The State of Mississippi

[John]

Are you implying that there are people who don't like football?

lately I've been finding I don't like football after UConn games

 

[John]

um, yeah, let's not model ourselves after the deep south

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...amming-national?is_shared=true?is_shared=true

 

[TouchdownHusky]

I can think of one thing worse. The south for one.

I lived down south. I absolutely loved it.

Don't particularly care for the northeast snobbishness. And more and more people moving to the south, so there must be something positive going on down there.

 

[SubbaBub]

Don't particularly care for the northeast snobbishness. And more and more people moving to the south, so there must be something positive going on down there.

Improved comparative self esteem.

 

[Waquoit]

Don't particularly care for the northeast snobbishness. And more and more people moving to the south, so there must be something positive going on down there.

I haven't heard one good word said about the northeast from a southerner, ever. Nothing but an unending stream of insults, especially from their politicians. But one little crack about the south and they all get the vapors.

 

[Excalibur]

I haven't heard one good word said about the northeast from a southerner, ever. Nothing but an unending stream of insults, especially from their politicians. But one little crack about the south and they all get the vapors.

People in the Northeast are self-absorbed s. So are Southerners -- they just hide it behind a shallow, fake magnanimity.

You want genuinely nice people? Try Bozeman, Missoula, or Jackson.

 

[uconnell]

Bless your heart is the southern version of drop dead bi$&ch.

 

[Waquoit]

... more and more people moving to the south, so there must be something positive going on down there.

And by doing so, those folks raise the average IQ of both regions.

 

[huskymedic]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...-pay-damages-fines-upset-alabama-crimson-tide

>>Ole Miss fans were so thrilled to beat Alabama on Saturday that they're paying for the damage they did and the fine imposed by the SEC. Through a crowd-funding platform, Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork asked fans Tuesday afternoon to help pay for the two goalposts torn down (each cost $11,000), the fine from the conference (a maximum $50,000 for rushing the field; it was the third time fans have done so in as many years) and $3,000 in stadium repairs. In less than three hours, the $75,000 was raised.<<

 

[sportsart]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...-pay-damages-fines-upset-alabama-crimson-tide

>>Ole Miss fans were so thrilled to beat Alabama on Saturday that they're paying for the damage they did and the fine imposed by the SEC. Through a crowd-funding platform, Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork asked fans Tuesday afternoon to help pay for the two goalposts torn down (each cost $11,000), the fine from the conference (a maximum $50,000 for rushing the field; it was the third time fans have done so in as many years) and $3,000 in stadium repairs. In less than three hours, the $75,000 was raised.<<

You left out that most of the donors were former SEC FB players who used part of their "stipend" to pay for the goal posts.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I haven't heard one good word said about the northeast from a southerner, ever. Nothing but an unending stream of insults, especially from their politicians. But one little crack about the south and they all get the vapors.

This is for the most part true. The one big difference I've personally experienced is that Southerners are much more honest about how they feel about you to your face. Whereas the northeastern snobs will phony it up then talk trash and look down their snobby noses at you behind your back. Much more weasely about it.

 

[uconnell]

People are people, they just have different ways at looking at life. If you think that southerners don't trash talk behind one's back, well bless your heart.

 

[Excalibur]

This is for the most part true. The one big difference I've personally experienced is that Southerners are much more honest about how they feel about you to your face. Whereas the northeastern snobs will phony it up then talk trash and look down their snobby noses at you behind your back. Much more weasely about it.

I believe the exact opposite. Southerners are nice to your face (though smiling through their teeth) and then badmouth behind your back. Northeasterners are total pricks 100% of the time.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

People are people, they just have different ways at looking at life. If you think that southerners don't trash talk behind one's back, well bless your heart.

Well that's why it's stupid of all of us to talk in absolute terms.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

A story that I recently told a coworker (after a conference call in which he claimed the person on the other end was too nice to have been originally from here) pretty much sums this up:

Nearly 20 years ago, my (now ex) wife went on a shopping spree with her mother and at an outlet bought me quite a few tee shirts with different college logos on them (please, no comments on how she should have realized that only one logo, UConn, was necessary, I made that clear afterwards). A few months later I was with her and my son (who was about eight months old at the time and in a stroller) at a stripmall and out of nowhere I heay someone shouting "Hey!". At first I didn't think that it had anything to do with us but after another "Hey!" I see this guy, mid 20's about 6' 250, not exactly in shapre running towards us from about 30 yards away. When he gets closer he says "Y'all from Alabama?". My first thought was to respond "What?! Do I look like a f&*%$ng inbred idiot?!" but as I wasn't alone I was a bit more restrained and responded "No, what would you think that?". He said "I saw your shirt" (I was wearing an Alabama tee without even realizing it). His response was "I thought I found another sourhtherner. People up here are mean".

 

[uconnell]

I always acknowledge a person wearing another school's tee. Saw an Oregon fan and said hi, long way from home. Sounds like a stupid comment but he liked the acknowledgement.

 

[UofMemphis]

Depends where in the South you are...

Atlanta, Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis, St Louis...all very liberal cities in very conservative states.

 

[UofMemphis]

Bless your heart is the southern version of drop dead bi$&ch.

Yep...

 

[Jerry1714]

did you live in the deep south though?

I did and I loved it.

I would guarantee most of the liberal snobs on this thread have never been there and probably do not even know where/what the "deep south" is.

