People always deride Kansas/Eastern Colorado for being flat and featureless
why?
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yes, these are things that people say, but they are so rarely things people feel strongly about at all
they're like, vague half-thoughts at the corners of the minds, but you seem to be under the impression that people strongly feel these things
Well, OK, my mom hates flat, treeless areas, but that's because she was raised in a hilly rural area with acres of woods and the lack of trees and hills deeply disturbs her. But my mom has weirdly strong opinions about really odd things, and it's not some kind of superiority thing.
Like, seriously, you're doing the fucked up neurotic non-logic "I am pathetic and everyone holds me in contempt because they like hills/football/freestyle machines" thing again and it's simultaneously worrisome and incredibly annoying.
1. I'm a mod. Telling me to shut up is ill-advised even if I have zero interest in doing anything about it.
2. AU has expressed an interest in actually dealing with his problems. Thus, he needs to know when he's crossing a line. I point it out to him, he tells his therapist.
3. Telling people that it is OK to make themselves miserable over things that do not matter does not make them less miserable. It affords them further opportunities for paranoid self-flagellation.
4. I don't respond this way to valid issues aired in a reasonable manner. You know that by now. So stop it.
5. It's really hard to tell when you're joking with this stuff and it is late and I'm easily confused so I'm sorry if this was pointless.
They feel quite profound, the way silence is profound.
It was ill-timed, and poorly thought out, though.
I apologize for sending unclear messages and blurring the line between my own past viewpoint and my self-depricating mockery of the same viewpoint.
My homeland is dear to me. It hurts when you talk this way about the Intermountain West. I could never survive anywhere else, I am a being of this land, and if my homeland is inferior, than I am inferior.
You're not the only one who cares about the Rocky Mountain States, Anonus. Please stop acting like nobody cares about your homeland. Millions of good people live here, Anonus, and you speak of being inferior because of insufficient media representation, or insufficient mountains?!
It's like almost all of your anxieties tie back to this little handful of weird notions about how your way of living is wrong and boring and dumb and other people are having more fun than you and laughing at you behind your back. Some variation on those is the subtext to, like, half of your posts on this forum, and it's kind of alarming and sad, because you're a decent guy and that's a horrible headspace to be in!
Only now, as an adult, am I finally learning the actual history of southeast Florida. Or, more specifically, why my neigborhood seems to have no history.
and why is that?
My development was ranchland before it got turned into houses, retail, a golf course...
Yes, @Aliroz, as much as that sentiment saddens me, and as much as it is both racist and anti-environmental, that is really what some people thought of the Everglades hydrological area.
Amusingly, writers in the 16th century thought that Florida was an island that possibly contained mountains, emeralds, and even unicorns.
In fact, the spot where I am standing right now, it used to be part of the Everglades. And maybe where I grew up too, I think. I'm quite certain the Atlantic Coastal ridge did not extend past roughly modern-day Cooper City, if it did at all. (I grew up in Cooper City.)
We do have zillions of trees though
And rivers and creeks
Actually, Ohio's actually really pretty, even if all our lakes are manmade
and woodland scenery, reminded me
of Switzerland. The prairie reminded
me of a piece of blotting-paper.
Quoth Wikipedia, "Despite its name and elevation, Panorama Point is not a mountain or a hill; it is merely a low rise on the High Plains."
Granted, at least the area around Møllehøj actually looks hilly:
Whereas Panorama Point, while striking, is a bit less obvious:
I dunno, you decide.
it's like how my dad derisively refers to east coast mountains as "hills". rockies:hills:that
They call it Himmelbjerget—"Heaven's Mountain." It's a cute little mountain.
Nebraska's highest point is simply the highest rise in an elevated steppe. Were it to suddenly drop off to sea level, it would be extremely high up, but it just gently descends for miles and miles in every direction, which makes it look stupidly flat... but also means that you can see a really long way away without binoculars, like, mind-numbing distances.
So many
I think people here just hate trees
Never come here.
Philadelphia is fine, of course, and Norristown itself is passable, but out here, god. And then there's the Northeast. Those people wouldn't know nature if it bit them in the face.