Florida

cluelessPHP

Is Florida constantly drunk? Some of the stories I see coming out of that place make me go 😕 :eek: :rolleyes: :glare: all at once

dalecosp

Weedpacket

Something in the water? All those natural aquifers, maybe there's some hitherto-undetected mineral deposit?
Or maybe some mad scientist bent on turning himself into a fish and conquering the universe.

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dalecosp

Either of you boys been there?

Fairly complex question in reality. Water everywhere, beaches everywhere, almost as many bikinis running around as California, which is further off the deep end, albeit on the other coast. That means there's a heck of a lot of vanity amongst large segments of the population. Heckuva lotta money sunk into beachfront property. Huge tourism industry, but not as upscale as more international destinations or Hawaii.

Stuck south of the old "Deep South", but lots of "Yankees" there, you have cultural issues before you even take "recent" (say, the last 80-100 years) immigrants into account. Hardly any winter, millions invested in growing citrus fruit, but prone to hurricane landings and a fairly long rainy season with an occasional outbreak of "real" cold weather (but laughable if you're say, Canadian and actually know what real cold weather is), it's also home to Mickey Mouse (and his other home is, again, California ... hmm ...)

One of the few places in the USA that has more than 3 types of poisonous snakes, IIRC. Not to mention alligators live in public waters. Throw in sinkholes and you've got a few things to think about before you step out of a vehicle in the state ...

Populated in great extent by retirees with money and nothing to do but play, the rest of the population spends most of its free time attempting to join them. Exceptions made for a burgeoning population of immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America who get stuck in some pretty "yucky" jobs run by wanna-be rich overlords, and a huge influx of touristy types at varying times of the year, including the infamous spring-breakers made popular by "GGW" and that ilk of reality program.

cluelessPHP

I thought everyone in the USA was a "Yankee" now? Ermm..

Never been to the USA or North America in general...I watched Fox news for 30 seconds and was convinced the Mexicans would force drugs on me steal my job and rape me, and the African Americans would be waiting in line to do the same apart from steal my job Fox news taught me there is no such thing as a hard working African American :p

Cold is erm well depends what you are used to, When I was in Shenzhen I was told to put a coat and scarf on because it was cold outside...it was 71.6F average temperature in Scotland? Between 41F to 66F :rolleyes:

Derokorian

cluelessPHP;11058393 wrote:
I thought everyone in the USA was a "Yankee" now? Ermm..

People north of the mason-dixon line are known as Yankees

cluelessPHP;11058393 wrote:
Never been to the USA or North America in general...I watched Fox news for 30 seconds and was convinced the Mexicans would force drugs on me steal my job and rape me, and the African Americans would be waiting in line to do the same apart from steal my job Fox news taught me there is no such thing as a hard working African American :p

As someone who has lived here his whole life, the one thing I'm sure of, is that no news outlet is accurate or useful any more. Lies and slander built around their specific agenda is all they do, at least in MY o

cluelessPHP;11058393 wrote:
Cold is erm well depends what you are used to, When I was in Shenzhen I was told to put a coat and scarf on because it was cold outside...it was 71.6F average temperature in Scotland? Between 41F to 66F :rolleyes:

Here is northern Colorado, the temperatures range from -20F in the winter to 110F in the Summer. The temperature changes quite quickly. For example, this morning when I woke up and walked the dogs it was 23F but now its currently 71F. Try dressing for 50 degree swings....

cluelessPHP

Derokorian;11058395 wrote:
People north of the mason-dixon line are known as Yankees

I didn't kow that, my brother lives in Texas mind you

Derokorian;11058395 wrote:
As someone who has lived here his whole life, the one thing I'm sure of, is that no news outlet is accurate or useful any more. Lies and slander built around their specific agenda is all they do, at least in MY o

Sounds about right, I never watch news on the TV now the BBC aka the British brain washing coproration is bad for it

Derokorian;11058395 wrote:
Here is northern Colorado, the temperatures range from -20F in the winter to 110F in the Summer. The temperature changes quite quickly. For example, this morning when I woke up and walked the dogs it was 23F but now its currently 71F. Try dressing for 50 degree swings....

