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It's sooo cold in the D...that people become blocks of ice inside elevator shafts.

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  • ZombotZombot Registered User
    edited January 2009
    The scary thing is, there's a place in Michigan even worse than Detroit.
    Flint.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User
    edited January 2009
    Zombot wrote: »
    The scary thing is, there's a place in Michigan even worse than Detroit.
    Flint.

    and then there's that hellhole ann arbor

    Rankenphile wrote:
    I tried to write "but that" and my hands naturally wrote "butt hat", which is vastly superior in every way.
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  • ZombotZombot Registered User
    edited January 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    Zombot wrote: »
    The scary thing is, there's a place in Michigan even worse than Detroit.
    Flint.

    and then there's that hellhole ann arbor

    Ann Arbor is terrible if you hate everything about rich white kids freeloading their way into a top university.
    But Ann Arbor is a great place if you have yellow fever.

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  • MorgensternMorgenstern Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    She is right. It is pretty cold there.

    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=aktLRiWXfqg

    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User
    edited January 2009
    Mysst wrote: »
    hawaii is better, they have cockfighting which is fine because you can eat the loser
    dog is also technically edible.

    not saying it's the better option, but it's there.

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  • KrentzKrentz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Watching that video it looked and sounded like they were constantly losing interest in it. I was waiting them to stop mid-verse just walk away.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User
    edited February 2009
    Zombot wrote: »
    Detroit scared Redi so much, he never wants to come back to America.

    Detroit was pretty much just like Toronto, except a tad dirtier and with bleaker suburbs

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  • EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS
    edited February 2009
    I think you mean blacker suburbs.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS
    edited February 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    i say abandon detroit and turn it into a prison city

    Escape from Detroit would be a terrible movie, though

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I don't think I've ever heard anyone from here call it 'The D' unless they were hipsters just doing it to be ironic.

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS
    edited February 2009
    I seem to remember the exact same sort of thing happening around here a few years back

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  • WallhitterWallhitter Registered User
    edited February 2009
    He was a teleporter.

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  • ZephosZephos Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Wallhitter wrote: »
    He was a teleporter.

    hahahaha

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  • Rock Lobster!Rock Lobster! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Whenever I drive up to Michigan to visit family, we usually get to Coldwater around 10 PM, so we stay at a motel there. Every goddamned time, "I heard you slept in Coldwater. That must've been uncomfortable. Ha ha."

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS
    edited February 2009
    one time my family was driving to this campsite like 6 hours away, I was about 11 I think

    and I fell asleep part way there

    anyway when I woke up I asked where we were

    they said

    "Drink Water"

    so

    I took a drink of some water

    and asked again

    "Drink Water"

    so I drank water again

    turns out the place is named

    drinkwater

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  • CymrilCymril Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Holy fuck am I glad I now live nowhere near Detroit anymore.

    But yeah, going into Detroit was always a combination of slightly scary and mostly depressing.

    Shut up Francis. Something about Vietnam. Horseshit.

    D3: Cymril#1411 || League of Legends/Steam/Xbox/Origin: Cymril
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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Detroit is balls; I don't even like being in the nicer parts.

    However, there's a new city on its way to joining Flint and Detroit as shit-capitals of the state. That city is Pontiac, and it's only two towns over from me.

    As for the weather, eventually you get used to the cold. The wind is the main problem.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    The only thing I know about Detroit is that when the producers of Robocop wanted their movie set in a dystopian wasteland
    They just filmed Detroit as it currently was

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Extreme Ghostbuster Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    BusterK wrote: »
    The only thing I know about Detroit is that when the producers of Robocop wanted their movie set in a dystopian wasteland
    They just filmed Detroit as it currently was

    This is the only thing I know about Detroit as well.

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  • Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User
    edited February 2009
    Dr. Frenchenstein wrote: »
    Some poor old guy had a limiter put on his fuse box, and it didn't allow enough power to run his heater. He froze to death in his own house. WAY TO GO ELECTRIC COMPANY (i don't remember where this was.)

