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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: uptown on March 19, 2012, 12:36:31 PM
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I have to rant for a minute. Living here in Iowa I feel like George Clooney trying to find some Dapper Dan hair jell! I absolutely hate living in Iowa. Everytime I need or wanted something, it's 4 to 7 days away or a 2 hour drive.
I'm trying to finish putting up the marble in the bathroom but can't find a rod saw blade anywhere around here. The guy @ the hardware store hasn't even heard of a rod saw. :rolleyes: :bhead I need the blade to cut the holes for the bath fixtures. I've been to or called a dozen places around here and no one carries them.
Same crap when I was shopping for a old school Onkyo stereo system. Closest dealers are 4 hours away :banana: I'm in hell! This is just two examples. It's the same story for other things here as well.... good entertainment and employment are no where to be found. I'd move back home (Gloucester, Va.) if it wasn't for the wife and kids. This is where they're from and they don't want to move. :(
I grew up in a place where there was always something to do and you could get anything you needed. Everything was right there. Hardware stores that had stuff, seafood out the backdoor, Nascar tracks, NASA, the Shipyard, Airforce, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Army bases. Revolutionary War and Civil War battle fields, mountains, farmland and the ocean.
Now I feel like I been dropped in a cornfield and all they have is pork loins, corn on the cob and beer. :cry I like those things too...but damn. I'd like to finish this bathroom, get some CatDaddy shine and watch the ships go by today, instead of watching mortar dry in corn country. I miss home. I ain't diggin' on Iowa.
End of whiney rant. I'm going to get some beer. :cheers:
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I have to rant for a minute. Living here in Iowa I feel like George Clooney trying to find some Dapper Dan hair jell! I absolutely hate living in Iowa. Everytime I need or wanted something, it's 4 to 7 days away or a 2 hour drive.
I'm trying to finish putting up the marble in the bathroom but can't find a rod saw blade anywhere around here. The guy @ the hardware store hasn't even heard of a rod saw. :rolleyes: :bhead I need the blade to cut the holes for the bath fixtures. I've been to or called a dozen places around here and no one carries them.
Same crap when I was shopping for a old school Onkyo stereo system. Closest dealers are 4 hours away :banana: I'm in hell! This is just two examples. It's the same story for other things here as well.... good entertainment and employment are no where to be found. I'd move back home (Gloucester, Va.) if it wasn't for the wife and kids. This is where they're from and they don't want to move. :(
I grew up in a place where there was always something to do and you could get anything you needed. Everything was right there. Hardware stores that had stuff, seafood out the backdoor, Nascar tracks, NASA, the Shipyard, Airforce, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Army bases. Revolutionary War and Civil War battle fields, mountains, farmland and the ocean.
Now I feel like I been dropped in a cornfield and all they have is pork loins, corn on the cob and beer. :cry I like those things too...but damn. I'd like to finish this bathroom, get some CatDaddy shine and watch the ships go by today, instead of watching mortar dry in corn country. I miss home. I ain't diggin' on Iowa.
End of whiney rant. I'm going to get some beer. :cheers:
Well, I bet that there is plenty of that in Iowa :aok
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I feel for you, and wish to leave the place I grew up (New Jersey) but family is here. Not as Bad as Iowa for sure. I love the Seafood here, the Ocean, the Marshland,and the hardware store. Just too much city and you can't go in the woods anymore for fear of getting a trespass ticket in the Government's "enviroment sensitive areas. Same Pine Needles I walked on as a kid doesn't look any different to me.
You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. :headscratch:
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When you had to go out of the state to use the internet why didn't you pick these things up?
Bob
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Just drive down to Quincy and we can whine about it over coffee.
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You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. :headscratch:
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I agree a good bimetal hole saw would do the job much easier and quicker,if it's real marble stone{not the manmade poured stuff} us some soap and water to lubricate the saw!
:salute
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Uptown, you're just in the wrong part of Iowa. Des Moines is easily the best town I've ever lived in, and I've been all over the place. Easy job market, reasonable housing prices, low crime rate, great entertainment, etc. You'd go to friggin Virginia??? You're nuts dude.
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I like Iowa, have a lot of family there. Only problem is that there is nothing to do. Which is fine if that is what I am looking for.
