poe62 0 #26 December 4, 2008 I know people who work at the Denton State School for their Masters in Behavior Analysis. They are good people who were working on helping patients not injure themselves by wrist banging and whatnot. I know that's not changing the neglect by caregivers and the abuse, but they are trying in the way they know how. I knew what the school was, but I didn’t realize that Texas was one of the only states that still had them. I'm pretty disturbed by it. I'd rather help change the situation than turn my back on the state though. ~Nikki http://www.facebook.com/poe62 Irgity Dirgity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #27 December 4, 2008 QuoteQuote So please lay off the Texan stereotype unless it's in jest. Just because they all have webbed fingers,.. That may be evolution rather than inbreeding. Mike. Texas too? I thought it was Tennessee where you can divorce your wife but she's still your sister. Tennessee Anthem? www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiwHAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #28 December 4, 2008 Quote +1 Also from NJ, and let's just say you'll never catch me in Houston So are you in the Mafia? Or are you just one of their victims? Can you smell the toxic waste dumps from your house? Texas carries pretty strong stereotypes, but I grew up thinking that if you lived in Jersey you were clearly a loser. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #29 December 4, 2008 Wendy, I was going to make a comment about many of the Texicans I have met over the years, but because of you and a couple others I refrained... because you are the very few exceptions to the rule that I have personally observed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #30 December 4, 2008 Quote Wendy W. (posting from Texas) Posting from Texas means you won't have heard of THIS!Google launches judgemental search engine Google is set to launch a new version of its omnipresent search engine that will question the cultural validity of people’s enquiries. Rather than instantly offering a comprehensive list of the most popular websites and images related to the keywords, the new version will offer its opinion on the subject of the enquiry and if it finds the request to be intellectually vacuous, will steer the user clear of the original search altogether. ‘Seriously, if you could see some of the utter dross that some people search for through Google’ said Dennis Woodside, Head of Google UK. ‘It’s heartbreaking really, given the awesome power at people’s fingertips nowadays. That’s why we’ve introduced this more discriminatory version. For example, if someone enters the words ‘Peter’ and ‘Andre’ into the new version, before you would have instantly been presented with an endless stream of sites full of meaningless tittle-tattle and pictures of the antipodean puppet alongside his Styrofoam wife. Now the user is simply presented with the word ‘Why?’. It’s all about Google doing its part in helping to raise the standard worldwide.’ Tests of ‘Google Highbrow’ have shown that a search for Oprah will ask ‘Do you mean ‘Opera’?’, and ‘Rambo’ was presumed to be a miss-spelling of the 19th century French poet ‘Rimbaud’. A search for Pamela Anderson enquired whether you were referring to the 18th century novel ‘Pamela’ by Samuel Richardson or perhaps the film director Wes Anderson. ‘It’s all about using the power of the net to raise web-browsers intellectual consciousness’ said Woodside. However some users of Google Highbrow claim that the new service has brought them social embarrassment. One anonymous soldier surfing the web at his barracks in Aldershot admitted ‘I’m so ashamed. I told the lads I’d been using the computer to look at porn, but when they checked my browser they saw I’d been looking at the paintings of Matisse and his influence on the modernists. Now I’m a complete social outcast.’ Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #31 December 4, 2008 Quote . . . who drive trucks that are big enough to compensate for their other short comings...... and they don't even know how to drive or park said truck, that I am allowed to bring up that stereotype. ::deep breath:: pphheheeewwww.... I'm glad I got all that out! That happens everywhere there are trucks though. We get lots of it up in Wisconsin. It's as though half the people who drive trucks (maybe a lot more, but half is a REALLY safe guess) think traffic laws, parking restrictions, and rules of general courtesy when behind the wheel do not apply to them. I suspect a strong correlation with little-big-man syndrome because the confrontations I've had indicate them to often be squirrely, mousy, socially non-functional types when they are not behind the wheel of their truck. And how about the bumper stickers and window clings they often use. What kind of prepubescent goofball do you have to be to put a sticker on your vehicle of a kid peeing on the brand mark of a truck that is not the same as yours (and so obviously of a vastly inferior nature). Similar to bullies, these are little boys that never grew up. In fact, my guess is that the rude, immature, little man/big truck character is basically a failed bullie. You know, he wanted to knock people around and shit as his only possible means of influencing anything at all in his world; but found he couldn't even intimidate his girlfriends cat. So he goes out and buys the closest thing he can afford to Bigfoot. No he can intimidate people. No he's a man. It isn't just in Texas." