:29 PM
I submitted this with an original headline.
 
2010-03-09 02:47:48 PM
Necrosprite: Lego is the plural form of Lego. Lego is a substance, not a name for a piece.

LEGO is a trademark, owned by the LEGO Group.
 
2010-03-09 03:01:07 PM
Hebalo: Necrosprite: Lego is the plural form of Lego. Lego is a substance, not a name for a piece.

LEGO is a trademark, owned by the LEGO Group.


The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".

Wikipedia (new window)
 
2010-03-09 03:10:40 PM
ttyymmnn: Hebalo: Necrosprite: Lego is the plural form of Lego. Lego is a substance, not a name for a piece.

LEGO is a trademark, owned by the LEGO Group.

The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".

Wikipedia (new window)


"Lego" is what you do to my motherfarking "Eggos"
 
2010-03-09 03:28:29 PM
i.dailymail.co.uk
 
2010-03-09 03:36:00 PM
Aexia: He did this in Europe last year, IIRC.

At least it's the same guy instead of a copycat.
 
2010-03-09 03:43:20 PM
legos nazis is the worst sort of nazis
 
2010-03-09 03:46:05 PM
ttyymmnn: Hebalo: Necrosprite: Lego is the plural form of Lego. Lego is a substance, not a name for a piece.

LEGO is a trademark, owned by the LEGO Group.

The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".

Wikipedia (new window)


la la la... if the guy that invented the name made it out of the Danish words for Play and Good (Well), then how the fark can it be interpreted as anything else than what it was originally farking well meant to mean?

And the plural of LEGO is sill farking LEGO, it has never been nor shall ever be legos, legoes, lego's, or any other such variant.

your all morans
 
2010-03-09 03:52:51 PM
uttertosh: then how the fark can it be interpreted as anything else than what it was originally farking well meant to mean?

the message is in the receiver

we do not interpret our world in the minds of others, but our own

you contain your own [known] universe.
 
2010-03-09 04:08:28 PM
medius: uttertosh: then how the fark can it be interpreted as anything else than what it was originally farking well meant to mean?

words by their very definition are meaningless


yeah, right. pucko.
 
2010-03-09 04:10:10 PM
do let me know how the world is beyond your perception

in the meantime, i'll be playing with my legos
 
2010-03-09 04:14:09 PM
medius: do let me know how the world is beyond your perception

in the meantime, i'll be playing with my legos


you sound dumb.
 
2010-03-09 04:15:34 PM
there's a perception we both share
 
2010-03-09 04:24:37 PM
medius: there's a perception we both share

conceded.

But how can a created word vary in definition, via perception (as you suggest), from the specific definition assigned by it's creator? Or are specific definitions all merely subjective? (from your perspective, of course...)
 
2010-03-09 04:38:21 PM
uttertosh: (from your perspective, of course...)

Once you create something and put it out into the world you largely lose control of it. You can try to amend, but you can't take back the original message. (First impressions, and all...)

Take George Lucas. (Please.) He thought Star Wars was his universe to tinker with as the creator. Fans bitterly disagreed.

There is a world of difference between intent and understanding. It is similar to the difference between reality as it really is, which is conjecture, though it can be educated conjecture--and our experience of it.

And even that experience we can never grasp entirely. As soon as we try to explain it, we're boxing a memory of a perception into a package that it may not 100% fit into. We then put that message out there, hoping that it carries some of our intended meaning with it, but once it's past our lips or once we hit "Add Comment" it's beyond our control and it's up to the recipient--if there is one, even if it is one of our alts--do then try to kind of decipher this imperfect communication and gain some, hopefully shared, understanding out of it.

Now can someone post some funny Lego pictures, please? The Brick Testament will do.
 
2010-03-09 04:40:28 PM
zepplinrules: It's only a matter of time before someone steals them.

My thought exactly --the boutique in SOHO blamed the city for taking the down. I blame drunk hipsters for stealing the legos.. LOL.
 
