LOL U MAD? (Osmond edition)

Wow, ohnotheydidnt is collectively butt-hurt that Donny Osmond won "Dancing With the Stars" and beat Kelly Osbourne. Just....wow. So much hate over a genuinely nice, Mormon guy.






...........Okay, I'm done making a total dork of myself.

how to tell you're a region rat...

Because jadore_histoire did a Long Island one, so I found this:

48. Oil tanks are more common than trees in your neighborhood.
(Too true. Thank you, Hicks Gas.)

47. You don't know anything about farming...at least not legal farming.
(Nah, I'll ask my neighbors about legal farming.)

46. When you need to run out to the store, you go to Jewel.
(I go to Aldi's or County Market when I absolutely have to. I hate calling County Market "County Market," because it'll always be Wilco to me.)

45. You call the interstate the "tollroad."
(Doesn't everybody?)

44. You know what good pizza tastes like, and it's not Papa John's.
(Papa John's gives me bad heartburn.)

43. Running red lights is normal.
(To who? I don't.)

42. Midway is not an island, it's an airport.

41. You know the night sky is not black, it's orange!
(Only when you get near Gary and Hammond.)

40. You know roads are just a place for trains to park across.
(LOL @ this one.)

39. Only a true region rat can tell which town they are in at any given time.
(So true...)

38. You love Kohl's (the store).
(Not really.)

37. You measure distance in minutes instead of miles.
(Yup.)

36. You understand what the "lake-effect" is.
(Yes; it makes winters MUCH worse.)

35. You don't pronounce the "s" in Illinois and you get aggravated when people do.
(Yeah! And I don't even live in Illinois!)

34. "What's a sheriff?"
(LOL)

33. School isn't canceled unless there is at least 20 feet of snow on the ground.

32. You know more about what's going on in Illinois than Indiana.
(That's because Chicago newscasters don't show their NW Indiana demographic enough love.)

31. You don't drink soda, you drink pop.
(HELL YEAH.)

30. You don't consider pigs as being domestic pets.
(No, I consider them dinner.)

29. Your favorite holiday movie is "A Christmas Story."
(They just had "A Christmas Story"-fest in Hammond last weekend.)

28. You can see downtown Chicago from your neighborhood, yet it takes an hour to get there.
(It takes about two hours to get there from where I live.)

27. You think bridges were invented to cross railroad tracks, not rivers.
(Really?! Wow.)

26. You like White Castle.
(I get the craving for it every once in a while.)

25. Your bumper is rusted from road salt.
(Not yet, thank god.)

24. You know that country music sucks.
(I don't think it sucks, I'm just getting tired of Taylor Swift.)

23. Sometimes you forget that Indiana has a football team.
(The Colts. Eff the Bears; they've been disappointing us lately.)

22. You don't "cruise the strip."

21. You are skilled at lane changing and know that "all 5 lanes on I-80 were MEANT to be used!"
(So true...)

20. You can appreciate the humor of Mancow.
(Too bad he's not on Q101 anymore and now doing serious AM talk radio now.)

19. You know that beaches exist in places other than Florida and California.
(But I've only been to beaches in Florida!)

18. You always keep at least $5 in change in your car for tolls.
(I'm lucky if I can scrounge that much up.)

17. You think all amusement parks are called "Great America."
(No.)

16. You know that not all passenger trains are powered by steam.

15. Your neighborhood is a proposed third airport.

14. You know better than to light a match within 5 miles of the Little Calumet River.

13. What the hell is a Hardee's?
(They used to have one here in Lowell!)

12. You're not really a Hoosier.
(YES I AM.)

11. Even though you go to school three hours away, you still can't help but watch WGN news on cable every night.
(Every morning and night. I trust Tom Skilling's forecasts.)

10. You have motion sensor lights on your garage and house, but don't lock the doors of either of them.
(I lock 'em.)

9. You leave your car running in the parking lot at the store.
(I wouldn't dare do that; my car has auto-lock doors.)

8. You end sentences with unnecessary prepositions ("Where is my coat at?" or "I want to go with!")
(I've really been trying to watch that lately.)

7. You forget we even have a county fair.
(Kevin and I went this year, and I was very disappointed.)

6. Who needs a county fair anyway when there is August Fest?
(What's August Fest?)

5. There is only one LAKE, everything else is a pond.
(Yeah. CEDAR LAKE.)

4. Everyone else at the gas station is from Illinois.
(What's up with that?!)

3. The "northern lights" are the flames from Amoco's refinery.
(LAWL, so true...)

2. You think anything south of US-30 is Southern Indiana.
(Which is where I live!)

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