how boring must indiana be to think of this as fun

My hometown, once a bustling mini-metropolis of which my grandparents had nearly unrecognizable photographic evidence, is well on its way to full Mad Max-ification. I'm stunned every time I return by the increasing number of homes with collapsing roofs or just, like, big hunks of exterior wall missing altogether. Hoosier pride!

there are still plenty of good people in states like indiana, ohio, missouri

those people should get out of those states as soon as they can. even if you have to go to illinois, illinois has most of the same problems plus a notoriously corrupt chicago machine, but man indiana, ohio, missouri, they're in death spirals, their leadership are making decisions that are going to, in the long term, accelerate their decline, and there is little to no prospect of that changing until the states have completely collapsed.

lol you make me look like an optimist

there's a good mayoral candidate running in Bloomington IN (Amanda Barge)

Someone should really airlift Bloomington to a more promising state already.

I’m in Indiana for a few days now. It’s as lame as ever.

If you're looking for some kicks, go get your senior picture taken with your arm draped across the bed of our pickup. It's the in thing to do.

Indiana has good corn and those amish restaurants that serve bright yellow noodles

and crafts for sale with unlicensed professional sports teams logos

lots of franchised restaurants = lots of american dreams dreamt

each city has 3 breweries instead of the standard 30

Someone should really airlift Bloomington to a more promising state already.

― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch)

fuck no it's a great racket

you live in indiana for four years and get a cheap and good education, and then as soon as you get your degree and are employable you get the fuck out of there and get hired without having a billion dollars in student loans to pay off

source: i am an iu grad

there's a good mayoral candidate running in Bloomington IN (Amanda Barge)

― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve)

that's good. Indiana needs to just get rid of its whole Democratic party on a state level, they're so awful and incompetent

"each city has 3 breweries instead of the standard 30

― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton)"

excuse me, saying that indiana doesn't have breweries is just factually wrong, fuckin' three floyds is out of there

no, it doesn't have as many breweries as, say, oregon, but quantity isn't the same thing as quality

like i said, there are good people in indiana.

Breaking Away is a damn good movie

pigeon shits in ref's eyes

indianapolis is a nice town.

boring and kindof sad though

man too much coastal elitism shitting up this thread, come on people we're pretty much all old, do you really want to go to three different parties in a night? if not, indianapolis isn't actually "boring" or lacking in culture or any of that shit. oh no indianapolis only has 500 independent locally owned restaurants instead of five million, how could anybody live in such a cultural backwater? god as much as i try to shit on indiana it does have cool and innovative art collectives like big car and good shit going on and people trying to survive and enjoy life despite being constantly strangled by megachurches and racists and people who call their wives "mother".

i'm glad i don't have to live there anymore, but shit, chain restaurants? like there's any city in america that isn't choked to the gills with chain restaurants? it's not a question of whether or not i'd live there if you paid me me to, because you get paid a lot more to live on the coasts, it's a question of it doesn't cost hardly anything to live there, just like it doesn't cost hardly anything to live in alabama or mississippi. people don't want to leave because it's the only home they've ever known, people don't want to leave because they can't afford it. and having to live with all of the horrible people, in a land owned and controlled by horrible people, twists you, it's hard work not to be like them, at least if you have the same color skin as they do.

yeah, i'm glad i could get out. i was lucky.

Largely otm but this inner conflict you're manifesting is very Hoosier imo. I know of what I speak.

At any rate, I don't by any means dis the people as a whole (many/most of my favorite people in the world still reside there) but the dis-worthy people are most of the reason I'm glad to not be there anymore.

Indiana wants me/Lord I can't go back there

OL: Right, I have lots of feelings on the topic, and most of them I'm not comfortable discussing on the public Internet.

I saw a truck on fire this morning on the way to the South Bend airport. So it’s not all boring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPgddNVqpc

xp i once saw an elephant ear food trailer burning down in a 7eleven parking lot in indiana

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWU2YzIxNGMtNzEyMC00NGY1LTgxZmItOGNkOTM5MTI3NjYwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjgyNjc4MTc@._V1_.jpg

Really great movie - probably my fave of last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xddh70XyDTw

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-suspended-after-white-castle-brawl-that-left-2-of-them-wounded

Watching judges brawl at a White Castle kind of is the apex of Hoosier fun, it's true.

Mike Pence and Pete Buttigieg remind me why I left Indiana in 1982 and never moved back.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 27, 2020

had a wife and kids in Terre Haute, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back