The New And Improved Off Topic Thread

RedStormNC said:
A little is one thing. Im guilty of that too but that thread was totally derailed.. Some of us may not have time to read thru history of race in south, great 3rd basemen of half century ago etc.. when at work and time limited. Much rather read about the Alabama game, who's going & how to get there.
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You're in the off topic thread where as long as you stay in bounds going off topic is permissable.
 
Beasts of the East said:
The school to go to if you teally identify with being a southerner is Ole Miss.

The flip side of my comments on some southerners, or biases that just don't die. (Remember George Wallace?) Is that some of the very best people I befriended in my career were from large and small tiwns in Arkansas, Texas, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia. Once you gained their trust they are amazingly warm, supportive, and terrific people.
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Definitely. One of my closest friends is from West Virginia. Although he spent a fair amount of time in Ohio, North Carolina and NJ as well.

My first job in the early 90’s was as an auditor for a CPA firm with mostly apparel manufacturers as clients. I spent a lot of time in the south particularly in parts of western North and South Carolina. I never felt unwelcome as a northerner. Surprisingly not even that much as an auditor.
 
Great segment on Fox News this morning from Beaufort , SC a great little town in the low Country .
They have aCoffee shop there , Blackstones cafe which , every day at 8 am , the Owner rings a ship’s bell and everyone in the Cafe stands up and recites the Pledge of Allegiance .

Hundreds of people every day .

If you haven’t visited Beaufort , put it on your list . It’s worth the trip

Joe Frazier born in Beaufort and Robert Smalls , first Black American elected to US Congress , after Civil War . He was a War hero for the Union
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Brook Jersey , I hope you took our back and forth with some whimsy and , not hostility .

Florence is not exactly the gem of the South but , hey it gets a lot of traffic off 95 .

Many posters on redfans have been to Charleston several times for Tournaments and have enjoyed it . It is arguably the “ Jewel of the South “ Savannah , a runner up .



Of course , there are good / bad people everywhere , North and South .

As a native New Yorker , I worked with a lot of people who lived in N Jersey as our home office was in Warren, NJ.

A standing joke from us New Yorkers was
when someone said , they lived in NJersey, we would ask ,” what exit ?”
Of course , knowing that so many people live near the Turnpike or Garden State Parkway , it’s likely their exit will be mentioned .
Or , at least travel those roads to get where they need too.
I actually lived in NJersey for a few years . Exit 120 GS and 91 as well .

Yes, the switchblade experience was funny.
In the South it would be , “ can you take your Gun out from the counter or , leave it in your holster ?”

Do many Southerners carry concealed ? Yes !
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Guilty! Licensed and totally legal. But if you're ever in trouble, I'm your best friend.

I've been shooting since I was 12 years old. On my high school rifle team (Yes! They actually existed!) and, I've been told many times, I'm a damn good shot.
 
gregbodkin said:
Guilty! Licensed and totally legal. But if you're ever in trouble, I'm your best friend.

I've been shooting since I was 12 years old. On my high school rifle team (Yes! They actually existed!) and, I've been told many times, I'm a damn good shot.
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Carrying a Weapon , legally,

goes a long way to deterring Crime .

Carrying illegally , promotes Crime . If you are carrying without the proper licenses , permits , you have already committed a Crime .

Were you better shooting free throws or hitting the Target ?

Sounds like the latter . Being a Sharpshooter , Marksman or , Expert are the degrees of shooting competencies for the Military .

Good for you ..Responsible Right of being a Citizen .

Do you still shoot in Competition ?
 
SJU85 said:
I’ve been in Greece (currently in Athens) for the past week and have not seen Pitino nor Hurley. I didn’t see them when I was here last month either.

More disappointing, while wearing a St. John’s polo, no one over here approached me to talk about Lefteris Liotopoulos, Fotis Konstantinidis or Pitino😡.
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How are you enjoying Greece? It’s on our bucket list. I was in Athens for work in 2007 but didn’t have time to see much beyond the Acropolis and eat some great fresh fish at a local restaurant our host took us to.
Next time would like to visit Athens and Crete.
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Carrying a Weapon , legally,

goes a long way to deterring Crime .

Carrying illegally , promotes Crime . If you are carrying without the proper licenses , permits , you have already committed a Crime .

Were you better shooting free throws or hitting the Target ?

Sounds like the latter . Being a Sharpshooter , Marksman or , Expert are the degrees of shooting competencies for the Military .

Good for you ..Responsible Right of being a Citizen .

Do you still shoot in Competition ?
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I don't compete any more but I do go to the range several times a month. Believe it or not, it relaxes me. I have to clear my mind because when I shoot, I have to be focused and aware so that no one gets hurt.
 
