The EPIC WIN Thread 3: SON OF EPIC

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Celt Z said:

I dunno, it looks pretty South and centralized to me, but since I don't have to live there, call it whatever makes you happy. :)
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Yeah, but keep in mind the people who decide what is called what call Ohio "the midwest."

IE, the names were made when the Mississippi river was still the western boundary of the nation.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Heh, I'm suddenly reminded of a story from about 10 years back.

A guy I knew from Texas came up to visit. He'd never been that far north before. So, he actually believed all the tales of Canada being a frozen tundra all year round.

When the plane landed, we were in the middle of a stupidly hot August summer.

I saw him come out of the plane onto the tarmac wearing like four layers, including a ridiculously heavy parka.

He stopped, right at the top of the steps, groaned loudly from the blast of heat, and immediately started stripping off layers right there. :D
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I am from the part of Texas that is culturally Southern. Gas is 60 miles away, and is the part of Texas that is culturally Western.

Last week it got so cold that I actually turned off my pedestal fan after 7 months of continuous use. Then it got hot again and it is back on.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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sixpackshaker said:
I am from the part of Texas that is culturally Southern. Gas is 60 miles away, and is the part of Texas that is culturally Western.
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And then you go another 60 miles beyond me, and you get to the part of Texas that is culturally San Francisco. Well, maybe not quite, but comparatively.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

GasBandit said:
And then you go another 60 miles beyond me, and you get to the part of Texas that is culturally San Francisco. Well, maybe not quite, but comparatively.
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That is why I like my little town. It is just weird and culturally open enough for me to enjoy small town life. I could not make it in Austin on my current salary.
 
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I've lived all over this country. Hot is hot, cold is cold. It's not so much the extremes as it is the duration. It might reach the same mercury level in northern climes in the summer, but it just sits there forever here in TX. Day, night, April, July, or October. That's what gets me. Vice versa on the cold. I lived in Boston for a long time (was there when I started posting with this crowd), and it's not that a winter's day is spectacularly colder than here, it just drones on and on and on.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Maybe to help some of the Canadians here, basically in Texas from May through September the temperature doesn't get below 25.5 Celsius. This is NOT a joke, it's not exaggeration, I might even be a little generous about the low temp. October starts to see slightly lower temps, but usually it's the first weekend, or so, of November that sees the first temps that get into the teens and lower Celsius.
 
Tress

Tress

I don't care how hot or cold it is. For the love of God, please let it rain here. Just a little bit, before we all wither and die out here.
 
Gruebeard

Gruebeard

One of the things that make the heat in Toronto bearable - probably far more so than in Texas - is that the mornings and evenings are most often pleasant, nearly perfect room temperature like. We get relief from the heat every day. The more ambitious of us can avoid the stressful temperatures by doing stuff like mowing the lawn at reasonable time.

Oh! Here's a story! My extended family lives in a town just an hour North of Toronto. On the second weekend of August, they host an Old Time Fiddle Contest, a competition that lasts the whole weekend. The town sees an influx of people who mostly house themselves in a temporary trailer park. The place becomes a weekend long trailer park party, with lots of music and drinking.

And campfires. Because in August, in the evening, the temperatures in that town range from 30 C in the early afternoon to ridiculously cold at night. people will bundle themselves into snowmobile suits or wrap themselves in blankets . . . while sitting in front of the campfire.
 
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I think a lot of people think of TX as arid (no blame, I did, too, until I moved here). The western half of the state is, but the eastern half isn't. It's woodlands and coastal plains.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

This wouldn't be an epic win for everyone, but today I had a day off and I went out to lunch with a friend and then did a solo photo adventure. I went and found a waterfall that I had read up on. It took me a lot longer than the site said it would to get there and I was concerned about how I was going to get back up, but it was awesome. I was able to get all the way down, take all the pictures I wanted and then just sit there and enjoy it alone with no need for anyone's help and no one else there. The only timeline that mattered was mine :) I'm paying for it now, but I'm glad I did it!

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PS - then I got to photoshop it all! Double epic win!
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Dei said:
Well... My daughter just 99 percentiled both the verbal and math gifted tests. It was basically already known that she was really smart though, this just formalizes it for the record.
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Just remember next time she's mouthing-off to you, it's a gift. ;)
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Home after a great Beaver Sleep Over! Halloween Howl 2015 with 11 youth, campfire! jokes! scary stories! marsh mellow roasting! dividing up into lodges! sleeping alone in tents! breakfast! Scouts Own! Leave No Trace all packed into 17 hours of fun.
 
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