Couple things about Wisconsin

[Yo Adrians!]

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Madison is great if you're a flaming liberal nut and like to be surrounded by people who will help justify your thinking for you.

If you're NOT a flaming liberal, stay far far away from Madison or you will go insane.

Oh, and in order to work in Madison, you MUST own a corduroy blazer with suede elbow patches. If not, you will be stoned.

Edit: Brat Stop is quality though. NO doubt about that.

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This is actually only 'partly' true.

I work at the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper. We tend to fall just about right in the middle when it comes to our editorial stances. In fact, some of our readers feel we're a little too far over to the right, although I humbly disagree.

The Capital Times newspaper is WAY to the left - the flaming liberal paper if you will ... but their daily circulation is about 15,000 or so. Ours is close to 75,000, with more than 100,000 on the weekends. That might tell you something about our readership.

I wear shorts and a shirt to work every night (Assistant Sports Editor), and most of our newsroom is business casual or comfortable every day - outside of senior management, that is, and even they're just shirt-and-tie guys. Our executive editor is a woman, and she dresses business casual, too.

No smoking in restaurants and bars is the norm here - although it is for most of the state of Wisconsin these days.

Very beautiful area - rural and downtown. A couple of lakes. Lots of arts and things to do. Great college town, with a fantastic tradition of college hockey (five national titles I think), football (three Rose Bowl championships since the mid-90s) and basketball (Final Four in 2000 under Dick Bennett, now one of the Top 20 programs in the country year in and year out under Bo Ryan).

There certainly are some liberal nuts around here, no question about it. But most folks are close-to-the-middle, hard-working Midwesterners.

I do wish that some of the liberals would calm down a bit - John Kerry has no chance to win election in 2008, and there's no reason we shouldn't be allowed to have a poker room inside our Bingo Hall (Dejope Bingo and Casino, even though it's really just Bingo and 'Bingo Slots) - our liberals in town def. got out the vote on that referendum a few years back.

But, for the most part, it's just another part of the Midwest. It's flaming liberal rep. is super overblown nowadays and comes from the 60s and 70s.

Def. closer to the middle now than before, I feel.

[Red Lion]

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Madison is great. I can see myself moving there.

The best thing in the state, excluding Madison:

Brat Stop

Discuss.

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Madison is great if you're a flaming liberal nut and like to be surrounded by people who will help justify your thinking for you.

If you're NOT a flaming liberal, stay far far away from Madison or you will go insane.

Oh, and in order to work in Madison, you MUST own a corduroy blazer with suede elbow patches. If not, you will be stoned.

Edit: Brat Stop is quality though. NO doubt about that.

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You are a giant giant idiot.

[PokerBob]

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Madison is great. I can see myself moving there.

The best thing in the state, excluding Madison:

Brat Stop

Discuss.

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Madison is great if you're a flaming liberal nut and like to be surrounded by people who will help justify your thinking for you.

If you're NOT a flaming liberal, stay far far away from Madison or you will go insane.

Oh, and in order to work in Madison, you MUST own a corduroy blazer with suede elbow patches. If not, you will be stoned.



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wow. the political views of people around you make a place unlivable? you might be very dumb.

[Inso0]

"People around you" is one thing. When you're in a 30% minority, that's quite another.

[RidinDirty]

I've never lived there but they have lots of fresh cheese curds (squeaky cheese) and good beer. It couldn't be that bad.

[Colonel Kataffy]

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"People around you" is one thing. When you're in a 30% minority, that's quite another.

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the horror...

[PokerBob]

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"People around you" is one thing. When you're in a 30% minority, that's quite another.

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wow. get a grip.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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"People around you" is one thing. When you're in a 30% minority, that's quite another.

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wow. get a grip.

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I think you're the one out of touch here if you seriously think that being in a severe minority, particularly if it's raging radical liberals or raging reactionary conservatives, doesn't make a serious difference. How many posts are there on here where people complain about being in a town full of conservatives and/or religious freaks?

[MitchL]

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At least here in WI, we don't have to put up with the "Minnesota Block" - you know, when driving on the highway, you can't pass in the left lane because the drivers in the left and right lane are both driving the exact same speed, usually about 5 mph less than the speed limit. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Bars in the Twin Cities are WAY too expensive.

Packers > Vikings
Badgers > Gophers
UW academic system > UM academic system
Miller Park > Metrodome
Lambeau Field > Metrodome
Wisconsin Housing Prices more affordable than Minnesota's (at least when compared to the Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area



But, to be fair ...

Minnesota girls > Wisconsin girls
Twins > Brewers (although this year it's close)
Minnesota Wild > no NHL team at all
Kevin Garnett > Michael Redd

I'm a Wisconsin guy, born and raised. But my wife is a White Bear Lake girl (go Bears!), so I've learned to appreciate some things about the state.

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Spot on about MN drivers, but not sure about the women. Both have alot of fatties. Was in Madison a couple weeks ago and was mighty impressed. Fwiw, I am originally from Georgia and my college roommate (also a 2+2er) from NYC. When our families were here for our graduation they both remarked seperately about how ugly the women were.

[Inso0]

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"People around you" is one thing. When you're in a 30% minority, that's quite another.

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wow. get a grip.

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I think you're the one out of touch here if you seriously think that being in a severe minority, particularly if it's raging radical liberals or raging reactionary conservatives, doesn't make a serious difference. How many posts are there on here where people complain about being in a town full of conservatives and/or religious freaks?

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Pissing into the wind, my friend.

If not all of 2p2, at least OOT is inhabited by an overwhelming majority of liberals.

"NeoCon's" like myself are hated in the most vile of fashions here in OOT. The only thing that I find funny is how stereotypically liberal it is. Much like Blarg did in this thread, every time one of the libs gets backed into a corner or is called out on something, they immediately "take the high road" and refuse to answer. Hell, I've seen people BANNED for being so bold as to vehemently defend conservative/religious ideals against the onsolaught of liberal rhetoric.

Remember folks:


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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. --Winston Churchill

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Don't worry. You'll get there eventually.



EDIT: I forgot the most favorite tactic of all. Spew every single page of the lib playbook into a political thread, and then when someone objects and offers a retort, berate them for not taking it to the political forum. That's always fun too.