quasi Report This Comment Date: June 04, 2020 02:37AM
Someone the other day gave voice to his apparently deeply held prejudices and
with colorful language cast aspersions on me for being born in the north and
moved to the south. I came here from the north alright and it just occurred to
me that that happened forty years ago last month with everything I owned in my
'57 Chevy. I was not quite 20 at the time and my retired father and still
working mother had moved here three years earlier. I figured since dad was
already in his 70's I'd better get down here in case my folks needed my help. A
few years later I helped dad hang Christmas lights the day before he dropped
dead. By then I had my own family and my mom needed help so here I stayed. I've
worked here, played here, buried a wife here, watched the little town where I've
lived all this time get shattered by a hurricane and helped rebuild it - I put
down roots here. This has been my home for two thirds of my life and I'll
probably die right here. Two of my boys still live here, one a U.S. military
veteran and the other a corrections officer for almost 20 years. If moving from
one part of the country to another is offensive then I guess my son who moved to
South Carolina is bad but the real heinous offense must be my daughter who has
lived in Texas for several years now. So if if all that is reason to hate me
then hate away.
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pulse Report This Comment Date: June 04, 2020 09:13AM
Damn right I hate people who move. Born somewhere, should die there. Or
something.
I don't understand "area patriotism". That just seems weird. Yes
you're on a site named after something to do with Melbourne. I was born here and
grew up here, at least until my (very) early 20s. I've lived elsewhere and sure
as fuck don't plan on dying here. .
Here, we'll have a dig at anyone from anywhere else. As a Melbournian it's my
duty to crap on people from Adelaide or Sydney, and God help the two headed
jerks from across the Bass Straight. The less said about people from Queensland
or WA the better. And Kiwis.. well they're right out. But it's always in jest.
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: June 04, 2020 09:30AM
I'm not feeling the love, pulse. We don't have the same animosity to you guys
from the West Island.
pulse Report This Comment Date: June 04, 2020 09:39AM
The love is right there. I practically called you an Australian. Because it'd
be rude to call anybody a New Zealander. There's messing around, and then
there's taking things too far. Nobody deserves that.
I haven't heard west island before. I like it.
Now go back to shagging sheep.
quasi Report This Comment Date: June 04, 2020 10:06AM
Regional ribbing is fun but turning to vitriol is just nasty. And if you want
to carry folks belonging where they're from to it's extreme then the brown folks
down south of the border have more rights to the land than us white boys.
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Loner Report This Comment Date: June 04, 2020 04:56PM
Nothing wrong with Florida. Lived in Cocoa Beach and Daytona Beach when I was
very young. Low cloud ceiling. The thunder scared the shit out of me.