Posted on 12/03/2001 6:03:55 PM PST by rface
Well, excuuuuuuuuuuse us!
Since we don't have to commute, guess were home from work before eight o'clock and are able to watch a little TV once in a while. Who wants to live in places like this anyway
Never-saw-my-house-in-the-daylight, Michigan
Moved-to-the-country-my-kids-still-smoke-pot, Illinois
Bumper-to-bumper-traffic, Kentucky
Last-time-I-was-home-before-eight-o’clock-they-thought-I-got-fired, Pennsylvania
Pack-a-lunch-to-go-any-friggin-place, Minnesota
Used-to-walk-to-work, Indiana
The words yada,yada,yada only make sense if you're wearing lots of tinfoil on your head. We red-America folk don't take too kindly to alien brain wave transmissions or blue-America folk that are influenced by them aliens.
Been there, done that, lived for seven years in a little dutchy called Stillwater (Boring) now I have a car with less than 100,000 miles that is less than 3 years old, and I know what the color of my house is.
Well, excuuuuuuuuuuse us!
All I can say, is for his own good I hope he makes 3 salaries...
I don't like night clubs, and I don't like living within a sea of people. I like taking the boat out, or going on an exotic trip to northern Minnisota for some pike fishing. Once a year there will be a movie I might want to see, so I go to the theater. Bowling is fun a few times a year too.
I sure am glad that you enjoy living where you do. I am glad you have a three year old car too, but if your putting 100K miles on it that quick, you should spend a couple bucks and get yourself another one, hell, you can afford it.
Ashland, Missouri
I can name at least 20 Nascar drivers, so maybe its not so bad. :)
The most catfish I ever caught without having to rebait the hook was about two dozen or so, 21 exactly if I remember correctly, was using a chicken drumstick "knuckle". What do ya do if there isn't any good catfishing locally?
Spent about a week over in the east village once, right across the street from CBGB's actually. ... NYC is LOUD all the time, and the cooking smells are unique. I spent a few days walking all around the city, occassionaly attempting to hitchike across various bridges (this is almost impossible). I liked all the food the best I think. Central park was spooky at night, feral humans deluxe. I saw frozen (stiff) person, too, as well as being there during a garbage strike, now THAT was interesting. No , not the frozen person, kinda strange looking, and sad of course. The garbage strike was awesome, wall to wall across the streets, man, humans buy a lot of stuff they don't want! I'm sure it's exactly the same in the rural areas per capita, it just ain't all..concentrated like that. I never did do much real "classic" tourist action, just walked a lot. Did go up in some building to the top and eat a steak someplace, can't remember the name now. Did meet a nice girl there, she claimed cher lived across from her for awhile, who knows on that, but she wanted me to move there permanent, and here I was almost like crocodile zogdee walking around with a pack and a knife. Too funny years later to see that movie. I was a serious neck craner and gawker. hehehehehe Too loud though, someone needs to say 'shhhhhh' once in awhile.
The thing that impressed me the most was his perception that people in Bluzonia were always trying to prove how different they are and how superior to the average and ordinary they are. Those in Redzonia accept life more as it is and live according to the religion and tradition passed on to them.
In a way it's David Reisman's "Lonely Crowd" fifty years later: the tradition-directed, only partly other-directed Red Zone vs. the other-directed Blue Zone which aims at Inner-Direction and Autonomy but never gets there.
I don't think we are two countries. It's just that in the absence of more pressing crises, these cultural differences come to the forefront. Certainly, there are real differences between the two areas, but in 2000, the two parties were not so far apart in terms of what they would do. The differences came from us not from them. They certainly did reflect the real divisions in the country over the past thirty or forty years, but did not reflect conflicts over what was to be done in the short-run. Maybe it's a glass-half-empty glass-half-full phenomenon: philosophical differences come to be more apparent when pressing political debates die away. Does that mean that we are more or less divided?
In any event, with the coming of real crises, problems and challenges, the country will look very differently than it did in 2000.
That's because in Blue America a woman can never be too rich or too thin, but in Red America men like their women built for comfort, not for speed. :)
What can I say? Guess I just sign off as:
-- a Blue mind in a Red body
:)
BTW, welcome to FR.
In Blue America you might indeed see a blonde, blue eyed girl waiting tables but only at the chic restaurants in NY and LA where the waiters are beautiful unemployed actors. Blonde people are rare in the Northeast which is why, I suspect, a blonde girl in NY could have any guy she wanted, unlike in Red America, where blondes are commonplace.
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