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― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seeing the thread title made me wonder what was the most innocuous U.S. state. Probably Delaware.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
It does seem to have lost a lot of it's explicit racist / separatist vibe over the last 20 years or so, with Arizona picking up a lot of the slack in terms of being the scary western cowboy state. Though there is an actual KKK guy running for county sheriff in one of the counties near the Canadian border right now.
I spent ages 7-22 in Idaho, Ruby Ridge, neonazis, all that. Moved to NM and had to work really hard to convince non-white friends that being from Idaho didn't mean I was going to be a violent racist (tho I don't really blame them for thinking that, I mean my fucking aunt just bought an "anti-Obama gun" *96 tears*). I got accepted into University of Arizona two months before SB1070 and now I'm living here. I feel like I have this weird curse of living in the wild west hot spots of odious racist news.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's it icey, next time i reprogram dick's pacemaker i'm setting him to "kill"
...kill YOU
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahahahaha ... no.
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Probably Vermont, but I wanna say that Maryland is somewhere in the running.
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'd probably say Maine in a pinch if i had to name a "most innocuous US state."
i look at Miami as a sort of West Berlin, surrounded by the East Germany that is the rest of Florida. that's how i see Atlanta, too, come to think of it.
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lol yeah i can see that. Tho I think you can miss out on some real treats with that attitude. Athens, Savannah, all the cool waterfalls and caves in the mountains of North GA. And Macon, which I've only been to once, but any town where you can see the Allman bros. graves in beautiful Rose Hill Cemetery, shop at the official Otis Redding store, and visit Indian Mounds is pretty damn cool.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Carrollton's nice too.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maine's where that killer demon clown killed all those kids. Also where the four kids found that dead body in the woods.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i personally look to the midwest for my innocuousness
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 April 2012 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
i might've said a Midwest state as an example of innocuousness too ... until the denizens of several such states went & elected evil asshats like Scott Walker, Michelle Bachmann and Steve King.
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Probably Vermont, but I wanna say that Maryland is somewhere in the running.Ha, yes, I'll consider this next time I'm hanging out in Fredneck.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hawaii seems pretty innocuous
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 29 April 2012 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Queen Liliʻuokalani would like to have a word with you.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Idaho has three essential things, at least:- The caldera entrance to Twin Falls- SR 95 from Boise to Coeur D'Alene. It takes forever and it's so pretty.- Priest Lake
On a cultural level, eh. Built To Spill play Seattle more often than most Seattle bands. And Boise is a loooong drive, if that gives perspective.That KKK sheriff candidate is probably running in the same county as Priest Lake, to be fair.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 29 April 2012 04:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I crossed SR 95 a couple of times today actually as I do most weekends. And as for your guess regarding the KKK sheriff candidate you would be absolutely correct.
I've lived here for almost six years now and I've been to Seattle and Portland dozens of times but have yet to go to Boise.
being from Idaho didn't mean I was going to be a violent racist
I love talking to people in my hometown, in rural-ass upper michigan, about Idaho and having them all freak out about how crazy and backwoods and racist it obviously must be while not realizing that they live in a far more crazy and occasionally racist backwoods place.
― joygoat, Sunday, 29 April 2012 06:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha, yes, I'll consider this next time I'm hanging out in Fredneck.
― pplains, Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Have you seriously had to hang out in Frederick for some reason?
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
the caldera entrance to twin falls is something to behold, it's true
twin falls, in general, is a very, deeply, strange place
― catbus otm (gbx), Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Never hung out in Frederick though I have hung out a little in the panhandle and "innocuous" wouldn't be the word I'd use to describe it.
(but isn't all of Maryland a panhandle, ami rite.)
― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
there is a lot of panhandling going on, yes
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maryland really got screwed when they were handing out boundaries.
― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
If this poll was strictly about boundaries, it'd get my vote.