New York is awesome, and you should visit. Times Square is crowded and dumb, and you wouldn’t be missing anything if you avoided it entirely. The only thing that’s there is the big screens, overpriced tourist restaurants (read: Olive Garden and Applebees variety) and people in costumes hustling for tips (but still,…

You can EASILY avoid Times Square. Don’t be fooled by TV, movies, and even articles like this.

As someone who lives here, Times Square is a horrible craphole to be avoided at all costs, but they’re pretty much all in that area. You can avoid those few blocks and still see the city. And Times Square sucks anyway, so you won’t miss much.

I live in NYC and avoid Times Square as much as possible, but sometimes I have to go through there because I have a friend in Hell’s Kitchen. The crowds suck but I rarely have to deal with tip hustlers. I just avoid eye contact and don’t slow down by them, like I do with every other person in NYC lol. Wearing visible…

Can and should.

You should avoid the whole Times Square area anyway. It sucks.

I used to go to NYC a lot when I lived in Rochester and you’ll be totally fine I think! Not only is Times Square like literally a block or something of space, but they really don’t hustle that much, as much as wait for people to walk up. I’ve never had one of them really try anything, you just have to not look like…

What spreebree said.

I’ve lived daytrip distance from NYC since 1998. I avoid it because, while it has a decent amount of history and culture, there are dozens of other cities and rural areas that have history and culture too. Those are all cheaper, have less concrete, more visible sky, less pollution, fewer human beings, and basically…

Times Square is a very small part of NYC. You can visit they city and avoid it completely, while still seeing plenty of things.

I definitely just LOLed really loudly at Derp Bench

I like how the GOP bragged about its “deep bench”, yet this election cycle is mainly noteworthy for outright racism and childish insults.

Sigh. Poor Mitt. He’s so irrelevant now. I can imagine the comedown from being relevant must be awful, so he needs a little bit of that crowd sound and the applause. So he comes crawling back.

I love perfumes, and I LOVE when I know someone by their perfume/cologne before I even see them. I keep trying to figure out how to ask my boss what cologne he wears without him taking it the wrong way. I have accidentally offended myself by overspraying, but I have honestly never been offended by another person’s…

Oh, I love a rose. I am very into Annick Goutal Ces Soir ou Jamais (another boozy jammy rose) right now.

PEOPLE STILL WEAR TOMMY GIRL???

I only wear citrus-y ones cuz that’s just my jam. NOT SAYING WHICH ONES EXACTLY but anything reminiscent of a grapefruit or orangey fruit salad is fine by me.

YEP. I like smelling a little androgynous. It’s sexy AF. I’d rather be buried alive than wear Bath and Body Works’ Sun-Ripened Raspberry.

Gulf south, and everyone here smells like the garden-variety (har har) floral Department Store Scents — flowers and fruits and gourmands and vanilla from the usual suspects : Dior, Estee, Clinique, Jacobs, Whatever Samples Sephora Is Foisting Upon The Unwitting Masses. Give me masculine leathers and woods or give me…

Let’s talk perfumes!
If I “smell” one for too long, I can feel sick. This is exacerbated with the more sweet, cloying ones. I’m constantly on the look out for a perfume that isn’t too sweet (just a hint), is subtle, doesn’t come out in a drowning mist, and not too spicy. Right now I’ve got Miss Dior. I tried Polo Blue…