Slope, I should check out the prison. My cousins are originally from Northeast and we used to go there. They still have some friends that live in NE but my older cousins with kids moved to Bucks county (Holland, Richboro, Newtown) and younger moved to Center City so now I barely go to NE anymore unless we go to a Russian Restaurant or something.
DIBS, history is soooo much more complicated than that. Among other things, it was a system that was unsustainable over the long haul, as I think you would agree. As but one example, days before the wall opened, E. German leaders learned that their economy was unsustainable due to such low productivity that they were going to have to take the standard of living down 25-30% immediately. I think they were scared shitless about their economic choices and about how hard they would need to keep cracking down on civic life. In Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 started in, well, ’77. In Poland, the reverberations of the Gdansk strike and Solidarnosc continued throughout the 80s. Lots and lots of forces, internal and external, led to the fall. (And, of course, E. German citizens couldn’t wait to join West Germany, with its robust democracy, strong unions, and comprehensive health care.;) [ducking for cover])
Maclaren Recalls U.S. Strollers After Kids’ Fingers Amputated
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Maclaren USA Inc., the maker of baby carriages, is recalling all umbrella strollers sold in the U.S. after receiving reports of 12 kids who had their fingertips amputated by the side hinges over the past 10 years.
Maclaren USA, a South Norwalk, Connecticut-based unit of the closely held U.K. company, has been working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on the voluntary recall, Charlotte Addison, a spokeswoman for Maclaren, said today.
The company, which has been selling strollers in the U.S. since 1999, will send protective covers to all owners for the side hinges, Addison said. Parents should keep children away from the carriages when opening and closing them, she said.
ah.. actually im not a stroller hater, believe it or not. strollers are inanimate objects. it’s the cargo and the pushers that are problematic.
*rob*
rob, the umbrella strollers are small. They fold up like umbrellas, hence the name. They are like vespas compared the SUV strollers you hate.
Slope, I should check out the prison. My cousins are originally from Northeast and we used to go there. They still have some friends that live in NE but my older cousins with kids moved to Bucks county (Holland, Richboro, Newtown) and younger moved to Center City so now I barely go to NE anymore unless we go to a Russian Restaurant or something.
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The company, which has been selling strollers in the U.S. since 1999, will send protective covers to all owners for the side hinges,
great, so now those f-ing things are going to be even BIGGER?
*rob*
DIBS, history is soooo much more complicated than that. Among other things, it was a system that was unsustainable over the long haul, as I think you would agree. As but one example, days before the wall opened, E. German leaders learned that their economy was unsustainable due to such low productivity that they were going to have to take the standard of living down 25-30% immediately. I think they were scared shitless about their economic choices and about how hard they would need to keep cracking down on civic life. In Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 started in, well, ’77. In Poland, the reverberations of the Gdansk strike and Solidarnosc continued throughout the 80s. Lots and lots of forces, internal and external, led to the fall. (And, of course, E. German citizens couldn’t wait to join West Germany, with its robust democracy, strong unions, and comprehensive health care.;) [ducking for cover])
WHOOOOAAAAA….Big News for Park Slope Parents…..
Maclaren Recalls U.S. Strollers After Kids’ Fingers Amputated
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Maclaren USA Inc., the maker of baby carriages, is recalling all umbrella strollers sold in the U.S. after receiving reports of 12 kids who had their fingertips amputated by the side hinges over the past 10 years.
Maclaren USA, a South Norwalk, Connecticut-based unit of the closely held U.K. company, has been working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on the voluntary recall, Charlotte Addison, a spokeswoman for Maclaren, said today.
The company, which has been selling strollers in the U.S. since 1999, will send protective covers to all owners for the side hinges, Addison said. Parents should keep children away from the carriages when opening and closing them, she said.
I thought you were going to join the Food Coop and work extra shifts.
get a part time evening job. Extra money you can stash away and won’t be sitting in your room alone. Might meet some nice people.
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Pick someone up, rob.
i dont want to.
*rob*