NationStates Jolt Archive

Hell, if PA gets a poll, then we sure as hell should!

I mean, we're so much cooler then the other states, we're in the shape of a mitten! Two, actually, if you look at the UP in the right light. No one else can hold up their hand to point where they live :D

Plus we got some damn good sports teams, hell even the Tigers are doing good this season.

saganaw bay is nice...

I try not to think of Michigan if I can help it. :D

Heh. Just kidding. Trying to get this in before it suffers the fate of copycat threads everywhere.

But Florida kicks Michigan's ass any day of the week.

Go Ontario!

Michigan is just where Toronto's trash gets dumped.

Watch out, it's the Michigan Militia!!

:mp5: :mp5: :mp5:

Never been there.

I think Michigan sucks and it can't hold a candle to Pennsylvania!

Never been there.

I have! I think I was 7.

You poor thing, I hope you weren't traumatized.

You poor thing, I hope you weren't traumatized.

Nah, it was way better than Virginia.

OKay, I'm glad you're alright.

Never been there.

First off I never been to Michigan, only know people who have- so my opinion is based on what I have heard and read. Overall it is a nice state, like any state it has its pros and cons.

But Florida kicks Michigan's ass any day of the week.

Agreed, and to prove the point. Floridas visiting Michigan= 0, Michigians visiting Florida= a few hundred thousand. :D

I've seen almost ever type of plate from ever state here in Florida, expect well Hawaii and Alaska.

BTW- the weathers nice here. And 1 hour drive to the nearest beach. :D

It is getting hotter though- stupid summer- the winters are so much better. 60 degrees all day- nice.

I'm biased, my ex lives in Michigan. They were kind of the rural hick version... with a twist! His parents divorced and his dad married his mother's sister, so they like to 'joke around' with the whole sister-cousin, uncle-dad, type of thing. They also have permission to hunt and then eat the deer that wander around wildly in their backyard sometimes.

So Michigan, in my opinion, is a majorly fucked up place to be.

At least I know that I'm unfairly predjudiced, and admit it, but there's really no point in my trying to change it now that I live in a different country.

No need to feel that you are biased. Michigan does suck.

Take that Michigan! :upyours: :upyours: :upyours:

No need to feel that you are biased. Michigan does suck.

Take that Michigan! :upyours: :upyours: :upyours:

You're just jealous, it's alright, get all your anger out now before it bottles up :D

Jealous of what?!

I live in Michigan, I love it here, not the best state in the union, but it is a fine one, no better no worse.

Canada :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :sniper: :

You talk down upon Canada?! :eek:

And Canada will politely ask you to stop. They'll lay on the courtesy and you'll feel so guilty.

And Canada will politely ask you to stop. They'll lay on the courtesy and you'll feel so guilty.

We'll set our maple leafs on you.

Go get him, leafy.

The canadians are attacking!! :eek:

I don't.















Oh, except that's where all my household garbage gets shipped. Right.

MICHIGAN SUCKS.... ALASKA KICKS BUTT. had to put in my two cents. i love the great final frontier of alaska. And Canada? nothing good ever came out of canada except Hawk Nelson

Floridas visiting Michigan= 0, Michigians visiting Florida= a few hundred thousand.
Pfft. My Michiganian hometown regularly gets Germans that have heard how sweet our beachs are. I'd much rather have them than Flordinians any day.
Also, Flordia is hot. Michigian is not. We gots snow in Michigan, not to mention we miss out on hurricans and such.
There's some Warbeler that lives in Michigan - but no wheres else!
Our lakes sink ships, too. *nods*
Not to mention, that war with Ohio that we had. Can the state of Florida ever say its been in war?

Wouldn't have a clue. Since I've been to California, I'll say Cali is better.. Heh.

Michael Moore was born in Michigan. Which makes it the worst state in the world. :)

The canadians are attacking!! :eek:

With evil Maple Syrup rain! It'd be like the Boston Molasses Flood, except it hits the red states first!

We Don't Give a Damn for the Whole State of Michigan

"O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio
We're from Ohio...O-H
We're from Ohio...I-O
O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio"

And for everyone to sing along: http://users.frii.com/~nmetro/osu/media/michigan.mp3

Round on the ends and HI in the middle: O-HI-O

That's what I learned when visiting the US *nods* (and having all-American host-parents from Ohio who lived in North Carolina)

:D:D:D

michagania, a medium large state i've only seen on the map. noted for mosquitoes, big lonely men of swedish decent, lake woebigon, lutifisk, some kind of big deal college athletics, big deal, otherwise like much of planet earth; mostly harmless.

i do like lots of trees, but i prefer them up in the mountains where the wind can blow most of the mosquitoes away.

everything i think i know about the place is hearsay.

