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How do we know this is Ohio? Looks more like Detroit!!! **gabba gabba gabba gabba**
Hey !
Is for horses!!! Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all morning…
Try your waiter! Tip the veal!
Tip the veal? Is that like cow tipping?
Only smaller, yes!
Awesome!
Oh relax the one. I live 30 mins from detroit and thought the comment was better suited for us.
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the van swearingens (and some history on shaker heights).
Detroit’s got plenty of abandoned places too!
http://www.forgottenmichigan.com/
Oooh, cool UE pics! Yours by any chance, or are you just linking to them?
More from Detroit – *link*
This is just a terrific moody picture.
Since it’s of an electric train though, I’ve got to ask; do they actually have electricity in Ohio?
Only on alternate Tuesdays.
I thought it was the second Tuesday of every week..?
And February 30.
Just enough to run the radar guns, I would imagine.
(Ohio cops…ugh. Second only to Michigan in their fleecing skills.)
Not in Toledo! Living on the border between the states I get to see the best (and worst) of both worlds. I can’t tell you how many times people will push or flat-out run red lights in Toledo, and 99% of the time get away with it. Try that in Monroe County (or worse, in Wayne) and you’ll have a cop flashing their lights at you before you even clear the intersection.
You must have a lot of cops in Monroe county doing nothing but monitoring every stop light.
I suspect their town fathers see it as an excellent source of school funding!
I HATED Linndale when I lived in Cleveland. Almost got pulled over there once, a cop pulled out and followed me, but didn’t actually clock me going the 75 mph that I had been doing.
I hate towns like that. London, AR is one where the highway dropped down even lower than that, and their one police officer was there ready to make all of the town’s revenue, er, catch speeders off guard. We had to drive through there to get to my uncle’s house, and it was a pain.
linndale always had at least one cop sitting at the border… and yes it was all their revenue.
Which is kinda sad. You know, it’s one thing to be genuinely trying to stop speeders because they’re dangerous or breaking the law. But doing devious stuff like dropping the speed limit out of nowhere so even someone who might have been obeying the speed limit is suddenly caught off guard is just crap. I also hate cities that take pictures of red light runners because they shorten the yellow lights to increase the likelihood of people running the reds. They’re not trying to stop people from running red lights. They’re just trying to get extra tickets. The next town over does that. I was totally caught off guard by a yellow that couldn’t have been more than a second.
we had a city that had a SUPER short yellow and someone sued them and had some sort of code stating the length that the yellow is supposed to be (i think it’s supposed to be the length of time for 1 or 2 cars to pass through at the speed limit). the city got screwed royally… they lengthened the yellow to exactly the length it is supposed to be at a minimum… which is still awfully short.
We have red light cameras here and I think they’re great. However, they did NOT change the length of the yellow (actually, I lie, I think they lengthened it) PLUS they put up warning signs. But before they installed the first one, at the worst intersection in town, an average of five cars would go through after your light was green. (Yes, I actually did the math geek thing and kept track.) Now it’s usually none.
We just used the money to bootstrap the program to install more cameras, so no actual revenue for anything else, but last year the state decided to take all the money so now we can’t do that any more. Now it IS a revenue maker for the state. Really ironically, other towns have started doing it, but the only ones that have to turn over the money to the state are ones exceeding 500K in population. WHich is exactly one…us.
We have many red light AND speed trap cameras in the DC area. It was studied that the Red Light cameras cause more accidents than non-cameras. Why you may ask? B/C people slam on their brakes when the light is yellow. Within one week I was rear ended three times at the same Traffic light. Finally wrote a letter to DC, and contacted a lawyer, that THEY will be responsible for my insurance prices going up. They refused until my lawyer sent them a letter saying he’d gladly take them to court. Oddly enough the yellow light stayed longer AND there were more signs, one hanging on the camera.
Perhaps if the city decreases the yellow light time, as Rando said some have done. We have had a huge decrease in the other kind of accidents — the ones much more likely to cause injuries/death — and a slight increase in rear endings. Overall it’s improved our injury rate.
We do not have any ’speed trap cameras.’ We do have cameras that will ticket you if you’re exceeding the clearly posted speed limit.
I personally feel that Red Light Cameras and Speed Trap Cameras (you’re going over speed limit cameras) are against the addage Innocent until proven guilty. When a cop writes you a ticket, HE knows you were the driver. We had a case where a guy who had recently died and had his car stolen was fined for running a red light. But since it couldn’t be proven when the car was stolen his family had to pay the ticket (even though it was clear he was dead at the time of the ticket). Big Brother is watching you, and is too lazy to get his/her a$$ out of the car to write a ticket. (Did I forget to mention that some of the speed trap cameras are cops sitting in their cars playing on the computer)
Well, I feel the same way about them that I feel about speed bumps. I would much rather have cops sitting there writing tickets to all the violators. But since no one wants to fund a police force that will enable that, I don’t see any alternative for making people follow traffic laws.
BTW, the residential, 25mph street that we lived on that had speed bumps installed had 4000 cars per day with an AVERAGE speed of 40+mph. Believe me, I would much rather that every single one of those jerks received hefty tickets AND the bitching out they deserved for speeding through a residential neighborhood. But they wouldn’t give us that and they would give us speed bumps.
We need something in Massachusetts–yellow means squeeze as many more cars through the intersection as you possibly can. Red? Sometimes stop, sometimes go through at full speed. I’ve learned to look both ways before proceeding when the light turns to green.
That’s the way it was here before the cameras. You WOULD get rear ended if you had the temerity to actually obey the law and stop at a yellow light. It’s improved, but it’s slow.
