What is your nation's equivalent of New Jersey?

[sithsaber]

I was going to ask what your nation's equivalent to Detroit is, but Hiroshima circa August 10 1945 would make for an awkward discussion.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

New Jersey.

Pride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:laugh:

[Positivist]

Ok I'm from southern New Jersey and the people here are no more dehumanized by consumerism than anywhere else in the advanced capitalist world. (With the exception of the Guido shore subculture.)

[sithsaber]

new jersey.

Pride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:laugh:

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[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

New Jersey is quite large and large part of which consists of what is essentially a large portion of the New York City urban area, with everything from awful forlorn slums to disgusting rich brats in ugly mansions poorly imitating colonial architectural styles, so... you're asking for a equivalent of a nation/large region/cross-section of society? :confused:

[sithsaber]

New Jersey is quite large and large part of which consists of what is essentially a large portion of the New York City urban area, with everything from awful forlorn slums to disgusting rich brats in ugly mansions poorly imitating colonial architectural styles, so... you're asking for a equivalent of a nation/large region/cross-section of society? :confused:

I am asking for both this and to know if you have places as mocked and vilified as the "Garden State" :laugh:

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I shall rename New Jersey to Stalinland when I become the leader of socialist America.:laugh:

[hatzel]

Chit-chat. At best. Not learning. Unless you can give a good reason this is relevant to socialist theory, of course...

[The Jay]

I agree with Hatzel, this is not appropriate for the learning section.

[sithsaber]

Chit-chat. At best. Not learning. Unless you can give a good reason this is relevant to socialist theory, of course...

I keep making that mistake. Sorry

[Bostana]

Don't remind me of that show.
I mean God, you know your country is in the crapper when that show becomes popular

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Don't remind me of that show.
I mean God, you know your country is in the crapper when that show becomes popular

Hey, that show does not represent us as a state!!! I am already too tan to do more tanning, my mom does all my laundry, and the only gym I see is my school gym. GTL GTL GTL :laugh:

(Don't worry, I do my own laundry.)

But in all seriousness, you should see some of the girls at my school. They think that having vomit colored skin is attractive, but it honestly just makes me want to throw up in their faces.

[Nox]

Yorkshire

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Yorkshire

http://www.puppy-training-at-home.com/images/yorkshire-terrier-puppy.jpg

Thank You

[Bostana]

Hey, that show does not represent us as a state!!! I am already too tan to do more tanning, my mom does all my laundry, and the only gym I see is my school gym. GTL GTL GTL :laugh:

(Don't worry, I do my own laundry.)

But in all seriousness, you should see some of the girls at my school. They think that having vomit colored skin is attractive, but it honestly just makes me want to throw up in their faces.

I know,

I am sure that most of the Jersey people don't act like that. But unfortunately here in the Ol'wolverine state it's popular. They act like they do in the show and apparently it makes them "cool." They complain about everything like brats.

O Michigan why can't we just accept our role as the background state

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I know,

I am sure that most of the Jersey people don't act like that. But unfortunately here in the Ol'wolverine state it's popular. They act like they do in the show and apparently it makes them "cool." They complain about everything like brats.

O Michigan why can't we just accept our role as the background state

Suck it up and be the Mitt Romney state.

[Bostana]

Suck it up and be the Mitt Romney state.

Our state is basically the State of Crime.
Oh Detroit we love yah

[Grenzer]

Suck it up and be the Mitt Romney state.

lol

I really hate how so many people in this state think that because he was born here and lived here for a few years that he somehow has a connection to ordinary people. He's rich as fuck, and has absolutely no connection to the working people. It's beyond me how some people will gobble up his little anecdotes of being "just an ordinary guy".

The elections and two party system are just a game really.. Julius Nyerere had that much right.

[sithsaber]

Suck it up and be the Mitt Romney state.

Thats ridiculous, everyone knows Michigan is known as the Robocop/ cold mad max state.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

lol

I really hate how so many people in this state think that because he was born here and lived here for a few years that he somehow has a connection to ordinary people. He's rich as fuck, and has absolutely no connection to the working people. It's beyond me how some people will gobble up his little anecdotes of being "just an ordinary guy".

The elections and two party system are just a game really.. Julius Nyerere had that much right.


