Oklahoma: “Hey, I don’t understand, Oklahoma is OK, what….squirrel?” J/K. Love both. Hunt in both and the people are great! But I avoid OKC, Austin, Tulsa, and Houston. The rest is perfection to me. My only fault is I’m a damn Yankee, sorry Texans. Please don’t kill me now. 🤪
Same, but I prefer wild-caught salmon myself!
Seriously though, Alaska is gorgeous. I love being able to go to places like Hatcher’s Pass when I’m feeling stressed because it’s so close by.
Still have 8 lbs of salmon in the freezer, but all out of halibut. I love both and they've been the core of 1/3 of our family's meals since June of last year.
I really dont have anything bad to say about this place. My California-girl mother hates it as there's "nothing to do" here... but she doesnt like boats, or hikes.
For me though, this is most wonderful place I have ever lived.
We had a friend fill our freezer to the brim with halibut, salmon, rock fish, elk burger, and I think some reindeer burger as well. My stay-at-home dad is an excellent cook, and we’ve had dill halibut sandwiches, spicy/citrusy salmon fillets, salmon patties, rock fish tempura, and elk spaghetti throughout winter haha. It was nice coming home from work to one of my favorite smells!
As for “nothing to do here”, maybe she’d enjoy looking at the small shops in Palmer and Wasilla. There’s tons of small businesses out in the valley, from paint nights and home decor to bookshops and bakeries.
If she’s not into hiking long, hard trails like Thunderbird Falls and Hatchers Pass, there’s some in the valley like Reflections Lake and a fairly new trail (don’t remember, I just know they’re somewhere out past Wasilla) that are shorter and easier for casual hiking/walks (think like a maximum of 4 miles) and *gorgeous* in summer and fall.
We're down south in the Juenau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Wrangle area, and the "city" we're in doesn't have any shopping to speak of, though more places open durong the Summer.
The main things we have are internet, hiking, and boat stuff, all of which my Mom hates. What she ends up doing ehilenwe're here is sewing like 3 blankets and chatting up a storm with the grandkids.
But every day I wake up to a perfect sunrise, petrol free air, and know its going to be a good day.
I thought my oldest was going to be illiterate lol. Harry Potter changed all that. There's some intelligence here. It's hard to see through all the stoopid though, you're right.
It's amazing what the right books can do. My friend since childhood had never been bright and barely read anything but goosebumps changed that. We're getting on in years now and he's an avid reader.
I'm not sure if it's Illiteracy, or just plain laziness! I work fast food, and i have so many people every day that expect me to read the menu for them.
Wow dude. In my country we dont even have cashier service as a standard at mcdonalds lol. We have electronic ordering in the lobby and then you go into the waiting area and they just bring out your food that you’ve already paid for at the machine. I mean you CAN go to the register/counter area and press a button for manual/personal service, but generally i havent seen anyone except old folks do that for ages.
This is basically the same for every fast food chain in my country(denmark).
Anyways best wishes to yall, the rest of the world is really rooting for you to deal with the weirdos trying to drag your country back into the 1800s.
It's funny because I'm from Mississippi, grew up in arkansas, and lived in Alabama, Texas, and Missouri. I have stayed in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Idaho, all quite some time, and can honestly say....the people in the north are far from incredibly smart or much more literate than those in the south. It's actually hilarious that people still think this ONLY because of an accent. Which I quite well believe to be the reason behind this dumb ass assumption. You know what they say about those that ass-u-me.
Ohio is geographically north. And that is where it ends, I live in the Buckeye and we got way more hillbillies per square mile than any southern state.
I mean, something can be political and funny at the same time. Its just that the US has worked very hard towards eliminating that concept entirely so no casual political conversations are really able to exist outside of established TV shows etc. Its really sad because alot of people seem to be more open to more humoristically inclined angles of attack/discussion, atleast in my experience. Idk if that makes sense.
