We really need to split PA into West Pa and East PA. No way Arson applies outside of the Philly area. Stuck in the 80s is spot on for the West however. Go mall bangs!
We really need to split PA into West Pa and East PA. No way Arson applies outside of the Philly area. Stuck in the 80s is spot on for the West however. Go mall bangs!
'Sconsin. Been out-drinkin' your state since 1848.
I’m going to live in Idaho, have my kids go to school in Texas and find a wife in North Dakota (she’ll be soo grateful she’s married I’m sure to get lucky).
Ct. Best known for being a has been.
As an Idaho native, I'm surprised potatoes, meth and white supremacists were not chosen LOL
In reply to stanger_missle:
Meth is bigger in the midwest.......and white supremacists are generally associated with texas or the rest of the south.
I think my state (PA) is the best state at lowering its standards to the point where they are already met. God forbid we might actually aspire for something more than what we are. Its not PA's way.
wbjones wrote:nicksta43 wrote: Corruption...yep that's about rightwith Chicago being in Illinois, it's hard to understand how Tn could be more corrupt than Illinois .. and as bad as NC is in many ways .. teachers pay is one of the worst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tennessee_Waltz
http://www.knoxviews.com/node/13828
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tarnished_Shield
http://www.knoxnews.com/special/cockecounty/
The list goes on and on...
Virginia rocks! Most motorcycle deaths!
1988RedT2 wrote: Virginia rocks! Most motorcycle deaths!
Just watch out for those broads from Maryland
FSP_ZX2 wrote: 'Sconsin. Been out-drinkin' your state since 1848.
Not my state yankee... 
Wow I guess im a dumbass who probably now has AIDS lol
Stroke 
Not comforting at all.
moved from Corruption to Gonorrhea
Yeah!!!
I have a friend who was at the Four Corners this week. That sounds about right.
FSP_ZX2 wrote: 'Sconsin. Been out-drinkin' your state since 1848.
January 2007. (Maybe 2008) Chose coldest weekend of the year to do a 24 hour mad dash to central Wisconsin to pick up a eBay find. I drive the 11 hours there all in one shot, leaving immediately after getting home from work. Day is breaks just after we are leaving after dragging the non-running carcass onto the trailer. Outside temp is negative oh-god-why-am-i-doing-this, brain is frazzled from being up and busy for a straight 24 hours, staring into the sun as my friend is driving us home. Stop at a gas station to fuel up.
Fully half of the aisles in the station were hard liquor. Half of the remainder was cheese.
I still am not sure if this was reality, or if my brain was shutting down in some combo of hypothermia and exhaustion and just phoning it in.
Knurled wrote:FSP_ZX2 wrote: 'Sconsin. Been out-drinkin' your state since 1848.January 2007. (Maybe 2008) Chose coldest weekend of the year to do a 24 hour mad dash to central Wisconsin to pick up a eBay find. I drive the 11 hours there all in one shot, leaving immediately after getting home from work. Day is breaks just after we are leaving after dragging the non-running carcass onto the trailer. Outside temp is negative oh-god-why-am-i-doing-this, brain is frazzled from being up and busy for a straight 24 hours, staring into the sun as my friend is driving us home. Stop at a gas station to fuel up. Fully half of the aisles in the station were hard liquor. Half of the remainder was cheese. I still am not sure if this was reality, or if my brain was shutting down in some combo of hypothermia and exhaustion and just phoning it in.
That WAS real.
yamaha wrote: In reply to stanger_missle: Meth is bigger in the midwest.......and white supremacists are generally associated with texas or the rest of the south.
Do some reading, Idaho does in fact have a lot of white supremacists.
Knurled wrote: Fully half of the aisles in the station were hard liquor. Half of the remainder was cheese.
After reading your story, it is clear to me that you had a near-death experience and briefly got a glimpse of heaven. 
The0retical wrote: In reply to aussiesmg: You know, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I really don't have a problem with most of the rules enacted by CARB. I like clean air and water as much as the next guy so catalytic converters, evap systems, and O2 sensors are okay in my book. What I have a problem with is that they took a flying leap over the line with the whole approved parts thing (aka CARB tax sticker or just a bribe paid to the state) and sniffer tests. It went from cleaning up the air (I approve!) to money making scheme in no time flat. After that they keep attempting to foist their regulatory scheme onto the other 49 states. There's a lot of other things wrong with this state besides air pollution. Why can't we have the Vermont hippies which just smoke a lot of weed and make ice cream but leave you to your own devices? Yes I took the troll bait map...
California native here (not a "real" native, but a cracker 2nd gen CA'an). Look- I know I'm feeding trolls and stereotypes here. The most naturally beautiful state (we're in close competition with AK), and I don't want orange air over Yosemite, Kings Canyon, or any other of a number of fantastically beautiful natural areas. Say what you will about the people, but someone, somewhere, said: "Hey, people are dipE36 M3s, how about we protect E36 M3 that isn't people?", and I was there going, "berkeley yeah". If my state looked like E36 M3, (I'm looking at you, mississippi, north dakota, and Alabama), I wouldn't give a E36 M3 either. But there is some genuinely absolutely gorgeous E36 M3 in CA, and most other states, and it's hard to believe that we'd not try to do something to keep it that way. I mean, if we had any control over the production of beautiful women, we would put cats on our lawnmowers fer chrissakes. (for the ladies out there, my dad must have put a cat on our lawnmower, if you know what I mean...)
