Mosnar posted:

You try typing with one hand and see what it does to your grammar and diction.

Big Beef City posted:

This might be the loving creepiest poo poo I've seen written on these forums in a long time.

The gently caress is wrong with you? Who talks like this?

Ralph Crammed In posted:

Wallace, Idaho is pretty neat little town. It's nestled in a narrow valley and they used to do a lot of silver mining in the region. They still do some mining too I believe but not so much anymore.

Big Beef City posted:

This might be the loving creepiest poo poo I've seen written on these forums in a long time.

The gently caress is wrong with you? Who talks like this?

screaden posted:

I did this and I have questions like what the hell do people do here? Most of the houses look boarded up and abandoned but there were cars parked out the front

aas Bandit posted:

This was a fantastic post. I was especially struck by that first image, and went searching for a larger/better version, which led me here for a few more great small-town images from some random Russian(?) dude (see adjacent tweets):
https://twitter.com/senko/status/1281832748986986496


LOL Jesus Christ dude.

a) If this hits your "creepiest poo poo" bar on these forums you are the most sheltered person in existence and/or you certainly don't wander around much here, do you?

b) People talk and write differently. They use different words. Mosnar might be ESL, they might have been raised in a different country, they might simply like to use slightly different words and break poo poo up a little.
I'm not sure who pissed on your cornflakes this morning, but "the gently caress is wrong with you" is a hell of an ironic thing to post.

Woof Blitzer posted:

Alton, IL

Accretionist posted:

Ralph Crammed In posted:

Wallace, Idaho is pretty neat little town. It's nestled in a narrow valley and they used to do a lot of silver mining in the region. They still do some mining too I believe but not so much anymore.

[...]

Wallace, won't you?

quote:

The EPA Can’t Wait to Reopen the Mine That Poisoned North Idaho

For a century, the mines of the Coeur d’Alene Mountains in North Idaho produced much of the heavy metals that made the U.S. a global superpower. Starting in the 1880s, through the rise of industrialization, the introduction of the automobile, and two world wars, a few narrow canyons in the Coeur d’Alenes yielded more than 11 million tons of zinc, lead, and silver, as much as a fifth of U.S. production.

Mining has left a mark on the culture of the Silver Valley and an indelible stain on the landscape, which remains heavily contaminated. To extract a pound of metal, mining companies had to process nearly 14 pounds of ore, and they dumped the crushed waste rock into mountain streams and along river banks. Over the course of a century, the tailings and mine drainage flowed down the 40-mile-long watershed, depositing some 75 million tons of highly toxic sludge into Lake Coeur d’Alene. House cats convulsed from drinking the water. Migratory tundra swans suffered slow deaths as their digestive tracts seized up from lead poisoning, causing both suffocation and starvation as undigested food backed up into their long necks. Children in the Silver Valley in the 1970s registered some of the highest levels of lead in their bloodstreams recorded anywhere.

By the time the area’s biggest mine, run by the Bunker Hill Mining Co., in Kellogg, closed in the early 1980s, the mines had spread a ribbon of poison from the Idaho-Montana border to Lake Coeur d’Alene and down the Spokane River all the way into Eastern Washington. [...]

...

In the late 1920s, smoke from Bunker Hill’s smelter stacks grew so thick in the valley that the mine built a solarium so workers and their families could get some substitute sunshine under ultraviolet lights. The toxic plumes turned Kellogg into a dustbowl. As early as 1921, Bunker Hill experimented with a chelation therapy for its workers that entailed running electric current through a saltwater bath as workers soaked their hands and feet. Electrodes in the tubs were supposed to draw the metals out of their bodies. Down the mountain, in Coeur d’Alene, people from the mining towns became known as “lead heads,” and their growth was so stunted they were said to have “the Silver Valley inseam.”

...

Nckdictator posted:

Woof Blitzer posted:

Trap and skeet! The team I was on was sponsored by the Department of Conservation, so effectively state-sanctioned and subsidized. Some teams were school-sponsored so the kids would leave their guns in their lockers and take the school bus to competitions. 3 kids in my cohort got college scholarships and 1 went to the Olympics later on. At competitions the firing line could be over a mile long and have hundreds of teams competing at once. A really good gun might cost over $10,000! Kids like me spent weekends blowing through ammo at local clubs trying to get ready for the season. It's very popular among the well-to-do who are more 'country' than 'city.'

