Depending on whom you ask, the area around Kalamazoo would be indistinguishable to many areas "in the South."
--Patrick
*sighs, turns over "DAYS SINCE LAST MASS SHOOTING IN AMERICA" sign to 0*
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--Patrick
Once you get 30 miles outside of a major metropolitan center, you are pretty much in Red-Neck Country.
I get annoyed when everyone shits on "the south", when what they really mean is "rural areas in every single fucking state of the country, even California and New York you jerks".
GasBandit
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Now, now, Charlie, you know darn well that only the south can be backwards and has no urban centers of which to speak.
(I feel very odd using sarcasm to agree with CDS).
I wonder if this is a similar feeling I get when I hear 'mainlanders' talk about Newfoundland as if Newfoundland is only 'the Bay'.
Speaking of someone who goes down South a couple of times a year, I can fully say that the cities in the South aren't much better than the rural parts. Oh sure... they look nicer and have more amenities, but the people are the same.
GasBandit
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Seems to me that depends on which city you go to. Every Texas has its Austin. Every New Mexico its Santa Fe, every Alabama its south Birmingham.
That's of course if you actually interpret that as a good thing.
Atlanta, Georgia. My god... everyone in that city is like the worst example of humanity.
GasBandit
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Atlanta! Ha ha... Man... 14 or so years ago when I was doing tech support for Bluelight.com (K-Mart's ad-supported free dial-up ISP), it was always a sign that it was gonna be one of THOSE calls when the incoming call number started with 404.
You're going to have to train us on our Lingo. I have no idea what "the Bay" is supposed to be. I know there's an Island, and Labrador, but beyond that? Well, I live on the Southwest tip of it now! And uh... I think St. John's is on the Avalon Peninsula, and... not a lot for "names" beyond that and a few actual city/town names near me.
Mainlander: Someone from mainland Canada. This includes other Maritime provinces that joined Canada aside from Newfoundland in many minds. So P.E.I. would be consider a mainlander province. I, personally, think the term has a lot to do with Newfoundlands resentment of Canada as a whole.
The Bay: Any where that is more than an hour drive from St.John's/Corner Brook. The places with fewer than 100 kids to a school or where fishing was the main industry and never recovered after a stop was put to it.
Bonus! Newfie: A term that a lot of Newfoundlanders find very offensive because of the disparaging way it is used. Dumb Newfie jokes and the like.
There's some amount of bad blood between Newfoundland and the mainland. They think we're welfare kings and queens...we think they have did everything they could to take every natural resource we had for their own at little cost. They think we are backwards idiots, incapable of understanding things like 'science' and 'economics'...we think they are douchebags.
This is probably how it will always be, especially considering they way our politics are turning lately.
PHRASING!
somebody had to say it
Also, regarding anything being more than 15 minutes outside of the city effectively the South, I had just heard a comedian from NYC make the same point at a show a few weeks ago.
15 minutes won't evenget you out of the city
.If heading into New York, first you have to get past the outer neighborhoods which are still very much the city. Then there's a mix of city and suburb, then there's yuppie-land, i.e. the people who work in the city but don't live there. After that, building sizes begin to shrink, at least until you start coming to the next city. But really, it's clusters of small towns broken up by sudden farms and fields full of cows, crop, or the site of Woodstock '69. You're as likely to find a city-goer's summer home as the redneck places. Then head north enough and reach another yuppie-land, which is somehow more racist than any of the redneck areas.
Ah, that explains it. "The Bay" is anywhere relatively far from one of those two cities. OK then. Thanks.
Dave
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*sigh*
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/us/florida-deadly-shooting/index.html
Guy shoots his daughter and six grand-kids, ages 3 months to 10 years old. And then of course turned the guy on himself because why put yourself through all that, right?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/us/florida-deadly-shooting/index.html
Guy shoots his daughter and six grand-kids, ages 3 months to 10 years old. And then of course turned the guy on himself because why put yourself through all that, right?
This is my town.
Edit addition:
And while this is a tragedy, I've found myself seeming callous with people in disagreeing in calling this a mass shooting. A guy killed his daughter and her kids, which is a monstrous act, but it's not what I consider a mass shooting. It's more of a septuple homicide.
Welcome to the club, though in our case it was the mother, who felt the only way to protect her family was to kill them.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Ok, so technically, it wasn't a mass shooting, and it was in Canada, but I'm sure you've all heard of the Ottawa shooting by now.
As terrible as it is, I also have a picture to post about it. This is the scene inside the parliament house the shooter fled to after killing the soldier on guard at the war memorial.
Certainly a chilling spectacle, with a furniture barracade piled against the door.
But.. there's a slight problem to the plan.
Those doors open outwards.
As terrible as it is, I also have a picture to post about it. This is the scene inside the parliament house the shooter fled to after killing the soldier on guard at the war memorial.
Certainly a chilling spectacle, with a furniture barracade piled against the door.
But.. there's a slight problem to the plan.
Those doors open outwards.
A good summary article out of the USA: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/23/world/ottawa-shooting-roundup/?hpt=hp_t1
That's like saying Russia technically includes the Ukraine.[DOUBLEPOST=1414071039,1414070655][/DOUBLEPOST]
Weeeeeeelllllll...Ukraine does sorta mean 'boarderland' in old Slavic languages. As in 'the boarder of Russia' if one looks at the origin.That's like saying Russia technically includes the Ukraine.[DOUBLEPOST=1414071039,1414070655][/DOUBLEPOST]
Though, nowadays, there's a big dispute over that. I big enough dispute that there's has been a rather hilarious editing war on Wikipedia for a while.
I know. It's been years since y'all last invaded them.
I kinda wish he had saved the day by hitting the guy with that awesome mace.
don't worry, the War On Drugs is doing enough damage already