I think that you are forgetting the core reason why Romney connects with the people of Michigan so well: It is because the trees are the right height. The trees being the right height supercedes the importance of the facts that thousands of people die every year from urban violence in Detriot and that Flint is still a hell-hole. Michigan politics revolve around tree height . . . Duh. If you disagree, I swear to God, I will come to Michigan and cut down all your proper-height trees. TRY ME!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bTV_B3BaVtw/T0QcqgPqK1I/AAAAAAAAC4g/lUj2_FOKfV8/s1600/Politics_Ads_MJM_Romney%2BMichigan%2Btrees%2Bare%2 Bthe%2Bright%2Bheight.png

[gorillafuck]

people don't even make fun of new jersey anymore since we all got bored with making jokes about new jersey smelling bad.

[Pretty Flaco]

when i hear new jersey all i think about is atlantic fuckin city

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

New Jersey smells like trash, tanning oil, cheap wine, cheesesteaks, pizzas, and crack. So fucking gross. My school smells like shit, too.

[Ele'ill]

Why is this in Learning?

[Pretty Flaco]

Why is this in Learning?

he wants to learn relevant material about other country's cultures

[sithsaber]

he wants to learn relevant material about other country's cultures

Lets go with that. I sometimes forget the difference between actual learning and chit chat learning. My bad

[Os Cangaceiros]

Some parts of NJ are pretty affluent. Most of it sucks though.

[Comrade Samuel]

I shall rename New Jersey to Stalinland when I become the leader of socialist America.:laugh:

Sounds like a gulag theme park!

You have to chop down a tree in knee deep snow with a broken axe wearing nothing but torn up pants and rags on your feet before you can do the log ride in Stalinland...

Just remember the slogan "Stalinland: where dreams go to be processesed and re-educated before they are thrown away like the rest of the bourgeois exess"

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Sounds like a gulag theme park!

You have to chop down a tree in knee deep snow with a broken axe wearing nothing but torn up pants and rags on your feet before you can do the log ride in stalinland...

Admission is free as long as you are a Trot. I would not suggest bringing the family.

[gorillafuck]

gulags aren't funny.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

gulags aren't funny.

Totally, I also do not think that correctional facilities that use socialist legality and are perfectly justifiable are funny. :laugh:

[RedAnarchist]

Probably Essex. There's even one of those atrocities called "reality television" with Essex in it's name. Plus it seems to share a lot of qualities with NJ.

[Obs]

threads like this are why I don't come here a lot anymore.

[bricolage]

I only went to New Jersey briefly to go to Asbury Park and check out Bruce Springsteen highlights. I thought it was pretty nice but it was winter so most of it was shut. There did seem a massive split between the boardwalk/tourist bit of the town and everywhere else.

[manic expression]

What are equivalents of New Jersey in other countries? Good question.

France: Provence
Indonesia: Bali
Brazil: Bahia
Turkey: Izmir
Italy: All of It

It's actually pretty hard to see much of a difference between those places and NJ.

PS, people hate us because we don't have to pump our gas. :thumbup1:

[Os Cangaceiros]

People don't pump their own gas in Oregon, either.

[ColonelCossack]

Jersey.

[Manic Impressive]

Probably Essex. There's even one of those atrocities called "reality television" with Essex in it's name. Plus it seems to share a lot of qualities with NJ.
or Newcastle? there's that Geordie shore programme as well. But I've never been to Newcastle so I'd have no idea what it's actually like. Worst accent in the UK so that might be one similarity :p

BTW I've never seen a single episode of any of these programmes

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Detroit, if you count worst place to be in the world.
As dangerous as Iran, but without the combat pay.

Canada :/ is the usa's new Jersey

[Leonid Brozhnev]

or Newcastle? there's that Geordie shore programme as well. But I've never been to Newcastle so I'd have no idea what it's actually like. Worst accent in the UK so that might be one similarity :p

BTW I've never seen a single episode of any of these programmes

I've been there quite a few times, it's no worse than any other UK city, you could find idiots like the ones on geordie shore in any city across the country and likely a lot of towns too.

I think Essex for the UK though, it's close enough to London to contain 'new money' morons, but far enough away that they don't become 'new money' snobs, which I imagine is like New Jersey and New York.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Newcastle could be a good fit...or here in Merseyside

[sithsaber]

threads like this are why I don't come here a lot anymore.