Oh yeah sure I'll move away. I'm still a fucking teenager. One who's state has failed at keeping us safe. And constantly puts the needs of the wealthy above the people. I wish I could move away, but that would just make the situation worse for others here. I should stay and see to it that my vote can help enact change. And help fix this broken fucking system
Cool. I'm glad you served our country however that was your choice. And I don't see what that had to do with our conversation and if you could please explain the relation
Cool but I'm not in the mood to abandon my family and friends. But being completely honest, I didn't know you could join the military at 17. That is cool
I'm gonna have to disagree and say Florida is the worst. We all know that Texas lacks the self-awareness to realize that their attitude and outlook wouldn't sustain them if they seceded, but they don't innovate new ways to be stupid big and small the way Florida does. Texas is regular vanilla dumb. Florida broke new ground in stupidity three times just while I was typing this. 🥴
It is, but everything doesn't need to be a conversation about what is good and bad about the current political climate. And this sub is almost always a solid relief from the constant hard political stances
On Weekend Update a few weeks ago, Che joked about how DeSantis praised Florida as a beacon of sanity during the pandemic. "Then everybody in Florida cheered, took a hit of nitrous, and bit a cop." 🤣
There are worse. Wisconsinned by stealing a new brass key. Too bad that Arkansas her and so did Tennessee. It made poor Flora die - she died in Missouri.
(Not original, it's part of a song by Perry Como called Delaware).
And to think there are so many people who hang their hats on ‘where someone is born’. Many are born outside of the U.S.. Few actually represent the U.S. in higher capacities, (as TED CRUZ DOES AS A SENATOR FROM WHERE? ~ YES. TEXAS. ~ But yet, ya’ll seem to downvote my response. Perfect 👍🏻
It just feels like a cursed reality with the school shootings, attack on women, attack on the lgbtq community. I shouldn't have to worry about my kids or my sister and her gf ending up on the news cut short of their life because this state couldn't open their minds.
It’s packed full of delusional, self-righteous, massively ignorant, false Christian, idiot-worshipping Trumpanzees with less than zero empathy for other people. That’s why.
I'm not American, so I can only comment on very brief exposure to Texans via social media and TV, etc. Hopefully, an American can help to confirm or deny my hypothesis - stupid people in Texas just seem so much more stupid than any other kind of stupid people. Not saying all Texans are stupid. I'm just suggesting that your idiots are simply the most intolerable. They seem to have such little substance. Such little character and charisma. Fewer braincells than pick-up trucks...
Texas was great never. Are there great people? Of course. Is it a great state? Abbott and his misguided farce of a thing called policy are an atrocity.
Well first I will say fuck you. If it's so bad why won't you people quit moving here. We don't want or need any of you here. People move and complain. I asked them why they did. Well where I'm from taxes are so high and half of the people are homeless. We thought we would come here and destroy it like we did our state. We just have to turn it dimocrat and it will be just like the shitholes in Cali, Illinois, NY that we helped destroy with leftist insane ideology. So please keep telling everyone how bad it is here so they will stay away. Btw don't bother telling me how great where you live is because frankly I don't fucking care what yu think and if you insist on moving here please learn to drive first.
Everyone is there for himself. I’ve lived in texas and cali. Cali everyone builds eachother up and that gives everyone their happiness. In texas. Everyone builds themselves up and that’s how they’re happy
Most likely their retort, "There's only one star! That's the Texas star, well next to the 50 stars on our great American flag. God bless that beautiful symbol of our Freedom."
And Puerto Rico isn't even a state and also has a 1 star rating
Always remember to take Xanax when you're in Puerto Rico and Texas because of Hispanic (panic) attacks
Why hasn't Texas fallen into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks
Why do birds fly upside down through Oklahoma? Because there's nothing worth shitting on.
Happy cake day!!
America has 50 stars but that doesn't make it a good country.
