Official eff Bison early thread

[yoman]

Guys, North Dakota is has the 50th highest GDP in the entire United States.  Like, what do they even do there (besides nothing)?   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP

They did beat Vermont. But seriously, it's Vermont 

[Vitojr130]

I live in Oregon.  There are many alum here in the Pacific Northwest.  I go back to Fargo for home games usually once a year (probably taking in 2 games and the week between this fall.), plus playoffs and the NC game if we can make it again. 

From here, not much distinguishes KS from ND.  People know KS primarily because of the folks protesting at funerals (great job with that, by the way) and the meth belt that includes much of KS.  The most famous sports team that people know of is Kansas basketball.  They only know your football team as the folks that folded like an old used lawn chair to the Ducks in the Fiesta Bowl.  While your program is good these days, most fans not from the midwest still don't know it.  Oregon fans call KSU football the Big 12 JV team.

Did I just read North Dakota smack mediated through Oregon?  I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

Jesus Christ you KSU folks are impossible. You firmly believe that Kansas is any different than North Dakota. To the rest of the world, we are both flyover states that produce the ingredients to their bread and the meat that goes in between. That's it. This is a dick measuring contest that neither will win.

GDP of Kansas (2007) = 117.3 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota (2007) = 27.72 Billion USD  <---- 

Ya, we are exactly alike.

Being a college graduate (I assume), you should know that outdated data sucks and that numbers can be manipulated to mean whatever you want them to. So, let's take some more recent data from 2010.

GDP of Kansas: 128.5 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota: 33.4 Billion USD

Now, this suggests that Kansas has far more going for it. However, if we further look at the numbers, we can reveal that Kansas' residents are lazy. How so?

Population of Kansas: 2.88 Million
Population of North Dakota: 700,000

Now we can look at per capita GDP.

Per capita GDP for Kansas: 44,618.06 USD
Per capita GDP for North Dakota: 47,714.29 USD

This clearly shows that North Dakotans are more productive than Kansasians (?).

Like I said earlier, this dick measuring contest between ND and Kansas is ridiculous.

[Emo EMAW]

I live in Oregon.  There are many alum here in the Pacific Northwest.  I go back to Fargo for home games usually once a year (probably taking in 2 games and the week between this fall.), plus playoffs and the NC game if we can make it again. 

From here, not much distinguishes KS from ND.  People know KS primarily because of the folks protesting at funerals (great job with that, by the way) and the meth belt that includes much of KS.  The most famous sports team that people know of is Kansas basketball.  They only know your football team as the folks that folded like an old used lawn chair to the Ducks in the Fiesta Bowl.  While your program is good these days, most fans not from the midwest still don't know it.  Oregon fans call KSU football the Big 12 JV team.

Did I just read North Dakota smack mediated through Oregon?  I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

Jesus Christ you KSU folks are impossible. You firmly believe that Kansas is any different than North Dakota. To the rest of the world, we are both flyover states that produce the ingredients to their bread and the meat that goes in between. That's it. This is a dick measuring contest that neither will win.

GDP of Kansas (2007) = 117.3 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota (2007) = 27.72 Billion USD  <---- 

Ya, we are exactly alike.

Being a college graduate (I assume), you should know that outdated data sucks and that numbers can be manipulated to mean whatever you want them to. So, let's take some more recent data from 2010.

GDP of Kansas: 128.5 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota: 33.4 Billion USD

Now, this suggests that Kansas has far more going for it. However, if we further look at the numbers, we can reveal that Kansas' residents are lazy. How so?

Population of Kansas: 2.88 Million
Population of North Dakota: 700,000

Now we can look at per capita GDP.

Per capita GDP for Kansas: 44,618.06 USD
Per capita GDP for North Dakota: 47,714.29 USD

This clearly shows that North Dakotans are more productive than Kansasians (?).

Like I said earlier, this dick measuring contest between ND and Kansas is ridiculous.

I'm sure you think James Sims would have kept that 0.4 YPC advantage had he played all season, too! 

[husserl]

I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

omg 

[Belvis Noland]

Hell, by the time you drive to MN and catch a connection to either MHK or KCI, you're looking at 8-9 hours of travel.  Might as well just drive. 

May also want to check out flights out of Winnipeg, cause that's closer than MN, dontcha know.

May want to check those miles again chief

Fargo - Winnipeg:  222 miles
Fargo - Minneapolis:  235 miles

[Dugout DickStone]

It also shows that there are lot less people willing to live in ND

[Dr Rick Daris]

well i guess you can apparently add dick measuring contests to the list of "things to do in north dakota". kind of weird, but it's not like they have a bunch of other options up there.

