fact or fiction?

I heard there might be a new bbq style restaraunt coming to town. Any truth to this? Or is it more Olive Garden type bullshit?

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

I heard there might be a new bbq style restaraunt coming to town. Any truth to this? Or is it more Olive Garden type bullshit?

I hope, neither. I find Olive Garden to be mediocre, and BBQ is best created at home.

SciFi wrote:

BBQ is best created at home.

Au contraire, my pointy-eared friend. This is the center of the BBQ universe.

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

I heard there might be a new bbq style restaraunt coming to town. Any truth to this? Or is it more Olive Garden type bullshit?

Oh awesome because the last BBQ joint we had did SO well.

God I hate this town.

And for those of you in the cheap seats (namely EP) who are going to tell me to move, Im on my way, one more year till the kid graduates high school and Im out of this hell hole. Should have never moved back to begin with.

Id be down with a Chipolte's since its apparent we are never going to get an OG.

Just out of curiosity- why do you hate Hays?

Hell, I do nothing but bitch on this site... and even I don't hate Hays. I think it's a nice little town. Kinda cliquey and backward... but I reckon that's what you'd expect of any smallish town.

Why do I hate it here? Oh let me count the ways. First of all I was born here and lived here till I was 28. Got married and moved away for 14 years. Why did I move back? Because I lived 3 hours away and my father was dying. Anyway on to the list:
Housing sucks
Serious lack of shopping
Serious lack of variety in food places
Wages suck
Very little to do if you aren't a bar fly
Serious lack of culture, the art walk doesn't cut it
Everyone knows your damn business
Good ole boy network is thriving

These are just a few of the things

The wages and cost of living does suck in Hays. So does lack of places to buy necessary, or wanted things. Recreation is limited and I get tired of event planners thinking entertainment "must" pertain to low end redneck motorsports or tone deaf hillbilly bands. And some new place to eat or drink doesn't sound one bit exciting.

But on the other hand, guns are ok here and local govenment still hasn't decided that gay makes right or that the entire city must observe Martin Luther Day. Political correctness is creeping in, and radical feminism rears it's ugly head here and there, but it is still legal here to be a straight white guy with a gun and not feel ashamed of it.

Ratzilla wrote:

but it is still legal here to be a straight white guy with a gun and not feel ashamed of it.

I meet that criteria, but I would have to look for my shotgun. Perhaps it is better that it remains where it is, but I'd like to shoot it again before I'm ashes.

I havn't been out to shoot lately either. I prefer cooler weather for it. Ellis had something different at this years Riverfest and so did other area towns. An anvil shooter came to town. While that too is high on the list of redneck sports it at least doesn't involve watching one hillbilly crash his car or combine into another. And seeing a 104 pound anvil fly 235 feet straight up higher than the grain elevator was just cool as hell.

luv2cook wrote:

Why do I hate it here? Oh let me count the ways. First of all I was born here and lived here till I was 28. Got married and moved away for 14 years. Why did I move back? Because I lived 3 hours away and my father was dying. Anyway on to the list:
Housing sucks
Serious lack of shopping
Serious lack of variety in food places
Wages suck
Very little to do if you aren't a bar fly
Serious lack of culture, the art walk doesn't cut it
Everyone knows your damn business
Good ole boy network is thriving

These are just a few of the things

Well I can't argue with most of those- although I'd say that most of them are true of any small town. Hell, several of those are nearly as true of Wichita.

The only place where I'd differ is 'culture'. Now you and I may mean two different things by 'culture', but from my perspective ya'll Chermins have a pretty intact culture... at least compared to Deliverance Country where I come from. Yeah, it's kinda hokey and beer-centric... but ya'll have your own music, your own cooking style, your own wedding style, a shared history, etc. That may not be your thing (it definitely isn't MY thing), but I think it's pretty worthwhile for some people.

Hays really does have a way of pulling people 'back'. Not sure why. Some of my wife's folks are from the area, and she went to college there. Moved away for a few years... then found herself there AGAIN for several years while getting her master's degree. After that was finished she was good and ready to leave. I was- and still am- kinda ambivalent about Hays. It's one of the better places I've lived... but that 'small town' thing does get old.

Anyhow I hope you find a place that suits you. I really liked Colorado when I lived there... but it was expen$ive. Maybe I'll move back there when I finish school in a few months and land that Dream Job.

Ratzilla wrote:

The wages and cost of living does suck in Hays. So does lack of places to buy necessary, or wanted things. Recreation is limited and I get tired of event planners thinking entertainment "must" pertain to low end redneck motorsports or tone deaf hillbilly bands. And some new place to eat or drink doesn't sound one bit exciting.

