woberto Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 03:49AM
No like.
Aussies can do better than that with an XR ute.
[
www.deniutemuster.com.au]
And if you are wondering what a Ute Muster is...
[
en.wikipedia.org]
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BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 04:14PM
Texas is a good place to be from... far from. Da-da-boom!
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 05:13PM
I have been to Texas several times and I have concluded that the biggest
problem with texas is that its full of texans
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 06:38PM
Both of you cats have spoken in the truest sense of US northwesterners.
I can assure you we'd much prefer you stay right where you 2 are now. The
influx of "others' only serves to dilute the Texas we here know and love
.... and there's plenty enough of that goin on daily without any of ya'lls help
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 06:42PM
if we could only screen all these characters before they come. (headexplode)
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 07:16PM
Why do you think southerners & mid-westerners came up here in the 1st
place? Ever stop to think maybe we wanted to get away from there? Or from the
likes of you?
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 07:27PM
Yeah - don't pick on Texas. There are a lot of good things to come out of
Texas. The interstate, for instance.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 07:36PM
Oh no, now you've done it. You aren't qualified to talk about anything in
America GAK.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 07:59PM
nothing good? how about no state income tax?
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 08:06PM
Who the fuck said anything about "nothing good"? I rest my case.
No sales tax here. It's probably a wash. So fucking what? Choose your battles.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 08, 2012 08:49PM
i like the scenery up there, but you can have all that damn rain.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 12:01AM
no state income tax here either
dont mess with texas
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 12:10AM
good, spread the word, no need to come down here.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 12:16AM
Where the fuck in the NW are you? There is income tax in OR, sales tax in WA. I
don't know about BC, that's a whole other country, like TX should be. I'll take
too much rain over too many assholes any day. Same goes for Fallicpornia.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 12:30AM
how many Texans have you met Blah?
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 12:45AM
I have met quite a lot of people from Texas and visited a few times. That
doesn't mean all Texans are assholes, they aren't, but it's too crowded there
and I don't like it. Anywhere with a greater population is going to have more
assholes. You don't even need to do math to figure that out.
Ah what the hell...
Oregon avg 40 people per sq mi.
Texas avg 96.
CA a whopping 242! Wholey moley! Now that is crowded! Ok TX don't sound so
bad...
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pro_junior Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 03:04AM
live in WA, work in OR, exempt from paying OR state income tax thanks to the
Amtrak clause
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 03:19AM
I bet you got your car registered in OR to save on that too.
BTW Fossil & Kim, the only thing I really didn't like about TX was the
weather. People are people no matter where they are.
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 11:52AM
I live in Arkansas and Texas is a neighbor so I have no problem with Texas. My
cousin lives in Houston, Paul Reynolds Natalie Holloway's uncle. I wouldn't
mind living in Texas if it weren't for all the Mexicans.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 12:46PM
The weather here isn't too bad ... till summer comes, but thankfully it's
offset by pretty mild winters.
I think the early settlers here immigrated for similar reasons early immigrants
to Oz did, except that we were never a penal colony. Many came to get away from
the status quo that didn quite suit their nature, a spirit that continues on to
this day in many of the folks here.
In my own family my great-great grandfather left his wealthy family in Tennessee
to forge his own way in the new wildernesses of Texas in the mid 1800s. By my
great grandfathers generation the family had mostly moved to Dallas, where every
generation since has been from.
Hell yeah we Texans are a proud and boastful bunch, comes with the territory.
Many people who have come from elsewhere are proud to call it home too. I even
have a transplanted Russian friend and a Canadian who've spent time here and
intend to retire here once their workin careers are put aside. Hell, a common
bumper sticker and saying by many immigrants says/reads "I wasn't born in
Texas, but I got here as fast as I could!".
You cats from elsewhere can talk all the trash you like but .... you can sit
down with people all over the planet and draw the outline of Texas in the dirt
and they will almost always be able to identify it as Texas. Try that with an
outline of where ever you live and see if that works similarly
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 05:18PM
There's nothing wrong with taking pride in your state. Everyone does that
pretty much. Texans just have a reputation to live up to I guess. Everyone who
lives in a halfway pretty state says it's "God's country." Don't blame
them. Lots of wonderful places in this country.
Oregonians and North-westerners in general have the same kind of pioneering
background and spirit and we have managed (so far) to not destroy the natural
beauty of the region too much. We have the same attitude of, "If you don't
like it here that's great. Come for a visit and then go home."
In the past Oregon has had a VERY closed attitude towards non-native Oregonians.
37 years ago when I moved up here from California it was damn near impossible to
get a job in Oregon if you were not born here. The only thing that saved my ass
was when I told them my mom was born in Drain and graduated from Springfield
Union HS. Then it was like, "Ok, that's good enough then." It is
certainly not like that here anymore.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 06:14PM
I bet you got your car registered in OR to save on that too.