Mabs: I understand the need to control speed, HOWEVER if you write enough tickets you pay for the Police Force. HELL DC got $10.2M in parking tickets last year, another $2.2M from the red light cameras, and $1.3 from Sped light cameras. However it’s cheaper to break the constitution (I shouldn’t have to go to court to prove my innocence, but they need to prove I was driving the car). The “skirt” it by saying, “Well since it doesn’t go on your permanent record, it’s really a ticket b/c your registered car is not being used appropriately.” Yeah sorry my boot up your ass slipped on all the BS your spewing…… It’s a scam, and the know it. And y’all wonder why I don’t trust the government (not to mention the ebil commipanies who have contracts for said cameras).
Sorry, but the city won’t hire more cops with the idea that the new cops could write tickets and pay for themselves. There’s also the problem that we barely manage to find enough applicants for each academy class already.
I think the way the cameras are operated may be flawed. I don’t think the idea is, given the alternatives.
Mabs: What were your thoughts on the Patriot Act?
I believe it was a panic response by Congress and unnecessary. But I’m not going to debate it. Just like the cameras — been there, done that, nothing more to say.
Oh sure cut off my argument before I get into it….. **mumble** typical woman/ liberal/ American/ PK pundit/ woman…..
Oh, poor ILPB. *pats on head* Okay, I will concede that there is a lot of validity in some of the arguments against using cameras instead of cops. Feel better now? But since you’re not sending any cops our way….
$hit in DC we have the Metropolitan Police, Navy Yard Police, DC Capitol Police, National Parks Police, Federal Protective Service, Secret Service, Federal Housing Police, Metro Transit Police and FBI. All with some sort of authority in DC, MOST with some sort of ticket authority as well.
NoVA has VA State Police, Arlington County Police, Farifax County Police, City of Alexandria Police, Alexandria Sheriff, Arlington Sheriff, Arlington Auxiliary Police, Metro Transit Police, Federal Prison Marshals, US MArshals (All within the Beltway).
I wish we could send you some.
We have about 1000 cops for 650,000 people, plus we’re included in the county sheriff’s jurisdiction, sort of.
650 to 1… that’s actually pretty good….
But we also have most of the courts and back up the INS (slightly busy here) and cover a lot more square miles than most city cops. And remember that that’s the entire police force — not the number of ‘cops on the street.’
@ILPB–Are you ready for this? Are you sitting down? I agree with you. I mean, in theory there are probably ways to do this that would actually be ethical, but I haven’t seen it here. We use security cameras to bust criminals all the time, but we’re trying to prove the criminal in question was actually there. That’s not what these cameras are trying to do. This is more like blackmail to me.
Something I’d like to see more of that I think would protect people would be longer periods after one direction turns red where all directions are red to make sure the intersection is clear so when the next direction’s light turns green, it’s less likely they’ll be pulling out into some reckless driver beating a red light. I was in a nasty accident in 2001 because some bitch ran a red light and the other direction pulled out and hit her, sending her flying head-on into my car. Totaled the car and broke my kneecap, which in retrospect was actually pretty fvcking lucky for me considering people die in accidents like that.
Well the red light cameras would be fine if they were doing it fairly. I don’t think the way Arnold, MO does it is fair at all. If they cared about prosecuting people who ran red lights, they’d take pictures where you could see who is driving the car. Let’s say my brother borrows my car and runs a red light. It doesn’t matter. The ticket is still in my name. If my brother bails on me and won’t pay the ticket then I’m screwed. So they don’t care about people breaking the law. They care about getting more money out of people. There has been a big uproar about the legality of how Arnold approaches the red light cameras.
I think my city could actually use the cameras, but I also think they need to re-time the stoplights along the main road in town. Cross traffic gets horrendously short lights for relatively heavy traffic volume and people sit at the lights for 3 or 4 turns. This leads to SEVERAL people at each stoplight blatantly going through reds and often getting stuck mid intersection because the next light down is red and traffic is backed up into the middle of another intersection. It’s ridiculous. But there are a number of accidents along that main road at numerous intersections because of bad stoplights and stupid drivers. Maybe the cameras (and a competent MODOT, yeah right) would help alleviate the situation. Okay, rant over.
Oh, that isn’t right. Here it photographs the driver, and if it isn’t you, then the ticket is voided. I do think it needs to be better still.
The problem with changing the time period as you suggest is that people just adjust. Eg, make the yellow longer and soon they realize that they can squeeze through from that much farther away. People die because some idiot hit the gas at the yellow and didn’t make it.
*sigh* You can’t fix stupid.
In Australia (New South Wales, at least, but I assume the other states are similar) the speed and red light camera tickets come in the mail with a form on the back to name the driver if it wasn’t you. As the owner of a car it’s your responsibility to know if you loaned it to someone else, so you can just say that as far as you know the car was being used by that person. The form counts as a statutory declaration so there are penalties for providing false information on it, but if you simply name the person you loaned the car to and it turns out that they were letting someone else drive it at the time then they just fill out the form and pass it on.
If the car is registered to a business and they either don’t know who was driving or refuse to name them, they face a much bigger penalty (about 10x the fine that the driver would pay) because there’s no way to give the driver the “point penalty” that could result in a suspension of license.
Not sure how the name’n’shame stat-dec system would fly in the US. Sounds suspiciously like bullying innocent people into testifying against family or friends.
I second this. I can drive for years without any problems but if i ever have to drive through Ohio i get a ticket.
>.<
They’re called speed limits for a reason. Or maybe the cop wanted a date.
They’re more like guidelines.
No, that’s the pirate code. And why is the rum gone?
But, I am a pirate. That means that everything is merely a guideline.
…and THAT is why the rums gone.
Rural Washington! I’ve traveled a lot, and the worst reputation I’ve heard for speed traps is Colfax, WA — especially if you’re at all brown… oh BOY! Link.
This isn’t Ohio, no city in Ohio has electric trains/rails, only Amtrak type diesel trains.
oh really? then how is it that i ride the rapid to downtown cleveland all the time?
btw, THIS is a rapid. also known to you guys as a electric train.
