The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[ötzi]

Western vs. Eastern Massachusetts is a whole other thread.

It's more complicated than that. c603d61d15aa0570e2ecd1f6db8fc5e6.jpg

Posting from West Portugal tonight.

[Woodsy]

I’m planning on being at Plattekill but I just got an email that it was moved to Sunday for weather. Spread the word.

Yeah bummed, cant make Sun.
Benny: East coast mantra:
Loppers gotta lop

Although i may have done some glading in Utah....

[St. Jerry]

There used to be another ski area that straddled the border too but I doubt you'd remember it.

P-Pass

[Brownski]

So I made it to Buffalo. You know that look the protagonist in a time travel movie gets when they grab the first person they see to ask what year it is? It turns out that’s what you get when you ask a gas station convenience store attendant what region of the state you’re currently in. I did find this gem though.


I got some wings at the original Anchor Bar. I almost forgot to take a pic

[BmillsSkier]

If we're going to get into it I'd be remiss if I didn't remind everyone that Northeast Ohio is really the Western Reserve of Connecticut (follow the N & S boundaries of CT), and a war was fought over fucking Toledo that ended up with Michigan getting the U.P. as a consolation prize.

But then again we're getting really far off topic here. Someone break out the map to see where we're at.

[Woodsy]

Thats upstate

[BmillsSkier]

So I made it to Buffalo. You know that look the protagonist in a time travel movie gets when they grab the first person they see to ask what year it is? It turns out that’s what you get when you ask a gas station convenience store attendant what region of the state you’re currently in. I did find this gem though.


I got some wings at the original Anchor Bar. I almost forgot to take a pic

All of this is fantastic.

Did the local you grabbed ask you if you were from the future?

If so, what was their second question?

I bet it was about lotto numbers.

[Brownski]

All of this is fantastic.

Did the local you grabbed ask you if you were from the future?

If so, what was their second question?

I bet it was about lotto numbers.

Honestly I’m starting to think some people don’t worry about this stuff as much as we do. The lady in Roscoe didn’t know the answer at all. I asked if it was considered central New York or the Catskills and she said she’d heard both. Sounds like another border dispute.

[ötzi]

Thats upstate

Buffalo? Upstate? pfft.

[BmillsSkier]

Honestly I’m starting to think some people don’t worry about this stuff as much as we do. The lady in Roscoe didn’t know the answer at all. I asked if it was considered central New York or the Catskills and she said she’d heard both. Sounds like another border dispute.

That's great. It's like when Jake Blues asked, "what kind of music do you usually play here? "Both kinds!, Country and Western".

So far my takeaway is the locals either (a) don't know where the lines are either, or (b) are unaware that there is some foreign land downstate of them that considers themselves to be from basically a different state but aren't quite sure where that different state starts.

[Woodsy]

If we're going to get into it I'd be remiss if I didn't remind everyone that Northeast Ohio is really the Western Reserve of Connecticut (follow the N & S boundaries of CT), and a war was fought over fucking Toledo that ended up with Michigan getting the U.P. as a consolation prize.

But then again we're getting really far off topic here. Someone break out the map to see where we're at.

All I know is south east Ohio, Kentucky, & WVA interface is a layer of hell

[ötzi]

I believe it's a known fact that Weirton WV is the actual location of hell.

[Aldo]

This is all very fascinating.



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[BmillsSkier]

All I know is south east Ohio, Kentucky, & WVA interface is a layer of hell

That portion of Appalachia is foreign to even the rest of all 3 respective states. Until recently, unless otherwise overtaken, that region held the record for most pills of Oxy (and other opiates) perscribed per capita at a rate of around 30 million pills for a population for around 3,000 people (depending on which state you're in). Even more neat, all that was a direct result of fucking Florida of all places looking for a new market to move the shit once that state got shut down. Hellscape indeed.

It's also the site of the genesis of the Hatfields & McCoys feud, which if anyone has read the NYT Bestseller Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, would know/see why those same self-destructive habits persist in those populations to this day. Fascinating read on Appalachia and modern day America.


The climbing is pretty amazing in that region though, as is the rafting.




All this actually makes me wonder. Are Upstate Appalachians different from any other Appalachians and if so, who would win in a fight?

[ötzi]

Run if you hear banjos*





*not really the banjo region

[BmillsSkier]

Run if you hear banjos*





*not really the banjo region

You may be right, the Banjo Society is actually located on Long Island: http://www.libanjosociety.org/

[muted]

Honestly I’m starting to think some people don’t worry about this stuff as much as we do. The lady in Roscoe didn’t know the answer at all. I asked if it was considered central New York or the Catskills and she said she’d heard both. Sounds like another border dispute.

This is more akin to asking a tribe in the Amazon what part of Brazil they live in.

This is all very fascinating.


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You are a bot now?

[Aldo]

Crush kill attack
Crush kill attack
Crush kill attack


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[BmillsSkier]

I want to know all about that.

I also want to know why ketchup is the preferred condiment for what appears to be some sort of seafood and/or alien arm.

[ötzi]

What is that thing?

it looks delicious btw

[MakersTeleMark]

They could of at least used 2 buns.

[gravitylover]

P-Pass

Yay!

Honestly I’m starting to think some people don’t worry about this stuff as much as we do. The lady in Roscoe didn’t know the answer at all. I asked if it was considered central New York or the Catskills and she said she’d heard both. Sounds like another border dispute.

I like the distillery in Roscoe.

[Aldo]

Fresh off the docks.
I believe they classify that as a chili sauce.


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[ncskier]

Honestly I’m starting to think some people don’t worry about this stuff as much as we do. The lady in Roscoe didn’t know the answer at all. I asked if it was considered central New York or the Catskills and she said she’d heard both. Sounds like another border dispute.

I can remember fly fishing in that area and seeing bumper stickers of “ meet me at the roscoe diner” same place? Or is my mind going?


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[Timberridge]

I can remember fly fishing in that area and seeing bumper stickers of “ meet me at the roscoe diner” same place? Or is my mind going?

Same place. It's the last stop before the frontier.

I believe Wooley lived in Troy back when the canal was running. Ted's and the Darth Vaper smoke shop seem to define the place now. Those look like Chinete plates, btw.

Edit: Oh, and the needle disposal containers in the Stewart's bathrooms.