ATTN: The Rest of the United States of America

[AFK]

I'm going to let you in on a little secret.

Maine IS, contrary to popular opinion, inhabited and populated by human beings.  No, not the zombie, vampire, ghoul hybrid humans you find in a Stephen King novel.  But real, 100% Grade A humans.  Honestly.  We aren't a state of just Moose and Bears.  We aren't just a big tree farm from which all your Christmas trees come from.  We are a populated state.

But fuck it you wouldn't know it sometimes.  When there is a suspected dangerous terrorist on a plane, where do they send it?  Maine.  That's right, Fuck You Maine!  It's okay if stuff gets blown up in your state.  You're expendable.

Then we turn to the fucking weather people.  Currently, Earl is projected on a path that has it making landfall in Maine.  Yes, that's correct, the hurricane will make landfall in Maine.

"Really?  I had no idea."

That's right, because we aren't the fucking Carolinas or Massachussets or New York or Connecticut, we're fucking Maine, and fuck who cares what happens there.  We're just that weird state up there in the corner near Canada.  We aren't a Really Real State for Realness.

Dear lord, the weather people and the news people are hysterical thinking about what could happen when the hurricane brushes up against the Carolinas, Long Island, and Cape Cod, and "oh yeah it will then cross Maine into Canada, hey let's go to Skip with Sports!  How's your fantasy football brackets looking like for this weekend?"

No knock against Louisiana and New Orleans but I guara-fucking-tee you if we were to have a big hurricane fuck up our state like what happened there, we'd be a headline for all of about 5 minutes.  We wouldn't get the big sappy specials, the "Earl 5 years Later" tributes, etc., etc.,

We're just fucking TRONE.  The Rest of New England. 

And so it goes.   

[Adios]

I feel you, Kansas is treated the same way. On the national news maps it says "No state here" where Kansas should be.

[Elder Iptuous]

that does suck...
on the other hand, does the relative wallflower status of your state help keep out the riff raff?
(ETA: apart from the suspected terrorists we dump there, of course...)

[AFK]

that does suck...
on the other hand, does the relative wallflower status of your state help keep out the riff raff?
(ETA: apart from the suspected terrorists we dump there, of course...)

No, but we kinda need the tourists. 

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I thought of you RWHN last night when I saw the news.  My sister lives in Maine too.

As small of a state as you are, the potential for damage is incredible, especially as they were saying that Earl was still a CAT 4 and people forget that Katrina was only a CAT 3 by landfall.

Are you guys going to ride it out or are you planning to get the hell out of there?  I don't know how close to the coast you are.  Wilma was a CAT 3 when she hit Marco Island and we were all of 4 miles inland from Marco.  Yeah we had a shitload of landscape damage, the carport was a few apartments down, but very little structural damage, so if you are a few miles inland you should be good.

I don't think people forget Maine has people, I think they think that y'all are just invincable 

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm going to let you in on a little secret.

Maine IS, contrary to popular opinion, inhabited and populated by human beings.  No, not the zombie, vampire, ghoul hybrid humans you find in a Stephen King novel.  But real, 100% Grade A humans.  Honestly.  We aren't a state of just Moose and Bears.  We aren't just a big tree farm from which all your Christmas trees come from.  We are a populated state.

But fuck it you wouldn't know it sometimes.  When there is a suspected dangerous terrorist on a plane, where do they send it?  Maine.  That's right, Fuck You Maine!  It's okay if stuff gets blown up in your state.  You're expendable.

Then we turn to the fucking weather people.  Currently, Earl is projected on a path that has it making landfall in Maine.  Yes, that's correct, the hurricane will make landfall in Maine.

"Really?  I had no idea."

That's right, because we aren't the fucking Carolinas or Massachussets or New York or Connecticut, we're fucking Maine, and fuck who cares what happens there.  We're just that weird state up there in the corner near Canada.  We aren't a Really Real State for Realness.

Dear lord, the weather people and the news people are hysterical thinking about what could happen when the hurricane brushes up against the Carolinas, Long Island, and Cape Cod, and "oh yeah it will then cross Maine into Canada, hey let's go to Skip with Sports!  How's your fantasy football brackets looking like for this weekend?"

No knock against Louisiana and New Orleans but I guara-fucking-tee you if we were to have a big hurricane fuck up our state like what happened there, we'd be a headline for all of about 5 minutes.  We wouldn't get the big sappy specials, the "Earl 5 years Later" tributes, etc., etc.,

We're just fucking TRONE.  The Rest of New England. 

And so it goes.   

though personally, I'm glad we don't get lumped in with those yahoos in the USA.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I live in a populated state too... if you count antelope, which outnumber humans here. And if you think Maine gets a lack of coverage, try living in Wyoming. Granted, the dearth of concern about Wyoming is usually because there really is nothing of value that comes out of this state (except 2/3 of the coal that powers the East Coast). But even if this state was involved in something important -- like, say, the board of the Federal Reserve hanging out in a town here to discuss wtf to do about the shitty economy -- the very fact that such an event is connected to Wyoming will cause it to get less coverage than it should.

[Phox]

Screw you Maine! You should still be part of Massachusetts, then you might be important enough to care about! 

I kid, but seriously, I know what it's like to live in a state that doesn't exist. I live in Illinois. The part that's not Chicago. Apparently, Illinois only exists because of Chicago, and any part that isn't Chicago isn't important enough to matter. And I live a good 6 hours and change from Chicago. I don' even get proximity points. Also, note that the Deep South starts south of Springfield in my state, so I live in the South. Oh joy.

[Don Coyote]

Which weird little eastern state are you again?

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Screw you Maine! You should still be part of Massachusetts, then you might be important enough to care about! 

I kid, but seriously, I know what it's like to live in a state that doesn't exist. I live in Illinois. The part that's not Chicago. Apparently, Illinois only exists because of Chicago, and any part that isn't Chicago isn't important enough to matter. And I live a good 6 hours and change from Chicago. I don' even get proximity points. Also, note that the Deep South starts south of Springfield in my state, so I live in the South. Oh joy.

Is that a problem?

You can't be mad about all that you know, the state is so broke the only city they can afford to keep in people's memory is Chicago and that is because of Obama having lived there.

You should have put up for the senate seat that sweetheart of a governer Blaggie was selling.  Then you could have made any city a Chicago

[Adios]

I thought as a par+t of NAFTA that Canada had to take Maine? Did those cowards back out of the deal?

[Phox]

Screw you Maine! You should still be part of Massachusetts, then you might be important enough to care about! 

I kid, but seriously, I know what it's like to live in a state that doesn't exist. I live in Illinois. The part that's not Chicago. Apparently, Illinois only exists because of Chicago, and any part that isn't Chicago isn't important enough to matter. And I live a good 6 hours and change from Chicago. I don' even get proximity points. Also, note that the Deep South starts south of Springfield in my state, so I live in the South. Oh joy.

Is that a problem?

You can't be mad about all that you know, the state is so broke the only city they can afford to keep in people's memory is Chicago and that is because of Obama having lived there.

You should have put up for the senate seat that sweetheart of a governer Blaggie was selling.  Then you could have made any city a Chicago

Living in the South is not a problem. Living in a stereotypical Northern representation of what they think is the South IS a problem.

Why can't I be mad? It's Chicago's fault that the state is so broke. Their damn politicians are the ones that keep fucking up the budget. At least I get to vote against them as many times as I want.

I did. Unfortunately, Blago isn't a methhead (he's just so convincing with his act, I figured he was), so my currency was utterly useless.