How do you know you're in Kalifornia?

[FUNKED1]

Santa your avatard is sad, like your genitals.

[Saurdaukar]

Funked - how can you hate dogs?  You some sort of communist?

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by StSanta
California has some great dropzones, I hear.

Perris airport is 8 miles South of here.

Lots of wacky people jumping outta planes there.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Perris airport is 8 miles South of here.

That's the capital of Frence If I'm not mistaken.

-Sik

[Tumor]

Think of the PrOn!  Kali is the greatest of States!

[lazs2]

capn pork... I still manage to drag my old athrithtic bones around the state and country a little these days...  Still say I seen weirder crap in the 60's-70's and on into the 80's in the bay area.
lazs

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Sikboy
That's the capital of Frence If I'm not mistaken.

-Sik

I don't know why, but that made me laugh out loud ... at work. How the hell do I explain that!!

[Capt. Pork]

Originally posted by lazs2
capn pork... I still manage to drag my old athrithtic bones around the state and country a little these days...  Still say I seen weirder crap in the 60's-70's and on into the 80's in the bay area.
lazs

Fair enough Lazs. My only point, which was a tenuous one, was that some of the stuff said in the original posting held true for what I got to know as the Southern California of the early 21st century--namely the crap about getting desensitized to people trying to attract attention to themselves. I suppose that's not peculiar to SoCal though. I was in Manhattan two weeks ago and found that no freak, however outlandish, got so much as a glance from people on the street(except maybe for those I figured for tourists). Seeing a schoolyard full of cellphones or a gay automechanic  may not be that weird, or funny, but there is some truth to it... Of course, you may see the same thing happen in the capitol of Frence.

[lazs2]

pork... I have a theory... seems the more people we jam in one place the more restricted we become in what we can do and how we can act... more laws to make us good neighbors.   I believe that most people are individuals (not all).... they start to feel like they are losing their individuality...  the stronger personalities either move away from the population centers or get as oulandish as possible...

There is some spillover... kids in smaller towns imitate the outlandish of the population centers but they usually move or grow out of it.

What is considered "colorful" in a small town or low population density area is ignored in large cities... People pay attention to every thing you do in small towns but ignore you in large.   Bieng the guy with the wicked hot rod in a small town draws a lot of attention.... in a large city... the hot rod is ignored and impractical at best or illegal at worst... same for really cool firearms.   In a small city you can have an interesting house.... in a large city you don't even own a house.
lazs

[Capt. Pork]

Too true. Sorry about all the bitterness from before. Was totally uncalled for.

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[lazs2]

no problem pork... you may not believe this, and I know it sounds like I am making it up but.... people have been cruel and insensitive to me on this BB in the past!  

If I only had a nickle for every night I have cried myself to sleep over the cruel and insensitve things that have been said to me on these boards!

as too the 60's 70's early 80's.... they were extraordinary times.. like WWII.... a cusp.   The things that happened to me and the world were oft times.... more than interesting.   I think talking about them has been done to death tho and sometimes comes off as some kinda superior...  Sorry bpout that...They do define some of us tho so are hard to not mention.   Saying you were a biker and drug dealer in the 70's means something quite different than being one in the 21st century.  

lazs

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by lazs2

If I only had a nickle for every night I have cried myself to sleep over the cruel and insensitve things that have been said to me on these boards!

 lazs

Perfect sig line.

[Airhead]

California is just awful... I live less than 90 minutes from snowskiing, I have a choice of five or six different water skiing areas less than half an hour from me (in fact several years ago we went waterskiing on Saturday and snowskiing on Sunday), I'm 3 hours away from the most rugged and beautiful coastline in America, 45 minutes away from great pheasant- quail- dove  hunting, 90 minutes away from San Francisco, arguably the most scenic city in North America, bout three hours from Yosemite, two hours from Sugar Bowl and Take Tahoe, an hour from the Wine Country, and, now that we have Indian gaming, twenty minutes away from the largest Casino in California.

California is a terrible place. By all means, please- STAY AWAY. It's horrible here.

[2stony]

I believe the stuff about the rain. I was in Kalifornia once driving down the road and it starts sprinkling(barely raining for those that don't get a lot of rain). The crew working on a Taco Bell start putting their tools away and stop working.  What a bunch of wuzzes. Ripsnort and I live in Washington and we don't stop working in the rain until it's coming in horizontally with 40+ mph winds.  
     You can tell if there's a Kalifornian on the highway in Washington because they're the ones that are driving 25 mph in the fast lane. Hell, the rain doesn't reduce my speed at all. "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!"

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by 2stony
Hell, the rain doesn't reduce my speed at all. "GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!"

Don't worry. We'll stay out of the way of the guy hydroplaning sideways at 80mph down interstate 5.