Classy Kentucky fan calls Columbia a dump

[67gamecock]

Charleston has one advantage most Southern cities of similar size do not have. All its city leaders have to do is whistle and the tourists come running - and they don't break a sweat doing what they do so well. Actually, they haven't even scratched the surface in the hospitality area. Joe Riley got the 'show oN the road' with Spoleto back in thw 70's.

You gotta know how and when to navigate the city. Short cuts abound, frontage roads, back roads through subdivisions but most important is timing your trips. Rush hour into town slacks off by 8:45 but leaving town traffic starts by 4:00. Make the first green light on Assembly and Gervais and you'll make the rest to Elmwood. Only take the major downtown streets traveling east and west. Avoid Harbison from Thanksgiving to Christmas unless you know the subdivision short cuts. If folks would learn not to rubberneck interstate traffic would flow so much better.

Good post! I follow all of your suggestions when leaving Columbia. Man, I can get out and onto I-20 West in a flash, and then . . . . I get off on the US378 Lexington and BAM! It's like 'Little San Fernando Valley' but my friends in my old hometown (Charleston) laugh - they have to navigate I-526! LOL!

 

[Cock In Space]

Charleston has one advantage most Southern cities of similar size do not have. All its city leaders have to do is whistle and the tourists come running - and they don't break a sweat doing what they do so well. Actually, they haven't even scratched the surface in the hospitality area. Joe Riley got the 'show oj




Good post! I follow all of your suggestions when leaving Columbia. Man, I can get out and onto I-20 West in a flash, and then . . . . I get off on the US378 Lexington and BAM! It's like 'Little San Fernando Valley' but my friends in my old hometown (Charleston) laugh - they have to navigate I-526! LOL!

Hospitality in Chucktown is almost nonexistent.
Give me Nawlins any day...It's always service with a smile.

 

[wdgamecock22]

Hospitality in Chucktown is almost nonexistent.
Give me Nawlins any day...It's always service with a smile.

Did Rhett Butler steal your girl?

 

[A_F_Deerhunter]

Love Lexington County as long it's not the city of Lexington. The traffic anytime of day in Lexington is horrendous. A small town with big city traffic and everyone is moving there.

agree, traffic in all the metro is bad. Don't go near Lex. Med. Center unless you have to. I always use I-20 to bypass Lexington.

 

[67gamecock]

Hospitality in Chucktown is almost nonexistent.
Give me Nawlins any day...It's always service with a smile.

Charleston is America's Most Friendly City. On the other hand, I've never been treated rudely by the locals in Nawlins - maybe it's my Charleston accent plus the ability to properly pronounce the city's name - 'Nawwlins'.The locals think I'm a native!

 

[Cock In Space]

Charleston is America's Most Friendly City. On the other hand, I've never been treated rudely by the locals in Nawlins - maybe it's my Charleston accent plus the ability to properly pronounce the city's name - 'Nawwlins'.The locals think I'm a native!

Years back, I was looking at the straw baskets in the market and one of those women weavers almost took my head off.

 

[bayrooster]

Years back, I was looking at the straw baskets in the market and one of those women weavers almost took my head off.

Yeah, they expect to be paid for photos, don't point your cell phone in their direction or be sporting a camera around your neck.

 

[67gamecock]

The Charleston basket weavers have become urbanized over the past 50 years. Countless tourists + $$$$$ will change friendliness to rudeness in a New York minute!

 

[SCGCock07]

This thread reminds me why I hate Kentucky. Their state borders Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Nothing but Yankee trash.

 

[wdgamecock22]

Years back, I was looking at the straw baskets in the market and one of those women weavers almost took my head off.

You're obviously a yankee

 

[Cock In Space]

You're obviously a yankee

Not bloody likely.

 

[The-Hack]

Fake tater......tillman troll. 4 posts all about this crap.

Ryan probably doesn’t even know “tater” is a reference to Clemson!!!

