Posted: 7/14/2012 5:53:40 PM EDT
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Here is someone's take on "Rural New York" and it's quite accurate. THE RULES OF RURAL NEW YORK ARE AS FOLLOWS: Listen up City Slickers! 1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap around straight... Your head isn't crooked. 3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road' No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way. I drive a pickup truck because I want to. 4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? I-90 and I-81 go west and south... Use Them. 5. So you have a $60,000 car... We're impressed. We have $250,000 combines... To harvest corn and soybeans that are driven only 3 weeks a year. 6. So every person in rural New York waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept. 7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time. 8. Yeah, we eat meat, taters and gravy, beans and biscuits, and homemade pie. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available down at Jim's bait shop. 9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the Saturday before Thanksgiving. 10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age. 11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak or chicken. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey. 12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices... Salt, pepper, and ketchup. Oh, yeah... We don't care what you folks in Chicago call that stuff you eat... IT AIN'T REAL CHILI !! 13. You bring 'coke' into my house... It better be brown, wet and served over ice. 14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long blonde hair. 15. The Syracuse Orangemen and high school football are as important here as the Giants and the Jets and more fun to watch. 16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards... It spooks the fish. 17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have Cornell University, Ithaca College, Syracuse U., Colgate, the SUNY system, Community Colleges, and Voc-techs. They come out of there with an education plus a love for God and Country, and they still wave to everybody when they come home for the holidays. 18. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump junk ain't music anyway. We don't want to hear it any more than we want to see your boxers. (Refer back to #1.) 19. Four inches of snow isn't a blizzard... it's a flurry. Drive in it like you got some sense, and DON'T take all our bread, milk, and eggs off the grocery shelves. This ain't Alaska! Worst case... You may have to live a whole day without croissants. Anyway... The pickups with snowplows will have you out the next day. 20. If you've never been here, come visit our friendly folks and enjoy our spectacular scenery... Lakes, farmland, great fishing and hunting, wineries, museums, lots of history. Take a boat ride on the Erie Canal. Check out Niagara Falls and the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains. 21. By the way, if you want to talk to God in New York... it's a local call. A true New Yorker will send this on!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY! FROM RURAL NEW YORK WITH LOVE... |
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Here is someone's take on "Rural New York" and it's quite accurate. THE RULES OF RURAL NEW YORK ARE AS FOLLOWS: Listen up City Slickers! 1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap around straight... Your head isn't crooked. 3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road' No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way. I drive a pickup truck because I want to. 4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? I-90 and I-81 go west and south... Use Them. 5. So you have a $60,000 car... We're impressed. We have $250,000 combines... To harvest corn and soybeans that are driven only 3 weeks a year. 6. So every person in rural New York waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept. 7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time. 8. Yeah, we eat meat, taters and gravy, beans and biscuits, and homemade pie. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available down at Jim's bait shop. 9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the Saturday before Thanksgiving. 10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age. 11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak or chicken. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey. 12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices... Salt, pepper, and ketchup. Oh, yeah... We don't care what you folks in Chicago call that stuff you eat... IT AIN'T REAL CHILI !! 13. You bring 'coke' into my house... It better be brown, wet and served over ice. 14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long blonde hair. 15. The Syracuse Orangemen and high school football are as important here as the Giants and the Jets and more fun to watch. 16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards... It spooks the fish. 17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have Cornell University, Ithaca College, Syracuse U., Colgate, the SUNY system, Community Colleges, and Voc-techs. They come out of there with an education plus a love for God and Country, and they still wave to everybody when they come home for the holidays. 18. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump junk ain't music anyway. We don't want to hear it any more than we want to see your boxers. (Refer back to #1.) 