Welcome to Texas

[Coltess]

This is the local icehouse. Must be a pair of rodeo "leftovers"

[Tacz]

I get struck by the fact that all the cars are SUVs or Trucks, and the "icehouse" is red white and blue.

Looks like the kinda place I wanna live.

[Boinky]

I get struck by the fact that all the cars are SUVs or Trucks

Well it is Texas, whadya expect VW Jettas & BMWs?

[Nexeus]

Okay... no offense and I hate to show my Eastern Bias... but an ice house is a house of ice right? So where is the block of ice? how come it isn't an iglo??

[Boinky]

I think in this case Nex an "icehouse" is the term for local watering hole or bar or pub etc...

[Lauri]

*misses the rodeo*

[Coltess]

I think in this case Nex an "icehouse" is the term for local watering hole or bar or pub etc...

Exactly.

[FoxyJama]

We also use the term icehouse to refer to drive through liquor stores.

And if you want VWs, BMWs, and Jettas, go to Dallas. There's plenty of them there.

[Iragae]

My brother just came back from his first visit with his Texas cutie.

He had one thing to say once he came back here to the great north that is Canada: "Dude, you'd love it down there! It's the SHIT!!!"

Seeing a picture like this, I kinda see what he's saying.

[Tarryk]

That pretty much spells out the current state of the country, right there.

I'll be moving to Canada at the first opportunity. Not because it's necessarily better than Michigan, but rather because it's farther away from locations like that.

(although admittedly, the trees are beautiful)

[Vallikat]

That pretty much spells out the current state of the country, right there.

I'll be moving to Canada at the first opportunity. Not because it's necessarily better than Michigan, but rather because it's farther away from locations like that.

(although admittedly, the trees are beautiful)

Really?

Wow.

You mean Michigan isn't part of Canada?

Neat.

You learn something new everyday.

[Iragae]

Tarryk, mate ... seriously. You don't want to move to Canada. You just don't ... we are run by a bunch of corrupt idiots who can't even funnel taxpayers dollars in a way that is "unnoticeable".

And, we also pay 80 million dollars to find out where 100 million dollars went, right out of tax payers pockets.

I can't wait to move south. <sighs>

[Timelapse]

This is the local icehouse. Must be a pair of rodeo "leftovers"

I think I know where that place is, I don't ever recall seeing horses out there though... but I don't go by there often, if it's even the right place I'm thinking of...

[Demongirl]

we are run by a bunch of corrupt idiots

I never knew Canada was that much like the U.S., except here they're still clinging to homosexuality being evil, a breast being a scourge on the land, and the plants the first forefathers cultivated as the most deadly substance known to society.

We waste taxpayers money these days to invade nations against the will of the UN and international communities and hold off investigations on the largest security breach in our history with the help of that distraction.

No I don't hate my country, I just dislike our leadership.

[Darth Bootay]

Tarryk, mate ... seriously. You don't want to move to Canada. You just don't ... we are run by a bunch of corrupt idiots who can't even funnel taxpayers dollars in a way that is "unnoticeable".

And, we also pay 80 million dollars to find out where 100 million dollars went, right out of tax payers pockets.

I can't wait to move south. <sighs>

LOL sounds suspiciously like the USA.

[FoxyJama]

My hubby is Canadian and we lived in Canada for several years. I can definitely agree that it's no better. Beautiful, yes. Less corrupt? Not even on a good day. If local politicians tried to do to their citizens what they get away with in Canada, we'd shoot 'em.

[Demongirl]

The word "politician" in the dictionary should have been changed to "a corrupt individual" long ago... It's too bad we're not rich enough to pool our money and create our own nation. Gridstream Republic? Deca would have to head the military where we train in bars to fight.

If local politicians tried to do to their citizens what they get away with in Canada, we'd shoot 'em.

I'm not getting into the shootings. In the US we love us some guns. yessiree!
And speaking of what politicians get away with, how about the patroit act?
but that's a discussion for another time and another thread, just a point that we wouldn't shoot them. I mean nobody shot Giuliani when smoking in New York was put out of bars even, and we're talking New York! Places people go to poison their bodies cannot be a place where they might receive a slight poison from secondhand smoke, you can drink yourself to death without the fear of someone lighting a cigarette near you. And other cities have to follow along, some places I might be able to reason with, but not a bar.

Just last night on the news I heard the mention of it possibly being forced out of restaurants here in Michigan. Trying to take the option from the owner of a private business if they want a smoking area? I mean what the hell is that? If you don't want to eat someplace where people might be smoking in a different part of the building shouldn't that be a consumer choice? Do we really need to open up a building with vending machines so people can... n/m that's my new business idea... I need to check some laws...

What's the law now? You can only smoke in your apartment, under a blanket, with all the lights out? Is that the rule now, huh?! The cops are outside, "We know you have the cigarettes. Come out of the house with the cigarettes above your head." "You'll never get me copper! I'm never coming out, you hear? I got a cigarette machine right here in my bedroom. Yeah!"

helping this thread get way off topic since 2005

[Iragae]

Ya know, they say that regardless of how you feel about the sentence "The grass is always greener ...", deep within yourself, you always feel that way to some extent. Is it really? It may be in my case, or in Tarryk's case that the grass is greener on the other side of the border, but I have found that both our countries, Canada and the U.S. of A., are VERY similar.

The major difference I would say is opportunities. There's more opportunity in the US, then there is in Canada, and that is ONLY because of the difference in population.