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Typical stereotypes of where you live?

Started by WEBellSystemChristian, September 08, 2016, 07:33:14 PM

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WEBellSystemChristian

I couldn't really think of a better place to put this, but I guess it really is about our homes...

I was just thinking about how everyone that doesn't live in the upper-midwestern US views Wisconsin; we all say "Wiskyeansin", walk around wearing cheeseheads, listen to country music, and everyone lives on a dairy farm in a small town where everyone knows eachother (a little like Mayberry).

If it's not a touchy subject, what stereotypes do you hear about where you live? I'm sure our Canadians get their earful... :D
Christian Petterson

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -Henry Ford

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You forgot " . . . drink beer and eat brats."

LarryInMichigan

Watch what you say about Canadians.  They are only about 15 miles from here.  Canada is a suburb of Detroit ;).

Larry

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Quote from: LarryInMichigan on September 08, 2016, 07:45:37 PM
Watch what you say about Canadians.  They are only about 15 miles from here.  Canada is a suburb of Detroit ;).

Larry

And, Detroit is north of Canada       ::)

AE_Collector

Yes we get the distinct impression that many think we live in igloos and have the dog sled team parked right out front.

Love it when the US weather report says that a cold front with lots of snow is coming in from Canada....like we sent it south on purpose!

Lately we get the "if Hilary is elected, I'm moving to Canada" countered with "if Trump is elected I'M moving to Canada". Do we get any say in this???

Anyway, all in good fun. One way or the other, life goes on.

Terry

twocvbloke

For the "I'm moving to Canada" people, you could always build a wall and have the US pay for it...  ;D

As for stereotypes, apparently us brits eat fish & chips all the time and drink warm beer and all talk like Dick Van Dyke did in Mary Poppins... :o

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Quote from: AE_Collector on September 09, 2016, 01:15:30 AM
Yes we get the distinct impression that many think we live in igloos and have the dog sled team parked right out front . . .

Terry,

. . . and playing "beer hunter" and singing "the 12 days of Christmas" while wearing your tuques waiting for the back bacon to cook on the wood stove, eh?

tallguy58

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins......the worst accent ever in a motion picture. 
Cheers........Bill

WEBellSystemChristian

Quote from: twocvbloke on September 09, 2016, 07:28:02 AM
For the "I'm moving to Canada" people, you could always build a wall and have the US pay for it...  ;D

As for stereotypes, apparently us brits eat fish & chips all the time and drink warm beer and all talk like Dick Van Dyke did in Mary Poppins... :o

I'd love to see George Cloony being held in a Canadian detention facility after trying to cross the Canadian boarder... :D
Christian Petterson

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -Henry Ford

Greg G.

They think the Seattle area is like that 60s-era TV show "Here Come the Brides", and we're all lumberjacks with stupid grins that have the countenance of someone in a cialis ad!

The idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane.
- Mike Row
e

WesternElectricBen

Hmmm. I would have to say "Minnesota nice," but not the kind of nice that holds the door for you. The kind of "nice" that merges early on the highway because they think they are doing a service to not "cheat" other people out of their spot in the lane, but the "nice people" get mad at people who properly use the length of the closing lane. Or, is that just my gripe?

Oh, and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymMl734Ews

Ben

andre_janew

I used to live on a farm just a few miles north of Lawrence, Kansas.  Some people thought I had a moonshine still hidden somewhere in a wooded area on the farm, had sex with my cousins, and smoked the hemp that grew wild on the farm.  None of those things were true!

Doug Rose

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Quote from: Brinybay on September 09, 2016, 01:42:07 PM
They think the Seattle area is like that 60s-era TV show "Here Come the Brides", and we're all lumberjacks with stupid grins that have the countenance of someone in a cialis ad!


Briny....you're Bobby Sherman!!! Julie Julie Julie do ya love me....great hair..no idea what countenance means, but I LIKE IT...Love you man
Kidphone

Greg G.

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Quote from: Doug Rose on September 09, 2016, 07:46:08 PM
Briny....you're Bobby Sherman!!! Julie Julie Julie do ya love me....great hair..no idea what countenance means, but I LIKE IT...Love you man

A person's face or facial expression.

I really do wish I was like Bobby Sherman as far as his financial success.  He used the money he made as an actor/singer to make some good investments and did very well.  So well in fact, he retired from the entertainment field and became an EMT because it was his passion.  He donates his entire paycheck to charity and lives off his investment income.  I think he's retired by now, he's 73.
The idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane.
- Mike Row
e

Phonesrfun

Although I now live in a town called Walla Walla, WA, I am originally from Portland, OR.  "Portlandia" is probably a good show that Hypes the Portland stereotypes.  Like Brinybay in Seattle, Portlanders are thought to be lumberjacks and shop at Trader Joes and read all the labels on food packages and hug trees and so forth.  Now in Walla Walla, everyone thinks I am into Walla Walla sweet onions, and I hate onions.  Locally WW is also wine country with plenty of wine shops downtown.  I also don't drink.  Yet another thing is that people assume that all of us that live in small towns are somehow backward and apparently don't have much of a life.  As for those Canucks, a guy with Alberta plates was swerving in and out of traffic one day last week and almost hit me.  I assume, therefore, that anyone from Alberta drives like a maniac.  Am I right?
-Bill G