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re: Why doesn’t the SEC Tournament rotate to Memphis?
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:13 am to JJJimmyJimJames
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:13 am to JJJimmyJimJames
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Memphis is a 3rd world shite hole
As those of us that grew up there, it’s not.
There are bad parts. Memphis’s major downfall were major factories moving production overseas for utilizing essentially slave labor for cheaper costs. As I pointed out, before they split Memphis’s major industrial hubs were in Southwest and parts of North Memphis. Whole communities were built around them. When the factories left, the next two generations suffered the cost. Many homes are condemned with people still using them as squatting spots for habitual drug use.
Then throw in political corruption top-down and you have the current Memphis environment.
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Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:14 am to lsufball19
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I always associated Collierville High School with the wanna be redneck kids (no offense )
I mean, you’re not wrong.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:17 am to lsufball19
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East Memphis is very nice.
East Memphis is fine. I did not find it to be particularly interesting, pretty, or fun. Ultimately my opinion is that Memphis is a city you have to choose between living with crime and living with strip malls. And I’d rather there be a third option.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:17 am to lsufball19
I take it you went to Briarcrest or MUS? Please don't say ECS
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:19 am to Afrojedi
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My kids coach pitch team played Briarcrest back in the spring. You would have thought they were a travel ball team the way they showed up. Two teams coaches almost got in to a fight. It was trashy as hell and hilarious all at the same time.
I can't stand Briarcrest. They fit every stereotype of a Baptist school and they like to pretend they're some elite private school when, in reality, they're the kids that are either too poor or too stupid to go to the good private schools in the area. There's a reason they built their new high school way out in the country outside the city limits instead of building a new school on the existing property in East Memphis, which btw was a complete dump. The way that school was portrayed in The Blind Side made me irrationally annoyed
That whole movie was a fairytaleThis post was edited on 10/21/21 at 11:20 am
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:19 am to DonaldPump
Nashville is better than Memphis in every way
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:22 am to memphisplaya
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I mean, you’re not wrong.
I always thought it was funny that the kids that moved there from up north or out west were always the ones to show up the next year with a big truck with rebel flags and "aint skeered" stickers.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:23 am to LegendOfCobb
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East Memphis is fine. I did not find it to be particularly interesting, pretty, or fun.
the residential areas of East Memphis are pretty, can't really agree with you on that. A lot has changed as far as things to do in the last 10 years as well.
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Ultimately my opinion is that Memphis is a city you have to choose between living with crime and living with strip malls.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. The suburbs of Memphis are no different than the suburbs everywhere else. And you don't have to choose to live around crime otherwise. It's very easy to avoid areas with a lot of crime.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:24 am to Golfer1
I do not live in West Memphis.
I do live across the river from Memphis however. I don't get why you are stanning so hard for a lousy place to live but okay. You do you.
Are you property developer or something? You treat people bringing up the many issues Memphis has like they just peed in your mouth.
I do live across the river from Memphis however. I don't get why you are stanning so hard for a lousy place to live but okay. You do you.
Are you property developer or something? You treat people bringing up the many issues Memphis has like they just peed in your mouth.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:26 am to MACtigers
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I take it you went to Briarcrest or MUS? Please don't say ECS
negative on ECS or Briarcrest. Yes, I went to MUS. I'm just joking on the Christian Brothers thing, sort of. It is/was a fun rivalry. There were fights at literally almost every game we played, and the banter back and forth from the students during games was always funny. Good times. As much I hated CBHS in high school, I'd send my son there before I'd ever consider Briarcrest or ECS 
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:27 am to Arksulli
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You treat people bringing up the many issues Memphis has like they just peed in your mouth.
Here's the thing. Memphis people will talk shite about Memphis but don't like other people doing it, largely because outsiders over-exaggerate every bad thing about Memphis. Bottom line, it's a large southern city with more black than whites, political corruption, areas with high poverty and crime, etc. It's not wildly different than most larger cities in the South.
This post was edited on 10/21/21 at 11:31 am
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:30 am to lsufball19
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It's very easy to avoid areas with a lot of crime.
This right here. You know where youre supposed to be and where youre not supposed to be, i mean its pretty obvious. If you have to be some where you arent supposed to be: be respectful and dont be an arse, conduct your business and gtfo.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:40 am to DonaldPump
All you cats from Memphis.
Did any of you know someone tbat went to the First Assembly of God School?... I think it's on Macon... Just wanted to point out the F.A.G.S
Cause it's hilarious.
Btw those of you that do love in Memphis. Go check out Elena's taco shop and get the California carne asada burrito. Thank me later.
Did any of you know someone tbat went to the First Assembly of God School?... I think it's on Macon... Just wanted to point out the F.A.G.S
Cause it's hilarious.
Btw those of you that do love in Memphis. Go check out Elena's taco shop and get the California carne asada burrito. Thank me later.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:44 am to DonaldPump
You have a deathwish? Downtown memphis has gone to hell since i moved out in the mid 2000s.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:45 am to Quicksilver
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I lived in Memphis for a year+ and it was awesome. Sorry y'all are afraid of black people.
Not afraid of black people but, if you look at crime stats, some black people like to shoot, stab, rob etc. in numbers that far exceed the general population stats. And many of those black people are in places like Memphis.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:52 am to lewis and herschel
It’s actually done the opposite since you moved. It’s booming
Atlanta is worse than Memphis
Atlanta is worse than Memphis
This post was edited on 10/21/21 at 11:53 am
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:53 am to Abstract Queso Dip
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Did any of you know someone tbat went to the First Assembly of God School?... I think it's on Macon... Just wanted to point out the F.A.G.S
Cause it's hilarious.
They changed their name years ago to FACS, but that is so damn funny that it took them spelling out figs to realize "yikes"
But no, I don't believe I've ever known anyone who went there
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:54 am to lewis and herschel
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Downtown memphis has gone to hell since i moved out in the mid 2000s.
wat? Downtown Memphis is infinitely nicer and safer than it was in the mid 2000s.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 11:59 am to Afrojedi
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I always thought it was funny that the kids that moved there from up north or out west were always the ones to show up the next year with a big truck with rebel flags and "aint skeered" stickers.
Nothing says Collierville High School like a suburban kid having a jacked-up Silverado with a Mack's Prairie Wings sticker on the back and straight pipes that never saw anything but pavement
Posted on 10/21/21 at 12:01 pm to DonaldPump
I'm sorry but Memphis is a shite hole.
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