Common misconceptions (misperceptions?) about your state/country.
06-23-2010, 01:31 PM
#21
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: MS
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We wear shoes in Mississippi! If we want to! LOL. I don't believe we are decades behind the rest of the U.S. Though there are many rural areas, we have cities also. Some Mississippians have never set an unshod toe on a farm!
Not all of speak with a drawl (though I probably do!). And typically "movie" southern accents are horribly inaccurate!!
I think education is very important here and my public school education was excellent. It is true though if there is a disaster the news crew is certain to find a toothless, bedraggled and generally pitiful specimin of humanity to represent us. Does that happen in your state?
Not all of speak with a drawl (though I probably do!). And typically "movie" southern accents are horribly inaccurate!!
I think education is very important here and my public school education was excellent. It is true though if there is a disaster the news crew is certain to find a toothless, bedraggled and generally pitiful specimin of humanity to represent us. Does that happen in your state?
06-23-2010, 01:42 PM
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 1,021
So funny
In Switzerland we dont eat chocolate and cheese all day long. Most of us dont own a swiss watch (too expensive) and hardly anybody knows how to milk a cow.
And no nacked blond girls around here. They are in Sweden not Switzerland.
In Switzerland we dont eat chocolate and cheese all day long. Most of us dont own a swiss watch (too expensive) and hardly anybody knows how to milk a cow.
And no nacked blond girls around here. They are in Sweden not Switzerland.
06-23-2010, 01:50 PM
#24
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Greater Los Angeles Area
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The Greater Los Angeles area. No - I don't see movie stars at the grocery store, in fact nowhere I go! It isn't always sunny with perfect weather. Not everyone has a swimming pool. I don't even have a palm tree in my yard.
I am sorry to learn that not everyone in Switzerland eats chocolate all the time. I would have moved there for that.
I am sorry to learn that not everyone in Switzerland eats chocolate all the time. I would have moved there for that.
06-23-2010, 02:14 PM
#27
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 844
Ohio isn't hicks-ville.
We have lots of people who even go past 8th grade! (although I'm not sure about our governor...)
Seriously, I've seen several movies or TV shows over the years that are in NY or CA and when they want to be around small town folk who all are overweight, wear overalls, ladies don't wear make up, and the only recreation they do is bowling, they say "let's go to Ohio."
And we're not really in the mid-west. Looking at a map Ohio is very eastern, don't you think? We're not near the center of the USA. I know it was "the midwest" 200 years ago when the country hadn't all been settled but not anymore. I don't know why it irritates me.
We have lots of people who even go past 8th grade! (although I'm not sure about our governor...)
Seriously, I've seen several movies or TV shows over the years that are in NY or CA and when they want to be around small town folk who all are overweight, wear overalls, ladies don't wear make up, and the only recreation they do is bowling, they say "let's go to Ohio."
And we're not really in the mid-west. Looking at a map Ohio is very eastern, don't you think? We're not near the center of the USA. I know it was "the midwest" 200 years ago when the country hadn't all been settled but not anymore. I don't know why it irritates me.
06-23-2010, 02:21 PM
#30
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
Posts: 10,477
Massachusetts taxes are no worse than other places. Food is not taxed. Clothing is not taxed. I lived in Nashville, Tennessee for 12 years and was taxed on everything.
Oh, and it is Massachusetts.....NOT Mass. It is a place not an event. Mass is something my husband might go to on a Sunday morning.
Oh, and it is Massachusetts.....NOT Mass. It is a place not an event. Mass is something my husband might go to on a Sunday morning.
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