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    You can make it fat.
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    It's great unless you live across the street as my wife and I once did. Let me strike that. It was great unless the bride and groom went cheap on the band or worse, entertained their guests with karaoke. Some evenings my lullaby was sung by the human equivalent of a rutting tomcat.
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    It's like waking up after a particularly heinous bender only to discover huge gaps missing from memory. I could swear there were more things that happened, but for the life of me, I don't know what they were.
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    Emo Building?* * I only have Paint at work, not Photoshop, so don't be too critical of my artistic genius.
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    Totally. In Downtown alone, Pennzoil, BofA, Heritage Plaza, the Chevron buildings and Wells Fargo don't stand out in the least. Booooring.
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    No doubt. Everyone knows Scandanavian Euro porn is actually all the rage.
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    And I think Houston's a top city for married white dudes too. Hey look at that, ebony and ivory and married and single are all benefiting from our humble hamlet.
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    The only team I hate is the Cardinals. I don't hate their fans though. Cards fans are generally pretty fun.
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    Vernon Maxwell, wtf?
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    Me too. I couldn't care less about the Texans, but my hatred of the Cowboys knows no limits.
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    It's not just you.
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    It's a hobo snow-cone.
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    Man, that is smoother than anything Billy Dee Williams could dream up.
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    I'm down with that. Let's shut off those street lamps too. My disagreement with excessive light isn't limited to Downtown.
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    Not coincidentally, Sysco distributes frozen pizza. Not 40s though. You'll have to get your Mickey's from another outlet. I think the East End still has a handful of check cashing/malt liquor distribution centers laying around.
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    Your observational skills are starting to fail you. You might try eating more brain food, like salmon or pickled pigs feet.
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    No chemical plants or refineries have been built anywhere in the US since the seventies, yet I clearly remember being able to see many stars at night as a Houstonian child in the 80s. I don't buy that it's just the refineries, or even mostly the refineries.
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    In that case, let's look at it from a purely evolutionary perspective. We evolved as diurnal creatures that occupy the day. Existing outside this niche disrupts our circadian rhythms, and over a long enough timeline this can cause havoc to us psychologically, neurologically and physiologically. Google works just as well on everyone else's computers, so I'll allow you all to do your own research to verify the accuracy of that statement. Now, take this concept and stretch it beyond humanity, to a wacky world where other animals exist, and extrapolate the real impact of light pollution to them. If it causes us mental and physical problems to be bombarded by constant intrusive lighting, imagine what it does to those animals that have little to no comprehension of what they do or why they do it nor the impact of external factors on their behavior. I have no pictures, but here's a little reading material for those who want bigger, better, faster and more powerful night lighting in Houston just for the sake of having it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text If there exists no reason (that can be adequately articulated) for more lighting, then we don't need it. This isn't an opinion. It's a conclusion based on what's best for us and the rest of the inhabitants of this planet. Wanting more light for the sake of more light is irresponsible at best.
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    My opinion is that clouds are made of cotton candy. Disagree or not, it's my opinion and therefore no one can dispute it. I'll never need to justify my words because they're opinions. Reasoned justifications are for those fact-obsessed sociopaths, amirite? Other opinions I have (and that are therefore impossible to disagree with): The Holocaust never happened. Frogs and toads are the same thing, and their urine will give you warts. 2 + 2 = 1 bazillion. Prayer will cure cancer so doctors are unnecessary. All Katy residents are racists. Water is poison; people can survive on Coca-Cola alone. Adult brown bears make excellent playmates for children. A barbed-wire tattoo is unique. The current pope is as good and moral as the last pope. Mountain tops all need to be removed - regardless of whether or not coal is present beneath. Other people have valid opinions.
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    I disagree. The older I get, the more my patience wears thin for spectacle movies that necessitate a big screen (except Batman movies), and the low-budget character movies I prefer can be seen on any size screen. A movie shouldn't cost as much as a live theater production. I also don't think attending a movie should be an event in and of itself. Valet parking is a ridiculous idea for a movie theater.
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    RedScare just said that your reason was flawed, but he didn't reject your idea altogether. It appears to me Niche has just been playing devil's advocate and doesn't really care one way or the other, but he did want to hear a compelling reason for your position. I think of the people you listed, I may be the only one who actively disagrees with you, and I don't think I've made one attack. I'm just expressing a differing viewpoint from your own. Why is it you expect me to respect your opinion, but you don't wish to grant me the same regard? I don't understand the mentality of a person who will express a potentially contentious point-of-view and then get upset when people actually have the audacity to disagree. Just because you and I disagree does not mean I'm attacking you. And just because other people want to hear legitimate reasons for your point-of-view doesn't mean they're attacking you either. Geez.
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    How do you figure? Is a progressive lighting scheme an antiquated throwback to a bygone era? Hanuman's idea is as simple a flipping a switch, and if enough people think it's a worthwhile idea it'll happen, regardless of geography or place in time. And if you can't get people to change voluntarily, there's precedent for legislation. During droughts, municipalities have no problem limiting water usage. You can only have your stereo so loud before getting a ticket for noise violation. It wouldn't be that difficult to enact similar measures for nightly light output.
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    I think your use of the word progressive to describe more lighting is misguided. As the term is often ascribed to liberalism, and as liberalism in general deplores wasted energy and destructive environmental practices, and as having a boatload of lights on at night is wasteful and potentially destructive, I think what you're a proponent of is actually a regressive lighting scheme. No amount of LEED certifications will negate the fact it makes more sense environmentally to leave the lights off than on. I'm in total agreement with Hanuman on this issue. Let's have more dark space in the city. I'd like to be able to point out Orion or the Big Dipper to my children someday* (without having to go to the boondocks to do it). *Why won't anyone think about the children?!!
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    Not to be pedantic... but technically that was an ad hominem attack. Even by the loosest rules. Even if you didn't mean any disrespect. Even if no one was offended. Perhaps we should change the wording from attack to assault (class B misdemeanor).
  25. AtticaFlinch
    It's the Southern Baptists you're thinking of. And actually, they can dance. They're just not allowed to move their feet.
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