Bloomington Illinois might as well be the Deep South

[TabulaRasa]

Seriously...ISU may not be the most fantastic school in the state, but it's definitely a decent enough school to support an educated community, moreso than often found in smaller midwestern communities. And Illinois Wesleyan's not bad, eitehr.

[Granny Sue]

Originally Posted by NYrules

I just loved it how to Bloomington folk 3 cars waiting at a red light was a traffic jam, NOBODY knew how to drive in heavy traffic to save their lives, people have no idea what parrallel parking is or why anyone would do it, people don't understand how to make a left turn on a circle green light to save their souls (pull out into the center of the intersection and wait out there instead of sitting at the white line like a dumb *****), $8 an hour at Wal Mart was considered a good job, Hilltop Mobile Homes was considered "Upscale" LOL, the fact that a law had to be passed to make it illegal to turn your indoor furniture into your outdoor furniture (didn't Jeff Foxworthy joke about that that rednecks do that? But that law was passed in 2000 in Normal), Famous Barr and Bergners were "High End" LMFAO (Guess the folk better never venture to Old Orchard Mall and see things like Zara, and Bloomingdales), $40 was "alot" of money for jeans( I would hate to see the towns folk in Diesel where jeans are over $200), Old Navy is the "cool" clothing to wear and basically the center piece to Eastland Mall LOL!, St. Louis was a vacation spot, Ned Kelly's Steak House was high end, jeans and a sport jacket was considered dressed up, African Americans are still refered to as "the N word" or as my neighbor would call them, "farm equipment" instead of as fellow human beings, anything that doesn't fit into a garbage bag was considered "bulk refuse" and would sit out at the curb until the city got around to it and picked it up and took it back to their little warehouse so they could go through your junk to see what they wanted to take home with them which is why that stuff never made it into a garbage truck with a compactor and instead into a dump truck where items could remain in tact until they could later be picked through, driving more than the town's posted 30 mph speed limits was considered going "lickity split" yes I had a cop pull me over and actually say that to me, "ummm duhhhh, sir would yall mind tellin me whaa you were movin licky split back thar? I'ma gonna have ta write you a ticket"...I got a ticket for moving at 37... Lightening fast I guess. I could go on, but I just thank GOD I am not down there anymore.

Do you consider using paragraphs highly educated?
It's really hard to take a post like this seriously.

[NYrules]

Originally Posted by Granny Sue

Do you consider using paragraphs highly educated?
It's really hard to take a post like this seriously.

How could I break it up? Lets see aggravation of driving among hillrods that don't know how to handle heavy traffic one paragraph, hillrods that have NO sense of fashion or self dignity being another (ie. sofas on front lawns forcing a law to be passed), racist neighbors being another... Garbage pickers for sanitation workers... It's a forum not a novel. Give it up professor. Meanwhile, and Steve O will love this... I'm happy to be the hell out of there, as that was not for me down there and back in the burbs of Chicago.

[doll lady]

I like driving my NEW pick-up truck...which by the way was a very expensive piece of machinery. I also buy expensive clothes when I want to go shopping and my husband is a so called garbage picker/ Sanitation Worker who makes a really lot of money.....and his nationwide company offers super benefits. He can drive a semi too. BTW, his job title is Sanitation Engineer and he went to college. We also have a several acres of land, two different properties, fairly new cadillac and a 68 Corvette Convertible....so Sanitation Workers in central illinois do ok.

[NYrules]

Originally Posted by doll lady

I like driving my NEW pick-up truck...which by the way was a very expensive piece of machinery. I also buy expensive clothes when I want to go shopping and my husband is a so called garbage picker/ Sanitation Worker who makes a really lot of money.....and his nationwide company offers super benefits. He can drive a semi too. BTW, his job title is Sanitation Engineer and he went to college. We also have a several acres of land, two different properties, fairly new cadillac and a 68 Corvette Convertible....so Sanitation Workers in central illinois do ok.

You're point? They do well pretty much all over. THEY'RE UNION! Hellooooo. They're pulling down $27 an hour for the company that services our office and Waste Management that services Orland Park is about the same. At $27 an hour straight time, not to mention all the over time, and double time on holidays, I would sure hope you could afford lots of nice stuff.

[MANaret]

Originally Posted by NYrules

You're point? They do well pretty much all over. THEY'RE UNION! Hellooooo. They're pulling down $27 an hour for the company that services our office and Waste Management that services Orland Park is about the same. At $27 an hour straight time, not to mention all the over time, and double time on holidays, I would sure hope you could afford lots of nice stuff.

I think her point was to disprove your claim that Garbage Pickers/Sanitation Engineers will pick up anything you leave on the side of the road and take it back to a central hub where they decide what they want to keep. They can afford new stuff, so they don't need your smelly old couch.

I'm assuming that's what you meant by "You're point?" I guess you could be calling her a point, but that doesn't make any sense (You're is a contraction of you are. So, when you say, "You're point?" it really means you are point). I know it is just a chat board, but the rules are there to make it easier to understand what you are saying. When you don't have time to pay attention to the rules, it just makes it harder to understand you and makes you looks less intelligent than you probably are.

Getting back to the topic at hand, B-N is not and will never by NYC. Expecting anything different is ridiculous. At the same time B-N is not the Deep South. B-N has a large farming population, but you can find farmers, rednecks, and country folk all through out the U.S. (as well as other countries). But, I'd say the lack of Baptist Churches on every block and really good non-chain barbeque restaurants seperates B-N from the Deep South (I'm sure there are other differences, but I'm going to just post the two most obvious ones).

[TabulaRasa]

Good God, NYrules, please stop writing until you can get an editor.

[Central Illinois 1]

Getting back to the discussion on B/N, there is definitely a very strong redneck/racist/usually uneducated contingent of people that live in smaller Illinois towns. Being located where it is, B/N will certainly get its share of these types of people. They are people that try to act like they are in the rural south (all the way down to the accents and flying their confederate flags) and think that the whole southern redneck thing is impressive. In B/N, they are not the majority. In smaller surrounding towns however, they may very well be though.

[NYrules]

Originally Posted by TabulaRasa

Good God, NYrules, please stop writing until you can get an editor.

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