I think things are getting a little tense in here.Its really having a negative impact on my mellow nature.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
I think things are getting a little tense in here.Its really having a negative impact on my mellow nature.[/quote]
It’s alright don’t get upset. It’s all over, we’re best buddies now.
Wow, those paused squats were really ass to grass deep. Awesome, dude!
I really enjoyed the Scottish/English interplay. The trainspotting quote was pretty cool too.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I think in the year 2011 using a battle that happened 700 bloody years ago as justification for hating your neighbours is pretty pathetic really.
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Over here, we’ve got folks in the south U.S. who think we’re still fighting the Civil War.[/quote]
We are! Ceptin’, this time, it is more of a cultural war. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), it looks like both sides are losing.
Brett, great, great work. Great progress and great effort.
I am envious of the squats.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I think in the year 2011 using a battle that happened 700 bloody years ago as justification for hating your neighbours is pretty pathetic really.
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Over here, we’ve got folks in the south U.S. who think we’re still fighting the Civil War.[/quote]
We are! Ceptin’, this time, it is more of a cultural war. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), it looks like both sides are losing.[/quote]
Brett, I spent a few years in Mississippi. Let me tell you…
FB and BB - comiseration with you both. I was born British and grew up in Maryland USA. Can’t count how many times I’ve heard how the USA kicked my ass in the revolutionary war. I always tell em I was born in 1967 and I don’t recall getting my ass (or arse) kicked in the 1700s.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I think in the year 2011 using a battle that happened 700 bloody years ago as justification for hating your neighbours is pretty pathetic really.
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Over here, we’ve got folks in the south U.S. who think we’re still fighting the Civil War.[/quote]
We are! Ceptin’, this time, it is more of a cultural war. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), it looks like both sides are losing.[/quote]
Brett, I spent a few years in Mississippi. Let me tell you…[/quote]
Watch it you, we got lots of swamps where a body can vanish…
Mathineer - Thanks for stopping by.
Strick - Thanks for the compliments buddy.
Glad you all enjoyed the dialogue between me and BB, next week I will be arguing with a Welshman and explaining why the Welsh hate the English and the week after that I will be discussing the Irish.
Seriously though, now I’m intrigued about the North/South divide in the US, where exactly is that geographical divide? Forgive me but all my knowledge of the subject is gained from Mel Gibson’s The Patriot which I’m sure is as historically accurate as his other classics Braveheart and Last Temptation of Christ. I think they really should be shown in schools!
So is there really still animosity between the north and south?
Depending on where you go, people can still be touchy about the subject. I guess I should specify…mainly that is in the south. Most Yanks take the view “We won. Why be bitter?” Losing stings and stinks. Southerners don’t like to be reminded of it.
Honestly, I think that the “divide” is, as I said, cultural. The South has more of a rural feel. The North has more of an urban feel. Southerners are more conservative. Northerners are more liberal. Southerners are deemed more friendly than there counterparts, and I have found that to be true. Unless, of course, you come down south and have a New England accent. The folks might be a little wary until they get to know you.
Those are not absolutes. Rural folks are rural folks and city dwellers, city dwellers. Since New England is much more urban, and the south much more rural, I think that is the biggest divide. Pennsylvania has a good mix of the two. And most southerners, outside of the “it’s north of here” crowd, would not consider Pennsylvanians of the same ilk.
As far as a geographical divide, everyone always says the Mason Dixon Line. That is not wholly accurate, however, since that would put West Virginia and Maryland in the South. I think the further south you go, until you get into northern Florida, the stronger the feeling gets. Florida is a bit different. My grandfather used to say that everything south of Jacksonville is just part of New York that broke off and floated south.
And that is one view of feelings concerning “the war of northern aggression”.
Hope that helps without getting anyone’s dander up.
Heh, having been raised in south Alabama, and having lived in West Virginia and Maryland, I think you covered it pretty well.
I should mention I’m a northern girl. In other words, I was on the winning side. Just felt it was an important point to make.
Well FB, since the Civil War was fought over slavery, aka race issues, it’s a tricky topic to say the least.
Race aside, I would say that it’s less animosity and more of “differences”. City slickers, big business types in the north, more rural, family-oriented in the south; also big gov’t vs. less gov’t; liberals vs. more conservative -strictly stereotypes of course.
There’s something called the Mason-Dixon line, which is supposed to be the official divide.
edit: just saw Strick’s post, and his explanation is better!
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I should mention I’m a northern girl. In other words, I was on the winning side. Just felt it was an important point to make.[/quote]
Yeah, yeah…and we still love you. See how far we have come!
21/03/2011
Squats @ 352 lbs x 3-3-3
Bench press (pause on chest,explosive concentric) @ 198 lbs x 6-6
RDLS @ 308 lbs x 3-3-3
Face Pulls @ 88 lbs x 10-10
GHR @ bw x 5-5
Close grip U/H Pulldowns @ 132 lbs x 12-10
DB Press 53 lbers x 13-8
Ab rollouts (off knees) x 5-5-5
Average.
Yeah, Strick covered the subject pretty nicely.
The New York Times online is currently running a series called “Disunion”, a really good collection of articles about the Civil War. I’ve learned a lot from it.
Oh, and Brett, you have heard of a little flick called “Gone With the Wind”, have you not? A great view of the war from the South’s position.
22/02/2011
Bike ride - Top of mountain and back 6.5 miles - 37 minutes. Lovely cycling weather again!
Sitting here icing my knees. I’m going to try and remember to ice after every workout now to see if it helps with my knee pain.
Hey brett, looks like things are going well. You never answered my question about the source of your chains. What exactly is a Harrow?
Since we’re talking about regional strife…
In Canada we have the east/west divide. The prairie provinces hang long been annoyed with the eastern provinces because much of the tax revenue flows west to east. The west has much greater resource revenue in the past few decades, and the east has been suffering declining manufacturing profits due to globalization. And then there’s Quebec who wants to leave the country and go it alone, and just hates all the rest of us filthy anglophones.
Fortunately we all live impossibly far apart and can’t really get physical with each other except at hockey games… which is why we invented it to be violent and require fistfights at precribed intervals.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Fortunately we all live impossibly far apart and can’t really get physical with each other except at hockey games… which is why we invented it to be violent and require fistfights at precribed intervals.[/quote]
You’re so resourceful. Why didn’t we Yanks think of that?
Yankee: to foreigners, all Americans are Yankees. To Americans, northerners are Yankees. To northerners, New Englanders are Yankees. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a baseball team.