In all fairness, from personal experience, it took me a few trips to get it right when I starting using the NY subways…
Not quite as bad as H.W. and the checkout scanner, but close…
This absolutely disqualifies her for the office.
She’s pretty much an unknown, so we have to judge her on the little things we learn during the campaign.
Solid logic like this is why we’ve never been forced to use the obscure impeachment clause regarding the proper way to hold a slice.
As someone who goes through a NYC subway turnstile a minimum of 10 times a week and usually more, I consider it a miracle when there’s not at least one day when I have to swipe multiple times, and that’s without someone talking to me as I’m doing it and a TV camera in my face.
Also, de Blasio, if you’re reading TPM, can you fix their comment log-in system. Thanks!
Anyone who doesn’t know the Right Way is probably an alien (the non-Earthling kind).
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I honestly like her sense of humor - I think she’s truly funny when she is relaxed.
Meh, real pizza (Chicago style stuffed deep dish) is eaten with a knife and fork.
Heathens!
It’d have been funny if she’d just jumped over it…then pulled out an ukulele and played some tunes for pocket change.
…and then got busted for panhandling or loitering.
Actually, you should’ve written the skit for SNL last night. Your idea is a hell of a lot better than theirs was in the funny-bone department.
O - I have to differ. Real pizza from Naples, where it was invented, is nothing like that. It’s thin, there isn’t too much sauce, the star is the mozzarella. Divine. To die for. The place is on the waterfront by the castle and i’ve been there twice and cannot remember the name. When I go back this year, I’m writing it down dammit.
Chicago Deep Dish can taste great, but as you say it’s not even remotely real “pizza”.
Thin crust and not much sauce is indeed proper. And the quality of the mozzarella is also important. If it turns yellow when baked, it’s not good mozzarella.
Or, how the mainstream media will report this story:
“Hillary to Horses: Drop Dead!”
Yah - mozzarella. We went to mozzarella fattorias outside of Paestum and Alberobello. Visited a bufalo mozzarella fattoria and a moucha mozzarella fattoria.
Mozzarella is a religion in the Mezzogiorno.
Heh. I live in Naples when I was very young (military brat and my dad was stationed at the NATO base just north of Napoli).
But real pizza for me will always be Bacino’s stuffed pizza at Lincoln Park in Chicago. Damn, now my mouth is literally watering typing that.
As someone who is employed as a transportation planner in a NYC agency I am somewhat familiar with the Metrocard technology. It’s around 25 years old and was designed by the MTA and a company called Cubic. The card was introduced in 1994 and after a couple of years was programmed to allow free transfers between buses and other subway lines. This is one of many reasons why ridership is at a 65 year high. Occasionally the card readers at the turnstiles can get dirty and sticky and cause the card not to be read and need to be swiped more than once which is probably what happened to the secretary. They are due to be replaced in around 2020-22 with a contactless reader that can work off of ones cell phone or bank card. The beauty of a new system is you can use the market and vary fares by time of day. Enough with the manufactured outrage over a non-issue. I’m glad she managed to get in a joke about it.
Or Hillary is anti-cab or anti Uber.
The NYC card swipe system goes back several decades, although not surprisingly Bernie thinks maybe you still use tokens. The central computer hookup is pretty advanced for the time, but the card reader system is long overdue for replacement. In London they have had Oyster Cards for years, and DC Metro does now also. You just touch it with your card, which can even be inside a wallet. Fast. Works. NYC is going to that system…someday.
The card swipe system is particularly bad on buses, where you have to stick it in a slot THE RIGHT WAY, wait for it to swallow it, read it, and pop it back up. For…each…rider…getting…on. Or at the single gate subway entrance near me, with five people backed up trying to get to work and the person at the gate trying different cards to see if one has money on it.
Hell yeah! Chicago style for the win. All day. Have never been particularly impressed with NY pizza, but I can’t even think about turning down a slice of deep dish.