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We’ve got trains like those in St. Louis as well. An underfunded yet massively useful form of transportation. We can park in a parking lot near a MetroLink station and take the train downtown to Busch Stadium or the hockey arena and save big money on parking.
i save a lot of money by avoiding potential DUIs. the closest rapid stop is about a 10 minute walk from my house… for $1.75 each way i can drink myself stupid at a browns game (really it’s the only thing TO do at a browns game) and not have to worry about driving.
I am from Ohio and I can tell you with confidence that we do in fact have electricity! At least, in the cities. No sense in running hundreds of gosh-darned power lines through the middle o’nowhere.
All joking aside, most of Ohio’s energy comes from coal. Not very clean.
And we in New England don’t thank your state for that. *sigh*
This week’s post-apocalyptic zombie-ridden hellscape is brought to you by the letter O!
We in Kentucky call the bad drivers from Ohio FIFOs. Fvcking Idiots From Ohio. They have to go through our state to get to our lakes.
In New Enlgand (and most rest of the country) we call Mass drivers Massholes!!!
Whereas those of us from Massachusetts only use that term for the REAL Massholes.
Yes, I have to tone it down when I leave the state. But I don’t tailgate, and I actually use turn signals!
**Takes Mass drivers license and tears it up** That’s like saying a New Jersey driver doesn’t do the New Jersey Two Step. (IE when you’re behind them they gone 10-15mph under the speed limit, but when you try and pass them they go 15-20 mph over the speed limit until you get back behind them, and they procede to go 10-15 mph under again).
Speed limit? What’s that?
I get my thrills from playing with the g forces on exit and entrance ramps designed by idiots…and of course our regular snow and ice conditions!
You know those signs they put on the Mass Tpke (oh wait you’re from Mass you don’t use that road = tourist tax)
Actually, the Mass Pike is an excellent road, great way to avoid traffic and umpteen traffic lights (except for rush hour traffic, naturally). So I actually DO take the pike, pretty often!
Speed limits? Lol….I was thinking the other day that there should really be a rule that if you’re going to drive 55 mph on our interstate loop around the city (yes, that’s the posted limit for at least part of it) you should have to put on your flashers to warn people. The normal “flow of traffic” speed is in the 70-75 mph range.
Like NASCAR, the race ain’t over till there’s brains splattered on the retaining wall.
Oh, the brains on the retaining wall generally come from the genius cutting in and out of lanes on a crotchrocket trying to pass all the slowpokes doing 75….
The only speed limit worth obeying (aside from residential areas, naturally) is the hairpin turn on the far western end of Route 2 in North Adams, MA. If you are on that road, you really DO need to slow to the 15 miles per hour, unless you want to get up close and personal with a 3 story high stone retaining wall!
I wish that the non-residential speed limits actually reflected reality, for reasons like that…and the crazy exit ramps on route 128.
sounds like our “dead man’s curve”. out of towners don’t pay attention to the giant flashing signs saying to slow to 20mph until they see the giant concrete wall in front of them… a couple people die on that curve every year… they’ve even cut rumble strips into the pavement to try to slow people down on the approach and it doesn’t really help.
Gah! I hated that turn when I went to UMass (I grew up on rt 2, and never knew you weren’t supposed to feel the gforce turns until I was a teen ^_^… this brings back so many memories)
Turn signals? Using one of those in Missouri will get you run off the road. I don’t know about the rest of the state, but in St. Louis we have lousy drivers. Despite the fact that we get plenty of rain, snow, ice, fog, etc, when any of those happen local drivers suddenly become incapable of driving. Because they’re idiots. Hey, douche bag, when it’s snowing or pouring rain, doing 80 on the interstate is a really stupid fvcking idea.
*whistles* I’ve never done that..
I already know about Chicago drivers. For shame, Chicago, for shame.
Yeah, here in cheesehead country, we call ‘em FIBs (F%^$& Illinois Bastards). That and flatlanders, but it just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I think the folks in New Hampshire call those of us in Massachusetts ‘flatlanders’. Everyone else calls us Massholes, as above.
Perhaps MA is flat in comparison to New Hampshire, but Illinois is flat in comparison to just about anything. South of Chicago the tallest thing for miles is an overpass. The only state that beats it out, IMHO is Nebraska. There’s a saying that if you walk away from your friend in Nebraska you can still be waving goodbye three days later.
Don’t forget the M&M’s (Minnesotans in minivans). They are worse than any FIB I’ve ever seen.
Most of my life and experience has been about an hour north of the WI/IL border or way up in the north woods (like near the UP, unlike what most illinois folks think of the northwoods). Up there the Illinois people are the obnoxious tourists who think they own the place and everyone there exists to serve them and/or sell their land real cheap to developers. In other words it’s a bit more personal than just driving skills.
But then in da nort woods you can REALLY tell the Illinois people because they drive like idiots, as per usual, but slow down to 5mph at every crossroad or sign looking for their lakefront resort.
Minnesota at least has it’s own north woods so they don’t have to come annoy us in ours.
Hey, I’m a transplanted AZ driver.
Fsking Zonie. *shakes fist* All of Arizonia comes to CA for their spring/winter/summer/I have a week off for no reason vacation. They aren’t popular drivers.
Um, no they don’t. I didn’t.
those are southern ohioans… us northerners call them “displaced west virginians”. and we have our own lake – one of the great ones too. we don’t need your stinkin’ pennsyltucky lakes…
It’s funny because every time I drive in Ohio I have severe road rage in Cincy but when I get further north, say Columbus I’m all cool.
My Mom also calls bad drivers Buckholes lol!
*just out of curiosity*
Do they have houseboats on the great lakes… or is that just a southern thing?
