<<Midwest Coffee Talk: The Tens>>

[Ayreonaut]

Canadians prefer bashing Canada. If something positive is ever said about our country, kool claims it's just some sort of attempt to separate ourselves from the US, or draw parallels between Canada and Europe (even if someone claims to prefer soccer to basketball). I like most of what that guy says, but this sort of thing gets tiresome.

[ColDayMan]

HIMS, Canada has crime?

[ColDayMan]

Meh, I have seniority. I don't care:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=1#post5170364

[ColDayMan]

Well, that didn't take long to get my secret wish!

[vid]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^You should read the Canadian census threads. Or better yet, the Canadian crime statistics thread.

For those who don't know, the Canadian homicide thread goes something like this:

Woman beaten to death by husband in own home; city's first homicide in two years
Small City Newspaper

Small City Forumer: OMG WE ARE DETROIT NOW.
Winnipeg Forumer: WE CAN'T GO OUTSIDE OR WE GET ASSASSINATED
Toronto Forumers: *photo of a storefront during a protest by homeless people 15 years ago* LOOK AT VANCOUVER'S EAST SIDE!!!
Racist Forumers: NATIVE PEOPLE ARE WELFARE BUMS!!

ad infinitum.

Oh, I forgot:

Caribbean-Canadian Forumers: ONLY 37 HOMICIDES? WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO CATCH UP!! Last year there were 41!!!!!



Our discussions about the military are pretty pathetic, too.

BC Forumer: What if the Russians invade us from the ARCTIC?!?!?!?
Ontario Forumers: They won't.
Quebec Forumers: We don't need a military.
Alberta Forumer: What if the Chinese invade us from the PACIFIC?!?!?!?!
Ontario Forumers: They won't.
Liberal Forumers: The Conservatives are warmongering NEOCONS!!!!

[Buckeye Native 001]

Originally Posted by LMich

Am I a bad person for enjoying (in the most morbid way possible) watching the Texas forumers freakout because a few of their cities "only" had a shit-load of growth instead of a bat-shit insane level of growth? lol On the other end of the spectrum, you have a few Chicagoans at the first stage of the "five stages of grief".

BTW, buckeye, you can stop begging for Canadians to bash the United States in skybar. They get it, and we get it; I'm proud of them for not taking the sad bait.

I don't think its bait, I think they're being too polite in refraining from criticism.

I would like Americans to realize how awful and stupid we look to the rest of the world, and that thread is the perfect opportunity for our northern neighbors to come clean with their disdain. We learn a lot more from criticism than praise.

[mobyhead]

One of my brother's childhood friends John. He posted this pic of him with "Santa" on his Facebook page. He's the one on the right. See Santa's creepy gaze???? (John is now an engineer with Underwriters Laboratory in Chicago. He would kill me if I was posting this).

[Buckeye Native 001]

He's staring at the camera as if he's daring the picture taker to do something about the fact that he's touching both kids' crotches.

[rockyi]

SANTA!!! You sick little creep!!

[Cleveland Brown]

Dearest Santa:

Chock-Full-O-Nuts is a coffee brand and should not describe the contents of your hands.

Very truly yours,

Cleveland Brown

[Strange Meat]

had a blast in california, saw kevin nealon do a stand up set, the avalanche look about as bad as i've ever seen vs the sharks (i don't wanna talk about it, or the trade), and good to see an old friend.

it's really nice to be able to travel again.

[Strange Meat]

who's ready for spring break!?!

[Buckeye Native 001]

Jesus, and I thought Flagstaff to Orange County to Phoenix and back to Flagstaff was a ridiculously long drive. Then again, I did the entire trip by myself...

[Strange Meat]

I'll be driving that trip by myself, though couch surfing along the way.

from last week through the end of March I'll probably end up driving over 6,000 miles.

I don't mind it one bit, to be honest.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I've clocked a lot of hours of driving time in my short life, but nothing is as excruciatingly boring as the stretch of I-40 between Barstow, California and Kingman, Arizona. Aside from Needles (and that's not saying much), there's literally nothing on that 200 mile stretch of highway.

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

I've clocked a lot of hours of driving time in my short life, but nothing is as excruciatingly boring as the stretch of I-40 between Barstow, California and Kingman, Arizona. Aside from Needles (and that's not saying much), there's literally nothing on that 200 mile stretch of highway.

I-80 is ridiculously empty, particularly in Utah and through northern Nevada, but, the most boring drive for me is I-40 and I-70 through the plains states. I-65 is deathly, too.

But I'd prefer wide open spaces of nothing with basins and ranges as opposed to farmland.

[Lipani]

^ I drove through Nebraska via I-80 once. Most boring day of my life.

[mobyhead]

Traveling across I-90 in South Dakota can be brutal as well, (minus the billboards for Wall Drug).

[vid]

Wow, 200 miles of nothing? *That* must suck.

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by mobyhead

Traveling across I-90 in South Dakota can be brutal as well, (minus the billboards for Wall Drug).

Talk about raised expectations. My cousin and I stopped there because we had seen signs for it all day, and were pretty disappointed to find out that it was pretty much just a pharmacy...and a T-Rex.