[Vitojr130]

I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

omg 

  Well if you imply "eliteness", then I assume the poster should at least maintain basic English skills...

[husserl]

I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

omg 

  Well if you imply "eliteness", then I assume the poster should at least maintain basic English skills...

OMG! 

[Dugout DickStone]

I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

omg 

  Well if you imply "eliteness", then I assume the poster should at least maintain basic English skills...

So this is what BBS'ing from a DII school looks like.

[yoman]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

[Vitojr130]

I live in Oregon.  There are many alum here in the Pacific Northwest.  I go back to Fargo for home games usually once a year (probably taking in 2 games and the week between this fall.), plus playoffs and the NC game if we can make it again. 

From here, not much distinguishes KS from ND.  People know KS primarily because of the folks protesting at funerals (great job with that, by the way) and the meth belt that includes much of KS.  The most famous sports team that people know of is Kansas basketball.  They only know your football team as the folks that folded like an old used lawn chair to the Ducks in the Fiesta Bowl.  While your program is good these days, most fans not from the midwest still don't know it.  Oregon fans call KSU football the Big 12 JV team.

Did I just read North Dakota smack mediated through Oregon?  I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

Jesus Christ you KSU folks are impossible. You firmly believe that Kansas is any different than North Dakota. To the rest of the world, we are both flyover states that produce the ingredients to their bread and the meat that goes in between. That's it. This is a dick measuring contest that neither will win.

GDP of Kansas (2007) = 117.3 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota (2007) = 27.72 Billion USD  <---- 

Ya, we are exactly alike.

Being a college graduate (I assume), you should know that outdated data sucks and that numbers can be manipulated to mean whatever you want them to. So, let's take some more recent data from 2010.

GDP of Kansas: 128.5 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota: 33.4 Billion USD

Now, this suggests that Kansas has far more going for it. However, if we further look at the numbers, we can reveal that Kansas' residents are lazy. How so?

Population of Kansas: 2.88 Million
Population of North Dakota: 700,000

Now we can look at per capita GDP.

Per capita GDP for Kansas: 44,618.06 USD
Per capita GDP for North Dakota: 47,714.29 USD

This clearly shows that North Dakotans are more productive than Kansasians (?).

Like I said earlier, this dick measuring contest between ND and Kansas is ridiculous.

I'm sure you think James Sims would have kept that 0.4 YPC advantage had he played all season, too! 

If you are suggesting that the numbers are due to our recent and supposedly temporary influx of oil money, you would be wrong. 2010, the year I pulled numbers from, is the year that rigs started up again, so the numbers were fairly typical for ND before the oil money. I even gave you the benefit of the doubt. I took the most recent population estimate, which includes people who have come here for the oil industry, even though the GDP I pulled had hardly anything to do with oil. I would be curious to see the per capita GDP this last quarter now that we are the 2nd most oil producing state in the union (which we weren't even close to that in 2010).

[Vitojr130]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

No; it just bugs me when someone implies they are elite when they use the grammar of a 2nd grader...

[Emo EMAW]

I live in Oregon.  There are many alum here in the Pacific Northwest.  I go back to Fargo for home games usually once a year (probably taking in 2 games and the week between this fall.), plus playoffs and the NC game if we can make it again. 

From here, not much distinguishes KS from ND.  People know KS primarily because of the folks protesting at funerals (great job with that, by the way) and the meth belt that includes much of KS.  The most famous sports team that people know of is Kansas basketball.  They only know your football team as the folks that folded like an old used lawn chair to the Ducks in the Fiesta Bowl.  While your program is good these days, most fans not from the midwest still don't know it.  Oregon fans call KSU football the Big 12 JV team.

Did I just read North Dakota smack mediated through Oregon?  I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

Please, how does that eliteness feel? Than, we can discuss how great KSU's English classes are.

Jesus Christ you KSU folks are impossible. You firmly believe that Kansas is any different than North Dakota. To the rest of the world, we are both flyover states that produce the ingredients to their bread and the meat that goes in between. That's it. This is a dick measuring contest that neither will win.

GDP of Kansas (2007) = 117.3 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota (2007) = 27.72 Billion USD  <---- 

Ya, we are exactly alike.

Being a college graduate (I assume), you should know that outdated data sucks and that numbers can be manipulated to mean whatever you want them to. So, let's take some more recent data from 2010.

GDP of Kansas: 128.5 Billion USD
GDP of North Dakota: 33.4 Billion USD

Now, this suggests that Kansas has far more going for it. However, if we further look at the numbers, we can reveal that Kansas' residents are lazy. How so?