I don't do that and I don't purposely go shopping in OR to avoid the sales tax
on big ticket items...I believe in supporting my own community.
why the fuck is 98% of everything you say a negative comment or judgement of
someone else on here? you're just as bad as fossil.
why don't you just go back to California, hippy
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 06:51PM
I agree with you Mrkim that Texas is one of the few US states that I would
recognize just from it's outline - the other obvious one to me being Alaska.
However I also feel there are other places in the world that would also be
recognisable to anybody with a little geographic knowledge. NZ, Australia and
Greenland I think are recognisable, probably because they are island nations
(although interestingly I think I would struggle with other island nations, such
as Iceland, Madagascar or Sri Lanka). I also think Chile with it's long thin
shape would be on the list along with Thailand (it looks a little like an
Elephant's head) and Italy (it looks like a boot).
As for running down Texas, I have never been there and have met few Texans (or
at least few that I remember meeting) so can't really comment. It's just fun
seeing you guys getting all riled up.
Pride in where you come from, or currently live, is not unique to Texas and I
believe is quite common. It's also a good thing. When the first comments were
posted that put Texas down I was pretty certain you guys would speak up.
Blah, the West Coast of the South Island here in NZ sounds a lot like the Oregon
of old you described. I remember talking to a guy who had lived there for 30
years and he still got referred to as "the new guy", "the
import" or "the foreigner". That was a while ago now, so
attitudes there might have changed since too.
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fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 06:59PM
i will one day make it to Oz and NZ, it looks absolutely beautiful
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 07:18PM
Look me up when you get here.
quasi Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 09:07PM
I live in Florida, a land populated mostly by people who've come from somewhere
else, bringing their customs (and some bad habits) with them. We also have a lot
of people who only winter here and spend the rest of the year "up
north." My neighbor lady, who just last week went "back home"
(this is the time of year of the mass exodous), doesn't realize how ridiculous
she sounds crying poverty when she can afford to have two homes and travel
between them several times a year. I'm not a native either but have spent my
entire adult life here, almost 32 years, arriving a couple of months before I
turned 20, and I don't mind the folks who bring their own customs with them but
get truly riled up when they are fresh arrivals or part timers and want
everything tailored to suit them. That goes for legals and illegals alike; there
are a lot of great people who come here but there are a fair number of dillweeds
who show up as well.
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 10:09PM
I live and work in an area that has a large South African ex-pat population.
One of the women I work with (an ex South African herself) says there are two
types of ex-pats - those that make the most of the new environment they have
chosen to live in and the "Whenwe's". "When we were back in South
Africa..." She doesn't much care for the Whenwe's and I have to agree with
her.
woberto Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 10:10PM
Why is Italy shaped like a boot?
'cause you can't fit that much shit in a shoe!
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 10:23PM
i'm sure Florida is alot like Vegas, some tourists come there to act a fool and
go home respecting nothing or nobody, but i think that happens in just about
every tourist area. Texas on the other hand is so damn big and the tourist
attractions are fairly separated from the average population that it's really
hard to pick them out. on the other hand, people that come to live here seem to
lose their respective "accents" in no time (except of course the New
York asswipes, that particular dialect is intentionally annoying i'm conviced)
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 09, 2012 10:28PM
That wasn't intended as an insult to your integrity PJ. I know that a lot of
people do that with the car registrations. I also know a lot of folks who shop
across the river to save on sales tax. It's not right but it's pretty common.
Sorry you took it as a personal attack but it was meant as a jab at the
funnybone because so many people do that. The fucking hippie comment, that's
just funnier than hell to me. I'm no hippie, that's for sure. I've worked too
hard and paid too many taxes to be a hippie and I absolutely HATE patchouli oil
and vegan food! GAG.
I do not agree with your assessment that 98% of my comments here are negative.
I'd say maybe 50-60% are but most of those are still meant in jest. I keep the
REALLY negative things I can come up with about some of the crazy things people
say to myself for a couple of reason. Nothing gets accomplished and it just
pisses people off, which isn't something I like doing. I at least try to make
sure what I write has some redeeming humor or irony to it.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 01:15AM
ok Blah, maybe I was too hasty in my reply but it sure seemed like an
insult..alot of people don't understand the Amtrak clause and assume you are a
cheat because you qualify for it and don't have to pay state income tax...
personally I think it's pretty fucked if you live in one state and work in
another and have to pay income tax to the state you worked in but you don't get
any of the benefits the residents do...for example, if you want to go to college
in the state you work in you have to pay higher tuition because you don't live
there...you don't get to vote in any of the states elections even though you pay
tax to that state...out of state hunting and fishing license, etc. etc. it's
bullshit.
as for the 'go back to Cali, hippy" thing, well that was just me ribbing
you in the spirit of this thread
and yeah I concede 98% negative is too high...idk, my mom used to always tell me
that if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all...but we
didn't have internets then either
I've never understood the way some people are so proud of where they came
from...saw a sticker once that said if Mexico is so fucking great why don't you
go back there? makes sense to me...as an OTR driver I saw 47 of the lower 48 and
it really is all the same...banks, bars, jails, post offices, wal-mart...and
there's good people and assholes everywhere you go..I was really surprised a few
times by both how friendly and how rude people could be..
