Ogdens

[ill-advised strategy]

Ogden is kind of a shithole.
Not the worst, not the best...just kind of.

Years ago a few of my coworkers and I were talking about our travels and I decided that there should be a unit that describes how shitty, or not shitty, a city or town is. That unit is the Ogden.

It's subjective, but it works. Ogden is 5 Ogdens. The nicest place you could live would be -10 Ogdens. The worst place: 10 Ogdens.

So: Detroit is like 9 Ogdens. Baghdad is 10 Ogdens. Compton is maybe 7 Ogdens.

Provo: -5 Ogdens.

Salt Lake: -2 Ogdens.


Anyway, I just thought I'd share. Once that caught on, it really made talking about places we'd been a lot easier. You know...it would be like "We were stuck in El Paso for a week getting that part for the helicopter, I'd say that place is about 5 or 6 Ogdens...maybe more at night"

[ill-advised strategy]

this forum has gone from -5 Ogdens to like 3 or 4 Ogdens in the last year.

there I said it.

[zion zig zag]

So, you deem Provo 10 times nicer than Ogden? *vibes*

[beaterdit]

What about Oakland? Looking at possible work over there, wouldn't live there though.

I think it would work better if the scale was just 0-10 Ogdens. Anyway, I'd say Ogden is maybe more like zero Ogdens on your scale and it's actually looking better and better to me every year the LCC shitshow intesifies.

You still working on that degree? Thought I'd read you had derailed or something?

Oh, yeah, vibes on teh Provo thing.

[brutah]

weaksauce scale. you lose all credibility when you rank provo higher than both slc and ogden. but like you said its all subjective.....

[Woodsy]

shithole isnt necessarily a negative term you see....
I mean, Memphis is definitely like 7 Ogdens and Charlotte is like -4 but I would spend time in Memphis over Charlotte any day of the week and all day on a sunday

[iceman]

Wait, shouldn't Ogden be neutral Ogdens? Then the scale would go up and down from there. How can Ogden be 5 Ogdens? You're confusamacating me.

On the other hand I've never been to Ogden.

[powski3]

Provo: -5 Ogdens.

Depends whether this is an anti-depressant and ice cream abuse induced happiness ranking, or a freedom index. Kinda reminds me of that North Korean government happiness study that came out the other day.

[Tech Tonics]

i agree with iceman. if ogdens are the unit of measurement, than i believe ogden should be zero ogdens.

additionally, i find it confusing that negative ogdens equal a more positive place (oh, right. LESS of a shithole). so okay, that makes sense.

being highly subjective, i would still rate nowhere i've lived since High school worse than maybe -7 Ogdens. I'm highly location-centric

[The Suit]

How does a person who has never been to Ogden use this scale?

[ill-advised strategy]

Well...in terms of likelihood of being stabbed for meth money Ogden vs. Provo. Or, you know...the smell of dog food factory in the morning. I'm not saying I want to Live in Provo. I like living where the Ogdens are high enough so that I'm not everyone's worst problem.

I like Ogden. But I liked South Salt Lake too.

Degree: yes, still "on track" because I'm still trapped by way of not having a reasonable way out at this stage. I go to class, I go to the hospital. I do my best. I hate every minute of it. I give nursing 8 Ogdens.

I have a few more weeks to go and then a summer of working on the ferry dock for the boat between Port Angeles and Victoria BC. I am going to try to work something else out. No personal offense SF, but that whole nursing world of being in a huge rush of old ladies and chicken-scratch orders and not really being able to actually help anyone with anything seems like a rats nest to me at this stage. Oh hi! I'm here to quickly document your slow decline. Can I ask you embarrassing questions for my paperwork now? I pretty much hate it and I'm becoming depressed.


You know, this scale is pretty much not in use anymore so we could adjust it. But really 0 is the neutral between Nice and Shitty. 10 is full-on gang warfare shithole. -10 is Aspen or Malibu. See, you can have a place like Magna where it's shitty, but it's not as shitty as Ogden, so it's like 3 Ogdens.


Oakland: 7 Ogdens

[ill-advised strategy]

How does a person who has never been to Ogden use this scale?

0 is Neutral, so not really a shithole at all but not really nice either. Like Green Bay.

[zion zig zag]

I thought I was offended by Provo, but Magna, shudder.

[ill-advised strategy]

I'm not talking about the east bench.

[zion zig zag]

I'm not talking about the east bench.

There are other parts of O-town?