=^^=
.../\...

I love Michigan!

I used to travel between Ontario and Michigan regularly for work. It's a very 'Canadian' kind of American State, (whether Michiganders want to admit it or not :p ), where I can drink a cup of Tim Horton's coffee and get full hockey coverage whilst enjoying some of Michigan's really great micro-brewery/restaurants.

Although I like to poke fun at the Michigan Accent (Mah, I got bax seat tickets for the hackey game!), I realize the Canadian one's not much better, eh? :)

I'm a big fan of Big Buck Breweries and Logan's Road House. I was also in a restaurant called the Redwood Lodge, or something to that effect. Bob Evan's sausage is just about the greatest breakfast sausage on the face of the planet! And IHOP's are a nice touch as well. (I'm sure there are Bob Evans and IHOPs in other states, but I can't find any in Ontario :( )

The Red Wings are a fantastic hockey team, and I love the rare occasion when the Leafs beat them.

I'm ready to adopt Michigan as another Canadian Province. Just give me the word!

(Incidentally, I'm surprised there aren't any more Michigander's popping up here... I know your out there because you get all riled up when I make fun of the accent!)

Where's the poll answer stating Michigan kicks ass except Detroit of course?

I think... that it's some place in America.

I grew up with and around Michiganders back in Corpus Christi (so many Midwesterners and New Englanders down there), and they rocked. I've never been to Michigan myself, but judging by the people, I'll say it's a pretty cool state.

I like Ohio better, but Michigan's okay. Really, I'd rather live in Texas or California where it's warmer year-round...

I like Ohio better, but Michigan's okay. Really, I'd rather live in Texas or California where it's warmer year-round...

For Texas, I highly recommend the Corpus Christi area. The "North of the South", I call it.

And the town I used to live in, Port Aransas, is almost completely made up of Midwesterners, New Englanders, and their offspring. Great weather, too.

Heres the thing.......What are the Canadians going ta do? nuke me? oh wait, they cant....NO NUKES!....Ill just keep sending acid rain their way through Michigans power plants
You Americans and your acid rain, factory waste, and greenhouse gases. Do you have any idea how much you polluted our lakes? The creature in the lakes are slowly going extinct thanks to your lack of environmental awareness. You are destroying the world's largest fresh water supply. And no, we aren't going to nuke you. We are going to wait until you have no resources left and nobody to help you, and then your race will slowly to extinct. THAT's what's going to happen if you don't stop polluting our lakes and our air.

They're our lakes too, and we'll do whatever we damn well please with them :D

And yes, Big Buck's is one of the best

Heres the thing.......What are the Canadians going ta do? nuke me? oh wait, they cant....NO NUKES!....Ill just keep sending acid rain their way through Michigans power plants

Half our change is Canadian though. How are we gonna use vending machies?

Although I really don't care what happens to Canada outside of BC. It's a future part of my Antartic Empire.

Half our change is Canadian though. How are we gonna use vending machies?

Although I really don't care what happens to Canada outside of BC. It's a future part of my Antartic Empire.
Ouch. Tweety would be hurt. You better extend the provinces to BC AND Alberta.

I know of it...

Ouch. Tweety would be hurt. You better extend the provinces to BC AND Alberta.

Ah, she's in Alberta? You should have her imported. Okay then, BC and Alberta!

Ah, she's in Alberta? You should have her imported. Okay then, BC and Alberta!
Actually, she was imported, then exported again. :p

Actually, she was imported, then exported again. :p

I see...What would it take for her to end up one of the major exports of Canada?

I've lived here 12 years of my 17 year life, and I've learned one thing: Michigan sucks.

Seriously, the weather, the economy, our last governor. Hell, where is a good thing about this dump? We don't even have cool animals

michagania, a medium large state i've only seen on the map. noted for mosquitoes, big lonely men of swedish decent, lake woebigon, lutifisk, some kind of big deal college athletics, big deal, otherwise like much of planet earth; mostly harmless.
That's Minnesoita...

Is Michigan the one that looks ever so slightly like an ovenglove?

