[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
How the hell did anyone know you were Jewish?
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The beard, the kippa (skull cap), the peyot (side curls), rather monochromatic black clothing, a large nose, an Israeli accent, a name that is about as Jewish as “Moshe Shapiro Cohen,” and I don’t roll on Shabbos.
I’m either Jewish or a member of ZZ Top.
(Or maybe Amish. But, then again, I was driving a car.)[/quote]
Lol!
Great story, JB, thanks very much for sharing.
Spent some time in NYC Cali and Texas. I love all, but for different reasons. However, the hospitality and friendlieness in the south is unrivaled. People WILL talk amiably to strangers, which if you do that up north, people think youre crazy. Great steak, culture, everything. I would love to move to Texas.
[quote]666Rich wrote:
Spent some time in NYC Cali and Texas. I love all, but for different reasons. However, the hospitality and friendlieness in the south is unrivaled. People WILL talk amiably to strangers, which if you do that up north, people think youre crazy. Great steak, culture, everything. I would love to move to Texas.[/quote]
We’re the only state I am aware of aside from maybe Hawaii that has tourist shops for the state itself in every even semi-large city. You can buy a bumper sticker at any one of them that reads: I’m not from Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.
Whenever I tell people where I’m from, don’t say, “I’m from America.” I say, “I’m from Texas.”
We are very, very proud of our state. Yet, we are not egotistical or arrogant about it. Just proud.
When I was younger (20?) I took a trip to Cleveland and the main thing I remember was being appalled at the way people acted toward one another. I would walk into a store and the people would actually act annoyed that they had to help me. It was quite the paradigm shift for me.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]666Rich wrote:
Spent some time in NYC Cali and Texas. I love all, but for different reasons. However, the hospitality and friendlieness in the south is unrivaled. People WILL talk amiably to strangers, which if you do that up north, people think youre crazy. Great steak, culture, everything. I would love to move to Texas.[/quote]
We’re the only state I am aware of aside from maybe Hawaii that has tourist shops for the state itself in every even semi-large city. You can buy a bumper sticker at any one of them that reads: I’m not from Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.
Whenever I tell people where I’m from, don’t say, “I’m from America.” I say, “I’m from Texas.”
We are very, very proud of our state. Yet, we are not egotistical or arrogant about it. Just proud.
When I was younger (20?) I took a trip to Cleveland and the main thing I remember was being appalled at the way people acted toward one another. I would walk into a store and the people would actually act annoyed that they had to help me. It was quite the paradigm shift for me.
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It is weird to see how rude people are in other places. Like they have something to prove but don’t really know what. Maybe our dualing history bred the chips right off of our forefathers shoulders and they passed congeniality on to us or something.
But the funny thing is, if someone came to Texas, especially small town Texas, and started throwing rude, off handed remarks around, they would have their resolve tested immediatly. Like a gun free dual. It’s kind of a weird mix.
I think it’s funny when people genuinly believe we all live in a huge desert wasteland with oil derrecks in every backyard and that horses are a common mode of transportation. It blows my mind that in this day and age people can still think that way and that these people usually believe Texans are ignorant and backwards just for being Texans. Really weird.
Great story, JB!
Mufasa
My dick is hard with the new districts being drawn, some real dirtbag incumbents are vulnerable, and the whole Dem/Rep thing is pretty moot at this point. State Congress has an approval ratings in the single digits, and we have a chance to shake some shit up.
Dems have proposed some really insane things here, higher middle class taxes, subsidized college tuition for illegal aliens, removing fingerprint verification for foodstamps, are just a few.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
I don’t roll on Shabbos.
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Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don’t work, I don’t drive a car, I don’t fucking ride in a car, I don’t handle money, I don’t turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don’t fucking roll!
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
I am from Texas so I am biased, but I spend my time in the US when I come back between TX and CA.Of course I’ve spent a lot more time in the former than the latter, but I’ve spent enough time in CA (months in total) to get a feel for the state. I can unequivocally say that the level of pure, unselfish friendliness toward strangers in Texas, as well as genuine curiosity, is orders of magnitude higher in Texas than it is in CA. And I like CA, for the most part. Indeed, I would say that the neighborliness in my home state is unmatched anywhere else in the US that I’ve been to, and I’ve traveled through most of the states and Hawaii.[/quote]
I spend a fair amount of time on either US coast.
