What is the Most Screwed Up Thing About Your State?

Started by Syt, September 25, 2013, 02:11:24 AM

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Quote from: Valmy on September 25, 2013, 08:28:43 AM
I wonder if Wyoming's problem is caused by Montanans driving across state lines.

I think most of Wyoming's driving fatalities are single car rollovers.  Long empty roads, high speeds, drop two wheels off the pavement and overcorrect - death because the goob wasn't wearing a seat belt.
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Yeah we have the most foreclosures because we passed a law making it hard to process them and they've been piling up ever since 2011.
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MadImmortalMan

Funny how states known for having tougher crime laws tend to have more crime. I wonder which way the correlation goes...
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crazy canuck

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 25, 2013, 02:09:39 PM
Funny how states known for having tougher crime laws tend to have more crime. I wonder which way the correlation goes...

:lol:

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Quote from: Neil on September 25, 2013, 10:11:04 AM
I hate Newfoundland 'cause they talk so weird
And Prince Edward Island is... too small
Nova Scotia's dumb 'cause it's the name of a bank
New Brunswick doesn't have a good mall
Quebec is revolting and it makes me mad
Ontario sucks, Ontario sucks
The population density of Manitoba is 1.4 people per square kilometre, isn't that stupid?
Saskatchewan is boring and the people are old
And as for the Territories:  They're too cold!
And the only good thing about the province of British Columbia is that it's right next to us
'Cause Albertaaaaaa doesn't suck
But Calgary doesss.

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garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on September 26, 2013, 10:44:53 AM
Quote from: garbon on September 25, 2013, 08:58:41 AM
Is an average daily commute of 30 minutes that bad? :huh:

About 25 minutes too long, yes.

How so? I don't think most people work at home.
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Ideologue

I don't either.  Office is five minutes by car, twenty-five by foot.
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garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on September 26, 2013, 11:16:21 AM
I don't either.  Office is five minutes by car, twenty-five by foot.

That's five minutes once in the car though right and is that to desk or just to parking lot?

For instance I say my commute is 15 minutes but that's walking out my door to sitting in my cube.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

Fair enough, I guess it's more like eight minutes.
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Savonarola

Quote from: Syt on September 25, 2013, 02:11:24 AM
Quote9. Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people)

Busted.  I'll admit it.  I'm not actually a Dominican monk from Ferrara.   :(


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Quote from: crazy canuck on September 25, 2013, 11:07:53 AM
I wonder what the people in the most obese state look like

You don't want to know, actually.
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