You leave our fentanyl alone! That’s for us rural folk who had to go through the agony of being raised with nothing of interest near by. We’ve earned it. You can’t appropriate our culture like that.
No, there was an interview I read a couple of years after they got big where they told a story about flinging poo at each other during rehearsals and there was still some on the drums.
A friend of mine moved to Des Moines from Los Angeles a couple of years ago. Out here, she was a brewer at a small brewery and her husband was a bartender. They used to rent a 1-bedroom craphole in Van Nuys. Out there, she's a brewer at a small brewery and her husband is a bartender. They bought a 3 bedroom house.
I don't think so, they seem to be having a good time. Des Moines is small, but it's a nice city with a good bar scene. Also they've assimilated pretty well, they bought a smoker and hunted the last two bird seasons.
Is rural Iowa like how all the families on the Hallmark channel and the CW live? Do you guys have fall festivals filled with people who don’t always talk about fucking politics?
Yes, actually more Spring/Summer festivals where I’m from. It’s progressively being taken over by meth and crackheads though, which is a nice change of pace.
If the brewery you're talking about is the one I'm thinking of (starts with an E) - your friends deserve that house. I moved out of state two years ago and still miss that beer.
Unemployment doesn't factor in people not seeking work iirc.
Whether or not this issue is a big issue seems unclear to me, it seems like the progressive and conservative zeitgeist has latched onto this issues for different reasons, conservatives propose that this is an example of big government causing issues, and that poor(minority) people are just lazy, progressives have latched onto it as proof of some proletariat revolution, so both have decided to make a mountain out of this mole hill.
From knowing employers it seems like most of the places having problems hiring now, had those same issues before or they cut their staff back at the start of Covid, and now are having issues since they're literally trying to hire the same people back for less than they were paying before.
Kinda like a diet catholic. They were raised in an organized religion that they maintain some cultural trappings of, but they can end up as either milquetoast liberals or tradcon goofballs. They probably have some Scandinavian or German ancestry, and they hang onto some vestiges of that culture as well as some ethno-religious practices, especially around Christmas time. Lutherans love Christmas.
Unlike Catholics, who generally come from big families and party cultures, they tend to be superficially friendly but insular and reserved, the kind of people who will rave about your potluck hotdish and invite you over for supper "some time," but hope that you won't ever accept.
I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that closing the sub for a joke wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how this sub is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.
You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love the show and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with ableism and our nightmare reality all day, and this sub is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find this sub closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.
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74 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-05-11
What's the cost of living like in Iowa?
72 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
Landchad here, the going rate in rural Iowa is $400 to $800 for a 2-3 bedroom house. Apartments are sub $500 normally.
20 GreenBlueEyedDog 2021-05-11
Large majority of people don’t live in rural parts though
61 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
And those people can fuck themselves.
21 GreenBlueEyedDog 2021-05-11
Everyone in Iowa can as far as I’m concerned. Really shitty ass corn compared to the Chad farms in Nebraska (no offense)
28 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
Nebraska averages a lower yeild than Iowa and our corn leans to the west because you suck so much.
8 GreenBlueEyedDog 2021-05-11
And Poseidon cooked a thousand hamburgers while still losing to spongebobs 1 burger cause Poseidon’s were actual shit
18 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
ok zoomer
13 wingrath 2021-05-11
That episode is firmly in millennial time. Do better next time sweaty
9 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
Doesn't make it any less r slurred.
6 I_Shah 2021-05-11
The giga chad farmers of Illinois must be laughing at you flyover state plebs argue over who sucks more corn
0 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
They live in a blue state. Nothing gigachad about that.
2 I_Shah 2021-05-11
But they live in an actually relevant state
2 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
I don't think IL farmers really care about living in a relevant state, I think they're more concerned about being cu(ked by Chicago politics.
1 I_Shah 2021-05-11
True
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11 Longjumping-Bed-7510 2021-05-11
I hope they quote this when they put your head in a pike
17 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
I couldn't think of a better way to go, being a martyr for the ruralcels.
10 Longjumping-Bed-7510 2021-05-11
Does your mom know you larp as a landlord online
17 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
My mother is one of my tenents. For free of course.
20 Longjumping-Bed-7510 2021-05-11
Living with your mom doesn’t make you the “man of the house” or a landlord
11 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
While this isn't the case, that was an excellent comeback that I've awarded with 1 upvote.
11 RydenwithByden 2021-05-11
Still not cheap enough to convince me to live in a flyover state
20 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
This wasn't an invitation.
2 RIPGeorgeHarrison 2021-05-11
I’m glad it’s not.
2 CheML 2021-05-11
All these people talkin’ about flyover states like we’re down here just begging you to land. We don’t want you here either. You’d ruin it.
3 RydenwithByden 2021-05-11
Oh boy that's some premium cope posting. Yeah keep telling yourself that, sour grapes.
1 CheML 2021-05-11
I’d tell you to come say that to my face, but we don’t have many brunch spots here in the midwest so I’m not sure you’d survive the trip.
