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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 3:28:09 PM   
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Central PA alot rides on what you DONT say-   it is less direct-  but beautiful in its own way.  I was surprised at how many comments you just do not make here.... as it can come back to bite you big time-- even 20 years later.


You can't just leave something so intriguing hanging in the air like that, details my man!!!


I once said- about a co-worker if she is a sales manager- she should act like one.  That set off fireworks...     in Chicago- that comment would have been blown off-  "yeah whatever"  type mode-  but my comment was a total insult to her professionally and somehow translated into her personally insulted.


Don't worry about her. She probably wasn't a professional in any sense.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 3:29:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually she was promoted to General Manager.   That was some years ago.   If I see her in the store I am sure the whole episode will refresh to her.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:06:19 PM   
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I understand people in your Midwest have a repuation for being socially backward and somewhat unworldly. After having had discussions with a few people near Broken Arrow, I can't help shake this feeling of agreement, though I'm sure they're not all a bunch of yokels.

Have you noticed any truth in this?


We are all backward, ignorant, uneducated, hillbillies.

LaT in Iowa.........aka the Midwest


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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:20:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not everyone from NY is stuck up.People need to learn the difference bewteen UPSTATE NY and NYC.People from upstate NY are fairly intelligent,good natured people.NYC is where all the loud mouth's live.In fact,upstate New Yorker's are probaly more frustrated at NYC than anywhere else.See,the majority of voter's are naturally in NYC,because it's such a large city.Alot of people in NYC vote for people to Albany(NYS State Capitol)and they really only care about NYC need's.Alot of people from NYC look at upstate New York's as nothin but a bunch of hick's.The reason New York state has such high taxes are because of NYC.People in upstate NY pay's a huge amount in state taxes,yet get very little return on their money.NYC is greedy and reap's all the benefit's... NYC can drift away into the Atlantic Ocean for all I care.I'm sure there's alot of people from upstate NY who feel the same way.Thank's for nothing NYC,upstate NY will do just fine without you.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:31:14 PM   
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I understand people in your Midwest have a repuation for being socially backward and somewhat unworldly. After having had discussions with a few people near Broken Arrow, I can't help shake this feeling of agreement, though I'm sure they're not all a bunch of yokels.

Have you noticed any truth in this?


Honestly, youre going to find those types of people anywhere in the world.  They just seem to concentrate in higher numbers in some parts and not so much in others.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:31:56 PM   
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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:33:21 PM   
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I hear the English have bad teeth,


I've always heard they are all inbred and sickly.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:42:29 PM   
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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 6:51:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am from Chicago, which is also the Midwest and generally described as a world class city.

I don't like most people.

But I think I express myself rather well in the process.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 7:33:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse


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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

I understand people in your Midwest have a repuation for being socially backward and somewhat unworldly. After having had discussions with a few people near Broken Arrow, I can't help shake this feeling of agreement, though I'm sure they're not all a bunch of yokels.

Have you noticed any truth in this?


We are all backward, ignorant, uneducated, hillbillies.

LaT in Iowa.........aka the Midwest



/Makes note to type slowly when LaT is online so she can read it at her own pace/


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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 8:58:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Beside's,we already know most of the backward hick's live in the South.The South of the USA that is.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/12/2010 11:48:32 PM   
Charles6682


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Status: offline 		I didnt mean that last comment.There are alot of good people from the South.I apologize for that.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 1:49:47 AM   
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We better mind our manners (even if we are short on them) must not upset the Queen Mum and all.

(Psssst, Tribe, the queen Mum is dead, that would be Elizabeth's Mom).

Here in the Midwest, most people of Indian descent appear to operate convenience stores. Do other Midwesterners find that to be true??

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 2:28:35 AM   
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I am from Chicago, which is also the Midwest and generally described as a world class city.

I don't like most people.

But I think I express myself rather well in the process.


Chicago is a superb city, I'm only sad I haven't had the pleasure of visiting it yet. Too enamoured of NYC, but I will make the trip.

Wait - YES, actually I was there in March, stayed overnight between flights but was too tired to go enjoying the nightlife. I see why they call it the "windy" city.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 2:50:58 AM   
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People generally don't consider Oklahoma to be in the Midwest.

There is Broken Arrow Resort in S Dakota, and Broken Arrow T-shirt shop in Iowa. There is no Broken Arrow town or city in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa or Ohio. There is the Broken Arrow Wilderness in Nebraska.

As a foreigner, you could be given points for knowing the term "the Midwest", if not for the sloppy generalization.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 2:57:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		I read the OP the other day but didn't figure out a response.

Fact is, it's not a geographical area, it's all over the place. The few might come to fora like this. The few might want to learn. The few might actually use their brain.

And then there's the rest. Where they are concentrated geographically only concerns me if I have to move, and I ain't moving. But in a nutshell, yes, people in the midwest are stupid, people in the mideast are stupid, people in the southnorth, wait, that don't work..........

But you should get my drift. The percentile system was developed so that stupid people could be 50 %. We all fall short. As smart as I like to think I am my stupidity is proven approximately weekly.

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 3:23:11 AM   
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Wiki defines it as 23

This I wanna see. Link please?

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 4:14:05 AM   
Termyn8or


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Oh, you met those other two. Tellum I said hi. [lol]

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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 5:09:58 AM   
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I see why they call it the "windy" city.

:)


They call it the windy city if they've never been to west Denver.


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RE: Question to yanks about midwesterners.... - 12/13/2010 5:29:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		No, I wouldent say we are backwards. Self-reliant, stubborn, and optimistic? Yes, sometimes to a fault, but not backwards. In fact, here in Cleveland OH, we're actually pretty progressive. There is virtually no racial tension, for example. Just a live and let live attitude.

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