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Coolguye posted:that's basically it. the food in all of those places is just standard slop that's mostly made with a toaster and a microwave. then you drench it in something that covers up how bland and utilitarian the actual food is and hope the cat you're selling it to is too dumb or distracted to notice. which is actually a pretty safe bet, we're talking about a warehouse casino in backwater oklahoma. only the stupidest rednecks and the most degenerate gamblers end up there. i saw a lot of body hair, red-rimmed eyes, and soulless faces in my time there, and much more than the hellish grind of sitting there doing mental math for hours on end, that is what kept me from ever going back once my tuition was paid and i didn't NEED to count cards anymore. Man that’s a harsh review. Sometimes when I go to small towns I start freaking out thinking everyone is borg, but then I realize they all know each other because like 4000 people live there and people say different words from what other folks say. 
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Man that’s a harsh review. Sometimes when I go to small towns I start freaking out thinking everyone is borg, but then I realize they all know each other because like 4000 people live there and people say different words from what other folks say. i do have good things to say about small towns, but it all kind of wilts when you realize that when your entire life is a couple thousand people, there's no reward for working hard and being good at what you do. if you've got any kind of ambition at all beyond fitting in with your community and having a low stress life, small town americana's rose-encrusted, gold-gated enclaves end up being thorn-rimmed prisons where your fellow inmates paint molten brass on the rusting bars and rotting hinges so they can keep telling the passers-by it's gold.
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Coolguye posted:i do have good things to say about small towns, but it all kind of wilts when you realize that when your entire life is a couple thousand people, there's no reward for working hard and being good at what you do. if you've got any kind of ambition at all beyond fitting in with your community and having a low stress life, small town americana's rose-encrusted, gold-gated enclaves end up being thorn-rimmed prisons where your fellow inmates paint molten brass on the rusting bars and rotting hinges so they can keep telling the passers-by it's gold. Oh hello humble folks, I am a filth prospector and I was wondering if anyone here knows where I can find some gilded turds? 
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Internetjack posted:when it comes to "americana" one of the great and horrible things we have is easy access to a lot of weapons? Seriously, I'll be back to Spokane in a few months and will do my best to remember to take camera/pics. Besides signs, if I'm allowed to take pics inside I will. Let me be the 924234234th non-american to say this to absolutely nobody who still needs to hear it: selling firearms in stores to almost anyone (and in some cases literally anyone) who comes into the store to purchase a projectile-firing-weapon is a very good way of attaining your yearly murder-by-firearm statistics. If I would be so impolite to tell you what to do I would say don't sell guns at all to absolutely anyone at all you loving idiots. Sorry I must interrupt this message with news that... this just in, still confirming... yes, we have information on an individual that just got murdered with a firearm. How could this happen?? Bronze Fonz fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Bronze Fonz posted:Let me be the 924234234th non-american to say this to absolutely nobody who still needs to hear it: selling firearms in stores to almost anyone (and in some cases literally anyone) who comes into the store to purchase a projectile-firing-weapon is a very good way of attaining your yearly murder-by-firearm statistics. If I would be so impolite to tell you what to do I would say don't sell guns at all to absolutely anyone at all you loving idiots. Suck my freedom, person from another land Wooooooooooo
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Bronze Fonz posted:Let me be the 924234234th non-american to say this to absolutely nobody who still needs to hear it: selling firearms in stores to almost anyone (and in some cases literally anyone) who comes into the store to purchase a projectile-firing-weapon is a very good way of attaining your yearly murder-by-firearm statistics. If I would be so impolite to tell you what to do I would say don't sell guns at all to absolutely anyone at all you loving idiots. No its because there is not enough ~*thoughts and prayers*~ what with all the gays/minorities/woman killing religious freedom!! Jesus would sell a firearm to a convicted felon because HE KNOWS HOW TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK!