19. Four inches of snow isn't a blizzard... it's a flurry. Drive in it like you got some sense, and DON'T take all our bread, milk, and eggs off the grocery shelves. This ain't Alaska! Worst case... You may have to live a whole day without croissants. Anyway... The pickups with snowplows will have you out the next day. 20. If you've never been here, come visit our friendly folks and enjoy our spectacular scenery... Lakes, farmland, great fishing and hunting, wineries, museums, lots of history. Take a boat ride on the Erie Canal. Check out Niagara Falls and the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains. 21. By the way, if you want to talk to God in New York... it's a local call. A true New Yorker will send this on!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY! FROM RURAL NEW YORK WITH LOVE... +1000 |
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Don't forget that POSTED and NO TRESPASSING signs are to be obeyed even if no one is around. Frickin hicks up there like to shoot and ride their bikes on my bro's land during the bow season with utter disregard even when we're up in the trees.  Most folks up here have been hunting and fishing for years on the same land, we have an unwritten rule here If you want to hunt , camp, fish, or anything else on MY land... I'm expecting to be welcomed to do the same on YOURS too! The first thing the new tenants do is put up the NO TRESPASSING signs... and not bother to try to make friends with the locals here... Some people find friends upstate......like MAG162 did before even building his camp up here. MAG is WELCOME to hunt or whatever he pleases on MY land because he has gained he respect of the neighbors up here. I did the neighborly thing years ago and stopped to pay my respects to the new transplant here from Conn. several years ago. Welcomed them to our little piece of paradise here, and asked politely if he did any hunting....his reply was, "Yeah, and if I catch some SOB shooting MY deer on my land, I'll either shoot him myself, or call the troopers on him!" Well when fall came upon us, he asked me if it would be OK to hunt on my land...I said sure! just as long as my family would be welcome to do the same. His response was: "Nobody but ME hunts on my land, PERIOD!" I said "Well, then you should already know what my answer is to your question then....Now please leave.." 
If ANYONE from downstate buys land up here I stress that you go introduce yourself to your neighbors, and don't let your first meeting with them be while you're tacking up POSTED signs on his side of the tree! 
We still size a man up here by looking him in the eye, and by a handshake. Hell we still close deals here with a handshake... 
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#22 - no you jack wagon, all of NY is not a big city.... I grew up in Greenville and still own a house in selkirk but moved down to Virginia 2 years ago, All of you guys would love Virginia, its like NY but with better laws and better jobs. Thought about transferring to E-town KY for the same reason! Only reason I'm here is my parents have the homestead here and I have a decent paying job in the gun industry here.... |
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NOT ALL NYC folks are like this guys come on...The reason I posted this initially was I found it amusing thinking of some of the few arrogant a-holes that buy places up here and then decide to change our way of life by getting on the town board or bitching about thins at town meetings... like cowshit in the road where a farmer crosses his cows.
MOST of the people that move in are escaping the liberal cesspool to raise their kids and are good neighbors. It's the ones that move in that have fouled their own nest downstate....and decide that the uneducated farmers around here need guidance and social engineering here that actually caused their predicament downstate! |
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It's the ones that move in that have fouled their own nest downstate....and decide that the uneducated farmers around here need guidance and social engineering here that actually caused their predicament downstate! WC was destroyed by the hundreds of thousands of assholes escaping NYC in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. The first thing on their agenda was to turn WC into everything they were running from. Welcome to my world. |
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Amen. Cut off NYC n ship it to California!  What's your plan for the rest of NY?
http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=5592 
That's pretty amazing. Im in a red zone. 
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NOT ALL NYC folks are like this guys come on...The reason I posted this initially was I found it amusing thinking of some of the few arrogant a-holes that buy places up here and then decide to change our way of life by getting on the town board or bitching about thins at town meetings... like cowshit in the road where a farmer crosses his cows. MOST of the people that move in are escaping the liberal cesspool to raise their kids and are good neighbors. It's the ones that move in that have fouled their own nest downstate....and decide that the uneducated farmers around here need guidance and social engineering here that actually caused their predicament downstate! I've found most are arrogant aholes. But they think we are all inbred hicks... so it all equals out.
