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Shhh.... I am trying to make a generalization here and you are going to ruin it.

No, but seriously.... what is it with Minnesota drivers?

The main thing that drives me up the goddamn wall is that they can't merge worth shet
ND drivers seem to be incapable of using a turn signal
MS drivers are just drunk half the time I swear
IA drivers always make a complete stop before turning for some stupid reason

 

[DVMDream]

The main thing that drives me up the goddamn wall is that they can't merge worth shet
ND drivers seem to be incapable of using a turn signal
MS drivers are just drunk half the time I swear
IA drivers always make a complete stop before turning for some stupid reason

AZ drivers can't function unless it is sunny. Just the clouds forming is enough to screw them up...

 

[Mad Jack]

Ugh, Minnesotans do not know how to drive. Anytime I see a Minnesota license plate now, I know to just drive around them because they either go 15 under the 30mph speed limit or they break all the way down the ant hill that they claim is a "mountain".

Just spend some time in Massachusetts and you'll long to have those Minnesota drivers back.

 

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Just spend some time in Massachusetts and you'll long to have those Minnesota drivers back.

Omg I forgot about Mass... people there drive crazyyyyy

 

[Goro]

Mainers call people from the Bay State "Massholes". I am NOT making this up!

Omg I forgot about Mass... people there drive crazyyyyy

 

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Mainers call people from the Bay State "Massholes". I am NOT making this up!

hahaha yeah I've heard that before from my best friend who lives in NH.
They are certainly different out there

 

[Mad Jack]

Mainers call people from the Bay State "Massholes". I am NOT making this up!

Everyone in New England calls them Massholes. They're universally reviled in the Northeast- just spotting those white and red plates inspires rage in from Greenwich to Bangor.

 

[kraskadva]

True story: once I was in a taxi in Korea where the driver took the sidewalks and crosswalks around a 5 way intersection, 20 lanes total, to skip a light.
Most extreme of many crazy examples of why I never drove a car in Korea. US drivers of any flavor aren't nearly that scary.

 

[Lucca]

In Texas you can drive for 5 hours and not actually see another human being.

 

[Goro]

In many parts of the US, you can drive for up to nine hours and then be in another country.

In TX, you can still be in TX!

In Texas you can drive for 5 hours and not actually see another human being.

 

[medic86]

I hate driving through Atlanta.

Especially when traffic is heavy as s***, everyone is going 80+ mph, you just took an exit, and your next interchange is only a quarter mile away and 5 lanes over to the left.

 

[deleted407021]

Well, this thread might as well just be moved to The Lounge...

 

[mcloaf]

Well, they are on fire, and yeah, you'll pretty much have to kill them off en masse to beat them, so...I see where you're coming from 😛 😉
Just kidding, I dgaf about baseball (other than comprising my lowest tier of 'sport' for a helpful comparison in classifying other activities as sports/nonsports) and I gave up on professional basketball ages ago, so I'm really just a Pats fan!

Got my shirt and everything this year

Didn't read the thread. Just here to say: **** the Patriots.

 

[ERK123]

WI..sconsin? That's where the Packers are.

See, I know stuff outside of New York

Oh and cheez. They have cheez there

UW-Madison is an incredibly popular school for New Yorkers.

 

[ERK123]

In Texas you can drive for 5 hours and not actually see another human being.

You can do this in California too though probably not quite to the same extent as Texas.

 

[jamcat]

thisX100
I feel like a lot of people in the Midwest take my personality and attitude as being bitchy or condescending....cant tell you the number of times I've had to be like "its not you, its me, this is how us new yorkers are"

I'm so friendly in person and it's just my personality to go way out of my way to help people, and I can't tell you how many times people have said "But I thought New Yorkers were supposed to be rude and brusque!" I take pride in dispelling that myth.

