Dealing with psychopath nutjobs

[Jackalope]

It's hard not to like Mr. Petty. What part of FL? I grew up in the Panhandle, but was born in IL.

First live show I ever saw, back in... 1981 or 1982 I think? The 80's are a little fuzzy.

[The Grand Nudger]

Gainesville....but more likely a part of what we call Ocala now (to Agenda). To anyone who's never been and want's to see "the south" I entreat you to visit Central Florida and it's swamps. Alachua and the lochloosa.......fuck me, any excuse to say those two words..lol

Come now Summer, we don't want those places? Spacecraft launched from Florida and called Houston when they had a problem.....and you'd best leave the banjos out of this..or I won't play mine for you...

"College don't make you somethin', boy."

It doesn't...hehehehe. Gratz Cletus, mommy and daddy bought you a piece of paper.....

Just saying.

[ideologue08]

While Rhythm has a valid point about tech, the overarching attitude in the south is that they don't WANT places like that. They want the sort of apple pie, Joe-the-Plumber, 50's suburban life style described in Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith. Success in America is not to move to a metropolitan area, but to have your own nicely sized house with two or three cars, a couple kids and a dog, a big yard and picket fence, and large enough back yard to entertain. Maybe a pool. You go to church a couple times a week. The kids all say "under god" in the pledge. God, America, and Family first.

Silicone valley as far as they're concerned is full of atheist crazies and hippies. They grudgingly like the tech that comes out of it, but they're quick to remind you that God comes first. TV rots your eyes, you know. Those iPads make kids act like little snots. They forget to respect your elders. Blah blah.

I live in one of the more 'liberal' cities in NC, and by that I mean we voted for more equal treatment of gays and such, and we try to put in more public transport and recycling programs and green roofing and generally act like we're not surrounded by toothless, banjo playing, Jesus loving, homo-hating luddites. It's still scary here sometimes.

You should hear the attitude people have about education. They're 'proud' when someone goes to college, but so quick to remind you that their daddy or granddaddy was just as good as that 'educated' person because they worked hard all their lives. "College don't make you somethin', boy."

That was a good read. But God, America and Family? I thought it was God, Gun and Country!

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I grew up in the Panhandle, but was born in IL.

I still remember the very first time I heard the word used in that context. I asked a friend why Dems found it hard to win Florida, he said "because of the panhandle". I thought what the fuck is that? It's quite a cool name tbh.

[thesummerqueen]

Hey man, I said we have bastions of light here in the South. I won't leave the banjos out because those fuckers outnumber the rest of us who'd like to live graciously here in the magnolia scented heat and NOT hate on homos while sippin' our juleps.

[The Grand Nudger]

Speakin 'a juleps....you and your boy ever been to the Derby? Or Red Mile?
(whatever happened to our other belle btw Summer..the one that we could have teamed up with to show Ideo the language barrier?)

[thesummerqueen]

Nein. David's only a couple times been out of NC, and I was too young to go to the Derby when we lived in Ft Knox. Dad holds a party every year though, like clockwork. You can take the boy out of horse country...well, actually you can't - he moved to Horsey Area, VA after the divorce.

[Jackalope]

Nein. David's only a couple times been out of NC, and I was too young to go to the Derby when we lived in Ft Knox. Dad holds a party every year though, like clockwork. You can take the boy out of horse country...well, actually you can't - he moved to Horsey Area, VA after the divorce.

Fort Knox? I was at that shithole back in '87. I say shithole but only because of my particular vantage point. The area is actually pretty nice.

[thesummerqueen]

We were there...oh...man somewhere abouts that time - up to 89, I think. Dad was in JAG over there.

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I think she left, Rhythm - contention with other members.

[Jackalope]

The drama continues.

The abusive, violent ex-husband is threatening to get a restraining order against her because she "set up an ambush for him".

That dude is black ROFLcopter paranoid.

Oh, and he's "concerned for his son's safety" because "it appears she's running a violent whack house", whatever the hell that means.

Knowing him, the latter is probably part of a scheme to get out of paying his court-ordered child support, which is garnished from his wages because he couldn't be bothered to actually pay it.

[ideologue08]

Not commenting at all on this situation, but in general, men do get fucked over by women in court when it comes to a settlement. Sometimes they make a living out of it, marry a guy, get a child, divorce the guy, pick up checks from him every week. Ker-ching! That's partly why I don't plan to get married in the legal sense.