"Things I don't get"

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Wasn't one of the guys here from that place?

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Originally Posted by Mich & Tele

Man, my favorite deity is always coming up with ways to get me to hate living in Michigan.

Fuck this. Come on you guys, let's pick up Detroit and put it in a better state. Let's take it to Oregon. Oregon is a little wet, but it's nice. We'd get to shake loose the rednecks, although we would have a considerably larger number of hippies (goodbye OxyContin, hello magic mushrooms!). In fact, Oregon doesn't have a real-as-fuck industrial rustbin right now, and maybe they could use one. I think it's a win-win situation. Does anyone have a trailer hitch?

I've defended Detroit and to a lesser extent Michigan for years and years on RealGM and other message boards. I love this place, but it's also depressing when you are trying to make it a better place and the stupid elected officials can't work together to make it better. This place is a disaster economically and our elected leaders are not making it any better. Some times you just get tired of defending a city that won't stand up for itself.

Unibomber was from Oregon. But he left here with the G family.

I have mad love for Detroit and everything around it, but I agree that politics is really awful here. People in Detroit are resentful (and rightfully so) that the state government is full of Merriwethers from Fowlerville and Van Der Sloots from Kalamazoo telling them over and over again how bad they are at managing their city. So they buy into the whole "them vs. us" mentality and they'll vote for the toughest-talking candidate no matter how transparently crooked he is.

The best thing for Detroit right now would be a general civil service overhaul. Fire all city workers management level and above, and don't allow them to apply for any city job ever again. Call new elections for all city offices, and don't let any of the current officeholders sit for re-election. Bring in the FBI to aggressively investigate city offices.

Corruption isn't necessarily a city-killer. Chicago is a city rife with corruption, and it works just fine. Detroit is a city overwhelmed with corruption. If you wipe the slate completely clean, it would still take another 10 years before anyone would invest heavily in the city again. Since I know it would be impossible anyway, all I can do is wait for one of two things to happen: either the voters change the way they think, or those voters get replaced with new voters.

taffy

Mushrooms and olives. Oh, and tapeworms.

Pineapple on pizza. Why not put strawberries and lemon wedges on there too? Pizza is meant for meat and veggies, nothing else. Although I do enjoy Thai pizza, that is meat and veggies too.

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Originally Posted by WTFchris

Pineapple on pizza. Why not put strawberries and lemon wedges on there too? Pizza is meant for meat and veggies, nothing else. Although I do enjoy Thai pizza, that is meat and veggies too.

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Ehh... Hawaiian pizza kicks ass. Pineapple and "Canadian Bacon." (it's just fucking ham)

People who can't stand any kind of spicy food at all. Not many people are tough enough to hang with the chilis like my wife and I, and I don't expect them to. But if you've had to get rid of Tostitos brand "Medium" salsa because it was too hot for you, you may want to consider growing a pair.

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Originally Posted by Mich & Tele

People who can't stand any kind of spicy food at all. Not many people are tough enough to hang with the chilis like my wife and I, and I don't expect them to. But if you've had to get rid of Tostitos brand "Medium" salsa because it was too hot for you, you may want to consider growing a pair.

Agreed! I like to sweat when eating sometimes, and the hotter the better. One thing I do hate, though, is that when something is so spicy there is no flavor beyond the heat. "Big Daddy's Bar-B-Q" in Des Moines is great, and he has a wide variety of sauces, and the hottest ones are so hot it kills the flavor of what you are eating.
BTW: I LOVE pineapple and pepperoni pizza with extra sauce. I don't get why pizza parlors are so chincy with the sauce.