The "Cynics" Can Bite My Southeast Region

[dave from knoxville]

Welcome to Pennsylvania

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080322_Drug_bust_leads_to_a_fighting_menagerie.html

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/NEWS02/803180340/-1/NEWS

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-03132008-1502765.html

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08061/861774-54.stm

Thank God things are so much more savory north of down here.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I know, Dave, PA is one of the most redneck places in the country.  But that Cynics album is pretty rockin'.  I got it because I liked what I heard on The Cherry Blossom Clinic, and didn't realize that it was the band of the Spike-sounding guy from Pittsburgh.

[Denim Gremlin]

there's a reason we call it Pennsyltucky

i know, all of my mother's side of the family is all from the York, PA area. anyone familiar with that part of the country understands why thats not a good thing to be related to necessarily

[TremblingEagle]

I liked his "tilting at windmills" aside
I am sure he means well
he seems like a decent sort, don't take the Dixie bashing to heart.

[erika]

there's a reason we call it Pennsyltucky

i know, all of my mother's side of the family is all from the York, PA area. anyone familiar with that part of the country understands why thats not a good thing to be related to necessarily

Ah, I always considered Pennsyltucky to be anywhere west of York, Philly, etc.

[Denim Gremlin]

there's a reason we call it Pennsyltucky

i know, all of my mother's side of the family is all from the York, PA area. anyone familiar with that part of the country understands why thats not a good thing to be related to necessarily

Ah, I always considered Pennsyltucky to be anywhere west of York, Philly, etc.

yeah, you're right. I was kind of lumping all of pennsylvania together

[chrisfoll577]

i thought it kind of presumptuous of him to call himself an east coast guy being from pittsburgh.  i like pittsburgh, but i always considered it a marginally eastern city that straddled the border of the rust belt and appalachia.

[Andy]

South Rules
North Drools

[andrew in philadelphia]

not to pile on the cynics guy - cause i'm sure he was just trying to be entertaining for the radio and all - but the whole "east coast snob" thing is incredibly lame. i feel the same way about the people of my fair philadelphiatown and their confused "hatred" of new jersey - a place they know, at best, by just passing through or they've traveled to via the most popular form of transport these days: television..

no one place "rules" any more than another is all lame (got that from mike watt) - which means you could learn a lot from anywhere you visit if you're open enough. to say you don't like the south (which is a HUGE area to dislike by the way) just strikes me as a little too broad of a generalization to even be taken seriously. it amazing to physically put yourself in a place you only know from still images and stereotypes and experience another dimension of it - an actual dimension of it - firsthand.

maybe the cynic will give it a try sometime.

[Andy]

wait a second.  Are you trying to tell me that the South doesn't rule?

[erika]

Pittsburgh is in no way an east-coast city. It has the feel of midwest, most of the people won't touch seafood, and you're 7 hours away from a decent beach. Any place that considers a lake "the beach" is not a coastal city.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

It's Rust Belt, yo.

I don't know why I wrote that like that.  But seriously, don't let Michael's annoying sentiments stop you form listening to that Cynics record.  It really is awesome.

[Spoony]

When I lived in Pittsburgh, I don't remember anyone calling it an East Coast affair. Certainly more "East Coast" then Ohio, which was where all the rivalry was focused. I think Pittsburgh always considered itself it's own animal, outside of the whole East/West mentality and just took pride in being an underrated blue collar city... an "us vs them" mentality that's the foundation of a really sturdy militia.

Christ, you should watch them get heated up when you talk about Columbus.

That guy from the cynics has the thickest Pittsburgh accent I've heard in a while. I love it.

C

[andrew in philadelphia]

wait a second.  Are you trying to tell me that the South doesn't rule?

inasmuch as no one place does - yes.

[erika]

That guy from the cynics has the thickest Pittsburgh accent I've heard in a while. I love it.

C

Yinz enjoyin dat 'burg accent, eh?