I believe they have house boats anywhere theres water that will take them. Houseboats on lakes and rivers = Trailers in Redneck land.
I’ve never seen a houseboat on Lake Michigan but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any. However, the water is often very choppy with high waves, not ideal conditions for houseboats.
Nor for little boats like the 18footer I had. We tried to go from Waukegan Harbour to Navy Pier for 4th of July one year and almost died.
My friend’s brother lives on a houseboat on Michigan. I’ll dispute the redneck bit, too. You gotta have some cash to own one of those.
In all fairness, I do think there can be rich rednecks…. (Jeff Foxworthy ring a bell?
) But, yes, the ones I’ve seen (not here, obviously, lack of water = lack of houseboats) were mostly VERY nice. Most places I’ve seen them it costs more in docking fees than my mortgage.
*has a houseboat on the lake*
I guess I live in Redneck Land. You’ve obviously never seen some of the really nice ones.
I have, I was being SARCASTIC!!!!! There are also some very nice trailers, but the stigma is that a Trailer is for Rednecks!!!
i thought we were considered “white trash”… yeah i live in a trailer…
I’ve seen some gorgeous trailers, on foundations. Made me take a new opinion of them…except that mother nature still doesn’t like them, of course.
My husband (raised in Texas) calls them ‘tornado magnets.’
Tornados, Hurricanes…
Need to go up to Vermont. They have a Log Cabin Trailer maker. Really neat…..
I’ve seen faux log cabin mobile homes down here, too.
My parents live in a double-wide that is older than I am. They were having some settling issues with it a couple of years ago and called in someone to level it. The guy said not only did it not need leveling, it was tied down so tight that a hurricane wouldn’t move it. Mom got to thinking about it and agreed, since that trailer has survived a hurricane (Rita), and more than one tornado touching down in our yard. It doesn’t even shake or sway when high winds blow.
Plus, from the inside, you can’t tell it’s a double wide. It’s teh awsum.
I’m glad your parents went for solid!
I think trailer houses are like regular houses. Most new houses are slapped up so quickly that I think you could level them with a sledgehammer in about five minutes versus old ones that could withstand tornadoes.
Except those new metal frame houses.
Captain Wow- so you’re also a member of the Redneck Yacht club?
*starts secret club handshake by opening a beer*
*does the secret handshake and opens her beer*
Big Raspberry for ILPB!
There are a LOT of really rich rednecks in Seattle and Victoria (BC). My youngest brother says just docking there is pricey, let alone the boats. (He’s in the shipping industry.)
lake erie doesn’t have houseboats in cleveland… i’m not sure if there are out by sandusky or ashtabula though.
you’ll get some houseboats on some of the larger in-land lakes though. but that’s usually a bunch of rednecks…
i can’t stand driving in southern ohio. most of the drivers are really bad. columbus is pretty good… but not much further south than that.
I’ve never seen them in Sandusky. But it’s been a few years since I’ve been up that way.
my bet is that if there are any they’re out by ashtabula… ‘bula’s an interesting area*. lol.
* – i lived out there for 2 summers. this isn’t a baseless accusation. trust me, the banjos start playing when you cross the county line into ‘bula…
Do they play that song from Deliverance?
that’s the one! lol.
I think I drove through there one time. It was like being back home in MS…
it’s the furthest north and east corner of the state… right next to erie, PA.
NM, that’s not where we were. I’m usually in the Fremont, Tiffin, Port Clinton area. Over by Toldeo.
Ah Ohio Drivers.
I’m not sure what makes them that way. My guess is it’s either Cincinnati or all the corn.
That’s interesting, cause almost every near hit or stupid thing I’ve seen on the highway in Cincinnati is a Kentucky plate…
Caused by an Ohio plate.
In all fairness, they might have come from Lexington. Lexington drivers don’t understand things like rain, snow, or curves. Luckily they just give up when ice comes and stay inside.
I’m from Richmond, just 20 miles from Lexington and I do agree. I have to go there in two hours, please wish me luck!
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I’m a firm believer in “Instant @sshole, just add water!”
You should move to Virginia. Our Richmond is 136 miles from our Lexington.
Oh, Virginia… I left Ohio for Maryland. I never had any real problems with Ohio drivers, sans that obnoxious stretch in Cbus where 270, 70, and all those highways converge and diverge, and there’s the airport turnoff…ugh… But Marylanders… Terrible drivers, those people on 95 and 695. Although, I must say, VA drivers take the cake; I’d survived 3 years of driving on 495 and in DC, Baltimore, and Fairfax, and people trying to merge into my car, only to have my car totaled by some idiot in a teeeny little town less than 20 minutes outside of Luray. Gah.
Don’t confuse NoVA with Virginia!
Yeah, those in NoVA are Smurfs as opposed to true Virginians who are Red through and through (except Richmond)
Don’t forget my current abode – Charlottesville! We’re so blue that we turn our hosting country (Albemarle) blue whether they like it or not! I consider it a little sea of sane blue in a field of demented red…
OK, we also have our share of insanity, as a stroll down the downtown mall will quickly reveal. But it’s a good kind of insanity! (mostly)
It’s called UVA Ted…..
I used to think that wherever I was living (or the place next door) had the worst drivers until my brother (who used to drive long haul ALL over the US and Canada) told me that the ‘drivers are just friggin’ stupid EVERYWHERE, but they do different stupid things in different places.’ In NM it’s freeway driving they can’t do, but to be fair, there are two freeways and one freeway intersection.
If he ever comes to Boston, I gather there is a lady cabdriver who will talk non-local truck drivers through the crazy streets here…she knows the height clearances, etc. (fun article in the paper about her a few years back!)
Does every American state have the idea that people from the nearest neighbour state are lousy drivers? Where I lived it was the Iowans who were regarded as absolute menaces on the road, and it was probably vice versa in Iowa. ;p
No, some of us are honest about it and think it’s the people in the state where we live.
