Creighton forum talking UConn

[prankster]

everywhere you go there are people that suck and people that suck less...end of discussion, you're welcome

Which ones would you most want to date?

 

[August_West]

Which ones would you most want to date?

I travel work a ton, I know I'm at the right gate to fly into Bradley from wherever I am when I look at the people sitting at gate and say to myself "ugh" . I truly don't need gate number any longer.

I still love living in CT though.

 

[TheRealKBuks]

Lived in Illinois which extends much further south than people realize. That is definitely midwest and so is Missouri.

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.

 

[Rocktheworld]

I travel work a ton, I know I'm at the right gate to fly into Bradley from wherever I am when I look at the people sitting at gate and say to myself "ugh" . I truly don't need gate number any longer.

I still love living in CT though.

I know many have nothing but negative to talk about CT, and many try to get out as soon as they can. I only lived in CT for my four years at UConn, and essentially never went beyond a ten-mile radius from campus. My out of state brethren and I would always joke about how much CT sucks.

Well, I left the northeast just over 7 years ago now. I met a girl out here in SD with family in Cheshire. We are going to move back some time next summer/fall. Frankly, we miss all the New England things we see people doing on Instagram and such.

Why do people still mostly seem like they can’t stand living in CT? Why is it you still love it?

 

[storrsroars]

Any UConn bars in Pitt?

Nope.

Probably not but I'll be there for a few weeks over the holidays and need to escape my in-laws and watch the Nova game somewhere.

Tons of sports bars and Rivers Casino sportsbook as options. Decent odds that if you wear UConn gear at the bar, a Pitt fan will mention how much they miss playing UConn. We're not a huge hoops town and it's likely more screens will be hockey than hoops, but any good bartender will give you a screen to watch.

A few options:
Here are 8 Pittsburgh sports bars to check out during NCAA Tourney

If you're a craft beer guy, Mike's Beer Bar across from PNC Park has an excellent selection featuring many good locals. North Shore Tavern is next door featuring "steak on a stone" which is good. Bar food wherever you are is reliably decent, large, and fabulously unhealthy.

 

[upstater]

I spent 3 yrs living in Michigan, I travel to Ohio all the time, at least a couple times a month. My sense is that the MW starts in Ohio and ends in Iowa, but doesn't go south to Missouri. I'd even say that Cincy is very close to a southern city. Once you hit Columbus and ask for a biscuit with your hash browns and eggs, that biscuit will be full of sugar.

My friends from Missouri always say that the state is split not east west, but north south. North is a Plains state, south is the southern US. I would definitely maintain a difference between the Plains states and the Midwest. Oklahoma too near Tulsa is a Plains state but the rest is southwestern.

Pittsburgh, Central PA and western Maryland are just straight up Appalachia and distinct from the midwest or the south. I can drive 1 hour south of the Canadian border to find a southern twang in the Southern Tier of New York. I recently stopped to eat at a town called Horseheads, NY and the talk was, well, hillbilly. Reminded me of a lot of places in Central, PA when I lived there. Appalachia is distinct from the south though.

 

[TheRealKBuks]

I spent 3 yrs living in Michigan, I travel to Ohio all the time, at least a couple times a month. My sense is that the MW starts in Ohio and ends in Iowa, but doesn't go south to Missouri. I'd even say that Cincy is very close to a southern city. Once you hit Columbus and ask for a biscuit with your hash browns and eggs, that biscuit will be full of sugar.

My friends from Missouri always say that the state is split not east west, but north south. North is a Plains state, south is the southern US. I would definitely maintain a difference between the Plains states and the Midwest. Oklahoma too near Tulsa is a Plains state but the rest is southwestern.

Pittsburgh, Central PA and western Maryland are just straight up Appalachia and distinct from the midwest or the south. I can drive 1 hour south of the Canadian border to find a southern twang in the Southern Tier of New York. I recently stopped to eat at a town called Horseheads, NY and the talk was, well, hillbilly. Reminded me of a lot of places in Central, PA when I lived there. Appalachia is distinct from the south though.

The accent in New York is very strange. I remember my first time vacationing by Caroga lake and I needed to buy propane.

I could barely understand the lady at the local General store but gathered that I could get some a few miles down the road at "Storts".

After driving a few miles I finally found propane at Stewart's.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Disagree. People in the south and midwest might be nicer to your face but they will talk about you the moment you turn around. It's a fake niceness. There's more BS. In the NE there's no BS. I llived in Virgnia nad have family in Georgia, SC, and Louisiana. Down there all the time.

Bless Your Heart.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Dear Lord, no. Firmly midwest.

Minnesota and Wisconsin are about as Midwest as it gets.

Have had multiple interactions with family members(through marriage) who are natives of Wisconsin.. They would be highly offended if you said they were anything other than Midwesterners. Trust me on that.

My whole Dads side of family is from Minnesota. I spent all my summers as kid there. Same.

