DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
the best part of visiting my family up there was the crossings between america and canada there did not give a shit
so I'd get my cousins to be cool for once and we'd walk across a bridge and past some security guards and bam, canada, where we are all old enough to drink.
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Upstate is broadly just a term that means outside of the metro area in my experience. Anyone still commuting in probably isn't properly upstate, and Long Island is of course its own thing.
I've also never actually lived in New York, this is all Connecticut and Jersey based knowledge of geography.
I hadn't realised that New York state pinches down to capture NYC
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
being from the sticks kinda near Syracuse, I learned pretty quickly to say that I was from "upstate NY," because just saying the state name meant I was from NYC.
One of those weird products of state boundaries resulting from different european colonies arguing over who was stealing what chunk of land four hundred years ago yeah
i went to college in the albany area and i remember when i would drive there, the distance to next thing signs would have all kinds of places with reasonable distances the whole way, then the last one was albany like 2 miles or whatever, and the only other thing they thought was important enough to get on the sign was buffalo at functionally infinity distance away.
so idk i guess past albany
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I’m one generation separated from New York so I still often hear tale from my mother and my cousin (who’s folks remained) about your fabled “garbage plate”
So what I'm getting here is that nobody knows what is or is not up or down state.
It's mostly that people from NYC have a different definition for it than everyone else
I've lived in NYC since '93 (which is when I immigrated to the U.S.). I've never heard the term "Downstate", so I assume it must be something that's used by folks outside of NYC. In NYC, there are basically three categories:
- NYC, which is the five boroughs
- Long Island, which is suburbs
- Upstate, which is every part of New York State that does not fall into the first two categories
So what I'm getting here is that nobody knows what is or is not up or down state.
It's mostly that people from NYC have a different definition for it than everyone else
I've lived in NYC since '93 (which is when I immigrated to the U.S.). I've never heard the term "Downstate", so I assume it must be something that's used by folks outside of NYC. In NYC, there are basically three categories:
- NYC, which is the five boroughs
- Long Island, which is suburbs
- Upstate, which is every part of New York State that does not fall into the first two categories
I'm no expert, but I lived in Ithaca for 5 years and this is how I heard the term used. Upstate of course has subregions (Ithaca is both upstate, and the fingerlakes), but upstate makes sense for everything outside of NYC because the state pinches down so far to get to the city. Its like an hour south of everything else in the state.
I used to live in NYC. Clearly the purpose of the term "upstate" is to differentiate the rest of New York from NYC, on account of most people meaning NYC when they say New York. So IMO it's everything north of the Bronx. I could be convinced that it starts a few miles further north than that.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
This joke makes a lot of sense and was worth the walk. Unrelated, how many months of sleep deprivation do you need until it starts to make you smarter
I dunno, but I felt pretty dumb yesterday compared to my toddler.
See, he found one of the little gas-can rectangle jugs of bubble solution we have a while back and likes playing with it. It's sealed and with a cap on it, so like... sure, have a blast swinging it around, go nuts. Every time he was done with it and playing with something else, it would always be left on top of the little trash-can out we had out there. I figured that since he also loves playing with the trash cans and taking their lids off, it didn't mean much, I'd just make sure to check the can when tossing stuff to make sure he wasn't throwing out his "toy".
Yesterday, though, I saw him putting the bubbles solution back up on the trash can and I realized why he was doing it: The trash can lid had a little rectangular depression in it for aesthetic purposes, and his toddler instincts were that, much like a round sippy cup goes in his round high-chair cup holder, the rectangular bubble solution container must go in the rectangle spot on the trash can. I got out-shape-recognitioned by a 15-month old.
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I was going to make a joke about it and get us into a Who's On First but that phrasing genuinely got me confused for a second because I'm so conditioned to think of New York as the city I had to try and hurdle over the idea of "upstate town in New York" and tripped over my own feet doing it as the two feel mutually exclusive in my head
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Anywhere north of 87 is upstste
so I'd get my cousins to be cool for once and we'd walk across a bridge and past some security guards and bam, canada, where we are all old enough to drink.
I've also never actually lived in New York, this is all Connecticut and Jersey based knowledge of geography.
It's mostly that people from NYC have a different definition for it than everyone else
I have no qualifications here other than looking at maps
Those filthy heathens in Buffalo say pop.
The soda people and the pop people will eventually come together to smite the folks who call everything Coke.
I hadn't realised that New York state pinches down to capture NYC
::looks at Long Island::
Hmmm
Really trying to pinch off that Long Island log.
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Wow I thought I’d be the only degenerate to even think of this joke let alone post it
so idk i guess past albany
As it should be
Just think of the devastation this would cause for the national population of tennis courts and in-ground swimming pools
- NYC, which is the five boroughs
- Long Island, which is suburbs
- Upstate, which is every part of New York State that does not fall into the first two categories
I'm no expert, but I lived in Ithaca for 5 years and this is how I heard the term used. Upstate of course has subregions (Ithaca is both upstate, and the fingerlakes), but upstate makes sense for everything outside of NYC because the state pinches down so far to get to the city. Its like an hour south of everything else in the state.
It's a quantum state thing. You can't measure it except by observing it and your position determines what you observe.
All of those maps are correct.
This joke makes a lot of sense and was worth the walk. Unrelated, how many months of sleep deprivation do you need until it starts to make you smarter
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I dunno, but I felt pretty dumb yesterday compared to my toddler.
See, he found one of the little gas-can rectangle jugs of bubble solution we have a while back and likes playing with it. It's sealed and with a cap on it, so like... sure, have a blast swinging it around, go nuts. Every time he was done with it and playing with something else, it would always be left on top of the little trash-can out we had out there. I figured that since he also loves playing with the trash cans and taking their lids off, it didn't mean much, I'd just make sure to check the can when tossing stuff to make sure he wasn't throwing out his "toy".
Yesterday, though, I saw him putting the bubbles solution back up on the trash can and I realized why he was doing it: The trash can lid had a little rectangular depression in it for aesthetic purposes, and his toddler instincts were that, much like a round sippy cup goes in his round high-chair cup holder, the rectangular bubble solution container must go in the rectangle spot on the trash can. I got out-shape-recognitioned by a 15-month old.
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I've been wondering why you've been making so many badgood jokes lately.
It never occurred to me that you are sleep deprived because of the baby.
Probably because I am sleep deprived because of a baby.
I heard it's gorges there