You Know You're From Wisconsin When

[kevbo]

Both, Lex. Both.

 

[palemale]

. . . you can't hear the stereo when your girlfriend sits on your face.

 

[bankside]

• Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
• You refer to the Packers as "we."
• You have gotten frost-bitten and sunburned in the same week.
• Travelling coast to coast means going from LaCrosse to Milwaukee.
• A brat is something you eat.
• You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
• You consider Madison exotic.
• You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
• You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.
• You know what a bubbler is.
• You go out for fish fry every Friday.
• You can recognize someone from Illinois/Minnesota from their driving.
• You know how to polka.
• You drink soda and refer to your dad as "pop."
• Formal wear is blue jeans and a baseball cap.
• Your 4th of July Family Picknic was moved indoors due to frost.
• You know where Waukesha is AND can pronounce it.
• You can visit Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London, and Poland all in one afternoon.
• You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
• You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
• You enjoy driving in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow.
• At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
• Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
• You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.
• You find 0 degrees a little chilly.
• You know what to do with a Blatz.

Just thought I'd share a list from a better state...

Wisconsin sounds like American Canada! We should get you guys in as a province! Yes, our prime minister is currently running around like a Death Eater awaiting the return of [STRIKE]Voldemort[/STRIKE] Bush, but other than that we're a lovely country! You should join!

 

[Jerry]

I'm not FROM Wisconsin but my father is and I'm up there quite a bit. I'm down with everything you said except pop/soda and my DRIVING.

I also don't particularly like being referred to as a FIB by you fuckin' cheese heads.

Yeah, well stay the hell in Illinois where your driving and throwing your garbage out the window is accepted.

In Wisconsin, you'll always be a FIB (Fuckin' Illinois Bastard) until we prove you otherwise. We are a very welcoming group of folks largely, but we don't take kindly to people abusing our land. We're a pretty protective group like that. Come on up and enjoy our land, but respect us and respect our land. The decent people from IL aren't FIBs, just the FIBs are.

ON WISCONSIN!!!

 

[Jerry]

Oh and what do I do with Blatz?

I cook brats in it with kraut and onions.

And I don't mean Johnsonvilles, I mean hand made brats from the local butcher shop. That's right, we still have local butcher shops and we LOVE them.

REAL Wisconsin brats with some German kraut, onions, and some German mustard (I'm German) is a beautiful thing.

Milwaukee still has Germanfest, btw. (And Polishfest, I think there's something for the Irish [I'm half Irish], and a celebration to most folks for that matter, we'll drink to just about anything)

And I believe Summerfest is still the largest live outdoor music festival in the world. WE KNOW HOW TO PARTY!!!



ON WISCONSIN!!!

 

[looseliam]

Being from Chicago, I feel obligated to hate Wisconsinites. But I sure do love a lot of 'em. I think I read somewhere that "Romeo and Juliet" was based on a Chicagoan falling in love with someone from Rhinelander. Or was it Wausau?

Wisconsinites???

FFS!! Cheesheads CHEESEHEADS!!!

Oh, THAT'S odd...I always thought that Shakespeare's play was based on two lovers from the twin towns of Joliet and Romeoville, in northeastern Illinois.

However, the other rumors I've heard about the ill-fated "two-state romance" spawning Shakespeare's play actually involved a Chicagoan falling in love with somebody from Antigo, which is somewhat closer to Wausau.

Both rumors are, of course, prevalent in Shakespearian academia, but the Doctoral Theses about the Joliet-Romeoville hypothesis are somewhat more convincing.

Ahh Joliet (pronounced like toilet ).

ANd omg I love Antigo. I've been there many times in my youth. I'm sure there'd be some corn-fed cutie I could fall in love with. Well, after he moves to Chicago, of course.

You know you're from WISCONSIN, when you see the MARS Cheese sign coming back from Chicago and sigh because you are HOME.

No, I sigh because I'll be returning to civilisation soon.









go Bears

 

[Kyanimal]

Personally, I'm a transplant from Ohio, but consider Wisconsin my HOME! (Considering I've lived here, by choice, longer than anywhere else in my Life!)

I also have a LOT of friends who are "Penny Heads"! (Catch that? "Land of Lincoln" ... Whose face is on Pennies? ) And I don't think of THEM as "FIB's"! (F'ing Illinois Bastards")

HOWEVER ... those that have IL plates on their cars, driving as though they OWN the road, and tend to look "Down" on "Us Locals", while enjoying the pleasures of OUR state, truly do tend to piss me off!

It's quite similar to the "Ugly Americans", traveling outside our country, and INSISTING that Everyone live up to THEIR "Standards". (When, in fact, the "Standards" that they're insisting on are quite inferior, not as crass, as the countries they are Visitors to! )

All we're really hoping for is a bit of Consideration! Is that too much to ask? EVERYONE is Welcome here! But, PLEASE, have the decency to show some Class!

