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[Strange Meat]

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

[LMich]

Ironically, of course.

[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.

[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".

[touraccuracy]

i've gotten a job as a process server: finding certain people and handing them legal documents a la 'you've been served'... and the sun won't stop shining and the canucks won't stop winning.

[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.

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by touraccuracy

i've gotten a job as a process server: finding certain people and handing them legal documents a la 'you've been served'... and the sun won't stop shining and the canucks won't stop winning.

Awesome (well, the job and weather parts). If it's anything like in Pineapple Express it should be fun.

The sun's been shining on me pretty much every day since I left St. John's. Calgary's had a miserable winter, but since I got back it's only had 1 cloudy day.
Yesterday I came out to the Okanagan; it's 27C in Vernon today, and raining in Calgary.

[vid]

I was served once. It was a very mundane experience, unlike the hearing which, since it involved my landlord and my crazy aunt, was totally hilarious.

[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.

[vid]

Keep in mind that these are Canadians having the discussion.

[Centropolis]

God left St. Louis alone years ago, fuck "God" and his douchebag "Rapture." I'll speak for the rustbelt here. You gotta be fucking kidding me, I've already seen the end of the world, show me something else.


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[Buckeye Native 001]

Q: How did my extended family spend our first night in Bucyrus, before tomorrow's wedding?

A: Getting shit-faced in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn blasting classic rock music at 1am.

[rockyi]

Damn, Buckeye. It really doesn't get any better for you, does it?
The weekend will be over soon enough.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty drunk when I posted that.

[vid]

I would suggest that you divorce your family, but then where would we get our laughs?

Of course, I shouldn't talk. Getting shitfaced in the parking lot of a cheap hotel while listening to bad classic rock—bad Canadian classic rock—is something people do here, as well.