This listing on yesterday's Fark.com archive annoyed the shit out of me last night: "Tropical depression forms off N.C. coast. Not nearly as depressing as actually living in N.C." It links to this Yahoo! News article.
I find it incredibly bothersome that some narrowminded person who has spent 15 minutes of his/her life in the state, probably driving through a military town or sitting in the airport, can create such a facetious statement for a bunch of people to get offended by.
Mind you, I realize that Fark.com is a link brothel and not a real news source, but at the same time you have to question why the fuck someone would green-light a statement that would create so much hostility on the forums. Oh yeah - they're trying to drive traffic back to the site. Duh.
My suspicion is that some asshat heard from a friend who heard from a friend that Fayetteville sucks because there's a stripper joint on every corner or that there's nothing to do outside the Triangle but tip cows.
I'm not going to post a public defense of North Carolina. If I had been living in Pittsburgh or Gary, IN I'd be equally offended if someone had tried to put my state on blast. Shit happens. Communities become depressed; I'm living in one that's trying to pull itself up by the bootstraps.
Some people choose to move somewhere because they don't like where they are. Others are where they are because they're born there and choose not to leave. I find it disgusting that people can't respect that.
Posted by Tiffany at July 19, 2006 09:28 AM | TrackBackI was stationed at Cherry Point in in the early 1970s and I couldn't wait to leave. I've been back several times since and been quite impressed - the entire state is moving in the right direction.
My home town is totally depressing. It's lost half the population from when I was a teen. I'm gone, and would not move back under any circumstances.
Places change and people do too.
Posted by: MarkD at July 19, 2006 05:24 PMWell, you are a big fucking baby aren't you.
Fark lives off jokes like that, shrug it off and shut up you dumb twat.
Me a dumb twat? It seems to me that you're most likely the dumb twat for a) commenting on a year-old post, b) taking Fark seriously, and c) using Google or whatever other means to find Fark-related items and then clicking them when they are obviously NOT Fark, and d) concealing yourself behind an anonymous name.
Fucking hairless ape - go grow a pair.
Posted by: Tiffany at April 2, 2007 07:11 PM