He’s a decade or more poster on Cat forums who apparently uses his real name and was complimentary of USC.

 

[The-Hack]

This thread reminds me why I hate Kentucky. Their state borders Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Nothing but Yankee trash.

Ahhh!

And much of the South has that border.

I enjoyed as an elected official and prosecutor reminding our buckeye transplants that the Interstates all had northbound lanes that could take them home.

But we tend to civilize them one-at-a-time.

One of my best buds is from up-State New York. He no longer even visits back up there.

 

[ReadR00ster]

If you are staying in the Red Roof Inn off Two Notch Road or some place like that, then YES you will get a bad impression of Columbia. lol.

 

[mauze1]

No offense taken.
Just used to better food than is found in Columbia.
Like today in Jupiter, Florida. Had Italian for lunch that cannot be found many places outside of NYC.

Many Columbian's have an inferiority complex and are quickly offended when the attributes of other cities are rated superior to what Cola can offer. It's ok and expected, but small minded.

Man! I will bet the folks in Chicago and San Francisco are laughing their ass off. There are some really good Italian eatery’s out side NY.

 

[The Coup Nazi]

Come work in a tobacco field

Or on a peach farm.

 

[The Coup Nazi]

Because Columbia is not a great dining town and the other cities are.

Gee willakers Gabby...

Great dining towns such as Paris include eating calf pancreas, sheep testicles, tongue, tripe, Foie gras, and urchins. Count me out. I hope Columbia doesn’t become one.

 

[Cock In Space]

Great dining towns such as Paris include eating calf pancreas, sheep testicles, tongue, tripe, Foie gras, and urchins. Count me out. I hope Columbia doesn’t become one.

 

[joebuckusc]

No offense to you, but Columbia is not a great dining town. New Orleans, NYC, San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago are great dining towns.

Oh yeah, people in Columbia think Groucho's is a real Jewish deli.

Columbia has superb dining spots!
Mr Friendlys
Colas
Motor Supply
Etc.

 

[Cock In Space]

Columbia has superb dining spots!
Mr Friendlys
Colas
Motor Supply
Etc.

You can get a decent meal, but no way I'm getting engaged in any of the above

 

[hobcawcreekcock]

Columbia has superb dining spots!
Mr Friendlys
Colas
Motor Supply
Etc.

You left out Rush's, Labrasca's, Groucho's and Andy's Deli's, Yesterdays, Rockaways, and Maurice's...those are the REAL treasures of Columbia. Wish Herb's Grill, Edna's, an a few other places still existed in Columbia. These places were there when I grew up on Trenholm Road, and lived on Broad River Road for several years.

 

[SportsFan482]

AWWW 1975......

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Boy that brings back awesome memories. That was the song on the beach in Myrtle in 75. Amazing how a song can take you back. The sounds and even the smells. The wind blowing, the smell of Hawaiian Tropic and Coppertone in the air, and the sound of the plane engine pulling the sign down the beach advertising some cheap tee shirt sale at Wings.

 

[Cock In Space]

Boy that brings back awesome memories. That was the song on the beach in Myrtle in 75. Amazing how a song can take you back. The sounds and even the smells. The wind blowing, the smell of Hawaiian Tropic and Coppertone in the air, and the sound of the plane engine pulling the sign down the beach advertising some cheap tee shirt sale at Wings.

Predominate among my Myrtle thoughts was how I would be able to score with two girls in one night

 

[tjdisbrow]

https://kentucky.forums.rivals.com/threads/just-got-back-from-columbia-notes.304583/
"-Place is a dump. I forgot what a h*** hole that town is. Athens, Clemson, Gainesville, even Knoxville is nicer. No sites to see, no history, no beautiful skyline, buildings never got upgraded and it still looks like 1975."

Nice UK fan, hope he enjoyed the beatdown. I hope we go on another 10 year win streak against them.

I would think the same if my team got super raped...