Actually, part of the problem is that traffic laws and driving behaviors differ from state to state, and people travel to different states and aren’t aware of the differences. For example, here if you’re turning right onto a four lane road, you can legally enter either of the lanes in your direction. In CA and WA, you MUST enter the nearest legal lane unless traffic markings indicate otherwise. So they think they can safely turn left into the left lane while you’re turning right. Obviously this creates problems.
Yeah. I think something like this is the reason why 80% of drivers think they belong in the top 5% of “good drivers”* – you never know the exact reasons why the driver ahead of you is behaving in what to you seems like an idiotic manner.
… Come to think of it, this is probably applicable to many other situations in life too.
*) I have no exact source for that claim, but polls seem to come up with those, or similar, results over and over.
I’m in that other 20%. I’m not a particularly good driver. In fact, most people who ride with me say I’m the worst driver they’ve ever ridden with. The sad part is I’ve seen much, much worse on the road locally.
Yeah, we Massholes know who we are!
I live in Iowa and they are the worst drivers around.
A-HA!
As a non-driver, I never really took particular notice of anyone’s driving. :p
I will admit that Kentucky has some doosies.
At least we can drive (kinda) in the snow. I can’t even begin to estimate how many Kentucky drivers I saw crashed during the last snow fall in southwest Ohio. Absolutely pitiful…
Yeah, and that train is headed straight for Indiana.
more than likely it’s headed from shaker heights to terminal tower. seeing as how it’s not a legit train but a train mostly used to cheaply and quickly transport business people from the suburbs to downtown…
BTW I think your handle is random awesomeness.
He said buttchow.
Wouldn’t dogchowheadbutt be better?
Back in 1995, I used to drive every weekend down I-75 from the Detroit area to Lexington, KY, so of course I had to go through Ohio. Even after I moved down to Lexington, I had family up in MI so I would STILL make that drive about three or four times a year. That being said, I hope I NEVER HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN!
However, the number of Wendy’s that were placed near exits were acceptable; I found that their crispy chicken nuggets and a Frosty were perfect driving foods!
Oh sure, rub it in! They’ve closed most of the Wendy’s in our area. *sobs hysterically*
ohio is inundated with wendy’s because the very first one was in columbus, ohio. dave thomas was a local guy… works out well for us. not so well for you.
but we also don’t have in-and-out or jack-in-the-box or any number of other artery clogging but oh so yummy places.
No…no In-n-Out? How…how do you survive? *worships In-n-Out and it’s milk shakes and even it’s secret hidden bible passages*
Hmm. I like their burgers & chicken sandwiches ok, but their fries are a crime against humanity. I don’t think I’ve ever received a decent order of fries from a Wendy’s, to the point where I will occasionally get a sandwich from Wendy’s and fries from somewhere else.
Second that on the fries.
You guys are weird. Like most fast food fries, I love theirs if they’re actually hot. The instant they lose even the slightest amount of heat, they become like tent stakes.
But…they’re always floppy and soggy and sad and undercooked! Wait, so Wendy’s in Missouri actually cooks them nice and crispy like fries are supposed to be?
Sometimes. Occasionally they are sad and undercooked, but more often they’re overcooked. When I said I love theirs if they’re actually hot, I didn’t mean it happened with any frequency.
But Rando, you have Jack in the Box!
Also, I missed it, I think you had your interview..? If you’ve already talked about it, forgive me for missing it. But, spill!
It went okay. I think I gave my best interview in years, but the job was about an hour’s drive away, which they didn’t tell me until the end of the interview. Even if I get a call back, I doubt I’d take it unless it was for hella good money, and it won’t be. No point in torturing myself when I still have a job.
Maybe the money would be good enough to move?
Yeah, considering that you don’t really like your house, right?
That wouldn’t really benefit my wife, though. That would put her severely away from her house, and I doubt the money would be good enough to move there either. It’s not a big deal.
She’s got another house? *is confused*
Poor word choice, Rando. That would put her severely away from OUR house. And a better paying job wouldn’t likely mean we’d have extra money to move. It’d just mean we’d actually be able to pay all the bills. And maybe have a 2nd car.
Well, I’m sorry it’s not the promised land for you Rando, but I have my fins crossed that you’ll have a turn around here soon!
But Glee is set in Ohio!
Speaking of which, why do Americans call a High School Choir a “Glee Club”, and not a school choir like the rest of the English-speaking World do?
I don’t know that all Americans do. It wasn’t called that where I grew up (WA State), and I’ve never heard it called that in NM. It must be from a particular region.
In New Jersey, I sang in a school choir. In college (MA), they had a chorale, a choir AND a glee club. Why? I dunno.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard them called “Glee clubs” around here (TN, or AR when I was in HS).
The Glee club and Chorale are the upper level. Something akin to varsity and jr varsity in sports. The choir can sing, the Glee club and Chorale could sing the more difficult parts. (I lettered in Chorus in High School)
In my college, the Chorale was the lowest level group. I suspect there is no logic to any of it!
In my high school, calling it “Glee Club” would’ve gotten your ass kicked. Well, not really, as most of those in Chorus weren’t really the ass-kicking type.
Same. I’m from Ohio, and we never called it Glee. It’s called Show Choir, usually even in competition wording. Regular school choir does not dance, btw, at least very much.
It seems to vary – the one I went to had “select choir”, “women’s chorus”, “ninth grade girls’ choir”, “men’s chorus” and “show choir”. Totally glee-less. ;p
My father was in Glee Club at Berkeley, but I’ve never heard it used for high schools around here (it isn’t used at my daughter’s school for any of the choral ensembles). I believe it was either a male-only or possibly not official group (i. e. more like a club vs. a class) when my dad was in it – this would’ve been late ’40s through maybe ‘55 (after the Korean War/Conflict ended and he got out of the service).
