West Coast vs East Coast

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"Ain't no party like a west coast party cause a west coast party don't stop." -- Coolio

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Hull vs Blackpool?

Largs vs Prestonpans

Morecombe Boys, we are 'ere wooah wooah

Minehead vs Southend

Chips 'n' Cheese vs Salt 'n' Sauce

str8 left coastin' 4 lie niggaz

IF I GOT TO CHOOSE A COAST I GOT TO CHOOSE THE EAST
I LIVE OUT THERE SO DONT GO THERE
BUT THAT DONT MEAN A N*GGA CANT REST IN THE WEST
SEE SOME NICE BREASTS IN THE WEST
SMOKE SOME NICE CESS IN THE WEST

My god, I have never been east of the Mississip nor to western California. The California seems like hell. New England seems so self-important and I do not think I'd be happy there. Seriously most of the nation is not coasts.

Yours in flyover country,

Abbott

south, or midwest.

NO COAST 2008

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Watford vs Romford

i am way too pasty and cynical for the west coast

i would consider the pacific northwest for a year, but i think everyone is still too cheerful and posi.

People used to say things like that about New England when I lived in the flyover zone, things like "those people were so unfriendly in Upstate New York, it's just a whole different mindset..." blah blah and so on, and now I go home and try to run errands and I'm like WELL THANK GOD, DO I HAVE ALL DAY TO STAND AROUND CHATTING AT THE GENERAL STORE? NO I DO NOT, GIVE ME MY GROCERIES.

But srsly, East Coast for lighthouses and clambakes and maritime traditions of all kinds.

yeah man i love the west coast and im glad ive spent time here but nothing beats the east

this is hard!

perhaps Mr Que prefers the coast of Nebraska

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_admiral

west coast is way better-looking, but I'd rather have a conversation with the east

I would mos defs like to visit (or live if I liked the vist/it was affordable); I am just scared of people who think they are experts on things. Those people are all over, though, but esp on the coasts it seems! Maybe because there are actually things happening.

CLAMBAKE sounds like the funnest thing in the world!

South is the coolest tho, I think.

people ask me this question a lot. but i never have a good answer. cuz i like both places for totally different reasons

there's no coast of nebraska

(oceanic coast)

the south is awesome in theory to me but i grew up in the northiest eastiest part of the country and do not thrive in hot weather.

Taco stand VS. Pizza place

South = best food

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/

Well apparently people in West Michigan think they are experts about people in Upstate New York, for instance...then again West Michigan is a coast too! Maybe yr onto something, Abbs.

My god, I have never been east of the Mississip nor to western California.

you really gotta do this

New York City is too hot compared to New England ;_;

especially at night. no really.

I grew up having the vague impression that North Easterners were terse, cold, and unfriendly to outsiders yea even to the seventh generation or some shit like that. That might be true from a certain perspective but that is a) just a perspective, and b) let's be serious: I could never live in the South or anywhere else people talk that slowly.

I want to go to the Smithsonian for my honeymoon.

i complain about the cold in nyc sometimes, but it's only because you are supposed to look nice and put together all the time and it isn't socially acceptable to wear snowpants and long underwears. whereas in maine we are very good at layering and bundling up to face the negative 20 degree weather and not whine about it.

You should talk to Dan M, he's a Yooper and they are like that there, too.

I grew up having the vague impression that North Easterners were terse, cold, and unfriendly to outsiders yea even to the seventh generation or some shit like that. That might be true from a certain perspective but that is a) just a perspective, and b) let's be serious: I could never live in the South or anywhere else people talk that slowly.

-- Laurel, Friday, January 25, 2008 11:53 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

I grew up in a "summer town" so being unfriendly to NYCers was something I learned at young age.

Also, Southern people are generally just outright nasty to you as opposed to "cold". My folks were on a roadtrip in college in the deep South and had a breakdown or something that necessitated a trip to a service station. They get to some shithole gas station with a bunch of rednecks out in front and the attendant goes "Well.... I see you're all from MassaDAMNchusetts...."

(Then they were nice)

i complain about the cold in nyc sometimes, but it's only because you are supposed to look nice and put together all the time and it isn't socially acceptable to wear snowpants and long underwears. whereas in maine we are very good at layering and bundling up to face the negative 20 degree weather and not whine about it.

-- bell_labs, Friday, January 25, 2008 11:53 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol you work at a real office

laurel...a... yooper?

Upstate New York = the midwest, only crystal methier. Thoswe nutty flyovers don't even know New York isn't in New England.

Bell! He's from the upper peninsula of Michigan, the "U.P.". They know from cold up there.

"Steamed hams is strictly an Albany term."

this is weird b/c this morning i was thinking that my new goal which wld somehow make all the other goals happen in some kind of weird but feasible logic is to be able to begin every day by swimming in the ocean

but i don't know what ocean

xp Ha ha, they were talking about Rochester specifically, I guess, since the person in question was at Eastman.

