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After leaving my first fiance, I vowed id never go back to this state.

Lol im back, and its just as I remembered it! Aside from all the obvious sociopolitical issues, last night's venue had NO fucking idea how to run our show.

Staff had confusion over door and set time, and they had a major touring package playing out back. They asked us to "merge the shows" somehow cause rain was due, and the outdoor show got shut down. It would have been fine with us, but we had to say no because the locals we booked could not be playing late for whatever reasons. That lead to them just cutting the outdoor show, eventually, and having us start our gig on a whim.

Like, alright, this CANNOT BE A SPECIAL SITUATION! WHAT IS YOUR USUAL PROCEDURE? Don't look to us to be the decision makers, this is your venue.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. This has been "corgis tour updstes: volume 3"

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 64 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Texas is the amerikkka of amerikkka and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ahrienby@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Any adjacent GOP-led State too

[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

It's pretty hilarious how obsessed they are with California. Like, California is some kind of boogieman that Texans tell around the campfire to scare other Texans.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

living in texas already sucks and then the California Diaspora raised everybody's rent on top of it

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, we do that.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Lmao yeah they are like that in my experience

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

boogieman that Texans tell around the campfire

...So that's why I always answer the door heavily armed and my homemade RPG is right near the front door. It could a ten foot tall one-armed hooked goat-man creature with a rainbow-colored devil's robe and cowl. In other words - California.

[–] isame@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I misread ten foot as one foot (was hitting the bong and reading at the same time, forgive me lol), and thought that sounded like such an adorable little monster. I want one to live with me and hang out with me when i get home from work.

[–] isame@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Oh and its little robe and cowl!

[–] Des@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

my partners job has a ban on taking any loads to or from that state

that's how shit it is

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a personal goal of never setting food in that shit hole ever again.

so far, so good.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

according to some american guy on youtube there is a lot of good cheap chinese buffet in that state

other than that its a total shithole with nothing to do, no jobs, lots of alcoholism, nothing for miles, religious extremism

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Chinese for dinner would be great, im sick of the "tour diet"

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

its a total shithole with nothing to do,

When God created the Heavens and the Earth, he took everything leftover to make what we call Texas.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Solidarity from OHHio, the BucKKKeye SState. Lefties here know this feeling all too well.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Maine might be the only cool state because up there you can stay away from Amerikkkans

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

OP you were in Houston, which often gets a bad rep for being a suburban hellscape (unless you live inside the loop), but let me defend it a bit. It is genuinely the most diverse city in all of America (used to live there and in NYC for a few years in a previous life), major problems notwithstanding. Houston feels even less segregating than NYC, and has a more working class vibe than the finance ghouls populated NYC, or the techbros in SF (and I heard increasingly in Austin as well). It is also one of the most culturally important cities for the black community.

I find that white people often don’t like that chaotic vibe brought by the large immigrant communities (the sort of vibe you find in major cities in the developing countries lol) and especially if they have grown up in well-segregated planned neighborhoods with strict zoning laws, but if you’re not white, the diversity makes it nothing like anywhere else in America. I genuinely liked it more than NYC because the people were way more friendly if anything.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting! Thanks for sharing, didnt know that!

[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also every minority and left-of-Republican I know that’s been to both places says Dallas easily clears Houston lol.

Only worked in Dallas myself, it’s still Texas so it’s still shit, but less shit than the worst Texas shit if that makes sense

[–] neo@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Worst part of the worst country. At least Florida has beaches

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck California for being overrun by worthless NIMBYs.

Smug-ass liberals love to laugh at us “dumb rednecks” (as if there aren’t leftist rednecks like me) for being fascists, but sceech “GO AWAY POORS! WE’RE FULL!” and fight tooth and nail to never have their cities grow ever like they WANT to be the flyover state. This also means that people like me who never fit in with their hometown are stuck here because these dipshits decided that they’re “fancy”.

You’re only a Californian because of your own dumb luck, not your big brain. Want to live in a flyover community? This Ohioan would happily trade places with any one of you. I’ll even take living in Sacramento if it means I can get my dirty redneck hands all over mr. Fancy pant’s overglorified country club of a state.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Comrade California is a big place. I'm pretty sure you can move on the cheap to Bakersfield. But then you may as well be in Texas lol

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

If you like desert and meth, it’s heaven.

[–] SocialistSpectre@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just helped move a comrade out of Texas up north and wow, it's just such a different world up there. The flight back to Austin was marked with a deep melancholy knowing how different the culture was on the other side of the country.

May everyone escape this hell hole.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Im a Chicago boy, but like not one of the ones that pioneered neoliberalism

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What am I looking at here?

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

If your in Texas treat yourself to the greatest honky tonker out there.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

rain might be a special situation in texas

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

I cannot believe that the venue has not developed a standard plan for when it does happen tho

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

More like TexASS, am I right?

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Boom fuckin gottem!

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

death to tekkkxas

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

is that what they're calling it these days?

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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