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How do you know you're in Kalifornia?
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2003, 10:58:39 AM »
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7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown and can taste the difference between Sumatra and Ethiopian.


how did the seatle one get on this list?

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« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2003, 11:49:53 AM »
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Originally posted by lazs2
if none of you live there then how would you know if it were true or not?   You guys musta got cable or somethin huh?    Maybe a friend of a friend once drove all the way here and back?
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« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2003, 12:36:02 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
California gets a bad rap. There are at least 4 distinct parts of the State that are very much unlike each other.

Southern Calif.  - Best fits Rips post.
Bay Area and surroundings - Way more liberal than SoCal, and maybe a little more intellectual.
Central Valley - More redneck types than you can shake a stick at. I went to college near here, we won the National Rodeo Title 3 years in a row.
Northern Cal. - Might as well be Oregon, only with sales tax.


Yep it's a huge state.  People who try to portray it as monolithic are only showing us their utter ignorance.
You missed a couple of regions though.
Central Coast is pretty close to Central Valley culturally.  Good mix of Okies and Beaners.  :)
You got NoCal spot on.  It's Oregon.
Don't forget about the Sierras.  Somewhere between Colorado and Oregon culturally.

I honestly think they should make the Sierras part of Nevada (most beautiful mountains in the world PLUS casinos woohoo).
Make the North into a new state.  South Oregon.
Divide the rest into NoCal and SoCal.
We deserve way more than just two Senators.
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« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2003, 12:58:22 PM »
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Yep it's a huge state.  People who try to portray it as monolithic are only showing us their utter ignorance.
 



No kiddding... an annual population increase of over 500,000 and some counties that are larger than a few states.
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« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2003, 01:06:08 PM »
no credit for the source?

copyrighted?

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« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2003, 01:06:46 PM »
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Central Coast is pretty close to Central Valley culturally. Good mix of Okies and Beaners.  


Agreed. I mentioned my college winning the NCAA rodeo championship... I went to Cal Poly SLO. (San Luis Obispo, its on the Central Coast for all geographically deficient).

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« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2003, 01:11:18 PM »
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 People who try to portray it as monolithic are only showing us their utter ignorance.
 


As noted in an accurate self-assessment re-quoted below.....:)
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« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2003, 01:11:53 PM »
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Agreed. I mentioned my college winning the NCAA rodeo championship... I went to Cal Poly SLO. (San Luis Obispo, its on the Central Coast for all geographically deficient).


My high school alma mater has a rodeo team dude.  :)
Justin Andrade (graduated a year after me) was world bullriding champion.

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« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2003, 01:14:59 PM »
The list wasn't creative and it wasn't funny.  The reaction from the Kalifornians made the thread worthwhile.

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« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2003, 01:29:34 PM »
Just because I have no life, I will discuss each point of tardness.

1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
None of my coworkers have body piercings.  The ladies have ears.  One guy has some jailhouse tats though.

2. You make over $250,000 and still can't afford a house.
It's hard to get a house, but you can do it on $60k.

3. You take a bus and are shocked at 2 people carrying on a conversation in English.
Nobody rides a bus.  We all drive cars.  Remember the California traffic stereotype?

4. Your child's 3rd grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Breeze.
I know several teachers.  None of them have colored hair or nose rings or weird names.

5. You can't remember...is pot illegal?
We have more people in jail for pot than any other thing.

6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.
I only know one lesbian couple, and they have dogs not babies.

7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown and can taste the difference between Sumatra and Ethiopian.
This one goes on the Seattle list.  

8. You know which restaurant serves the freshest arugula.
WTF is arugula?

9. A really great parking space can move you to tears.
No problems parking where I live.

10. A low speed pursuit will interrupt ANY TV broadcast.
I don't watch TV news so I wouldn't know.

11. Gas cost 75 cents per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
Maybe 25 cents.

12. A man gets on the bus in full leather regalia and crotchless chaps. You don't even notice.
I've never seen this.  Maybe in SF?

13. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing the baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney IS George Clooney.
Where I live he's more likely to be Mark McGwire or John Madden.

14. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
Huh?  We have high housing prices, remember?

15. Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is into BDSM and your Mary Kay rep is a guy in drag.
Anybody who has a hairdresser is a studmuffin.  I do my own plumbing.  My mailman is a man.  Mary Kay WTF is that?

16. It's sprinkling and there's a report on every news station about "STORM WATCH 2000".
It's true for a lot of the state.  People aren't used to weather.

17. You have to leave the big company meeting early because Billy Blanks himself is teaching the 4:00 PM Tae Bo class.
Who?

18. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cell phones or pagers.
What are you doing hanging out at a playground, freakin pervert?

19. It's sprinkling outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
People in the Bay Area have no clue how to drive in rain.  It's pathetic.

20. You AND your dog have therapists.
I hate dogs, filthy vermin, and I don't have a therapist.
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« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2003, 01:32:36 PM »
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None of my coworkers have body piercings.  The ladies have ears.  One guy has some jailhouse tats though.


I assume you had every one of them drop drawers to prove this?;)
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« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2003, 01:33:34 PM »
Dude read the GameID in my sig.  I am a careful observer.

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« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2003, 02:19:43 PM »
deja.. yep... darn cable TV.

curval... yes.

swoop...yes

slap... definitely

MT... about right.

funked.... You have answered the list correctly..  wtf is that argula stuff btw?

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« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2003, 02:30:57 PM »
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5. You can't remember...is pot illegal?
We have more people in jail for pot than any other thing.



#5 might explain why there are so many in jail ;)

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« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2003, 02:52:45 PM »
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wtf is that argula stuff btw?


You bunch of uncultured tards.

(In my best Christopher Lowell impression voice):

"It is a deep green, serrated foliage that makes an attractive garnish.

It is thso sthepecial!"
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