martini wrote:Let's be clear, this type of stuff just doesn't happen in the south.
Yeah it does. You're less likely to hear about it however. If you do, the story would go "Dipshits on 400# bikes started a fight with a family in a 4000# truck and got what they deserved, that's all for tonights news".
The real news story here is that someone in NYFC fought back and ISN'T be run through the wringer.
martini wrote:Let's be clear, this type of stuff just doesn't happen in the south.
Yeah it does. You're less likely to hear about it however. If you do, the story would go "Dipshits on 400# bikes started a fight with a family in a 4000# truck and got what they deserved, that's all for tonights news".
The real news story here is that someone in NYFC fought back and ISN'T be run through the wringer.
You kinda made my point.
The only reason he isn't getting run through the ringer is b/c he didn't have/use a gun and he was eventually beaten. Thus his victimhood remains intact.
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martini wrote:Let's be clear, this type of stuff just doesn't happen in the south. Or really anywhere in flyover country. Part of that is because many down here are armed, but I think there could be more to it than just concealed carry.
I was dropping a cat off to be fixed at a clinic that has all the drop offs at one time and all the pick ups at another. Kind of like being at the barber waiting for a chair.
I told a lady, "Go ahead. You were here first."
She said, "No, actually you were outside talking to that other guy when I got here, so you were here first."
The lady sorting us out said, "I used to work at a clinic out east, and the people would be coming to blows right now trying to get in front of each other."
I think there's more to it than that we're armed. I think it's a cultural thing. I choose here.
Definitely cultural. Last week my wife was visiting a friend in North Carolina, when she came back she said everyone there was so friendly. People would wave and say hello walking down the street, even if they didn't know you. Completely unlike the NYC/NJ area.
There's a gradient. The further away you get from a dense urban environment, the more polite people get. Compared with NYC, or even Bergen county, people in Morris or Sussex counties are *nice*. Morris and Sussex are suburban to rural and firmly Republican. There must be some kind of meaning in that....
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Yogimus wrote:Obviously you have not been introduced to the manners prevalent in the wheeled neighborhoods.
"My babydaddy cleetus be in the jail for stabbing a bitch in the walmarts over an electric cart."
We have those same people (likely cousins, actually) but here they're 'urban'.
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MarkD wrote:Definitely cultural. Last week my wife was visiting a friend in North Carolina, when she came back she said everyone there was so friendly. People would wave and say hello walking down the street, even if they didn't know you. Completely unlike the NYC/NJ area.
I have talked to a lot of Yankees around here in the Carloinas that say that bugs the hell out of them.
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MarkD wrote:Definitely cultural. Last week my wife was visiting a friend in North Carolina, when she came back she said everyone there was so friendly. People would wave and say hello walking down the street, even if they didn't know you. Completely unlike the NYC/NJ area.
I have talked to a lot of Yankees around here in the Carloinas that say that bugs the hell out of them.
Same for some Scandinavians from bigger cities. They interpret it as fake: "they're pretending we're friends, but they don't know me".
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Stay in retail long enough and you'll perfect the art of smiling sweetly when you want nothing more than to pick up the cash register and slam it down on the customer's head. Which is extra-funny to think about when there are a lot of dudes out there who'll confuse a chick's customer service face for sexual interest.