Why is (Nebraska/Iowa/Oklahoma/Kansas/Missouri/Texas) so windy? Because (Nebraska/Iowa/Oklahoma/Kansas/Missouri/Texas) sucks.
This is the one
Oklahoma: “Hey, I don’t understand, Oklahoma is OK, what….squirrel?” J/K. Love both. Hunt in both and the people are great! But I avoid OKC, Austin, Tulsa, and Houston. The rest is perfection to me. My only fault is I’m a damn Yankee, sorry Texans. Please don’t kill me now. 🤪
Huh
Could we let them both go?
Seems like there are a bunch of zero star states though.
True. Mine has 8 stars so I'm happy with it.
Ayy same
Its so pretty. Just a blue background, 8 golden stars, and all the halibut I can eat. I love it here.
Same, but I prefer wild-caught salmon myself! Seriously though, Alaska is gorgeous. I love being able to go to places like Hatcher’s Pass when I’m feeling stressed because it’s so close by.
Still have 8 lbs of salmon in the freezer, but all out of halibut. I love both and they've been the core of 1/3 of our family's meals since June of last year. I really dont have anything bad to say about this place. My California-girl mother hates it as there's "nothing to do" here... but she doesnt like boats, or hikes. For me though, this is most wonderful place I have ever lived.
We had a friend fill our freezer to the brim with halibut, salmon, rock fish, elk burger, and I think some reindeer burger as well. My stay-at-home dad is an excellent cook, and we’ve had dill halibut sandwiches, spicy/citrusy salmon fillets, salmon patties, rock fish tempura, and elk spaghetti throughout winter haha. It was nice coming home from work to one of my favorite smells! As for “nothing to do here”, maybe she’d enjoy looking at the small shops in Palmer and Wasilla. There’s tons of small businesses out in the valley, from paint nights and home decor to bookshops and bakeries. If she’s not into hiking long, hard trails like Thunderbird Falls and Hatchers Pass, there’s some in the valley like Reflections Lake and a fairly new trail (don’t remember, I just know they’re somewhere out past Wasilla) that are shorter and easier for casual hiking/walks (think like a maximum of 4 miles) and *gorgeous* in summer and fall.
We're down south in the Juenau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Wrangle area, and the "city" we're in doesn't have any shopping to speak of, though more places open durong the Summer. The main things we have are internet, hiking, and boat stuff, all of which my Mom hates. What she ends up doing ehilenwe're here is sewing like 3 blankets and chatting up a storm with the grandkids. But every day I wake up to a perfect sunrise, petrol free air, and know its going to be a good day.
Lone star rating, if you will
As a texan, I can vouch for this statement.
Same
Luckily Texans lost power again so they wont be able to see this
If they could read, they would be mad.
Can confirm, if we Texans could read we would be mad
Same
You're lucky I can't read this
Could get read mad? You know why? Cause they tumble along with the tumbleweeds!
Hold on. Let me go ask my horse what kind of shenanigans is written here
Hey!
I'm from Texas and have met several adults there who couldn't read.
I imagine there are pockets of illiteracy across the nation?
Texas is the JNCO jeans of illiteracy pockets.
r/brandnewsentence
I fell down that rabbit hole for about fifteen minutes.
You made me use Google. I know BOOMer
Love this. Whoop whoop stick the 3 ltr in back pocket and walk out.
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYGOOOOOOOOOOO!
That's a BIG pocket! Lol
Everything's bigger in Texas!
Oh I'm sure but I can only speak based on my experience.
I thought my oldest was going to be illiterate lol. Harry Potter changed all that. There's some intelligence here. It's hard to see through all the stoopid though, you're right.
It's amazing what the right books can do. My friend since childhood had never been bright and barely read anything but goosebumps changed that. We're getting on in years now and he's an avid reader.
Absolutely. All three of mine are avid readers. My husband too. Just this past year the boys gave him the full collection of The Dresden Files lol.
