the cannon!

actually, super weird, i think you'll find that my concern, as repeatedly stated, was not and continues not to be whether you thought anything was funny, but was, and continues to be, based entirely around the fact that you were erroneously and repeatedly characterizing OP as some kind of predatory pervert targeting young women based entirely on your pretty severe misread of said joke, which is, hey, pretty fucked up of you, actually!

so weird, it really was, and so was this in the comment immediately following that one:

***"***you don’t have to find it funny"

nobody was in here arguing about "whether Kbts87 thinks this joke was funny". nobody, in fact, particularly cares whether Ktbs87 thinks it's funny.

what we WERE arguing about, up until you very abruptly veered entirely from it just now, was whether he was "a 40 year old dude proposing that he get a 20 year old college student pregnant and baby trap her," which you insisted he was. aaand he's not. you were wrong. the end. the rest of this shit never entered the conversation. well, bye!

yes, indeed: the joking advice, once again, in the quote YOU QUOTED YOURSELF in the link above: "GET A TOWNIE PREGNANT," and in the comment following, explaining that this would be making the fake yalie in question who completed this act a "REAL NEW HAVENER" because, implicitly, they WERE NOT ALREADY ONE.

he is NOT ANYWHERE HERE saying he has any interest in BABY TRAPPING ANYBODY, holy shit, this is ten thousand percent a thing you have made up in your head to be mad about.

edit: again - it was slightly distasteful! it was fully intended to be! but it is not, in any fucking remote capacity, "a 40 year old dude proposing that he get a 20 year old college student pregnant and baby trap her". it is objectively just not the thing you thought it was. you misread, and you were wrong. it's okay to be wrong about things sometimes, jesus christ.

damn, you didn't even actually read the article yourself, did you?

>I just don't see how a 40 year old dude proposing that he get a 20 year old college student pregnant and baby trap her just to, what, prove a point, is funny,

uhh, probably because that's not what he says at all. it's a suggestion he's making, jokingly, to the hypothetical yalie in question.

the exact quote: "Get out there. Visit a non-Yale bar. Attend a Night Market, or Arts & Ideas. Go hang out in Elm City Games. Get a membership to MakeHaven. Go to the beach. Get a townie pregnant. [emphasis mine] Visit the local Planned Parenthood!"

like, come on, dude. it's not even like i don't love righteous outrage, myself, but i'm also, like, VERY MUCH for taking the time to actually, you know, fucking read the thing i'm purporting to be outraged about before i start telling people to "kindly fuck off," lol.

they also just got the joke wrong in general - the suggestion wasn't knocking up yalies "to get them to stay," it was for yalies to get townies pregnant. this person's interpretation is, like, a deliberate misread to make it sound creepier.

it’s a deliberately distasteful final suggestion directly juxtaposed with the preceding list of perfectly normal ideas, jokey self-effacement given that the article is exploring how it can feel to be perceived as a vulgar little townie by society’s upper echelons.

you don’t have to find it funny, but fully & repeatedly clutching your pearls over it on this post is just kind of dopey.

i really like this poster.

he was making a joke, jesus christ.

oh, they are. it's prevalent to the extent that a casual survey of undergrads some years ago (pre-pandemic) revealed that some absolutely insane percentage of them (like seventy, eighty) didn't realize new haven was on the water.

the air of superiority is a feature, not a bug. yale works extremely hard from day one to embed this in undergrads. they're very much intended to leave yale feeling entirely separate from the average human. it's a technique intended, ultimately, to increase alumni donations.

edit: lol i'm not remotely kidding.

edit 2: yalies reading this like "no, -I- could NEVER have been emotionally deceived, i am FAR less susceptible to these cons than regular humans" lol

i promise they are. i was pulling them off my dog in january. not ideal

which is why it could use some fresh blood like OP!

mActivity also had a penchant, at least back when i was a member, for charging multiple "maintenance fees" a year that they weren't super forthcoming about on their website or during the trial membership, so some months i'd be shocked to find they'd charged me several hundred dollars more than i was expecting to be charged. hard pass, man. nice enough place but not remotely worth it.

parking in a garage was less convenient & more expensive than driving around for half an hour looking for street parking?

holy shit SAME

the food is consistently quite nice. atmosphere is, i think, maybe not "fine dining" exactly.

greas·y spoon

noun INFORMAL

a cheap, run-down cafe or restaurant serving fried foods.

a VERY solid option & suggestion, but def wouldn't call this a "greasy spoon," haha.

definitely do wish you the best of luck - you really never know! - but just to temper your expectations a little: these tickets were gone in like, less than two minutes.

i would probably clarify what you meant, then, because that statement was inaccurate.

i'd say that former point is really not super accurate. whitneyville is pretty close to the new haven border &, as plenty here have mentioned, it's one of the town's more appealing neighborhoods.

neat, i didn't realize previously that they did this kind of work! i'd thought they were just selling their own pieces. thanks!