2010-03-09 05:17:15 PM
medius: uttertosh: (from your perspective, of course...)

Once you create something and put it out into the world you largely lose control of it. You can try to amend, but you can't take back the original message. (First impressions, and all...)

Take George Lucas. (Please.) He thought Star Wars was his universe to tinker with as the creator. Fans bitterly disagreed.



... *facepalm* I'm sorry, I had no idea just how dumb you actually were. derp.

please do continue playing with your "legos" (or as I perceive it: playing with your "penis")
 
2010-03-09 05:28:40 PM
I can't do that all day. I'm not a kid anymore.
 
2010-03-09 05:33:17 PM
I checked with my kid and a focus group consisting of all of the kids awaiting for all of the cumulative school buses that leave from that location, and all of the kids play with their legos at home.

Grammer natsi will be proven wrong by history as his generation slowly fades into the dusk of life.
 
2010-03-09 05:47:45 PM
Want a good laugh? With a serious face, ask any kid if he has a Lego at home...
 
2010-03-09 05:53:14 PM
E.S.Q.: Want a good laugh? With a serious face, ask any kid if he has a Lego at home...

what about if he has lego at home, numbnuts?
 
2010-03-09 05:56:18 PM
uttertosh: E.S.Q.: Want a good laugh? With a serious face, ask any kid if he has a Lego at home...

what about if he has lego at home, numbnuts?


What if he has *a* Lego?
 
2010-03-09 06:08:39 PM
E.S.Q.: uttertosh: E.S.Q.: Want a good laugh? With a serious face, ask any kid if he has a Lego at home...

what about if he has lego at home, numbnuts?

What if he has *a* Lego?


there is no such thing as "a lego", muppet. You can have a lego brick, a lego man, a lego (whatever), but never just "a lego"

So, if you were to ask a kid if he "has a lego at home", I hope your query would be met with the kind of contempt it deserves (and from a kid, no less, you farking derp!)

He might have lego at home, cos that's that's the collective term (or plural) for more than one piece of lego.

Why? how many sheeps do you have? derp.
 
2010-03-09 06:11:30 PM
it's like a reverse Lego(tm) troll in here

every single time this happens

/why we can't have nice things
 
2010-03-09 06:13:49 PM
I still play with Duplos. They won't let me have real Legos.

But someday...!
 
2010-03-09 06:16:24 PM
medius: it's like a reverse Lego(tm) troll in here

every single time this happens

/why we can't have nice things


oh, ffs...
 
2010-03-09 06:46:37 PM
uttertosh: E.S.Q.: uttertosh: E.S.Q.: Want a good laugh? With a serious face, ask any kid if he has a Lego at home...

what about if he has lego at home, numbnuts?

What if he has *a* Lego?

there is no such thing as "a lego", muppet. You can have a lego brick, a lego man, a lego (whatever), but never just "a lego"

So, if you were to ask a kid if he "has a lego at home", I hope your query would be met with the kind of contempt it deserves (and from a kid, no less, you farking derp!)

He might have lego at home, cos that's that's the collective term (or plural) for more than one piece of lego.

Why? how many sheeps do you have? derp.


I have no sheeps, but I have a lot of Legos...
 
2010-03-09 10:19:05 PM
www.brickshelf.com
 
2010-03-10 03:04:24 AM
E.S.Q.:

I have no sheeps, but I have a lot of Legos...


y'know, I always wanted my very own derp-o-meter... I think that phrase will adorn the top end. You've no real clue that you sound just as retarded saying sheeps as legos

link (like a zit on the face of a mcdonald's worker) to confirm and clarify your level of derp.

enjoy, derpwad!!
 
2010-03-10 09:09:20 AM
you are aware "derp" is a neologism?

it's a wonder that an originalist like you would have a vocabulary larger than a basic 20 words--hot, cold, light, dark, myself, other...

/let words evolve and leave my legos and sheeps alone
 
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