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DO you like to visit parks? Does anyone without a dog use or enjoy them?

I like when a town smatters them all over residential neighborhoods for the kids to play in the day and the teens to bust out of their parents' house and smoke weed in at night. They cheer up a neighborhood.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, several times a week. but, uh, we have two dogs.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

DO you like to visit parks? Does anyone without a dog use or enjoy them?

yes, and what kind of dumb question is that second one?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he's just curious if anyone besides dog owners employ them.

At our neighborhood park (read: the hood) it's packed on the weekends with dudes playing soccer and families having birthday parties. On the more posh side of town the park is full of joggers and bikers. All parks here are always awash with frisbee golfers.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, but more so in the summer.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Abbott is a she. I use parks. They're nice to walk in. And picnic in. I don't have a dog.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I live across the street from a little park, it's fantastic. Major factor in our decision to buy this house--we can mow our yard with pinking shears but have a playground and greenspace out the window!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't have a dog.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a dog. he is in a much better place now. but he's not dead.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

are you the guy who gave us bandit?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually never go to parks! Or only if other people want to. I should, I almost always enjoy it, but having grown up in the country I kind of take it for granted, I guess, and figure it will be there if I want it at a later date -- an unwise sentiment, I know.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

parks are great! i go to them. they are good for walking to and in.
(though i avoid at night, usually.)
haha, yeah, i grew up in the city.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Aha, I hate walking! As Robyn knows. So maybe I only like parks for the 3-ish months of the NYC year that it's comfortable to sit in them.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I love across from a park too and it is indeed fantastic! It means my yard can be made of PECAN SHELLS, too!

A bazillion kids live in the neighbs and I have a rep now as 'nice grown-up who lets you play with her dog but won't let you practice soccer with her.'

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I love across from a park
parks are also good for exhibitionists, true

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf laurel, you live right by prospect park too, right?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, pecan shells yard? your yard is all 'fuck you, squirels! yes, that's right, they are all EMPTY, ha'

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i cannot spell things

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Stence, and I live even closer to it now.

R: but you can wub things, and that's what matters.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

squirrels. was almost there.
xpost
true!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i wub walking. but i don't wear heels, usually. i mean, you really can't walk all that far in heels no matter how good at it you are - i mean, i walk for an hour+ to get downtown. i also prefer walking to public transit. and walking fast. though in a park, one strolls, right? you can stroll, laurel.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, laurel, please don't be a retard. go to prospect park, like, a lot. it might just be the best city park in the country (it's definitely the best one in new york).

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Stencil, I will be precisely as retarded as I please; the library interests me far more than the park and is climate-controlled. :D

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

it was only five degrees cooler than l.a. in nyc today, you retard.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't get home from workday until almost 9pm and I owe my roommates some chores so it's a moot point. Stop being so grouchy, it's making me even more contrary than usual.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not being grouchy, prospect park is really that good of a park. stop depriving yourself.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, who would guess that a thread with such lovely potential would degenerate to such vituperation! All of you, go out for a walk in the park, now!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll go in the spring, when being outside makes me happy. Right now I want freezing cold winter weather and hibernation! I was just at home in MI for the hols, we're seasonal like that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

talk to me about winter weather when you get stuck in an airport for two days.

that said, i still walked around albuquerque on friday night, in the snow, because i love winter weather.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

it seems like Minneapolis has a lot of parks. and during the winter they sometimes scoop out dirt, fill with water=giant iceskating rink dedicated to your neighborhood, and folks hardly ever use them so it is really fun. we took pets, thermos full of hotchocolate+booze.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Winter is a turning-inward time for me, I am waiting hopefully for the weather to change and make the indoors a refuge and going outside an adventure all its own. I just moved in Nov-Dec and would like my first winter in this homey place to start anytime now! But okay, parks! This year if it ever snows we MUST GO SLEDDING.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I love walking in the winter, because there aren't so many other people around. My dog is not always gentlemanly around other dogs—at 16 yrs old he still thinks he's bad. Much potential for embarrassment. Plus I love cold air in my face, that pinched-nostril effect. And it's so amazingly clear!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

sure, i'll go sledding. in prospect park.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm pretty sure sledding is not retarded!
xpost, yeah!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

as far as winter sports/recreation goes, no, sledding is not retarded. not sure i can say the same about curling, tho.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

curling is really fun and requires thinking!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

you cannot convince me that any thinking is required with that 'sport.' sorry to offend, y'all should stick to claiming hockey as the national sport or something.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i believe lacrosse is canada's national sport. unless you were talking about the former czechoslovakia. i think it was their national sport.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought the injuns invented lacrosse? wtf, did whitey steal THAT from them too?!?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

lacrosse is the official cdn sport but obv hockey is more important.

curling requires some thinking and strategy. it's not quantum physics but is any sport?

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

wormhole tobogganing

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

downhill wave-particle duality

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

strategery

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

multiverse luge

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Seattle is chock-full-o'parks, many designed by that Olmstead (?) guy that did Central Park in NYC. They are lovely for hanging out in, almost any time of the year it is not pouring rain. The best park day from last year involved drinking beer with our kids on the shore of Lake Washington near the Madrona boathouse while the dog (but uh - not OUR dog, our grand-dog) fetched stuff from the lake.

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

that would Henry L. Olmstead, he also designed the park system in Louisville.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaq, that sounds like a perfect day! Loaner dogs are good, especially dogs who like to fetch things. That gets old after the first delightful hour.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

lacrosse is our summer sport
hockey is our winter sport

we have no fall or spring offical sports

― FUCKTHISSHIT (JACKLOVE), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

my place at school is across from a small park/community center and every day there are kids from the neighborhood playing soccer or little league. it's nice to see. i don't really use that park though because it's just a small athletic field and i don't play any sports.

i'm a little park-ed out right now because i just finished a course on public space and we talked about parks all semester long.

frederick law olmsted designed central park. and his sons were in the business too, so they built some of those "olmsted" parks as well.

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

frederick, why did i think his name was henry? duh.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Loaner dogs are good

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/343575416_675cee4c85_o.jpg

This is so true. I think I make a better pet sitter/dog walker than dog owner.

I think it was Frederick Olmsted who did Seattle's parks - he had a vision of greenspace ringing the city.

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I make a better pet sitter/dog walker than dog owner.

it usually works out this way

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Since I don't have a dog at the moment :( I don't really go in parks. I just feel strange walking around a park without a dog, plus you see all the other dog owners and they ask where your dog is, and...

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i spent many a sunday morning this spring/summer waiting for my hangover to pass by sitting under a tree in wicker park with a large iced coffee and half a pack of cigarettes. i'd usually bring a book in case the people watching got boring but it rarely did.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and I forgot to brag on st louis' forest park--bigger than central park I think and full of great free stuff. the history museum, art museum, and the zoo are all there and they are all free!

there was an article in the paper about the lack of greenspace in a booming exurb of st louis, it grew so fast and the city didn't set aside any land....

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yes, I love parks.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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