Upstate New York = the midwest, only crystal methier. Thoswe nutty flyovers don't even know New York isn't in New England.

-- burt_stanton, Friday, January 25, 2008 11:59 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I've had people:

1) Think Rhode Island is long island
2) not realize it's a state

Europeans always know what it is

i mean cmon
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i'm not going back fulltime for a while or anything but woah <3

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http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wa/skagit/postcards/dpassb.jpg

http://www.peacham.com/travel/images/baker1024.jpg

Yeah, it's self-evident to me, but hey...

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/images/alpine/olympic_6030.jpg

http://www.mw-scenicphotos.com/BigSur/JuliaPfeiffer/wBigSur990520.jpg

i am only accepting photos that you took or are in or that yr friend/family took and you are near them when they took it

but these are good as well

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/81119009_d411c28b66_o.jpg

Robyn - I don't own a camera, you are discriminating against me.

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That last pic of mine reminds me how much I love the Wash. coast and its rocks out in the middle of the ocean w/ trees on them.

xpost lol i'm not really discriminating i'm just into looking at my flickr westcoast photos right now

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Pebble_Beach_tree.jpg/800px-Pebble_Beach_tree.jpg

oops.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Pebble_Beach_tree.jpg/800px-Pebble_Beach_tree.jpg

http://www.envirosports.com/exec/enviro/photos/view.jpg

yeah well if this was meant to be a fucking picture thread about landscapes then why was ther a poll to start with

HOW ABOUT WE DISCUSS WHERE WHITE PEOPLE LANDED AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN PUTTING UP AMAZING URBAN ARCHITECTURAL IDIOSYNCRASIES THE LIKES OF WHICH CAN ONLY BE SEEN IN, UH, FUCK, ARE YOU KIDDING? WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA
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yeah you got nothing
west coast fuck wouldn't even EXIST without east coast fuck
I rest my fuck case

i kind of love you you are crazy

ps sorry abt the landscapes it is my biraahtday wkend and shouldn't every thread like this have a 4am drunk jpg fight?

Oh, I would post my pics from SF, but I don't feel like digging ou the discs. Maybe later.

ps sorry abt the landscapes it is my biraahtday wkend and shouldn't every thread like this have a 4am drunk jpg fight?

I think so!

ps happy birthday rrobyn! plus, at the risk of sounding crepey, yr smile on the WDYLL thread where you're holding the beer bottle slays.

there, I said it. also, Autumn Almanac looks like a popstar in the picture(s) of him, so...I just appreciate. beautiful. people! Blah

you wld prob get yr ass kicked jpg style
but whatever east coast rules too - i went swimming in nova scotia with a lot of small jellyfish once and even with the stinging it was still awesome
xpost
:)

I think you have me wrong. I am on the side of the west here

Manifest Destiny = West is the apex of America's development = West wins (this is weak =)

East Coast died with Charlie Ondras.

West died with Horatio Alger

happy birthday rrrobyn!

haha thank you for participating in the birhtday drunk 4am tradition! :D

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im glad someone else on this thread was tootin' denver's horn. LOVE THIS JOINT, if only it had an ocean.... damn.

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You people are crzy.

u gay

east coast media bias.

either that or the Australians...

I should have voted. (WEST SIDE).

lol we so correct

y'all don't even get hurricanes

lol, even the likes of me recognizes there's a limit to self-delusion ESPECIALLY WHEN THE STAKES ARE IMAGINARY!!!!!!

But I concede that east coast weather patterns are kinda cool.

In fact, they're so cool that west coast climatic patterns almost drove me to insanity...but still I would trade coasts in a second.

East coast mentality, broadly speaking, drives me even crazier!

And that's not reverse psychology of "don't move to the west coast, it sucks, heh-heh,", as much as I might wish I could employ that sorta calculating and cleverness.

DIRTY SOUTH WHAT Y'ALL

I like the south, and should investigate it more.

But more importantly, where is the "yr neighbors, agh" thread? At the moment I can hear my downstairs neighbors having sexual congress for the second time today, plus I am smelling delicious tomato-sauce dish leaking over from some other neighboring unit, followed by some homey beef dish or something. I can only turn up the speaker so loud, and smoke w/o opening the windows for so long...

i.e., you jerks, re-arrange the world according to ME, etc...

im glad someone else on this thread was tootin' denver's horn. LOVE THIS JOINT, if only it had an ocean.... damn.
That really about the only thing wrong with Denver isn't it? I could do with a little LESS sunshine, too, but in general a great place.

http://www.city-data.com/top2/c69.html

http://gothamist.com/2008/04/04/map_of_the_day_142.php