NCJohnnie said:
How are you enjoying Greece? It’s on our bucket list. I was in Athens for work in 2007 but didn’t have time to see much beyond the Acropolis and eat some great fresh fish at a local restaurant our host took us to.
Next time would like to visit Athens and Crete.
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don't kill me Mods, but just a quick answer to 'NC and '85, Greece is fantastic, anyone that can get there GO, the ancient history is tremendous, the sites breathtaking (Greek Isles are great too), and Crete although not as visually impressive as the other sites, has longer-ago ancient history than the rest of Greece, going back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the more well-known Greek ancient civilization by more than four millennia. Greek Ad over.
 
BrookJersey Redmen said:
don't kill me Mods, but just a quick answer to 'NC and '85, Greece is fantastic, anyone that can get there GO, the ancient history is tremendous, the sites breathtaking (Greek Isles are great too), and Crete although not as visually impressive as the other sites, has longer-ago ancient history than the rest of Greece, going back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the more well-known Greek ancient civilization by more than four millennia. Greek Ad over.
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I couldn’t agree more. I went the PM/Conversation feature of this forum to expand on my experiences there on my two trips to NCJohnnie.
 
IDRAFT said:
It’s not a small enough percentage from my experience. One thing I ask of my NY friends is how many times a person who does not live here says “how can you live there!” in an aggressive tone the first time you meet them. For me I lost count long ago. Many times it has been people who have never set foot here. It’s a wildly rude comment as it’s a decent assumption that one likes the City they live in. The ones who actually think they aren’t assholes say it this way, “You guys are so nice (this means Mrs IDRAFT is with me as nobody meets me alone and says this) I can’t BELIEVE you are from NY.”

I have asked many of my same friends if they have ever made a similar opening comment to anyone about where they lived and to a man not one ever has. And that tracks to me as even if one wonders it is not difficult if you aren’t an asshole to just ask what they like about where they live.

When I was in Charleston we became friendly with one of the hotel workers who saw our SJU garb. He was a transplant from New Jersey and had been there ten years. He told us he really liked it overall and was happy he moved but ten years in half the people on his block won’t even acknowledge him or say hello to him if they pass him on the street because they knew he was from up north. On the other hand my son and his wife lived in Raleigh for two years and never had one problem. We were there a bunch and no issues either until….

Homesick and with a baby they decided to return to be near family. It was emotional though as they loved the house they lived in and had some great moments in Raleigh. A week after they returned to NY I went back to Raleigh with my son to clear the place out. The day we finished we called the Uber to take us to the airport who asked us where we were going and then spent the entire drive trashing NY and wondering why anyone would raise a family there. That’s how you get no tip and a zero star review.

All southerners - of course not! And the guy who started this thread clearly came in peace. But let’s be real about the south too.
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Anecedotal and small sample size. 90% of my family--and that is alot of folks--live in the South, from Florida to Virginia, SC, NC, and Georgia. What you say does not fit. Stereotypes dont fly. Making regional negative judgments based on a randon Uber driver---he is an Uber driver, after all---and comments by a few tourists overwhelmed by city life on thier first visit, is baseless. Nor does it move the needle that you also knew a hotel worker that could not assimilate in his neighborhood. Who knows what his story really is. I have many clients througout the south--sophistated and successful, well travelled, welcoming, friendly and just good people. Yes, let's be real about the south.
 
Joedib said:
Anecedotal and small sample size. 90% of my family--and that is alot of folks--live in the South, from Florida to Virginia, SC, NC, and Georgia. What you say does not fit. Stereotypes dont fly. Making regional negative judgments based on a randon Uber driver---he is an Uber driver, after all---and comments by a few tourists overwhelmed by city life on thier first visit, is baseless. Nor does it move the needle that you also knew a hotel worker that could not assimilate in his neighborhood. Who knows what his story really is. I have many clients througout the south--sophistated and successful, well travelled, welcoming, friendly and just good people. Yes, let's be real about the south.
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Joedib said:
Anecedotal and small sample size. 90% of my family--and that is alot of folks--live in the South, from Florida to Virginia, SC, NC, and Georgia. What you say does not fit. Stereotypes dont fly. Making regional negative judgments based on a randon Uber driver---he is an Uber driver, after all---and comments by a few tourists overwhelmed by city life on thier first visit, is baseless. Nor does it move the needle that you also knew a hotel worker that could not assimilate in his neighborhood. Who knows what his story really is. I have many clients througout the south--sophistated and successful, well travelled, welcoming, friendly and just good people. Yes, let's be real about the south.
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Stereotypes sometimes get an overly bad rap.

Yet the fact that stereotypes are often harmful does not mean that they are merely processing failures—bugs in our software. The fact that stereotypes are often harmful also does not mean that they are often inaccurate. In fact, quite shockingly to many, that prevailing twofold sentiment, which sees stereotypical thinking as faulty cognition and stereotypes themselves as patently inaccurate, is itself wrong on both counts.

This is because the ability to stereotype is often essential for efficient decision-making, which facilitates survival. As Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has noted, “You don’t ask a toddler for directions, you don’t ask a very old person to help you move a sofa, and that’s because you stereotype.”

Second, contrary to popular sentiment, stereotypes are usually accurate. (Not always, to be sure. And some false stereotypes are purposefully promoted in order to cause harm).
 
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