We Don't Give a Damn for the Whole State of Michigan

"O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio
We're from Ohio...O-H
We're from Ohio...I-O
O, we don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
The whole state of Michigan, the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan, we're from Ohio"

And for everyone to sing along: http://users.frii.com/~nmetro/osu/media/michigan.mp3

Round on the ends and HI in the middle: O-HI-O

That's what I learned when visiting the US *nods* (and having all-American host-parents from Ohio who lived in North Carolina)

:D:D:D

I see your host-parents were either OSU grads or huge Buckeye fans. I hear people singing that song on "Beat Michigan Week" here on campus.

I think 'What do you think of [homeplace]' threads all need to die.

Is Michigan the one that looks ever so slightly like an ovenglove?
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I see your host-parents were either OSU grads or huge Buckeye fans. I hear people singing that song on "Beat Michigan Week" here on campus.
Michigans can't lie. We really don't give a damn about Ohio. Thus, no song.
We're just not like that.

I miss MI...

used to live there but we've moved to GA.


Is is just me, or do you really only hear people saying the UP, but never the LP?
It's always been the UP and lower peninsula with the people I know, but I'm wondering if that's just 'cause of the fact I lived in the lower pen., right under Detroit actually...

Mmm, Michigan.

Ohio State Sucks!
UofM!
Hail to the victors...

One other great thing about MI, in what other state can you actually say you live in Hell?

One other great thing about MI, in what other state can you actually say you live in Hell?

Not to mention Hell freezing over. How many dates do you think one could get out of that?

Michigan is pretty sweet, but Allen Park and the Michigan economy are not :(

Although I really don't care what happens to Canada outside of BC. It's a future part of my Antartic Empire.
Uhm, Antartica is the South Pole. Either your Empire streches over continents or you got the wrong bearing?

I see your host-parents were either OSU grads or huge Buckeye fans. I hear people singing that song on "Beat Michigan Week" here on campus.
My host-parents didn't graduate from OSU but they definitely were huge fans of the Ohio State football team ;)
I spent the first week of my American year in Ohio and that song was pretty much the first thing I learned. That, and that it is indeed possible to gain 7 pounds in 7 days. The food was so good :D (Just glad that highschool sports took care of that almost instantly!)

Uhm, Antartica is the South Pole. Either your Empire streches over continents or you got the wrong bearing?

*shrug* It's an empire. I plan on extending over that giant american mountain range...you know, Andes, Central America, Rockies...All those mountains.

You Americans and your acid rain, factory waste, and greenhouse gases. Do you have any idea how much you polluted our lakes? The creature in the lakes are slowly going extinct thanks to your lack of environmental awareness. You are destroying the world's largest fresh water supply. And no, we aren't going to nuke you. We are going to wait until you have no resources left and nobody to help you, and then your race will slowly to extinct. THAT's what's going to happen if you don't stop polluting our lakes and our air.

Michigan has a much stricter Environmental Protection Act than the US has. Michigan, and the other states on the Lakes have been making a great deal of progress, in tandem with Ontario and Quebec. Trust me we care just as much about the Great Lakes as you do. They're not just your lakes, they're ours too. Uncle Sam doesn't give two shits, but those of us near them are slowly getting our act together.

I used to travel between Ontario and Michigan regularly for work. It's a very 'Canadian' kind of American State, (whether Michiganders want to admit it or not ), where I can drink a cup of Tim Horton's coffee and get full hockey coverage whilst enjoying some of Michigan's really great micro-brewery/restaurants.

People here don't like to admit it, but Michigan is almost 1/2 American and 1/2 Canadian. I think that's why we talk to much smack about Canadians, it's because we don't like to recognize that we're so much like them.

I'm a big fan of Big Buck Breweries and Logan's Road House.

I stop at Big Buck Breweries whenever I'm heading up to the Soo. Tasty food, even tastier beer. However, if you want really world class Michigan beer you should try Bell's in Kalamazoo.

I've lived here 12 years of my 17 year life, and I've learned one thing: Michigan sucks.

I thought the exact same thing when I was your age. Then I left the state. I went to Germany for 2 years with the Army, decided I missed the US, and went to Colorado. It was there that I realized that it wasn't the US that I missed, it was Michigan. Now I'm back in Michigan, and I've found that I was right, it's Michigan I love, not the US as a whole.

