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#52 Apr 21 2011 at 2:22 PM Rating: Good
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Varus, what part of Knoxville qualifies as "city," exactly?


Only a mile and a half from downtown.

I can hear the crowd at neyland stadium clearly from my backyard.

H*ll if you're downtown on a weekend you might see me there jogging with my dog.

Come see me play in Market Square some time. I'll play a backwoods country song just for you. I wouldn't exactly call the area a city, though. The presence of black people does not automatically imply a city environment, and just because it's relatively more city-esque than the rest of the area does not make it even minorly comparable to any real metropolis.


Are you... suggesting that Knoxville isn't a city...?
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Varus, what part of Knoxville qualifies as "city," exactly?


Only a mile and a half from downtown.

I can hear the crowd at neyland stadium clearly from my backyard.

H*ll if you're downtown on a weekend you might see me there jogging with my dog.

Come see me play in Market Square some time. I'll play a backwoods country song just for you. I wouldn't exactly call the area a city, though. The presence of black people does not automatically imply a city environment, and just because it's relatively more city-esque than the rest of the area does not make it even minorly comparable to any real metropolis.


Are you... suggesting that Knoxville isn't a city...?
No, but you'd have to try fairly damned hard to say it compares to a Chicago or Philadelphia in any real sense other than the official name.
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Chicago has suburbs larger than the city of Knoxville :D

While I suppose the suburb of Aurora calls itself the City of Aurora, no one regards going to Aurora as being in the city. Matter of perspective, I guess.
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No, but you'd have to try fairly damned hard to say it compares to a Chicago or Philadelphia in any real sense other than the official name.


Ah, ok. I was confused.
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#56 Apr 21 2011 at 2:27 PM Rating: Good
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Chicago has suburbs larger than the city of Knoxville :D

While I suppose the suburb of Aurora calls itself the City of Aurora, no one regards going to Aurora as being in the city. Matter of perspective, I guess.

Kind of like how San Jose wants to have its own identity now when everyone knows it will always be just another cow town outside of San Francisco.
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#57 Apr 21 2011 at 2:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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Whenever we drive through Knoxville, I always get a giggle out of its one skyscraper. Well, skyscraper is what it wants to be when it grows up. I think it might be about 20 stories high, if that.
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#58 Apr 21 2011 at 2:44 PM Rating: Good
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Whenever we drive through Knoxville, I always get a giggle out of its one skyscraper. Well, skyscraper is what it wants to be when it grows up. I think it might be about 20 stories high, if that.


According to Emporis, their tallest one is the Plaza, at 27 stories.

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#59 Apr 21 2011 at 2:58 PM Rating: Excellent
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That one shot of the city makes it look like most of the building are pretty tall. In reality they're all just that short, haha.
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#61 Apr 21 2011 at 3:23 PM Rating: Good
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I can promise you no one south of the mason dixon is saying "hey let's go visit chicago".
They can't pronounce it.
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#62 Apr 21 2011 at 3:26 PM Rating: Good
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Wait, you're arguing someone else's town is the worst?

Think I'm getting culture shock.
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I can promise you no one south of the mason dixon is saying "hey let's go visit chicago".
They can't pronounce it.
Chicago's pretty great, actually. They have a giant @#%^ing reflective bean... and culture. To be completely fair, though, we've never lost most of our city to a clumsy cow. Whether or not that's an even trade for the incest is something you'll have to discern on your own.

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#64 Apr 21 2011 at 4:11 PM Rating: Good
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Chicago has suburbs larger than the city of Knoxville :D


Chicago is also a sh*t stain on the map. What's your point?


I can promise you no one south of the mason dixon is saying "hey let's go visit chicago".



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So with all of the good vibes coming out of Chicago, how does it show up as the third worst city on our second annual list of America's Most Miserable Cities?

