Originally Posted by DMKA
Duh. :rolleyes2 I'm just lucky to have spent lots of time there.
I always hate travelling to the south, though. The people are nice to me, but maybe it's just 'cause I'm white. I'm always ready to go home when I'm down south.
Don't want none goin' to Apeyard. :kaofight2:
I'm scared to walk one mile from Coconut Grove back to campus.
So I don't.
That's because kids who grew up in rural areas are paranoid of smurfing everything. Here in the south anyway.Opposite for me. I've lived in the same small town all my life, about 15-20 minutes from the second largest city in Indiana. I would have no problem walking around outside here at any time of day, but I'd be on guard in the city, especially in the high crime area. There's been a lot of shootings recently too.lol
I grew up in Los Angeles then was transplanted to the middle of nowhere in Oklahoma. I'm still scared to go outside here at night, whereas I had no problem walking down the street of Norwalk at the wee hours of morning. Lawl.
I still call where I live 'rural' though, since the community right outside of this town is Amish-- horse-drawn buggies, black clothes, horse droppings on the road, the whole deal. smurfing horses ruin the roads with their hooves too.
I'm not paranoid of anything. I just said I was on my guard, especially because of everything that's been going on.
People best recognize that I admit it's a offensive terrible stereotype~~~
Also, I suppose it does depend on the city. I don't think I'd feel safe in even Washington DC or Baltimore during the day alone, because sorry, but the bums there and any city approaching the South that I've been to are literally insane and will follow you and yell at you. NYC bums are tame.
Manhattan is very clean and safe at all hours of the night nowadays if you stick to the mainstream areas of it. And even if you don't, there's so many stores open at all hours to go into if you feel threatened, as opposed to a rural area where you go ages with one lamp post, maybe, near the woods, not knowing where to nearest safe place is. Which do you think is more threatening, logically? xD
I've said it again and again, Manhattan, in it's busier parts, is one of the safest places on earth to be alone at night in. New York isn't the city it was 20 years ago, darlings. You should try it.
I have this terrible and most likely 100% accurate feeling that you've never been to either of those two cities.
Having grown up in the rural north I can say that's pretty invalid. Lots of racists and xenophobes up there, and I am personally paranoid as hell about being out in the country at night. I always was pretty afraid of what lurked just beyond the field line in the dark and then Signs had to come along and put a face to it.
The countryside can be pretty scary at times, but so can the city. Either one is probably just as likely to have someone pop out and rape and kill theout of you. SWEET DREAMS RYE
Del Murder and I got lost in the Yucatan, a few miles from Chichen Itza.
We wandered around for like an hour in the dark and finally saw glowing pyramids in the distance and made our way back to the pyramid grounds and to our hotel. That was a miserable experience.
Here's two pictures of the road/area that we were walking along.
You know what they say. Don't assume. It makes an ASS of U and ME.I have this terrible and most likely 100% accurate feeling that you've never been to either of those two cities.
Yeah but this isn't actually about what is statistically more likely to be harmful (Because if it was her greatest fear ought to be me). It's about where she FEELS safe or endangered. She didn't say cities were safe as a rule and rural areas were dangerous as a rule. On account of her having an IQ higher than single digits, she's well aware that both places can be dangerous.The countryside can be pretty scary at times, but so can the city. Either one is probably just as likely to have someone pop out and rape and kill the
Jesus. People need to gain some basic literacy skills around these parts, you're all acting like she's some spiteful creature who is just out to portray rural folks badly or something, when she actually said this terrible prejudice stereotype, so she's pretty well aware that just a blanket statement is unreasonable.Also yeah I can vouch for the fact that the road we were walking was pretty unsettling, and anyone with balls lesser than my iron watermelons would have been bricking it. It was dark, narrow, surrounded by creepy looking woods, and 90% of the way was not lighted, so unless a car was driving along you had all the light of the moon behind the clouds to see around you, ie. 20 feet.
Also someone needs to update me with the memo where fear is a rational response to, well, anything. Fear is useful in exactly zero practical situations. I didn't feel the same fear she did, but she was scared out of her wits, so yeah basically, some empathy and common sense would go down a treat in this here thread. As noted, she's well aware her feelings were not rational, but she included it to explain why it was so freaking scary to her. If she just said 'It was a little dark and there was some trees" it wouldn't exactly explain why it was one of the most terrifying experiences of her life.
ONTOPIC:
The scariest place I have ever been in my life is the Customs and Immigration section of an international airport. In another example of irrational fear, it's abjectly terrifying for no real reason. But the fear itself makes me seem suspicious (Sweating, shaking, unfocused on the matter at hand, extreme nervousness, etc.) and I often get dragged through an hour of secondary screening.
smurfing fascists.
Last edited by Madame Adequate; 09-17-2008 at 05:01 AM.
I have. With the exception of a very limited amount of areas (most areas with the government buildings/museums) the entire city of Washington D.C. is dirty, smells funny, and is full of all sorts of shady activity. It also has one of the highest crime rates in the nation.I have this terrible and most likely 100% accurate feeling that you've never been to either of those two cities.
Baltimore is similar in many aspects but has a larger amount of "nice" places in it. But, yeah, generally, not somewhere you'd want to be alone at midnight in.
I ain't 'fraid of nothin'.
PS Something makes me suspect that you two have switched accounts. Rye is using bigger words and making coherent posts/threads and MILF is, well, not.
No apology? Yikes, even MORE offensivePeople best recognize that I admit it's a offensive terrible stereotype~~~
Not true.
Band trip '07 was to NYC. We were allowed to walk around Manhattan for a bit, and my friend Megan was nearly RAPED by an NYC "tame" bum. Thankfully my friend Grant was there...He managed to get the bum to buzz off.
Don't worry about that, MILF. I'm perfectly comfortable with my ass-ness. However, your statement seems to imply that I don't know what I'm talking about, but, that's okay. I'm not assuming anything. I'm postulating.
I live outside of DC and make frequent trips to Baltimore. In my experience, a good portion of DC is much cleaner and not quite nearly as shady as people make it out to be. Ohh, did I mention I've been to NYC, too? I'm pretty sure that my experiences were actual experiences and not hallucinations.
I'll concede that DC has a smell (New Jersey is worse, so it's a relative thing), and there is this certain portion right across the Anacostia that if my car broke down in it, I would call it a loss and get a cab.
LET'S ALL MAKE IRRATIONAL GENERALIZATIONS IN THIS THREAD AND IGNORE LOGIC BY ASSUMING NOT EVERYTHING IS 100% TRUE ABOUT EVERY PERSON, PLACE OR THING.
kk sound good
shut up
please
No, Bunny, this is the internet. Everything MUST be true as I say it is, because my irrationality is more rational than your rationality.
what the heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell.
Alright, let's listen to some Depeche Mode! brb
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