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vid · #**4541** 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.

rockyi · #**4542** 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.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**4543** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 10:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

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.

vid · #**4544** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 12:36 AM**

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

Buckeye Native 001 · #**4545** 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?

vid · #**4546** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 1:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

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

It is when you're a particular Dutch moderator.

Strange Meat · #**4547** 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 · #**4548** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

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.

Cleveland Brown · #**4549** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

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."

Strange Meat · #**4550** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 7:10 PM**

Gotcha.

I have to give a thirty minute presentation (with prepared food) on a hypothetical trip (mines a snowboard trip, shocking) to a country of my choosing, Chile, at 5. I'm just now starting the research.

wong21fr · #**4551** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 7:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

Gotcha.

I have to give a thirty minute presentation (with prepared food) on a hypothetical trip (mines a snowboard trip, shocking) to a country of my choosing, Chile, at 5. I'm just now starting the research.

You are the master of procrastination.

Strange Meat · #**4552** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 9:06 PM**

Made the food. And am about halfway done with my notes I'll speak from. I got this!

Strange Meat · #**4553** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 9:06 PM**

And yeah I put the pro in procrastination.

Cleveland Brown · #**4554** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 10:25 PM**

Hmm, I wonder who this could be

source: http://www.collegehumor.com/article/...f-nerd-culture

Buckeye Native 001 · #**4555** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 11:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

It is when you're a particular Dutch moderator.

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Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

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.

I realize I'm in no position to question this on account of this being a privately run forum and I'm no model forumer myself, but a) whose bright idea was it to male him a moderator and b) why hasn't that power been taken away from him yet?

I'm tired of watching seemingly mundane topics and comments be blown way out of proportion and argued to the smallest detail because of some bizarre perceived slight. I realize this is the internet and anything goes, but his bullshit can make this place really unbearable sometimes (then again, I tend to only frequent the subforums he most often visits).

I just want a fucking diversion from work without having to watch a bunch of idiots argue about something insignificant.

Oh right, this is the internet...

rockyi · #**4556** 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.

Strange Meat · #**4557** Posted **Sep 27, 2012, 2:27 AM**

Aced that presentation.

Strange Meat · #**4558** Posted **Sep 27, 2012, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

Hmm, I wonder who this could be

source: http://www.collegehumor.com/article/...f-nerd-culture

Me?

Buckeye Native 001 · #**4559** Posted **Sep 27, 2012, 2:55 AM**

No, that Dutch guy.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**4560** 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?