3 RydenwithByden 2021-05-11
or much of anything else that could be considered interesting or desirable by those of us who don't carry extra chromosomes... besides fentanyl
1 CheML 2021-05-11
You leave our fentanyl alone! That’s for us rural folk who had to go through the agony of being raised with nothing of interest near by. We’ve earned it. You can’t appropriate our culture like that.
5 quitsocmedia 2021-05-11
Lol I pay double that for a single room
48 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2021-05-11
You could probably buy the entire state minus the big cities for a couple mil.
35 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-05-11
Surely the birthplace of Slipknot would be held in higher regard than that.
13 Thousand_Yard_Flare 2021-05-11
The band that flings poo at each other? I'm pretty sure they are driving down the value of that land.
6 RydenwithByden 2021-05-11
Maybe you're thinking of Gwar? Slipknot is the band with like 4 useless members
16 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-05-11
The guy hitting the bin with the baseball bat is absolutely essential.
2 Thousand_Yard_Flare 2021-05-11
No, there was an interview I read a couple of years after they got big where they told a story about flinging poo at each other during rehearsals and there was still some on the drums.
32 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-05-11
A friend of mine moved to Des Moines from Los Angeles a couple of years ago. Out here, she was a brewer at a small brewery and her husband was a bartender. They used to rent a 1-bedroom craphole in Van Nuys. Out there, she's a brewer at a small brewery and her husband is a bartender. They bought a 3 bedroom house.
9 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-05-11
Sounds surprisingly good. Was there a big culture shock for them?
13 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-05-11
I don't think so, they seem to be having a good time. Des Moines is small, but it's a nice city with a good bar scene. Also they've assimilated pretty well, they bought a smoker and hunted the last two bird seasons.
8 Iowa_Hawkeye 2021-05-11
This comment made me smile.
6 HodorTheDoorHolder__ 2021-05-11
Is rural Iowa like how all the families on the Hallmark channel and the CW live? Do you guys have fall festivals filled with people who don’t always talk about fucking politics?
3 CheML 2021-05-11
Yes, actually more Spring/Summer festivals where I’m from. It’s progressively being taken over by meth and crackheads though, which is a nice change of pace.
1 HodorTheDoorHolder__ 2021-05-11
Huh
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6 Pepperglue 2021-05-11
This is the Cali expy we all want. Good to know they are getting a better life.
1 Jojopolo 2021-05-11
If the brewery you're talking about is the one I'm thinking of (starts with an E) - your friends deserve that house. I moved out of state two years ago and still miss that beer.
16 D_Legare 2021-05-11
Not high enough for minimum wage to be as high as $7.25.
2 kermit_was_wrong 2021-05-11
Median home price is like $150k, that state is hilariously poor.
25 respaaaaaj 2021-05-11
Isn't 3% unemployment or so basically peak employment already? If they were sitting at 5% this might make more sense.
20 SAC-Lawn_Gnome 2021-05-11
Unemployment doesn't factor in people not seeking work iirc.
Whether or not this issue is a big issue seems unclear to me, it seems like the progressive and conservative zeitgeist has latched onto this issues for different reasons, conservatives propose that this is an example of big government causing issues, and that poor(minority) people are just lazy, progressives have latched onto it as proof of some proletariat revolution, so both have decided to make a mountain out of this mole hill.
From knowing employers it seems like most of the places having problems hiring now, had those same issues before or they cut their staff back at the start of Covid, and now are having issues since they're literally trying to hire the same people back for less than they were paying before.
8 respaaaaaj 2021-05-11
Yeah but unemployment is how people are getting the benefits she just ended.
24 strallweat 2021-05-11
https://imgur.com/Ylf0PcF.jpg This is what I imagine people in here look like.
15 Apprehensive-Quote83 2021-05-11
bmi to low
7 strallweat 2021-05-11
I'll have you know my Dr was just fatphobic.
15 -Kite-Man- 2021-05-11
wait, what's the difference between idaho and iowa?
29 N0ahface 2021-05-11
Idaho: 🥔 and 🐄🤠
Iowa: 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
13 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-05-11
Mormons vs. Lutherans
7 -Kite-Man- 2021-05-11
ok, what's a lutheran? they get less press
20 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-05-11
Kinda like a diet catholic. They were raised in an organized religion that they maintain some cultural trappings of, but they can end up as either milquetoast liberals or tradcon goofballs. They probably have some Scandinavian or German ancestry, and they hang onto some vestiges of that culture as well as some ethno-religious practices, especially around Christmas time. Lutherans love Christmas.
Unlike Catholics, who generally come from big families and party cultures, they tend to be superficially friendly but insular and reserved, the kind of people who will rave about your potluck hotdish and invite you over for supper "some time," but hope that you won't ever accept.
6 GeminiRocket 2021-05-11
You just described all my relationships I got so far with G*rmans
5 -Kite-Man- 2021-05-11
good answer, thank you
2 Jojopolo 2021-05-11
"Hotdish" Begone, Minnesota filth
1 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-05-11
uff da
3 fuckspazlmao 2021-05-11
Same shit
11 SnapshillBot 2021-05-11
I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that closing the sub for a joke wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how this sub is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.
You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love the show and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with ableism and our nightmare reality all day, and this sub is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find this sub closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.
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