(07-11-2013 03:20 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  So, in defense of SJ, (I can't believe I'm defending him) guys dancing with guys is the norm now? And if you don't like to dance with guys you're a homophobic? I don't know just asking 'cause I don't get the new norm.

It's not that it's the new norm, it's the sentiment of the comment. As if everyone at UNCC is gay and based off of the way he's talked about Charlotte, he's using it in a derogatory way.

(07-11-2013 03:16 PM)meangreener Wrote:  Nice, so SJ, you're a homophobic toolbag, too? You just are the best dude on this forum. Gay jokes, that's so, what, 2005?

When I was in Amsterdamn it was the same week as the European Gay pride festival. I littlerly went into the middle of the biggest gay pride festival in the world. Their were dudes in thongs and suds machines filling the streets with it where they were dancing, 60 year old men in dresses etc. It was a big party with bands on every corner and they had porta potties that looked like a merry go round where you littlerly were looking at other dudes while you wizzed. It's not my thing, but I'm certainly not scared of it or homophobic.

Trodge: I was a "commuter" and some of the topics ring true about school pride. It wasn't until I moved away, came back, and got into the sporting events and now I donate through my company's scholarship matching and also to the athletic funds.

I guess I can see where you're coming from about the diversity of education beyond the classroom in going away to a school and living on campus... there is a piece of me that feels I missed out on the experiences of being 18 and living in a dorm, or joining a frat (), but while I drove around on the weekends and stayed with friends at VT, Radford, JMU, Longwood, etc and got my "fix" while at the same time during the week I was working 30-40 hours a week while attending ODU at the tune of ~13-15 credit hours a semester.

What was the outcome? I had a wealth of experience socially and professionally. That... despite your assertion has given me a much better leg up in my field. By the time I graduated from ODU with all my friends I had 5 years+ (yes, it took me more than 4 years) of experience and I got a great job instantly. A large % of my classmates who graduated with the same degree had 0 experience (or very little) while they made side cash waiting tables, bartending or whatever, got shoveled off to the real world with no job and battling all the other people with degrees in the same field and no experience. 9 years later and I'm in management and preparing for the 2nd portion of my career and climbing that ladder.

Your view on "commuter" education smells of pretentious with unfounded claims of elitism. Welcome to the 90s.

(07-11-2013 03:19 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  

(07-11-2013 02:34 PM)919R Wrote:  Dude, its because Charlotte is a city of 700,000 people. If Greenville, NC had anything OTHER than ECU then you might understand.

Obviously I still like nightlife, so it’s no coincidence I really enjoyed my college experience. My question to you is what exactly did you do in college for fun other than drink and go to parties and clubs, college football games etc?

Most of the people I knew were lucky if I could afford the 50 cent draft beers downtown in Gville and a case of Busch light for the after party while I was in college.

Like I said I’m sure Charlotte is nice really if you want to see pro sport or cultural **** like a ballet or something but most college age people don't have the money to see or interest in those things.

Even as a “young professional” or whatever you would call me now that I have a little money to explore it was nothing special. I've been to pubs and clubs in Europe, Canada, and the US and I usually have no problem finding the Nightlife epicenter of a city. We usually just ask the cab driver. I had a decent time, I'll probably eventually try it again with NN's advice.

I guess things have changed a lot. I never struggled with money in college. Neither did my girlfriend or close friends. I guess student loans are easier to come by now.

I worked about 20 hours a week and made about $200/week during the school year and 2-3x that in the summer months. I'd build up my bank account during the summer and I never had to worry about it during the school year. I just worked to slow the bleeding of cash and extend what I'd saved over the summer.

When I meet people in college that are making minimum wage though, I have to wonder how they do it. I've never made single digits an hour in my life. Even 10 years ago when I was 16 I was making $10-15/hr and everything cost a hell of a lot less back then.

Wow! This thread has gone from commuter schools, to bars, to gays, dancing, parades, and homophobes. Have I left anything out? Yea toilets!

Lets start talking about how UTEP AND UTSA are so fond of each other that they have the same colors and hand sign or about the love-hate relationship between ECU and Marshall. Now that should be more entertaining don't you think.

(07-11-2013 03:25 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  

(07-11-2013 03:16 PM)meangreener Wrote:  Nice, so SJ, you're a homophobic toolbag, too? You just are the best dude on this forum. Gay jokes, that's so, what, 2005?

When I was in Amsterdamn it was the same week as the European Gay pride festival. I littlerly went into the middle of the biggest gay pride festival in the world. Their were dudes in thongs and suds machines filling the streets with it where they were dancing, 60 year old men in dresses etc. It was a big party with bands on every corner and they had porta potties that looked like a merry go round where you littlerly were looking at other dudes while you wizzed. It's not my thing, but I'm certainly not scared of it or homophobic.

Those are their standard public toilets; they're there all the time.

Haha yea, I feel like my reply was completely irrelevant now. Sigh, delete.

(07-11-2013 03:50 PM)mufanatehc Wrote:  Those are their standard public toilets; they're there all the time.