A school choir is a class.
A glee club is an extracurricular activity.
Thanks one and all; it makes even less sense now, but you tried!
*sings along*
Don’t stop believing! Hold on to that feeling!
*ends with jazzhands*
Hey, at least the dreams are COMING to Ohio to die and not GOING.
So I had thought for a second that the picture was of Cincinnati’s hidden, decaying, partially finished subway system. Certainly fits the theme of dreams dying. Good to know Cleveland also has a dream graveyard.
the rapid system is actually pretty good, all things considered. the bus system… well that’s a different story entirely!
cleveland’s real dream graveyard is normally referred to as “the cleveland browns”.
Or Indians….
they haven’t always sucked… and they’ve got grady sizemore. he provides eye candy even if he can’t provide any wins…
I thought Hollywood was where dreams died?
only if you’re ugly.
Can’t… be… helped :p
I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY CITY WAS GONE
THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
THERE WAS NO DOWNTOWN
SOUTH HOWARD HAD DISAPPEARED
ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
MY CITY HAD BEEN PULLED DOWN
REDUCED TO PARKING SPACES
A, O, WAY TO GO OHIO
WELL I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY FAMILY WAS GONE
I STOOD ON THE BACK PORCH
THERE WAS NOBODY HOME
I WAS STUNNED AND AMAZED
MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
SLOWLY SWIRLED PAST
LIKE THE WIND THROUGH THE TREES
A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO
I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE
HAD BEEN PAVED DOWN THE MIDDLE
BY A GOVERNMENT THAT HAD NO PRIDE
THE FARMS OF OHIO
HAD BEEN REPLACED BY SHOPPING MALLS
AND MUZAK FILLED THE AIR
FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO
I do believe this Cleveland’s Terminal Tower Circa 1935. Trains were pulled by electric cars to the station. The Vans didn’t want the national operators to bring smoke onto Public Square. (Then again, Cleveland at that time was pretty much polluting manufacturing jobs….)
It’s not a Rapid car, they were and are more streamlined.
More information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Tower
That ain’t Ohio and it ain’t in the least bit “funny” so double FAIL.
the only “electric trains” like those in the pic are in the NE corridor, aka hi voltage AC aka Amtrak so…Boston, NY, DC, CT Philthydelphia etc
In Yobama’s America, all dreams are dead unless you’re on welfare.
Well, considering that we’ve already HAD the trains identified by somebody who rides them regularly as being in Cleveland…..I’m going to have to say that you’re incorrect, sir.
Helps if you actually read what other people have already posted.
What’s this reading thing you speak of?
Don’t worry yourself, it’s something only liberals do.
I beg to differ.
Hey I resemble that remark….. Us conservatives get our fax from the TV and ray-d-oh….. guys who tell us dem der troof like Rush and O’Reilly and Beck, and Hannity…..
“Hey I resemble that remark…..”
You do? Hmm. Hang on. Turn to the right a bit… Yeah, I can totally see it now!
Actually, NO, they have said there are “electric trains” in Ohio but not HIGH VOLTAGE AMTRAK TRAINS, the only “electric trains” in Ohio are of the rapid transit type that don’t run on 20,000 volt ac as the one in the picture shows. I did read what other people said and they, like you, have no idea what they are talking about. The “trains” there run on 600 volts, DC and the overhead wire for that is not what is pictured. So, for the second time, that picture is from somewhere in the NE corridor where Amtrak runs HIGH VOLTAGE locomotives that use that type of overhead wire with the big insulators. I live in Boston, we’ve had “electric trains” for over 100 years and trust me, that is NOT Ohio.
the only problem with your insistence is that i KNOW what transit station this is in cleveland. i don’t remember the exact name of the stop, but it’s the last stop heading west before tower city… it’s the cleveland state university stop.
also, amtrak runs on the same rails for several miles heading west out of tower city towards the airport. so it’d be AWFULLY difficult for the high voltage amtrak trains to run on all the same stuff as the rapid transit cars unless they shared the same hook ups.
More specifically, that is Washington (DC) Union Station. The square-shaped locomotive is a Diesel switcher pulling a recently arrived electric train (its locomotive is visible on the far end of the train) out of the station and into the coach yard for service.
Mr. Reynolds is correct. The picture is from Washington, DC.
If you turn it on its side, it’s Belgium.
“the only “electric trains” like those in the pic are in the NE corridor”
Hmmm, somebody better tell that to the people that run the Chicago area electric commuter trains that they’re WRONG.
Or the Electric Trains in LA (Well Long Beach)
Or the electric trains in St. Louis. Go MetroLink!
Ummm, no. Those trains y’all are mentioning aren’t electric, they’re Belgian.
ZOMG! HOW, ILPB & Rando are all hallucinating together!
It’s a socialist train, and a MURDERER!!!!
25 kV AC, 60 Hz overhead (that’s 25,000 volts) in the US:
(as shown in the picture)
North Jersey Coast Line-only between Aberdeen-Matawan and Long Branch. Ex 3 kV DC lines, converted in 1984 and an extension of Pennsylvania Railroad 11 kV 25 Hz AC line
Northeast Corridor (NEC), Amtrak
Do you see Ohio in that list?
PS: Chicago isn’t in Ohio and it’s not on that list either.
Amtrak isn’t the only one that runs electric trains. Calm your little self.
{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metra_Electric_Line}
First off this isn’t Ohio…
Secondly, at least Ohio has the heart and drive to dream…just because others see it as a loss doesn’t mean it always will be, we are one city who will always believe that the dream is and will always be there. Just ONE reason why we still to this day have the strongest sports fans across the nation; we believe…while others are just fair weathers with no heart that jump on any bandwagon that sounds good.