But on the other hand, guns are ok here and local govenment still hasn't decided that gay makes right or that the entire city must observe Martin Luther Day. Political correctness is creeping in, and radical feminism rears it's ugly head here and there, but it is still legal here to be a straight white guy with a gun and not feel ashamed of it.

Yeah, Ratzilla... just step across the Ellis County line in any direction and you'll find yourself on the campus of U. C. Berkeley... stretching from border to border/ coast to coast. Better not leave your little Chermin enclave or them hairy-legged feminists are gonna git you. And the blacks. And the hairy-legged feminist blacks!

Bighead is right about one thing Hays has this way of pulling people back. I just recently moved back to Hays from KC. I learned the city life really wasn't for me. Sure the city had all those different places to eat at and more shopping available. What I learned though is that even though those things were right in front of me I still didn't patronize those places as much as what I do what I visit there. I was back in KC this past weekend and it was great for a couple of days and of course I was ready to come back. I also looked at it from this perspective, if I was right out of college and moved to KC I would have probably like it better but now that Im a bit older I guess that I must be set in my ways and not willing to adapt to the "Johnson County profile".

luv2cook wrote:

Housing sucks

Depends on who you rent/buy from.

luv2cook wrote:

Serious lack of shopping

That's what Salina, Wichita, Denver and the internet are for.

luv2cook wrote:

Serious lack of variety in food places

Population=variety. Try opening one here with limited customers.

luv2cook wrote:

Wages suck

Depends who you work for.

luv2cook wrote:

Very little to do if you aren't a bar fly

Bullshit!

luv2cook wrote:

Serious lack of culture, the art walk doesn't cut it

Bullshit!

luv2cook wrote:

Everyone knows your damn business

Bullshit!

luv2cook wrote:

Good ole boy network is thriving

Not a bad thing if you need something moved and don't have a pickup.

These are just a few of the things[/quote]

I have always found this area fun and entertaining...especially if you have a cherman accent

I like Hays, a little too close to the ex-husband sometimes, but I still like it! Try living in Plainville for a couple of years, then you will appreciate Hays!

luv2cook wrote:

And for those of you in the cheap seats (namely EP) who are going to tell me to move,

luv2cook wrote:

Very little to do if you aren't a bar fly

Here's an idea: You can go fu@k yourself.

luv2cook wrote:

Id be down with a Chipolte's since its apparent we are never going to get an OG.

When they had that little Chipotle luncheon at the armory a while back, there was an article in the newspaper that quoted a Chipotle executive as saying Hays wasn't going to get one. But then again, it was more than a few minutes ago, so you wouldn't remember that. But maybe you could contact Chipolte.

Your posts are starting to remind me of a certain SAC.

Bighead wrote:

Yeah, Ratzilla... just step across the Ellis County line in any direction and you'll find yourself on the campus of U. C. Berkeley... stretching from border to border/ coast to coast. Better not leave your little Chermin enclave or them hairy-legged feminists are gonna git you. And the blacks. And the hairy-legged feminist blacks!

Trust me, with the exception of a few bigger towns Western KS is still very conservative in nature for the most part. And you really need to quit listening to liberal propaganda. I have no problem with anyone so long as they don't try to make me change my ways or give up something for their benefit, or to hold power over me. And that last statement applies to my fellow Chermins as well as anyone else.

The Other One wrote:

Your posts are starting to remind me of a certain SAC.

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You are such an arrogant ass. Simply because I wont bow down to your over inflated ego and self preclaimed knowledge. Its you that can go fvck yourself pal , you're a dick and I neither want nor need your approval points here. You're resorting to 5th grade playground tactics now and really are quite beneath my level of conversation. Have a great evening you self-absorbed arrogant prick.

btw, nice censor whoever did that

luv2cook wrote:

The Other One wrote:

Your posts are starting to remind me of a certain SAC.

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You are such an arrogant ass. Simply because I wont bow down to your over inflated ego and self preclaimed knowledge. Its you that can go fvck yourself pal , you're a dick and I neither want nor need your approval points here. You're resorting to 5th grade playground tactics now and really are quite beneath my level of conversation. Have a great evening you self-absorbed arrogant prick.

btw, nice censor whoever did that

You forgot your signature ending: "If you donot like that you can shoot me."

The Other One wrote:

You forgot your signature ending: "If you donot like that you can shoot me."

luv2cook wrote:

The Other One wrote:

You forgot your signature ending: "If you donot like that you can shoot me."

