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My friend worked in NKY. I never asked him the name of the place. This was around 2008.

A buddy of mine worked at one in Kentucky and made like $18 I think. He just paid toward student loans with the extra cash. Oh and dirt bikes were $1700 then not $7200 like today, so they had to work like 80 hours to buy a bike rather than 400.

Oooh burn, circle got the square!

Enough to do the kind of stuff 20 something men liked then, such as buying muscle cars and racing motorcycles. Instead of just playing video games and streaming Netflix which is all most men in their 20s can afford to do today.

Ah back when the average man in their 20s still made a decent living.

The second Lancaster bypass has been done for five years now I'd say.

That was Skynyrd

People seem happier in functionally obsolete areas.

Nice Kyle. All those lima beans, corn, green beans, succotash, baked potatoes and carrots as sides instead of fries, Dumpster fries, mozzarella sticks, corn dog bites, and loaded potato wedges. And if you think we eat a lot of processed meats today, look at how much meat came served as pink circles, pink piles and tan logs back then.

Yeah I'm sick of Burning Man this, Burning Man that. I was at a restaurant last Friday and some loud mouth at the bar was going on and on about it, trying to impress some girl. I wanted to turn around and tell him I heard about that festival 20 years ago and almost went in 1997. It's not that interesting, dude. It is to the Republi-Hippies of the East Side.

Every time I see an old menu I'm like, damn people used to eat like birds as compared to the gut-buster foods of today. That's one reason why you didn't see any fat people. I don't think you could eat enough egg salad, chopped olive and sliced chicken sandwiches to ever get fat. Seriously in the early '50s I bet people took in like 1300 calories a day and half of that was gin. You see film of men working manual labor all day then just eating a baloney sandwich with lettuce, a bit of mayo and some egg salad for lunch. Adds up to like 272 calories and you're like, how?

They help. Like it's real important that you have your thumb on your fretting hand in the right place and position at all times. Teachers can monitor that situation and whack you with a ruler when you do it wrong. Oh and play with a beat a lot, a song, drumbeat or most boring but most helpful a metronome.

Pepsi has put a lot of effort into trying to conquer Appalachia and rural Ohio because they know the South is out of the question.

Everybody here knows that the reason the East Side lacks significant congestion, especially off-peak, is because it has little in the way of freeways.

Wages are so low and hours so ridiculous (way too much night and weekend work) that it's not worth it for a lot of people to even go in. Take home $58 a day for four days but have to drive across town at 3 in the morning Thursday through Sunday? Why bother?

You know, I actually drove all the way up to Polaris the other day. The last time I was up there was to see the Iron Maiden-headlined Ozzfest of 2005. I couldn't even tell where the amphitheater was this time. There's been a lot of development up there that was just woods the last time.

How long ago was that? I don't think those things would be problems with modern equipment. I'm no rolling stock expert, though.

I've never been able to notice the difference in workload or efficiency between the private and public sector jobs I've worked. Same amount of uptimes and downtimes. Time to lean, time to clean. I don't think any forum users here think like this, but I think everyone should be aware that the flip side of the "government workers are lazy and inefficient" stuff comes out of the fact that Uncle Sam employs a lot of minorities, people with cultural and arts degrees, previously low-income individuals, overweight women, urban dwellers... Democrats! Like the only people on earth that deserve jobs (and to eat at all) are people who studied engineering, healthcare, business (not economics, though) or those in the skilled trades. Everybody else is only good as janitors or manual laborers. And that's bullshit.

Too bad there wouldn't be any content left if I used that.

I think one thing they could do is make people select a category to put each post and photo in, like radio buttons marked "Politics" "Viral" "Kids" "Recreation" "Travel" "Sports" "Music". Select only one. That way people could block out categories they don't care about. And if something is mis-categorized users could report it.

Man that's kinda dirty if true. The goal of that would be to park the stuff there just long enough to force him out then let the new tenant take advantage of the foot traffic and visibility generated by the streetcar.

This forum's search is OKAAAAAAAAAAAAY, but most forum's search functions really suck. I still have the best luck going to Google, typing site:(site url) a space, (search term) no parenthesis. so to search for one of my insightful posts where I reference Metal, just type site:urbanohio.com gcrites80s metal and BOOM! Google also doesn't have all those restrictions about no numbers, no two-letter words and all that.

Lame.

Good for them to have the sense to bury utilities like is supposed to be done in the First World but so often doesn't get done in this country.

What also really hurts Appalachian automaking fantasies is terrain. Brown and Adams Counties aren't too bad with them lying in the extended Kentucky Bluegrass area between eastern Clermont and NW Scioto counties which is much flatter than what is seen to the east. But why would they spend the extra money on blasting, grading and draining a site (and put up with the delays) in a mountain range when they can open up in a cornfield? Why push diesel-gobbling semis over those mountains when they don't have to? The Toyota plant in WV lies in the almost flat Teays River valley -- an ancient river that lies deep underground but left a flat channel right in the middle of a state with almost no significant flat areas outside of the extreme tip of the eastern panhandle. And freight rail right through the middle. These plants definitely don't happen without freight rail. And the Chemical Valley along the Kanawah is probably out for the reasons KJP cited. US 33 has served Honda well outside of Marysville.