LC Thread 2020: What the PUNK? ROCK.

Triceratops?

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https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1315137802724691969

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I don’t think anyone realizes how great that Bill Burr monologue was yet. Like he basically took “shots” at privileged white women to make points about BLM, and now privileged white people are doing their Twitter outrage thang. Chef’s kiss.

Is Arkansas the worst U.S. state?

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I think there’s probably a handful of states with good cases. Mississippi is amazingly barren of signs of modern life. If you get off the Interstate in rural Miss it’s a third world country.

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Yeah MS is a top contender but I think its coastline gives it the edge over AR.

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Worst US State
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Idaho
  • Kansas
  • Mississippi
  • Nebraska
  • North Dakota
  • Oklahoma
  • South Dakota
  • West Virginia
  • Other (write in)
  • You listed my home state and I am offended

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I don’t have an opinion but wanted to see the results so I voted other.

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“Thank God for Mississippi” is basically the unofficial state slogan of about a half dozen nearby states. That has to be the answer.

Mississippi consistently hits most of the lowest lows, but has some redeeming qualities like food and music. The entire historic black culture of the Delta has had a huge positive influence.

While most of the plains states rarely hit bottom on any particular category, imo they don’t have anything notable either. Like sure, there’s nothing particularly horrible about Nebraska. But is there anything worth mentioning at all?

Isn’t there a super world class golf course in nebraska?

Also, Nebraska is the home of the Reuben sandwich.

Note: I am not from Nebraska. Grew up in Vegas, where we regularly commented that at least the school district wasn’t as bad as mississippi’s.

CARHENGE

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As a dumb euro I just assumed Alabama was the worst state alough interestingly you couldn’t pay me to visit around 40 other states in the US. :blush:

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This is very true but still.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315280663075938307

https://twitter.com/UnqualifiedE/status/1315290364534837250

I’m no defender of the US, but the idea that only 10 of the states are worth visiting is a scorching take.

(In normal non-COVID times, of course)

Sarcasim is not strong over there :grin:

I’ve been to 46 of the states and can confirm Alabama and Mississippi were the worst.

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Thinking about this, if you excluded reasons that had to do with nature and instead focused on human- or culture-related reasons I’d be surprised if there are 10 states worth visiting. Like sure, Utah is worth going to, but not because of fucking Salt Lake City. They just luckboxed having some awesome national parks within their borders.

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Random question from the cooking thread.

One of the downsides of UHC, at least in Canada, is some services are pretty bad. For example, hospital food here is borderline inedible. My moms recent visit consisted of things like a cheese sandwich which would be two slices of raw white bread and a slice of processed cheese. No butter etc.

I thought she was overly complaining at first then I tried a bit of it. It was close to not fit for consumption.

Given how much you pay in the states is it better food wise?