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Bronze Fonz posted:I'm sorry this isn't a politics thread so here's some more americana: Why does it have to change its name? Also based on google images Redneck BBQ Lab looks like some ironic restaurant that could easily fit in NYC. It's definitely not the same sad vibe as Redneck Heaven. Thundercracker fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Coolguye posted:if you've got any kind of ambition at all beyond fitting in with your community and having a low stress life I don't doubt what you say and don't think I'd enjoy living in one of these towns, but fitting in with your community and having a low stress life sounds pretty nice tbh
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paranoid schizophrenic? you have a god given right to firearms! suicidal depressive? god given right to firearms! bipolar? god given right to firearms! bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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goatface posted:"Museum" generally indicates some form of curation. Welcome to the Plainview Clownpit! **Please do not ***THE CLOWNPIT HAS BEEN
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Enfys posted:I don't doubt what you say and don't think I'd enjoy living in one of these towns, but fitting in with your community and having a low stress life sounds pretty nice tbh they dont have eyepopping meth and heroin addiction rates because life is so low stress, i assume (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Hasturtium posted:Honestly, you and zedprime are right. I'd like to believe the situation is more benevolent than it is. I just miss pets and people after being home since March. There's plenty of amazing dog breeding going on in America, just not around shows.  Shiloh shepherd, German shepherd crossed with malamute  Alahapa blue bulldog. Smackdillion posted:This thread makes me smile Me too. As a dirty foreigner there's something I love about America that I just can't put my finger on. Maybe it's the freedom to be whatever sort of bizarre gently caress up you want.
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What the gently caress is that pink thing on the plate? Is it an uncooked kidney?
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:What the gently caress is that pink thing on the plate? Is it an uncooked kidney? That is a Potato. 
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I would eat the gently caress out of all these plates e - not everyone’s a professional food photographer you coastal elites
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TheAardvark posted:That is a Potato. i felt my sodium levels rise glancing at this
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Internetjack posted:Trent Avenue is a commercial district road leading into Spokane, WA. There is a section for maybe a mile or two where there are at least 5 gun and ammo shops in a row. Not high end fancy places, just Billy Joes Guns and Ammo and stuff like that. And they all have large signs and billboards. Been meaning to take some pics for years. You won't get exact pics from there but if you google image "spokane trent avenue gun shops" you'll get the general idea. You left out all the pawn shops that also sell guns. East Trent is my dad's old stomping ground and after the divorce his idea of a fun weekend activity for him and his daughters was to go to all the pawn shops and look for CDs. Got me a lot of CDs and saw me a lot of guns and tools. I don't live in the US anymore and there's nowhere in my european socialist dystopia that is half as sketchy as Trent.
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got a lil bit of Americana here in Denmark: Memphis Mansion in Randers. It's a replica of Elvis' Graceland made by a superfan, with a diner and Elvis museum inside. It used to be called Graceland Randers but the Elvis estate got on his case.     I've been there a few times since my grandparents lived in Randers and there's like two attractions in the whole area. It's very... Elvis-y
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Les Os posted:I would eat the gently caress out of all these plates lol
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The girlfriend and I ate a roadtrip breakfast in this place. The photos don't do it justice. There are circus posters and clown figurines on every flat surface. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g51424-d3293720-Reviews-Angie_s_Circus_City_Diner-Hugo_Oklahoma.html
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Bronze Fonz posted:Yeah, there's still a lot of people that cling to "the Americans don't gently caress around, they're not pussies like here" kind of thing and talking about it positively like how the cops would shoot you or throw you in jail (in reference to the slightest of things). Sorry your dad's a bootlicker
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Internetjack posted:And I could have it all  Atticus_1354 posted:Turns out when there's large amounts of political unrest and a pandemic happening people start buying guns and ammo like crazy and the prices skyrocket as supply dries up. 7 million new gun owners is pretty Americana. And exactly the kind of gun owner you want. Millions driven by fear and anger. edit: woah I'm behind a page or two
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limp_cheese posted:I present to you Mars Chees Castle.  
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This thread is reaffirming my plan to take like a month to drive through the us visiting all these horrible sights. It's hard to translate to someone actually from the us, but this stuff is destilled America as we grew up with from movies, TV shows and just hearsay. It's like seeing fotos of a mythical place from story books in which giants roam the countryside, riding to the steak saloon on bulls, shooting guns in the air and pointing at the world biggest corncob in a hundred miles. Maybe in a few years, lol.
