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Would be very good to hear from him again (now I'm back).
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He moved to Carolina (can't remember if it was North or South). He is probably learning how to wear his caps back to front, drive a pick up truck and get on with the local Baptists or the nearest KKK chapter!
A good friend of mine from Canada ended up working on contract in Greenville South Carolina and his colleagues invited him to their church on Sunday. When he pointed out that he was an atheist he was shunned for the rest of his time there and was delighted to get home to Calgary in the winter!
Maybe I am being unfair but the Carolinas don't float my boat.
Caco
A good friend of mine from Canada ended up working on contract in Greenville South Carolina and his colleagues invited him to their church on Sunday. When he pointed out that he was an atheist he was shunned for the rest of his time there and was delighted to get home to Calgary in the winter!
Maybe I am being unfair but the Carolinas don't float my boat.
Caco
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I'll take Calgary in the winter over any tine in Carolinas.
Caco, really loved the second phrase of your first paragraph
Caco, really loved the second phrase of your first paragraph
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Another wanderer returns!
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I once spent 6 weeks working in Raleigh, NC. It wasn't all bible thumping, some of the people were very normal.
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I have returned! And, yes, I'm now very much at home in Georgetown, South Carolina. Where 99.9% of the people are normal. Contrary to the falsehoods written above.
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Cacophonix wrote:He moved to Carolina (can't remember if it was North or South). He is probably learning how to wear his caps back to front, drive a pick up truck and get on with the local Baptists or the nearest KKK chapter!
A good friend of mine from Canada ended up working on contract in Greenville South Carolina and his colleagues invited him to their church on Sunday. When he pointed out that he was an atheist he was shunned for the rest of his time there and was delighted to get home to Calgary in the winter!
Maybe I am being unfair but the Carolinas don't float my boat.
Caco
Have you ever been to either of the Carolinas, Caco? Or are you basing judgement on one single person's experience? I have never before met people who are more giving, selfless, warm, charitable, friendly, patriotic (gasp) and helpful than I have in the South in general and in SC specifically. It's common knowledge that southerners in general cast a leery eye upon northerners. I experienced that in the Army and didn't quite understand it. Now I understand it very well.
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Rwy in Sight wrote:I'll take Calgary in the winter over any tine in Carolinas.
Caco, really loved the second phrase of your first paragraph
That's fine, Rwy. While I sit on the beach in the winter sipping Pina Coladas, I'll think of you freezing your balls off in Calgary.
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rgbrock1 wrote:Cacophonix wrote:He moved to Carolina (can't remember if it was North or South). He is probably learning how to wear his caps back to front, drive a pick up truck and get on with the local Baptists or the nearest KKK chapter!
A good friend of mine from Canada ended up working on contract in Greenville South Carolina and his colleagues invited him to their church on Sunday. When he pointed out that he was an atheist he was shunned for the rest of his time there and was delighted to get home to Calgary in the winter!
Maybe I am being unfair but the Carolinas don't float my boat.
Caco
Have you ever been to either of the Carolinas, Caco? Or are you basing judgement on one single person's experience? I have never before met people who are more giving, selfless, warm, charitable, friendly, patriotic (gasp) and helpful than I have in the South in general and in SC specifically. It's common knowledge that southerners in general cast a leery eye upon northerners. I experienced that in the Army and didn't quite understand it. Now I understand it very well.
I have indeed, both North and South when I was based in JAX, often flying up to places like Greenville and Raleigh!
Have you taken to wearing Confederate underpants and changing your name to Beauregard by deed poll? I am glad to see that you fly the flag of the United State of America rather than a whimsical confederate flag on your porch!
Also good to see that you are still as feisty as was your wont before!
PS - I come from far further South than you soft Southern boys.
I have never before met people who are more giving, selfless, warm, charitable, friendly, patriotic (gasp) and helpful than I have in the South in general and in SC specifically. It's common knowledge that southerners in general cast a leery eye upon northerners.
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Don't have an innate antipathy to Southerners at all by the way but all in all prefer Mississippi although I have a couple of Saffer friends who migrated to Atlanta Georgia...
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Some might notice that I am a huge fan of Southern rock, folk, country etc.
Caco
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Some might notice that I am a huge fan of Southern rock, folk, country etc.
Caco
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rgbrock1 wrote:Rwy in Sight wrote:I'll take Calgary in the winter over any tine in Carolinas.
Caco, really loved the second phrase of your first paragraph
That's fine, Rwy. While I sit on the beach in the winter sipping Pina Coladas, I'll think of you freezing your balls off in Calgary.
I have got my more than fair share of drinks on the beach. I do like heavy winter in places they are built for that (good insulation on houses, good and efficient heating) and currently my wallpaper image on my laptop is a night snowfall by my place last winter. Having said that I do enjoy the heatwaves in the summer.
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Rwy in Sight wrote:I have got my more than fair share of drinks on the beach. I do like heavy winter in places they are built for that (good insulation on houses, good and efficient heating) and currently my wallpaper image on my laptop is a night snowfall by my place last winter. Having said that I do enjoy the heatwaves in the summer.
Snow! I'm allergic to the stuff.
My wallpaper is a sunset on Reunion:
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Snow! I'm allergic to the stuff.
Do you get much in KZN?
Do you get much in KZN?
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On the Drakensburg mountains in some years.
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I should start a thread about wallpapers. See you in the relevant forum in about an hour.
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Woody wrote:Snow! I'm allergic to the stuff.
Do you get much in KZN?
Van Reenen’s Pass, altitude 1700m/5270ft, on the N3 'motor way', just inside KZN on the border with the Free State quite often closed once or twice a year because of snow.
I've never gone up to look at it, but I should imagine the average UK driver could manage a conventional car. The problem would be a Seth Efrican with a big artic, across the road.
Having not driven on snow for over 30 years, I suspect my skills are currently somewhat less than the UK average.
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