Lousy weather, long commutes, rising unemployment and the highest sales tax rate in the country are to blame for the Windy City being near the top of our list. High rates of corruption by public officials didn't help either



http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/06/most-miserable-cities-business-washington_0206_miserable_cities.html


I can't comment on actually living in Chicago, but visiting Chicago is fun. I know at least 10 people from south of that line that have visited Chicago.
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LeWoVoc wrote:
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I can promise you no one south of the mason dixon is saying "hey let's go visit chicago".
They can't pronounce it.
Chicago's pretty great, actually. They have a giant @#%^ing reflective bean... and culture. To be completely fair, though, we've never lost most of our city to a clumsy cow. Whether or not that's an even trade for the incest is something you'll have to discern on your own.
Chicago is probably the only other city I'd voluntarily want to live in.
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varusword75 wrote:
I can promise you no one south of the mason dixon is saying "hey let's go visit chicago".

I can promise you that no one north or south of anywhere is saying "Hot damn, let's go visit Knoxville." :)
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#67 Apr 21 2011 at 4:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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Chicago is probably the only other city I'd voluntarily want to live in.

Are there cities you'd want to live in against your will?
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#68 Apr 21 2011 at 4:28 PM Rating: Good
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Chicago is probably the only other city I'd voluntarily want to live in.
Are there cities you'd want to live in against your will?
Tokyo would have to be against my will, because that's where my inlaws are. Smiley: mad
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#69 Apr 21 2011 at 4:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
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I can promise you no one south of the mason dixon is saying "hey let's go visit chicago".

I can promise you that no one north or south of anywhere is saying "Hot damn, let's go visit Knoxville." :)


Unless they're a rabid Vols fan that used to live in this area. Those people are nuts. I'm married to one.
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I knew cows were force-fed corn in mass production




Cows are completely unable to digest corn naturally. A diet of corn causes diarrhea, ulcers, bloat, liver disease and a general weakening of the immune system that leaves the cow open to everything from pneumonia to feedlot polio.

To combat this they are fed antibiotics. Most antibiotics sold in the US end up in animal feed. Antibiotics are for treating sick animals, except these animals are only sick because they are fed corn.


Ruminants cannot naturally digest corn.


They should be eating grass.


Eating sick animals is really really bad for you, the animals and the environment.









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I'm crying for the cows.

Wait, no I'm not, I'm eating my nice thick, tasty, porterhouse steak.
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#72 Apr 22 2011 at 1:42 AM Rating: Good
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I'm crying for the cows.

Wait, no I'm not, I'm eating my nice thick, tasty, porterhouse steak.


Standard response.

/Golf clap.
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I'm crying for the cows.

Wait, no I'm not, I'm eating my nice thick, tasty, porterhouse steak.


Yeah? How much are you going to enjoy it when I turn up to your house with a fine bottle of Scotch in one hand and an amateur proctology kit in the other? When I strap you down and shove the bottle up your arse, letting that fine single malt pour into your ******, how will you be doing then? What about when I come back, days later, and start pistoning the glass in and out, in and out, letting the necrotic sludge of putrefied flesh lubricate its passage, mixed up as it is in a cocktail of blood, pus and liquefied ****? HOW THE FUCK WILL YOU BE DOING THEN, YOU FAT, AMERICAN FUCKER? HOW WILL YOU BE MOTHER-FUCKIN' DOIN' THEN? GOOD? WILL IT BE GOOD, YOU SHIT? WILL IT BE GOOD FOR YOU?

Disclaimer: The above is meant only as an expression of my overwhelming rage, having been expertly trolled by an eminent witticism. I intend no physical harm to Tirith, and certainly have no intention to sexually assault him with a bottle of fine single malt whisky, especially not from the fine folks at Old Pulteney, mmm, taste the Highlands.
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#74 Apr 22 2011 at 3:42 AM Rating: Good
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paulsol wrote:
Eating sick animals is really really bad for you, the animals and the environment.
I wo9uld think eating healthy animals is bad for the animals as well.
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#75 Apr 22 2011 at 3:47 AM Rating: Good
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Uglysasquatch wrote:
paulsol wrote:
Eating sick animals is really really bad for you, the animals and the environment.
I wo9uld think eating healthy animals is bad for the animals as well.


Not for the ones doing the eatin'.
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#76 Apr 22 2011 at 4:44 AM Rating: Good
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TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
I'm crying for the cows.

Wait, no I'm not, I'm eating my nice thick, tasty, porterhouse steak.


If that steak was grass-fed, it would taste even better.
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