Wonkette
Great photo here from Pittsburgh, the growing & thriving American business city! Huh? Oh, nevermind, 1958 ended a while ago. Tomorrow Pittsburgh will host the latest G20 conference, but NO FOREIGNS ALLOWED. [Flickr]
WACKY PHOTOS
Seriously, that is what we in Pittsburgh call a state park (Really. Point State Park needs fixed yinz guys).
Spiffy!
Gotta keep the riffraff away from the elites, of course
I hope they consign the papier-mache-puppet-head brigades to one of those “freedom cages” miles away from any actual events. Because it would just be terrible if all these powerful people were to find out that somebody, somewhere, thinks the current system is screwed up. Imagine their dismay!
OK - I’ll be the first to say it.
I think this would be somewhat funnier if I could actually read what that blue sign says.
Pittsburgh — okay. I guess Bayonne was full up or something.
Where is Frick with his Union Busting Army when you REALLY need him.
That’s quite a coup for Pittsburgh. The G20 should bring a lot of business to local bail bondsmen, window repairmen, and that one vegetarian restaurant.
Tundra Grifter: You can if you click through to Flickr. It says “WALKWAY TO NORTH SHORE CLOSED”
I’ll take two pickets to Tittsburgh, please!
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What, nothing? Not even you, Grandpa?
When the fuck did the Minutemen take over Pittsburgh?
Isn’t about time the Steelers changed their name? When’s the last time steel was made in Pittsburgh?
hobospacejunkie: To what, “The MethMakers”?
Scarab: Cmon, don’t they have hookers and bars there?
Unless 19 of those countries are Libya in different costumes, then Pittsburgh is just not worth it (for the nth year in a row). Everything King of Africa speaks is truth etched in liberty.
jagorev: Really? Because the plastic barricades and chain-link fence wouldn’t have tipped anyone off.
hobospacejunkie: Hey, watch it there, don’t piss off steelers fans, we’ll find out where you live.
I once hitchhiked from White Plains to Pittsburgh. In the sixties. With Martin Davis. Those were the days. Never been back that I can remember. It blends in my mind with Glasgow.
Pittsburgh: City of funny gynecologists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWp4-bM2ADk
Snarkalicious: Clever!
Pittsburgh is as moribund as the GOP. Only Mitt Romney could save this town. Welcome to Mittsburgh!!
What, no barbed wire?
Embrace the suck, world!
That’s not a very immaculate reception.
sistagurl: Africa the country, or the continent? Because I heard that accolade belonged to Obama, being all Kenyan like that…
That is one of the best photos ever taken, ever. Who took this photo? I WILL PAY IN CASH.
Each of the G20 delegates will leave with a “B” carved in his/her face.
if they held the conference in california, the golden state could auction it to make some money.
Take ‘em all on a tour of the local gems…Braddock and Turtle Creek.
hobospacejunkie: Sorry, it still is.
That’s a funny picture and all, but at least the bridge to nowhere has been finished.
Extra points for anyone old enough to get that reference.
Also.
Jim89048: For Mr. Obama personally, however, he had only warm words, calling on the collected nations to welcome “our son” on the occasion of his first United Nations appearance. “We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as the president of America,” he said…
As Prince President for FOREVORE, Obama stands to inherit all but French-speaking Africa. This includes Russia.
things Pittsburgh has that DC does not:
great blue collar food
many good local beers
cheap rent
cable car up the mountainside
trolley cars
three rivers
professional football
andy warhol museum
things DC has that Pittsburg does not:
politicians and their aides
universities … oh wait, Carnegie Mellon and Pitt …
high priced restaurants for lobbyists
lobbyists
stifling regulations
more subway lines
smithsonian museums
excellent enforcement of parking regulations
Capitol Hillbilly:
Things DC has that PGH doesn’t
Jobs
Salads without Fries
Houses people want to live in
The graduates of Pitt and CMU
A future
Capitol Hillbilly:
Another Stanley Cup.
SayItWithWookies: One of the rules I live my life by is “If it smells like Bayonne, leave it alone”
Capitol Hillbilly:
Great blue collar food? You mean jumbo and chipped ham? Putting french fries inside the sandwich rather than beside it? Yinze need to get out of don-ton DC if you think we don’t have good blue collar food here.
Pennsylvania’s biggest export? People.
