(July 7, 2013 at 9:09 am)Tonus Wrote: When Min doesn't say something offensive, I spend several minutes re-reading the post to try and figure out where the insult is!

Thanks, Tonus. Maybe I just don't know the personalities here that well yet.

Let's chalk it up to Rahul's learning curve for this forum.

(July 7, 2013 at 10:08 am)wolf39us Wrote: Well... I work in a call center that deals directly with "nurses" in Mississippi. You know, people who are supposed to be "mildly" educated. I've talked to hundreds and can assure you that I've talked to more boxes of rocks coming from that state than I have anywhere else (and we serve all of the south!).

Also, I used to work for a moving company a few months ago dealing with regular people. All I can say is... wow. These people really ARE dumb as rocks!

All one needs to do is look at their flag and suddenly you'll have a pretty clear grasp on where the intellectual majority stands in that state...



...Yeahhhhh...

It has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the entire US, the lowest household median income in the entire US, it is the most religious state in the US, ranked lowest for health-care, receives the second-highest amount of federal assistance [even though it is largely a republican state...ha ha haaa oh my fuckin' goodness the irony...], and has consistently ranked THE LOWEST in the US for test scores for math and science.

I'm not saying all people from Mississippi are dumb as rocks...

...I'm just saying the search for an intelligent person from Mississippi is ongoing and, so far, fruitless. '_'

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WAIT. WAIT. Hold up a second.

Morgan Freeman is from Mississippi.

WE HAVE FOUND OUR MISSISSIPPI-BORN INTELLECTUAL!! 8D *throws confetti*

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(Granted I dunno if he was raised there...)

For y'all's entertainment.

State Mottos:

Texas. Gateway to Oklahoma.

Alabama. At least we're not Mississippi.


Regions of the country:

Retire to Phoenix, Arizona where...

1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2.. You've experienced condensation on your hiney from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

OR
You can retire to California where...

1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.

OR
You can retire to New York City
where...

1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan ..
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature."
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn. (Ed. Note if you have a car).
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

OR

You can retire to Minnesota where...

1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco ..
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for casserole.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and
construction.

OR
You can retire to the Deep South where....

1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. "Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin" is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Ellen, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc etc.
5. Everything is either "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder."
It's important to know the difference, too.

OR
You can retire to Colorado where....

1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

OR
You can retire to the Midwest where...

1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"

OR
FINALLY You can retire to Florida where...

1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist..
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.

Well, I'm definitely staying hauled away here in New England.

What part of New England? I'm from New Haven, CT

I live in Clearwater, FL now though

Southerners use some pretty funny words! :-)

Oh I know of that place - I'm from Massachusetts, grew up in the southeastern part of the state (Fall River - Dartmouth - New Bedford area), went to school for a couple years in Amherst, and now I'm back in the southeast. And yes, I heard those southerners have quite the dialect/accent my parents actually moved to georgia for a couple years before I was born, and boy did their new england accents get made fun of. Their southern friends visit sometimes, the word wars are funny X3

ah, the state of Massholes :-)

It's okay, I'm from Connecticunt

Lawlz, at least neither of us are Mainiacs

(July 6, 2013 at 9:16 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: All I know is every single person I've ever known or met from Mississippi were dumber than a bag of hammers being dropped on a evangelist's head [lemme just savor and drink deep of that mental image....mmmm...]. Surprisingly I've known a fairly sizable number of them, somewhere around a dozen. Not a completely representative sample size, I know, but twelve random, unrelated people from Mississippi all being the embodiment of "hurrdurr" is kind of damning to me...

There's gotta be at least a FEW that aren't brain dead from there, though...

...right?...

I knew a lot of flat out fucking idiots back in NY, too.
But they weren't the majority....which is the problem with the south.

The thing with the south today is that the people who lived there in the 50's should have been swamped by waves of retiring northerners. Florida, N. Carolina, even Northern Georgia around Atlanta have grown extensively from migration. Yet, they continue to be as racist and sexist as ever.

I can only conclude that there is an 'idiot magnet' buried in the Gulf of Mexico that keeps attracting northern idiots to the south.

(July 7, 2013 at 10:24 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: ...Yeahhhhh...

It has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the entire US, the lowest household median income in the entire US, it is the most religious state in the US, ranked lowest for health-care, receives the second-highest amount of federal assistance [even though it is largely a republican state...ha ha haaa oh my fuckin' goodness the irony...], and has consistently ranked THE LOWEST in the US for test scores for math and science.

I'm not saying all people from Mississippi are dumb as rocks...

...I'm just saying the search for an intelligent person from Mississippi is ongoing and, so far, fruitless. '_'

The South was devastated after the Civil War for a century. Religion is the opiate of the masses. The South, oddly enough, wasn't all that religious before the Civil War. Most half way educated Southerners looked upon the preachers with a lot of distrust.

After the North obliterated the South and left it in utter desolation the survivors turned to religion. Because while their life in this world was nothing but pain and hardship and crushing poverty, they had the comforting fairytale of a better existence in the hereafter.

Religion fucks up your thinking. And that's why the South has it's disfunctions. Because of the religious solace that is the legacy of a devastating war that destroyed damn near everything, killed 1/4th of the military aged men, maimed another 1/4th of the military aged men, destroyed any burgeoning industry, wiped out half the livestock, and then imposed military presence on them and have mocked them continually ever since.

The Southern people are great people. They're kind, and they are intelligent. They're genuine in a genteel way where the Northern Americans are pretty freaking rude and seem generally unhappy and grumpy to most everyone. We're just trying to break away from this religious grip that we succured on for generations to escape our own personal hell on Earth.