UW & UMinn offer in-state tuition reciprocally. If one, then the other.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Lived in Illinois which extends much further south than people realize. That is definitely midwest and so is Missouri.

By similar logic along the I-64 path, a majority of Louisville identifies as Midwest, but LouKY, SoIn, presumably southern Illinois, and St Louis can play Southern in a number of ways, especially when it gets relentlessly hot & sticky in the summer.

 

[ctchamps]

[/QUOTE]

everywhere you go there are people that suck and people that suck less...end of discussion, you're welcome

And you are?

 

[ctchamps]

Western North Carolinians definitely define themselves as “Appalatchians” first and southerners as second.

They’re a different breed from the northern “Appalaychians”.

 

[Waquoit]

Western North Carolinians definitely define themselves as “Appalatchians” first and southerners as second.

They’re a different breed from the northern “Appalaychians”.

The Appalachians fought the Redcoats. Other Carolinians didn't.

 

[August_West]

The Appalachians fought the Redcoats. Other Carolinians didn't.

The Appleations (sic) are a lot like the brits. They both have no teeth.

 

[August_West]

UW & UMinn offer in-state tuition reciprocally. If one, then the other.

You betcha

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Ummmm - was your intent to prove him correct?

For the record, I believe the intent of @Get a Job was to have some fun demonstrating the NE mindset.

His first paragraph mocked, and his second paragraph insulted, but I doubt he was representing himself or being serious in either.

I'll also guess that he is (or was) from the NE.

I'm glad that I chose to Love the post.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Posters here thinking that we will be undefeated this year....neither good nor bad. It doesn't effect the play on the floor

...unless you think it does.

A final note: imagine the Creighton fan who visits here and gets excited thinking, "Oh wow, there's a thread with 137 posts about Creighton on the UConn message board."

 

[FfldCntyFan]

By similar logic along the I-64 path, a majority of Louisville identifies as Midwest, but LouKY, SoIn, presumably southern Illinois, and St Louis can play Southern in a number of ways, especially when it gets relentlessly hot & sticky in the summer.

A few decades back I was on an audit in Jeffersonville Indiana (the locals referred to it as Kentuckiana). Most of those who lived there considered themselves southerners and I was stunned at how southern the culture was.

We had to cross the river into Louisville just to find some civilization and de ent restaurants (Jeffersonville did have more waffle houses than gas stations).

 

[Umami Zen]

For the record, I believe the intent of @Get a Job was to have some fun demonstrating the NE mindset.

His first paragraph mocked, and his second paragraph insulted, but I doubt he was representing himself or being serious in either.

I'll also guess that he is (or was) from the NE.

I'm glad that I chose to Love the post.

Surely you jest

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Surely you jest

 

[Get a Job]

For the record, I believe the intent of @Get a Job was to have some fun demonstrating the NE mindset.

His first paragraph mocked, and his second paragraph insulted, but I doubt he was representing himself or being serious in either.

I'll also guess that he is (or was) from the NE.

I'm glad that I chose to Love the post.

Correct on all counts!

 

[Palatine]

St Louis is in the Midwest. The arch represents the city being the gateway to the west, NOT the gateway to the south.

 

[storrsroars]

My whole Dads side of family is from Minnesota. I spent all my summers as kid there. Same.

2nd wedding was to a Mound girl, an exburb of Mpls. I was going to do the bachelor dinner at Jax, a Mpls fish/steak place which I love, MIL-to-be said it would be easier for her to arrange it since I was in CT. Next thing I know, if's in a crappy conference room at a 2nd rate suburban hotel. I was surprised it wasn't pot luck. Doesn't get much more midwestern. But you can't beat walleye for good eatin' fish.

 

[Waquoit]

A final note: imagine the Creighton fan who visits here and gets excited thinking, "Oh wow, there's a thread with 137 posts about Creighton on the UConn message board."

I think the lack of Creighton talk is because we really don’t have a good hate developed yet.

 

[August_West]

2nd wedding was to a Mound girl. I was going to do the bachelor dinner at Jax, a somewhat upscale fish/steak place which I love, MIL-to-be said it would be easier for her to arrange it since I was in CT. Next thing I know, if's in a crappy conference room at a 2nd rate suburban hotel. I was surprised it wasn't pot luck. Doesn't get much more midwestern. But you can't beat walleye for good eatin' fish.

Conference rooms at second rate hotels are a Minnesota family get together requirement complete with fold up long tables with paper tablecloths covered with the “ hot dish”Every single person attending brought ( and they all contain a “ cream of something” soup)

 

[HuskyHawk]

I spent 3 yrs living in Michigan, I travel to Ohio all the time, at least a couple times a month. My sense is that the MW starts in Ohio and ends in Iowa, but doesn't go south to Missouri. I'd even say that Cincy is very close to a southern city. Once you hit Columbus and ask for a biscuit with your hash browns and eggs, that biscuit will be full of sugar.

My friends from Missouri always say that the state is split not east west, but north south. North is a Plains state, south is the southern US. I would definitely maintain a difference between the Plains states and the Midwest. Oklahoma too near Tulsa is a Plains state but the rest is southwestern.