    I remember a big news story here a couple years ago about an old lady on a respirator at her home who died after the power company shut her power off, all the while the kids were begging the dude who came to shut it off not to do it.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2009
    detroit has some fantastic galleries and art supply stores

    i never go because it scares the shit out of me

    like, they remodelled the part that you see after emerging from the international tunnel or bridge and it still looks sketchy as fuck

    http://www.mediumdifficulty.com
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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User
    edited February 2009
    how come i haven't posted in this thread yet?

    being found half-frozen is a pretty cool way to die, dudes

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  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    haw haw haw

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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User
    edited February 2009
    The Far Side wrote: »
    haw haw haw

    ice to meet you

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    What really puzzles me is the pillow. I can't think of any logical reason for this pillow.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I really want to know what the pillow is for

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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User
    edited February 2009
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    I really want to know what the pillow is for

    guys... where are we?
    Spoiler:

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    beavotron wrote: »
    oh my goodness!

    on another note, we have a place like that here that i went exploring in
    and the basement was also flooded
    and also frozen:
    Spoiler:

    Maybe I'm just retarded, but I can't seem to figure this out.

    The writing on the wall, I mean. Its a something "ese pool" but I can't logically think of what the word obscured by Beavo's head is. Geese pool?

    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    Keith wrote:
    What would be your ultimate slam dunk??
    I would dunk it so hard my parents would love each other again
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  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    its just ese pool you gotta bring your friends

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Why would Canadians use Mexican banger slang, Teefs.

    Riddle me that one.

    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    Keith wrote:
    What would be your ultimate slam dunk??
    I would dunk it so hard my parents would love each other again
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  • The Far SideThe Far Side __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Why wouldn't they

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I suppose that answer's good enough as any.

    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    Keith wrote:
    What would be your ultimate slam dunk??
    I would dunk it so hard my parents would love each other again
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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Zephyr wrote: »
    detroit is a wasteland

    A lady on the biggest loser lives in Detroit and said she could buy a house there for $5,000. I thought this was a mistake so I looked it up

    And she was overselling. There are some places there that you can buy for exactly one dollar. There are hundreds of places you can get for $1,000 or less. I suggested to a couple people that the forumers should buy out all those places and make Detroit a Social Entropy version of Animal Crossing

    Thanks for bringing me to orgasm, have this floral print wallpaper

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  • PhoneCellPhoneCell Registered User
    edited February 2009
    I went to Detroit's Warped Tour a couple years ago with my brother and a couple friends. We ended up having to park way the hell away from the concert. After it ended at around 10:00 we got a few blocks past Comerica before we realized that we had no idea where the fuck we were.

    Let me tell you. Getting lost in Detroit is not fun. I felt like Odysseus traversing the treacherous seas of the underworld or something. When we finally found the car there were a couple shady dudes hoovering around it. They said that they were "watching it for us" and we should pay them for their troubles. Fun times.

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  • Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Fiz wrote: »
    Zephyr wrote: »
    detroit is a wasteland

    A lady on the biggest loser lives in Detroit and said she could buy a house there for $5,000. I thought this was a mistake so I looked it up

    And she was overselling. There are some places there that you can buy for exactly one dollar. There are hundreds of places you can get for $1,000 or less. I suggested to a couple people that the forumers should buy out all those places and make Detroit a Social Entropy version of Animal Crossing

    Thanks for bringing me to orgasm, have this floral print wallpaper

    I'm not buying a neighborhood in detroit without investing in high fences, concertina wire, and some of those trigger-happy fucks from Blackwater.

    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    Keith wrote:
    What would be your ultimate slam dunk??
    I would dunk it so hard my parents would love each other again
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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    We should have another MiPAX this year, since I didn't make it out to the last one.

    We could all go Urban Exploring.

    ....

    Or, you know, we could hit up the Mongolian Barbeque.

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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Fiz wrote: »
    Zephyr wrote: »
    detroit is a wasteland

    A lady on the biggest loser lives in Detroit and said she could buy a house there for $5,000. I thought this was a mistake so I looked it up

    And she was overselling. There are some places there that you can buy for exactly one dollar. There are hundreds of places you can get for $1,000 or less. I suggested to a couple people that the forumers should buy out all those places and make Detroit a Social Entropy version of Animal Crossing

    Thanks for bringing me to orgasm, have this floral print wallpaper

    There are areas just a few miles from Detroit that are still really ran down in terms of architecture, but are mostly white lower-middle-class areas with low crime.

    I'd be curious to see how much houses are going for in areas like that.

    Also, shitty to shitty-ish areas outside of nice cities (Clawson blocks away from Royal Oak, and Ypsi minutes away from Ann Arbor). Tomorrow, I might look some of that stuff up.

    Edit: Foreclosed 2 story, prefurnished houses less than 15 years old in affluent, super-safe subdivisions are going for under $5,000 as well. This is fucking ridiculous. I may as well just buy a house to have a couple spares at this point.

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