But Lord help you if you're in a gaggle of tourists taking up 5 turnstiles at the train at rush hour, laughing uproariously at how none of you can figure out how to work the MetroCard, or walking five abreast on the sidewalk...I do have a mean evil eye. 🙂 I have to admit I have little patience for people who do not consider how their presence affects others and do need to actively remind myself that some people are from the cornfields where they can walk however they want.

 

[Lucca]

Well, this thread might as well just be moved to The Lounge...

Like any hivemind we have banned I mean banded together in order to squash any attempt of dissent within our ranks.

 

[DVMDream]

True story: once I was in a taxi in Korea where the driver took the sidewalks and crosswalks around a 5 way intersection, 20 lanes total, to skip a light.
Most extreme of many crazy examples of why I never drove a car in Korea. US drivers of any flavor aren't nearly that scary.

UK drivers are insane too.

 

[deleted407021]

Like any hivemind we have banned I mean banded together in order to squash any attempt of dissent within our ranks.

Everyone must be unique....in the same way...

 

[Lucca]

Everyone must be unique....in the same way...

If only they knew about the Gunner Club where all the donors hang out and talk about what lies we're going to spread on pre-Allo so no one gets into school besides us. High five.

 

[deleted407021]

If only they knew about the Gunner Club where all the donors hang out and talk about what lies we're going to spread on pre-Allo so no one gets into school besides us. High five.

Everything makes sense, now.

 

[Lucca]

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Everything makes sense, now.

Vector art is so fascist.

 

[fancymylotus]

I'm so friendly in person and it's just my personality to go way out of my way to help people, and I can't tell you how many times people have said "But I thought New Yorkers were supposed to be rude and brusque!" I take pride in dispelling that myth.

But Lord help you if you're in a gaggle of tourists taking up 5 turnstiles at the train at rush hour, laughing uproariously at how none of you can figure out how to work the MetroCard, or walking five abreast on the sidewalk...I do have a mean evil eye. 🙂 I have to admit I have little patience for people who do not consider how their presence affects others and do need to actively remind myself that some people are from the cornfields where they can walk however they want.

tourist- WHERES MACYS HERALD SQUARE
fancy- in herald square
tourist- BUT WHERES MACYS HERALD SQUARE???
fancy- 82nd and 5


evil laugh

 

[WillburCobb]

The main thing that drives me up the goddamn wall is that they can't merge worth shet
ND drivers seem to be incapable of using a turn signal
MS drivers are just drunk half the time I swear
IA drivers always make a complete stop before turning for some stupid reason

How could you forget Manitoba drivers? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE compares to them in terms of complete lack of driving ability.

 

[Rainbow Zebra]

I was mostly joking. As much fun as I make of the Midwest, I don't actually mind it that much. The serious lack of good restaurants and good shopping is what bugs me the most.

I've always wanted to see a turnip farm. Turnip trees? Turnip bushes? What do turnips grow on anyway?

Ah, turnips are like potatoes, beets, carrots. A root vegetable. Grows in the ground.
City folk, sigh.

 

[Promethean]

I don't have much of an accent but I do say y'all

The two accents I can't stand are Chicago and Boston

BOSTON! I finally figured out what I have against the Boston accent. That thing that they do with losing the R sound is similar to the thing that old Southern aristocracy does, just without the drawl. Think Savannah gentry... Dahlin', ahn't you undah-dressed fowah the occasion? Put on a shaw!

So, it sounds to me as if everyone in eastern Mass is putting on airs. Once I realized that it was all about the vowels and the lost R, I stopped hating Boston accents so much.

I don't know what to do about Chicago, though. It grates.

 

[Promethean]

My favorite phrase is "good for you"
It translates roughly to you are literally the dumbest person on the face of the earth and I hope you die in a fire and coyotes eat your corpse.

"I look forward to news of your success." and "Let me know how that works out." are my two very favorite ways to tell someone to go copulate with themselves. Nonverbals are critical to selling it as a benign, even encouraging statement or else as a withering curse, but either way, it means "I think the undertaking that you are proposing is a ridiculous boondoggle and I want no part of it whatsoever. However, I am fully prepared to look on with perverse glee at the results."

