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Tha1ChiefRocka
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Location: Kansas

Haha, well that's good. I've met some people that have moved to KC (St Louis gets a lot of the same weather that we get) from warmer climates, and they were not prepared for the cold months. I always keep extra pairs of everything in my car in case I need it. Make sure to put winterized windshield wiper fluid in your car as well.

Here's some unsolicted advice about St Louis.

St Louis is a fine place. I've had several friends that live there, and, saying as though it's only 4 hours away, I've been more than a couple of times. They're a bit of our rival in some respects, but it's mostly friendly rivalry. I'm sure Mercury could give you better tips than these if he was around, but here are some things I know.

The Zoo and art museum are both free, and are located near each other in Forest Park. Makes for a nice afternoon when the weather is nice.

The Pageant (Delmar Hall) is where a lot of the good concerts are going to be.

There's an Italian neighborhood called "The Hill" that has some great restaurants. The one I've been to is called "Zia's", and I'd say it was pretty damn good.

The record store I've hit up a few times while I've been there is called "Planet Score"; the prices are fair and the selection is great.

The St Louis Live! area is the same overpriced block of bars that we have in our KCPNL district. I wouldn't recommend it for a night out.

St Louis is located in a great spot; if you're the adventurous type, or if your job allows for weekend trips, keep in mind that you are 4 hours (give or take) from the following major cities: Kansas City, Chicago, Memphis, Indianapolis, and Louisville.

To the west of St Louis, surprisingly enough, is the Missouri Rhineland, and a great town called Hermann. That's where my folks lived for awhile when my brother was young, it's an old german town known for The Stone Hill Winery. It's only about an hour and a half from the city, so that's a nice trip to take too.

That's probably all I'll throw at you. I hope your move goes well!

cestuneblague
Edgy to the Choir

Location: MA/FL

How's Britain feeling this morning?

Skinny
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CryingGameDahlin wrote:

How's Britain feeling this morning?

Having been out campaigning for Labour in Northfield (a seat it lost for the first time since 1987), pretty fucking shit. We've got a bumbling, self-serving, elitist, quasi-fascist, sexist, racist, homophobic bully in charge, somebody who has openly displayed his disdain for the working classes his entire political career and yet still somehow convinced them to vote for him. A man who was so scared of scrutiny that, on the day before the election, he literally hid in a fridge to avoid being questioned on a breakfast news magazine show.

I work in a school, and under the Conservatives we're due to receive around £500 less funding per child, despite already being decimated by cuts that mean we struggle to provide the most basic of resources. Our free, universal health care system - once the envy of the entire world - has seen waiting times increase to dangerous levels, and is at severe risk of finding large parts of itself privatised by a party who have always considered the health of the proletariat an unnecessary burden. We have become so brainwashed, that after nearly a decade of crippling austerity we still doubled down like a masochist Oliver Twist and asked, "please, reptilian overlords, can we have some more?"

So yeah, I'm feeling fucking depressed and ashamed.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

Skinny wrote:

Having been out campaigning for Labour in Northfield (a seat it lost for the first time since 1987), pretty fucking shit. We've got a bumbling, self-serving, elitist, quasi-fascist, sexist, racist, homophobic bully in charge, somebody who has openly displayed his disdain for the working classes his entire political career and yet still somehow convinced them to vote for him. A man who was so scared of scrutiny that, on the day before the election, he literally hid in a fridge to avoid being questioned on a breakfast news magazine show.

I work in a school, and under the Conservatives we're due to receive around £500 less funding per child, despite already being decimated by cuts that mean we struggle to provide the most basic of resources. Our free, universal health care system - once the envy of the entire world - has seen waiting times increase to dangerous levels, and is at severe risk of finding large parts of itself privatised by a party who have always considered the health of the proletariat an unnecessary burden. We have become so brainwashed, that after nearly a decade of crippling austerity we still doubled down like a masochist Oliver Twist and asked, "please, reptilian overlords, can we have some more?"

So yeah, I'm feeling fucking depressed and ashamed.

My sympathies. Looks like Brexit is a done deal, and Scottish independence and Irish reunification are very possible. Ironic that the Make Britain Great Again crowd is actually turning it into Little England. But we have a somewhat similar dynamic here.

Really a shame that Labour needed a seismic loss to an utter buffoon with huge long-term implications to come to the realization that Corbyn is poison in a national election. Many leftist ideas of the sort he backed are remarkably popular when they have a competent, credible messenger promoting them, and he has been the exact opposite.
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baystateoftheart wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Having been out campaigning for Labour in Northfield (a seat it lost for the first time since 1987), pretty fucking shit. We've got a bumbling, self-serving, elitist, quasi-fascist, sexist, racist, homophobic bully in charge, somebody who has openly displayed his disdain for the working classes his entire political career and yet still somehow convinced them to vote for him. A man who was so scared of scrutiny that, on the day before the election, he literally hid in a fridge to avoid being questioned on a breakfast news magazine show.

I work in a school, and under the Conservatives we're due to receive around £500 less funding per child, despite already being decimated by cuts that mean we struggle to provide the most basic of resources. Our free, universal health care system - once the envy of the entire world - has seen waiting times increase to dangerous levels, and is at severe risk of finding large parts of itself privatised by a party who have always considered the health of the proletariat an unnecessary burden. We have become so brainwashed, that after nearly a decade of crippling austerity we still doubled down like a masochist Oliver Twist and asked, "please, reptilian overlords, can we have some more?"

So yeah, I'm feeling fucking depressed and ashamed.

