Well, somebody brought in a male stripper advertisement when Kestas started allowing banner ads. The males had three reactions. Latent homosexuals pretended they were offended while clicking the banner ad anyways. The homophobes threatened to DDOS the site. And the rest of us just got a good chuckle out of it. Then there was Obi and Putin and, well... Let's just say they were Obi and Putin.

Kestas decided against banner ads ever again.

Lol... Ah man you guys should of tried for female stripper ads. The reaction would of been much more amusing.

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See if you can figure which category Bo_sox was in. It wasn't the group that just sat back and chuckled. :-)

I actually don't remember this at all...

Not surprising. You had a meltdown when we had the guy call your mom at home and ask how you were doing since your evening together.

Oh, yeah. By the way, sorry for egging your house, I really didn't mean anything by that.

Yeah, um, I think fortknox wants to talk to you about that. Seems you got the wrong house in Cincinnati.

Ohhhhhhh shit...

Speaking of fortknox, anybody heard from him in a while? I used to talk with Josh all the time but haven't heard from him in a while.

You should go to his house. You evidently know where it is o_O

I believe he has been busy with RL stuff. That evil evil rl monster has been catching up to everyone lately.

Well, yes I do, bo. I know where he lives. I have his full name and he has mine. We are both in the same business so run in the same circles here in Cinci. He is an Eastsider and I am a Northsider, so about 25 miles between us around 275.

You crazy Ohioans... the only people I know that live 25 miles away from here are the ones in the high security penitentiary in Pendleton. Too much social media :o

You are in Indianapolis, right? Big city with absolutely no urban srawl. Cincinnati city is technically smaller than Indy in population, but the greater cinci region (urban sprawl) is ranked 14th in the nation because we have such affluent areas as West Chester and Blue Ash and Mason and Indian Hill and Fairfield and... Cincinnati is a big city but Greater Cincinnati actually consists of a lot of cities and townships making it's population over 2 million people. While Indianapolis is just an oversized small town of 900 thousand with another 850 thousand outliers in the "metropolitan area".

h and our circle freeway (I-275) is more than 80 miles around. Indy's (I-465) is a mere 57 and that surrounds all of your metro area where 275 doesn't begin to cover ours (Mason, West Chester, Fairfield, Hamilton, Middletown, Florence, Eastgate... All are outside the 275 loop).

Indianapolis has plenty of urban sprawl, more than most cities, but no, not as much as Cincinnati does. Indianapolis is one of the fastest growing areas in the country as well. I know more people in downtown Indy than I do out past Westfield in the fully rural areas.

To consider, the northern outskirts of what I would consider the suburbs of Indy is around 226th street. I live on 131st street. What people consider "downtown" would be 39th street and closer in my opinion.

And Indianapolis doesn't have that horribly annoying highway system where there are 25,000 exits in half a mile coming in like Cincinnati does so we win.

465 covers the ring... it doesn't cover the full metro area. There's a good eight to nine miles around it in each direction that are still what one might consider metropolitan areas.

MMCL

Damn I got lost somewhere (i know, bug surprise, right?) But a few posts ago you guys were arguing about being rural, now you're arguing about who's city is bigger?

I'm not arguing. Cincinnati is bigger than Indy; I can't really argue that one o_O

Though inner Cincinnati is drastically smaller of course.

@jece - 2150?

@phil - Understand that metropolitan areas can include urban, suburban, and rural. In Cinci's case, you have some rural areas out in Clermont and Brown counties as well as northern Warren County and down into Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana (Cinci is a three state region). The region covers an area of more than 4000 square miles in size. By contrast Indy's MSA is just over 500 square miles (527 IIRC). It has urban, some suburbs (not much sprawl but lots of growth) and quickly gets rural. By contrast, you have to get about 25 miles or more outside of downtown Cinci to find farm land. Growing up, that wasn't the case, but Cinci's suburbs spread far and wide outside Hamilton County in the late 80s and early 90s. But in Indy's defense, it is the only true "big city" in Indiana where as Ohio has Cinci/Dayton, Akron/Canton, Columbus, Cleveland, and Toledo. Even Kentucky has more "big cities" than Indiana (Louisville and Frankfurt).

Yes, the only people who live in Cincinnati are those who can't afford to escape it. :-) The city has a populace of less than 300,000. Everyone lives in the suburbs in townships, villages, and cities of their own (Fairfield, 42,000 strong, and my home or West Chester, now 90,000 strong but not nearly that big when I grew up there in the 70s and early 80s).

That's how most big cities are. That's what urban sprawl is. The rich move out and then keep the poor out through their wealth. It's like some magical line gets drawn... pretty typical USA city. Not pretty but reality.

Just that Cinci has plenty of wealth so fewer poor. However, it damn near killed downtown retail and restaurant business. There has been a new influx of recent grads going to work downtown and buying or renting condos/apartments in the renovated urban areas of downtown proper lately which is revitalizing downtown Cinci.

I don't know about that. Take a look at Chicago. Plenty of rich people live in Chicago itself. Hell it's extremely expensive to live in downtown Chicago for example.

Yeah, again like most big cities. Renovations of the projects. It really doesn't help the poor as much as it ends up bringing the wealth back into the inner city. They advertise it as helping the poor as a propaganda-esque motive to put money into it. Urbanization, though, will in the long run lead to more urban sprawl, which will lead to more urbanization, and the cycle continues. Nothing more than a basic fact of city life since the Industrial Revolution.