There is definitely an unspoken belief that educated people will all sound like most of the people on television. Which is kind of weird because the standard American accent is this amalgamation of lower midwestern and Californian accents. I find Donald Trump's Brooklyn accent amusing because he was born into a wealthy family and there really isn't any reason for him to talk like that. I think the Texan Pride thing is closer to fandom than anything else. It give them something to hang their hat on, build an identity around, and be emotionally invested in. It isn't the stupidest thing that Americans do to rationalize their egos. Hell, this week I've seen people who were born 2 hours away from Cleveland break down in dears because the Cavs won a title. No one of consequence actually believes Texas could survive seceding. Their population drastically overwhelms their ability to feed it, and their major industries (oil and microchips) do not have nearly enough clout to weather the storm of getting everything in order. The only states I could realistically see surviving Independence are California, Illinois, and New York. New York would pretty much mirror Britain in their financial market being so important that people would still have to deal with them. California could feed its people, but the ones providing the food would be pretty pissed about coming along with the group that would want to remain in charge. Illinois would be a mix of those two, with fucked over farmers feeding the people who control the center of the American commodity trade.
Yeah...I think almost any region or state has SOMETHING that natives hold onto as some sort of identity or pride. I know plenty of people who think that Texas is the greatest state in the Union...however I don't know a single person who seriously talks about seceding.
I'm one of those Texas pride guys, next tattoo will involve some of it. But for me, living in the hill country, it has everything to do with nature. Always driving the wife crazy bringing in stuff like frogs, lightning bugs, horned toads and lizards, snakes, etc. to show off and teach my son about. The people are pretty damn awesome too, if you remove Dallas, about half of Austin, College Station and just drop a bomb on the general houston area. Waco natives are horrible but the Baylor girls there are pretty attractive and easily corruptible so I'd save the city for that reason only. For me, it's a total culture thing. The nature, the diversity of the people and food, the economy, basically just the fact that it's easy living. Living here is like chilling on a beach. You can relax and do whatever you want, and if you're bored you can strike up a conversation with anyone and even if you're from two completely different backgrounds it'll still be interesting. Those backwoods rednecks who talk about secession and "god's country" and all that crap though can go fuck themselves with barbed wire on a broom handle. They have tiny dicks and no personality except what their bumper stickers say. Don't judge the rest of us by those shit eating lonestar drinking inbred faux-rebels who didn't make it out of the fifth grade because they couldn't spell "sixth." I hope every last one of them catches their Levi's on fire while they're fucking the exhaust pipe of their frame lifted diesel 2-door. The rest of us are really sweet people though.
How do you figure that, Clutch? Do you not realize that Texas has a very strong agricultural economy? How would California do better than Texas, with 1/3rd more population and less land mass?
Just submitted a sample article and application for freelance work to a major tattoo website. Based upon my experience with literary agents, I have about a 95% chance of them just ignoring this. (Years ago I thought I struck it rich by landing one of Oprah's lit agents, until I fired her bc I didn't want all my money going to oprah... another story for another time) Gotta play the odds, once in a while the article you have strikes a chord.... Cross your fingers ladies and gents. Any profit from freelance work is going to go to The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation.
Started re-watching True Detective last night (the good season with Woody and Matt). Do y'all know of any crime-y stuff that's similar? That's fiction?
Fuck the Aggies. Those assholes did their stupid yell practice on our state house steps and got upset when we took offense. If any state could understand why we'd dislike outsiders messing with our state house I would have assumed it would be Texas.
The first season was amazing. I actually liked the second season as well, despite the fact that it wasn't quite as good as the first one.
Every last one of them that I've met (and unfortunately this area is being flooded with them so I've met a lot) are all insufferable cunts. When I say something is a "cult," aggies are my reference point. My brother in law is one of those insufferable cunts. According to their wedding photographer, him doing his yell chant or whatever the hell you call that fucked up thing was "his moment that he wanted." You want a moment? How about making sure my sister doesn't have an STD instead of just praying it away, you know she fucked her way through Texas before you made her born again into both religion as well as the open septic tank of aggie alum. You know how many of them died in that bonfire? Not enough.
My old boss was as aggie. Just a real piece of shit. He never left an open opportunity to let you know where he went. Wore his A&M ring to work, and he worked for UT. He was such an arrogant cocksucker. And the aggie thing didn't help. But their alumni network is no joke. They really do love each other.
Mel Brooks' best movie is: a) The Producers b) Blazing Saddles c) Young Frankenstein d) Spaceballs I can't decide between the four. Help me.
You left off history of the world part 1. But I can't decide either. I think blazing saddles is ridiculous. You couldn't make that movie today. I'd go with that for that reason.
Yup. LGBT movement in full swing. Best part is they're so damn indoctrinated into the cult they believe "the gays are the devil." Oh yeah, well then what are you doing with that aggie cock up your ass you backwoods fuck. Manziel is imploding before our eyes and all of college station with him (or as they refer to it, "C-STAT"). If he so much as won a playoff game in the NFL you'd see the college station celebration from the International Space Station. Their fucked up chants would set off the first ever earthquakes in Texas. This makes me hard:
Going to respectfully disagree, I think Spaceballs is his best. Watching BLazing Saddles is tough, I totally forgot they drop the 'n' word.