The Goat Pen

typical NC crap. spend millions building a road that's obsolete and crowded before it's even finished. try 77 and 74 around Charlotte for shits and giggles sometime.

I blame UNC-CH.

heh, although it's more likely to be our fault than theirs.

I was in it through the mountains till I hit 26 east. Spent the night last night in Columbia and ended up staying at a hotel hosting Madieas Family Reunion.

AugustWest wrote:typical NC crap. spend millions building a road that's obsolete and crowded before it's even finished. try 77 and 74 around Charlotte for shits and giggles sometime.

40 should be a minimum of six lanes and eight or ten lanes in the Triangle and the Triad, and, yes, it is NC State's fault. Fucking shiftless engineers...Those fuckers never do anything for us...

Rat, you were on 40 until you hit 26? Shit. You were barely on 40 in NC then, and the part of NC that you were in at the time is more like Tennessee than NC.

North Carolina and Tennessee are the same thing.

Well, excepting the fact that NC has a few schools of higher learning.

Tennessee has Vandy.

Bluecat wrote:North Carolina and Tennessee are the same thing.

No, we're not, but Ohio and Michigan are both shithole Rust Belt states in decay that people flee daily.

It looked the same to me. Smelled the same too.

I suppose we can exclude the rarified types (self-image only) of North Carolinians that secretly wish they were Virginians...

Why would we want to be assholes like those fuckers? My family left Virginia to come to NC during the colonial era.

They got r-u-n-n-o-f-t

Uruguay dominant in the Copa final. Unsurprisingly, Forlan and Suarez were the heroes. Had to be particularly galling to the Argies to have Uruguay surge back in front in the all-time Copa titles count, to the extent that anyone cares about such things, since they won't get a chance to get it back for four years under the new format and won't see a chance at redemption at home for 40.

when I was in college 2 decades ago, 40 b/w Greensboro and W-S was nothing but potholes strung together by a few yards of asphalt

That whole confluence of hwys around the Grandover is one big clusterf@$k.

But there is now worse traffic in NC than the I-77, I-485 corridor.

East Tennessee and North Carolina are the same thing.

Don't lump us West Tennesseans in with that riff-raff...

True.

West Tennessee=Arkansas.

ouch

If NC ceded the land west of I-26 to Tennessee, the average income, literacy rate and health factors would rise for each state...