was wondering what types of things nc has that some other places dont, that make you glad to be in nc

and wondering what things nc doesnt have, that other states do, that you wish we had


this was inspired by me hearing a firework go off and wondering what made nc not have good fireworks but places like SC and TN having good fireworks...subsequently i thought about nc just now getting the lottery(which i was sooooooooooo in favor of)


and finally, fykaljpn posted something how in wisconsin its illegal to have a stun gun or something

7/5/2008 10:07:48 PM

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"was wondering what types of things nc has that some other places dont, that make you glad to be in nc"

an awesome public university system

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"and wondering what things nc doesnt have, that other states do, that you wish we had"

same sex marriages

7/5/2008 10:08:51 PM

^i told an nagb and lockheed martin people about how i thought nc was really good with public universities just the other day...told my neighbor last night

7/5/2008 10:10:06 PM

every species of spider in the US can be found here

7/5/2008 10:21:46 PM

^really??


mountains + beaches <3

7/5/2008 10:22:51 PM

yep, and I think all the poisonous snakes are here too, but I might be wrong

7/5/2008 10:23:46 PM

^^^wow i didnt know that...kinda neat


^^agreed

7/5/2008 10:23:47 PM

NC has emissions inspections

my state has none

7/5/2008 10:27:36 PM

I'm wrong about the snakes, only 6 poisonous snakes are found in NC

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" 1. Copperhead (found throughout NC) 2. Canebrake Rattlesnake (found throughout NC) 3. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (found in southeastern NC) 4. Pigmy Rattlesnake (found in southeastern NC) 5. Cottonmouth or Water Moccasin (found in wetland areas in the eastern half of NC) 6. Coral Snake (the rarest, found in the south and southeastern areas of NC)"

I am pretty sure there are some venomous snakes that are only found in desert states

[Edited on July 5, 2008 at 10:30 PM. Reason : d]

7/5/2008 10:29:29 PM

NC has a pretty varied geography
I always thought that was cool

but I wish the bars didn't close at 2am
here they close at 4am

7/5/2008 10:40:02 PM

I must be getting old, because I haven't been at a bar until 2 in a long ass time

7/5/2008 10:41:53 PM

nc is the shit on the low. jobwise, businesswise, singles, ma schools, research, research, did i mention research?

7/5/2008 10:43:16 PM

last bar i went to started like stop selling beer around 1:45...i was like wtf dont we still have 15 minutes??

7/5/2008 10:43:29 PM

bars set their clocks 15 mins fast for tradition reasons

7/5/2008 10:44:43 PM

nah, they do it because they know it will take them a good 30-45 minutes to clear out all the drunks.

7/5/2008 10:46:23 PM

I sat in a bar in Prague until 7AM drinking Becherovka and lager a few months back

but I don't do that much anymore

here's something NC doesn't have:

a commuter rail system

7/5/2008 10:48:08 PM

yeah, but does NC honestly need one?

7/5/2008 10:49:06 PM

^^^ thats part of the traditional reason, LOL my mom runs a bar man. they do so they will not actually have to worry about ale busting them for selling after 2.

[Edited on July 5, 2008 at 10:50 PM. Reason : st]

7/5/2008 10:49:48 PM

NC has cheap cost of living, PA does not.

7/5/2008 10:53:06 PM

^^plus you got all those idiots that buy like a 6 pack right before 2 so they can just hang out and drink for an hour and a half

^ parts of PA are way cheaper than here. the jobs just really suck in those areas

[Edited on July 5, 2008 at 10:54 PM. Reason : d]

7/5/2008 10:53:25 PM

I wish you people would stop telling your yankee friends that NC is a good place to live.

7/5/2008 10:56:56 PM

its not a great place to visit, but its a great place to live.

7/5/2008 10:58:29 PM

NC also has some pretty cool history, too (imo)

7/5/2008 10:59:08 PM

^ hell yeah, we beat the shit out of some negroes back in the day

7/5/2008 11:00:24 PM

7/5/2008 11:01:35 PM

come on man, lets not be racist tonight. lets wait until tomorrow, k.

7/5/2008 11:01:43 PM

there's a lot more to NC history than that...and a lot more of that in some other states' histories than in NC...

7/5/2008 11:03:03 PM

yeah that thing djeternal put is kinda repugnant

7/5/2008 11:03:27 PM

that's not racist....I said negroes, not niggers

7/5/2008 11:04:16 PM

7/5/2008 11:04:29 PM

lol i didnt mean it in a racist way...i just think its an ignorant way to view nc history

7/5/2008 11:04:43 PM

.

7/5/2008 11:05:14 PM

NC could use a good light rail system
at least in the Triangle and with rail service between the Triangle and the Triad

7/5/2008 11:05:18 PM

^^wtf

7/5/2008 11:05:57 PM

um, i was agreeing with you

7/5/2008 11:09:05 PM

oh sorry...wasnt aware "." was agreeing with me, lol

7/5/2008 11:10:14 PM

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"I wish you people would stop telling your yankee friends that NC is a good place to live."

7/5/2008 11:20:43 PM

nc lacks a real city.

other states lack real bbq.

7/5/2008 11:23:16 PM

^ thats the hallmark of nc - no over doing it and making it into an unbearable place to drive. nc is the shit and you know it.

7/5/2008 11:24:10 PM

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"I wish you people would stop telling your yankee friends that NC is a good place to live."

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"I wish you people would stop telling your yankee friends that NC is a good place to live."

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"I wish you people would stop telling your yankee friends that NC is a good place to live."

7/5/2008 11:43:53 PM

i wish people like ^ would die in a fire

7/5/2008 11:44:35 PM

NC needs an awesome National Park like Yellowstone.
NC needs more small time bars with down home people. Everybody wants to be someone else nowadays, and the bar has turned into an attention whore place (in NC).

7/5/2008 11:46:30 PM

^maybe just in raleigh and charlotte??? haven't noticed it other places in NC




^5 there was a place in Ft. Lauderdale called the Dixie Pig - "Real NC BBQ"
a woman from NC owned it...i was excited (and it was delicious)

7/5/2008 11:49:20 PM

Uh, definitely not. Bars at Carolina Beach are the closest to what I'm talking about, and its still pretty far off.

(At least from my experience.)

[Edited on July 5, 2008 at 11:52 PM. Reason : ]

7/5/2008 11:50:44 PM

7/5/2008 11:51:19 PM

^5 why


not applicable to NC but

http://gobacktoohio.com

[Edited on July 5, 2008 at 11:51 PM. Reason : ]

7/5/2008 11:51:30 PM

that's some white trash shit

and you're going to the wrong bars

7/5/2008 11:52:07 PM

I said its still pretty far off. If I can't give you a proper example, you don't know if its white trash or not.

7/5/2008 11:54:08 PM

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"http://gobacktoohio.com :have so many Yankees brought their way of life and horrible driving so far south"

rofl at South Carolinians complaining about bad drivers from other places

like fucking bumper cars down there

7/5/2008 11:56:49 PM

ok well anyways i havent really seen anyone post other places that have cool things that nc doesnt...only example i can currently think of would be cool fireworks....i woulda use to have said the lottery but we got that


i would like if we had our primary ballots like oregon did them

7/5/2008 11:57:03 PM