I work in a sex shop, and no joke, Idris is the most frequently mentioned celebrity, regardless of race/class/gender.

Okay, sure.

I hope you get your period the first time you wear it, and that everyone at your job notices the stain.

Good tip! I don't drive so Morton Grove is a little far, but it'll give me a good destination spot for when my parents come to visit.

I've been defending chicago all morning, but the Cheeses Christ is still the pizza I try to emulate at home.

I'm originally from Michigan, so I can sympathize - although add in a bunch of classist/racist shit about being "born in a war zone."

Well, I don't know about that. Certainly there's an element of trying to prove you "made" it to the people back home, but there are an awful lot of born New Yorkers who bitch about transplants taking over their city to drive rent prices up.

Well, if nothing else, Chicagoans are good at being glib.

I LOVE YOU PEQUODS

One headline aside, yes I am. Yes I absolutely fucking am.

Look, I love New York. Every once in awhile I think about moving back. But I have never, ever heard Chicagoans talk about New York as much as New Yorkers bash Chicagoans. Although, I suppose it helps that most of the people I know here have lived in New York…

Haha, what's funny is that I usually hear that from non-Chicagoans! I'm a transplant, who mostly associates with other transplants, so maybe it's different.

Oh, I don't think there's any rivalry at all between New York and Chicago. They're incredibly different cities, and their residents live in each for different reasons. I am mostly commenting on how baffling it is that New Yorkers always have this weird habit of putting down smaller cities.

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Except nobody here does that? Seriously, the city of Chicago does not give one shit about New York. I am far from the only ex-New Yorker I know living here - everyone of us has tried it and has said, "nope, not for us." I keep up on New York politics out of habit, but whenever I try to talk about them with Chicagoans,…

As a former New Yorker turned Chicagoan, I find it weird how obsessed the former is with proving superiority over the latter.

Did we go to the same high school? Ours was filled in during my sophomore year because the school admins were worried about "drug activity." (Yeah, okay.)

Hardy har har.