The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[gravitylover]

That's part of why so many places it's illegal to back into spots in parking lots. I was sitting in the car waiting for my wife to come out of a place and this guy is walking around writing tickets, he comes up and asks me if I was stupid so I answered "of course I am and hello to you. Since we're getting to know each other, why are you so short?" I got a $100 ticket for backing into a spot.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Where the fuck is that Gravity? I'm assuming its the metro/tri-state/dirt EC? Meter Maid low grade flex. So stupid.

I like to think I'm not very vain but I want my ZB plate back. I smoked bambi and lost my front plate. DMV won't replace it so I just roll dirty.

[gravitylover]

^ It was in western Mass.

I'm sure most of you know the traffic circle in Bear Mtn, top of the Palisades where it meets Rt 6 and the Bear mt Pkwy. Last week there was insane traffic from the PIP to Rt 6 because of an accident on the downside towards Woodbury Commons, so it was chaotic at the circle. I was headed E on 6 so needed to go across the westbound jam but nobody would leave me an inch. I went around a second time. When I got there again 2 entitled pompous asses in unnecessarily expensive large SUVs jammed in front of me and blocked me from moving so I sat sideways across three lanes waiting for a hole. Nobody would budge. I sat there until people started taking my picture then I just started moving and hoping one of the cars in front of me would move. It worked but I had to go on the grass for a bit. Fuckn people suck. I mean, I understand that they had been sitting in traffic for 5 or 6 miles but geez...

[gravitylover]

This weather sux. Perpetual misty, wet, cold with occasional rounds of rain for days on end. BLAH. Almost 5" of rain already in August and 6" last month. Yuck.

Another cross-state ride coming up tomorrow but this time the wife and kid will be following a few hours after. I'll work my way up stopping at customers along the way so I'll run up through The Fingerlakes zone. It ought to be all sorts of fun rolling along through what's left of Debby for 360 miles. Everybody needs a Little Debby right? Dinner on the Erie Canal tomorrow. We're heading up for the downtown Brockport craft fair, the wife has a booth there. Come visit us at the Looming Madness tent, we'll be there both days

[huckbucket]

As I crossed the thruway to Albany I thought: wow the road is terrible mainly, it costs money to in state residents, and they top it off w destroying your car w the salt . Oh and inspection directly plugged into NYS hardware. So any bullshit sensor doesn't pass. And NYS is perpetually insolvent. W half the money of the entire country on wall st. It's really- incomprehensible.

You new here? What you just described is part of the charm.

[gravitylover]

Imagine what it would be like if the state didn't have that Wall St money

[byates1]

Grew up here been out west for a while. Visiting now. Love the beautiful farm country I grew up in. Despise the oppressive laws and outrageous taxation.

[twomartinis]

In NY, they take a picture of the front also. When I was driving home from my month in Driggs a coupla years ago, I forgot to throw my EZPass on the dashboard when entering NY from Erie. They sent a picture with the bill and it was the front of the car. Clear pic also...I could see myself driving. So, if you're a state that requires a front plate (MA, NH, NY, ME, and VT unless you paid extra for a Vermont Strong plate) don't expect that to work - at least in NY.

so… bikes on front and back then? [emoji854]




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[m2711c]

feel free to head back west anytime now....

[huckbucket]

Grew up here been out west for a while. Visiting now. Love the beautiful farm country I grew up in. Despise the oppressive laws and outrageous taxation.

Blue tarps, high taxes, crystal clear lakes and chicken riggies. You win some you lose some.

[byates1]

feel free to head back west anytime now....

Your wife is blowing me a few more times but yeah after that.

Fact.

[RShea]

That's part of why so many places it's illegal to back into spots in parking lots. I was sitting in the car waiting for my wife to come out of a place and this guy is walking around writing tickets, he comes up and asks me if I was stupid so I answered "of course I am and hello to you. Since we're getting to know each other, why are you so short?" I got a $100 ticket for backing into a spot.

In the case of this example it was most all on street parking and parallel parked, metered or otherwise for say time or odd even type of stuff- DC...

[CazMan26]

FYI-
If anyone is into antiques, etc. Madison-Bouckville is going on this weekend !

[gravitylover]

Watkins Glen= probably the only place in the country where you would see a convoy of Ferraris with race numbers on them driving along in a torrential downpour. I also saw several tire company trucks headed towards the track. I bet everybody is doing tire testing today.

[m2711c]

Your wife is blowing me a few more times but yeah after that.

Fact.

attacking somebody’s wife, in response to shit being said on the internet, is a sad and demented way to be social…








fact.

[m2711c]

rivers up n still risin’…





steel encased them squash plants this year with just scenario in mind.




fact

[Core Shot]

Would you whiny fucksticks secede already?
Upstate and the dacks are amazing.
Downstate is fucked. Buffalo is meh.

Just finished another end to end drive on the thruway and my family cock blocked my Ted’s fish fry in Albany. Dammit.

[gravitylover]

You're here? That's no good...

[m2711c]

yeah, must be time to go...

[gravitylover]

Hope everyone's alright after the deluge yesterday. Some of the conditions I drove through were inspiring for sure. South of Watkins Glen the water was running off the roadside cliffs so hard it was waterfalls into the center of the road. There was so much water...!

[m2711c]

so much water that had to turn off the canal to let it out…







fact.

[m2711c]

smoke breaks are just one more reason why trains are an inherently more civilized form of transport…




i mean, don’t know what the fuck was goin’ on back in steerage… but me an teh lass’s was havin’ a fine time.









fact.

[m2711c]

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

so much water that had to turn off the canal to let it out…







fact.

Lived in B-ville for 8 years. All my kids graduated from HS there. 2 of them still live there. Nice place.

Crazy that no restaurant has been able to make it over the years perched above Lock 24.

[m2711c]

Hard to make your nut on just a couple of months a year. Nobody wants to hang out by a frozen Lock in the winter time.