[QUOTE=Sableye;46712303]Missouri wasn't a slave state, they pretty much were a prequel of the civil war, they fielded troops on both sides of the line[/QUOTE]
No, you're confusing it with the Confederacy. Missouri was a slave state due to the Missouri Compromise, which is what Scorpious meant.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;46711711]Yeah, but other than that, there's not many reasons to call Missouri part of the South. It just doesn't fit particularly well.[/QUOTE]
Regional boundaries in the US are really tenuous.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/EwHJp3B.png[/t]
This was a map that made its way around reddit a while ago. Other than the great plains being improperly labeled "midwest," it's pretty accurate. Missouri is definitely more great plains/midwest than southern, and Texas is a giant clusterfuck of various types of areas.
Texas has the deserts and emptiness of parts of New Mexico and Arizona (southwest), the open plains of the great plains region, and the swampy marshlands of the gulf coast and Louisiana border. Culturally, it's incredibly difficult to pin down in a single area. Dallas especially. Austin is like transplanting part of California, Houston is like taking Atlanta and throwing Louisiana all over it and dropping it in Texas, and Dallas gets cultural influences from all over the entire country.
It's really difficult to tie certain states down to regions. Southern Florida is so unlike the rest of the South that it deserves its own category. I'd give Texas its own category, too.
still missuri should be considered a northern state if you look at the number of troops sent to each side, they sent 110,000 men to the north while only sending 40,000 men to the south
[QUOTE=Sableye;46712333]still missuri should be considered a northern state if you look at the number of troops sent to each side, they sent 110,000 men to the north while only sending 40,000 men to the south[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but everyone not from my state is a Southerner!
Virginia is cool
If I'm talking to southerners I can passably say that "yea buddy 'm southern too" but if I'm talking to Northerners I can say "well we're really not that southern" and they'll believe me
I mean sure maybe like people from the west coast might not get it but hey why would I want to talk to anyone from the west coast anyway
kentuckian here
can't wait to get accepted for a co-op that will lead to me getting the fuck out of here
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;46700130]I am a fellow Middletown Facepuncher too.[/QUOTE]
woaaaahhhh
Sullivan County facepuncher over here
I also harass Codemonkey3 occasionally at work
[editline]15th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=elitehakor;46714838]kentuckian here
can't wait to get accepted for a co-op that will lead to me getting the fuck out of here[/QUOTE]
My father is from Jackson. I like it down there, we actually got a house recently in Jackson and my grandparents are currently living there.
good stuff
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46659919]I didn't know Nebraska had cities to begin with :v:[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://www.nebraskaweatherphotos.org/Dsc_9364d80sm.jpg[/IMG]
You'd be surprised. Don't be fooled though, Reno ("The biggest little city in the world") hasn't got anything on us.
I also picked a great picture to showcase the Penis of the Plains. Enjoy the architectural achievement that is a giant phallic shaped building with a little man throwing seeds off the top.
Kansan here.
Don't come to Kansas if you enjoy looking at things. Because there's nothing to look at here.
[QUOTE=slayer20;46715691]Kansan here.
Don't come to Kansas if you enjoy looking at things. Because there's nothing to look at here.[/QUOTE]
I've gone through Kansas dozens of times on 35. The Flint Hills are fucking beautiful, man. The rest of the state is pretty shitty, but that area is stunningly beautiful to drive through.
Illinois as a whole is generally considered part of the Midwest by the people who live here. Even at the northern border of it, where I live.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;46712326]Regional boundaries in the US are really tenuous.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/EwHJp3B.png[/t][/QUOTE]
I disagree with this map for numerous reasons, but the "Florida" section made me chuckle
That map earns my vote for splitting california and the PNW
[QUOTE=paindoc;46722088]That map earns my vote for splitting california and the PNW[/QUOTE]
former pnw resident, current cali resident here
part of cali is considered pnw? new info to me
[QUOTE=inebriaticxp;46722752]former pnw resident, current cali resident here
part of cali is considered pnw? new info to me[/QUOTE]
that northernmost bit of california is basically canada
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;46728320]that northernmost bit of california is basically canada[/QUOTE]
current cali, can confirm anything past bay area is canada
[QUOTE=slayer20;46715691]Kansan here.
Don't come to Kansas if you enjoy looking at things. Because there's nothing to look at here.[/QUOTE]
"hey are those ICBM silos!?"
"nothing to see here, move along"
at least it was in the 60s, now i think Montana holds the record for the most nuclear missiles per capita
Out of curiosity, can people who live in America easily mimic other American accents or would you have to practise a bit before trying to do other accents?
Depends on the person and on the accent, but generally it sounds like it to those who don't normally hear it. If you try to do it to someone from the area, it's going to be obvious to them. Accents vary hugely across the states, and there's even pretty big differences single states over sometimes.
[QUOTE=MisterSpuds;46735113]Out of curiosity, can people who live in America easily mimic other American accents or would you have to practise a bit before trying to do other accents?[/QUOTE]
I can do a pretty good super conservative wetbacks are taking our jobs kind of accent.
Washingtonian here. I live like 2 freeway exits away from where they shot the school scenes for the Twilight movies. The weather shown in the films was very accurate to real life weather year round here.
In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, like this
[t]http://i.imgur.com/u3yRKOX.jpg[/t]
you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item.
Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter that looks like this.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NeXNCOd.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Chains!;46736361]In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item. Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter.[/QUOTE]
Never heard of that before.
[QUOTE=Chains!;46736361]In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, like this
[t]http://i.imgur.com/u3yRKOX.jpg[/t]
you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item.
Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter that looks like this.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NeXNCOd.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Nope, nothing like that. Please bring us more Nando's and cheaper cadbury though pls. And curly wurly's
[QUOTE=MisterSpuds;46735113]Out of curiosity, can people who live in America easily mimic other American accents or would you have to practise a bit before trying to do other accents?[/QUOTE]
tbh, accents are a local thing and can be very hard to replicate unless you have lived there. Someone from Boston is not going to be able to do a Northern MN accent. Like wise as someone from the deep south cant do a Vermont accent
[QUOTE=Chains!;46736361]In America do you have stores like Argos?
You go in, they have catalogues you browse through for the item you want, like this
[t]http://i.imgur.com/u3yRKOX.jpg[/t]
you copy the number of the item then take the number to the counter, pay for your item.
Then wait about 5-10 minutes in a waiting room for someone to bring the item up from the storage room and then you collect your item from another counter that looks like this.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NeXNCOd.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Nope... A lot of our stores follow the big box warehouse format, where everything's on shelves and you just take whatever you want to the register. The only situation that might be similar is trying to buy TVs at entertainment stores, like HHGregg or Best Buy, where you flag down an employee, tell him what you want, and they wheel it out from the storeroom. Outside of that, though, it's all self-serve.
I do think a few higher end clothing and home goods stores used to use the catalog system back in the 30s-50s, but that's long since passed.
Thank God we don't do that.
It's pretty interesting to see the differences between Europe and the US. No offense to those across the pond, but a lot of Europeans act like they know everything about [i]actual[/i] life in the United States just by watching the TV.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;46738579]It's pretty interesting to see the differences between Europe and the US. No offense to those across the pond, but a lot of Europeans act like they know everything about [i]actual[/i] life in the United States just by watching the TV.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. Then they yell at us for our ignorance.
jesus christ thats the worst store ive ever seen in my life
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