Also don't come to Virginia. It sucks here.
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I like Iowa, have a lot of family there. Only problem is that there is nothing to do. Which is fine if that is what I am looking for.
Also don't come to Virginia. It sucks here.
Nothing to do? Like Uptown, you must be visiting the wrong places.
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I feel for you, and wish to leave the place I grew up (New Jersey) but family is here. Not as Bad as Iowa for sure. I love the Seafood here, the Ocean, the Marshland,and the hardware store. Just too much city and you can't go in the woods anymore for fear of getting a trespass ticket in the Government's "enviroment sensitive areas. Same Pine Needles I walked on as a kid doesn't look any different to me.
You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. :headscratch:
Well, others have ruined this for us...
I go to Wharton every year in the fall for a trail ride/clean-up day. Someone brings an "off-road" trailer and we pick up trash as we go.
Last year, there was more trash at the bottom of the fire tower on Apple Pie Hill than my family generates in a year!
All of it from d-bags climbing up the tower and dropping stuff off of it into the puddle at the bottom. TV's, computers, microwaves, you name it and it was in there. It was horrendous. That is the kind of stuff that pisses off the Pineys and prompts them to lobby the government about the area. I have also seen examples of them being more aggressive than that such as driving 16d nails through boards and placing them in the mud-holes, point sticking up :O
It's a shame that some can ruin it for everyone else...
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Nothing to do? Like Uptown, you must be visiting the wrong places.
Waverly Iowa. Represent
List of things to do.
1. Stare at Corn Field
2. Stare at Soybean Field next to Corn Field
3. Shoot stuff
4. Drink (remember shoot before drinking)
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Must be out in the middle of Iowa in the flat land someplace.
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Waverly Iowa. Represent
List of things to do.
1. Stare at Corn Field
2. Stare at Soybean Field next to Corn Field
3. Shoot stuff
4. Drink (remember shoot before drinking)
Waverly has Terex plant and river near by...go fishing and drinking and watch the corn grow.................. ;)
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Drove through Iowa once. Did not look like an exciting place.
I prefer hill country.
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Waverly has Terex plant and river near by...go fishing and drinking and watch the corn grow..................:o)
Lol that it does, I have gone fishing many a time on the Cedar River.
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Drove through Iowa once. Did not look like an exciting place.
I prefer hill country.
North Eastern Iowa is hilly and pretty nice area also. Suppose to be some nice trout streams there I have heard, though I have never fished them. Rural area though.
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To quote the old '80 comedian, "I am from Iowa. It wasn't until recently that I found out I was free to leave."
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I flew in/over Iowa alot while I was getting my instrument rating. It's not very exciting from the air, either.
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You can't get a Hole saw for tile? The rod saws are much harder to use I would think. :headscratch:
A hole saw was the first thing I looked for around here, but no one had a diamond tip. Need that to cut through the marble. Went to Menards in Ottumwa and seen the Rod saw for a lot less priced...bought it instead. Now I wished i would have spent the extra money on the diamond tipped hole saw. Guess tomorrow it'll go get one. Just hate wasting 1/2 a day to go do it.
@AAJagerX.....DesMoines wouldn't be too bad, but then again anything is better then Appanoose co. :lol
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Living in Ohio has some issues at times as well.
The one thing I have found to get me out of a bind & unfortunately it costs more with next day delivery is Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/180-5272044-8790716?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=diamond+tipped+hole+saw&x=29&y=30
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Suppose to be some nice trout streams there I have heard, though I have never fished them.
Would you like to sometime? I didn't know you were a trouter. The stream access laws down there aren't nearly as liberal as ours, but I wouldn't mind trying to get out on some of the creeks my Gramps fished when he was a kid around Lansing.
Also. Jeep wins 10 internets for funniest post of the day!
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I grew up in Storm Lake, IA. It is/was a great small town to live and grow up in (10k people), at least prior to the Tyson packing plant take-over.
The entire western and eastern borders of Iowa, as well as the bottom 2 rows of counties offer LOTS of scenery. The Little Sioux River valley from the Spirit Lake to Sioux City is quite fun to drive and even better to paddle (search for the Spirit Lake Massacre/Inkpaduta Trail). There is TONS of stuff to do in Iowa. If a person cant find anything to do it is their own fault.