Finally figured out how to use the cartoons, huh? Congratulations, you're as smart as a 3-year-old.

It really makes me uncomfortable to see such animosity on this forum... and not be involved in it in any way.

Here, maybe this will help bring you two together:

Police suck donkey-dick. They're a bunch of corrupt hired thugs.

No-no-no... not god bless America. God DAMN America!!



Do ya'll feel better now? I do.

Bighead wrote:

It really makes me uncomfortable to see such animosity on this forum... and not be involved in it in any way.

Bighead wrote:

It really makes me uncomfortable to see such animosity on this forum... and not be involved in it in any way.
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Feel free to insert yourself in there anytime as Im finished with my input but Im sure you can give his excellence Sir Arrogant Ass a run for his money.

Do you two secretly have a crush on each other? Shh..... I won't tell.







BTW... Hays does suck for all the reasons L2C mentioned, though I'd move back if my mom needed me. Lucky for me, she doesn't, so I'm looking at Knoxville, instead.

Knoxville TN?

I lived there for a little while, and grew up in an adjacent county. It's not a bad town depending on what you want. But in East Tennessee, the further you get from Knoxville- the stranger the people get (and the more likely you are to run into my kinfolk).



Hays has it's problems, but the people there are relatively sane in my experience. I dunno if a Haycite can comprehend the depth and breadth of crazy to be found in them there hills in southern Appalachia.

Bighead wrote:

Hays has it's problems, but the people there are relatively sane in my experience. I dunno if a Haycite can comprehend the depth and breadth of crazy to be found in them there hills in southern Appalachia.

We've had a few here in this part of KS that might surprise you. From sadistic killers to just downright bizarre characters that might match even the most inbred hillbilly. Though I'll grant you that after visiting rural Alabama I think being peculiar is a way of life in some places.

Bighead wrote:

It really makes me uncomfortable to see such animosity on this forum... and not be involved in it in any way.

Here, maybe this will help bring you two together:

Police suck donkey-dick. They're a bunch of corrupt hired thugs.

No-no-no... not god bless America. God DAMN America!!



Do ya'll feel better now? I do.

I'm disappointed. If you want to piss off luv2badumbass, you need to mention something about personal responsibility and her lack of acceptance thereof.

I'm new to this site, but I am confused about one thing. How someone asking about a new restaurant can turn into people acting like they are kids. Just curious. I hope I did not offend anyone, and if I did please forgive me.

bowhuntn' chick wrote:

I'm new to this site, but I am confused about one thing. How someone asking about a new restaurant can turn into people acting like they are kids. Just curious. I hope I did not offend anyone, and if I did please forgive me.

Because as much as we tried, in the beginning, to keep things on topic, nothing worked. So most threads take a 6° of separation, turn. That's just how it's worked (or not - depending on your view) in the Hays forums. It just is what it is...

bowhuntn' chick wrote:

I'm new to this site, but I am confused about one thing. How someone asking about a new restaurant can turn into people acting like they are kids. Just curious. I hope I did not offend anyone, and if I did please forgive me.

Actually, I've heard within the past week that Hays is getting a Buffalo Wild Wings.

I heard it was gonna be like a Famous Dave's or something similar. I can't see Hays getting anything more than a Subway or another Chinese buffet.

Buffalo Wild Wings is yummy! Nothing better than their Caribbean Jerk Sauce.

suzyr wrote:

Caribbean Jerk Sauce.

Do we want to know what that is?

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

I heard it was gonna be like a Famous Dave's or something similar. I can't see Hays getting anything more than a Subway or another Chinese buffet.

But we need a GOOD Chinese buffet!! That crap on vine just doesn't cut it.

lilchefed wrote:

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

I heard it was gonna be like a Famous Dave's or something similar. I can't see Hays getting anything more than a Subway or another Chinese buffet.

But we need a GOOD Chinese buffet!! That crap on vine just doesn't cut it.

Maybe someone should start a rumor that PF Chang's is going into Hays along side Olive Garden. I know it's not a buffet, but it's a good rumor.

I heard, from our realtor, a Spangles will be coming in on the corner between Carlos O Kelleys and Walmart.

lilchefed wrote:

But we need a GOOD Chinese buffet!! That crap on vine just doesn't cut it.

That sounds like a recipe for another dismal business failure in Hays.

Is "Good Chinese" made with only pedigreed dog? I just don't trust Chinese. Asians will eat anything.

Blech... Spangles sucks.

shucks.

shucksh

It jusht tashtsh better... than maybe a mud pie, but that's about it.