Also, I like, "I hear you." taught to me years ago by a cabbie. It is perfectly noncommittal, but people interpret it as agreement. When someone is off on an insane rant and I just need to gain enough empathy with them to deflect the conversation back into reasonable territory, I go with: "I hear ya, man. That sounds intense. Hey, did you hear about..."

EDIT: Sometimes, bless your heart does mean bless your heart. The pity it conveys can be genuine... though some people are so insulted by being pitied that they may take it as an insult all the same. When I use it in the third person (with a diminutive for emphasis,) "Bless his little heart..." it is always an expression of pure, heartfelt dismay. I hate it when people take offense to that because they've heard that Southerners always use this as a euphemism.

 

[WillburCobb]

BOSTON! I finally figured out what I have against the Boston accent. That thing that they do with losing the R sound is similar to the thing that old Southern aristocracy does, just without the drawl. Think Savannah gentry... Dahlin', ahn't you undah-dressed fowah the occasion? Put on a shaw!

So, it sounds to me as if everyone in eastern Mass is putting on airs. Once I realized that it was all about the vowels and the lost R, I stopped hating Boston accents so much.

I don't know what to do about Chicago, though. It grates.

The MN accent is pretty awful too, especially since ND gets pegged with it (even though no one here talks like that) because we're next door and because of Fargo.

 

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How could you forget Manitoba drivers? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE compares to them in terms of complete lack of driving ability.

I try to block them out of my memory. I'm a pretty calm person in the car but Manitobans will drive me into a flying rage every time. They are the worst drivers on the ****ing planet

 

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The MN accent is pretty awful too, especially since ND gets pegged with it (even though no one here talks like that) because we're next door and because of Fargo.

Hey now I like my accent!
It's actually more of a combo of MN/ND/canuk to be honest

 

[Oo Cipher oO]

-I think the expansion of DO school is not a bad thing.
-I think the COMLEX exam is not as bad of a test as some make it out to be.
-I think the Osteopathic profession gains a lot for maintaining a separate and distinct education and licensure

But I rarely have the energy to argue these points of view

 

[WingedOx]

UW-Madison is an incredibly popular school for New Yorkers.

They act like they're living in the green zone in Baghdad when they go to school in Madison/Ann Arbor/Bloomington. Not my favorite people. The private dorms at Wisc bring out a special kind of weirdness.

-I think the expansion of DO school is not a bad thing.
-I think the COMLEX exam is not as bad of a test as some make it out to be.
-I think the Osteopathic profession gains a lot for maintaining a separate and distinct education and licensure

But I rarely have the energy to argue these points of view

I don't wander over to the DO boards enough... these discussions are usually interesting.

 

[RedPhys]

True story: once I was in a taxi in Korea where the driver took the sidewalks and crosswalks around a 5 way intersection, 20 lanes total, to skip a light.
Most extreme of many crazy examples of why I never drove a car in Korea. US drivers of any flavor aren't nearly that scary.

Not as crazy as the delivery drivers on their motorbikes that will just drive on the sidewalks half the time.

 

[deleted407021]

I don't wander over to the DO boards enough... these discussions are usually interesting.

It's usually a few orders of magnitude less neurotic than the pre-allo side.

 

[fancymylotus]

Until your sitting in traffic on the bqe & some jerk decides now is the time to Tokyo drift through traffic. Driving here sucks.

Well, thats your problem right there.....venturing to Brooklyn.

 

[fancymylotus]

Didn't read the thread. Just here to say: **** the Patriots.

Yas. Gisele crying when the Giants beat the Pats was so wonderful.

 

[fancymylotus]

They act like they're living in the green zone in Baghdad when they go to school in Madison/Ann Arbor/Bloomington. Not my favorite people. The private dorms at Wisc bring out a special kind of weirdness.


I don't wander over to the DO boards enough... these discussions are usually interesting.