BTW..... I know of someone kinda high up in HTC that is from NW Iowa, but be careful of what you say. :aok
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I honestly don't know how people got anything in a timely manner before the internet. One thing I've found out about Iowa is, "it don't do any good to get in a hurry for anything".
Land and houses etc. are cheap down this way but building materials are another matter, You really have to hunt around to find anything, and then you may have to drive for hours to go get what you want. Crime rate is low and I get lots of peace and quiet. I guess I have that going for me.
I just ready for vacation. C'mon august!!!!!...VIRGINIA here I come ! :x
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I grew up in Storm Lake, IA. It is/was a great small town to live and grow up in (10k people), at least prior to the Tyson packing plant take-over.
The entire western and eastern borders of Iowa, as well as the bottom 2 rows of counties offer LOTS of scenery. The Little Sioux River valley from the Spirit Lake to Sioux City is quite fun to drive and even better to paddle (search for the Spirit Lake Massacre/Inkpaduta Trail). There is TONS of stuff to do in Iowa. If a person cant find anything to do it is their own fault.
BTW..... I know of someone kinda high up in HTC that is from NW Iowa, but be careful of what you say. :aok
:lol Ain't HiTech from here? Anyway, i live down where the scenery is so pretty but other then great hunting and so so farm pond fishing, what do you mean by TONS of stuff to do? I ain't seeing it man. Compared to where I grew up, there is absolutely nothing to do. Most everyone I know around here goes to work everyday to save up for a vacation away from here.
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i got PnGd over iowa years ago i don't like that state either
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Waverly Iowa. Represent
List of things to do.
1. Stare at Corn Field
2. Stare at Soybean Field next to Corn Field
3. Shoot stuff
4. Drink (remember shoot before drinking)
You just described Illinois
Also dont forget..
5. Stare at tractor in corn/bean field
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What were you expecting when you moved out there? Dancing girls and nightclubs? Well its done so its time you embraced redneckville. Go buy a case of Bud, line up a bunch of stuffed animals on a fencepost and let fly with your favorite gun. You'll feel better afterwards. Get a bird dog and hunt pheasant, find a fishing hole and fish, jam up your colon on beef. Hell I bet they even still have drive in movies in Iowa where you can give a 300lb farm girl a poke in the backseat. If you need more excitement then tornado season is just starting.
When you first went there did you ever wonder why no one really lives there? Even all the farmland is owned by A-rabs.
Only areas I'd consider is river country where there is cover for good bowhunting and water for fishing and duck hunting. BTW order everything online before burning gas.
Ain't HiTech from here?
Oops :huh Anyway Im just funning. I Love small town America and the outdoors. I Live for hunting and fishing.
I have to rant for a minute. Living here in Iowa I feel like George Clooney trying to find some Dapper Dan hair jell! I absolutely hate living in Iowa. Everytime I need or wanted something, it's 4 to 7 days away or a 2 hour drive.
I'm trying to finish putting up the marble in the bathroom but can't find a rod saw blade anywhere around here. The guy @ the hardware store hasn't even heard of a rod saw. :rolleyes: :bhead I need the blade to cut the holes for the bath fixtures. I've been to or called a dozen places around here and no one carries them.
Same crap when I was shopping for a old school Onkyo stereo system. Closest dealers are 4 hours away :banana: I'm in hell! This is just two examples. It's the same story for other things here as well.... good entertainment and employment are no where to be found. I'd move back home (Gloucester, Va.) if it wasn't for the wife and kids. This is where they're from and they don't want to move. :(
I grew up in a place where there was always something to do and you could get anything you needed. Everything was right there. Hardware stores that had stuff, seafood out the backdoor, Nascar tracks, NASA, the Shipyard, Airforce, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Army bases. Revolutionary War and Civil War battle fields, mountains, farmland and the ocean.
Now I feel like I been dropped in a cornfield and all they have is pork loins, corn on the cob and beer. :cry I like those things too...but damn. I'd like to finish this bathroom, get some CatDaddy shine and watch the ships go by today, instead of watching mortar dry in corn country. I miss home. I ain't diggin' on Iowa.
