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Joshjrn
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Number of Posts: | 32246 |
| Registered on: | 12/24/2008 |
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Guess we should expect nothing less in the clown city of New York.
It's running in a small off-Broadway venue:
In a city of over 8MM people, you're going to have idiots doing idiot things.
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reality star
No.
$20MM not only got her to compete for China, but also to completely ignore or give utter nonsense answers to pointed questions about China's civil rights violations. Ultimately, that's a lot of money, so I have a hard time blaming her, but I also don't have to pretend to respect the decision or to buy her nonsense about wanting to be a role model for Chinese girls. She's bought and paid for. Simple as.
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you must not bevpaying attention. if your kid is gifted or magnet eligible you have great choices in Lafayette or Baton Rouge. But if your kid is just a regular student, the high school Systems in Lafayette are better than Baton Rouge. Due to population numbers and demographics, the bad actors in BTR just outnumber the bad actors in Lafayette. Neither of the systems are very good however.
You didn't answer my question. Outside of magnet programs, no one I know in Lafayette or Baton Rouge extols the merits their public school systems. If you aren't willing to send you kid to either of them, their relative merits don't matter.
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go back to your OP, you asked for things lafayette has that baton rouge doesnt. the request was not worded to cater to what you like or dont like
Fair enough. You've got a couple of days of mediocre parades as opposed to one day of mediocre parades. Point in your favor :lol:
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10/12 runs through the middle of the city. Even if you aren’t going to cross it, you are dealing with the traffic from it. Stop being disingenuous.
No, I really don't. There might be some very localized traffic at major off ramps where people would stop for gas or food, but again, easy to navigate around. Where did you live in work during your five years here that the interstate caused you so much consternation?
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not sure what your hangup is, Lafayette Parish has nine bridges that cross the Vermillion river. Seven of them are in the city limits. East Baton Rouge has unfortunately two bridges that cross the Mississippi river.
This is always one of my favorites... I'll give you one guess as to which geographic feature people who live and work in Baton Rouge never have to cross on an average day... The New Bridge is a you problem, not a me problem. I'm a little curious how you lived here for five years and somehow don't know that. Then again, you currently live in Houston with your wife's family in BR, so that's likely substantially weighing on your analysis.
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on your comments about food, no one I know goes to restaurants in Lafayette to eat Cajun food. What they do is go out to eat things that they don’t want to make at home, or go out to celebrate things.
Which I get; it's also why people touting living in Lafayette "for the culture" makes no sense to me. My Magnalite pot traveled with me to Baton Rouge when I moved here. Doesn't seem to cook any differently on this side of the river. What about the city itself exudes this mythical "culture"?
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I feel like you are a millenial with a different view of lafayette than my view because your view is of a lafayette post O&G industry 80s/90s collapse and brain drain.
Guilty as charged. But as we sit here in 2026, any special sauce it had in the 70s isn't particularly relevant anymore. And that's not to say that Lafayette is awful or anything; it isn't. It's just not special or interesting in any appreciable way. And there's nothing wrong with that. Most places aren't special or interesting. My issue is that people still claim that Lafayette is special and interesting, yet every reason they cite to doesn't seem to hold water. It's a standard 120k popular small city with an average, if a bit boom/busy economy, a significantly above average food scene for its size, and a somewhat interesting cultural history, but no longer an interesting live culture.
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Weren’t they just kicking and screaming about people bailing from the pmac too early?
Those people were getting free shite; these people aren't.
*shrugs*
Same amount, same funds, every week, rain or shine. I'll start paying more attention to it in a couple of decades.
Same amount, same funds, every week, rain or shine. I'll start paying more attention to it in a couple of decades.
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send your kid to a public school
Can you? You certainly couldn't when I was growing up. Which public schools in Lafayette are worth sending your kids to these days?
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go to more than one mardi gras parade
Literally couldn't care less. I stopped attending parades in Lafayette years before I left, and I don't go to the ones we have in BR now. The day I decide I want to see an actual parade, I'm an hour closer to Nola than you are.
