OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[OrangeAfroMan]

 an R.C.!

Disgusting aftertaste.  I don't know how it ever became a thing.

[Brutus Buckeye]

RC used to be cheaper than the others, but not anymore. 

[847badgerfan]

What is the point?!?

I like Diet Pepsi. I gave up caffeine.

Add it up.

[Riffraft]

Morning drink Diet Mt. Dew.  Get grumpy if I don't have it

[GopherRock]

I can agree with that to a large extent.  The Cajun/Creole thing does make for an interesting distinction.  There's so much of the state that has little to none of that influence, though.  On the whole, your average non-Cajun Louisianan (which is most of them) is going to be more similar to Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia folks, than to Texas folks.  Well.....east and southeast Texas, I should say, because obviously the further into Texas you go, the culture keeps changing. 

I'm not claiming there is a vast difference between Louisianans and East Texans.  Only that the difference is greater than that between a typical Louisianan and an Alabaman. 

I think culture depends a lot on history.  Texas has a very distinctive history.  So do all states, I know, but I mean the origin of and path to Texas statehood is unlike anything in the other Southern states.  I know if you go far back enough, the geographic territory of Louisiana has a distinct history as well, but the culture between Louisiana and the other Deep South states had coalesced to a certain point by the time their history as states began.  And that gives them more of a shared identity than what you get between Texas and Louisiana. 

Plus, Louisiana is firmly SEC!  SEC!  SEC!  Texas is forever SWC.  So there's that

Louisiana was also, for most of it's history, French and Catholic. The rest of the SEC/nee Texas was British/Scottish and Protestant. 

The role of religion can't be understated in this discussion.

https://alcohol.iu.edu/articles/protestants-catholics/index.html

[MarqHusker]

French common law in Louisiana.   

[847badgerfan]

French common law in Louisiana. 

Land Surveying is kinda bitchy in that state. Very similar to the Green Bay area of Wisconsin.

Claims... and more claims.

[Riffraft]

French common law in Louisiana. 

Actually it is French civil law.  England is considered common since it was not encoded like other countries 

[FearlessF]

very common

[utee94]

Bloody commoners

[Hawkinole]

Undrafted Diego Pavia (Vanderbilt) got what he unconsciously was looking for.

[847badgerfan]

Actually it is French civil law.  England is considered common since it was not encoded like other countries

And the lands of the colonies and a few states Westward are surveyed based on common law. PitA.

[MrNubbz]

Bloody commoners

I'm being repressed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAA-G947ofg

[MikeDeTiger]

Land Surveying is kinda bitchy in that state. Very similar to the Green Bay area of Wisconsin.

Claims... and more claims.

Really?  I'd want to know how surveying on the ground is different than mapping, plotting, etc.  It's a township and range state where most everything is neatly divided into squares.  It's like falling off of a log.  

One who finds Louisiana difficult would certainly not want to mess with a metes and bounds state like Texas, I'd think.  If you get a tract of land in Texas with less than 50 directions and distances and three or four markers as your starting point, you've hit the jackpot.  

Reading the field notes to identify and/or map my family's land in Louisiana is something a 5-year old could do.  Reading the field notes in Texas when I was a landman could make you claw your eyes out.