End of whiney rant. I'm going to get some beer. :cheers:
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What were you expecting when you moved out there? Dancing girls and nightclubs? Well its done so its time you embraced redneckville. Go buy a case of Bud, line up a bunch of stuffed animals on a fencepost and let fly with your favorite gun. You'll feel better afterwards. Get a bird dog and hunt pheasant, find a fishing hole and fish, jam up your colon on beef. Hell I bet they even still have drive in movies in Iowa where you can give a 300lb farm girl a poke in the backseat. If you need more excitement then tornado season is just starting.
When you first went there did you ever wonder why no one really lives there? Even all the farmland is owned by A-rabs.
Only areas I'd consider is river country where there is cover for good bowhunting and water for fishing and duck hunting. BTW order everything online before burning gas.
:lol :aok We DID have a drive-in. Sadly it closed last year. :rofl embrace redneckville.......this redneck gig is getting old :bhead
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Drive in here closed 2 years ago. Now its a salvage yard.
Whee-doggy
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We had 50 people shot over Sat. and Sun just cause it got in the 70's during the day. 10 fatals. Seriously, count yourself lucky you dont live in a craphole city.
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Would you like to sometime? I didn't know you were a trouter. The stream access laws down there aren't nearly as liberal as ours, but I wouldn't mind trying to get out on some of the creeks my Gramps fished when he was a kid around Lansing.
Also. Jeep wins 10 internets for funniest post of the day!
As much as I would love to, I doubt I will have time. The last time I trout fished was about 8 years ago. Not sure if my waders are even any good anymore and they are not dry cracked. I used to go in Wis and MN every year for quite a few years. MN is real nice up towards the Yucatan area, if I remember correct it is part of the root river system. I have a flat bottom if you be interested in going out in the lake sometime. Also last year in spring early summer I was getting nice crappie in Lake Neshonic.
I used to do alot of walleye fishing also, I guess getting married and having a child slows things down abit.
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Iowa is not that bad, just go to the middle of nebraska.
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We had 50 people shot over Sat. and Sun just cause it got in the 70's during the day. 10 fatals. Seriously, count yourself lucky you dont live in a craphole city.
And yet, Chicago and the State of Illinois have some of the most restrictive anti gun laws in the country. How're those working out up there Mr Daley?
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Iowa is not that bad, just go to the middle of nebraska.
lol yeah Nebraska and Kansas too. Iowa is starting to sound pretty good when I think about those 2 states.
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Well, others have ruined this for us...
I go to Wharton every year in the fall for a trail ride/clean-up day. Someone brings an "off-road" trailer and we pick up trash as we go.
Last year, there was more trash at the bottom of the fire tower on Apple Pie Hill than my family generates in a year!
All of it from d-bags climbing up the tower and dropping stuff off of it into the puddle at the bottom. TV's, computers, microwaves, you name it and it was in there. It was horrendous. That is the kind of stuff that pisses off the Pineys and prompts them to lobby the government about the area. I have also seen examples of them being more aggressive than that such as driving 16d nails through boards and placing them in the mud-holes, point sticking up :O
It's a shame that some can ruin it for everyone else...
That is the problem sadly, thanks for being part of the trail clean up. Wharton has miles and miles of beautiful wilderness. My wife is a Piney. I was born in Mass but grew up here so she says I'm barely a Pine Needle. :lol
It's gotten really congested here and like Daniel Boone "I need elbow room" The trick is to have some country living but not so far out you are isolated and bored. I'm no "Doomsday Prepper" :noid
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That is the problem sadly, thanks for being part of the trail clean up. Wharton has miles and miles of beautiful wilderness. My wife is a Piney. I was born in Mass but grew up here so she says I'm barely a Pine Needle. :lol
It's gotten really congested here and like Daniel Boone "I need elbow room" The trick is to have some country living but not so far out you are isolated and bored. I'm no "Doomsday Prepper" :noid
I suppose it is all perspective.
I'd rather live in isolation, whereas Uptown is getting annoyed by it.
The only problems that I have where I live are the neighbors.
I would prefer to not have any...
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A hole saw was the first thing I looked for around here, but no one had a diamond tip. Need that to cut through the marble. Went to Menards in Ottumwa and seen the Rod saw for a lot less priced...bought it instead. Now I wished i would have spent the extra money on the diamond tipped hole saw. Guess tomorrow it'll go get one. Just hate wasting 1/2 a day to go do it.