First off, we’ve already addressed it being Ohio.
Secondly, Ohio isn’t a city.
Otherwise, yes, Ohio is a perfectly lovely state.
Nebs: I’m doing this b/c I can, and you also would do it as well (kind of our banter), but yes Ohio is a city. It’s across the Cuyahoga River from Cleveland, so it is close to this picture.
However the rest of what you say is accurate, and yes Laura should go back to her Little House on the Prairie
Touché
ohio city isn’t so much a city as a little enclave… much like tremont. they’re like 1sq mile each. really awesome for partying though.
yeah you’re right, it’s a village…and yes it is great for partying…Tremont is amazing for food
First off they are just guesses as to where it really is…it doesn’t really matter
Secondly there is a city called Ohio (in Ohio) actually, if you want to be technical…obviously i was referring to Cleveland, however; across Ohio, not just Cleveland, we are known to have a stronger fan base…that includes our other two major cities, Cinci and CBus (OSU)
Third, it just gets old hearing the same bs ‘blues’ about Ohio in general (regardless of the city but specifically Cleveland)
Every state I’ve ever lived in has its detractors. (Having spent most of my formative years in Georgia, I’ll match insults against Georgia for insults against Ohio any day.) Try not to take it personally.
*if you’d learned how to read all the other comments on this posting, people aren’t crapping on ohio.
Hee hee. Great post except for that detail.
I think “ZOMG THIS IZN’T OHIO” is this lol’s Belgian flag.
But what’s it look like if you turn it sideways?
THAT FLAG IS CLEARLY GERMAN! *froth**froth*
ZOMG THERE ARE NO ELECTRIC TRAINS IN OHIO!!!
If you turn it sideways, it’s clearly an Ohio train.
But if you turn it inside out, it’s clearly Nova Scotia. :p
But only on days ending in “y”.
What’s round on the outsides adn high in the middle O-HI-O…….
I hear that. St. Louis has gotten pretty bad too. No job market, the city is dying (I joke that someday it will be called the St. Charles metropolitan area as that’s where everyone moved), and most of the companies have either left or have been bought out. When InBev swooped in and took over Anheuser-Busch, it was like a stake right through the heart of the city. And our NFL team went 1-15.
the brownies managed to win 5… *gloat**gloat*
losing BP was pretty bad for cleveland. then officemax moved away too. i’m blanking on a couple of the other big ones… obviously the coal industry slowing down seriously screwed up our port and all the barges and such. steel slowing down basically killed the port of cleveland.
Well, hopefully the Rams will be sold soon…to someone who actually gives a crap if they win. This team currently has no hope in the near future at all.
Oh no, I’m not a fair weather fan, I hate the local sports team regardless of whether or not they’re winning.
haha.
i love the brownies no matter what. i went to 3 games this season… including an out of town game. i’m fair weather about the indians though.
i wasn’t referring to the people leaving these comments, soley the picture caption itself…maybe you should learn to read because i never indicated that it was due to anything the above comments said…well there were 3 but all others aside.
the caption is what you hear all the time…what i’m saying is it gets old.
and i F*CKING live here too and see them too, haha it’s irrelevant where the picture is taken but it literally could have been taken in numerous cities is my point; but like i said that doesn’t matter.
enjoy your day!
Well, I don’t hear it much, but then I don’t live there. I live in Memphis, where it will be distinctly difficult to tell when the zombie apocalypse starts….
… cause everyone’s wanting when it comes to brains?
Very true!
I never hear anything about Ohio here. According to our local paper (the only major paper in the state), it’s just part of the large, amorphous snowy region up there. Maybe if Tiger Woods moved there….
Everything I know about Ohio I learned from Tommy Boy.
that was sandusky… and the only thing you REALLY need to know about sandusky can be summed up in 2 words: cedar point.
So…Callahan Auto isn’t real?
unfortunately, no… although it is referenced in 50 first dates. the brain clinic is supported through funds donated from callahan auto. lol.
I haven’t seen that one, but Tommy Boy is one of my all time favorite movies.
“Melted chocolate in the dashboard. That really ups the resale value.”
“I think we’re gonna be okay here. It has thin candy shell. I’m surprised you didn’t know that.”
“I think your brain has a thick candy shell on it.”
“Your brain is the one with the shell on it.”
“Are you talking?”
“Shut up, Richard.”
fat man in a liiiiiiittle coat.
if you want to see 50 first dates it JUST started on USA. no joke. i’m channel surfing trying to find ANYTHING that isn’t the haiti thing and there it was.
I just saw Taylor Swift singing on the Haiti thing, and I have to say…someone needs to teach that gal to provide enough breath support so that she doesn’t keep singing flat!!
Grrrr.
Federer.
Okay, never mind. It looks as if the match will just be a practice session for Federer. Looks like I’m watching Family Guy with the kid.
Hey go to History International…. they’re talking about the anti-christ (and NO I’m talking about Obama to all the idiot conservatrolls)
i ended up throwing in season one of LIFE on dvd. kept me busy until about 1am. and then i crashed. i managed to avoid the whole haiti “look at me being a good celebrity by singing on a show but not actually donating any money” clusterfvck.
first – the reply button is your friend.
second – this is a LOL site. 99% of the captions are going to piss someone off and they’re usually pretty inaccurate. getting your panties in a twist because some captioner decided that ohio sucks… well, let’s just say i hope that isn’t the highlight of your day. especially since cleveland does kinda suck. even our sports teams suck.
third – i will enjoy my day. because it’s fvcking friday and i’m definitely hitting up the bars tonight. do me a favor and avoid the coventry area…
I’ve lived in Ohio all my life and never had any idea that so much of the rest of the country hated us. Cue up the choir for a chorus of “O, Canada”. And uncork a bottle of Gevertztraminer.
