i went to georgia

[John Galt]

to see my pregnant sister and her husband

they live next door to a real-life racist. i didn't know such people exists. HIS name is STACEY. he hates black people and has no qualms using racist language with anyone (i didn't realize such people still existed; honestly i have never encountered them before), and tells my sister that air force folks that come to live there like them all come in not racist, but they leave racist. sure stacey, sure. sadly he was away on vacation so i didn't get to meet this fine specimen of humanity

southerners are crazy about football. college football of course. like, they name the games. now, the auburn-alabama game last saturday had an insanely awesome end, which I did see live, but they name the football games. that one was "kick, bama, kick". google it. the f**k

i went to one of the top 10 bbq joints in georgia. it tasted like famous dave's. i dunno if you've had famous dave's, which is from minnesota but i know exists in places like portland, but it's nothing special. i mean, i'll eat it, but it's not blow your mind awesome like i thought i was going to get

i went golfing in decemeber. the f**k is going on. a marathon's distance away from duluth they got 33 inches of snow yesterday and i was f**k golfing thee days ago. still, i'd rather that then the f**k awful summers they have to endure

my sister and her husband kept on saying things like "praise" or shouting "JAY-CEE!!". listening to people when we went out, they were just mocking what they heard, things like "is there any jesus in that?". i heard that. what the f**k man. plus people from the south all talk weird

anyway that was my georgian experience

[The Comrade]

were you looking for a soul to steal?

[Professor]

What part of Georgia? My bet it was rural. Pretty much anywhere in Rural, USA is going to be similar. The names may change (rural FL talks about Cubans and Haitians, rural CA, NM, AZ, TX talk about Mexicans, etc.), but they are largely the same.

I never get what makes a "good BBQ" joint. At least, as far as location goes. You can get top-quality meat anywhere in the US. You can smoke it anywhere. You can make a sauce anywhere. I don't understand why it should be localized. Seafood, some ethnic cuisines, and a couple other things - yeah, I get why those are localized.

The summer's aren't that bad, though. You spend 9hrs/day inside your A/C office, then you get into an A/C car. You sleep in an A/C home. About the only thing you DON'T do is try to go for a nice picnic in August.

[Darkhorse]

The south is truly vile.

[Aaron]

[Darkhorse]

[Professor]

[eynon81]

I've never been to the real south.

I've been to Texas, which I liked.

I've been to Florida, which I did not like.


Not all Famous Daves are made equal. The one is Grand Junction is better than the ones I've been to in Colorado Springs and the Mall of America.

Texas BBQ is my favorite, well, the hyrbid Texas/Mexican/Southwest is my favorite.

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

i think the reason southerners get so defensive about their flaws is that it's so easy for the north to bag on them. i mean we even refer to shit parts of the world as the global south. the south, on the other hand, likes to talk about....our lack of good football teams and how smug we are.

i'll take the jets and smugness over overt racism, bible thumping, and politics that the sheriff of nottingham would have enjoyed.