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drive around the city without having to deal with an interstate
Spoken like a tourist who has no idea what they're talking about. I very rarely need to get on the interstate. See: my previous posts regarding fewer one way in/one way out neighborhoods.
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cross the river on multiple different bridges
Geography not your strong point? :lol:
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work out at Red’s
I suppose you've got me there, but again, if that's the best you've got... :lol:
re: Experience with custom suits in New Orleans or Baton Rouge
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/3/26 at 10:28 am to honeybadger07
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get a better tailor!
It's objectively bad advice. Off the rack suits are offered in 2" increments as far as shoulder measurements are concerned. Being you have two shoulders, that's 1" on each side. Let's say we are looking at a 40R suit. A man with a 41" measurement wouldn't fit in that suit, as it's too small. As such, a 42R is what would "fit" them. On the other side, a man with 39" shoulders would consider the 40R a "fit". Telling a man with 39" shoulders to forgot the 40R and instead buy a 42R to then have it tailored back down to 39"-ish is utterly nonsensical advice. That man should buy the 40R that fits them and then decide whether that half inch on each shoulder matters all that much to them (spoiler alert: it likely won't). Same thing with the man with 41" shoulders. Telling him to forgo the 42R and instead buy a 44R to just have it tailored back down is absurd. The only edge cases are people just above a measurement. So someone who measures a 40.5". But if anything, they are going to size "down" to a 40 instead of doing the 42" that "fits", as a quarter inch on each shoulder is likely within comfort tolerance. But telling that 40.5" to buy a 44R is, again, absurd.
If you're buying an off the rack suit to heavily tailor, start by buying a suit that best fits you in the shoulders. Any tailor worth their salt will tell you that. Anyone who tells you different is bilking you.
Not really an ETA, as I thought of this right before hitting submit, but there's one caveat to the above: if someone is really, really obese, then there potentially isn't enough fabric in the midsection on a properly sized suit, so they need to buy up to get a big enough midsection. If that applies to you, godspeed. Also, maybe consider remedying the root cause. But regardless, that doesn't apply to the overwhelming majority of the population.
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He is standing on his toes with his left foot and the right doesnt look backwards to me either its fracing the direction of the camera.
When I first looked at the picture, I was absolutely positive that foot was backwards, but you’re right. The grass being tall combined with his being on his toes combined with the foot tilt combined with the shoe tongue being askew makes for a very weird optical illusion.
Are we talking about things to dry hands/objects or things to wash other objects? We use hand towels to dry, paper towels to wash… except for dishes. That’s a brush or a sponge. Dish rags sound nasty.
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 7:57 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Edit: Not 100%. They were impactful, but the answer you seek is the smartphone. 2007. The point where people could carry the world in their pocket.
That’s not the answer I seek. I agree, and have already posted on this thread, the Facebook going fully public combined with the release of the iPhone 3G was the next massive watershed event. We could argue over which is more impactful, but that’s not particularly relevant to what we were discussing in this context, which was the watershed separating early millennials from late millennials. I was long past my formative years when that watershed occurred, so it had zero impact on my worldview. Now, it certainly is what drives a wedge between late millennials and Gen Z, but that’s another issue entirely.
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 7:40 pm to Lonnie Utah
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I'll start with seeing 9/11 as a teenager isn’t the same as experiencing it as as an adult. Experiencing history as a teen can feel dramatic, but l would say how much of it is influence is due to limited worldview at 14 or 15? In contrast, Gen X grew up amid Watergate, Vietnam, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Gulf War I all dramatic events in their own right (albiet pale in comparison to 9/11). If you pressed me, id say the real generational shift in perspective for society in general but Millennials specificallly had less to do with 9/11 or widespread internet and more to do with the polifeation of the smartphone. The instant information, constant connection, and relentless social feedback have done more to shape how an entire generation views and interprets the world than the other two events.
I think I understand where we are going wrong, and why you were so inquisitive about what I remembered about the time period.