My wild guess is that you could make a lol about just about any state and get responses along the lines of those made on this one. And nation too. (Unless it’s Belgium, of course. Belgium is special.)
(Gewürtz-…)
After having a go at the “Think about it”-thing, I retract part of my statement. There are plenty of nations that would cause responses that are completely different from the kind this lol has.
There are states that would get more and different responses also, mostly because there are more stereotypes about them. A few would probably evoke a “Where’s that one again?”
Thank you, Danbala, for the spelling correction…..
(My second job is selling wines/liquors).
Oooh. That’s quite a coincidence – a favourite hobby of mine is buying wine/liquors!
A favourite hobby of mine is drinking wines and liquors. Sorry about the mis-spelling; I tend to think in dialect and don’t know how to type an umlaut. (My favourite Ohio vineyard: the Harpersfield Winery)
ferrante’s is pretty good for local, inexpensive wine. their jesters blush is pretty nicely balanced.
Yes, the drinking of the bought liquids is a vital part of the hobby….
No need to apologise about the misspelling. I ought to apologise for correcting it unasked, but sometimes my know-it-all-ism just gets the better of me. (My small, repressed, oppressed and generally harrassed nice inner self says: “I apologise”.) :/
You have TWO jobs?! Around here it’s tough to get ONE.
i live in greater cleveland and i’ve got 2… they’re both full time too.
Memphis, 1 full-time, 1 part-time, as does my fiance. Hmm….Shortright, you think we’re taking up all the jobs, and that’s why so many people are unemployed?
You have 2 full time jobs? When do you sleep?
at my desk at the first full time job…
sometimes it feels like that.
Except for the lol itself (which no one even said they liked), I didn’t notice anyone saying anything particularly bad about Ohio. Except apparently the sports teams are not so good?
we’ve got the cavs (also known as the lebron and shaq show)… and they’re pretty good.
but the browns and indians are pretty sad.
Ah. I don’t follow any sports except tennis (and that only the Grand Slam events), so I was just repeating the only real negative comments I had heard. Nice that you have one that’s doing okay.
well, lebron’s contract is up at the end of this season… speculation is that he wants to go to NY. although, we just traded his fame-whoring sports arch-nemesis (braylon edwards) to NY so we might be able to keep him for a bit longer.
*eyes glazed over* Um, yeah, whatever you said, that’s good.
This has to be Ohio. Cos Detroit looks more like postwar Germany.
I resent this
get over it.
From Ohio has too much lurv for the state to let this go. I’m expecting him/her to be crying about it right about now. Beautiful, noble Ohio, how could they slander thee!
We have Meramec Caverns just outside the St. Louis area. Which were mentioned on Roseanne once, yay. And Six Flags. And Branson. And Kansas City. I’ve only been there once and wasn’t really wowed. Oh, and we’ve got a huge retarded hunk of metal sticking out of the ground they call “The Arch.” Which is about all anyone thinks about when they hear St. Louis anymore.
*giggles*
Branson. Yeah. Keep it, m’kay?
Try living in Massachusetts this week!
You got the verb wrong, I think. Us folks from Ohio resemble this, not resent it.
Gee strange coincidence. Isn’t Obama giving a speech in Ohio today?
apparently he’s holding court in lorain county today. which is on the FAR west side of cleveland. so, yes.
Well, OBVIOUSLY, it’s a conspiracy. I mean, the Obama dude is in Ohio and PK has a picture from Ohio on today, SO IT MUST BE ALL ABOUT THE LIES AND SOCIALIST AND DEATH PANELS AND PUTTING OLD BELGIAN PEOPLE ON TRAINS AND FROTH FROTH FROTH !!!1111!!!!!!!
Um, yeah, I have no idea what we were talking about. Could someone get me a towel? I’ve got froth all over my keyboard.
*whistles*
Mop mop mop
All day long
Mop mop mop
While I sing that song
Gonna wax that floor, gonna make it shine, gonna take off that spraypaint with turpentine!
Florida: Where old people go to die
Missouri: Where things exist…and that’s about it.
Illinois: Where the $100K will buy you a U.S. Senate seat.
New Mexico: um, give me a minute…hey, we have roadrunners!
Louisiana: Where if it moves, someone will hunt it, bag it, cook it, and eat it.
Massachusetts: we walk fast and talk fast because it is fsking cold outside!
Arizona: Hot enough to melt your brain.
Wisconsin: Where it’s too cold to go outside, but we’re too drunk to care.
Hai gaiz.
I know a lot of you are on FB so already know, but there are some who don’t.
My husband is in the hospital, in AZ. He’s got a bleed in his brain. Not sure right now the prognosis, but he’s being monitored. I could use any and all well wishes available to me.
Thanks.
Oh no. Powerful healing vibes and best thoughts to your husband and you.
Oh, sweetie, I am sooooo sorry. Best to you and hubby. *hugs and cookies*
Oh, fvck.
From me, you have all the well wishes I can possibly gather.
Oh, sweetie, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
OMG. I’m so sorry. Many thoughts and prayers for him.
Wow, so sorry to hear that, sending good thoughts and prayers. I’m sure he is in good hands and will be well soon.
It comes down to perspective, I suppose. I’m from Dayton, Ohio and have been living east of Chattanooga, TN for five years. Holy hell, am I ready to go home.
If times are tough all over, I’d rather be back to having access to Caesar Creek, Kings Island and all the local food that never crosses the state border than stay in this dinky town of nothing but churches, nail salons and check advance offices.
You do not know how true this is. I speak as somebody who lived in Ohio for seventeen years.
…I live in Ohio… Its true. All my dreams have gone.
This picture was taken in WASHINGTON DC at the Union Station in that city, not Ohio. Ohio doesn’t have any electric railroading of this scale, and the platforms and wire supports clearly identify it as Washington — WHERE DREAMS GO TO DIE.