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OCmike wrote:Sierras

It takes U&L Guy to inform california guy that Sierra is plural, and an "S" is NEVER attached to the end of "Sierra"?

Classic.

I suppose you call it the Rio Grande River?

OK, I'll leave you be, and let you argue it out with the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs.


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Idiot.

Dinsdale wrote:

OCmike wrote:Sierras

It takes U&L Guy to inform california guy that Sierra is plural, and an "S" is NEVER attached to the end of "Sierra"?

Classic.

Definitely a dumbfuck, but mvscal didn't quite hit it.

Sierra is not plural you stupid fucking poser. It means "saw toothed mountain range" - according to your own link. See anything plural there?

And yes, you could add an "s" to the end of "sierra". It would then mean "saw toothed mountain ranges".

Papa Willie wrote:Can't you all just kiss and fuck?

Does it have to be in that order?

You can get into some trouble trying to translate place names literally, anyhow.

I've never been to Wyoming, but I doubt that the mountain range there is actually a big tit.

Dinsdale wrote:

OCmike wrote:Sierras

It takes U&L Guy to inform california guy that Sierra is plural, and an "S" is NEVER attached to the end of "Sierra"?

Classic.

I couldn't care less. Saying, "I'm going to the Sierra for the weekend," sounds fucking retarded. Additionally, while it may be technically incorrect, that's the commonly accepted vernacular. Or, in short, go fuck yourself.

I'd rather mow a lawn than shovel snow. South will always be > shit north

RumpleForeskin wrote:I'd rather mow a lawn than shovel snow. South will always be > shit north

You'd rather live in a nauseatingly-humid, New Orleans nog-infested shithole with two seasons (hot+humid+rain, cold+humid+rain) than somewhere with a temperate climate, lower crime rate, better-paying jobs and overall better quality of life? Yep, you're an idiot.

RumpleForeskin wrote:I'd rather mow a lawn than shovel snow. South will always be > shit north

Quit making excuses for being unable to escape your wife's massive gravitational pull.

OCmike wrote:You'd rather live in a nauseatingly-humid, New Orleans nog-infested shithole with two seasons (hot+humid+rain, cold+humid+rain) than somewhere with a temperate climate, lower crime rate, better-paying jobs and overall better quality of life?

In a word...yes.

Better paying jobs has everything to do with cost of living. Houston is probably the cheapest city to live in when it comes to that, so who is the idiot here? Umm....you.

Better quality of life? What are you basing this on? Quit yapping out of your corn distributor with blanket statements like that or you will soon be mistaken for a KC native.

[quote="BSmack]Quit making excuses for being unable to escape your wife's massive gravitational pull.[/quote]

I see Cuda and Paul have been sharpening your C&P skills, Bri-Bri. You might want to tell them to tone down the PSU schtick though because there can only be one Greatest American Hero stunt double.

You might want to tell them to tone down the PSU schtick though because there can only be one Greatest American Hero stunt double.

I'm proud of you, Rumps...your game has smoothed considerably. That one gets a well-deserved rack.

Sierra Rumplespousa? That'll FULLY RACK.

South will always be > shit north

It's still all about individual preference. I've experienced both extremes, having living in Florida for 11 years and Michigan for several, as well. All things considered I most definitely prefer Michigan's weather to Florida's because I enjoy the change of seasons. And I cannot stand the humidity down there, having to peel your clothes off your skin with a spatula. No thanks.

RumpleForeskin wrote:I see Cuda and Paul have been sharpening your C&P skills, Bri-Bri. You might want to tell them to tone down the PSU schtick though because there can only be one Greatest American Hero stunt double.

C&P skills? More like drive-by skills. I loves me a good drive-by.

Sorry Roach, but it's Grand Teton Mountain the Teton Range and/or Grand Teton National Park.

Dinsdale out front should have told you that.

Why do you hate French breasts?

RumpleForeskin wrote:South will always be > shit north

You're absolutely right.

