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[Buckeye Native 001]

^Which is one of the reasons I dislike posting on Facebook from my phone.

Originally Posted by rockyi

I thought you just came from Ohio? I assumed you were already at that wedding.

I went back last month for a conference in Cincinnati. This time around, I fly to Columbus then drive two and a half hours north to Bucyrus (wherever the fuck that is) for a goddamn wedding.

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Huh...Apparently I'll be in Phoenix from the 29th-June 3rd. Didn't see that one coming.

Flying or driving? Lemme know if you have time? I may be able to come down off the mountain for a quick meet (I need to check out Cityscape in Downtown Phoenix) either Sunday the 29th or Monday the 30th since that's Memorial Day.

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Flying or driving? Lemme know if you have time? I may be able to come down off the mountain for a quick meet (I need to check out Cityscape in Downtown Phoenix) either Sunday the 29th or Monday the 30th since that's Memorial Day.

Flying, but we will have a rental (though I probably won't be allowed to drive it).

I'd definitely be up for a meet, since I'll probably be looking for excuses to get out of Litchfield Park.
I was looking on Google, hoping that the LRT went by there so I can easily go into the city, but I see it doesn't really go anywhere West of downtown.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

....This time around, I fly to Columbus then drive two and a half hours north to Bucyrus (wherever the fuck that is)

I just looked it up. Yep, it's the middle of nowhere. Looks like the largest town in it's county.

[Buckeye Native 001]

No, it doesn't go any farther west than Missouri/19th Avenue (midtown). PM me, I was planning on coming down to Phoenix for Memorial Day weekend anyways to see my parents.

[Cleveland Brown]

Just had tacos, topped with homemade picked jalapeños and habanero hot sauce (whole habanero peppers, salt, vinegar, water and ground in a food processor), both of which I made this weekend. It tasted great (and very hot), but it's probably the stupidest thing an IBS sufferer can do.

Oh well, everyone already calls me a flaming asshole.

[touraccuracy]

the spice so nice you feel it twice

[Buckeye Native 001]

Oh, goody. When Mansfield is the largest nearby town, you know you're in trouble. I don't know why my family has an aversion to getting married in big cities (other cousin from this family got married about 30 miles south of Reynoldsburg).

For fucks sake, I'd be happy to attend a wedding in Toledo at this point...

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Oh, goody. When Mansfield is the largest nearby town, you know you're in trouble. I don't know why my family has an aversion to getting married in big cities (other cousin from this family got married about 30 miles south of Reynoldsburg).

For fucks sake, I'd be happy to attend a wedding in Toledo at this point...

Quit bitchin' BN, at least you're going to the most diverse of the two cities in Crawford county. Finding a person of color in inner-city Bucyrus must be like a real-life "Where's Waldo" game.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 13,224 people, 5,559 households, and 3,552 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,812.0 people per square mile (699.4/km²). There were 5,955 housing units at an average density of 816.0 per square mile (315.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.38% White, 0.78% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 0.78% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.98% of the population.

[rockyi]

Went and saw the Titanic exibition yesterday at the Putnam Museum. Quite impressive. It's amazing that things like postcards, leather goods and clothing could survive after 90+ years on the bottom of the ocean. In one display you could still smell perfume that survived.

[Cleveland Brown]

In that part of Ohio the dirty "inner-city" is anything more than 25 houses per square mile. It's prime tea-bagger country too.

[Strange Meat]

Driven through Bucyrus... And did you say "inner-city Bucyrus"?

[LMich]

Ironically, of course.

[ColDayMan]

It really is the forgotten region of the state (North-Central Ohio). That whole Route 30 corridor is just full of trash.

[the pope]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

It really is the forgotten region of the state (North-Central Ohio). That whole Route 30 corridor is just full of trash.

and that's different than the rest of the state how?

[Cleveland Brown]

An Ohio basing I guess I'll post this video again...

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Of course my home state is just as trashy, if not more so, based these two gems from today's newspaper.

Originally Posted by Detroit News

Lottery millionaire charged in Detroit landlord's killing spent money on cars

Steve Pardo and Mike Wilkinson / / The Detroit News

Detroit — Three months ago, Freddie Young became a lottery millionaire...

Despite the win, Young stayed put. Records show he's lived in the same modest brick house, near the Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport and surrounded by overgrown lots and crumbling vacant structures, for the past 15 years. The ramshackle dwelling, with a deteriorating porch and long missing gutters, had an ominous sign on the door Tuesday warning everyone to stay away "except for the mailman." Recent property records indicate the house is worth about $15,000.
A woman who came out of the home declined to talk, and family members contacted by phone either declined comment or did not return calls.
Young also kept working at the priority mail processing center in Romulus. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Ed Moore said he's worked there for the past 13 years. But he apparently wasn't shy about spending his winnings on vehicles.
On March 15, about a month after winning the lottery, Young registered two new vehicles: a 2011 Chevrolet Corvette and a 2011 Chevrolet Avalanche, state records show. The least expensive Corvette starts at $49,000 and can run well into the $70,000 range. The Avalanche, a four-door pickup, starts at $36,000.

Originally Posted by The Detroit Free Press

Michigan man still on food stamps despite winning $2M

A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that he still uses food stamps.

Leroy Fick of Bay County admitted he still swipes the electronic card at stores, nearly a year after winning a jackpot on "Make Me Rich!"

[ColDayMan]

Originally Posted by the pope

and that's different than the rest of the state how?

Says the man with the ironic avatar...

[rockyi]

My weeks vacation from work is winding down. I think I'll end it with a bang.........I'm going out to tip over some garbage cans!!!

[vid]

Detroiters will get a kick out of this. And by "get a kick" I mean "roll your eyes as decades old stereotypes get repeated as if they are facts by people who have never been within two thousands miles of the place".

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by vid

Detroiters will get a kick out of this. And by "get a kick" I mean "roll your eyes as decades old stereotypes get repeated as if they are facts by people who have never been within two thousands miles of the place".

Meh

Let me know when they have some new and interesting stereotypes. I'm tired of getting worked up about the same misinformation that has been going around for the last 30 years.

[LMich]

Originally Posted by vid

Detroiters will get a kick out of this. And by "get a kick" I mean "roll your eyes as decades old stereotypes get repeated as if they are facts by people who have never been within two thousands miles of the place".

Besides the fact that both are viewed as their nation's punching bag (or at least one of them), I honestly don't get the constant need by many Canadians to try and compare themselves to Detroit. These cities have vastly different reasons for being, different periods when they boomed, different industrial focuses during their booms, despite the disparities in wealth Detroit is larger and richer than Winnipeg, etc.

Winnipeg would be a Great Plains city, down here, and it'd seem more accurate to compare it to Minneapolis or Omaha. Metro Detroit is a major industrial, Great Lakes maritime city, which has a history much closer to Toronto than anywhere out west. Forget the stereotypes for a minute; Winnipeg is not "Canada's Detroit"; Detroit is a whole other animal of a case study, even within the United States.

As for the thread, it didn't seem that bad. In fact, most of the posts seemed rather thoughtful, if even some were a bit ignorant. If that'd had been in an American subforum, things would have went racial in the most negative and nasty way, and quickly.