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Outside of Ft Polk is cool. You got drive through liquor places, old black dudes rocking confederate flags. Strange place.

The base and everything about it sucks.


Sounds like Princeton, Illinois. Minus the old black dudes. Can’t say I’ve frequented the drive through liquor establishments however.


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 Post subject: Re: Shitholes of America
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 Post subject: Re: Shitholes of America
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Detroit
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Cleveland getting lots of love here


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 Post subject: Re: Shitholes of America
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Cleveland getting lots of love here

Their chief export is crippling depression.

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tommy wrote:
Cleveland getting lots of love here

Their chief export is crippling depression.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Isn’t Cincinnati just a shittier Cleveland? Or is it the other way around?

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Isn’t Cincinnati just a shittier Cleveland? Or is it the other way around?

Cinci has Jungle Jim's grocery store so it is much better.

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Isn’t Cincinnati just a shittier Cleveland? Or is it the other way around?

Cinci has Jungle Jim's grocery store so it is much better.

That’s some racist shit.

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Cinci has Jungle Jim's grocery store so it is much better.


HaHa. I was there and I couldn't quite wrap my head around the concept. :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Cinci has Jungle Jim's grocery store so it is much better.


HaHa. I was there and I couldn't quite wrap my head around the concept. :lol: :lol: :lol:

The whole thing makes no sense, yet is incredibly successful.

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The whole thing makes no sense, yet is incredibly successful.


Everybody has things... One of mine is grocery stores. It's sorta weird, I know. I love going to them when I go on vacation or whatever. My friends that live in Cinci could not wait to take me there. It was like Whole Foods, met Wally World, met Walmart. I had no idea how I was suppose to respond.


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Everybody has things... One of mine is grocery stores. It's sorta weird, I know. I love going to them when I go on vacation or whatever. My friends that live in Cinci could not wait to take me there. It was like Whole Foods, met Wally World, met Walmart. I had no idea how I was suppose to respond.

It has a fishery, it has a singing Elvis by the cheese section, 1000+ kinds of soda, a port-a-potty selfie booth, about three aisles of beer selection, carnival rides, probably ten different ethnic aisles covering the entire globe, a Jersey Mike's ordering counter (if you want to go into Jersey Mike's, you can, but they will sell it to you and let you continue shopping), and everyone in there is friendly. It is definitely worth a stop if you are in the area.

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newper wrote:
Spaulding wrote:
Everybody has things... One of mine is grocery stores. It's sorta weird, I know. I love going to them when I go on vacation or whatever. My friends that live in Cinci could not wait to take me there. It was like Whole Foods, met Wally World, met Walmart. I had no idea how I was suppose to respond.

It has a fishery, it has a singing Elvis by the cheese section, 1000+ kinds of soda, a port-a-potty selfie booth, about three aisles of beer selection, carnival rides, probably ten different ethnic aisles covering the entire globe, a Jersey Mike's ordering counter (if you want to go into Jersey Mike's, you can, but they will sell it to you and let you continue shopping), and everyone in there is friendly. It is definitely worth a stop if you are in the area.

Holy shit. This sounds awesome.

Also, how does Schaumburg not have one of these yet? Seems like something they would invent.

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It has a fishery, it has a singing Elvis by the cheese section, 1000+ kinds of soda, a port-a-potty selfie booth, about three aisles of beer selection, carnival rides, probably ten different ethnic aisles covering the entire globe, a Jersey Mike's ordering counter (if you want to go into Jersey Mike's, you can, but they will sell it to you and let you continue shopping), and everyone in there is friendly. It is definitely worth a stop if you are in the area.


YES!!! Some good stuff but so weird at the same time.


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Holy shit. This sounds awesome.

Also, how does Schaumburg not have one of these yet? Seems like something they would invent.


Even the Schaumburgians are a little hoighty toighty. it's a bizarre experience.


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Spaulding wrote:
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The whole thing makes no sense, yet is incredibly successful.


Everybody has things... One of mine is grocery stores. It's sorta weird, I know. I love going to them when I go on vacation or whatever. My friends that live in Cinci could not wait to take me there. It was like Whole Foods, met Wally World, met Walmart. I had no idea how I was suppose to respond.

European grocery stores are fun. Plus if it is sweltering out, you can just stand in the frozen foods section and cool off.

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European grocery stores are fun. Plus if it is sweltering out, you can just stand in the frozen foods section and cool off.


We went to one in Malta I think. I dont really know what is a grocery store an what is not in european countries.


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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
European grocery stores are fun. Plus if it is sweltering out, you can just stand in the frozen foods section and cool off.


We went to one in Malta I think. I dont really know what is a grocery store an what is not in european countries.

Functionally identical to their American counterparts you just won't find them in the city center. They are not as popular though, at least in France. Most people have their boulanger, boucher, fromagerie etc. then buy the rest at Leclerc or Carrefour, which are goliath stores that more closely resemble a Target or Walmart.

Intermarché would be the closest thing to an American grocery store but the entire chain feels like a festering shithole.


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Spaulding wrote:
Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
European grocery stores are fun. Plus if it is sweltering out, you can just stand in the frozen foods section and cool off.


We went to one in Malta I think. I dont really know what is a grocery store an what is not in european countries.

Functionally identical to their American counterparts you just won't find them in the city center. They are not as popular though, at least in France. Most people have their boulanger, boucher, fromagerie etc. then buy the rest at Leclerc or Carrefour, which are goliath stores that more closely resemble a Target or Walmart.

Intermarché would be the closest thing to an American grocery store but the entire chain feels like a festering shithole.


The shopping style seems much different as well. Europeans don't stockpile groceries the way Americans do. They buy product for the specific meal. Almost no one in my neighborhood is American-born and I see MANY people who go to the Fresh Market every single day.

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Let's be honest, we have all referred to certain places of this very country as "shitholes" (correctly in most cases I might add)

What places in the US fit the bill as "shitholes" (cities, states, counties, etc.)

My list:

1: Cleveland
2: Buffalo
3: West Virginia
4: St. Louis
5: Alabama


You don't know what you're talking about on West Virginia.

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Places south of I-80
The Mars Cheese Castle and the rest of Kenosha


Most of the riff raff is west of Sheridan Road, but this whole town has taken a nose dive over the last decade or so.


I don't think it is so bad. A little boring maybe and the roads are terrible but other than that, I like it for the most part.

Although I enjoyed living and going to school there, I would have to put Memphis on the list.

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