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Old March 5, 2003, 18:30   #61
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New York would be a lot nicer if it wasn't so full of New Yorkers.
i been to NY several times and they are what makes the city so fun...especially the people selling fake crap in Times Square.
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Yeah... such a great city... you go into a restaurant and you have to walk past the garbage they have to stack out front. Civilized to say the least...

New York, the dirtiest city in the US... you guys can keep it.
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It is obvious that the MidWest and the SouthEast IS the personification of the US. New York is the business capital of the US (and perhaps the world), but the US is controlled by the South (mostly Texas) and the Midwest. Look at the leaders in Congress and the White House. Texas, Illinois, South Dakota, Tennessee and it used to be Missouri (that spot is now California's, but not for long).

Even though NY matters squat politically, it is still very important.
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What percentage of New Yorkers were born there? Thois place makes one a New Yorkers, just look at me, or Boris.

And yes, NY is bootleg heaven..were else can you get a movie for 10 bucks before it is released in theaters?
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Oh, so that explains why California has the 5th largest economy in the world. (Sarcasm)
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It is obvious that the MidWest and the SouthEast IS the personification of the US. New York is the business capital of the US (and perhaps the world), but the US is controlled by the South (mostly Texas) and the Midwest. Look at the leaders in Congress and the White House. Texas, Illinois, South Dakota, Tennessee and it used to be Missouri (that spot is now California's, but not for long).

Even though NY matters squat politically, it is still very important.
Were someone is from Imran does not mean that art of the country "rules" America, and besides, all that election money, and those adds, where do you think they come from? Not pensacola or Austin, that's for sure.

I never claimed NY was the cleanest place in the country..never will, cause its not true, but our garbage is mroe classy than the stuff you find in most of the US anyway
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"It is obvious that the MidWest and the SouthEast IS the personification of the US."

Wrong. Every single area of the U.S.A. is the personification of the United States. we are united, like it or loathe it, but we've just got to deal with it.

It may seem that the u.s. is controlled by the south and midwest right now, politically, but this too will change. Power has shifted so often that it's really ridiculous to say that one thing will last forever.

"The highpoint of the local culture is verbal abuse."
If you're such a simpleton to take everything we say at face value, I suppose I could understand your dismay at our verbal sparring.
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Oh, so that explains why California has the 5th largest economy in the world. (Sarcasm)
Maybe the forty million people there have something to do with it?

Please Japher, point to the California metropolitan area that contains the same amount of finantial markets, major instutions such as bank and insurers, stock and commodities markets, credit card companies and coporate headquarters.......

I will wait.
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...that contains the same amount of finantial markets, major instutions such as bank and insurers, stock and commodities markets, credit card companies and coporate headquarters...
Yes... New York... headquarters to the scummiest businesses in the World. Go New York... New Yorkers and corporate/financial scum... they go hand in hand
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Also I feel I should mention that I was not 'spurned' by some midwestern girl... thinks in that area are all going very nicely...
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Please Japher, point to the California metropolitan area....

Can't do it. They are all in Delaware.
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Oh, come on.
New York is New York. It's important, but so is Bush. Doesn't mean he's the best.
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new york is the polar opposite of Bush - please do not compare the two
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Isn't NYC the designated pisspot ?


(sorry, Chris )
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Yes... New York... headquarters to the scummiest businesses in the World. Go New York... New Yorkers and corporate/financial scum... they go hand in hand
We are the only ones with the guts and imagination, but we can claim all the credit.. the boys in Texas got us beat in the corpoarte scum category (Enron), and were is worldcom located?
But this comes from a man in the clean governing capitol of the country.. were things are so good even the dead vote, and often!
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I'm comparing their importance.

If they were polar opposites of importance, New York would be the size of Alert...
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Maybe the forty million people there have something to do with it?

Please Japher, point to the California metropolitan area that contains the same amount of finantial markets, major instutions such as bank and insurers, stock and commodities markets, credit card companies and coporate headquarters.......
Do I have to?

Buisness capital of the US, IMO, means that they have the capacity of generating the most revenue. Maybe New York can be the Investment Capital of The US?
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Nah, mus be Dallas, cause we New Yorkers have moved form pisspots and spitoons and up to Toilets! (yeah indoor plumbing)

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I see the educational system in the US is still lackluster.
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It must be weird living a thousand miles from the ocean. That would freak me out.
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Do I have to?

Buisness capital of the US, IMO, means that they have the capacity of generating the most revenue. Maybe New York can be the Investment Capital of The US?
Please explain to me how an entire state can be called the capitol of anyting?

If revenue production per head is your measure, look at the cities of Alaska.and all their oil revenue.
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Also I feel I should mention that I was not 'spurned' by some midwestern girl... thinks in that area are all going very nicely...
Suuuure...

Interesting rant. I am just curious as to why you made the initial post.

In my own defense, while I was born here, I grew up in NY, and have traveled the globe a bit.

Not all of us Mid-Westerners are TOTAL savages, you know.
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Yes, yes it is.

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You have indoor plumbing?
Well, garsh! I guess I'd best be saddling up and moseying on up there to that there NYC, huh?
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If you're such a simpleton to take everything we say at face value...
I stand corrected. The highpoint of the local culture is exagerated verbal abuse by a bunch of blowhards. I guess that must be enticing to some folks.
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What is this "Ocean" you speak of...?
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Oh. I must of misread the sentence:

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I took New York as being a state. My actual measure was GDP.
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This is one ass backwards statement. The land out here is desperately boring; the people are the ones who make life worth living...
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Well, garsh! I guess I'd best be saddling up and moseying on up there to that there NYC, huh?
You are welcome partner.. and we are getting better and better Brisket all the time as well
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