My sympathies. Looks like Brexit is a done deal, and Scottish independence and Irish reunification are very possible. Ironic that the Make Britain Great Again crowd is actually turning it into Little England. But we have a somewhat similar dynamic here.

Really a shame that Labour needed a seismic loss to an utter buffoon with huge long-term implications to come to the realization that Corbyn is poison in a national election. Many leftist ideas of the sort he backed are remarkably popular when they have a competent, credible messenger promoting them, and he has been the exact opposite.

Whilst I would agree that Corbyn is unelectable, I do not believe it has anything to do with his competence or lack thereof. He has made mistakes, but they should - in a sane world - pale into insignificance when held up against Boris Johnson's plethora of gaffes and portfolio of lies; Corbyn is largely unelectable because of a sustained, unrelenting, shameless, inaccurate, and extremely deliberate character assassination carried out by the right wing press, and on doorsteps it was obvious just how much the mistruths have pervaded (I was told by one former Labour voter that he would be voting Conservative because Corbyn's a racist, though he couldn't provide an example of said racism, and he seemed blissfully ignorant of Boris's myriad racist comments, such as his labelling of black people as "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles", or his description of women in burqas as looking like "letterboxes" and "bankrobbers", or his disdain for the Macpherson report, or his assertion that "a bunch of black kids" are more aggressive than white youths, or his constant othering of migrants who have the supposed gall to "treat Britain as their own", or his 2004 novel, titled Seventy Two Virgins, which is packed full of ethnic slurs and harmful stereotypes - but sure, Corbyn's the racist). The fact is that Johnson simply did not face the same levels of scrutiny or criticism, and that is not down to Corbyn's competence, but rather his policies - the rich felt rightfully threatened by his otherwise popular socialist manifesto, and ran the biggest smear campaign I can ever remember in British politics.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

Skinny wrote:

baystateoftheart wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Having been out campaigning for Labour in Northfield (a seat it lost for the first time since 1987), pretty fucking shit. We've got a bumbling, self-serving, elitist, quasi-fascist, sexist, racist, homophobic bully in charge, somebody who has openly displayed his disdain for the working classes his entire political career and yet still somehow convinced them to vote for him. A man who was so scared of scrutiny that, on the day before the election, he literally hid in a fridge to avoid being questioned on a breakfast news magazine show.

I work in a school, and under the Conservatives we're due to receive around £500 less funding per child, despite already being decimated by cuts that mean we struggle to provide the most basic of resources. Our free, universal health care system - once the envy of the entire world - has seen waiting times increase to dangerous levels, and is at severe risk of finding large parts of itself privatised by a party who have always considered the health of the proletariat an unnecessary burden. We have become so brainwashed, that after nearly a decade of crippling austerity we still doubled down like a masochist Oliver Twist and asked, "please, reptilian overlords, can we have some more?"

So yeah, I'm feeling fucking depressed and ashamed.

My sympathies. Looks like Brexit is a done deal, and Scottish independence and Irish reunification are very possible. Ironic that the Make Britain Great Again crowd is actually turning it into Little England. But we have a somewhat similar dynamic here.

Really a shame that Labour needed a seismic loss to an utter buffoon with huge long-term implications to come to the realization that Corbyn is poison in a national election. Many leftist ideas of the sort he backed are remarkably popular when they have a competent, credible messenger promoting them, and he has been the exact opposite.

Whilst I would agree that Corbyn is unelectable, I do not believe it has anything to do with his competence or lack thereof. He has made mistakes, but they should - in a sane world - pale into insignificance when held up against Boris Johnson's plethora of gaffes and portfolio of lies; Corbyn is largely unelectable because of a sustained, unrelenting, shameless, inaccurate, and extremely deliberate character assassination carried out by the right wing press, and on doorsteps it was obvious just how much the mistruths have pervaded (I was told by one former Labour voter that he would be voting Conservative because Corbyn's a racist, though he couldn't provide an example of said racism, and he seemed blissfully ignorant of Boris's myriad racist comments, such as his labelling of black people as "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles", or his description of women in burqas as looking like "letterboxes" and "bankrobbers", or his disdain for the Macpherson report, or his assertion that "a bunch of black kids" are more aggressive than white youths, or his constant othering of migrants who have the supposed gall to "treat Britain as their own", or his 2004 novel, titled Seventy Two Virgins, which is packed full of ethnic slurs and harmful stereotypes - but sure, Corbyn's the racist). The fact is that Johnson simply did not face the same levels of scrutiny or criticism, and that is not down to Corbyn's competence, but rather his policies - the rich felt rightfully threatened by his otherwise popular socialist manifesto, and ran the biggest smear campaign I can ever remember in British politics.

Oh for sure Corbyn's flaws pale in comparison to Johnson's, but so did Clinton's* in comparison to Trump's. The media bias in favor of conservative politicians is structural. You have well-funded brazenly ideological outlets that comprise the right-wing press, but there are no leftist billionaires creating a counterbalance. So the alternative is the mainstream press with its 'both sides' commitments, in part a result of the right wing being very good at working the refs. The right has played the long game very well, to the point where extreme conservative views are seen as normal by a critical mass of voters, while extreme left-wing views are frightening and radical. So competence means something different for a leftist candidate. It means being mostly beyond reproach, in past statements, in associations, in rhetoric. Jeremy Corbyn was not that candidate. If Britain had had a Sanders or a Warren leading Labour, I think the result would have been much stronger.

*Obviously a liberal, not leftist candidate
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