Pittsburgh, Central PA and western Maryland are just straight up Appalachia and distinct from the midwest or the south. I can drive 1 hour south of the Canadian border to find a southern twang in the Southern Tier of New York. I recently stopped to eat at a town called Horseheads, NY and the talk was, well, hillbilly. Reminded me of a lot of places in Central, PA when I lived there. Appalachia is distinct from the south though.

I may be wrong on Minnesota as others have pointed out, in part because I don't think of the Midwest as going that far north. I tend to view the heart of the midwest as centered around the 40 degree latitude line. I'll accept that it's the midwest and I probably just haven't been there (except the airport). But Iowa, Kansas and Missouri are definitely the midwest. No question about it. The plains states are part of the midwest.

As @storrsroars pointed out, the lines on the map aren't perfect here. Is western PA a bit "midwestern", yes. Is southern Missouri in the Ozarks a bit hillbilly sourthern? Yes. Is southwestern Kansas (Dodge City) closer to being the southwest? Yes. The western Dakotas are mountain states. We know that southeastern CT is a little more NY than New England, right? Same thing. Still geographically NE.

Midwest | History, States, Map, Culture, & Facts | Britannica

Midwest, region, northern and central United States, lying midway between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains and north of the Ohio River and the 37th parallel. It comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota...

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[August_West]

I may be wrong on Minnesota as others have pointed out, in part because I don't think of the Midwest as going that far north. I tend to view the heart of the midwest as centered around the 40 degree latitude line. I'll accept that it's the midwest and I probably just haven't been there (except the airport). But Iowa, Kansas and Missouri are definitely the midwest. No question about it. The plains states are part of the midwest.

As @storrsroars pointed out, the lines on the map aren't perfect here. Is western PA a bit "midwestern", yes. Is southern Missouri in the Ozarks a bit hillbilly sourthern? Yes. Is southwestern Kansas (Dodge City) closer to being the southwest? Yes. The western Dakotas are mountain states. We know that southeastern CT is a little more NY than New England, right? Same thing. Still geographically NE.

Midwest | History, States, Map, Culture, & Facts | Britannica

Midwest, region, northern and central United States, lying midway between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains and north of the Ohio River and the 37th parallel. It comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota...

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Southeastern CT is NY? Lol no . They are inbred Portuguese fishermen from RI

 

[Umami Zen]

2nd wedding was to a Mound girl, an exburb of Mpls. I was going to do the bachelor dinner at Jax, a Mpls fish/steak place which I love, MIL-to-be said it would be easier for her to arrange it since I was in CT. Next thing I know, if's in a crappy conference room at a 2nd rate suburban hotel. I was surprised it wasn't pot luck. Doesn't get much more midwestern. But you can't beat walleye for good eatin' fish.

My wife(from Iowa) has a dry rub for fish/Walleye from a bait shop near Lake Okoboji on speed dial.. Usually have 8-10 packages in inventory.. Also works great with Atlantic fish ..

BTW.. Some of those pot lucks out in the Mid-West kick butt.

 

[upstater]

I may be wrong on Minnesota as others have pointed out, in part because I don't think of the Midwest as going that far north. I tend to view the heart of the midwest as centered around the 40 degree latitude line. I'll accept that it's the midwest and I probably just haven't been there (except the airport). But Iowa, Kansas and Missouri are definitely the midwest. No question about it. The plains states are part of the midwest.

As @storrsroars pointed out, the lines on the map aren't perfect here. Is western PA a bit "midwestern", yes. Is southern Missouri in the Ozarks a bit hillbilly sourthern? Yes. Is southwestern Kansas (Dodge City) closer to being the southwest? Yes. The western Dakotas are mountain states. We know that southeastern CT is a little more NY than New England, right? Same thing. Still geographically NE.

Midwest | History, States, Map, Culture, & Facts | Britannica

Midwest, region, northern and central United States, lying midway between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains and north of the Ohio River and the 37th parallel. It comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota...

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I was actually quoting what people FROM these states told me. I've never been to Missouri other than the St. Louis airport, and I've not been to many places in Oklahoma outside of the one week I spent in Stillwater and Tulsa. The people I know are from Springfield, MO, where they told me they identify as southern. I've also never been to the Plains states, any of them. I just know that midwesterners always draw a distinction, and it mostly has to do with farmers versus industrial workers. So sure, an Indiana wheat farmer has much more in common with a Nebraska corn farmer than either of them do with a typical Midwestern industrial worker. But in the MW, you have a huge number of blue collar workers or ex blue collar families. This is why the politics are so different from the Plains states.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The Appalachians fought the Redcoats. Other Carolinians didn't.

Might want to brush up on that history.

Revolutionary War: Southern Phase, 1778 to 1781 | The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783 | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

The Continental victory at Saratoga in 1777 and the Treaty with the French in 1778 transformed the war, especially for the British.

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