Teh E36 M3 wrote:The0retical wrote: In reply to aussiesmg: You know, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I really don't have a problem with most of the rules enacted by CARB. I like clean air and water as much as the next guy so catalytic converters, evap systems, and O2 sensors are okay in my book. What I have a problem with is that they took a flying leap over the line with the whole approved parts thing (aka CARB tax sticker or just a bribe paid to the state) and sniffer tests. It went from cleaning up the air (I approve!) to money making scheme in no time flat. After that they keep attempting to foist their regulatory scheme onto the other 49 states. There's a lot of other things wrong with this state besides air pollution. Why can't we have the Vermont hippies which just smoke a lot of weed and make ice cream but leave you to your own devices? Yes I took the troll bait map...California native here (not a "real" native, but a cracker 2nd gen CA'an). Look- I know I'm feeding trolls and stereotypes here. The most naturally beautiful state (we're in close competition with AK), and I don't want orange air over Yosemite, Kings Canyon, or any other of a number of fantastically beautiful natural areas. Say what you will about the people, but someone, somewhere, said: "Hey, people are dipE36 M3s, how about we protect E36 M3 that isn't people?", and I was there going, "berkeley yeah". If my state looked like E36 M3, (I'm looking at you, mississippi, north dakota, and Alabama), I wouldn't give a E36 M3 either. But there is some genuinely absolutely gorgeous E36 M3 in CA, and most other states, and it's hard to believe that we'd not try to do something to keep it that way. I mean, if we had any control over the production of beautiful women, we would put cats on our lawnmowers fer chrissakes. (for the ladies out there, my dad must have put a cat on our lawnmower, if you know what I mean...)
Ok, read this twice, and still have this feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBCbAmiH_Wk
I'm all for clean air and water. I don't want to breathe smog or have to see a river burn.
There needs to be some common sense though and it seems Cali lacks that. Some time back I learned of a Subaru Impreza with a check engine light which is an automatic fail for the Cali emission test. That makes sense, it's the light's purpose.
The code was for a catalyst failure. Again it makes sense. Here's the part that DOES NOT make sense: in Cali only a FACTORY ORIGINAL catalyst can be used. The engine can suck in smog, spit pine trees kittens and candy canes out of the tailpipe but if this is done via a NON OE CATALYST no sticker for you! So the car in question sits because Subaru no longer supplies the catalyst.
Where is the common sense in that?
Fast women and ugly horses.
Kentucky
Pretty sure that's our state motto.
Curmudgeon wrote: The code was for a catalyst failure. Again it makes sense. Here's the part that DOES NOT make sense: in Cali only a FACTORY ORIGINAL catalyst can be used. The engine can suck in smog, spit pine trees kittens and candy canes out of the tailpipe but if this is done via a NON OE CATALYST no sticker for you! So the car in question sits because Subaru no longer supplies the catalyst. Where is the common sense in that?
Non-OE cats are garbage, that's why. Cheap aftermarket cats will often pass the sniffer test the first time, then when the next test comes around two years later, it fails again.
This assumes that it passes the first time. We had a hell of a time finding a cat that would clean up Caddy 4.9 engines, which inexplicably produce extremely high NOx. And also inexplicably have not all left the roads due to terminal mechanical design ineptitude.
In reply to Teh E36 M3:
At the risk of sounding snarky and rude; I didn't say that I disagree with the emission systems and tests. What I said was I have a problem that the system has been worked over to become a source of income and control rather than an system designed to keep the air clean or clean it up. What is it with California people thinking I hate emissions, Stockholm syndrome?
Meanwhile all I hear coming out of the hot rodding community is "We're in Cali, its in our blood" despite the fact that it's very hard, time consuming, and very expensive for both manufacturers and consumers to modify anything after 1975 and not have to trailer it everywhere, which defeats the purpose of hot rodding in my eyes.
I'm all about protecting natural resources, I hunt, fish, backpack, and camp (at least 2 to 3 times a year in the areas you mentioned), but CA seems to have a problem with knee jerk, let the government take care of you, reactions with almost no evidence that it will work, then works the system into another form of income. Bottom line is that CARB worked but at the expense of making any type of modern hot rodding or driving an older car very cost prohibitive.
God forbid I even try to federalize a Skyline in that state, you'd think I suggested that we summon the Devil himself.
Also 9% of my income goes right to taxes, the housing market here moves in very violent and sudden cycles, 91 octane gas, somehow my guns will walk out of their safe, load themselves and pull their own triggers, metalized lead will kill the condors, hunting kills bambis mom, uninsured drivers, ungodly insurance rates, ungodly registration fees, and what the berkeley is with the High Desert?
I'm pretty sure this state hates everything I like.
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