How about you contribute? I've been the entertainment of this site for about two weeks now, and I'm starting to run out of ideas.

ps

There's nothing wrong with a little fun that helps you learn about different cultures and/or how to continue a conversation.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

What are equivalents of New Jersey in other countries? Good question.

France: Provence
Indonesia: Bali
Brazil: Bahia
Turkey: Izmir
Italy: All of It


er, what?
why bahia?

if were talking about loud rude young people whose lives revolve around consumerism, narcissism and sexual objectification, whose activities include suntaning, working out, clubbing and styling their hair in laughably ugly ways then the obvious answer is Rio. maybe Santos.

[Raúl Duke]

What's your nations' equivalent to Florida?

[Manic Impressive]

What's your nations' equivalent to Florida?
where old people go to die?

that would probably be Dorset :lol:

[Raúl Duke]

where old people go to die?

that would probably be Dorset :lol:

That's the primary aspect; plus being generally a very miserable place to live in most places plus a lot of suburbs and barely any public transport.

[eyedrop]

What's your nations' equivalent to Florida?

Spain.

[Raúl Duke]

Spain.

:D

I've heard of this tendency of older Europeans from northern climes moving into Spain (particularly the British, who than move to Spain never bothering to learn the language and than go on complaining about immigrants in the UK speaking to each other in their native language; hypocrites :rolleyes:)...

But Spain is still not as lame/miserable as Florida...I heard it's a pretty cool place with pretty cool people.

[Bright Banana Beard]

What the fuck. New Jersey isn't fucking bad at all. I love it better than Florida and Texas combined.

Alabama or Arizona is more worse.

[sithsaber]

Alabama is a backwards racist shithole

Arizona is a arid backwards cowboy shithole near an exploited nation.

They are not New Jersey. I am not trying to ask which state is the best, simply which is the most generally mocked and despised.

ps

What is your nations equivalent to Alabama or Arizona?

[Drosophila]

What the fuck. New Jersey isn't fucking bad at all.

What could be bad about smog, buildings and cars everywhere, rude people, and an extremely corrupt government?

[Raúl Duke]

extremely corrupt government?

You'll be surprised...but a recent study shows that NJ is less corrupt than many other states; due in part of the perception that NJ is corrupt and thus laws were enacted.

[Drosophila]

You'll be surprised...but a recent study shows that NJ is less corrupt than many other states; due in part of the perception that NJ is corrupt and thus laws were enacted.

I suppose it's impossible not to have a corrupt government in a liberal system.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I like New Jersey. You guys are meanies to my state. :(

[Raúl Duke]

You wanna see corruption, come to PUERTO RICO!!!

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

i, for one, support corruption. i fucking hate bourgie libertarian types constantly whining about taxes andf their precious fucking tax money that the evil big gubment squanders. so i totally support stealing "their" money. fuck them. everyone who complains about over taxation and is a bourgie twat should be taxed twice as much and all tax revenue from them should be spent exclussively on hookers and blow and stashed away in tax shelters or invested in black market firearms and organs.

[sithsaber]

i, for one, support corruption. i fucking hate bourgie libertarian types constantly whining about taxes andf their precious fucking tax money that the evil big gubment squanders. so i totally support stealing "their" money. fuck them. everyone who complains about over taxation and is a bourgie twat should be taxed twice as much and all tax revenue from them should be spent exclussively on hookers and blow and stashed away in tax shelters or invested in black market firearms and organs.

Because state corruption benefits the proletariat
-Says the moron

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

i make joke :(

[sithsaber]

i make joke :(

Posted before you edited in hookers

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

lol i did no such thing read your own post

[tachosomoza]

I was going to ask what your nation's equivalent to Detroit is, but Hiroshima circa August 10 1945 would make for an awkward discussion.

Metro Detroit is cool, the middle class and rich people ran out to the suburbs and left the city to the black underclass after the riots in '67.

[Drosophila]

I would like to point out that some parts of West Jersey are actually quite nice.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I would like to point out that some parts of West Jersey are actually quite nice.

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/007/423/untitle.JPG

[Drosophila]

I meant "nice" as in visually nice, since I happen to like mountains and open space. A lot of the people there are racist though.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

New Jersey.

Pride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:laugh:

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[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Yorkshire

Don't be silly.