I’ve never gone a week in NYC without a stranger cussing me and calling me a “Diamond mechant” or “fucking Zionist Joooo.”
LA is not as bad, but there is snickering, back-turning, pointing, and, once on the Berkeley campus, a well-thrown rock to the back of the head.
Same, but more restrained, in Boston.
Texas, in contrast, I remember driving through on a plan to tour the Southern USA. Everyone was nice and polite in Dallas and Austin, but what stands out most was an incident in rural Texas.
We had a crappy suburban Chevrolet we bought in Georgia for $2,500 (and planned to leave or sell in San Diego).
It broke down 70 miles from San Angelo, Texas, which is somewhere near nowhere, but off the back street, and then down a ditch.
Steam was spitting from the radiator — later we learned a fan belt had busted and a pump had frozen up because it took a while for the belt to actually break.
We had 3 people immediately stop, police stop, free tow to town, and then, as the car was getting fixed (on a Sunday evening by a guy who came in special), a home of the 911 dispatcher opened up to us because the hotels were filled with deer hunters. A lovely kosher meal was made at the instruction of my first wife and the cooperation of the lady of the house (fried chicken, potatoes, gravy, good stuff), all washed down with Shiner Bock beer, while watching sports.
Car repair, total $150, was paid by someone unknown to us, probably the neighbor of the 911 disptacher who came over with beer.
Said family that took us (who were Methodist Protesant Christians) in showed up in Israel for my wife’s funeral three years later. All of them. Kids, everyone. Had to take expensive, last minute flights.
So, I will never say a bad thing about Texas.[/quote]
best state in USA. Rick perry is our one true hope for genuine change.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
I am from Texas so I am biased, but I spend my time in the US when I come back between TX and CA.Of course I’ve spent a lot more time in the former than the latter, but I’ve spent enough time in CA (months in total) to get a feel for the state. I can unequivocally say that the level of pure, unselfish friendliness toward strangers in Texas, as well as genuine curiosity, is orders of magnitude higher in Texas than it is in CA. And I like CA, for the most part. Indeed, I would say that the neighborliness in my home state is unmatched anywhere else in the US that I’ve been to, and I’ve traveled through most of the states and Hawaii.[/quote]
I spend a fair amount of time on either US coast.
I’ve never gone a week in NYC without a stranger cussing me and calling me a “Diamond mechant” or “fucking Zionist Joooo.”
LA is not as bad, but there is snickering, back-turning, pointing, and, once on the Berkeley campus, a well-thrown rock to the back of the head.
Same, but more restrained, in Boston.
Texas, in contrast, I remember driving through on a plan to tour the Southern USA. Everyone was nice and polite in Dallas and Austin, but what stands out most was an incident in rural Texas.
We had a crappy suburban Chevrolet we bought in Georgia for $2,500 (and planned to leave or sell in San Diego).
It broke down 70 miles from San Angelo, Texas, which is somewhere near nowhere, but off the back street, and then down a ditch.
Steam was spitting from the radiator — later we learned a fan belt had busted and a pump had frozen up because it took a while for the belt to actually break.
We had 3 people immediately stop, police stop, free tow to town, and then, as the car was getting fixed (on a Sunday evening by a guy who came in special), a home of the 911 dispatcher opened up to us because the hotels were filled with deer hunters. A lovely kosher meal was made at the instruction of my first wife and the cooperation of the lady of the house (fried chicken, potatoes, gravy, good stuff), all washed down with Shiner Bock beer, while watching sports.
Car repair, total $150, was paid by someone unknown to us, probably the neighbor of the 911 disptacher who came over with beer.
Said family that took us (who were Methodist Protesant Christians) in showed up in Israel for my wife’s funeral three years later. All of them. Kids, everyone. Had to take expensive, last minute flights.
So, I will never say a bad thing about Texas.[/quote]
best state in USA. Rick perry is our one true hope for genuine change.
[/quote] If he meant the things he says he would be.
For once I actually agree with Headhunter.
All I can say is, whatever California is doing, do the exact opposite.