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 01:59AM
Hey quasi, having been to Florida a cuppla times, I hafta say I really liked it
there, one of the few places I've ever been I liked well enough to think about
movin to. The summers are much more manageable than ours, Absolutely love all
the tropical plants there and no matter where you are there it's never all that
far to the coast. As a landlocked person I've always been enamored of the ocean
I made it up to Wa. and Or. about 12 yrs ago to vacation with a chic I met in
Yakima. I still have some very fond memories of the "other
worldliness" of the some of the sights and animals you cats have up there.
After the dry and brown summer we have here it was awesome to see all the lush
green scenery you guys have there even in mid July! We took an overnight road
trip down into Oregon and I was really amazed by most everything there, gorgeous
country
Having never made it to New Zealand I can only comment on what I've seen of it
in movies and some of the pics I've seen online but it looks like a beautiful
place too. As far as I know I've never met a Kiwi in person, guess not too many
make it over this way
Oz is another place I've never seen up close and personal but think I'd enjoy
doin so. Having only met 2 Aussies they seemed very much like Texans with a
decidedly different accent of course. What I have grasped of Aussies is they
are similarly brash and friendly as we here are. And then, there's all the truly
different scenery and animals that are native to Oz that make it very intriguing
so I hope to one day see it all for myself
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 02:20AM
If I was going to choose another country to visit before I die I think it would
probably be Australia.
PJ: No worries mate
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jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 10:59AM
I too would like to visit Australia before I die, but the flight is entirely
too long without a cigarette so guess I never will. I would love to go back to
Guam where I spent two and a half years in the early '70s but alas 16 hours on a
plane without a cig is just unthinkable. So I guess I will only visit somewhere
I can drive too unless I get rich enough to own my own jet. I have been to many
beautiful locations during my navy stent and would like to see them again but as
I am getting older I doubt I ever will before I die. Would love to go to
Houston and see my cousin whom I haven't seen in 20 years but probably never
will. Since Natalie was killed I can't even locate Paul or Beth by email any
longer because of notoriety.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 12:03PM
when are Pulse and Dk going to spring for the 613 summit? let's make it in
Reno. a fairly central location to the users.
quasi Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 04:04PM
Don't know about manageable summers, Kim, seems like you'd be trading hot and
dry for not quite so hot but humid, humid, humid with almost daily afternoon
thunderstorms. Lot's of lightning. And then there's the fact that the proximity
to all that water means a proximity to all those hurricanes. Still, the winters
are absolutely fabulous with no shoveling of the white stuff. I'm in a place
that's not too touristy either, which suits me just fine, though it is a mecca
for the retirees which can get tiresome. I'm among those who'd like to visit
Australia & New Zealand too, but doubt if that'll ever happen. Haven't been
to Texas either though my daughter's in Conroe so I'll probably make it that far
one of these days. Never been to the Northwest either, though it looks fabulous
and my son in Tacome really likes it, not Tacoma but the surrounding beauty.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 05:14PM
Conroe is pretty damn humid, but north of Houston so if a hurricane comes
'round, you can flee north a bit easier than if you were in Houston (worst damn
traffic i have ever seen)
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: April 10, 2012 07:24PM
All them suthrin states is too hot fer me. I liked NM/AZ in the summer tho. Hot
as hell and dry as a bone. Felt good for a change to dry out.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2012 10:23AM
I would like to live somewhere there is no winter at all, even if there could
be hurricanes. Hurricanes only hit a location once in a while not every year so
the climate would make up for it. We have tornadoes in the area every year so
hurricanes wouldn't be much of a change for me.
quasi Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2012 10:43AM
It's not so much that hurricanes hit often, they don't, only one bad one here
since I've been here and just two in my lifetime, and though there's enough
warning in advance to prepare for them, there's a lot of mental stress involved
in watching multiple storms each season that are headed in your general
direction for days, wondering if it's your turn again. I'm better this year but
for the last two hurricane seasons I was just this side of being an invalid,
hurting and not able to move very well, and it was very stressful feeling so
helpless when I'm also responsible for looking after my mom who is incapable of
dealing with something like that anymore. But for six or seven months a year,
it's paradise and we only see frost usually two or three times a year. I did see
snow flurries once on Christmas morning 1989.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 12, 2012 12:29PM
Well here I really enjoy storm season and love really strong thunder storms
with all the lightning. I have tornado trackers in my scanner and know about
the warnings 15 minutes before it hits the TV because the scanner tells me as
they are reported to the weather bureau. Unfortunately spring around here
lately hasn't been very active. If I was legal to drive I would be a storm
chaser. The only thing that keeps me here is money and if I had enough I would
move maybe to Florida Keys.