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz ;-)

 

[Jerry]

You know you're from WISCONSIN, when you see the MARS Cheese sign coming back from Chicago and sigh because you are HOME.

BULLSHIT


We have REAL cheese in Wisconsin, we don't need any of your Chicago bullshit to tell us when we're home. Chicago is a far stretch from home for US.

We are WISCONSIN and we are PROUD.

We're a better state than Illinois by far. If we weren't, you flatlander fucks wouldn't insist on driving up here and annoying us with your shitty driving and polluting habits all the time. You guys can keep that shit, we don't need ya.

Not to say the respectful folks aren't welcome, but y'all can keep the morons who can't drive and all the shitbags who throw their garbage around. We see too much of that from you Illinois people. Everyone is welcome here, but pick your shit up and don't be a dick. We don't ask for much.



ON WISCONSIN

 

[looseliam]

Ooo this may be better than the CE&P threads

 

[G-Lexington]

Jerry, the only thing sadder than "state pride" is "high school pride more than five years after graduation". I love my birth city (San Francisco) and adopted city (Denver) as much as the next person, but I think the petty "you suck, no you suck" thing that cities and states get into (Colorado has some sort of issue with Texas) to be such utter bullshit.

Lex

 

[hotdog1846]

^ You people who live in Denver suck.

 

[kevbo]

But Lex, Wisconsin really IS better than IL and MN...

 

[Jerry]

Jerry, the only thing sadder than "state pride" is "high school pride more than five years after graduation". I love my birth city (San Francisco) and adopted city (Denver) as much as the next person, but I think the petty "you suck, no you suck" thing that cities and states get into (Colorado has some sort of issue with Texas) to be such utter bullshit.

Lex

I disagree very much about state pride. I'm from Wisconsin and I'm very proud of my state. I don't see that as juvenille or sad at all. I currently live in a different state and I like i here very much also, but I try to respect their state while I'm here. I consider myself a resident and I carry over the same things I believed while I was back home in WI...respect the people, respect the land, and you'll be fine.

I have a great deal of pride in my state, and a greater deal of pride in my country. If you think that I'm juvenille or sad because of that, then that's your opinion. I know some great people with some strong state pride who will continue to fight and die so you can post such nonsense online. Go ahead and talk down to them too, I'm sure you know much better than they do

 

[Jerry]

But Lex, Wisconsin really IS better than IL and MN...

Quoted for TRUTH

 

[Jerry]

^ You people who live in Denver suck.

Now, I like Denver.

I like Fort Collins too, that's a sweet town. I have no problems with CO, or TX

 

[bankside]

I think state pride is different from state Chauvinism. Nobody argues with regional pride, I think, but I understand how people can get carried away to the point where they have to ignore the good things about other places in order to keep convincing themselves that "we're number one."

 

[G-Lexington]

Bankside summed it up fairly well. I don't know if I'd say I'm "proud" of my state - I do love it here, and I probably would rather live here than anywhere else. But I'm not to the point that I can't see the problems of my state, or see the positives of other areas, or accept and understand that other people prefer other places. And if you feel the need to dis any other city or state, then I think you've fallen into that trap of turning "state pride" into "state chauvinism".

Greeley, however, does smell like cow shit.

Lex

 

[Yooper]

Wisconsin is a lovely filter to keep most of the Illinois folks out of the U.P.

(We take the Summer People for their non-homestead property taxes but secretly flip them off when they are driving 65 MPH through the Construction Zones.)

Lions vs. Packers is called the Yooper Bowl. That's why most U.P. Bars have spent the money on TWO Televisions.

 

[Jerry]

TWO televisions? Wow! Hahaha

Ok so I was drunk when I was posting before, which would explain why I was 'talking' like an idiot to some extent. That would also explain my attack on a WI company for no reason hahaha Oops.

But really, I don't think the majority of people from WI truly hate any other state, even IL. I know I don't anyway.

Sure I'll say WI is better and all that, but it's just smack talk. I don't feel like anybody is better than anybody else

 

[Kyanimal]

I have had the great, good, fortune, of living in many places, and traveling to many more! I've been to more States, than not, covered a good portion of Canada, and most of Europe. And, yet, I've CHOSEN to live in Wisconsin! (as have ALL Nationalities)

Why? Because it is an amalgam of ALL of those places! There is NOTHING that can't be found Here, in one form, or another!

Yeah! We kid about those who visit from beyond our borders, ESPECIALLY the "FIBs", because there are so Many of them. But ... we always Welcome EVERYONE! And THAT is a main reason I LOVE it here!

Another reason is we have Everything that Chicago does (One of my most favorite cities!), but on a much more manageable, smaller, more easy going, scale. No wonder those south of us enjoy driving North!

It's not so much a matter of "State Pride". After all, I'm a Transplant! (Born in KY, raised in OH.) It's just that I haven't found any other place quite like WI!

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz