FIPS CARES: La Bagel Delight, A Final Plea

OK, so as much as you btchz know that I love La Bagel Delight like a fat kid loves cake, my loyalty has been tested recently. Bagel Market has recently joined the Park Slope bagelsphere, and based on the fact that it's pretty much standing room only in that joint 24/7, that's gotta be hurtin LBD's bottom line. And as much as I tried to resist Bagel Market's siren call, I couldn't help myself: THEY HAVE MINI-BAGELS!

Also, they offer that delivery to the door service for ppl with hot dogs like me, even though I still don't know their fucking phone number.

Anyway.

The other issue I have with LBD is that the layout makes me positively murder-y. I do confess that I enjoy watching the green out-of-towners try to figure out the procedure in there, but also that reminds how fucking stupid the procedure is:

• Get in one of the two lines, though you'll probs just stand in the line to the right cause it's totally confusing and you can't really tell it's two.
• Stand there for awhile.
• As you get somewhat close-ish to the front, just start screaming out your order at the top of your lungs as soon as one of the guys says "NEXT." Yep, even though he seems like he's not talking to you he is.
• Awkwardly step to the side, even though there's no room for you to stand there and you're not sure where you'll need to go to pick up your order.
• Try to make more room for the 2 ppl behind you who now need to stand off to the side, along with the 3 people in front of you who are also now waiting. If this shit were a drain, it would be way the hell clogged up.
• Try to push your way through all these ppl to get close enough to the register to actually pay when the guy who was helping you says "ALL SET."
• Now try to push your way through: the 2 haphazard lines, the sea of ppl waiting for their food, and that chick with the double stroller in order to get back outside.
• Yell expletive under your breath after you make it out to the street and think to yourself yet again: HOLY SHIT, THAT PLACE IS SET UP SOOOOO STOOOPIDLY.

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FOLLOW UP: 200 Fifth, The Saga Continues

image via Village VoiceOk, so this little gem just landed in our FIPSbox. And as it turns out, 200 Fifth has no mice--or maybe they do, but the anon internet network namer who wrote in has no idea if they do or not. However, they still think the sports bar sucks a gigantic dizzle. Behold:

Holy Crap.

So I was the person who named my WiFi "200 5th has mice".  I did it for ONE DAY!  It was during the football playoffs this weekend, and I was sick of the noise from that bar.  It had nothing to do with a mouse problem.  Ive never even set foot in that shit hole.

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Methodist Hospital SNAPS AT US

Sooo, after we busted the Methodist Hospital posted about the Adderall ring in the nabe (legal disclaimer: which may or may not have something to do with Methodist), NY Post ran a story on it the next day. And lemme tell you, Methodist is PISSED. How do we know? Cuz they sent us a bitchy email about it! Case in point:

"We don’t normally respond to articles printed in the New York Post but because several blogs have—without calling the public relations office at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) to verify their facts— reprinted or even embellished a recent story about the arrest of a young woman on drug charges, I am taking this opportunity to set the record straight."

OKRRR!

First of all, that sentence is 60 words long... Now, how the fuck am I supposed to muster the attention span to get through that without my Adderall stash? And second of all, you don't normally respond to the articles in the NYP, but you get your panties in a twist over a post made on a blog with FUCK in the URL?! I mean...?!?!!! And finally, PR pro tip: refrain from sending passive aggressive e-mails in the future.

I can't deal with this "journalistic ethics" bullshit, but if you bitches care enough about the official position of the New York Methodist Hospital on the Adderall chick and her anesthesiologist boyfriend who wrote fake prescriptions, I'm sure you can find the number for their communications person somewhere on the contact page. Let us know if they snap at you, too.

Let The Pavilion Movie Theater Hate Parade Rip

photo via Sugarpond on FlickrHonestly, I think we need to do a Pavilion undercover vid at this point. I mean, I have literally never in my life come across such raw, unadulturated hatred for a single lil ole movie theater before. We've said it before and we'll say it again: The Pavilion is the MOST hated movie theater in all of NYC.

Apparently the recent revulsion over their germ-infested, broken ass, purple seats is causing all y'all to get even more hot-n-bothered under the collar over the joint. Cause I received not one, but two separate emails yesterday from two very disgrustled FIPS readers who both seem to wish nothing but death and destruction upon The Pav.

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Blogger To Outraged Prospect Park/15th St F/G Train Riders: STFU

Ok, so perhaps Benjamin Kabak from 2nd Ave Sagas didn't say that *exactly,* however his recent post A Tale of A Viaduct, A Sign And The Need To Pay Attention sends a pretty clear message, and that message seems to be:

• stop your bitching
• get a clue
• you're stupid if you didn't know this work was going to be happening

And by "this work," of course, I mean the news that the Prospect Park -15th St F/G station will not be offering any Manhattan bound subway service until May, beginning next Monday, January 10th. Like AT ALL.

Apparently all y'all should have been attending Community Board meetings, deciphering cryptic messages on the MTA site and doing way the hell more research than you've been doing because, DUH EVERYONE KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN! TRANSLATION: WE'RE ALL SO STOOPID.

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