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[Frumple]

Eesh. Y'all poor folks. Worst the caf at th'place I did the bachelors at was somehow fuck up rice. Which is one of those things I still can't figure out. How the hell do you make rice that tastes worse than microwaved rice? And like, bad brands for it (some can microwave decently. We're talking the ones that can't.).

Rice is one of those foods that are just incredibly difficult to mess up. Put rice in boiling water. Reduce heat. Wait. Done. This isn't rocket science or arcane alchemy. And yet somehow, some way, they buggered it up. Boggles the goddamn mind.

Everything else (that I ate, anyway) was pretty alright. Even the themed days. Lucky me, I guess. Helped that if you got it to go you could usually stuff in enough food to feed you for an extra day or so.

[Jervill]

Nice would be telling you -why- she's ignoring you. What she's doing now is, at best, benevolent dickishness.

@MZ, yes, I agree. But why did you say that after quoting that particular segment. Doesn't seem to go together.

I forgot to delete some. I meant to say, "Oh, it would be cool if we could all get together sometime and hang out as people with a common interest, and not have to put up with the same ol' shit like Truean is doing at the moment."

How many midwesterners do we have?  We're sort of a minority on here, aren't we?

Toledo, here.

Minnesota, here.  We midwesterners are always watching.  Always.

[Solifuge]

Yeah, as Max said I'm in the Midwest too. My place is a bit small to have any number of people over, but I know some great restaurants and pubs in the Ann Arbor Michigan region that could handle a meet-up.

Is an unburnt feta and spinach too much to ask?

If they have comment cards like ours did, you can do something like we used to do:

1. Make a pentagram on your plate out of ketchup.
2. Place inedible object in the center, stabbed with a knife (and preferably a bit of ketchup around the "wound")
3. Note on the comment card that you are presenting "burnt offerings to the Dark Lord".
4. Place the whole arrangement on your tray and send it on the conveyor belt back to the kitchen.
5.
6. Profit!

Can I just say that if I saw that come back to my kitchen, I would not even mind?

[Blargityblarg]

Could I just quickly get this straight: Is the Midwest in the eastern half of the US?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Could I just quickly get this straight: Is the Midwest in the eastern half of the US?

Depends upon who you ask, but this is the most widely accepted division of the regions.

Though there are those with a....slightly different analysis.

[i2amroy]

Usually the way that I see it divided is as it was divided in that regions map, though many times I see the four corners states (AZ, UT, CO, NM), Texas, and Nevada termed as the "Southwest".

[Truean]

Seems I came across another disowned gay kid....

I think it's perhaps the fact that I hang around the particularly terrible parts of town. Who knows.

I had the displeasure of speaking to his parents, as more of a courtesy to them than anything else. They were ... less than civil.... It made my day "extra special." I really didn't have much choice than to drop him off at Children's Services.... The parents were none too pleased at this information, which, quite frankly, I didn't have to tell them about. What can I say, I am none too pleased that this kinda crap keeps on happening.

They actually threatened that THEY would report ME....  (Note, I cannot fathom what for).

"Madam, would you like to take a moment to think about what you've just said given that I found your minor child, whom you have a duty to support, living in the street and saying you've tossed him out of your home?"

Yeah, it's been that kinda day....

[Vector]

I'm pretty sure someone I went to middle school with just death-by-train'd himself.

We were going to hang out together in two days, play some laser tag and stuff.

[Xantalos]

...damn.

[Solifuge]

The last few posts. :/

Truean, shitty people are always going to be out there, doing shitty things to other people. You're doing a world of good by helping the shitty situations they create work out for the better. Every time you do that, even just for an individual here or there, the good radiates out from those people you've helped, and goes on to make other shitty things get better too. It's like butterflies wings leading to hurricanes, just with human decency.

Vector, if that turns out to be the case, I really don't know what to say. I'm sorry. Saddest thing someone can do is discard themselves like that. No matter how bad, difficult, or painful things may seem, as long as you're still alive you still have the chance to make it better. I hope his family and friends can find peace, you included.

[Vector]

Well, you know.  That's how things go.  I'm all right.  Getting pretty used to this.

Vector, if that turns out to be the case, I really don't know what to say. I'm sorry. Saddest thing someone can do is discard themselves like that. No matter how bad, difficult, or painful things may seem, as long as you're still alive you still have the chance to make it better. I hope his family and friends can find peace, you included.

I'm trying to get information from some people who might have been in more recent contact, but I've confirmed that this fellow who killed himself is the only person of the same name who graduated from my school district in the correct year.  So either my friend moved back to England after middle school (I don't think that was what was happened) or he's dead.

Well, anyway, like I said--it's just another dead guy, not all that exciting.

[SalmonGod]

Could I just quickly get this straight: Is the Midwest in the eastern half of the US?

Depends upon who you ask, but this is the most widely accepted division of the regions.

I never thought of that vertical line of states from North Dakota to Kansas as the midwest.  I would also add Kentucky.  But my mental map isn't really based off of anything.  I guess my midwest is a slightly expanded Great Lakes Region.

[Vector]

No, actually, I'm not okay.  Whatever.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Could I just quickly get this straight: Is the Midwest in the eastern half of the US?

Depends upon who you ask, but this is the most widely accepted division of the regions.

I never thought of that vertical line of states from North Dakota to Kansas as the midwest.  I would also add Kentucky.  But my mental map isn't really based off of anything.  I guess my midwest is a slightly expanded Great Lakes Region.

None of the regional maps are based off of anything. Anything objective, anyway. It's all a cultural analysis and is expected to vary person-to-person.

I myself think the West should stop at Nevada, and have everything from there to Michigan be the Midwest.

[penguinofhonor]

I'd put a diagonal line through Kentucky and count the NW half as the Midwest and the SE half as the South.