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Originally Posted by k911sc
so far alabama and FLA have weighted in. any other backward ass states wanna pile on?
T$
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Don't get your panties in a wad. Responses like that are what make mid-west and southern people surprised when someone who is polite tells them they are from Cali. You may notice the first response is from me. I may be a little redneck from your perspective, but I would whip your ass at trivial pursuit.
I am a California native and lived in the city for 4 years while going to podiatry school. SF is a great place to live, but you must confess they have some looney tunes ideas from far left politicians on both the state and frederal stages. I suppose you voted for some of the worst ones if you live where I imagine you do, so I don't have to guess which side you come down on re the Mayor violating state law because he did not agree with it(gay marriage) or SF State banning military recruiters from a job fair and then crying about the possibility of losing federal funding.
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Originally Posted by hardflex
As San Francisco is to the rest of the country, the US is to the rest of the world.
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That is quote of the year for me
Danimal, you are dead right. From about the mid '70's California has been declining in my eyes. Both from the urban sprawl, to the rude individuals, both the land and the people have been going to crap. People out here do not give a rat's ass about their fellow man. Here is an example for you.
When I first moved back to the Sacramento area from Texas, I was out doing housecalls in June or July. It was about 110*, and traffic was really backed up going N on Power Inn Rd, right at Folsom Blvd, for those familiar with the area. Took me like 3 cycles to even get to the light for the dual L turn lanes, I notice a car with the hood up at the front of the line. I get in behind her, and walk up. She tells me she has a dead battery, just got paid and is on the way to get a new one, can I give her a jump start. I pull into a gas station, and when I start pushing her car, some backwards ass ****er with Oklahoma plates on his car comes out to help me, and asks if we need jumper cables after we push it into the gas station. The 40 yo gal has cables, and while I was waiting for my alternator to put a little life in her battery, she tells me she was waiting over an hour there. If that were an old person, or if they had some little kids in the car, that would be big, perhaps mortal trouble.
When I first moved to Conroe, Texas in 1994, I had this POS ford with used, bald tires on it because I was broke, fresh out of residency. Well more like a few hundred G's down from education debt, but that is another story. I get a flat and as I am changing it, 4 cars stopped to see if I needed help. One guy in a truck even offered me a beer from the ice chest behind the cab. It only takes about 15 minutes to change a tire, so pretty much if no one was sitting there in a car asking if I was okay, someone was fixin' to pull over and check.
Toby,
There is a reason that people say people from California are asshats. It is because a lot of them are, and it is getting worse, seemingly by the day. People react to stuff like this because they expect Californians(Really, people from LA and SF, if you look at the stereotypes) to do this because they have done it many times before.
Toby, the original T-money