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #32 December 4, 2008 QuoteThat happens everywhere there are trucks though. We get lots of it up in Wisconsin. It's as though half the people who drive trucks (maybe a lot more, but half is a REALLY safe guess) think traffic laws, parking restrictions, and rules of general courtesy when behind the wheel do not apply to them. When I taught each of my kids to drive, I specifically taught them: In particular, watch out for all pickup trucks; they're more than twice as likely as all the other traffic on the road (exception: taxicabs) to drive like assholes. Now that my older kid is living (& driving) away from home, she tells me she's found that to be absolutely true. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Caitlin89 0 #34 December 4, 2008 Haha... Not from MY house (believe it or not, NJ exists outside of Newark, where you'll find yuppie towns full of educated liberals... Crazy stuff). I know all the NJ stereotypes, though, and I made that comment in good fun. I've been to Texas more than a few times, and there are some nice aspects. For instance... um... Lake Travis and um... Yup, that seems to be it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,447 #35 December 4, 2008 Quote there are enough of the gun loving, bible thumping, red elephant backing, red neck like who drive trucks that are big enough to compensate for their other short comings I look at them as an opportunity to bolster my ego. I can always feel smugly superior to folks like that.Actually, though, one can find a community here for just about any type. It's harder for some than others, particularly out the in the CL area. Just be glad you're not in Deer Park or Santa FeWendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #36 December 4, 2008 Quote Quote That happens everywhere there are trucks though. We get lots of it up in Wisconsin. It's as though half the people who drive trucks (maybe a lot more, but half is a REALLY safe guess) think traffic laws, parking restrictions, and rules of general courtesy when behind the wheel do not apply to them. When I taught each of my kids to drive, I specifically taught them: In particular, watch out for all pickup trucks; they're more than twice as likely as all the other traffic on the road (exception: taxicabs) to drive like assholes. Now that my older kid is living (& driving) away from home, she tells me she's found that to be absolutely true. Gimme a break! I've seen just as many idiot drivers in Beemers, Escalades, Suburbans, Toyotas, Hyundais, you name it, driving like they own the roads. Don't be singling out p/u drivers. What I've seen is, a lack of road courtesy and over-all agressiveness in a good number of drivers. Besides, a girl drivin' a dually is 'HOT'!Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #37 December 4, 2008 QuoteDon't be singling out p/u drivers. I do so not out of myth, but by decades of my own personal experience. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #38 December 4, 2008 QuoteQuoteDon't be singling out p/u drivers. I do so not out of myth, but by decades of my own personal experience. Same here! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,991 #39 December 4, 2008 I've skydived in Texas, worked in Texas and traveled through Texas, and I don't find it much different than any other state. Lots of strip malls, rude people in the cities, nicer people out in the small towns. As with any state you've got your winners and losers. Maybe it used to be different, have its own clearly unique character that stood apart from the rest of the US. But nowadays every populated area in the US is slowly starting to look like LA, with ever-wider roads, strip malls and acres of concrete. The pervasiveness and cultural influence of the media is slowly starting to erase the once-sharp distinctions between the states. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #40 December 4, 2008 Quote I moved to Houston from FL a year ago and I HATE THIS F'N PLACE!!! I've hated this place ever since I was little, but then again I grew up in Jersey and we're brought up to make fun of people wearing cowboy hats who like country. Don't get me wrong, there are some awfully nice people I've come across in TX and I hate to make a gross stereotype, but there are enough of the gun loving, bible thumping, red elephant backing, red neck like who drive trucks that are big enough to compensate for their other short comings...... and they don't even know how to drive or park said truck, that I am allowed to bring up that stereotype. ::deep breath:: pphheheeewwww.... I'm glad I got all that out! Quote Well, looks like you got all the typical liberal stereotypes out of the way... feel free to leave if it bothers you that much and go back home with all the bluenoses. Mike, mike, mike, you are FAR too nice, Let's try the steryotypical response, THEN GET THE FUCK OUT!!! Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #41 December 4, 2008 QuoteI've skydived in Texas, worked in Texas and traveled through Texas, and I don't find it much different than any other state. Lots of strip malls, rude people in the cities, nicer people out in the small towns. As with any state you've got your winners and losers. Maybe it used to be different, have its own clearly unique character that stood apart from the rest of the US. But nowadays every populated area in the US is slowly starting to look like LA, with ever-wider roads, strip malls and acres of concrete. The pervasiveness and cultural influence of the media is slowly starting to erase the once-sharp distinctions between the states. While this is true of urban and suburban centers, I don't find it to be at all true in rural areas. Rural Iowa or rural Wisconsin is nothing like rural south Texas.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ron 10 #42 December 4, 2008 I have lived in 5 States. To include Texas. I have found that the people in TX are nice people for the most part. Houston, I personally cannot stand. But, all you have done here is show how narrow minded you are with this post. I mean you started a post to bitch about an entire State. A State I bet you have never lived in, or spent any time in....So your crying amounts to a whuffo who thinks skydiving is stupid, IMO."No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #43 December 4, 2008 You look down your nose at folks long enough, you're gonna go cross-eyed! Every state, every city and po-dunk town has it's good as well as bad sides. It never has been or ever will be a 'perfect world'. Sorry. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,489 #44 December 4, 2008 Quote Tests of ‘Google Highbrow’ have shown that a search for Oprah will ask ‘Do you mean ‘Opera’?’, and ‘Rambo’ was presumed to be a miss-spelling of the 19th century French poet ‘Rimbaud’. A search for Pamela Anderson enquired whether you were referring to the 18th century novel ‘Pamela’ by Samuel Richardson or perhaps the film director Wes Anderson. Beautiful!Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ion01 2 #45 December 4, 2008 Hey, I have my reasons for not liking texas but come on....all though this was a horrible thing to blame a whole state for it...really? By the way....OU!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #46 December 5, 2008 Quote Quote Well, looks like you got all the typical liberal stereotypes out of the way... feel free to leave if it bothers you that much and go back home with all the bluenoses. Mike, mike, mike, you are FAR too nice, Let's try the steryotypical response, THEN GET THE FUCK OUT!!! Yeah, well...you know us country boys were raised to be polite...Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #47 December 5, 2008 www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/topstories/stories/120408dntswhecht.2e9eaab3.html... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #48 December 5, 2008 Quotewww.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/topstories/stories/120408dntswhecht.2e9eaab3.html http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DD1038F93AA25751C0A960948260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/E/Ethics http://abajournal.com/news/i_bribed_judge_to_get_search_warrant_ex-chicago_cop_testifies/ http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2008/04/convictions-uph.html Maybe you should tend your own house, first.Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #49 December 5, 2008 QuoteI moved to Houston from FL a year ago and I HATE THIS F'N PLACE!!! I've hated this place ever since I was little, but then again I grew up in Jersey and we're brought up to make fun of people wearing cowboy hats who like country. I would guess that you're having the kind neighbors that you're being. That probably makes it tough to enjoy where you are.You are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Channman 2 #50 December 5, 2008 Quote Im going to be in in Texas next month and I'm looking forward to it.I hope it's as stereotypical as possible, in fact, help me out here, where would you NOT go because of it and i'll visit there Austin Texas, Lake Travis "HIPPIE HOLLOW" but its to cold to see anything of interest..Hehehehe.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