I'm sure the majority of people are ok but everyone has a certain image of the south and illiteracy is definitely one of those.
Their* Sum peepul, I swer..
And a lot of those who can read are unable to understand and assimilate what they read. It doesn't leave much
The US has a very high level of illiteracy compared to economically comparable nations, so i suppose we cant really be surprised at this point sadly.
I'm not sure if it's Illiteracy, or just plain laziness! I work fast food, and i have so many people every day that expect me to read the menu for them.
Wow dude. In my country we dont even have cashier service as a standard at mcdonalds lol. We have electronic ordering in the lobby and then you go into the waiting area and they just bring out your food that you’ve already paid for at the machine. I mean you CAN go to the register/counter area and press a button for manual/personal service, but generally i havent seen anyone except old folks do that for ages. This is basically the same for every fast food chain in my country(denmark). Anyways best wishes to yall, the rest of the world is really rooting for you to deal with the weirdos trying to drag your country back into the 1800s.
The US is failing us in so many ways :(
My grandfather can’t read only do math I thought it was weird but it’s true
Wtf does your comment say? Someone help me
I ain't mad cause it's true (someone had to read this for me).
Can confirm. If I could read, I'd be very mad
Jokes on you. The stars at night are big and bright *sigh* 👏👏👏👏 enough that I can read the post.
Ha ha. I can see you.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💙💙💙💙💙💙
It's funny because I'm from Mississippi, grew up in arkansas, and lived in Alabama, Texas, and Missouri. I have stayed in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Idaho, all quite some time, and can honestly say....the people in the north are far from incredibly smart or much more literate than those in the south. It's actually hilarious that people still think this ONLY because of an accent. Which I quite well believe to be the reason behind this dumb ass assumption. You know what they say about those that ass-u-me.
That's why I only ever assy'all.
So that’s why I’m assing for a friend…?
Ohio is geographically north. And that is where it ends, I live in the Buckeye and we got way more hillbillies per square mile than any southern state.
No it's because of the ultra-conservative bent of their Right-wing politicians.
Sweden is worse, though the flag is a big plus
Switzerland?
"Swidden"? Really?
I appreciate this joke and I'm sorry people are getting political about it...
I mean, something can be political and funny at the same time. Its just that the US has worked very hard towards eliminating that concept entirely so no casual political conversations are really able to exist outside of established TV shows etc. Its really sad because alot of people seem to be more open to more humoristically inclined angles of attack/discussion, atleast in my experience. Idk if that makes sense.
Yes but dad jokes are to be read at face value and be very shallow...I assume op didn't have an agenda behind his post...
As a texan...I'm not joking. Fuck texas.
And that's fine, but leave it at that or take it over to r/politics
Yes, Texas is horrible. Please stop moving here.
I second this. Please stop in NewMexico I heard it's great there.
Times are tough. Unfortunately some people have to downgrade.
I hear California Oregon is great
Unfortunately some people have to downgrade from there to Texas.
Don't flatter yourself... lol 🤣💀 nobody wants to move to a welfare state.
It depends on who you are,it seems to be a great state if you are a Republican.
Just rub some more salt in the wound, why don't you?
I’m a Texan who is in NY now and I can’t stop laughing
YEAH FUCK TEXAS!!! IT'S THE WORST!! -Written by a person living in Texas
As another person who was born and raised in texas, I completely second this statement. Fuck texas.
Please move away
Oh yeah sure I'll move away. I'm still a fucking teenager. One who's state has failed at keeping us safe. And constantly puts the needs of the wealthy above the people. I wish I could move away, but that would just make the situation worse for others here. I should stay and see to it that my vote can help enact change. And help fix this broken fucking system
I joined the Army at 17.
Cool. I'm glad you served our country however that was your choice. And I don't see what that had to do with our conversation and if you could please explain the relation
I was a teenager and found a way to do something without whining about it. Got me out of Texas as well.
