Tell me what you love or hate about Texas and Texans

[crystalhunting]

I'm curious to know.To me it's home.I was born in FtWorth...the biggest hick town in the USA.It has a slower style than Dallas{where I live now}


So what do you like or hate about Texas and/or Texans?


Likes........

1.BarBQue

2.HOT Chili

3.The history

Dislikes......


1.George Bush is from here

2.Death penalty is used here too damn much

3.The smell of the cattle at the stock show


Okiedokie now....you'll tell me yours.


CH

 

[p_p_man]

Now that I know Bush isn't one...

I love everything about Texas and everyone who's Texan!

Used to go out with a Texas gal once...

...fond memories...

**sigh**

 

[lobito]

like Texans, as far as I know, but HATE that damned overly large Bush Int. Airport. Why don't they just build some housing so people can rest when they have to catch a flight at the totally opposite end of where their original flight came in at?

It can literally take you one hour to walk from one concourse where your flight comes in at, to the other end where your connecting flight is at. How big is that damned place anyway? 30-40 square miles? It's like a frickin city unto itself.

On a much more serious note, Houston airport is the ONLY place in Texas I've been, and the people working there are VERY nice, well most of them. Oh, and they also have great (Texas) toast, you know the really big thick stuff. MMMM, MMMM.

 

[Sweetlola]

Austin, Texas has got to be one of the prettiest cities I've ever visited. Preservation of nature is important to the people there. I love the parks and gardens throughout the city. UT has an incredible campus there and the nightlife in Austin is never ending. If I could have a second home anywhere in the world, I'd build it right on Lake Austin.

 

[Pokerman]

Hate:

George HW Bush
George W Bush
The Cowboys and Rangers.

Love:

All my friends from there.

 

[cymbidia]

Likes:
1) some of my favorite Literoticians are from there
2) easy access to Mexico
3) Tex-Mex - yummy!
4) sexy accents - c'mon, admit it - that Texan twang is damn *sexy*.
5) "y'all" is such a friendly, all-encompassing term, far more useful than "you guys" or "all of you"


Dislikes:
1) chiggers and brown recluse spiders
2) tornadoes and hurricanes
3) those hats... sorry, i just can't take anyone wearing a cowboy hat seriously.
4) next to my neighbor, North Idaho, Texas seems to attract the most scary survivalist 'you can have my gun when you take it out of my cold dead heads' types.
5) that sense of superiority all Texans project when interacting with people from other states. (We in CA *know* it's a false thing, that superiority, since *we* are the superior ones - as all well know.)

 

[Rusher]

Austin, Texas is a great place to live. As for the rest of Texas, and for Texans, I can take them or leave them. A few comments, however:

1. Every state in the Union had to fight Indians and European powers to come into being. Get over yourselves.

2. Cattle drives ended in the 1870s. Argentina now produces more beef than the U.S. Time to put the hats away.

3. Bragging about beating Mexico in a war is just plain pathetic.

4. You can't possibly all need pickup trucks. Somebody buy some sedans for crying out loud, and work out a system for sharing.

5. The Cowboys are not now, and never were, America's team.

6. The Bush family is from Connecticut, not Texas. George H. Bush's only Texas home was a hotel suite in Houston, and he was never there. George W. Bush came to Texas because he couldn't suceed in business on the east coast (he didn't do all that well here, either).

6a. No Texan would ever 'summer in Maine', the way the Bush family does. In fact, no Texan would ever use 'summer' as a verb.

7. Texas is not tough on crime, although it is tough on criminals. The state steadfastly refuses to do anything to try and help people before they become criminals, only to punish them after they become criminals (assuming, of course, they were justly convicted in the first place).


OK, that's way too much of a rant. I love Austin, and plan to continue living here. However, I wouldn't live in any other city in Texas.

Sweetlola, let me know the next time you come to town, and we'll paint 6th street red.

 

[Azwed]

Lol

funny and mostly true.

 

[Mischka]

1. Every state in the Union had to fight Indians and European powers to come into being. Get over yourselves.

Yes, but few other states have as diverse a history. The Six Flags over Texas is one of the more interesting historical tales in the U.S. And along with California and Hawaii, Texas is allowed to fly it's flag at the same level as the US flag. The other 47 states cannot.

My own pet theory about why "everything is bigger in Texas" stems from our Mexican history. When this area was under Mexican control, there was no northern boundary. Mexico simply considered everything north to be Tejas - so Texas grew out of an idea before it was constrained by geographic boundaries.

Sweetlola, let me know the next time you come to town, and we'll paint 6th street red.

Who still does 6th Street? Hop over a couple of blocks to 4th for a yuppified version of Austin. Or head over to Dog 'n Duck on 17th & Guadalupe (pronounced "Guad a loop" for all you foreigners), the Draught House (one man built the entire place by hand), or The Carousel, the absolute more surreal bar in Austin. Think David Lynch at a circus, and toss in a blind-deaf man playing Big Band tunes for the 20s-30s & 60s-70s crowd (there's a retirement community across the street).

And now for my dislikes. I could do without the red ants, 100 degrees at midnight in the summer, and sorority chicks yacking on their cell phones while driving their SUVs in the middle of two lanes.

But all in all, a damn cool place to live.

 

[TygerEyez]

Likes:

1. That accent. Meow, kitty.
2. The way that EVERYONE waves to you, whether they know you or not, as you drive down the roads.
3. That lovely 70 mph speed limit. How'd they know I like driving fast?

Dislikes:

1. How that lovely 70 mph speed limit still doesn't help the fact that it seems to take FOREVER to get anywhere!!! A half an hour trip felt like 2 fricken hours when all you can see is flatland and cattle.