Where's the poll answer stating Michigan kicks ass except Detroit of course?

And this is exactly what's going wrong in this state. A strong Michigan needs a strong Detroit. The rest of the state shuns Detroit instead of embracing it the way we need to.

Also, the people in the suburbs of Detroit need to realize that they're a part of Detroit. Instead of creating a downtown in Birmingham, they need to invest in the city. No major city can prosper when it's urban core is crumbling the way Detroit is. The Metro Detroit area has approximately 5 million people, while the city of Detroit has gone from 2 million to 900,000 since the 1950s. Imagine if Detroit wasn't a city of 900,000 surrounded by a bunch of smaller, far richer towns, but were one vibrant city of 5 million? How different do you think this state would be? As the Governor said in her State of the State address, "The only that should ever come between Detroit and Michigan is a comma".

I think 'What do you think of [homeplace]' threads all need to die.

I agree, but this was about my particular home.

I stop at Big Buck Breweries whenever I'm heading up to the Soo. Tasty food, even tastier beer. However, if you want really world class Michigan beer you should try Bell's in Kalamazoo.

I'll have to go there next time I'm in town, heard it was pretty good

Also, the people in the suburbs of Detroit need to realize that they're a part of Detroit. Instead of creating a downtown in Birmingham, they need to invest in the city. No major city can prosper when it's urban core is crumbling the way Detroit is. The Metro Detroit area has approximately 5 million people, while the city of Detroit has gone from 2 million to 900,000 since the 1950s. Imagine if Detroit wasn't a city of 900,000 surrounded by a bunch of smaller, far richer towns, but were one vibrant city of 5 million? How different do you think this state would be? As the Governor said in her State of the State address, "The only that should ever come between Detroit and Michigan is a comma".
Yeah, but what can we do about it? Face it, the system is corrupt, Kwami is just an oversized target for that; even with all the renovations I doubt Detroit is going to go back to the way it was.

BTW- the weathers nice here. And 1 hour drive to the nearest beach. :D

I live in Michigan, and it's a one minute walk to the beach from where I live!

Everyone saying Ontario and Ohio and Florida and Pennsylvania are better? I've been to all of those places, and they're nothing special. I've been to Alaska and it's a nice place, but I enjoy things here in MI better.

I dislike michigan. Its the only state where I was in a bar, half-drunk, playing pool with my friends, scratched, said a curse loudly and had the bartender tell us that swearing was illegal and that if I did it again I would be asked to leave. Screw that. Damn the man, save the empire!

I live in MI and think it sucks.

It'd be fine enough, if it wasn't frozen over for half the year. I have a lake nearby, but what good's having a beach 10 minutes (walking) away, when the lake is frozen solid so much of the time?! Plus, the sand at it is nowhere near as good as the stuff at ocean beaches. They actually have to truck it in.

Due to the weather, I am determined to move to Florida! I hate the cold and snow passionately.

As for the people/culture, it's okay...I've lived here all my life so it just seems "normal." On my trips to FL, one of the main things I notice is that Floridians aren't nearly as hurried as Michiganders. Which is another thing I like better about FL. There's also the bit where if you go 5 miles in the wrong direction you end up in a whole different economic zone, but I think every place has that.

well that wasteland called the Upper Peninsula passed its freaking snow and cold-ass winds on from Lake Superior (by way of Canada, and the arctic before that) to us in Minocqua, WI (way north-central WI)... which we weren't too happy about (except the ice-fishermen, maybe, or snow/cold enthusiasts).

The UP does have one of the cooler natural things to look at during the evening hours: the Paulding Light near Watersmeet. That is cool... if you're ever in the UP, get directions to it.

hehe

as for the Mitt, well, I can say this: There's one great college football team down there (Michigan Wolverines), one decent college football team (Michigan State Spartans), and probably some apples and cherries. Oh, and a metropolitan area of 4,000,000+ people (Day-twah).

Yeah, but what can we do about it? Face it, the system is corrupt, Kwami is just an oversized target for that; even with all the renovations I doubt Detroit is going to go back to the way it was.

Yeah, Kwami really needs to go. What Detroit needs is a mayor who will reach out to the suburbs and actually cooperate with them. Of course, that is all predicated on the idea that the suburbs will actually reciprocate, which doesn't seem too likely. But hopefully if Detroit were to elect a particularly cooperative Mayor the suburbs might give Detroit a chance.