Sin,

The Civil War

Papa Willie wrote:I'd fully agree. I've always said I'd take -40 over 105 down here anyfuckingday.

It's been brutally cold here lately - down in the teens with hellacious, howling winds. It definitely makes you appreciate spring/summer so much more when it's capable of getting that cold. In Florida, I took the constant sun and clear skies for granted because that's all I knew.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:In Florida
constant sun
clear skies

and patsy stone

CrumpledUnderMetricTonsofSkin wrote:I took the constant horizon of human flesh and maggot-farm gullies amidst the folds and acrid stench from eddies of weeks-old estrus for granted because that's all I knew.

Sad...sad...

North Florida is much different than southern Fla. We do get the change of seasons here, yet without 40 inches of snow.

Nice and cold in winter, and just as hot in summer as Pennsylvania, or Ohio.

I quote the 1970 Marshall football team who said,"When do we land?"

Actually, Stephen Stills said it best;"Love the one you're with". We all love our home towns and states. Some are just better than others, weather-wise, and all have the shit weather also.

Shrub is still alive? Modern medicine is indeed a miracle.

I might say the same of you. Did someone do a rain dance?

At any rate, RACK any and all Waz sightings.

Sierra Rumplespousa? That'll FULLY RACK.

Second.

PSUFAN wrote:I might say the same of you. Did someone do a rain dance?

At any rate, RACK any and all Waz sightings.

LOL how could I pass up the Rapture.

Gotta hand it to you guys PSU, this is gonna be the best smackoff ever, without a doubt. where's the popcorn?

Waz wrote:Gotta hand it to you guys PSU, this is gonna be the best smackoff ever, without a doubt. where's the popcorn?

Screw the popcorn and enter the fray, bro. Medium Game Bob couldn't have gotten you that down.

RadioFan wrote:

Waz wrote:Gotta hand it to you guys PSU, this is gonna be the best smackoff ever, without a doubt. where's the popcorn?

Screw the popcorn and enter the fray, bro. Medium Game Bob couldn't have gotten you that down.

I'm outclassed here bro. Just like mack brown at the Big 12 Fall Meetings. Some real professionals gonna be on this mat.

Waz wrote:I'm outclassed here bro. Just like mack brown at the Big 12 Fall Meetings. Some real professionals gonna be on this mat.

Dude, you've got about 15,000 OU references which would go over most of the heads here. Don't be scered an stuff.

Hot and humid?

Brutally cold?

Some of us, luckily, don't have to deal with either.

After a day of rain I was heading out to the Farmers' Market this morning at about 7:30. It was so nice outside, about 60 degrees with the ground fog lifting - a classic Lo-Cal early spring day, that I decided to snap a few pics. For posterity.







But...don't move here. You wouldn't like it.

Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:North Florida is much different than southern Fla. We do get the change of seasons here, yet without 40 inches of snow.

Nice and cold in winter, and just as hot in summer as Pennsylvania, or Ohio.

Wrong on that last part. I lived in Jacksonville for 3 1/2 years while in the Navy. In the summer you break a sweat just stepping outside.

Btw, I was always sick in the winter, because the temperature was 60 in the day and 20 at night. I never could figure out how to dress in winter.

Better paying jobs has everything to do with cost of living.

No, it has to do with the desirability of the location, local competition within the industry AND the cost of living.

In my case, I'll be a computer programmer working for a hospital in a desirable area where there are lots of hospitals to work for. So I'll get paid a wage that will allow me to live comfortably. If I was in some podunk town with no programmers and one hospital, I'd probably be making less than $20/hour.

Houston is probably the cheapest city to live in when it comes to that, so who is the idiot here? Umm....you.

I think it's probably universally recognized that New Orleans is the asshole of America...which makes Houston the hairy, dingleberry-ridden taint.

Look, I'll make things simple for you: It's cheap to live there because you have a bad gang problem, oppressive humidity, high heat year round, an influx of tens of thousands of bling-bling, booga-booga, pick in the fro-sportin' criminals and lifetime welfare nipplesuckers, large nog projects and rundown areas, and primarily because no one else wants to.

Better quality of life? What are you basing this on? Quit yapping out of your corn distributor with blanket statements like that or you will soon be mistaken for a KC native.

KC natives aren't known for making blanket, baseless statements. They have their own set of unique "qualities" that I think we're all quite familiar with.

I base "Better Quality of Life" on the entire package. In other words, not just whether or not the particular burg you live is a nice place to live and you can make good money, but what are the surrounding areas like, where else can you go nearby that you can see and do cool things, is there a beach and mountains within driving range, can your kids go to quality schools, is it a relatively ghetto nog and Cucaracha messican-free area, etc.

So what is there to do for fun in Houston?...besides go to New Orleans.

Well? We're waiting...



I guess if you've lived most of your life in shitholes like Houston,TX, you wouldn't know how much more pleasant places there are to live in the US. I've spent most of my life, even when my parents were dirt-ass poor when I was young, living in places like those depicted in Mikey's photos, and most of that time in Northern CA.

And if you paid some dues when you were young and picked up a reasonable job skill (no "riveting" isn't one of them), you can afford to live here.

But by all means, continue to delude yourself into believing that Houston=Eden. But just know that even the guys who live in Missouri think that's funny.

Im not sure which of these is funnier...

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grammarsdale wrote:The grammarsmack only comes out after someone makes a grade-school-failing mistake while running intellismack/education smack.

OCmike wrote:I was planning on visiting my parents up in the Sierras this weekend, but even though the road is plowed down to asphalt, they've still got chains required for a 60-mile stretch all the way to the Nevada border. It's snowing light flurries, the asphalt is bare and you require chains?

Pussies.

grammarsdale wrote: It takes U&L Guy to inform california guy that Sierra is plural, and an "S" is NEVER attached to the end of "Sierra"?

Classic.

You certainly are, in a pathetic, yet predictable way.

Now if we can make this do 360 degree spins while processing and spewing info it will be a more accurate depiction.

The "Nevada" at the end of Sierra should have told you right away that it's not even in California.

Sin
Poserdale

OCmike wrote:
I couldn't care less. Saying, "I'm going to the Sierra for the weekend," sounds fucking retarded. Additionally, while it may be technically incorrect, that's the commonly accepted vernacular. Or, in short, go fuck yourself.

A trip to the Grand Tetons sounds like more fun, plus you get to tell everyone you're going to the Big Tits for the weekend without the pain of visiting Mt. Rumplewife.

OCmike wrote:No, it has to do with the desirability of the location, local competition within the industry AND the cost of living.

I'll grant you that, Mike, but cost of living is driven by the competition and desirability. They're pretty much one in the same; therefore such as (hehe...that will never get old), a computer progammer in San Francisco is going to make a lot more money than a programmer in Houston because of the cost of living.

I can back this up with my own personal experiences (sup Dins).

When I was an employee with the Federal Reserve, we went through a huge conversion with our payments area. When we were gearing up for the conversion, the Fed down here beefed up the crew by hiring about 5 part-time temps.

After our conversion was over, a couple of people from the southern Fed branches and myself were called to the San Fran Fed for one month of assistance because A) Our recent experience would help them along the process and B) It was actually cheaper for them to bring us in, put us up in a hotel and pay our "local" salary than hiring temps.

So, I wouldn't say Houston has low paying jobs, Mike. Its lower paying because its a cheap place to live.

It's cheap to live there because you have a bad gang problem, oppressive humidity, high heat year round, an influx of tens of thousands of bling-bling, booga-booga, pick in the fro-sportin' criminals and lifetime welfare nipplesuckers, large nog projects and rundown areas, and primarily because no one else wants to.

Before Katrina, Houston was pretty much a safe place to live. The crime rate dropped significantly from 1990 through 2004. Houston police said that in 2005 20% of all homicide cases involved Katrina evacuees. Its not pretty, no doubt.

The reason Houston is cheap is because of the real estate. Its everywhere. Houston is a commuter town that does not demand public transportation like other trendy cities do. Cost of living stays low because location is not the be all end all here. If you can't afford it, then build elsewhere. That is pretty much the motto here. Houston is so spread out that premium real estate is not as desirable as it is in other populous cities.

I base "Better Quality of Life" on the entire package. In other words, not just whether or not the particular burg you live is a nice place to live and you can make good money, but what are the surrounding areas like, where else can you go nearby that you can see and do cool things, is there a beach and mountains within driving range, can your kids go to quality schools, is it a relatively ghetto nog and Cucaracha messican-free area, etc.

Okay, granted Houston is not pretty like San Diego, Chicago, San Fran, etc.. And no, the outer areas don't offer the escape from reality like Denver, Portland, and Seattle, but there is a beach nearby in Galveston. It aint the Pacific, but its the beach none the less. You have to drive a little farther to get to some nice spots like in central Texas (3 hours) to get to the outer areas of Austin which has some nice sites and tourism.

As far as nearby cool things to do and see, well we got the Space Center, The San Jacinto Monument, The Wooldands Riverwalk, Memorial Park (very nice), The Museum District, and a quality performing arts and theatre district. Houston is probably one of the best places to find great food of ALL nationalities (Insert Mrs. Rumps joke here) and trendy dining areas. Again, nothing as wonderful as other big cities, but at least there is something.

Where Houston makes up for what they lack in activities and natural scenery, its the people. That is quality of life to me. We know family in this town unlike the other big dogs. We give our neighbors the shirt off our back, we offer people in trouble a place to stay, and we are down home and honest, Mike. I've traveled to all the big cities in the US and Houston is still second to none when it comes to common courtesy and hospitality towards others. Quality of life begins there, Mike, not some fucking scenic view of the Sierra/Sierras...whichever you prefer.

RumpleForeskin wrote: After our conversion was over, a couple of people from the southern Fed branches and myself were called to the San Fran Fed for one month of assistance because A) Our recent experience would help them along the process and B) It was actually cheaper for them to bring us in, put us up in a hotel and pay our "local" salary than hiring temps.

So, I wouldn't say Houston has low paying jobs, Mike. Its lower paying because its a cheap place to live.

It's a shitty, cheap place to live because the jobs don't pay much and the jobs don't pay much because it's a shitty, cheap place to live. Woooo! Round and round we go!

Before Katrina, Houston was pretty much a safe place to live.

Where, in Katy or one of the other burbs? Certainly not in the inner city or anywhere close to it.

The reason Houston is cheap is because of the real estate. Its everywhere. Houston is a commuter town that does not demand public transportation like other trendy cities do.

Well, that, or it's because Houston is spread out and not up (like Los Angeles) and people drive such long distances to get to work that public transportation is not only impractical, it's basically useless.

Okay, granted Houston is not pretty like San Diego, Chicago, San Fran, etc.. And no, the outer areas don't offer the escape from reality like Denver, Portland, and Seattle, but there is a beach nearby in Galveston.

...along with Mako and Tiger sharks to liven up an otherwise boring session of bodysurfing.

You have to drive a little farther to get to some nice spots like in central Texas (3 hours) to get to the outer areas of Austin which has some nice sites and tourism.

So in other words, there isn't shit to do anywhere near Houston. If you drive for 3 hours in just about any direction in CA, you raise your potential level of outdoor, sports and fun activities by a factor of ten. Whereas if you're in Houston, you can drive a couple of hours west to San Antonio (another humid, shithole burg) and do, well, nothing, drive three hours to the east to Beaumont ( ) and do well...uh...whatever it is they do in Beaumont (probably drink and do lots of meth), or drive north to Austin and get shitfaced on 6th street. Woo hoo! What a blast! <----Pssst...insert rolleyes gimmick here.

As far as nearby cool things to do and see, well we got...(completely nothing of interest). Again, nothing as wonderful as other big cities, but at least there is something.