Bloomingdales! Ive been there.
Its sort of a strange city.

 

[kraskadva]

Not as crazy as the delivery drivers on their motorbikes that will just drive on the sidewalks half the time.

Meh- the motorbikes actively try to avoid hitting people. Narrowly, to be sure, but they try.
Korean taxi drivers on the other hand... I always got the impression they were auditioning for Death Race 2000

 

[RedPhys]

Meh- the motorbikes actively try to avoid hitting people. Narrowly, to be sure, but they try.
Korean taxi drivers on the other hand... I always got the impression they were auditioning for Death Race 2000

I must have (luckily) avoided such areas (in Seoul and elsewhere?). I can't recall running into crazy taxi drivers (though I have heard stories such as yours that indicate such a reputation).

 

[WillburCobb]

Hey now I like my accent!
It's actually more of a combo of MN/ND/canuk to be honest

That's better than just straight-up MN. Though in regards to combo accents the oddest I've ever come across was a neuroscience prof. I had in undergrad who was Canadian, went to grad school in the southeast, and grew-up speaking French and English. He had an even Canadian/Southern mixed accent and would use a mixture of French and English when speaking - it was absolutely bizarre.

 

[fancymylotus]

Mainers call people from the Bay State "Massholes". I am NOT making this up!

Massholes = the people of MA. *all* of them. Especially the cops on the Mass Pike. RAGE

 

[fancymylotus]

IL are the worst in the Midwest. Driving around every day in congested Chicago highways apparently caused them to never understand the concept of keeping right once they get to other states.

Chicago and its casserole excuse for a pizza can DIAF.

 

[Goro]

This is priceless!

Chicago and its casserole excuse for a pizza can DIAF.

 

[mehc012]

Massholes = the people of MA. *all* of them. Especially the cops on the Mass Pike. RAGE

See, I always drive like the highway signs (Rte 90) are actually speed limit signs (90mph) and haven't had an issue with cops yet on the Pike.
I've heard Massholes before, I consider it a term of endearment and wish I qualified. Best place on earth!

 

[fancymylotus]

See, I always drive like the highway signs (Rte 90) are actually speed limit signs (90mph) and haven't had an issue with cops yet on the Pike.
I've heard Massholes before, I consider it a term of endearment and wish I qualified. Best place on earth!

Wait what. So do you go 95 on the 95? 84 on the 84? Fancy so confused right now

 

[mehc012]

Wait what. So do you go 95 on the 95? 84 on the 84? Fancy so confused right now

Haha, I should. But I'd never go 1 on Rt 1 or 29 on 29, so I guess it's limited to 90.
It just used to be an inside joke with my friends and I, there was one person who always complained about us speeding...we'd get off our tiny backroads onto the Turnpike and start going MA speed, she'd complain, and we'd all say "hush, you're supposed to go 90, see, it's right there on the signs!"

 

[LChristmas]

This thread should be a yearly thing on SDN. Like the Festivus airing of grievances.

 

[Doctor Bob]

Chicago and its casserole excuse for a pizza can DIAF.

Discover Internet Anarchist Fame?
Devolve Into A Fudgesicle?
Deliriously Ingest Anal Fungi?
Destroy Indiana And Florida?

See, I always drive like the highway signs (Rte 90) are actually speed limit signs (90mph)

It's a lot tougher to break the speed limit on I-270. But I keep trying... that's why my car has afterburners.
It was bad living near I-795. The constant sonic booms...

 

[palatopharyngeus]

Discover Internet Anarchist Fame?
Devolve Into A Fudgesicle?
Deliriously Ingest Anal Fungi?
Destroy Indiana And Florida?

 

[kraskadva]

I must have (luckily) avoided such areas (in Seoul and elsewhere?). I can't recall running into crazy taxi drivers (though I have heard stories such as yours that indicate such a reputation).

I actually thought the ones in Seoul were pretty tame. I lived on Jeju though and Dukes of Hazard would be a real hit if somebody would dub it for them.