 

[rich1122]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...-pay-damages-fines-upset-alabama-crimson-tide

>>Ole Miss fans were so thrilled to beat Alabama on Saturday that they're paying for the damage they did and the fine imposed by the SEC. Through a crowd-funding platform, Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork asked fans Tuesday afternoon to help pay for the two goalposts torn down (each cost $11,000), the fine from the conference (a maximum $50,000 for rushing the field; it was the third time fans have done so in as many years) and $3,000 in stadium repairs. In less than three hours, the $75,000 was raised.<<

Can you imagine UCONN fans tearing down a goal post. Hahahaha

 

[whaler11]

I didn't live in the deep south but I lived in Raleigh and worked in state government for a few years.

There are a lot of good things about the south. Some of them are inherent: the weather, the girls are more attractive. Some are temporary: the tax rates, the cost of living....

There are some pretty terrible things about living in the south too...

 

[whaler11]

Can you imagine UCONN fans tearing down a goal post. Hahahaha

Well if they didn't put the state cop k-9 crew in front of them we'd have torn them down.

 

[John Greene]

Another reason CT fans will never be able to live up to SEC fans. If the AL state cop K-9 corp surrounded the goal posts at Bryant/Denny, a couple of dozen of the 100,000 (out of 102,000) Bama fans that have concealed carry permits and are packing would take those pups out before the second round of Rammer Jammer.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

"The South " is almost. as vague a term as "Yankee "
Haveing spending many years in ky ,the rural areas are more conservative than urban areas of the traditional Deep South.
SC,Ga,Ala,Miss, Ark,La
Northern Fla. can be thrown in
Va, NC Tenn,Ky ,,Mo mid south or border
Texas,Okla,!Az south western
Maryland use to be considered a border state but is more northern today.

Yankee
To a non-American everyone in the US
To an American someone from a Northern State
To a northerner someone from the Northeast
to someone from the Northeast a New Englander.
To a New Englander someone with Puritan roots (there are no Catholic Yankees)
It's actually a name given to The English puritans of Connecticut by the Dutch of New Amsterdam.
It's synonymous with crazy.

 

[Hoophound]

Lame may be the wrong word. The last time I saw a large group of non relatives in CT was at my NBHS reunion. When you get to my age the conversations tend to eventually get to who has how many grand kids and where to live in retirement. I just noticed that a most of the classmates who had stayed in CT seemed to get a little tight and made affordability comments frequently when talking about the retirement part.

So true.

Guy A: "Where do you live now?"

Guy B: "Florida"

Guy A: "Why'd you go down there?"

Guy B: "A good opportunity came up, it's worked out well".

Guy A: "Yeah, lower cost of living, but I could never live there."

Guy B: "How bout you? Still in (insert hardworking CT town)?

Guy A: "Yep, been at Travelers for 20 years. Bought a house last year. Really nice place, hardwood floors everywhere. Paid 250k for it. That's the thing, no good jobs in Florida. That's why houses are 100k. What are you doing for work?"

Guy B: I work for ABC Company. (Something CT guy has never heard of like Raymond James, Teco Gas or some big developer)

Guy A: "Uh huh. Well, see you later." (With a smirk thinking, "that's no Travelers, loser")

Guy B: See ya.

Guy A: drives home to his gray life, the winner in his mind.

Guy B: Flys home first class to his $900,000 house and wife with peanut butter tan, rock hard calves. He goes to bed thinking about the round of golf he'll be playing tomorrow morning before he grills Filet Mignon by the pool for Christmas Eve dinner.

Guy A wouldn't be interested in trading places. He hates humidity.

 

[whaler11]

So true.

Guy A: "Where do you live now?"

Guy B: "Florida"

Guy A: "Why'd you go down there?"

Guy B: "A good opportunity came up, it's worked out well".

Guy A: "Yeah, lower cost of living, but I could never live there."

Guy B: "How bout you? Still in (insert hardworking CT town)?

Guy A: "Yep, been at Travelers for 20 years. Bought a house last year. Really nice place, hardwood floors everywhere. Paid 250k for it. That's the thing, no good jobs in Florida. That's why houses are 100k. What are you doing for work?"

Guy B: I work for ABC Company. (Something CT guy has never heard of like Raymond James, Teco Gas or some big developer)

Guy A: "Uh huh. Well, see you later." (With a smirk thinking, "that's no Travelers, loser")

Guy B: See ya.

Guy A: drives home to his gray life, the winner in his mind.

Guy B: Flys home first class to his $900,000 house and wife with peanut butter tan, rock hard calves. He goes to bed thinking about the round of golf he'll be playing tomorrow morning before he grills Filet Mignon by the pool for Christmas Eve dinner.

Guy A wouldn't be interested in trading places. He hates humidity.

LOL yep that's it.

Can someone answer this. Is the south is really so great why does everyone have to constantly tell us how great it is?

Do you send your ex-girlfriends messages on Facebook bragging about how much better your wife is?

 

[Hoophound]

LOL yep that's it. Can someone answer this. Is the south is really so great why does everyone have to constantly tell us how great it is? Do you send your ex-girlfriends messages on Facebook bragging about how much better your wife is?

Where can I find you on Facebook?

 

[whaler11]

Where can I find you on Facebook?

Mercifully you can't. If I sign up someday I'll be sure to friend you, I never tire of people telling me how bad Connecticut sucks.

 

[Hoophound]

Dude, I love Ct. Seriously, I do. It is my true home. I defend CT just like I defend Florida. They are both great places but they have their pros and cons. Really, anyplace that is safe and has good restaurants pleases me. Otherwise, the place better have incredible natural beauty and plenty of local pubs/breweries.

 

[Waquoit]

Another reason CT fans will never be able to live up to SEC fans. If the AL state cop K-9 corp surrounded the goal posts at Bryant/Denny, a couple of dozen of the 100,000 (out of 102,000) Bama fans that have concealed carry permits and are packing would take those pups out before the second round of Rammer Jammer.

Live "up" to SEC fans?