LOL @ getting used to the humidity. The humidity in NC is as bad as Florida You want to experience oppressive heat and humidity go to Columbia SC in July. this girl rides around in a boat a day or wears shorts while some of us wear a tie and jacket . I have lived here 47 years. You don't get used to humidity. You learn to deal with it.
WTF is with Macho Pride in State You Come From
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bobjustbob
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Columbus, Ohio is the home of the United States Trotting Association. Nuff said.
Philbert
Banned
MM, while swimming in the Gulf waters off the Florida Coast, was actually stung by a jellyfish, but after several days of intense suffering and excruciating pain... the jellyfish died.
Harley Spencer
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lol at people thinking people that embrace their neighborhood, city, state and country are pretentious. This seems to me in some ways to be a liberal-conservative issue like people like Brad Pitt thinking his adopting Southeast Asians instead of Detroiters is irrelevant since the world is "all one country" hippy do-gooder bullshit logic. I don't dig it, and I absolutely have city pride (slowly dying, though) first and foremost as it really has defined me as a person. It's like me still supporting my HS in their sports at state and elsewhere - WTF is wrong with that and supporting that and showing some pride in that? IMO your city is literally like your immediate blood, your family. THere's nothing at all wrong with loving it/them a little bit more than "outsiders."
It may be a bit pretentious, but at the end of the day so what. And if you were from my city you'd know what we take such great pride in our production from it.
I don't know, maybe IF I was there long enough the humidity would get past me, but I doubt it. And about the oceans and beaches, I got stung by a damn jelly fish the first time I swam in the Gulf! Never felt good about it ever since. Nah, not my thing at all, the salty ass ocean.
It's not necessarily bad, but I think it's a little closed minded for people to think their hometown is like the greatest thing ever when they haven't experienced the rest of the world. Go out, travel some, see the world, get to know new things, experience new cultures, take a look at different scenery. I've found that I only really get along with people who are cultured, be it truly cultured in which they've traveled a ton, or cultured in a sense that they really want to travel and experience the many different aspects of our world, and aren't so full of pride and stuck in their own little bubble.
And I know that many people can't afford to travel and see the world (I can't- the only reason I've gotten to travel to some of the places I've been is because of my boyfriend. If it weren't for him, I'd have never gotten the chance to see all the things I have), so I don't want anyone to think I'm ignorant of that fact. The thing is, you don't have to actually really travel in order to appreciate or admire other cultures. They're all around you. In your family, in the work place, at the coffee shop, at school, on tv, in music, online. You can get to know other people and ways of life without having to spend thousands of dollars on plane tickets and hotels.
EDIT: One thing I take notice of is how a person talks with me or others. For example, if someone else tells me how beautiful the mountains are around their home town/state/country, I don't say, "Yeah? We've got some great mountains out here." I say, "Yeah? That sounds gorgeous. Wish I could see it someday."
The what?
Philbert
Banned
Trotting Horses (Trotters or Standardbreds) who are raced at tracks and people bet on the winners.
The drivers ride behind the monster racers in tiny 2 wheeled seats called sulkies, and drive the trotters and try to live.
Awesome to see...
They do not gallop, but run super fast using only a trotting gait...bred for many generations to do so.
Harley Spencer
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Huh. That's interesting. Sounds like something the greeks used to do.
Philbert
Banned
The Greeks were better known for philosophy and sodomy.
It was the English who were into Trotters, and it became a big time American sport.
One horse dominates the bloodline of a majority of American Standardbreds, and the records for speed in the breed are all held by his progeny...that would be the great trotter Hambletonian 10.
:bowdown:
Harley Spencer
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I meant for the Olympic games and whatnot. I'm very interested in Greek mythology and such, so I do a lot of research and reading about it. Recently I got a book detailing all the Greek myths, and one of them was about Oenomaus, king of Olympia, who held chariot races against suitors for his daughter, Hippodamia. Oenomaus would give the suitors a head start and would catch up and kill them. Eventually, a hero named Pelops came along, who played a trick on him by replacing Oenomaus' linchpins with wax pins, so that halfway through they race they fell out, the cart fell to pieces, and he was dragged to his death by the horses, so Pelops won the race and Hippodamia's hand in marriage.
