Crush a stereotype of your home state - Page 8

MatticusMania · #**141** 01-24-2013, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dullsilver_mike

If anyone has ever given enough thought to Nebraska to hold stereotypes about it, they're probably dead on. Except for Omaha, it's mostly a bunch of old white guys sitting in cornfields talking about the college football team.

All the tourism stuff is based on ideas of homesteading and pioneering, all the art and culture pretty much reflects the dispositions of living in a desolate prairie that stretches away to every horizon.

Mother Abigail still lives there, yes?

dullsilver_mike · #**142** 01-24-2013, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Mother Abigail still lives there, yes?

Yes, but way out west. You have to go out to the panhandle if you want to find any rustic prophets hermitted in the wilderness.

NWB · #**143** 01-24-2013, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Yeah, it's fine if you like sitting in your car and listening to music at 2 mph.

So, you're saying that LA is just like Seattle?!

MatticusMania · #**144** 01-24-2013, 05:11 PM

No, LA is way more Grunge.

NWB · #**145** 01-24-2013, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MatticusMania

No, LA is way more Grunge.

Oh, of course. Silly me!

JimB52 · #**146** 01-24-2013, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by CrewsControl

Nice photos! What exit are they at?

Closest to exits 5 and 63.

ErebusBass · #**147** 01-24-2013, 06:24 PM

Born and raised in Wisconsin, never liked cheese.

I like beer enough to make up for it though.

**lowendfriend** · #**148** 01-24-2013, 06:31 PM

I live on the Outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts:

1) we are not all liberal democrats (there are at least 10 registered republicans in the state counting me)

2) we have more surfers than an equivalent strip of beach in CA (watch Nauset Light Beach all winter !!!)

Solarmist · #**149** 01-24-2013, 07:34 PM

We don't all have high-potency coffee running through or veins.
We aren't all liberals ... I'm not, and neither is the district I'm in.
We don't have sex with animals ... excluding you guys in Enumclaw!
It doesn't rain as much as they say; we just tell people that so they don't move here.

Munjibunga · #**150** 01-24-2013, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by macaroni tony

I went to a Raiders/Chargers game in 05. On 3 separate occasions I thought I was gonna get jumped by Charger fans

Try being a Charger fan in Oakland once. Because you won't get to do it twice.

Munjibunga · #**151** 01-24-2013, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by kanonfodr

I lived in Hawaii for 3 years:

30 minutes is a LOOOONG drive

Peace,
Greg

That's why you have to lay in provisions to drive from the airport to Ka'anapali.

4dog · #**152** 01-25-2013, 07:21 AM

In Texas everywhere is a long drive , 30min or more to anyplace big or interesting, well if ya live where i do anyway.

kanonfodr · #**153** 01-25-2013, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by 4dog

In Texas everywhere is a long drive , 30min or more to anyplace big or interesting, well if ya live where i do anyway.

Werd, but in Texas 30 minutes is a 30 mile trip. In Hawaii, 30 minutes is a 5 mile trip :/ . But the view is awesome

I guess that's the reason that I have no problem driving 45 minutes to the store here in TX (we'll be driving an hour and change to an estate sale today), but for some reason the 19 mile trip from Mililani to Honolulu is absolutely scary to me.

Peace,
Greg

macaroni tony · #**154** 01-25-2013, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Try being a Charger fan in Oakland once. Because you won't get to do it twice.

I haven't heard a peep out of Oakland fans since the 90s. Seems like the ruffians up there have switched their allegiance to Frisco...

petrus61 · #**155** 01-25-2013, 08:08 AM

New York City does not encompass the entire state. When someone tells you they're from New York, they could be referring to the Brookside trailer park off Rt 23 in lovely Greene County.

kanonfodr · #**156** 01-25-2013, 08:10 AM

^^I thought everyone else from New York state but not NYC was from Upstate New York.

Peace,
Greg

fmoore200 · #**157** 01-25-2013, 09:49 AM

New York is a big state, but I believe the largest percentage of people living in NY are in the five boroughs, and if you want to include lower Westchester county (Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, etc) the concentration of lower New York state is higher than the rest of the state, even though geographically smaller than the rest of the state.

My uncle lives upstate near Buffalo, and from the times I've visited its really a completely different world than the city - its almost like NYC and the rest of the state are not even the same place on the map.

I'm from the Bronx, by the way.. ftw!

petrus61 · #**158** 01-25-2013, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by fmoore200

New York is a big state, but I believe the largest percentage of people living in NY are in the five boroughs, and if you want to include lower Westchester county (Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, etc) the concentration of lower New York state is higher than the rest of the state, even though geographically smaller than the rest of the state.

My uncle lives upstate near Buffalo, and from the times I've visited its really a completely different world than the city - its almost like NYC and the rest of the state are not even the same place on the map.

I'm from the Bronx, by the way.. ftw!

Originally a City Islander myself.

Richland123 · #**159** 01-25-2013, 11:48 AM

Pennsylvania is similar to New York in that Philadelphia is nothing like the rest of the state. Come to western PA and you would not even think we are in the same state.

petrus61 · #**160** 01-25-2013, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Richland123

Pennsylvania is similar to New York in that Philadelphia is nothing like the rest of the state. Come to western PA and you would not even think we are in the same state.

While NYC is vastly different from the rest of NY, there is a certain 'feel' that permeates that is quintessentially "New York" throughout the state. I find many states have a certain unique 'feel' to them...hard to explain.