Ok I believe that. The only other street toliet I used there was a hole in the cement the size of a quarter and a slab of concret 2 foot high you peed on that ran directly into a canal. I never saw these plastic 4 pisser any other place than there and you don't generally have to use them across from a dude that looks like Wilmford Brimley in a dress either but it was all fine. Obviously I was joking above but a gay bar wouldn't bother me, just an inconvenience.

(07-11-2013 03:47 PM)Niner National Wrote:  I worked about 20 hours a week and made about $200/week during the school year and 2-3x that in the summer months. I'd build up my bank account during the summer and I never had to worry about it during the school year. I just worked to slow the bleeding of cash and extend what I'd saved over the summer.

That was about the same work load I pulled in school. No way I could afforded bars like at the Epicenter in college though or to go to NFL games or some of the other things a big city like that has offer. Id just say what's really the point if there is an NFL team there while you are in college or the Stones played or whatever if you still had to watch it on TV. That would have been me for sure.

When you start making money I'm sure it can be a real nice place to live, but even then I think a lot of people I know struggle to save and pay the bills early since they are usually just getting independent, getting a nice car etc. I think a person might live in Manhattan or somewhere and have a lower quality of life than 35k a year people in Gville just with the cost of living and struggling to make it.Then I have friends that live in the suburbs of places like Denver and Toronto that hardly go downtown to these places cause it takes 45 minutes by train or whatever.

Charlotte is pretty cheap. I have a 3BR townhome that is walking distance to the city that I paid less than $150,000 for. I'm close tothe hood in one direction, but the other three directions are nice.

I lived in DC for 2 years before moving back to Charlotte. The cost of living in that place was awful. I was very happy to get back to Charlotte. I'd be 40 before I could afford a place in DC/Maryland/Northern Virginia.

Oh look, another thread destined to the Smack Board thanks to SJ.

(07-11-2013 03:16 PM)meangreener Wrote:  

(07-11-2013 01:54 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  Thanks for the info NN, I wish I had it prior to going. I knew if I asked most UNCC fans before I went I'd probably get sent to a gay bar so I figured I'd find something myself.

I don't generally like to do a lot of walking in a city downtown at night that I don't know much about, you can wonder into some shady areas pretty quick from my experience, get harrassed by bums, etc.

Nice, so SJ, you're a homophobic toolbag, too? You just are the best dude on this forum. Gay jokes, that's so, what, 2005?

I took it as SJ knows Niner fans on here are not a fan of his so we would send him to a gay bar as a prank. Not that he's homophobic.

(07-12-2013 10:04 AM)CharSFNiner Wrote:  

(07-11-2013 03:16 PM)meangreener Wrote:  

(07-11-2013 01:54 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  Thanks for the info NN, I wish I had it prior to going. I knew if I asked most UNCC fans before I went I'd probably get sent to a gay bar so I figured I'd find something myself.

I don't generally like to do a lot of walking in a city downtown at night that I don't know much about, you can wonder into some shady areas pretty quick from my experience, get harrassed by bums, etc.

Nice, so SJ, you're a homophobic toolbag, too? You just are the best dude on this forum. Gay jokes, that's so, what, 2005?

I took it as SJ knows Niner fans on here are not a fan of his so we would send him to a gay bar as a prank. Not that he's homophobic.

^^^^Thought that to be fairly obvious.

People are so easily butthurt.

I've attended two commuter schools in my time and a residential college (one with dorms, fraternities & sororities, the whole nine yards). and my $.02 is this: both should be done so one can experience both sides, but may not be possible right now due to a lack of $$'s (thank you Obama & China!!!) in this horrible economy. Residential colleges help transition hs kids to adult life; commuter schools help transition adults to jobs, IMO. I never did understand why more students in four year colleges didn't take the juco route to save some $$'s, but that's just me. I liked my juco experience.

lol way to introduce politics into a completely non-political thread.

(07-11-2013 01:08 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  

(07-11-2013 11:53 AM)CharSFNiner Wrote:  Yea, there's plenty of nightlife in Charlotte. I'm sorry when you came for two days you didn't hit a spot that suited you. There's a bar in Southpark called "Mom's Basement", maybe that's more your type?

How do you get to your "Mom's Bedroom" ? That's more my type

I think I got banned for a comment like that not long ago....

(07-11-2013 01:54 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  Thanks for the info NN, I wish I had it prior to going. I knew if I asked most UNCC fans before I went I'd probably get sent to a gay bar so I figured I'd find something myself.

I don't generally like to do a lot of walking in a city downtown at night that I don't know much about, you can wonder into some shady areas pretty quick from my experience, get harrassed by bums, etc.

If you would maybe listen to TOOL instead of being one....nah, wouldn't help

It's kinda strange to think you're going to get the tool treatment before asking...then, wake up and tell yourself, "hello mirror, I'm a tool so nobody likes me"

Yep, SJ, you know you're the little piggy before you wake up.

Good job ya tool. You still make me laugh!

Commuter school themes are so retro.

Why do some still persist with this worn out theme on these opinion boards anyway? If every school would just fill their stadium every Game Day might it then disappear? What could possibly take its place then?