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Amen. Cut off NYC n ship it to California! What's your plan for the rest of NY?
http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=5592 
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Hell, most of those red counties have livestock that outnumbers humans two to one, and I suspect if the Party's figure out a way to equate ear-tags to registered voters they'll use those numbers to inflate their districts.
The first half of my life was mis-spent in Florida, where the assholes, retirees, and carpet baggers came to get away from the douchbaggery that makes up coastal corner of NY/NJ/MA/CT Don't get me wrong, if it wasn't a special land people wouldn't be moving there by the thousands daily. In NY taxes suck, laws against EVERYTHING imaginable, felony this or that, can't build or tear down with out permission, permits, fees, impact studies, etc. from some .gov schmuck, still when you get ten miles away from municipal lines the State turns out some breathtaking sights. We have choices: live with it and take what out bureaucrats dish out, move to greener pastures, or stand and fight against that which we believe to be wrong. It isn't going to be easy, probably won't be popular, but then again doing what's right seldom is. 
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Quoted: We have choices: live with it and take what out bureaucrats dish out, move to greener pastures, or stand and fight against that which we believe to be wrong. It isn't going to be easy, probably won't be popular, but then again doing what's right seldom is. Stand and fight against voters' whose LKA is a park bench in NYC and are given a free lunch, bused to the polling place and told to pull all the "D" levers. I fought the good fight for more years than I care to remember. I think we'll be OK after the Nov NY Senate election for the next two years but then we'll start the whole thing over again. Hopefully by then I'll be out of New Yorkistan. |
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The Ithaca liberal element is having a cow with Hinchey retiring and the redistricting. They are all having a cow over their new GOP rep not representing "their" interests. This next election will be verrryyyy interesting in my county. So far its been a race about who is more of a real liberal to oust that evil tea bagging GOP rep |
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NOT ALL NYC folks are like this guys come on...The reason I posted this initially was I found it amusing thinking of some of the few arrogant a-holes that buy places up here and then decide to change our way of life by getting on the town board or bitching about thins at town meetings... like cowshit in the road where a farmer crosses his cows. MOST of the people that move in are escaping the liberal cesspool to raise their kids and are good neighbors. It's the ones that move in that have fouled their own nest downstate....and decide that the uneducated farmers around here need guidance and social engineering here that actually caused their predicament downstate! I've found most are arrogant aholes. But they think we are all inbred hicks... so it all equals out.
Ask someone not from NY, and you're all the same, whether upstate or downstate or eastern or western. Living down south for 2 years taught me this: To the locals there, "NY" = "NYC". They have no idea that NYC is the small, dangling ballsack of the state (and given the smell in NYC at times, that's an appropriate analogy ).
"Oh, you're from NY? I've seen it on TV and in movies. I've always wanted to go there! Did you see 9/11 right outside your window?? Do you see celebrities walking all over the place??". Things like that. When in reality, I'm from 4 hours away from NYC. |
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Living down south for 2 years taught me this: To the locals there, "NY" = "NYC". They have no idea that NYC is the small, dangling ballsack of the state (and given the smell in NYC at times, that's an appropriate analogy ).
"Oh, you're from NY? I've seen it on TV and in movies. I've always wanted to go there! Did you see 9/11 right outside your window?? Do you see celebrities walking all over the place??". Things like that. When in reality, I'm from 4 hours away from NYC. No different than people thinking that CA consists of LA and San Francisco |
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Quoted: Ask someone not from NY, and you're all the same, whether upstate or downstate or eastern or western. I've traveled all over the U.S. and in my experience NY is the most hated state in the US. All they want to discuss is what a stupid asshole Bloombutt is. |
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Living down south for 2 years taught me this: To the locals there, "NY" = "NYC". They have no idea that NYC is the small, dangling ballsack of the state (and given the smell in NYC at times, that's an appropriate analogy ).