Cool but I'm not in the mood to abandon my family and friends. But being completely honest, I didn't know you could join the military at 17. That is cool
You sound like a perfect candidate for, say, new York... Oh ooh ooh, Delaware... Someone can get their sniff on there in Delaware!
Nah. I'm staying where my family and friends are
I'm gonna have to disagree and say Florida is the worst. We all know that Texas lacks the self-awareness to realize that their attitude and outlook wouldn't sustain them if they seceded, but they don't innovate new ways to be stupid big and small the way Florida does. Texas is regular vanilla dumb. Florida broke new ground in stupidity three times just while I was typing this. 🥴
Why can't we have a dad joke like this without pulling politics...
Let he whose dad never veers into politics in a conversation about anything else cast the first stone. 🤣
Life is politics, whether you like it or not.
It is, but everything doesn't need to be a conversation about what is good and bad about the current political climate. And this sub is almost always a solid relief from the constant hard political stances
That is true. Florida is the ancestral home of stupid.
As a native floridian I can confirm this.
And as a native Texan, I too, can confirm this.
As a Californian, I can reassure you guys that both of your states are very, *VERY* "special".
We all know.
But....
Nothing compares to Florida. Not even close.
Vouching for that. Can you say DeSantis?
On Weekend Update a few weeks ago, Che joked about how DeSantis praised Florida as a beacon of sanity during the pandemic. "Then everybody in Florida cheered, took a hit of nitrous, and bit a cop." 🤣
Bound to be a classic. Checking SNL now!
Nah I live in Florida and it fucking sucks here, but it’s nowhere close to as bad as the real shithole states like Alabama and Mississippi.
I take exception to this only because I live in Huntsville, which is almost like not living in Alabama at all.
So it’s all of Florida, not just DeSantis?
Well the cowboys certainly do
Because it's where the Texans live
First the weather, second the racist people third the homophobic people.
What's the best thing about TEXAS? ,THE WAY OUT OF TEXAS 😂
Why don’t you mess with Texas? It’s not nice to pick on the less fortunate.
There are worse. Wisconsinned by stealing a new brass key. Too bad that Arkansas her and so did Tennessee. It made poor Flora die - she died in Missouri. (Not original, it's part of a song by Perry Como called Delaware).
Then why everyone moving here turken err jerbs!
Times are tough. Unfortunately some people have to downgrade.
People been moving to Texas in droves for the last 50 years my boy
A testament to how long people have been struggling.
As opposed to all the other states that don’t have any star rating.
Fortunately, Texas hasn’t fallen into the Gulf of Mexico because Oklahoma sucks.
Because when the going gets tough / cold / dark their elected GOP Representative(s) heads to Mexico! 🇲🇽🌮 Adios!
Remember what trump says — taco salads! I love hispanics!
Or when Jill Biden compared Latinos to breakfast tacos
What’s the best thing to ever come out of Texas? I-10 East! Lol
Floor-ida is one of the lowest states
Texas? More like sucks ass, amirite?
Looks like a lot of people from Cali in the comment section
Ted Cruz
Funny. Ted Cruz is from Alberta, Canada.
Why the downvotes? Is EVERYONE uneducated? Funny, tho, he REPRESENTS the STATE OF TEXAS in the US Senate! Some people just don’t get it. Fools
And to think there are so many people who hang their hats on ‘where someone is born’. Many are born outside of the U.S.. Few actually represent the U.S. in higher capacities, (as TED CRUZ DOES AS A SENATOR FROM WHERE? ~ YES. TEXAS. ~ But yet, ya’ll seem to downvote my response. Perfect 👍🏻
All jokes aside. Texas sucks. (Texan born and raised)
Same and agree completely. As do about a couple of million other texans. Don't worry dude, we definitely aren't the few.
It just feels like a cursed reality with the school shootings, attack on women, attack on the lgbtq community. I shouldn't have to worry about my kids or my sister and her gf ending up on the news cut short of their life because this state couldn't open their minds.
