BigBoss posted:

Albany, NY and Harrisburg, PA might as well be in Wisconsin.

BigBoss posted:

Albany, NY and Harrisburg, PA might as well be in Wisconsin.


PS here is another girl from Monroe, MI. Midwestern girls... wow!

QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

I don't miss much about small towns, but I have a soft spot for small town Christmas. Like there's so little to do most of the time that they go loving nuts for Christmas, decorating entire yards and putting up lights absolutely everywhere and throwing poo poo tons of parades and lots of family parties. They get so genuinely excited for Christmas.

Now I live in a city and other than some wreaths or music in the stores, you'd barely notice.

extra stout posted:

i'm all for nostalgia but if i ever get to live somewhere sane i cannot imagine thinking 'i wish all this nature was blocked out by plastic stuff illuminated by lights'

haljordan posted:

Lol what the gently caress are you smoking? I've lived in Albany my entire life and it is nothing like Wisconsin.


Mainly because there's more than three black people.

KiteAuraan posted:

Shameful "chili" on spaghetti? With a pound of cheese? Jesus. No wonder the thought of the midwest fills me with existential dread.

BigBoss posted:

I'm smoking a cigarette. A camel Turkish gold if you want to be specific.

Also, it's cool you live in Albany. You'd feel right at home in Grand Rapids, MI or Columbus, Ohio if you ever get a chance to visit!

kindermord posted:

Arian_Samurai posted:

There is a sign on the door assuring people they're still open, which I love

Booblord Zagats posted:

What is it with goons and not being able to differentiate between the South and the Mid-West?

Hot Jam posted:

if your brain sees "chris kyle" written in the corn field it means you are a true patriot

Frostwerks posted:

this is most impressive picture in the thread

Nothus Infelix posted:

Good call on the Henry Ford. I guess you're going to metro Detroit?

There lots of scenery outdoors and nature. Great Lakes. Little lakes. Forests. Dunes. Rivers. Lighthouses. There are places you can walk around and pick up fossils. A lot of the nature is up north, though, and you probably don't want to go there this time of year. But if you want to go swimming in a lake, try Van Buren State Park, the nuclear plant will heat up the water for you.

Fewer crazy people than the South, but I'm probably biased.

Booblord Zagats posted:

What is it with goons and not being able to differentiate between the South and the Mid-West?

PureEvil6_13 posted:

Matey posted:

This was at the Country Stampede, which takes place in NE Kansas, which is in the midwest. Hope that helps.

Also in NE Kansas, hipsters




Bonus beat/grunge meeting in NE Kansas

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Name-the-team contest and surrounding controversy

The CornBelters were named after a fan vote to determine the name. A publicity stunt occurred after the four finalists were unveiled:

Normal Nutz; an homage to the Beer Nuts brand based in nearby Bloomington (NOTE: The entries were originally "Nuts," but the ownership modified it to avoid conflict with the California League's Modesto Nuts) Normal NightHawks; a popular alliterative nickname. Normal CornBelters; a reference to Illinois' location in the Corn Belt. "Belt" is also a slang term meaning to hit the ball hard. Normal Coal Bears; submitted by fans of political satirist and The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert (pronounced [kʰɔlˈbɛɹ], just like "coal bear"). Since the character often encourages these fans (known as the "Colbert Nation") to vote for things to be named after him, the team is hoping he'll give them some attention (similar to the Ontario Hockey League's Saginaw Spirit, whose mascot is named Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle and has gotten the team and league mentioned often on the show). [1] [2] In addition to the reference, Illinois (especially the west side of Bloomington-Normal) also has a strong heritage in coal mining, as reflected by future rival the Southern Illinois Miners. [3] Voting was originally set to take place until April 27. On the first day of voting, the Coal Bears had a significant 95 percent lead in the poll. However, that lead would significantly decline in the next two days to 24 percent with "Nutz" leading at 75 percent. Many fans suspected voting fraud, as "Nutz" had business ties and an "anti-Coal Bears" conspiracy was suggested by the fan-run normalcoalbears.com. On April 24, owner Steve Malliet announced that due to these allegations, he was starting the poll over again, this time requiring every voter to submit various information to enforce a "one fan, one vote" policy. This system was easily overcome by the same local hackers that had rigged the results of the earlier poll with a python script, and the name that had been last in the original round of voting was bumped to the top via another script that was able to leverage a flaw in the voting site's CAPTCHA mechanism. While "Nutz," "CornBelters," and "Coal Bears" were kept, "NightHawks" was dropped because of the term's other meaning as a position of responsibility in the Ku Klux Klan. In addition, two other choices were added:

Normal Fellers; an homage to Jesse W. Fell, the founder of Illinois State University (ergo, the founder of the city of Normal), as well as the term "Feller" referring to "regular guy". Normal CamelBacks; an homage to Camelback Bridge, built to allow steam locomotives to pass underneath and currently arching over Constitution Trail. It is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Breadallelogram posted:

BuckarooBanzai posted:

It's Culver's from Wisconsin which if you don't know this intrinsically than your life is utterly meaningless.

dogdisaster posted:

cornhole goes hand in hand with drinking, and is drat fun tyvm

NomChompsky posted:

for some reason culvers is only good in wisconsin. they've opened up some here in the chicago area and they're goddamn awful. the patrons and staff alike in there even look like they've been imported from wisconsin. like some kind of half rear end wisconsin embassy serving gross people lovely burgers.

spacemang_spliff posted:

i like the pig, they make good drinks

I spent most of my college days at Harbor Lights, the Red Lyon and Henry's (the french club met there on thursday nights)

Sheep-Goats posted:

Daedra posted:

Paging jastiger to post the infamous iowa chop

Pennywise the Frown posted:

And Jeffery Dahmer is also a hometown hero. He did all of his killings in Milwaukee, not Ohio.

We also have other terrible atrocities, like Scott Walker. Lots of scary poo poo in Wisconsin.

CJacobs posted:

My local baseball team is called the Corn Belters. There, somehow, was a controversy about this incredibly important issue. (bolding mine, please don't waste your time reading the whole thing, it's very boring as all of the midwest is):

Quarex posted:

Sup Normalgoon. To be fair the Normal CornBelters, though a terrible name, was the least terrible alternative to the obviously perfect Coal Bears. We could have ridden that publicity for years. Sigh. Now we will just have to be content basking in our pathetic residual Jake From State Farm fame (at least I think he was from Normal; he was definitely at the Bloomington Corporate Headquarters).

One thing living around the country and the world teaches you though is that a boring, affluent, and safe hometown is vastly preferable to many alternatives.

Plus this being the Not At All Ironic Midwest thread, Normal is like the champagne of small Midwestern cities, so there is that. Champaign pun intended.

Never mind, you were right, everything is boring

Edit: Ultimo Hombre, you misspelled "Steak 'n' Shake"

Quarex posted:

Sup Normalgoon. To be fair the Normal CornBelters, though a terrible name, was the least terrible alternative to the obviously perfect Coal Bears. We could have ridden that publicity for years. Sigh. Now we will just have to be content basking in our pathetic residual Jake From State Farm fame (at least I think he was from Normal; he was definitely at the Bloomington Corporate Headquarters).

One thing living around the country and the world teaches you though is that a boring, affluent, and safe hometown is vastly preferable to many alternatives.

Plus this being the Not At All Ironic Midwest thread, Normal is like the champagne of small Midwestern cities, so there is that. Champaign pun intended.

Never mind, you were right, everything is boring

Edit: Ultimo Hombre, you misspelled "Steak 'n' Shake"