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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

The French Army! posted:

University of Iowa is a cesspool of drunken rapists, the city has to spray vomit off the streets around campus on weekend mornings it's astonishing.

That's Chicago on Tuesdays

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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

BaconCopter posted:

The Iowa/Iowa State "rivalry" (People from Iowa getting really, really into it, Iowa State closer to Go Team! Yay Sports) is the only thing those poor souls left adrift in the corn have to live for. Well besides wrestling.
the best american olympic wrestler isn't even from iowa, he's from wyoming. way to get owned by our least populous state

Fabulousity
Dec 29, 2008

Number One I order you to take a number two.

I went to Des Moines once. I also just finished a road trip from Seattle to south central Minnesota on the I-90 corridor. See below for which cities along the way were better or worse than Des Moines:

Better than Des Moines:

All of them


Worse than Des Moines:

A derelict portable toilet near Deer Lodge, MT

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Fabulousity posted:

I went to Des Moines once. I also just finished a road trip from Seattle to south central Minnesota on the I-90 corridor. See below for which cities along the way were better or worse than Des Moines:

Better than Des Moines:

All of them


Worse than Des Moines:

A derelict portable toilet near Deer Lodge, MT


I've driven the same route and lol you're a moron.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I-90 is loving bleak from Seattle to Minnesota, my condolences to you both.

Randal
Apr 20, 2016

not adding value on SA one post at a time

cuck cuck im gay posted:

I literally have no idea where Iowa is on the map of the United States. Like I don't even have a vague idea of what states border it. If it's North, East, South, or West? I have nary a clue.

Fun Fact: You will never need to know this

Fabulousity
Dec 29, 2008

Number One I order you to take a number two.

OctoberBlues posted:

I-90 is loving bleak from Seattle to Minnesota, my condolences to you both.

Butte is still worth a giggle after all these years.

But otherwise yeah, kinda meh.

Derpies
Mar 11, 2014

by sebmojo
If you're driving from DC to SLC Des Moines is the literal perfect stopping point after 16 hours of your 32 hour trek.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Randal posted:

Fun Fact: You will never need to know this

To avoid it?

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

The French Army! posted:

University of Iowa is a cesspool of drunken rapists, the city has to spray vomit off the streets around campus on weekend mornings it's astonishing.

thats not astonishing at all its pretty common for any kind of college town or neighborhood. when i lived in the east village in nyc it was the same except no one bothered spraying the vomit away and it certainly wasnt just a weekend thing.

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
is football really popular in the midwest/south because there is literally nothing better to be entertained by or do?

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

fits my needs posted:

is football really popular in the midwest/south because there is literally nothing better to be entertained by or do?

I'm sure someone has done an interesting study about this, someone should find it and post it here.

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




fits my needs posted:

is football really popular in the midwest/south because there is literally nothing better to be entertained by or do?

There's poo poo to do in the cities, but yeah, pretty much. I know plenty of people who can only socialise with others by talking about the Packers.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

fits my needs posted:

is football really popular in the midwest/south because there is literally nothing better to be entertained by or do?

don't forget basketball

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




etalian posted:

don't forget basketball

That's just Indiana and Chicago. Nobody else here gives a gently caress about basketball.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

basketball is indiana
hockey is minnesota
football is everywhere else

fat bossy gerbil
Jul 1, 2007

Earwicker posted:

thats not astonishing at all its pretty common for any kind of college town or neighborhood. when i lived in the east village in nyc it was the same except no one bothered spraying the vomit away and it certainly wasnt just a weekend thing.
Maybe it isn't astonishing for a crowded shithole like NYC but in a small Midwestern college town like Iowa City it's very much out of the ordinary. You literally won't see that anywhere else in Iowa.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I'm beginning to think you never attended college or went to parties at college campuses.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Terrorists attacked NYC not Des Moines.

RestingB1tchFace
Jul 4, 2016

Opinions are like a$$holes....everyone has one....but mines the best!!!
All the good people moved to Gary, Indiana.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

fits my needs posted:

is football really popular in the midwest/south because there is literally nothing better to be entertained by or do?

Football is struggling to break into the coast markets. Dumb rear end

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Hey everyone Des Moines is actually a good city because it has a single weird hipster hangout spot:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/how-des-moines-iowa-got-cool-213552

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

etalian posted:

Hey everyone Des Moines is actually a good city because it has a single weird hipster hangout spot:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/how-des-moines-iowa-got-cool-213552

Obviously you're not up on Jastiger Iowa posts.

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot
suck des nutz

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

The French Army! posted:

Maybe it isn't astonishing for a crowded shithole like NYC but in a small Midwestern college town like Iowa City it's very much out of the ordinary. You literally won't see that anywhere else in Iowa.

I've been to plenty of college towns outside NYC and a bunch of vomit on the ground after big parties/games is really not all that unusual

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

OctoberBlues posted:

I'm beginning to think you never attended college or went to parties at college campuses.

Ray town community college 2013. Yay pirates!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Jastiger posted:

Obviously you're not up on Jastiger Iowa posts.

I read them, they were really hilarious.


it's sad that due to big rent spikes in coastal cities it means more millenials will have to get exiled to flyover state shitholes.

etalian fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Sep 5, 2016

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

mdm posted:

suck des nutz

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I'm glad that Des Moines revitalization means putting random murals in downtown.

sports
Sep 1, 2012
desmoines is good cedar rapids/ia city is not so good

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Makes more sense to move to a miserable southern city like Nashville or Charleston.

At least the food will be better.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012


Last seen at court avenue lofts

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

etalian posted:

Makes more sense to move to a miserable southern city like Nashville or Charleston.

At least the food will be better.

also you can still buy up derelict row houses cut up into rentals for black folk, fix em up and flip em for millions

spend 90 grand on a 1600 sqft 3/2 in des moines and five years later it'll still sell for 90 grand

Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013

etalian posted:

Makes more sense to move to a miserable southern city like Nashville or Charleston.

At least the food will be better.

and the weather and the bitches.

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Famethrowa posted:

Last seen at court avenue lofts

Nice area to partay. Nah if its a female id probably end up sleeping with her and I just cant have that happen again.

In other news Des Moines bike trails deliver again as i was able to bike from one end to the other completely safely and on well maintained bike paths

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

A few blocks of Manhattan is more interesting and has more things to do than all of Des Moines

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Jastiger posted:

Nice area to partay. Nah if its a female id probably end up sleeping with her and I just cant have that happen again.

In other news Des Moines bike trails deliver again as i was able to bike from one end to the other completely safely and on well maintained bike paths

Wtf man west Des Moines holding an All Black party?

http://whotv.com/2016/09/05/1-man-killed-several-others-injured-after-overnight-shooting-in-clive/

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
Iowa sucks, there is nothing good there. I used to live in Omaha which is a better and cooler place than all of Iowa combined by a long ways. Every time I had to drive across the river to do some stupid job in Council Bluffs I had a grimace on my face because Council Bluffs sucks.

gently caress Iowa.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

heh, Omaha

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Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Council Bluffs DOES suck. But lol the only redeemable part of Nebraska is Omaha so good job there.

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