Capitol Hillbilly: Know what else Pittsburgh has? THE G20 BAY-BEEE!
Suck on that, Dipshit of Columbia! You are SOOO jealous right now! HAHAHA!!!
mookworthjwilson:
Oh, there’s worse than Bayonne. Have you been through Elizabeth, NJ? How to I describe the smell? Take the smell of dozens of paper mills, add a hearty dose of open toxic waste pits, mix in the smell of mountains of decaying flesh. Elizabeth, NJ, smells worse than that.
I have friends and clients in Pittsburgh, but I can’t seem to bring myself to tell them that there aren’t really 3 rivers in Pittsburgh. There are actually just 2 rivers. They just give them 3 names!!
For those of you going ‘Huh?’ and native Pittsburgher, the fact is, lots of cities have two rivers meet. Pittsburgh is nothing special in that regard. But in Pittsburgh, after the rivers meet, they just call it ‘Ohio’. Everywhere else, one of the rivers absorbs the other but keeps it’s name.
Capitol Hillbilly: And a 6th Super Bowl Trophy….also.
jagorev: Thank you!
Dangerous: dude, only anarchists would refute pittsburgh’s three rivers, the confluence of which forms a frikkin’ geographical peace sign, man. if only other cities would redd up their joints once in a while, even when it’s slippy.
Terry: pirogies, hoagies, sausages etc … cheap … in the city, not 15 miles out in a strip mall … with a good local beer for three bucks or less.
hobospacejunkie: Steel has been made in Pittsburgh more recently than Redskins lived along the shores of the Potomac.
mardam422: I get it. AND for added benefit, there are now some things you’d want to go to on the other side.
Dangerous: There is an underground river in Pittsburgh that is unseeable but indispensable to the city’s riverine ecosystem. It would be called an aquifer, but since it runs along a channel, it is more appropriately called a river. The water is constantly 55 degrees, has no bacteria, and is the source of some of Pittsburgh’s drinking water. It also supplies the water that gushes out of the fountain in Point State Park. The Allegheny, the Monongahela, and that other thing. So there.
Dangerous: Ahh, we know. The Allegheny River was originally a portion of the Ohio River, and considered so as far back as the Six Tribes, who lived there. White men began calling the river Allegheny, which was the Indian name for the surrounding area.
The more you know.
Capitol Hillbilly:
Time to get off Capitol Hill, Dude.
You got me on the beer, though. I drink Yuengling.
Go shopping! Avoid potential targets! Go out to the movies or the theater! Avoid places where large numbers of people congregate! Remain calm! Threat level orange! Go on about your usual business! Terror terror terror!
Capitol Hillbilly: Pittsburgh: the place where Flashdance took place that is 8 hours from Philadelphia!
Second slogan: Better than DC? It has to be! Pittsburgh.
Capitol Hillbilly: ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, MOTHERFUKERZ!!! EAT IT!
Someone should clean those oil or skid marks on the pavement with a good warsh-rag.
TubeCity: …and presumably someone has bundled some warsh-rags with a gumband…
Capitol Hillbilly: Pittsburgh has the living dead, from that documentary.
Santorum is from Pennswillvania.
end discussion.
“If you go by Beaver Falls
Be sure to stop
And make some calls.”
(From a localized version of BomKauf’s “Green Green Rocky Road” - sung at the Shadyside Picnic in the 60’s.)
sleepy: bong hits for all of the rivers; for the house, man…
dude; I canoed on the fourth river, the clarion. look it up on the map, it was a blast…
well i am not from pittsburgh but i am in pittsburgh this week for the very stupidest of (non g20) reasons and i have to say:
1. it is very pretty
2. pitts seems to be dealing with all this rather more effectively than my hometown chi (’i could parachute me there’) or adopted city LA (’Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles’) ever ever EVER could. i don’t know about NY.
tho that fries on salad thing. that’s weird.
still, rock on pittsburgh.
I used to be ambivalent about Pittsburgh, until every. single. one. of their residents decided to get haughty and smartassed with the “we’re not Detroit” (I’m from Detroit) meme they all so love to parrot. For fucks sake, Detroit proper may be losing people, but your entire damned metropolitan has been bleeding people out of the ass for fucking decades.
We’re coming to kick yinz ass, you Appalachian hillbillies. Eat it.
shortsshortsshorts: …and it doesn’t even need a blingee!