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I've been walking the world now for 4 years, and so to celebrate that milestone, I interview myself, because who knows me better than me?
walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/four-years-o…
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌
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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌
@Chris_arnade
Walking the world, one city at a time. I like turtles, cats, & buses. Subscribe to my Substack: walkingtheworld.substack.com
- I’m a photographer and understand (I think) Trumps popularity, but I’ve got no answer to how the dude has a knack for producing iconic photos almost weekly. He’s a meme machine.
- It’s 100 degrees in my room, but 68 outside, but I can’t change that because England has dumb rules
- Replying to @Chris_arnadeAmerica! America! Home of the free!
- Replying to @InezFeltscherWindow lock. Because open second floor windows are dangerous. And they’ve not discovered child protection bars.
- England is the single best country to walk in. Hands down. Because after ten miles of this, you can end in pub, have a proper ale while you warm up, go get high street Indian for a proper meal, then get up, have a proper breakfast, and do it all again, but with very differentOctober in England
- Replying to @Chris_arnadeCan’t believe I just spent 45 minutes unscrewing a window lock with travel finger nail clippers. To be rewarded by curry and flat beer
- Owner convinced I’m making a mistake ordering this. Has pantomimed four separate times that it’s spicy and I’ll die like the clueless white guy I am.
- Everyone who advocates for "walkable dense cities" with mixed zoning must understand they work when, and only when, people trust each other and don't mind living close together and sharing stuff, like subways and buses and that only happens if you punish, lock up, and remove theThe murder of the young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte was so appalling and disturbing, and all the more enraging for being totally preventable. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
- Replying to @Chris_arnadeFunny people suggesting I go out and buy wire-cutters in a small English city on a Sunday night. Only thing open is pubs and, well, more pubs. And they close at 10 just because
- I’m begging Americans when they leave the country to spend more than five minutes with someone who isn’t in academics, non profits, or an NGO. Then you’ll realize “fuck Americans” is a status game played by very over educated elite hypocrites
- The Panera bread thing is so cartoonishly corrupt and so relatively small stakes. Could only be done by a political class who doesn't feel the least bit threatened and so can do whatever they want.
- Replying to @Chris_arnadeOnly in England. Which is both Neo Lib enough to have a safety litigation driven society, so window locks, but backwards enough to be scared of AC. Then there is the manager who has no tools and no creativity. I just want to not be hot.
- This is nothing. I remember being on trading floor in 08, at the absolute worst of the crisis, and hearing people making 2 mill a year saying, "It's all over. I'm toast." and realizing even though they'd been making that for a few years, they'd leveraged up into fixed costs that