Mariahxxx
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I live about 3 miles from the largest concentration of Greeks in the US. About 85% of the town is Greek and they have made their living sponge diving for 100 years. If you have a real sponge it more than likely came from Tarpon Springs. they have a right of passage for the young men every year where they throw white crosses into the bayou and the teenage boys have to dive and find the crosses. its pretty interesting and there are people cooking whole lamb and all different foods.
if you want to try something amazing that you'll never see on a menu go to a REAL traditional Greek restaurant and order the Greek Chow Mein. It's awesome! also when I first moved here I discovered that traditional Greek salad has potato salad in it
and my Sicilian friend married a Greek man...they are pretty much just like Arabic men. The women have their duty and place and the men do literally nothing in the home. the women are even expected to carry luggage and open doors for the men! its bizarre!
if you want to try something amazing that you'll never see on a menu go to a REAL traditional Greek restaurant and order the Greek Chow Mein. It's awesome! also when I first moved here I discovered that traditional Greek salad has potato salad in it
and my Sicilian friend married a Greek man...they are pretty much just like Arabic men. The women have their duty and place and the men do literally nothing in the home. the women are even expected to carry luggage and open doors for the men! its bizarre!
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
I think If I were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, I would be far more worried about all of the "Corexit" that BP dumped on the oil spill, then any of the tainted, and contaminated sea creatures that might bite, sting, or be served to you in a restaurant.
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
I think one my friends, on my boat, would take care of that....know what I mean sweetie?
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
Yeah, like you have the stones to run a human being down! Here's the facts. If you ran me down, you would be so close to shore, you run your precious boat a ground...which would be kind of funny...but anyway, I don't have a boat, I prefer to spend my money on Harley's. However...IF I were out that far, how else would I get there? And more importantly, do I REALLY strike you as the type of person that would EVER be unprepared? Furthermore, I NEVER suggested anything other then, my friends would be there for me....that's what friends do. By the way, nice job, threatening to run me down, and kill me in the water, simply because I pointed out the terrible atrocities that have been committed by our Government, and the slime ball corporations we allow to do business here. You really are a special kind of fucked up human being.
By the way, aside from our little love affair, I rarely interact with the girls on this site...I don't think of them as that "special fantasy girl" I might one day get to talk to in person, if I kiss their ass. I think of them as that member with a pink name. Some are cool, some are not. Although YOU are the only one that's ever threatened to run me down, or accuse me of any freaky weird sex perversions.
Mariahxxx
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As usual, an uniformed post from an uniformed idiot. Where I live we have what are called "the flats" my boat drafts 11 inches which means I can literally run on plane in 1 foot of water. And everyone who lives here runs aground at some point. There's a saying, "if you haven't run aground you haven't been around" people don't take any classes or coast guard safety and don't know how to read tide charts or channel markers and they end up stuck waiting 6 hours for the tide to come in. So I have no worry about running aground.
and you once again prove your lack of grammar by using the word "then" instead of "than" rather then is incorrect.
and I said nothing about killing you. just a nice bump to the head might do you some good.
what's the difference between a Hoover vacuum cleaner and a Harley? the dirt bag's INSIDE the Hoover.
and you once again prove your lack of grammar by using the word "then" instead of "than" rather then is incorrect.
and I said nothing about killing you. just a nice bump to the head might do you some good.
what's the difference between a Hoover vacuum cleaner and a Harley? the dirt bag's INSIDE the Hoover.
Harley Spencer
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I dated a greek guy for a while. He was fantastic in bed, really fun to be around, interesting... but yeah, total mama's boy and he pretty much expected me to do all the cleaning, grocery shopping, laundry, just about every stereotypical female chore. Oh, and he was a total puss when he got sick. Bleh.
Milano may be the first adult performer/stripper that I have ever heard that has ever made a negative joke or comment about Harley Davidsons or the biker lifestyle. I myself wonder how you biker types can attend 3 ten day rallies a year and still remain gainfully employed.
