Oh holy fecking sh.it

Haha. You love my posts.

I've never lived anywhere else but I still Q this FT. I live in Hampton Roads (where Larehip is talking about) and it's a legitimately metropolitan area that has almost nothing to do. Norfolk's "bar scene" seems to be nothing more than a couple blocks of boring bars. Portsmouth has a historic district for its downtown and has a cool vibe with some better bars, but there still isn't a whole lot else to do there. Virginia Beach with it's beach is the only place to really do anything and the beach is only like a mile long I believe so it's still a pretty small area.

It used to be quite lively once upon a time, with plenty of action on the beach.

http://c2.api.ning.com/files/Mo9Nmx1....jpg?width=721

That actually did happen right near where I live. We even have a bridge tunnel called the Monitor-Merrimac.

There were some crazy/nutty goings-on just inland as well


http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...-6-everett.jpg

Looks pretty scenic and beautiful minus all of the dead bodies.

You have to go to the western part of the state to get to any real nature. And then you have all the depressing, run down, redneck towns in the mountains. And past them is hillbilly territory.

So these are what your neighbours past the mountains look like?

http://planetmaisie.com/wp-content/u.../hillbilly.jpg

It's like something out of a ****ing horror movie:laughing:. One of these days I need to visit the USA and actually seek these people out for a real life experience.

Never been there so I wouldn't know. I don't think most people in the South have actually ever seen a hillbilly. They're sort of like a myth. All we have are rumors, conjecture, and Deliverance.

Are you serious in that you've never actually seen a hillbilly? Are there any official figures on how many there actually are and for which state has the highest population of them?

Well we don't really have any hillbillies around the eastern part of the state that I know of. From the North Carolina border to Washington DC it's a pretty settled and metropolitan area. It's a four hour drive to the other part of the start and with nothing there past Richmond in the middle but ****burg redneck towns there isn't any reason for us to go over there.

And I have no idea how many hillbillies there actually are or if they're like the movies. But at least around here West Virginia is generally accepted to be hillbilly central where all the cousin ****ing happens. Though whether that's actually true I don't really know.

Mate, you wouldn't know miserable living conditions if they smacked you in the fucking face. I lived in Belgrade when NATO bombed the crap out of it in the late 90's. Do you know what it's like to have to live under a cement structure for 4 months, and then not know if your house is going to still be there when you get out? When you don't know if you're going to get your next meal or where it's coming from?

Stop spewing the "poverty and hardship is happiness" philosophy to everybody.

^ Herm's "Poverty Porn" post is really clicking with me now

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Yeah, I'm not sure if this Charlie guy is for real. He's ignorant though, that's for sure. You can't just go somewhere like India and see the people living on the street in the mud, and assume that they're happy because they appear that way. They may seem happy but that's because those conditions are all they know - ignorance is bliss kind of thing. Once you learn that people on the other side of the world have it way better, that goes out the window. I've been to a number of countries, both developing and industrialized and I can tell you that it's easy to see who is genuinely, inherently happy with the way they live.

I think this might just be the most epic pwn I've ever seen. :clap:

Haha, it's a true story too mate. Now I'm just wondering if he has anymore hippie themed posts left to put here or have we shut him up for good.

Don't you people like hippies?

People from Belgrade like hippies?

I just have a problem with people thinking they know what they're talking about because they spent a week in the slums of India or something.

lol. If there are hippies there you wouldn't know it. People are always well dressed and well groomed.

Should do a UK version tbh though obviously there are less cities.

Birmingham 'is Britain's most miserable city' | Metro News

We were the most miserable in the UK apparently. Found that bizarre, as Mancs are the moodiest bastards going.

Apparently not.

What does being in a war zone have to do with poverty? They are completely different scenarios. Earlier in this thread it was alluded to that poverty is to blame for misery, I was pointing out that poverty in not an obstacle to happiness, that I have met people in poverty who were happy, and that history is littered with people who were happy living in poverty.

Not once did I say one must be poor to be happy, indeed I even made it clear that I didn't believe that. If I truly believed only the poor can be happy I wouldn't be posting on the internet. I would have renounced my job, my money and all my posessions and resigned myself to a life in poverty.

As seems increasingly common on this site, people take what is said and take it to the extreme. Everything has to be black and white. It's so much easier to reach a deluded conclusion that way. No room for gray. God no.

Poverty means a certain lack of material posessions and money. It does not necessarily mean starving, does not necessarily mean dying from hyperthermia, certainly does not mean being bombed.


Haha. Have you all gone mad. All forgotten how to read? I said the happiest two people I've ever met were very poor. That's it. I didn't say every poor person I've met is happy. I said what I did as evidence that poverty is not an excuse to be miserable.

You're the silliest of the lot. You get annoyed because people post nothing, yes empty space, in the spam thread. If nothing can anger you then it's not surprising words, thoughts, ideas and opinions do. Crazy...

I consider "insults" from fools to be high praise

To be fair a lot of the US "cities" mentioned in the article in the OP aren't exactly metropolises.

charlie i dont really like youre hippy nature either lol but hey im just bein honest. its just the mob mentality, just get used to it. ya say one thing and they will pretend ya said another, happens a lot.

for the record north of the pa/maryland border we prefer rednecks and hicks !

It's cool, man. I like your honesty.

I came in in the middle of the conversation I don't know if he answered your question. Generally the poor Scotch-Irish that lived in Appalachia are called Hillbillies. I would like to draw you a map of the states with arrows and percentages to thoroughly answer your question but I thought it would be easier (for me) if you peruse through the wiki articles for you to get a better understanding of Hillbillies etc.

Hillbilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scotch-Irish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Appalachia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Firstly I never knew that Appalachia covered so much territory, but am familiar with its isolation and unique history, a pity you can't draw a map of percentages etc as it would be an interesting look.