ugly bag of mostly water
don’t keep sweatin’ what I do 'cause I’m gonna be just fine
Yup! Every time I see a post deriding NJ, I feel the need to post a love letter to NJ as a rebuttal haha
Casino & boardwalk are easy to do together. Those are both on the shoreline. There are loads of wineries so depending on what you felt like doing, it would be easy to squeeze that in too. The nice thing about New Jersey is that it isn’t huge, so if you’re up for a bit of driving you can see a lot.
Ahh I’d had something about Princeton but I must’ve lost it in editing! Yeah Princeton is beautiful :)
Yes, quite a lot actually!
I know this is hard to believe for people who only hear stereotypes about our state, but New Jersey has a lot of natural beauty. Northwest NJ and the Delaware Water Gap area have a lot of beautiful forested areas, and the Delaware River is so crisp and clear up there. Great for kayaking and tubing! All along the Delaware in Central NJ there are cute river towns like Frenchtown, Stockton, Lambertville, and Washington’s Crossing. These are really cute little downtowns with bars & restaurants, shops, and live entertainment. Plus with Lambertville there’s New Hope right across the bridge. We have farmstands with fresh Jersey corn, tomatoes, and peaches all over the place (remember, we’re the Garden State!), plus loads of local wineries. The Pine Barrens are beautiful for hiking and biking. Then we’ve got the shore. I will grant that NJ beaches don’t hold a candle to some other places further south along the eastern seaboard (though I will say that the beaches with tags are a pretty good experience), but you don’t really go down the shore just for the beaches. You go for the boardwalks, plus the casinos in Atlantic City. We also have Great Adventure, which I think every Jersey kid grows up going to.
And we have pork roll, the best breakfast meat ever.
So yeah, come check us out. You might be surprised!
Dude you’re 20 and married‽ Why didn’t you lead with that??
Nice balanced answer. Also curious, what’s your opinion on tan suits?
Mustard on a burger. Acceptable?
By the time NYE rolls around, I’m tired of festivities, not just because my social battery gets deleted, but also because the food served at gatherings really sets off my IBS. This time of year I opt out of as much holiday stuff as I can without upsetting anyone, and I almost never do anything special for the new year.
Once in a great while, I have a brain fart and tell the restaurant host “two for non”.
I quit my PhD program in Physics because the misery wasn’t going to be worth the eventual paycheck, especially because I refused to work for contractors in the military-industrial complex. I ended up working for a while and got an MS in Applied Statistics, which is meh. Physics actually interested me. Statistics bored the shit out of me but it was useful for the field I ended up in. But now I’m retired, which is pretty satisfying!
True! But I guess young adult readers don’t tend to be as discerning, which is why I never expect the writing to be any good.
I pronounce spigot as “spicket” but that’s normal where I’m from.
My mom had a couple of weird ones that took me a while to unlearn:
Stipend = “stipp-ind”
Antibiotics = “antee-BEE-otics”
Yeah I’m from NJ and same, but more like wooder.
Also orange = oar-inge
Florida = floor-duh
And of course glottal stops everywhere:
kitten = kih’-in
Trenton = chre’-in
Baggel and Beggel drive me nuts! Bay-gull or GTFO :)
That orange motherfucker isn’t even in office yet, and the racists are full mask-off.
Yeah but did we really expect it to actually be good?
Oh wow, complete opposite here - I thought Prometheus was hot garbage.
“Hey everybody, let’s just remove our helmets in this totally unvetted environment, we’re all scientists but trust me, this is supes safe!”
“Aw look at the little alien snake, so cute, better get real close!”
“I’m clearly showing symptoms of exposure to some alien pathogen, but let’s just hide it from the entire crew, including my girlfriend, who I will be fucking.”
“Oh, a huge ring is rolling toward me and I’m gonna get crushed, better keep running in a straight line!”
I mean, come on.
My husband says pobcorn just to fuck with me, I hate it so bad but I can’t help laughing