Prof. Banks posted:

The school I work at has a trap team. I was the club sponsor one year when the old one had left. They aren't allowed to keep their guns at school anymore of course, and they can only use the bus to get to competitions if they have a parent transport the guns separately.

The entire team consisted of a bunch of chud-y as gently caress rick kids cosplaying as poor rednecks. Their multi-thousand dollar shotguns gave them away though. I was only the sponsor for a year for obvious reasons.

Edit: I'm not saying that describes you, Woof. That's just what my experience with it was.

Outrail posted:

This gives the impression of more buried ledes than there are nouns.

Accretionist posted:

Whole article's nuts.

Ralph Crammed In posted:

The Panhandle and Eastern Washington are full of chuds too, probably from the lead.

Ralph Crammed In posted:

The Panhandle and Eastern Washington are full of chuds too, probably from the lead.

TotalLossBrain posted:

The Hanford site is also where the US stores decommissioned nuclear cores from subs (horizontal) and surface ships (vertical). Satellite pic:

Pug Rodeo posted:

Interesting. I don’t doubt your story, I’ve just only known it as a liberal leaning small town full of great breweries and food.

iwentdoodie posted:

Yeah it seemed like a neat spot, and during the day it was. Once it got dark I guess we were in the locals spots and the bartenders were scared of what might happen with their normal crowds. Honestly that was our entire experience in Oregon as a whole for the 6 or 7 months we spent there.

Also, americana:

Zero One posted:

Whoa. What kind of platinum insurance plan is this?

Prof. Banks posted:

The school I work at has a trap team. I was the club sponsor one year when the old one had left. They aren't allowed to keep their guns at school anymore of course, and they can only use the bus to get to competitions if they have a parent transport the guns separately.

The entire team consisted of a bunch of chud-y as gently caress rick kids cosplaying as poor rednecks. Their multi-thousand dollar shotguns gave them away though. I was only the sponsor for a year for obvious reasons.

Edit: I'm not saying that describes you, Woof. That's just what my experience with it was.

iwentdoodie posted:

Yeah it seemed like a neat spot, and during the day it was. Once it got dark I guess we were in the locals spots and the bartenders were scared of what might happen with their normal crowds. Honestly that was our entire experience in Oregon as a whole for the 6 or 7 months we spent there.

Also, americana:

CPL593H posted:

Their facial expressions and body language have a very strong "I can't wait to be the next Kyle Rittenhouse." vibe.


I have medicare and get statements like this. Obviously the numbers are nowhere close to that. But anyway there are three numbers. What the doctor/provider bills the insurance, what medicare approves, and what they actually pay out. The last number is always anywhere from 50-70% lower than the first. Here's where it gets fun! If you pay out of pocket none of those numbers are adjusted and you have to pay that first number which is always an outrageous sum of money.

steinrokkan posted:

Yet you get morons saying that cOmPeTiTiOn is driving costs down when in reality the only proven way of keeping the healthcare industry from charging made up prices is to have a single provider with an absolute bargaining power who can tell them "No, this is what we are paying and if you don't like it, you can gently caress off"

Woof Blitzer posted:

Alton, IL

Woof Blitzer posted:

Alton, IL

iwentdoodie posted:

Also, americana:

frytechnician posted:

I will never, ever comprehend how vast amounts of America are not only OK with their healthcare system actively hating them, but actually believe that it's good that it hates them because it's "un-American" not to pay for literally everything.

frytechnician posted:

I will never, ever comprehend how vast amounts of America are not only OK with their healthcare system actively hating them, but actually believe that it's good that it hates them because it's "un-American" not to pay for literally everything.

DreadUnknown posted:

Thats exactly it, one of my aunts is aghast at the thought of socialized healthcare because she likes to brag about how much they pay.

Benny Harvey posted:

My mum is American and living in the UK. She brags to friends back home about how she doesn't pay for her healthcare. Yet she is opposed to Obamacare because "socialised" healthcare = death panels and 'bortions.

DreadUnknown posted:

Thats exactly it, one of my aunts is aghast at the thought of socialized healthcare because she likes to brag about how much they pay.

frytechnician posted:

I will never, ever comprehend how vast amounts of America are not only OK with their healthcare system actively hating them, but actually believe that it's good that it hates them because it's "un-American" not to pay for literally everything.

frytechnician posted:

I will never, ever comprehend how vast amounts of America are not only OK with their healthcare system actively hating them, but actually believe that it's good that it hates them because it's "un-American" not to pay for literally everything.