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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-12-11/study-finds-no-evidence-of-discarded-spartan-babies/983848

Researchers say that the Greek myth that ancient Spartans threw their stunted and sickly newborns off a cliff has not been corroborated by archaeological digs in the area.

Athens Faculty of Medicine Anthropologist Theodoros Pitsios says after more than five years of analysis of human remains culled from the pit, also called an apothetes, researchers found only the remains of adolescents and adults between the ages of 18 and 35.
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I would rank Hanes Mall in the lowest quartile of malls. Would also include Four Seasons Mall and the old Eastland Mall, which mercifully has been razed.
 
DeacDiggler said:
I would rank Hanes Mall in the lowest quartile of malls. Would also include Four Seasons Mall and the old Eastland Mall, which mercifully has been razed.
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You should hit up Carolina Place in Pineville sometime. Also, Northlake Mall in Charlotte, which only opened in 2005, is in a death spiral.
 
DeacDiggler said:
does hanes mall still have a sears that you have to walk through to get to the other side of the mall? because that's a terrible feature
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JC Penny but yeah. Went to the Deacon Shop in it last fall when in town for a game and pretty much the only thing in stock were the generic Wake tees. No polos, no quarter zips, few hoodies except the generic crappy ones. It was dire.
 
doesn't biff do something with malls for a living? commercial real estate? mall walker? jamba juice? something like that?
 
BiffTannen said:
Victoria's Secret mystery shopper.
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Man, when I reminisce on how excited I was about the Victoria's secret catalog back in high school and then think about all that's available on the interwebs for kids today it's amazing to me that our society is still relatively functional.
 
mako1331 said:
Man, when I reminisce on how excited I was about the Victoria's secret catalog back in high school and then think about all that's available on the interwebs for kids today it's amazing to me that our society is still relatively functional.
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SI Swimsuit issue and scrambled channel 99
 
DeacDiggler said:
I would rank Hanes Mall in the lowest quartile of malls. Would also include Four Seasons Mall and the old Eastland Mall, which mercifully has been razed.
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Considering it’s a 50 year old shopping mall in a smaller city I think it’s good - it’s clean, upkept, and the vacancy rate is actually really low. I must be missing out on the impressive shopping malls elsewhere.
 
Hey biff, what's happening with the Epicenter man? That place was a ghosttown last time I was there.
 
you wanna see a dire NC mall, go check out Biggs Park in Lumberton. It was dire back in the early 2000s which was the last time I went. Can't imagine what it's like now, if it still exists.
 
mako1331 said:
Hey biff, what's happening with the Epicenter man? That place was a ghosttown last time I was there.
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“In some ways, the Epicentre is just snakebit, a good idea that ran into bad timing. The Epicentre opens in 2008; the Great Recession strikes. The Epicentre bounces back after bankruptcy; the 2016 Keith Lamont Scott protests and riots sweep through with smashed windows and bad publicity. In 2019, a bullet fired during a fight kills a visiting CEO blocks away. In 2020, COVID delivers the coup de grace.

But the Epicentre was also hobbled from the beginning by poor design decisions and a reliance on clubs and bars in a city that’s not exactly Miami Beach. Urban planners warned for years about the Epicentre’s forbidding façade of blank walls that faced the streets; auto-dependent design reminiscent of a suburban mall; and separation from the adjacent light rail stop and urban sidewalks meant to be its blood vessels.

It’s far from clear what the nearly deserted Epicentre’s future looks like. Whoever buys it has three main options: Refurbish, seek new tenants, and relaunch; keep some buildings and replace others; tear it down and build anew. Each has its own complications. A teardown-and-rebuild seems simplest, but the three hotels stacked above the retail buildings have different owners and wouldn’t be included in the foreclosure. Tearing down some buildings and renovating others would be complicated and expensive, with no guarantee of success. And slapping on fresh paint and a new name might just create Epicentre 2.0, with the same problems that bedeviled it the first time around…”

https://www.charlottemagazine.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-epicentre/
 
YoungBuck95 said:
Ya boy finally got an offer. Salt Lake City sounds pretty exciting.
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Congratulations. I've enjoyed visiting Salt Lake City. Not sure I'd call the area exciting, but I'm sure having a job offer is.
 
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