"Oh, you're from NY? I've seen it on TV and in movies. I've always wanted to go there! Did you see 9/11 right outside your window?? Do you see celebrities walking all over the place??". Things like that. When in reality, I'm from 4 hours away from NYC. No different than people thinking that CA consists of LA and San Francisco No. They also have San Diego.
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Ask someone not from NY, and you're all the same, whether upstate or downstate or eastern or western. I've traveled all over the U.S. and in my experience NY is the most hated state in the US. All they want to discuss is what a stupid asshole Bloombutt is. I honestly didn't run into many people who had negative things to say about NY, while I was in SC. (Well, at least no one ever said anything to me about it) I actually worked with a lot of people from NY, down there. Off the top of my head, 1 girl from Rochester, 1 from Buffalo, a few from NYC and the director of the jail where I worked is actually from the Ithaca area. Go figure. |
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NOT ALL NYC folks are like this guys come on...The reason I posted this initially was I found it amusing thinking of some of the few arrogant a-holes that buy places up here and then decide to change our way of life by getting on the town board or bitching about thins at town meetings... like cowshit in the road where a farmer crosses his cows. MOST of the people that move in are escaping the liberal cesspool to raise their kids and are good neighbors. It's the ones that move in that have fouled their own nest downstate....and decide that the uneducated farmers around here need guidance and social engineering here that actually caused their predicament downstate! I've found most are arrogant aholes. But they think we are all inbred hicks... so it all equals out.
Ask someone not from NY, and you're all the same, whether upstate or downstate or eastern or western. Living down south for 2 years taught me this: To the locals there, "NY" = "NYC". They have no idea that NYC is the small, dangling ballsack of the state (and given the smell in NYC at times, that's an appropriate analogy ).
"Oh, you're from NY? I've seen it on TV and in movies. I've always wanted to go there! Did you see 9/11 right outside your window?? Do you see celebrities walking all over the place??". Things like that. When in reality, I'm from 4 hours away from NYC. 
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It's the ones that move in that have fouled their own nest downstate....and decide that the uneducated farmers around here need guidance and social engineering here that actually caused their predicament downstate! WC was destroyed by the hundreds of thousands of assholes escaping NYC in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. The first thing on their agenda was to turn WC into everything they were running from. Welcome to my world. Yea, it's really disheartening. :( |
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Born and raised in Central N.Y. Moved(Military) Would move back, however the politics and gun laws just plain suck. Will be visiting next week though.  Shouldn't have a problem with Op's rules. They haven't changed much.
.........and the taxes. Don't forget the taxes. Those are just as comparatively ridiculous as politics/gun laws. $10 a pack for smokes? I hope NYS enjoys losing money on everyone in my town crossing the border and buying their smokes in PA. |
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I love the city people who come to hunt. 
I've never seen so much douchebaggery as city boys who whitetail hunt. Stay in your concrete jungle hippies! Can't say I agree with you. I'm pretty sure the guys jacking deer and back strapping them on my property are locals. |
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I love the city people who come to hunt.
I've never seen so much douchebaggery as city boys who whitetail hunt. Stay in your concrete jungle hippies! Can't say I agree with you. I'm pretty sure the guys jacking deer and back strapping them on my property are locals. true. my gripe is part time wannabe hunters. come here, shoot anything they see and act like nimrods. we arent going to have decent bucks in this state if people go blasting anything... really pisses me off! |
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I love the city people who come to hunt.
I've never seen so much douchebaggery as city boys who whitetail hunt. Stay in your concrete jungle hippies! Can't say I agree with you. I'm pretty sure the guys jacking deer and back strapping them on my property are locals. true. my gripe is part time wannabe hunters. come here, shoot anything they see and act like nimrods. we arent going to have decent bucks in this state if people go blasting anything... really pisses me off! We could start a campaign to encourage them to wear the official outdoor attire for hunting up here: That being a pair of Brown Carhart coveralls, a white T-shirt, and a green bug net over their heads.
