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Submitted by EbolaMay (View user info) at 2005-03-27 17:54:49 EST
Yeah, I'm back. Couldn't resist. Damn. Addiction sucks. Clearly, I am addicted to Uber. DAMN YOU BART!!!
If you've read any of my stuff here, you know I'm from Texas. I am REALLY from Texas, in the sense that I was born there, my parents were born there, THEIR parents were born there, and on and on and on. I'm tall. I'm lanky. I actually, believe it or not, fit the stereotype. Believe it or not, there are people in my family, down in Texas, that are self-made oil millionaires. I'm not bragging. That's just what it is.
But I'm not Texan. I left that state years and years ago, to be with a woman, way the hell up north here. And that's fine. Sure, I miss Texas. Sure, I miss my family down there, and sure, I miss the warmer weather. But big deal. I love where I live now. Michigan is an incredibly beautiful state. Texas is great, but rememeber, it's just another place in the world.
The point of my post is, I don't get the myth about Texas. Like I said, I was born and raised there. Texas was my life for the first 22 years of my life.
Being from Texas, OUTSIDE of Texas, brings a lot of grief. People think I love guns. People think I have cows. People think I can ride horses like a pro. That's bullshit. I don't even OWN a gun. Cows, to me, are stupid. The FEW times I've been on a horse, the fuckers tried to buck me off, or they charged into a low lying tree branch to try and knock me off. I HATE horses.
Sigh. I'm not sure what I'm getting at here. But fuck me silly, I'm tired of being stereo-typed because of where I'm from. You know, I studied literature. I studied music. I studied Marketing, Communications, Journalism, English, Marine biology, and Computer Science, all down in Texas. That education has served me quite well in an entirely different part of the USA, and at Sea with the Navy, and in Mexico, and in Canada.
You know, people, there are fags in Texas. Homosexuals. It's not just cowboys, and guns, and cattle and oil. There are good people, ignorant people, brilliant people, stupid people. It's JUST ANOTHER PLACE. Just like wherever it is that you, right now, happen to live.
Don't get me wrong. I really love Texas. I do. Texas is my roots. But I don't live there anymore, and I'm just trying to survive life as it is. Which, we all know, is a bitch.
The next time you meet a Texan, give em' a break. He/she may not say "YEEEE-HAWWWWW," but he/she just might be a pretty bright person well worth talking to.
Nuff uv my whinging.
xoxoxoxoxo hugs love and kisses to you all.
Here's a pretty picture for you.
It's in Texas.
Not New England.
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Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-03-28 19:57:02 EST (#)
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Yeah, Jellyfish. We used to make fun of Oklahoma down there all the time.
"Why doesn't Texas fall into the ocean?"
"Because Oklahoma sucks."
And we always made fun of the "snowbirds" too.
Sigh. Now *I'm* a snowbird.
Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-03-28 15:50:32 EST (#)
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Every place has stereotypes associated with it. It's human nature. I grew up in Oklahoma and subsequently hated Texas (i.e. UT - OU rivalry). Seems very silly...especially since I live in San Antonio now!
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-03-28 14:15:36 EST (#)
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I agree with the unneccesary stereotypes. Being scottish and living here, I often get the, "What the hell brought you to TEXAS?!" question, or, the ever popular, "Did you move there because you love cowboys?" When I get tired of blaming the move on my mother's wanderlust (because I can't... I've lived all over the world and always come back to Austin, because to me, it's heaven) I just tell them that I wanted a place that was as far from the Scottish climate as possible, and leave it at that.
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2005-03-28 10:37:30 EST (#)
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When Pee Wee Herman shouted his famous:
"The stars of night
Are big and bright...
*clapclapclapclap*
Deep in the heart of Texas!"
he set back the Texas movement at least 30 years.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-03-28 07:57:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Lmarie22000 (user info) at 2005-03-27 22:00:04 EST (#)
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I'm from Texas, born and raised, along with 4 generations before me.
I moved from there to Maryland 4 years ago....and am still known as "The Texan" by my friends.
I moved here to Colorado this fall...everyone here HATES Texans. They flood the ski resort like ants...with their one peice camo suits and jeans and hats...they look retarted in a foot of snow, i swear...they make me embarrassed to be a texan
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2005-03-27 20:37:08 EST (#)
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ehh you aren't missing much I myself am a Texan and have lived here my entire life I like it and all but the thing I always tell people when they ask if I wear a cowboy hat and you know all the stereotypical crap is I come from a Culturally Diverse Texas. Which is true in all honesty, but I do hate that stereotype I get it all the time I leave the state to travel but plus two!!!
Submitted by olivia_tremor_control (user info) at 2005-03-27 20:31:33 EST (#)
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+2 for coming back, -1 for tricking me into thinking you were leaving. believe it or not i enjoyed reading your posts.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-03-27 19:59:04 EST (#)
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FATMANTPK
You got me pal. I surrender. My bad, and I apologize. Truth is, I don't know a damned thing about life.
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2005-03-27 19:55:38 EST (#)
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This is quite a funny post for a guy that thinks everyone in trailer parks is a lowlife.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/58685#1119806
Stereotypes.....yeah, tell me about it
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-03-27 19:46:02 EST (#)
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Oh yeah,
Welcome back.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-03-27 19:44:37 EST (#)
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Cool post. I could feel you frustration.
(can you post a pic of your Spurs?)
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-03-27 19:40:41 EST (#)
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Ebola, I'll try E-mailing you again tomorrow my fucking computer is SENDing shit before I even have a chance to write more than a subject. Sorry, man.
Oh and bad ass fall pic. +2.
Submitted by purringbubbles (user info) at 2005-03-27 19:07:19 EST (#)
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Lovely. How many people on here are from Jersey? I'm up at the top of the state.
Submitted by stardamage (user info) at 2005-03-27 18:59:33 EST (#)
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The only Texan I've met also happens to be one of the awesomest people I've ever met. He's a rockclimbing poet!
People up here (Vermont) think I'm a bad driver 'cause I'm from Massachusetts. Sigh.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-03-27 18:36:59 EST (#)
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Hey Manic. I guess I'm weak. I was supposed to leave Uber, after all.
Submitted by Bizantine (user info) at 2005-03-27 18:36:50 EST (#)
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heh. ok. here's my two cents
Try coming from Northern Ireland
"oh. shit, i should watch what i say. are you in the IRA?"
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-03-27 18:21:22 EST (#)
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Never expected to get a yee haw out of you. On the other side of the coin, being from Detroit and moving to other states is interesting. Typical sheep <yes, that is what I call the bulk of the human populace> response is cautious respect and respectful distance. Time and time again I have encountered this attitude within the new enviroment I'm trying to get used to.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2005-03-27 18:20:16 EST (#)
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I believe this to happen all over not just to Texans.
As fudgepacker said try coming from New Jersey...that hits the proverbial nail on the head.
Growing up in Kentucky and the Pocono Mountains in PA I had that same idea of what New Jersey was.
Now I live here, as you said its just another place in the world. I have found all of the wilderness things that I like right here in New Jersey.
Here's to having an open mind about new places.
Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2005-03-27 18:11:55 EST (#)
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you think you got it bad? try coming from new jersey. then you'll see generalizations.
Submitted by JML (user info) at 2005-03-27 17:58:09 EST (#)
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Thank you so much for clearing that up! for so long I thought that picture was from New England.