Ah the lowest we have had recently during winter is −6.3F..it was good times, in Scotland if you dress for sun, rain, snow and wind you can't go wrong

dalecosp

To the Englishman (or Scotsman, I suppose), we're all "Yanks" ... I think that came about during WWII. The US usage of the term pre-dates that branding by 80 years or more ... I actually bear no ill will towards Yankees ... actually, to some of my cousins from the Deep South I are a Yankee 😉 ... but my friends from Vermont or Michigan might very well take exception to that.

As for what Fox tells you, there's just like everyone else in that they want ratings, so the stuff that brings in viewers (and therefore sells advertising) is what you'll see. They go after the people who don't like CNN's POV, so the more conservative elements watch FOX. Look at the last few US election maps ... red states, FOX, blue states, CNN ... you might see the beginnings of another Civil War, except most of us know it'd be over too quick unless the military establishment is on the same side we are, and it's not obvious to much of anyone where they'd be (there was a good quote I read someplace quite a while back ... that we took up arms against each other and a government only to become, afterwards, a people who couldn't imagine taking up arms against the government or each other or why we did it in the first place ... [something like that]).

And don't get me started on the current election cycle/season. Sure feels like lose/lose to me. That's actually kind of familiar (since the 90's, as far as this old man is concerned), but this time "lose/lose" should be in ALL CAPS.

As for the comments about Mexicans and African Americans ... good character is good character, and bad character is bad character. For most every bad character you see in the news there are 10, or 50, or 100 or 1000 good people of that group who aren't anything like that. We've got plenty of people who've been here for generations ("white?") who have bad character too. If some "other ethnic group" has a slightly higher percentage of bad characters in it, it's mostly due to breakdown of the family, and/or economic causes which have at times, and perhaps understandably, been more prevalent amongs groups of people who haven't been here as long or were discriminated against (generally) in the past (as opposed to being loathed specifically by much smaller groups of people of bad character, which still happens). And yeah, there's that brainwashing stuff going on over here too. We've got ourselves so stuck in our screens all the time we don't think too well, or even relate too well to other people anymore....

cluelessPHP

dalecosp;11058399 wrote:
To the Englishman (or Scotsman, I suppose), we're all "Yanks" ... I think that came about during WWII. The US usage of the term pre-dates that branding by 80 years or more ... I actually bear no ill will towards Yankees ... actually, to some of my cousins from the Deep South I are a Yankee 😉 ... but my friends from Vermont or Michigan might very well take exception to that.

It seems funny seeing the perspective of outsiders on your own home

dalecosp;11058399 wrote:
As for what Fox tells you, there's just like everyone else in that they want ratings, so the stuff that brings in viewers (and therefore sells advertising) is what you'll see. They go after the people who don't like CNN's POV, so the more conservative elements watch FOX. Look at the last few US election maps ... red states, FOX, blue states, CNN ... you might see the beginnings of another Civil War, except most of us know it'd be over too quick unless the military establishment is on the same side we are, and it's not obvious to much of anyone where they'd be (there was a good quote I read someplace quite a while back ... that we took up arms against each other and a government only to become, afterwards, a people who couldn't imagine taking up arms against the government or each other or why we did it in the first place ... [something like that]).

BBC is our CNN, we don't really have a Fox news I think

dalecosp;11058399 wrote:
And don't get me started on the current election cycle/season. Sure feels like lose/lose to me. That's actually kind of familiar (since the 90's, as far as this old man is concerned), but this time "lose/lose" should be in ALL CAPS.

I have been watching it, I'd have voted for Sanders I guess or Trump just for lols

dalecosp;11058399 wrote:
As for the comments about Mexicans and African Americans ... good character is good character, and bad character is bad character. For most every bad character you see in the news there are 10, or 50, or 100 or 1000 good people of that group who aren't anything like that. We've got plenty of people who've been here for generations ("white?") who have bad character too. If some "other ethnic group" has a slightly higher percentage of bad characters in it, it's mostly due to breakdown of the family, and/or economic causes which have at times, and perhaps understandably, been more prevalent amongs groups of people who haven't been here as long or were discriminated against (generally) in the past (as opposed to being loathed specifically by much smaller groups of people of bad character, which still happens). And yeah, there's that brainwashing stuff going on over here too. We've got ourselves so stuck in our screens all the time we don't think too well, or even relate too well to other people anymore....

I've meet a wide range of people from diplomats for c.e.o's some have been some good some bad, eventually I came to the conclusion if you like a good bit of chocolate cake you're probably ok

Weedpacket

Leeches. Giant leeches.
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