Amazon "Bic for Her" Customer reviews

Hilarious. This is one meme I can get behind - outlandish reviews for
run of the mill products.

"Normally I only use pens designed and created for real men, in
colours appropriate to such instruments of masculinity - black like my
chest hair or blue like the steely glint of my eyes, or the metallic
paintwork of my convertible Mustang sportscar. Imagine then the
situation I found myself in when, upon taking delivery of another
shipment of motorbike parts and footballs, I reached for and grasped
not my normal BIC pen, but a `BIC for Her Amber Medium Ballpoint Pen'
(evidently ordered by my well-meaning, but ill-informed girlfriend
whilst my back was turned). I knew something was wrong when I had to
physically restrain my hands, gnarled and worn from a lifetime of
rock-climbing and shark wrestling, from crushing the fragile implement
like a Faberge egg. Things only went downhill from there."

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/review/B004FTGJUW/R22GNV12AWX5GW?cursor=1&sort=rd


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Bloomberg's Brilliant Waterfront Defense Plan -- Daily Intelligencer

There's plenty to be critical of in this policy area over the course of Bloomberg's reign - where was this thinking before?

Leaving that aside, there is a lot of merit on these proposals and its a good conversation starter. 

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/bloombergs-brilliant-waterfront-defense-plan.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintelligencer+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29

The proposals themselves:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/index.html

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Nice work if you can get it » Lawyers, Guns & Money

Sometimes I wonder where everybody in this city gets the huge piles of
money necessary to buy outrageously expensive homes and the basics of
a middle class existence.

Then I read something like this and instead I wonder: Am I the only
sucker in this town who's not a featherbedding amoral grifter?

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/06/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-2


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Crains Published A Puzzling Opinion Piece

Someone should tell Steve Hindy that 1 Hanson Place is already at best
only the third-tallest building in Brooklyn. The Brooklyner took the
honors a couple of years ago and in turn was recently unseated.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130609/OPINION/306099979&template=smartphone


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Weekend work impacting 10 subway lines :: Second Ave. Sagas

Not too bad.

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/06/07/weekend-work-impacting-10-subway-lines/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SecondAveSagas+%28Second+Ave.+Sagas+%7C+Blogging+the+NYC+Subways%29


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G Train Hell: Greenpoint Tunnel Will Be Closed For 12 Weekends: Gothamist

Damn. This isn't good news either. But we have an old system. The
work must get done.

http://gothamist.com/2013/06/05/g_train_hell_greenpoint_tunnel_will.php


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The Bad News: A 12-14 month outage for the R’s Montague Tube :: Second Ave. Sagas

Ouch. For those who thought R train service couldn't get any worse: at
least a year long outage between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The good news: convenient connections in either side, the R train was
already slow and terrible, and the distant possibility that the
repairs will include some upgrades that improve service a little bit
when it returns.

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/06/05/the-bad-news-a-12-14-month-outage-for-the-rs-montague-tube/


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