Michigandertude: A thread about why we are the fun loving practical chosen people who will survive any zombie apocalypse.

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We are civil, we are hygienic, we are adaptable.

1. Both Michigander men and women alike think nothing of pissing in the great outdoors, in the shower, down the bathtub or sink drain, in a Gatorade bottle on a long trip, on a front lawn near camouflaging shrubbery, when a traditional toilet or urinal is either occupied or gross.

2. We can make a delicious meal with either a can of tuna or Spam and jerky, potatoes, stolen corn, rice, pasta, or Sucker fish. We actually have or had a Suckerfest celebration to eat the nastiest of all fresh water fish (worse than even carp).

3. We can handle our liquor and beer is just frog's piss.... no reason to not drive (55 stay alive/drive between the lines or follow the two tracks in the snow).

4. Family is family is family.... unless an I-talian married into your family then eventually turned toxic after their spouses death or divorce. Ex I-talians are no longer family. They are not invited to the local berry patch for weekly bonfires where the adults drink Blatz, kids drink Verners, and we all eat burnt hotdogs and weird casseroles or crockpot dishes called "three meat stew " or "three bean and three bean stew".

5. Every Michigander by unwritten law is required to carry a 6 pack of toilet paper in their pickup truck, SUV, or bubble car along with folded up plastic shopping bags. A blanket or sleeping bag, tarp, Kentucky Fried Chicken moist towelettes, 6 Bic lighters or boxes of matches, 10 boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Fifth of Whiskey, and a box of Q-Tips. If they are caught without these things.... they're probably a Fudgie or recent transplant from Chicago.
 
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6. Leave your soft drink or beer can empties in the bed of your pickup at your own peril. Chances are your own teenage children are blaming the neighbors for why you're losing 20 bucks of refunds per week.

7. Gas station burritos are legend... and any Michigander can open up the gas station refrigerator and instantly sense the freshness or toxicity of a cheap seedy bean and cheese burrito that was allowed to go to fertilizer. Gas station burritos are also our spirit animals.

8. Roadkill is just home processed meat for free....and a little bit of elbow grease, a rope, sharp knives, and some waiting.
 
I know you have many lakes, many of them filled with Bass.
If I ever leave my present locale, it may well be for the land of lakes.


The inland ones are mostly full of bluegills, sunnies, crappies, and if muskies (if people got shit faced enough after a fishing trip and went, "hey.... these live muskies should go in our small lake or spring fed pond")...

Also... beware small ponds and swamps. The Muskies and Snapperheads have no gag reflex.
 
The inland ones are mostly full of bluegills, sunnies, crappies, and if muskies (if people got shit faced enough after a fishing trip and went, "hey.... these live muskies should go in our small lake or spring fed pond")...

Also... beware small ponds and swamps. The Muskies and Snapperheads have no gag reflex.
I do not care for anything in the Pike family.
.We, sadly, have Pickerel here and they are a horrible menace to a happy day of fishing.
Still, I will gently unhook them and return them to their home.
 
I do not care for anything in the Pike family.
.We, sadly, have Pickerel here and they are a horrible menace to a happy day of fishing.
Still, I will gently unhook them and return them to their home.
Watch your fingers around Muskies.... I usually used a couple of branches to get my hook back.... unless they chewed through it.... which was often. They're basically reptilian.
 
I know you have many lakes, many of them filled with Bass.
If I ever leave my present locale, it may well be for the land of lakes.

Michigan is your kind of place, then

My favorite is Lake Superior. Because its the lake that doesnt give up her dead. Corpses stay perfectly preserved down there because its so cold. They just float at the bottom.
 
Here in MI, depending on the tone of voice ...."burn a log" either means bonfire time OR lighting actual poop on fire on someone's door step.

And Devil's night is an excuse to pool your money together and load pallets of toilet paper into various pickup trucks for a black ops....
 
We are civil, we are hygienic, we are adaptable.

1. Both Michigander men and women alike think nothing of pissing in the great outdoors, in the shower, down the bathtub or sink drain, in a Gatorade bottle on a long trip, on a front lawn near camouflaging shrubbery, when a traditional toilet or urinal is either occupied or gross.

2. We can make a delicious meal with either a can of tuna or Spam and jerky, potatoes, stolen corn, rice, pasta, or Sucker fish. We actually have or had a Suckerfest celebration to eat the nastiest of all fresh water fish (worse than even carp).

3. We can handle our liquor and beer is just frog's piss.... no reason to not drive (55 stay alive/drive between the lines or follow the two tracks in the snow).

4. Family is family is family.... unless an I-talian married into your family then eventually turned toxic after their spouses death or divorce. Ex I-talians are no longer family. They are not invited to the local berry patch for weekly bonfires where the adults drink Blatz, kids drink Verners, and we all eat burnt hotdogs and weird casseroles or crockpot dishes called "three meat stew " or "three bean and three bean stew".

5. Every Michigander by unwritten law is required to carry a 6 pack of toilet paper in their pickup truck, SUV, or bubble car along with folded up plastic shopping bags. A blanket or sleeping bag, tarp, Kentucky Fried Chicken moist towelettes, 6 Bic lighters or boxes of matches, 10 boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Fifth of Whiskey, and a box of Q-Tips. If they are caught without these things.... they're probably a Fudgie or recent transplant from Chicago.

I once peed in an empty two liter bottle on a car ride up north because we were at a stretch of road that had nothing for miles and it was at night and I didnt wanna get attacked by the wild MI Jackalope.

Or the Stripe. :O
 
Watch your fingers around Muskies.... I usually used a couple of branches to get my hook back.... unless they chewed through it.... which was often. They're basically reptilian.
Once, many years ago, I hooked up a Pickerel...took my lure deep enough it could not survive (a thing I always regret).
I had to head it and cut around to recover the lure. In tossing away the head piece a tooth sliced my finger open, Some might say it served me right, but at the time I just considered that even in death they were a danger.

Another thing about them is that in spite of their vicious nature they are bleeders and easily injured.
 
Michigan is your kind of place, then

My favorite is Lake Superior. Because its the lake that doesnt give up her dead. Corpses stay perfectly preserved down there because its so cold. They just float at the bottom.


The family trip I did on the Mackinaw ice cutter was amazing.... 3-4 foot ice getting smashed and sliding out indefinitely... then some chicks flushed tampons down the toilets and shit was literally going off....
 
And Devil's night is an excuse to pool your money together and load pallets of toilet paper into various pickup trucks for a black ops....

Devils night changed into a party night. No more TPing :/

They also closed the Leeland City Club in Detroit and now Great Lakes Crossing is a mess due to a recenf shooting and a smash and grab.
 
Devils night changed into a party night. No more TPing :/

They also closed the Leeland City Club in Detroit and now Great Lakes Crossing is a mess due to a recenf shooting and a smash and grab.

Shame.... it was a rite of passage to crawl under a spruce tree in the snow with a 12 gauge and wait 5-6 hours for the ones you knew were coming to arrive, so you could blast 5-6 rounds in the air and imagine them shitting their pants.
 
Shame.... it was a rite of passage to crawl under a spruce tree in the snow with a 12 gauge and wait 5-6 hours for the ones you knew were coming to arrive, so you could blast 5-6 rounds in the air and imagine them shitting their pants.

Do you still have a Michigan accent?

I didnt even know I had one at all until I moved down south lol.
 
We don't have accents here. You don't in Michigan either. It is others who have accents.

Now I have to set my laptop aside because the cat needs my lap just now.
Actually it is we of Northern New Jersey who have the neutral accent that all others are measured by.
. You Chicagans have the Chicago accent - like that guy in that old detective series on the tv.

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We don't have accents here. You don't in Michigan either. It is others who have accents.

Now I have to set my laptop aside because the cat needs my lap just now.

We definitely have an accent lol. Flynn made fun of me over "yanno".

I type in Midwestern enough to be mocked lol.

Im laid back on the couch and have Prudey doing her biscuit shimmy on my legs lol
 
Actually it is we of Northern New Jersey who have the neutral accent that all others are measured by.
. You Chicagans have the Chicago accent - like that guy in that old detective series on the tv.

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Quite inferior East Coaster. You're too pussified to put up a vacaroo so we can all make fun of your thick Jersey accent. Yours is probably thicker than Biggie's, and I made fun of his all the time.
 
We definitely have an accent lol. Flynn made fun of me over "yanno".

I type in Midwestern enough to be mocked lol.

Im laid back on the couch and have Prudey doing her biscuit shimmy on my legs lol
Poppy got sick of the lap and now is off to the windowsill.

And Flynn making fun of anyone's accent is funny since she's Canadian.
 
Quite inferior East Coaster. You're too pussified to put up a vacaroo so we can all make fun of your thick Jersey accent. Yours is probably thicker than Biggie's, and I made fun of his all the time.
No, in all seriousness, I have what is called neutral accent. I think it is the reason I became so interested in mimicking various accents like the old west and regional US variety...other global regions also.
I don't have joisey, awh na'jawk etc. It is very clean, smooth, refined. A thing the rest of you peasants could never duplicate.
 
I've had so many accents gained and lost over my childhood or younger years that I have an anti accent now. I get mistaken for scores of nationalities depending on who I'm talking to.

Even my fleeting conversational Spanish is imbued with certain distinct words, accents, or phrases which floor others and myself....

....but, as long as I can communicate, it's all good. I don't care.