proof ! You have backed up a questionable lofty claim (gifted level IO ) with yet another questionable lofty claim.(That you are an insanely talented trader) There is no tangible proof anywhere of anything. The fact that you genuinely believe that a fleeting comment on a football messageboard is proof of anything is further testament to the fact that you have beyond doubt greatly inflated your own intelligence/achievements.
So true. i prefer Buffets quote - Wall Street the only place where people drive in to it in Rolls Royces to take advice from people who take the subway
The drummer, singer and me are all married men, and our bass player is in a steady/serious relationship, so being "pussy-magnets" is wasted on us, anyway. Only our keyboardist is single, and the hot chicks don't seem to go for keyboard players.
I lived in midtown when I worked there, so had to take the subway downtown. I hated it, it was a ****ing dangerous place in those days. I'd never get on it after 9 p.m. Took a cab home instead!
I lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn and used to cycle to Tribeca when I worked on a fledgling health and well-being project out there. I often found that New York, like London is easier to traverse on bike or foot that by subway/underground.
I had an Italian-American colleague whose family had "connections" After a boozy Friday night, a group of us went to his Uncle's restaurant in Brooklyn. We had a fantastic night and we weren't allowed to pay for anything. I offered to buy drinks and was told by his Uncle, "Kid, your money's no ****in' good in here" which means don't insult me by trying to pay!! There were a few guys there with loads of gold chains, watches, etc. I asked my colleague, jokingly, what they did for a living and was told, "don't ask!!"
I loved Brooklyn. I spent most of my time in Park Slope, in and around Prospect park and the Botanical gardens and frequenting the many coffee shops this side of Flatbush Ave. It reminded me a lot of Greenwich Park near where I grew up. Weekends we used to go out to Coney Island or Rockaway for surf and then have steamed clams and cold beer after I remember the first time I rode on the Cyclone, it was like being in a car crash. I had whiplash for a week and swore I'd never go on that rickety old thing again. There used to be a great 'attraction' there called Shoot the freak, which was basically an old demolition site that some enterprising lads had turned into a paintball arena. You paid $3 for 20 shots and a bloke would run out from behind various old oil drums with a shield and you had to try and shoot him ... brilliant fun. Rockaway was great for surf and seafood and a nice place to get out of the city for a few hours. I used to love the fact that I could take a surfboard on the A train from Borough hall in the heart of Brooklyn all the way to the beach at Rockaway.
I lived in the Paramount Hotel off and on for two years. Just off Times Square. Unbelievably noisy so sleep was nigh on impossible and completely inappropriate to be used as a business hotel. As a result New York was not a fun place for me!
All changed now, I know, but In the days I lived there, all that area - Grand Central down to Times Square was a ****hole, full of hookers and porn cinemas.
I liked Boston too. Also Chicago. The best of the lot though was San Diego. Great place. Didn't like Dallas or LA, was slightly scared of Oklahoma and in particular Tulsa. Only place I've ever been introduced to a guy's wife and sister when there was only one woman present. This was 2001-4. It was tourist central. The office was up by the Warwick Hotel where I actually ended up moving to. I paid the difference between our corporate rate at the madhouse and the deal I got at The Warwick out of my own pocket as I was so ****ing tired!
Times Sq is a nightmare of tourists and hawkers. My favourite places in Manhattan were a little Italian ice cream shop on Bleeker St, that was also a theatre around the back. Upper West side near the Natural History museum walking across Central Park to MoMA and the cobbled streets and cafes in Tribeca. I used to have a mate who was a Firefighter at Hook and Ladder 8, (before he moved out to Rockaway) Hook and Ladder 8 is the Fire House where Ghostbusters was filmed. They used to have a massive Ghostbusters plastic sign hanging from the wall and a collection of melted telephones from office fires.
I used to go to a pub on Bleeker to watch the football. Think it was called the Red Lion. I specifically remember watching Arsenal beat United at OT to win the league. Wiltord scored. As I said, NY wasn't a fun place for me!
I went to Cambridge, and had an exchange visit with Harvard. A friend of mine lived in Maine, just a way down the coast, and I loved that place, too, when I come to think of it.
I went to Cambridge to get my honours degree. I did my masters at Oxford before lecturing at Harvard. I then bought Princeton where I played many gigs. That's where I got to grips with what a s106 agreement is...! I am now King of Europe.
I loved Bleeker St and Lafayette. I used to ride my bike around there and then out along Houston St to the Hudson. There are so many pockets of tranquilty in Manhattan, that are especially easy to find on a bike. It wasn't finished when I was there but they had started a project to turn some of the disused elevated subway lines into gardens and cafes around that area.