Population of Kansas: 2.88 Million
Population of North Dakota: 700,000

Now we can look at per capita GDP.

Per capita GDP for Kansas: 44,618.06 USD
Per capita GDP for North Dakota: 47,714.29 USD

This clearly shows that North Dakotans are more productive than Kansasians (?).

Like I said earlier, this dick measuring contest between ND and Kansas is ridiculous.

I'm sure you think James Sims would have kept that 0.4 YPC advantage had he played all season, too! 

If you are suggesting that the numbers are due to our recent and supposedly temporary influx of oil money, you would be wrong. 2010, the year I pulled numbers from, is the year that rigs started up again, so the numbers were fairly typical for ND before the oil money. I even gave you the benefit of the doubt. I took the most recent population estimate, which includes people who have come here for the oil industry, even though the GDP I pulled had hardly anything to do with oil. I would be curious to see the per capita GDP this last quarter now that we are the 2nd most oil producing state in the union (which we weren't even close to that in 2010).

Just post a pay stub already! 

[NDSU Lollypopkid]

Hell, by the time you drive to MN and catch a connection to either MHK or KCI, you're looking at 8-9 hours of travel.  Might as well just drive. 

May also want to check out flights out of Winnipeg, cause that's closer than MN, dontcha know.

May want to check those miles again chief

Fargo - Winnipeg:  222 miles
Fargo - Minneapolis:  235 miles

I'll sacrifice 13 miles to not deal with the border and doing all of the international travel hooplah.

[lakesbison]

IM RICH BITCH!

[husserl]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

Also, pointing out a grammar mistake that isn't a mistake is pretty damn adorable. 

[husserl]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

No; it just bugs me when someone implies they are elite when they use the grammar of a 2nd grader...

...

[Spracne]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

Also, pointing out a grammar mistake that isn't a mistake is pretty damn adorable.

The ultimate irony.  Folks, if you ever, EVER decide to call someone out on their grammar (rarely appropriate), you have to be 100% sure you are correct.

[Vitojr130]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

Also, pointing out a grammar mistake that isn't a mistake is pretty damn adorable.

I concede. I was not aware I was supposed to insert a word (rather) in my mind and instead assumed you meant that the hipsters would worry about KSU second to Oregon in a chronological fashion. Regardless, my points about GDP stand. ND is more productive than Kansas per individual. Looks like you need to get off goEMAW and get some work done.

[EMAWican]

Oil money tho

[Dugout DickStone]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

Also, pointing out a grammar mistake that isn't a mistake is pretty damn adorable.

I concede. I was not aware I was supposed to insert a word (rather) in my mind and instead assumed you meant that the hipsters would worry about KSU second to Oregon in a chronological fashion. Regardless, my points about GDP stand. ND is more productive than Kansas per individual. Looks like you need to get off goEMAW and get some work done.

We are rich.  Lots of women/children stay home.  Sucks you guys have to ring every cent out of the god forsaken tundra you live on by sending your entire population out to the tar sands pits.

[husserl]

I concede. I was not aware I was supposed to insert a word (rather) in my mind and instead assumed you meant that the hipsters would worry about KSU second to Oregon in a chronological fashion. Regardless, my points about GDP stand. ND is more productive than Kansas per individual. Looks like you need to get off goEMAW and get some work done.

I am pretty sure a bunch of Nike wearing Steve Prefontaine worshipping Seattle hipster wannabes are more worried about how they are going to continue to try and live off of the revenue generated from the Goonies house and the school used in the movie Kindergarten Cop in Astoria, Oregon than discuss KSU's eliteness.

 

[Spracne]

Oil money tho

farm subsidies, tho

[NDSU Lollypopkid]

Pretty sure pointing out grammar mistakes is a last-chance effort at grabbing for straws in an argument. Usually it implies a lack of creativity, lack of a sufficient come back, or both. Also, pointing out a grammar mistake does not invalidate information, nice attempt at using this fallacy though.

Also, pointing out a grammar mistake that isn't a mistake is pretty damn adorable.

I concede. I was not aware I was supposed to insert a word (rather) in my mind and instead assumed you meant that the hipsters would worry about KSU second to Oregon in a chronological fashion. Regardless, my points about GDP stand. ND is more productive than Kansas per individual. Looks like you need to get off goEMAW and get some work done.

We are rich.  Lots of women/children stay home.  Sucks you guys have to ring every cent out of the god forsaken tundra you live on by sending your entire population out to the tar sands pits.

This is funny especially since your state falls short of the national average in median household income.

Not as funny as sporting kc being talked up as your only pro franchise though