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Strange Meat · #1 Posted **Sep 24, 2012, 7:27 PM**

Super8? Eh, I prefer to wreck Motel 6s.

Strange Meat · #2 Posted **Sep 24, 2012, 11:02 PM**

I refuse to eat Mexican food anywhere east of here.

Gotta have that green chili, son!

vid · #3 Posted **Sep 24, 2012, 11:28 PM**

I considered going to a Taco Bell when I was in Winnipeg, but decided I'd rather not.

Strange Meat · #4 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 10:18 PM**

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I considered going to a Taco Bell when I was in Winnipeg, but decided I'd rather not.

Taco Bell is amazingly bad.

vid · #5 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 10:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

Taco Bell is amazingly bad.

I know. I wanted to experience just how bad it was.

vid · #6 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 12:38 AM**

They make up nearly 10% of the population?

I knew Illinois was popular among Latinos but didn't know it was that popular!

rockyi · #7 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 12:52 AM**

With the farm implement factories and railroads here our hispanic population is much larger than surrounding areas. At the turn of the century the Rock Island Railroad would recruit folks just as they crossed the Rio Grande to come work for the railroad.. Nah, you don't need papers.
Driving down US 92 from Moline through East Moline into Silvis you won't exactly see tons of blond haired, pasty-faced Anglos.

LMich · #8 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 8:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

With the farm implement factories and railroads here our hispanic population is much larger than surrounding areas. At the turn of the century the Rock Island Railroad would recruit folks just as they crossed the Rio Grande to come work for the railroad.. Nah, you don't need papers.
Driving down US 92 from Moline through East Moline into Silvis you won't exactly see tons of blond haired, pasty-faced Anglos.

It's kind of funny people don't realize who lives where in the Midwest outside Chicago. My little city is now 13.3% hispanic as of the 2011 American Community Survey. Grand Rapids is now 14.5%, and the hispanic population in both is mostly Mexican, though Grand Rapids is a little less. Saginaw was 14.3% hispanic at the 2010 Census. Not huge percentages, but enough to support clusters and districts of hispanic-owned businesses.

rockyi · #9 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 10:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by LMich

It's kind of funny people don't realize who lives where in the Midwest outside Chicago. My little city is now 13.3% hispanic as of the 2011 American Community Survey. Grand Rapids is now 14.5%, and the hispanic population in both is mostly Mexican, though Grand Rapids is a little less. Saginaw was 14.3% hispanic at the 2010 Census. Not huge percentages, but enough to support clusters and districts of hispanic-owned businesses.

They just assume we all live in Beaver Cleaverville.

According to the latest census in the Quad City area Moline also has around 13% hispanic, Silvis was close to 16% and East Moline is hovering near 20%. The rest of the cities are all between 5 and 10%. Many of the local Hispanic neighborhoods have restaurants who deal first with the locals who live there so I'm sure the food is authentic enough and hasn't been dumbed-down for the Anglos.
Also, once while at our local blues fest in Davenport I overheard some naive visitors who couldn't believe Iowa had so many, *gasp*, black folks. I almost turned around and said "Are you fucking serious?"

I think they expected to see Jethro selling corn along the street and Ellie Mae in denim cutoffs fanning her crotch with a People Magazine.

vid · #10 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 1:06 AM**

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Why is Dick Rivers infamous, and why doesn't it surprise you?

Just another day in Mansack.

Centropolis · #11 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 2:27 AM**

dude i am totally an unmedicated mildly crazy/ anxiety person. im interested in how well and not so well i cope with it.

a lady from a southern california branch office of my company came in today and she
was totally like a
character from the SNL skit The Californians. she pouted her lips all the time, and was super ( unatural) blonde and more tan than me, who is outside for hours almost every day. the mannerisms were important though.

rockyi · #12 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 10:22 PM**

I'm going out to get a Cabot Clothbound Burrito!!!

Buckeye Native 001 · #13 Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 10:54 PM**

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I'm going out to get a Cabot Clothbound Burrito!!!

"The tortillas are made in some obscure/exclusive location you've never heard of and you wouldn't be able to afford them anyway."

Cleveland, have you considered reporting the posts as offensive? That usually attracts a higher-ups attention. Then again, I've done that before and it seems to piss off his cohorts.

My current favorite trainwreck of a thread is the one about varying degrees of moderation in politics with the usual suspects trying to assert their moral superiority over everyone else...I feel bad for thoraudio right now.

Cleveland Brown · #14 Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 5:27 PM**

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Cleveland, have you considered reporting the posts as offensive? That usually attracts a higher-ups attention. Then again, I've done that before and it seems to piss off his cohorts.

I've thought about calling him an overbearing, pretentious, lying (remember the sushi discussion), FUCKING ASSHOLE one day. I've been here nearly nine years without a suspension, so I have some capital built up.

Strange Meat · #15 Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 6:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

I'm going out to get a Cabot Clothbound Burrito!!!

I fully support burritos.

Not that I have a fucking clue what Cabot Clothbound is.

Cleveland Brown · #16 Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 5:43 PM**

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I fully support burritos.

Not that I have a fucking clue what Cabot Clothbound is.

It's "Santorum" for douchebag investment bankers. "My boss was going to fire me for screwing up the merger documents, but then I reminded him how much he liked my cabot clothbound burritos."

rockyi · #17 Posted **Sep 27, 2012, 1:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

I fully support burritos.

Not that I have a fucking clue what Cabot Clothbound is.

One day our food discussion moved on to cheeses and our good friend 32001 was being his normal, pretentious self and started mentioning his favorites, which of course nobody heard of so it made them so much more special to him. We started giving him crap for dropping names like Cabot Clothbound Cheddar.

Buckeye Native 001 · #18 Posted **Sep 27, 2012, 2:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

One day our food discussion moved on to cheeses and our good friend 32001 was being his normal, pretentious self and started mentioning his favorites, which of course nobody heard of so it made them so much more special to him. We started giving him crap for dropping names like Cabot Clothbound Cheddar.

Was that the same thread with the $37 cheeseburger?

Does anyone else remember that or was that not something that happened here?

vid · #19 Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 12:36 AM**

I love how it has become an abortion debate. Next up: Should women vote?

Buckeye Native 001 · #20 Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 1:05 AM**

I was hoping the "Europe is Closest to Heaven on Earth Thread" would've continued on the tangent started whenever those goofball Jehova's Witness pictures were uploaded and people started making fun of those. That could've been a nice, pleasant diversion away from whatever the hell it is they're arguing about now.

I mean, I too think Crawford's a jackass, but is it really necessary to talk to him like that?