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Enfys posted:I don't doubt what you say and don't think I'd enjoy living in one of these towns, but fitting in with your community and having a low stress life sounds pretty nice tbh it is. anyone who says that small town americana is without its appeals isn't being completely honest. there's lots of things you can just do in small towns that would be weird enough to be unacceptable. a good example is just like, neighbor favors. example: i personally hate going to the grocery store. even if it's nearby, it's just the most unproductive, boring waste of time i can think of. so i just cut a deal with my neighbor that i'd mow his lawn while i was out doing mine if he'd pick up my grocery list when he went to the store and slip me the receipt so i could get him back on the money. it worked out great, especially in my small town, because the store was 15 minutes away and even above and beyond the time you spend shopping, i saved 30 minutes of my life just driving there and back. spoilers, with just THAT time i was almost done with the lawns. in suburbia, this sort of arrangement would fill most people with anxiety because there's a bunch of corollary questions. can i count on you to do an acceptably good job with my lawn for the HOA and standards of the neighborhood? what if i get the wrong brands for you at the store? how do i know you're going to pay me every week? this crap goes on and on until you finally just throw up your hands and decide it's not worth the trouble, at which point you've abandoned that connection with your neighbor and also accepted this stressor as part of your life to be 'normal'. welcome to suburbia! none of these things come up in small towns because even if standards are higher than the normal mediocrity, that's known to everyone and there's known ways to handle any misunderstandings. it's just not as hard as a lot of these intrapersonal relationships can be in urban and suburban life. the problem, of course, is that that's all the further it goes. that's where the value proposal ends. on one hand, working lovely jobs leaves you with more bandwidth to do things you want, but those things you want are ultimately gonna be pointless due to how few people there are around. working at a corner gas station in tinytown usa left me with tons of time to write short stories and refine my skills in isolation; much more so than corpbrand kum-n-go or retail hell in suburbia (i did the latter working at RadioShack a bit later, which is the first time i heard 'time enough to lean, time enough to clean', and the sentiment made me want to snap my manager's worthless neck). but after i had written those stories, there was nobody to share it with and grow beyond that, so if i ever wanted to build beyond that dabble, i needed to be elsewhere. same goes with being a truly good anything - cook, programmer, doctor, lawyer, whatever. these places are mediocrity traps and the slow decay and ebbing elegance is basically by design due to that. you end up with less stress and more time, but you sacrifice all ability to do anything productive with it. so, like, if that's all the more you want - more time to smile at and feel connections with people, less time worrying - then yeah, small town americana is a fantastic fit. i do know a bunch of people who are all about that. but if you've ever felt bored in your life, it probably isn't because that boredom will incinerate your psyche from the inside out. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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The Bananana posted:Is it just me, or does this guy look like a skinnier Mike from RLM? That was my first reaction as well, lol
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:This one's for TheAardvark: This is actually one of my favorite Americana things! Almost every town in the American Heartland has a small ice-cream/fast food place called something like The Dairy Barn or Purple Cow. Hell, I can actually post an image of a Purple Cow I've eaten at:  The thing that makes these places so interesting is that they're totally independent, and the locals always treat it as this real unique attraction of their city. It's not though!!! they're always exactly the loving same !!!!!!!   
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TheAardvark posted:This is actually one of my favorite Americana things! oh ya, th’ dairy barn, out by 85,? oh ya we used t’ go there (oh heck ya)
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Do it ironically posted:Reminds me when I went to Kalispell Montana there was a pub called Moose’s kalispell was a poo poo hole but that gross pub loving rocked I grew up in Kalispell and Moose’s is still there and it’s still awesome to eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor while drinking and waiting for your pizza. There’s also a really good Chinese/Vietnamese place in town that does an amazing kung pao chicken. Kalispell is otherwise still a shithole and survives only due to its proximity to Glacier and being less lovely than Columbia Falls.
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