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NutmegYankee

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5. I don't understand the 5 mph thing.

Reply to leftofcool (Original post)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 12:29 PM

Mar 2012

I live in the country as well (beautiful New England) and I have farms all around me as well. If we come up on a tractor with four ways blinking on the roads, we just pass them, double yellow notwithstanding, as they are technically road hazards at those speeds and we can bypass them under law.

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Mornin' Ya'll and Cheesy Grits my Ass! [View all] leftofcool Mar 2012 OP

When I was back in TN dballance Mar 2012 #1

That was you? Fawke Em Mar 2012 #6

Well That's Rude dballance Mar 2012 #19

All he has to do is address people as Bo. DocMac Mar 2012 #2

Or Bubba. Fawke Em Mar 2012 #7

And that wave, counts HillWilliam Mar 2012 #3

You got that right! RESPECT! leftofcool Mar 2012 #4

I have lived in the South for more than 25 years. GoCubsGo Mar 2012 #23

I don't understand the 5 mph thing. NutmegYankee Mar 2012 #5

Word alcibiades_mystery Mar 2012 #9

I swear, sometimes I think we're more than one species. nolabear Mar 2012 #11

We chat with people in grocery store lines in Conn. NutmegYankee Mar 2012 #13

Same in New Jersey LiberalEsto Mar 2012 #15

"open up like flowers".... dixiegrrrrl Mar 2012 #16

Bullshit. bluestate10 Mar 2012 #18

Snob. That is what you are. Tennessee Gal Mar 2012 #21

the poster NAILED it and it is YOU who can not deal with reality of da south DLCistheGOP Mar 2012 #25

How nice. Tennessee Gal Mar 2012 #26

Yes, there are many thing that need to be banned from DU OKNancy Mar 2012 #28

Post removed Post removed Mar 2012 #24

Right on madokie Mar 2012 #22

I do too. Say what you will about the politics OKNancy Mar 2012 #27

All it took for people to stop talking shit about the the South Dreamer Tatum Mar 2012 #8

+1 nolabear Mar 2012 #12

Me, too. It's like this: I can call my brother a redneck, but YOU better not! Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #14

i must admit to having a love/hate relationship with the south arely staircase Mar 2012 #17

Have you ever thought that southerners trash the north as well? NutmegYankee Mar 2012 #20

I'm from the deep south of Louisiana. I now live in Dallas, which is more like the west. Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #29

And there are misconceptions about politics of the north as well NutmegYankee Mar 2012 #30

Yep. It goes both ways. GoCubsGo Mar 2012 #32

I have never seen arely staircase Mar 2012 #33

yeehaw AtomicKitten Mar 2012 #10

"I love the South, even the deep south, its just the right depth." JoePhilly Mar 2012 #31