You forgot to mention the symphony, ballet, traveling gypsies and the annual arrival of the Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Basically, what you're telling me is that Houston, along with having a hideous, unlivable climate, also has less redeeming features than can be found in virtually ALL large cities in the US. Nice job KYOA.

Where Houston makes up for what they lack in activities and natural scenery, its the people. That is quality of life to me. We know family in this town unlike the other big dogs. We give our neighbors the shirt off our back, we offer people in trouble a place to stay, and we are down home and honest, Mike. I've traveled to all the big cities in the US and Houston is still second to none when it comes to common courtesy and hospitality towards others. Quality of life begins there, Mike, not some fucking scenic view of the Sierra/Sierras...whichever you prefer.

NoCal, with the noted exceptions of San Francisco/San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento, is made up almost exclusively of small to medium-sized towns.

Even the Silicon Valley, which is supposed to be this legendary place where people make millions upon millions of dollars, is a bunch medium to small towns all strung together. It's not some huge metropolis like NYC or Chicago, where there are massive skyscrapers that everyone works at. Most of the buildings are just a few stories tall and many people are able to live comfortably just a few miles away from their jobs.

That area aside, as previously stated, most of NoCal has that "small town" feel to it. You run into people you know all the time, and there are still mom and pop stores all over the place, as opposed to the south, where SuperWalMarts, SuperCuts, Costco and huge malls have pushed all of the local business out. Sure, we still have those here, but There's a SuperWalMart in one town and a few miles over a Costco, etc. You might have to drive a few extra miles to get the stuff you want, but that's because we haven't allowed the entire state to be smothered with asphalt and concrete block buildings.

So basically, in NoCal and LoCal, we've got everything that you mentioned as far as stuff to do and the arts(which every big area has), plus a laid back easy-going lifestyle, plus a temperate climate, plus the nice small-town folks, in addition to the Ansel Adams views, beaches, mountains, etc.

To put it in terms your wife could better understand, the views are just the cherry on top of the double-fudge beltbuster sundae, not the sundae itself.

Oh, and keep in mind that the pics Mikey posted were of an everyday 360 view of the nature around his crib, whereas you posted a picture of a park, which is essentially an artificially created island of trees and grass meant to give a person a brief experience of nature.

You know, I've had these "my locale is better than your locale" arguments with plenty of people before, but I never thought that I'd see the day that someone from Houston would try to claim "Bode" over NoCal. I mean, really...let's be serious here. You can shower away the dingleberries, learn to wipe up instead of down and even shave away the wiry ass hairs, but at the end of the day, Houston is still a fucking taint.

OCmike wrote:You know, I've had these "my locale is better than your locale" arguments with plenty of people before, but I never thought that I'd see the day that someone from Houston would try to claim "Bode" over NoCal. I mean, really...let's be serious here. You can shower away the dingleberries, learn to wipe up instead of down and even shave away the wiry ass hairs, but at the end of the day, Houston is still a fucking taint.

I never claimed Houston having BODE over NoCal. I said the South > North. That was a general statement which obviously drew some bitter attention from the likes of you and a few others.

I agreed with you that Houston is not anything like NoCal or LoCal with regards to attractions and scenery. What I said was that Houston has a damn good quality of life. I never said NoCal was lacking in quality of life. What'd you expect, Mike, that I would just let you wipe my town through your stinky pile of shit and say "Okay, you're right...Houston is a shithole." You fuckin' imply that Houston should be lumped with the likes of Detroit and Cleveland by saying it pretty much has nothing to offer except sweltering heat and crime. Well, buddy, 2 million people can't be wrong.

many people are able to live comfortably just a few miles away from their jobs.

I laughed....

OCmike wrote:

RumpleForeskin wrote:
Oh, and keep in mind that the pics Mikey posted were of an everyday 360 view of the nature around his crib

...except that by July (or earlier) most of that beautiful green will have turned into brown - which of course has a beauty all it's own.

:|

2 million people can't be wrong.

The more the merrier!