@AAJagerX.....DesMoines wouldn't be too bad, but then again anything is better then Appanoose co. :lol
You don't need a diamond tip. The cheap carbide hole saws they sell at menards work fine as long as you use water with them. I used to just pull the hose of my wet saw and let it run over what I was drilling. If you don't use water they dull instantly on stuff like porcelain but they'll still drill through it. Marble is so soft it wont be a problem for them. It helps to drill a pilot hole first though.
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You don't need a diamond tip. The cheap carbide hole saws they sell at menards work fine as long as you use water with them. I used to just pull the hose of my wet saw and let it run over what I was drilling. If you don't use water they dull instantly on stuff like porcelain but they'll still drill through it. Marble is so soft it wont be a problem for them. It helps to drill a pilot hole first though.
Thanks Hannibal. I just picked up a carbide hole saw when I went up to Menards today. I started cutting and about 30 seconds in my drill takes a crap on me :lol :bhead So after dinner i'll send the wife to Walmart to pick me up a cheap Black and Decker and hopefully get this job done tonight. :pray I have 2 holes to drill and 6 tiles to lay and then I can start grouting in the morning hopefully. :rock
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And yet, Chicago and the State of Illinois have some of the most restrictive anti gun laws in the country. How're those working out up there Mr Daley?
Daleys gone. We have a new idiot running the place now. One just as dedicated to making Law Abiding citizens moving targets and denying them their constitutional rights. IL. citizens dont actually vote in Leaders they just pretend to, the actual winners of elections decided in backroom handshake deals. Its all so corrupt it makes you heartsick. The rural areas are a little better but even there American citizens are stripped of their rights to carry the means of self defense.
I'd never recommend moving to IL. or Chicago most of all. My wish is to retire in a small town right out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
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Waverly Iowa. Represent
List of things to do.
1. Stare at Corn Field
2. Stare at Soybean Field next to Corn Field
3. Shoot stuff
4. Drink (remember shoot before drinking)
Stepson graduated at Waverly...wife is from that area...Been to Waterloo a few times where her parents live....coming that way in June as a matter a fact. It is different...no doubt about it.
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Thanks Hannibal. I just picked up a carbide hole saw when I went up to Menards today. I started cutting and about 30 seconds in my drill takes a crap on me :lol :bhead So after dinner i'll send the wife to Walmart to pick me up a cheap Black and Decker and hopefully get this job done tonight. :pray I have 2 holes to drill and 6 tiles to lay and then I can start grouting in the morning hopefully. :rock
Should have used your "laser" :D
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That "Lazer" is going to cost you.......................
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Daleys gone. We have a new idiot running the place now. One just as dedicated to making Law Abiding citizens moving targets and denying them their constitutional rights. IL. citizens dont actually vote in Leaders they just pretend to, the actual winners of elections decided in backroom handshake deals. Its all so corrupt it makes you heartsick. The rural areas are a little better but even there American citizens are stripped of their rights to carry the means of self defense.
I'd never recommend moving to IL. or Chicago most of all. My wish is to retire in a small town right out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
Ya I know. I live down here in central Illinois. The Peoples Republic of Illinois. We'd be much better off if Chicago got accidentally nuked or something.
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Ya I know. I live down here in central Illinois. The Peoples Republic of Illinois. We'd be much better off if Chicago got accidentally nuked or something.
What I find funny is when you tell someone you live in Illinois they always say "So you live in Chicago?"
But then again we live in a State were our Governors make our license plates.
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Texas land of the free, home of the hardware store in every town. Shooting , drinking, fine women, country, city, music, hill country, flat land, farmland, lakes mountains, beaches, squeakes, bastages, military bases, rodeos, state fairs, tractors, race tracks, gun ranges, gun shows, restaurants, brothers, sistahs, borders, wild side, tame side, wrong side of the tracks, red light districts, airports, did i mention fine women.......ahhhhhhhhh. I'm happy
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This guy describes quite well how I feel about the idiotic, obese, under educated, uncultured state of Indiana.. I hate living here.. I'm surrounded by dumb people on all sides..
http://www.indianasucks.info/ (http://www.indianasucks.info/)
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But then again we live in a State were our Governors make our license plates.
Sad but true.