This is a VERY Florida thing. (Really true of most urban sprawly places full of white collar professional transplants from somewhere else, but Florida is lousy with such places). The whole state is made up of recent transplants. When the culture of a place is defined by people who don’t have roots there, don’t know…

Ugh. Loneliest I ever felt was when I lived in Florida. Living in cities makes it easy to have incidental contact with people. Exurban, car dependent life just reinforced all my most anti-social tendencies. Even when you TRY to go out an meet people, your odds of running into anyone you can click with are so much…

Grew up in Chicagoland moved to San Diego. EVerything you said was absolutely fucking true. And what happened was that’s most of our friends in SD turned out to be Mid-West transplants.

Asking for a.... well, no. I guess I’m not. >_>

I had a conversation with a stranger at Jewel a few weeks ago to rate area Jewel stores. It was cathartic and we both had a lot of (similar) fucking opinions about Jewel, apparently.

Ok. In her defense, as someone who has been a network anchor (radio) and is still in broadcast news in a top 10 market, she likely DID have a hard break. You’re up against automation and you absolutely must hit that break (hit that post). If you don’t, the automation will cut you off. You have to backtime your way…

I knew he would be white. Now I’m wondering if he is conservative and hated all those young people, or if he was liberal and thought a country music concert would be a great opportunity to take out some Trump voters. I hope it’s the latter. The softball game didn’t work to open up republican eyes that they’re being…

Also known as one of the best fucking smells on Earth, and cause to constantly remind me of my grandfather smoking Half n Half out of his pipe when I was a 5y/o.

White person reporting in. Absolutely and just known as ‘blacks’ around here. A cheap beer buzz and a black in a back yard is a little slice of heaven.

Never heard of the ‘cancer paper’ trick though.

(Negro Cigar Investigation Services) —- This is absolute gold. Black and Mild are the worst. I say this as a Romeo y Julieta or an Alec Bradley Tempus Magnus smoker.

I’ve been stopped twice for smoking Blacks. A lot of White people think it is dirt weed even though it smells like a regular pipe.

I know white people who have smoked weed for 20+ years and have never even seen a blunt, white ignorance knows no limits

I believe a Black and Mild was the first tobacco product I ever smoked. The smell makes me nostalgic.

Speaking as a white person: I had no clue. I’ve seen them in convenience stores and 7-11s before, but I had no idea people actually bought them. I always assumed they were like the decorative lighters and other “impulse” items that are more of a demonstration of the shop owner’s optimism than any actual commercial…

Yeah when you’re getting a pack of that many cigarillos (like 24-30? Can’t remember) for $5-6 you just know they’re going to be terrible.

Upon our initial examination of the video, our NCIS team (Negro Cigar Investigation Services)

Swishers are what I imagine cancer actually smells like.

Actually a medallion is only allowed to pick up a fare in NYC (but remember NYC is all 5 boroughs) or Newark Airport (since there is a fixed fee to/from 5 boroughs to either of the 3 airports). So if you live in NJ, or on Long Island (Queens may be on island called Long Island but its not part of Long Island) you…

Minor thing, but they were traveling from suburban Tinley Park to the airport and back, which is about a 40 mile drive one way. There are no cab stands in the suburbs - if you need a ride to the airport you either call a suburban cab company and book one in advance, or get an Uber/Lyft. Personally I’d book a cab but…