austintraveler, what remark have i specifically made that seems to be troubling you?

mireaux7, all of the posts that have troubled me about you have been deleted by Fodors. Need I say more?

Red Dog -

It is true, we in Minnesota wear plastic, insulated bubbles from December through February. It is just too darn dangerous to expose ourselves to those kinds of extremes.

austintraveler, i have noticed that you tend to respond to many threads and posts in a sort of cynical pessimistic style, not just mine or reddogs, but any where you can see applicable to respond within that nature, many of your posts still exist, and no, they dont trouble me, i assure you.

Well, like they say, give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves. Anyone can click on my name and yours and read for themselves.

so what are you austintraveler?, the fodor thread police? you simply search from thread to thread for anything that slightly annoys you and request it be deleted? you obviously overlook the right of free speech in a forum. sure, youre entitled to your remarks, i suppose. so no ones opinion matters, but austintravelers, is that the undermine here? wow, what a dictatorship.

mireaux7, What is annoying about the threads both of you start is they have little or nothing to do with travel, which is supposedly the focus of this forum. who cares who was rude? especially since no one was ever rude to you. what is the point of that?

red_dog, you can find historical temperatures comparing the states by doing research. why ask here? Especially because when people do answer (like I did on the Seattle weather thread) you just disregard the correct and honest information you are given.

Cargillman,

Do you know M. Goehner?

well reddog, ive read your inquiry and the many posts associated with it.

I too, like many other fodorites have also resided in Minneapolis. Yes, the weather is quite cold, frigid to be more precise. My life in Minneapolis began in a former life, one where I was a hamster. I dwelled in the cavernous multi-linked skyway tunnels that you speak of. Mine was a hard life. The skyways connected every building within the Twin Cities.

As I scurried about in these tunnels, I fought occasionally with other hamsters who also resided in the skyway tunnels, mostly the fights were over imported Wisconsin cheese.

Times were hard in this arctic environment, especially since this was before the cold war and we were being held in captivity by Soviet cats in these tunnel systems. We were an organzied lot, the hamsters soon defeated the Soviet cats and soon Minnesota was liberated and was soon after entered into statehood. Like the many other posts that are on this thread-each telling its own unique and bizarre Minnesotan story, its a hard life up here. Minnesotans dont move here because of choice-we move here cause of civic pride.

I am sure Minneapolis is a very nice city. But any place where it's a challenge to not get frostbite, just seems not worth it to me.

For example, suppose someone's car breaks down on one of those -35 degrees nights. What do they do to keep from getting frostbite?

Hmmm.. Red Dog, you pose an interesting question. If it is -32, and your car breaks down, what do you do?

Well, given the odds of it being -32 (about 1 in 2,500) and your car breaking down (1 in 4,000) at the exact same time (1 in 10,000,000), it isn't really a contingency that we spend time planning for.

And if lightning strikes and you do break down when it is -32, you can only pray that there might be other traffic on the road, considering it is a major metro area. Or you could buy-in to this exciting new technology up here in Minnesota, something they call the "cell phone" out West.

I stand corrected, you said -35, not -32. But my point is the same.

I gotta go and scrape some fat off of the Beaver pelts. Burning that fat is the only way to keep my family warm at night.

Is Minneapolis significantly colder than Milwaukee?

Red Dog, it is not as if people are going outside naked when the weather is cold. Maybe it is the terrific school system here but we are smart enough to dress for the weather so frostbite is not a concern in the cold.

If you want to know if Minneapolis is significantly colder than Milwaukee....LOOK IT UP. Fodors isn't a meterology site, it is a Travel site.

If you want mild weather all year round, move to San Diego. It is lovely. I grew up there. However, housing prices are ridiculous, the school system is poor, there is horrible traffic and crime and the state (run by Arnold) is in financial disarray. But, yeah, the weather is great....

yeah..californians have done a great job over the last 50 years or so, turning California from the Golden State to the Garbage state..so now they are headed into Arizona and Nevada to live,.to mess those states up,.no doubt

You act as if Californians are different from other people. They are humans just like everyone else. Do you think people from, for example, Maine would improve another state they move to? Just because they are from Maine? It makes no difference what state someone is from. People from a certain state are not "better" than people from another state. That way of thinking is just moronic.

Author: taitai
Date: 03/02/2006, 02:39 pm
Red Dog, it is not as if people are going outside naked when the weather is cold. Maybe it is the terrific school system here but we are smart enough to dress for the weather so frostbite is not a concern in the cold.

If you want to know if Minneapolis is significantly colder than Milwaukee....LOOK IT UP. Fodors isn't a meterology site, it is a Travel site.

If you want mild weather all year round, move to San Diego. It is lovely. I grew up there. However, housing prices are ridiculous, the school system is poor, there is horrible traffic and crime and the state (run by Arnold) is in financial disarray. But, yeah, the weather is great....

you may be right reddog, but i just thought id concurr with someone else who shared a similiar thought.

Anyone who is so concerned about people moving to their state and "messing it up" should just move to rural Wyoming. They can enjoy have no neighbors for 100 miles each direction, and no hospitals, firestations, grocery stores, or shops either.

Then they can live the isolated lifestyle they want.

Infact, why don't they just move to the Gobi Desert? It's second only to the poles, as the least populated place on the earth.