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[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 6 months ago

UPSTATE NEW YORK MENTIONED

I DON'T HAVE A FUNNY PUNCHLINE !!!

[-] errer@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Well I’m from Utica and our jokes have punchlines

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago
[-] sem 14 points 6 months ago

SOMETIMES IT'S STEWART'S INSTEAD OF DOLLAR GENERAL.

[-] brandon@piefed.social 8 points 6 months ago

The difference is that Stewart's fucking slaps.

[-] sem 4 points 6 months ago

Best place ever

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

I am a stew-bag through and through

[-] head_socj@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

The goddamn meatballs are my kryptonite.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

their ice cream gives me the shits but it's always worth it for that mint cookie crumble

[-] possumparty@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

yeah that's proper upstate New York, everywhere else will get laughed at if you call it upstate. Tell someone from the Bills Mafia in Buffalo that they're from upstate and they're likely to jump through a table defending WNY.

[-] jjmoldy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

315 represent

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've driven through upstate NY just once going from Boston to Buffalo and took a detour to Ithaca. Extremely beautiful drive during that detour I will say.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I made a similar drive once and I kept looking up at those ridges and wondering how hard it would be to climb to the top of them. I pulled over at one point and gave one a try, and I can say: it's insanely fucking hard. Like, I think I would have died if I hadn't turned around and gone back down to my car.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

I wonder if horror movies will eventually drop the old run down gas station for teens to stop at on their way to die and replace them with dollar stores.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

We should petition the horror movie guild.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Don't most zombie movies already have a trip to a store like that?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

That is for getting supplies, not for an old sketchy dude to warn them about not going to that cursed lake.

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

A sketchy dispensary, maybe? I feel like that scene is usually more about getting the beer than the gasoline.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

man, that dollar general took over the greatest steamed hams spot in all of Albany.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Great state parks, excellent rock climbing, and most waterfalls on the east coast. And Dollar Generals.

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago

Please do not come to upstate New York, I like being alone. I guess you could burn down some of the mansions if you want to stop by.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 13 points 6 months ago

Fuck Dollar General.

I, for one, miss you and your mesh shirt and your run-down shop, Marvin Bissel.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

As a Canadian who’s driven through a couple times it really is a weird place. There are some parallels pretty much all over North America but upstate NY really hit me as uncomfortable. It’s hard to tell what anyone does and you can really see the poverty. The poverty and the overabundance of US flags.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

In the south its much the same, but lots of confederate and trump flags.

[-] possumparty@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Don't worry, there's plenty of confederate flags in UNY and WNY too.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Southerns say its their "heritage". So... whats new yorkers excuse?

[-] sem 8 points 6 months ago

Crazy to me how easy it is these days to Photoshop out a dollar general from the landscape

[-] smokinbud@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

About the same with northwest Pennsylvania

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

And north central.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

I'm european.

What does "upstate" mean?

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago

New York City is located in the southeastern corner of the state, so "upstate NY" means basically everything north/west of the NYC metro area. It's a word that is pretty much exclusively used for New York.

[-] i_am_tired_boss@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Nooooo ... You were supposed to say "What's upstate dog?“

Wait... I might be confusing it with something else.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago

what's up, state dog?

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

To further clarify expr's explanation, most people are familiar with new york only by way of new york city. Shockingly (/s), new york city, a city confined by small island and shoreline with a population of 8 million+, is an entirely different beast than the entire state with a slightly larger population. So people generally differentiate upstate new york with the moniker to explicitly refer to how it is different; mainly being rather rural outside of the 'minor' metropolitan areas like albany. The 'up' part is because most folks think of north as 'up' due to maps being oriented that way.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The majority of the state is actually above NYC

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago

Hence the line, "The 'up' part is because most folks think of north as 'up' due to maps being oriented that way."

[-] avg@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Northern part of the state, it's not an official description and everyone will have a different definition of where upstate starts.

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

If you can't see one from where you are, move a quarter mile in any direction.

[-] buggybug@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

either that or a tim hortons (TIM HORTONS ICED MATCHA LATTE SWEEEEEEEEEEP)

[-] noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Tbh this looks very relaxing, but maybe the grass is greener or somethin'.

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I live there, and can confirm.

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