katwithhat
Toucan
Joined: Mar 01, 2012
Age: 37
Posts: 271
Location: Who knows
|
 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject: Texas myths busted by ME!!! Semi-Rant :) |
 |
|
If I receive another message asking if I have a ranch or farm, I'm going to scream!!! Ok, not really scream, but why does everybody think just because I live in Texas, I own some sort of cattle?
Top 5 Texas Myths:
1. We all live on ranches. People, I live in a regular 4 bedroom home in the suburbs. No ranch and certainly not a farm.
2. We wear 10 gallon hats. I don't own cowboy hats, pants, shirts, nothing!!! I am into alternative rock and have tattoo's. Nothing cowboy here!
3. We ride horses to work. I own a Ford Explorer and have a Vespa in my garage, no horses.
4. The women have big hair. The days I actually care about my hair, I prefer it straight as hell.
5. Everyone owns an oil well. I WISH!!! Maybe then I could pay off my Explorer and move out of my Mom's house!!!
Just a few things from a friendly Texan. Now, I say ya'll all the freaking time. Some people think it's cute, I'm here to say it's just necessity, living here in the Lone Star State, you'd be hung if you didn't 
_________________
I see your lips moving, but all I hear is, oh, look!!! A cat... |
|
| Back to top |
|
USMCnBNSFdude
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 30, 2011
Age: 16
Posts: 841
Location: Glennock, Sodor
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Where in Texas do you live?
_________________
I Like Trains. |
|
| Back to top |
|
katwithhat
Toucan
Joined: Mar 01, 2012
Age: 37
Posts: 271
Location: Who knows
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Suburbs of Dallas. Quite nice, actually. City life a half an hour away from where I live.
_________________
I see your lips moving, but all I hear is, oh, look!!! A cat... |
|
| Back to top |
|
Vigilans
Orgasm Donor
Joined: Jun 20, 2008
Age: 24
Posts: 12091
Location: La belle province
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
So where in your suburban home do you keep your cattle, then? Are 12 gallon hats now in vogue instead of 10 gallon hats? If you don't ride horses to work, what is the point in having so many?
_________________
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu
Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many -Machiavelli
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do |
|
| Back to top |
|
USMCnBNSFdude
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 30, 2011
Age: 16
Posts: 841
Location: Glennock, Sodor
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I heard you all have Hispanic immigrants that tend to your garden.
_________________
I Like Trains. |
|
| Back to top |
|
katwithhat
Toucan
Joined: Mar 01, 2012
Age: 37
Posts: 271
Location: Who knows
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Vigilans wrote: | | So where in your suburban home do you keep your cattle, then? Are 12 gallon hats now in vogue instead of 10 gallon hats? If you don't ride horses to work, what is the point in having so many? |
Oh, dear...where do I start??? 
_________________
I see your lips moving, but all I hear is, oh, look!!! A cat... |
|
| Back to top |
|
katwithhat
Toucan
Joined: Mar 01, 2012
Age: 37
Posts: 271
Location: Who knows
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| USMCnBNSFdude wrote: | | I heard you all have Hispanic immigrants that tend to your garden. |
I took that too far, sorry.
_________________
I see your lips moving, but all I hear is, oh, look!!! A cat...
Last edited by katwithhat on Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:30 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
Descartes
Cogito Ergo Sum
Joined: Apr 09, 2008
Age: 21
Posts: 5998
Location: Arlington, Texas
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Kat, you don't live far from where I live. I live in Arlington, so thus I'm a lot more accustomed to city life.
I agree with your points. The pervasive notions (most of them, at least) of Texas are not true for a majority of its residents.
_________________
What fresh hell is this? |
|
| Back to top |
|
Tim_Tex
Professor Hineybottom
Joined: Jul 03, 2004
Age: 33
Posts: 41865
Location: Houston, Texas
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Texas myths busted by ME!!! Semi-Rant :) |
|
|
| katwithhat wrote: | If I receive another message asking if I have a ranch or farm, I'm going to scream!!! Ok, not really scream, but why does everybody think just because I live in Texas, I own some sort of cattle?