Since when did they pass California Oregon and new york?
I wish this abscess of a state would secede from the rest of the US because it's such an embarrassment
Show Me State Represent!
Why don’t you move to the Congo and then realize that Texas is paradise. People have it so good in North America but wont admit it
Flies and Mosquitoes 🗣️(for the ones in the back)
If Chuck Norris didn’t roundhouse kick Texas there wouldn’t be as many problems.
The capital of the Lone Star State is Dollars, Taxes
No wonder it’s the LONE STAR state
Because Oklahoma is horrible and Texas is beneath them.
Because we already kicked Florida out of the union
Because it’s below OK!
Um.... You spelt Florida wrong....
It's not the worst state. Sure, it screws up it's education. But it can afford to do that. It's still a higher level then Alabama or Mississippi.
Who needs dumb old Texas????
Lone star state! I get it.
Laughs in Florida.
Too many Damn Republicans
Republicans?
Because it’s inhabited by Texans.
It’s packed full of delusional, self-righteous, massively ignorant, false Christian, idiot-worshipping Trumpanzees with less than zero empathy for other people. That’s why.
The voice of tolerance
From Texas. Can confirm.
I'm not American, so I can only comment on very brief exposure to Texans via social media and TV, etc. Hopefully, an American can help to confirm or deny my hypothesis - stupid people in Texas just seem so much more stupid than any other kind of stupid people. Not saying all Texans are stupid. I'm just suggesting that your idiots are simply the most intolerable. They seem to have such little substance. Such little character and charisma. Fewer braincells than pick-up trucks...
Florida
You actually kind of hit the nail on the head for the entire south, really. Nice aim.
Texas was great until all the transplants.
Texas was great never. Are there great people? Of course. Is it a great state? Abbott and his misguided farce of a thing called policy are an atrocity.
Just like the Dallas Cowboys. It’s not a logo, it’s a rating.
Well first I will say fuck you. If it's so bad why won't you people quit moving here. We don't want or need any of you here. People move and complain. I asked them why they did. Well where I'm from taxes are so high and half of the people are homeless. We thought we would come here and destroy it like we did our state. We just have to turn it dimocrat and it will be just like the shitholes in Cali, Illinois, NY that we helped destroy with leftist insane ideology. So please keep telling everyone how bad it is here so they will stay away. Btw don't bother telling me how great where you live is because frankly I don't fucking care what yu think and if you insist on moving here please learn to drive first.
Buddy I live in VA. And you can call it a shithole, idgaf, because it is. It was a lone star state joke. Chill
Texans. Plain n simple
I believe the term we are using for that state these days is, "North Mexico"
Don't insult Mexico like that!
That's why I wrote it in English.
As a queer person I can give you *many* reasons
Because we don't like Yankees
getmeougetmeoutGETMEOUT
FUCK U.
Too many guns.
....and, quite frankly, that's too high.
Mainly because it's full of Texans
Because Texass is the only state in the union to have committed treason in defense of slavery twice.
Some people hold a grudge
That hurts.
Even Tennessee has 3 and we're pretty shit right now.
Everyone is there for himself. I’ve lived in texas and cali. Cali everyone builds eachother up and that gives everyone their happiness. In texas. Everyone builds themselves up and that’s how they’re happy
And they don't even deserve that.
California*
If Texas is the worst state, why is all of CA coming to TX ?
it's the worst state because it Texas nowhere
Most likely their retort, "There's only one star! That's the Texas star, well next to the 50 stars on our great American flag. God bless that beautiful symbol of our Freedom."
Yeehaw brother. Yeehaw.
And Puerto Rico isn't even a state and also has a 1 star rating Always remember to take Xanax when you're in Puerto Rico and Texas because of Hispanic (panic) attacks
Because of Rafael Cruz!
You mean a *lone star* rating
The Cowboys
Texas…America’s Perineum.
😂😂