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What's YOUR state is good at??

When I clicked on the link a pop up generates that says, "I'm the type of person who believes global warming exists and that gays should have the right to marry.. Agree or disagree?" WTF? That's a crappy set-up.
 
RadicalModerate said:
Anyone who has lived in CO knows that there is one thing we are better at than all other things.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION!
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It has been a few years since I visited, but back during my younger days in the early seventies your state was particularly notable for the quantity of hot women in convertables who picked up young hitchhikers.

No complaints, mind you.
 
RadicalModerate said:
Anyone who has lived in CO knows that there is one thing we are better at than all other things.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION!
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Highways currently under construction in DFW:

121
360
183
20
30
35E
35W
635
George Bush Turnpike
77
287
820
114
Loop 12
86

And half of Arlington's inner streets, much of the "mid-cities", and most of neighborhoods near DART's newest rail line (horizontal through the middle of the metroplex).

We've got to at LEAST be runner up.
 
my state has a couple good biotech hubs, and produces a lot of food for the world. it's also good at misplacing half a billion dollars, balancing the budget by gutting education, and then magically finding the money a couple years later with no negative consequences for those in charge who didn't know that it was even there. (excludes a few middle management fall guys; they got the boot.)
 
tessaesque said:
Highways currently under construction in DFW:

121
360
183
20
30
35E
35W
635
George Bush Turnpike
77
287
820
114
Loop 12
86

And half of Arlington's inner streets, much of the "mid-cities", and most of neighborhoods near DART's newest rail line (horizontal through the middle of the metroplex).

We've got to at LEAST be runner up.
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Come through any medium to large city in CO during the warmer months. Road construction is EVERYWHERE.

In Denver, it's like they do construction as busywork to just to put people to work. I-25 has been undergoing construction for as long as I have lived here. It seems like it's always in the same areas, too. It's weird.

Here's a graphic of just how much is going on, just in Denver proper, as of now...

co road construction.webp

Each yellow triangle is a major area of construction.
 
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My state Kansas has the most acres of wheat and sorghum. What the **** is sorghum?
 
RadicalModerate said:
Come through any medium to large city in CO during the warmer months. Road construction is EVERYWHERE.

In Denver, it's like they do construction as busywork to just to put people to work. I-25 has been undergoing construction for as long as I have lived here. It seems like it's always in the same areas, too. It's weird.

Here's a graphic of just how much is going on, just in Denver proper, as of now...

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Each yellow triangle is a major area of construction.
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If you go to this link and select the "construction" option at the top you'll see a fairly accurate list of what's currently going on. The map doesn't accurately display the length of construction zones, but it gives you an idea:

Dallas TX Traffic Report | Ft. Worth Traffic Information & Road Conditions
 
Making sports a religion, deifying sports figures and persecuting or otherwise making anyone who is not a native uncomfortable. (It is not my state I am just here until it is time to move on.)
 
Fla most boat wrecks...heh i would have thought the most concealed carry permits or something more perky
 
RadicalModerate said:
Anyone who has lived in CO knows that there is one thing we are better at than all other things.

ROAD CONSTRUCTION!
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I'm thinking Texas has that market cornered. :mrgreen:

I can't even drive 6 miles up the highway without running into long-term major road construction. My Mom lives about 60 miles east of me, and when I go visit her every two weeks, it's a continuous string of projects, detours, and concrete pours for the entire drive, and has been for years. :(

What is Texas good at? Conditioning people to have attitude.;)
 
lizzie said:
I'm thinking Texas has that market cornered. :mrgreen:

I can't even drive 6 miles up the highway without running into long-term major road construction. My Mom lives about 60 miles east of me, and when I go visit her every two weeks, it's a continuous string of projects, detours, and concrete pours for the entire drive, and has been for years. :(

What is Texas good at? Conditioning people to have attitude.;)
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I was driving out to Abilene once and there was a stretch of highway near Gordon, TX (home of gas station/semi mechanic and not much else) that was under construction, allegedly. I say allegedly because even though there were orange barrels and signs, I saw no actual construction or equipment present. I guess they'd lowered the post speed limit because of the construction, so some genius had put black trash bags over the regular speed limit signs but had forgotten to put up temporary speed limit signs in their place. So the speed limit goes from 70 to (I'm later told) 60.

Having absolutely no clue what the speed limit was, I was going 80 (keeping pace, mind you).

As luck would have it, I got pulled over by a Palo Pinto county sheriff. The exchange went something like this:

Cop: Ma'am, do you know why I pulled you over.
Me: No sir.
Cop: Well, ma'am, you were speeding. You were going 80. Do you know what the speed limit is?
Me: *pointing to trash-bag covered sign ahead* I don't, sir.
Cop: Ah, yeah...well...it isn't 80. It's 60 through here right now.
Me: I see, I didn't realize.
Cop: Can I get your license and insurance ma'am? Thanks, I'll be back.

At this point he goes to his car and does...whatever. About 5 minutes later he comes back to my window:

Cop: Ma'am, do you mind exiting the car and coming into the ditch over here? I'd like to talk to you
Me: *panicking* Sure, sir. *goes into ditch*
Cop: Ma'am, I need you to promise me you're going to watch your speed. It isn't safe to go 20 over the limit.
Me: Yes sir.
Cop: On any other day you'd get a ticket. But that lovely woman over there *points to chick sitting in the passenger seat of cop car*...that's my wife. And she said that I'm not allowed to give you a ticket today.
Me: Oh. Uhm...thank you?
Cop: Yeah, you see, ma'am...your name is the same as our daughter's, and the wife was feeling a little sentimental. You don't mess with her when she's sentimental.
Me: I understand, sir.

It was awesome. Best run in with the law EVER.
 
lizzie said:
Steen's cane syrup- yummmmmm.:)
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We continue to have many, sometimes surprising, things in common, fair lady!

It's been too long since I have had sorghum or cane syrup poured over hot buttered cat head biscuits. That's good stuff. It's not good for you, and that makes it all the better.
 
Risky Thicket said:
We continue to have many, sometimes surprising, things in common, fair lady!

It's been too long since I have had sorghum or cane syrup poured over hot buttered cat head biscuits. That's good stuff. It's not good for you, and that makes it all the better.
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Well, the Steen's has calcium and iron, so it cancels out the butter and biscuits. :2razz:
 
Alabama...in addition to being famous for incest and racism, has one of the best medical schools in the country at UAB, the university of alabama huntsville is one of the top engineering colleges in the nation, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is also in Hunstville. oh and yeah...we've produced the National Champion in college football the last three years in a row.
 
lizzie said:
Well, the Steen's has calcium and iron, so it cancels out the butter and biscuits. :2razz:
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Oh sure, flower child. Just like a couple of tokes countered the Biphetamine T20 you took on the way to the concert. Or so I was told back then. ;)
 
Risky Thicket said:
Oh sure, flower child. Just like a couple of tokes countered the Biphetamine T20 you took on the way to the concert. Or so I was told back then. ;)
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Hmmm, only a fool would want to cancel out one drug with another. ;)
 
Being arrogant, pumping oil out, silicon chips and crappy Presidential dynasties.
 
Oregon - Beavers ... The kind that builds dams.
 
Texas; G. W. Bush (not something to be proud of), Rick Perry (our biggest mistake), Ut, Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, Everything is bigger in Texas (even our egos), Intense heat, racism, low I.Q, there are so many things.
 
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