Top 5 Texas Myths:
1. We all live on ranches. People, I live in a regular 4 bedroom home in the suburbs. No ranch and certainly not a farm.
2. We wear 10 gallon hats. I don't own cowboy hats, pants, shirts, nothing!!! I am into alternative rock and have tattoo's. Nothing cowboy here!
3. We ride horses to work. I own a Ford Explorer and have a Vespa in my garage, no horses.
4. The women have big hair. The days I actually care about my hair, I prefer it straight as hell.
5. Everyone owns an oil well. I WISH!!! Maybe then I could pay off my Explorer and move out of my Mom's house!!!
Just a few things from a friendly Texan. Now, I say ya'll all the freaking time. Some people think it's cute, I'm here to say it's just necessity, living here in the Lone Star State, you'd be hung if you didn't |
1. No ranch here either. I live in a 3-bedroom suburban house (I live just outside of Houston).
2. No 10-gallon hats, but I do collect baseball caps. I am into artsy films and acoustic pop/jazz (but have many other interests as well).
3. No horses. I drive a Ford Focus, but want a Buick Enclave or Subaru Tribeca.
4. I'm a guy, so this one doesn't apply. I usually have my hair very short, often in a buzz cut.
5. Actually that one is true. We have land in north Texas (ancestral homes) that has several producing wells.
_________________
<<<=== This is not the devil, this is the Red Guy from Cow and Chicken. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Feralucce
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 25, 2012
Age: 39
Posts: 724
Location: New Orleans, LA
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Moonhawk
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 08, 2012
Age: 21
Posts: 1596
Location: Hidden :o
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:09 am Post subject: |
|
|
| To be honest i never assumed any of that but it was fun to read anyway, it seems a lot of people in the world also assume that dutch people live in windmills etc, but i wont go off topic for that xD |
|
| Back to top |
|
katwithhat
Toucan
Joined: Mar 01, 2012
Age: 37
Posts: 271
Location: Who knows
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:24 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Moonhawk wrote: | | To be honest i never assumed any of that but it was fun to read anyway, it seems a lot of people in the world also assume that dutch people live in windmills etc, but i wont go off topic for that xD |
So, I'm assuming no wooden shoes?
_________________
I see your lips moving, but all I hear is, oh, look!!! A cat... |
|
| Back to top |
|
Feralucce
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 25, 2012
Age: 39
Posts: 724
Location: New Orleans, LA
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Chipshorter
Velociraptor
Joined: Jan 17, 2012
Age: 34
Posts: 477
Location: The Georgian Quarter of The Pool of Life, The Centre of The Creative Universe
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Texas myths busted by ME!!! Semi-Rant :) |
|
|
| katwithhat wrote: | If I receive another message asking if I have a ranch or farm, I'm going to scream!!! Ok, not really scream, but why does everybody think just because I live in Texas, I own some sort of cattle?
...
Just a few things from a friendly Texan. Now, I say ya'll all the freaking time. Some people think it's cute, I'm here to say it's just necessity, living here in the Lone Star State, you'd be hung if you didn't |
I can understand what your saying there la, I get to hear alot of misconceptions about my home town Liverpool & its people we Scouses.
A good deal of them misconceptions are based from media bias from London and Manchester (two very jealous cities of my own city's achievements as a global city IMHO, as over the last ten years I had people from both them city's visit Liverpool telling my that my home town is better than theres) based on the 1980s plus the global media view of Liverpool is that we'll only famous for the Merseybeat era of pop music.
I found that peoples attitudes change about my own city and Scouses after people take the time to fully explore my city when visiting it, & research into Liverpool's very rich & 800 years plus history Also I hope that my own city's new marketing campaign (...it's Liverpool/...I'm Liverpool) I feel with with also help to change attitudes.
PS The word Texan has an different meaning in Scouse, Texan is an colloquialism for an idiot with a high opinion of themselves! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