I’m not saying that those events substantially impacted people; I’m saying those events changed the world permanently, and the way the world changed substantially impacted people. Do you not agree that the proliferation of easy home access to the WWW and 9/11 ushered in significant societal changes that shaped people in their formative years differently than had those changes not occurred?
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 6:37 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Millennials in this thread proving the OP correct. Even when personal experiences of those that lived thru the times are conveyed, the millennials are still telling the GenXers that lived it they are wrong about what happened or that their memories are wrong. GenXers brush it off and move on.... And some Millennial will DV this and tell me I'm full of crap. And according to the "experts" in this thread we're the cynical apathetic ones...
You fixated on a minor detail and threw the baby out with the bath water. I’ll tell you what, let’s start over. Instead of talking to normies, I’m going to talk to you:
In my opinion, the proliferation of easy home access to the World Wide Web in the late 90s into the early 2000s ushered in a significant sea change in the way the world of the average person worked, which significantly impacted the worldview of kids raised after that moment. Same thing for 9/11/2001. The fact that the two of them more or less occurred at the same time creates an incredible watershed moment in history, marking significant differences, on average, between people who had formative years before that mark and those who didn’t.
Agree or disagree? If you disagree, why so?
re: My Miniature Dachshund Bit Me
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 5:32 pm to AutoYes_Clown
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I didnt realize until after that they were bred to hunt badgers and be vicious with a mean bite.
Bred to hunt badgers in their own fricking den. They are basically the dog version of the crazy fricks sent down into the tunnels in Vietnam. They are massive (little) assholes :lol:
re: When did Lafayette pass Baton Rouge as the 2nd best city in LA?
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 5:28 pm to Defenseiskey
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I know, I've worked in downstream before. Houston has a significantly larger downstream industry and most of it's R&D and engineering is done there. Most of the kids who went into downstream moved there. A couple of them stayed in BR but they all left after a couple of years. I know one guy who is an electrical engineer and stayed in BR but left, just wasn't his type of place.
Point of order: I’m not saying that EBR is a better job market for engineers than Houston. I was saying that, in my experience, engineers from Lafayette are as likely or better to stay in EBR than they are to return to Lafayette.
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I bet this is the fastest, most powerful one yet. And look forward to the commercials of the iphone being used to film a movie.
Considered it's the low end budget version, I'm going to bet you're wrong :lol:
re: When did Lafayette pass Baton Rouge as the 2nd best city in LA?
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 3:34 pm to Defenseiskey
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Didn't know any that did except for a dude who started out in BR and eventually moved to Houston. When I graduated though, the exploration in the GULF was at it's peak. A lot of O&G companies in Lafayette and Houston were offering super high salaries for entry level engineers (this was in 2012).
That's on the exploration side. EBR has a significant downstream petrochemical industry with plants to manage, pipelines to build and maintain, etc, etc.
re: Gen X kids rated most emotionally durable generation
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 2:41 pm to magildachunks
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Xennials: too feral to be Millennial and too optimistic to be Gen X.
re: When did Lafayette pass Baton Rouge as the 2nd best city in LA?
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 2:38 pm to Defenseiskey
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business
Did they have family businesses to go back to?
quote:Definitely a mixed bag. Tons stay in EBR.
engineering
quote:...needed to couch surf for a bit...? I kid, teachers. Don't get mad at me :lol:
education
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Or r/anycityintheunitedstates
R/houston had a big thread about how terrible the men’s hockey team gold medal was for the country
Incredible how all the city and state subs got infested
I genuinely love reddit as a repository of obscure information, but any sub directly pertaining to the "real world" gets heavily infested with the perpetually online pretty quickly.
re: When did Lafayette pass Baton Rouge as the 2nd best city in LA?
Posted by Joshjrn on 3/2/26 at 2:32 pm to Defenseiskey
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I guess man.
I graduated from LHS in the late 2000's, LSU in the early 2010's. Out of the dozens of people I still keep up with, half of us are in Houston/DFW/ATL, there's a few in NOLA, and the rest are back in Lafayette. A few stayed in BR but moved away eventually.
Maybe it's my insular group of mostly LHS and STM grads.
I imagine it's also industry specific.
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