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I USED TO HUNT IN COLUMBIA COUNTY ––FRIEND HAD LOT OF LAND AND A HOUSE . NEW YORK YUPPIES MOVE IN BUILT McMANSIONS POSTED THE AREA.
BLASTED SOME KIND OF MUSIC ALL HUNTING SEASON . FARMER TOOK DEER OFF THE TRACTOR ALL YEAR LONG . FINALLY MY FRIEND RETIRED TO FLA. NOW LOOKING FOR LAND TO HUNT ON. ALL THE OLD NEIGHBORS HE HAD IN COLUMBIA SOLD AND THE YUPS MOVED IN. USED TO GO UP FOR "BARBY-Q" AND HELP THE LOCALS WITH REPAIRS WHEN ASKED . GOT TO MOVE OUT OF THE CESSPOOL THAT NY HAS BECOME |
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#23 The fact that the door is unlocked is not your good fortune. All of the doors in this 'hood are unlocked. It would be best not to enter.
#24 Though you've turned down the stereo, and turned your hats on the right way, we still know you're not from around here. We're watching. #25 Yes, we understand that running drugs is a business- your business, and is a fact of life. You're welcome to the cities, I90, 81, and Route 14 from Geneva to Alton. Don't stray. #26 Chances are the businessman with the $10,000 Rolex, the farmer in muddy jeans, and the nice grandma nearest you all have concealed weapons permits. Think before you act. #27 We welcome your wad of cash. Have a nice meal and overnight stay at the wonderful B&B. Then go home. #28 JimBob is a farmer because he wants to be, not because he's stupid. Don't talk downstate politics and think you know more than he. #29 Keep your gangs in the City. Our punk gangs drove out the Jamaicans, the Russians, and S13 and that ilk is kept to a minimum. If it's our little punk gangs vs. yours, we want you gone. If worse comes to worse, we just look the other way when the Mafia straightens things out. #30 No, the apples are not free, and you can't stop and just pick a few. #31 Freshwater lakes are just as deadly as the ocean. If you can't swim, don't go in. #32 Winter is our respite from your visits. Thanks for not coming, Upstate is closed until Spring. #33 We give directions based on landmarks like the red barn, Jim's blue Chevy, and the big cherry tree. Yes, I drive that road every day. No, I don't know the name of it, just look for the place with the white fence and turn there. #34 Don't panic if you see guys in camo walking down the street with guns. #35 That's called a Turkey. Yes, it is only a bird, but look what it did to your front end. Think of it as a 35 Lb flying bowling ball. #36 Grape, Viginia Creeper, and Poison Ivy. Ask a local to show you the difference before you play in the forest. #37 Cruise night has nothing to do with Tom. It's a bunch of guys that have many cars that get together. Yes, even farmer Tom can afford to store six cars. #38 If you must come during winter, for God's sake: sweaters are made of wool, not cotton; quilted flannel beats your UnderArmor hoodie; and lace the boots tight at the top, not over the foot. AND BRING GLOVES. #39 We sound pretty much the same as folk all the way to Nevada. We are endeared with Australian accents, confused by German, and laugh at Canadian. Your Yonkers/LI/Brooklyn/NJ accents all sound the same to us, and annoy us to no end. Try your best to talk normally. And have your wife tone down the hair-doo. #40. If you work for the government, a politician, or the UN, keep it to yourself. |
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Quoted: 9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Funny, "Opener" to me was always the third Saturday in November (except when it used to be the third Monday in November) had nothing to do with Thanksgiving. And this is obviously only for the Southern Zone and only for the "Regular Opener" But since I am from NYC I might be wrong.
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#26 Chances are the businessman with the $10,000 Rolex, the farmer in muddy jeans, and the nice grandma nearest you all have concealed weapons permits. Think before you act. This doesn't deter people. People who aren't even interested in guns, have guns, where I lived in SC. Everyone and their mother had a carry permit, and everyone knew it. Didn't do a damn thing to deter robberies and muggings. Just more dead crooks that are too stupid to be good crooks, which is always nice. |