 

[ranajja]

Texas and Texans

I love:

George Bush, both W and HW (whether originally from there, or not, makes me no nevermind)

San Antonio

The Alamo

Max Lucado

James Avery

cacti growing on the side of the road like weeds--still can't get over that

 

[SweetCherry]

Well, I've never been to Texas, but thie main things I like happen to be Texas cops. Had an old flame who was one. I also loved his penchant for calling me his "babygirl". We;ve not spoken in some time, tho he still emails me every few months and still calls me "babygirl". I really liked being adressed that way.

 

[nasty]

Likes-It's warmer than it is here
The accent is kinda cool
Dislikes-Rangers
Tornadoes
It can get TOO warm

 

[Spinaroonie]

Likes:
Been Born here
Gonna go to school here
Nice 'n Warm
The way we speak correctly
Texas Rangers (They're gonna turn it around right quick, I tell you what)
Dallas Cowboys (In DIRE DIRE straights)
The Mavs (I am, oh yes I am)
THe Stars (With a Capt. Kangaroo look a like for a coach)
Mark Cuban hangs his hat here
Chicken friend steak
Bluebonnets

Dislikes
George W. Bush and HW Bush (Who is responsible for the bay of pigs invasion) came from here and W managed to f up the rangers
70 isn't fast enough
The town I live holds about 20K people with more police per person than Las Vegas.
The Staunch Republicanism.

 

[Rambling Rose]

Austin:
Laguna Gloria
Taco Shack #3 (the one by the airport)
Central Market
The Carousel
great dumpster divin'! (*blushing hotly*)

San Antonio:
the Riverwalk at night

Big Bend:
sittin' in a hot spring with the Rio Grande rushin' by.
walk right over to Mexico
sunrise on the mountains

Abilene:
first time I saw a train from beginning to end in the distance

Houston:


Dallas/Ft Worth

 

[MrBates]

My Likes........

1. BarBQue

2. HOT Chili

3. The history

4. George Bush is from here

5. Death penalty is used here too damn much

6. The smell of the cattle at the stock show

7. 70MPH Speed Limits....especially when they are ignored!

8. Winters with just a *little* winter

9. Texas Women

10. Texas Music

11. Margaritas

12. Senoritas

13. Gruene Hall

14. Austin

15. Skinny Dipping

This list could go on and on.....but I think I'll stop here . . . for now.
MrB

 

[HARDKOREBJ]

texas

i have a grandma in fort worth
my father lives in dallas
from what i`ve been told women is the best thing in texas besides the rodeos.

 

[HARDKOREBJ]

texas

no one said wrestling it is big down there.
steve austin is from texas and terry funk

 

[Weevil]

Dislikes:

That they stole the North Stars is certainly something I dislike about them.

Uhhhhh, The movie Varsity Blues?

The fact that Chris Simms is starting over Applewhite?

Oil and all of you world polluting mfers.

That whole creepy Bush clan.

That it's the rootinest, tootinest, most executinest place in the world?

Did I mention the Cowboys yet?

The whole friggin' cattle industry

Likes:

I think Tom Henke came from Texas.

Their governor is the most pro-legalization Republican?(No, that's New Mexico.)

That Lit chick who I thought was pretty cool. What was her name? Loveander or something?

 

[Phoenyx]

So what do you like or hate about Texas and/or Texans?


Likes........

1) The Weather
2) The BBQs
3) The Women
4) George Bush is from there
5) The w0men
6) Their Attitiude
7) I did mention the women right?

Dislikes......
1) I dont get a chance to visit.

 

[LRC]

Texas ....

Well I've never been to Austin
But I kinda like the music
They say the cowboys are insane there
And they sure know how to use it .......

Anyone have an opinion on Elllllll Paso?

 

[Adoratrice]

I hate that it takes newly tranferred Texans Sooooo long to check their mail.

oh ummm not you Never ..that Other new Texan.

 

[fgarvb1]

Texas is a state of mind

that's what i like about texas!.

today when i called over to our corporate office to find out what the hell was going on, you see our mail room recieved a letter post marked bagdad that was handwritten with no return address... well, the shit hit the fan.

when i asked for my sister i was told she was across the hall talking to her boss, so i asked the dude on the phone just how deep in the dumper we were he replied: "well, you might say were hunkered down with our guns out, but the son of bitches aren't going to run us off!"

exactly what happened i don't know yet, or how much of what was said is true. only in texas.

 

[Thomas Paine]

I've probably spent more time in Texas than in any other state I've never lived in, and there's a lot to like in general:

The music, and I don't mean that big-hat commercial country crap, either, but the homegrown good stuff that centers around Austin. The names are too numerous to mention, but if anybody challenges me...*g*;

The food;

The women (Good lord!);

and in specific:

Barton Springs
The Hill Country
Gruene Hall
Tubing the Guadeloupe
Austin - all of it
The old Urban Cowboy days in Houston
The Alamo
Stuffed jalapenos
Shiner Bock
Pressed jeans
Elderly women who talk about their "grandbabies"
Chicken-fried steak at Threadgill's
Antone's
Westheimer Street in Houston
Cafeterias
The River Walk
The Strand in Galveston
Chili with no damn beans
Tex-mex food and music

And, lest I be recruited by the "Don't Mess with Texas" committee, the downside:

The politics - all of it
The Dallas Cowboys (although I hate to kick them when they're down. Yeah, right.....)
Waco
The 610 Loop
The humidity

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Likes:

Certain people.

Hates:

Fucking Cowboys

I hate that it takes newly tranferred Texans Sooooo long to check their mail.

oh ummm not you Never ..that Other new Texan.

You noticed that too? And that you never know whats going on with em?