Let me be the first to say, good. bye.

"In the immediate wake of Election 2004, I was studying in Geneva and doing a lot of traveling."

"It is becoming clear that poor kids, like me, will soon not be able to afford to attend college in Ohio."

Both of these sentences came from her diatribe.

What a tool.

I love it. Here is a college student, studying abroad and traveling, who complains that in the future college will be too expensive for "poor kids like me". What a f*cktard. Get the hell out of my state.

Posted w/out reading your's Harrison. Great minds think alike, and so do we.

Sounds to me like Mommy and Daddy finally cut off her allowance and she's railing against the SYSTEM.

I'll second those sentiments, Pupster.

I do though disagree with the end of the linked post that that twit represents the end result of a public education and studying in Europe. I went to public school in K-12 and did a study abroad program in Belgium while in college and I didn't end up like that. But then again, I'm an American and not a wannabe-European.

I don't see how anyone walking around Europe could possibly be embarrassed for being an American. As far as I could tell, Europe, even Western Europe, is poorer by any reasonable standard than America and less open and less free than the US. It's harder to start a business, more expensive to buy groceries or eat at a restaurant and more difficult to save and investment than in the US. It is nice seeing buildings several centuries old, and the aesthetic touches on the newer stuff are pleasing, but I can't think of any general, practical reason to be there instead of here.

Not only an America-hater, but an Ohio-hater to boot. Ungrateful trollop!

Hear, hear, JohnO!

Hey...waitaminute...

Glad she is leaving our state, too.

Notice the rampant racism in her diatribe? "Corn-fed white boys?" You know, my three young children are quite literally, corn-fed white boys, and I don't take kindly to her characterization lumping them in the same breath as the KKK.

Good riddance.

Dear God,

Please don't let this freak come to Oregon. We're bad enough off as it is.

Amen.

Cripes, that's some terrible writing. Even for a college newspaper. Poor sentence construction, terrible grammar and overwrought prose. It reads more like the diary of a hyperemotional 12-year old girl than the essay of a college student.

It is not the polluted air, the lack of entertainment options, the poor location, the horrible weather or the humble-looking people [my emphasis] who entice residents to stay.

WTF??
Methinks she has felt superior to the people of her state for a lot longer than just a year.

Interesting. The author, Erin Roof, appears to go to Kent State University, where I work, even though the link goes to the Bowling Green State University newspaper. For more of Erin Roof's ramblings, go here.

Pure comedy gold. Let's look at some of her previous insights:

As I sat in the bath, I felt jaded and ripped-off. The holiday did not live up to the hype I set for it. I was not drunk enough, maybe. Nor was I pretty enough or funny enough.

Poor me.

I need to stop expecting so much from myself. After I graduate, will I cry if I don’t get the best job possible? Will I fall apart if I am not where I told myself I wanted to be 10 years from now?

My life sucks.

If the crime rate is going down, why is it that the number of federal prisoners has increased 90 percent in the last decade, according to the 2004 figures of the Bureau of Justice Statistics?

Calling Fox Butterfield. Also, what do the number of federal prisoners have to do with the overall crime rate?

We even lock up mentally ill people. A recent report by The Sentencing Project, a prisoner advocacy group, found there are more than 23,000 mentally ill inmates in the United States.

The horror!

Reading her stuff makes her sound like one of those perpetually depressed 20 year olds. She'll get over it in a couple years.

Two years from now, when she has her first real job, she'll get her first paycheck and wail "Who is FICA and why is he taking my money!"

By age 30, she'll be to the right of LaShawn.

I was not drunk enough, maybe. Nor was I pretty enough or funny enough.

And now that she's twenty, it's all downhill from here. Physically speaking.

But there's no reason for her to diss her own comedic skills. That rant was pure gold.

My governor is funny.

If she goes to Kent State she could be living in Geneva, Ohio which ain't far. It does sound like she's at least trying to imply she was overseas.

She needs to bump into Klein when she's all bloated from her period and there should be sharp instruments around as he mercy kills the last of her self-esteem. Christ, I'd pay to see it.

"I was not drunk enough, maybe. Nor was I pretty enough or funny enough."

Well, see that's the problem right there. It's not how drunk SHE was, it's how drunk the other guys are that will make her prettier and funnier. As we say in Cincinnati, "The more Hudy's (Hudepohl Beer), the more beauties."

I won't lie: I didn't understand that at all.

As it happens, I'm from Cincinnati and studying in England at the moment. I'm not really sure how an American can spend any amount of time in Europe and think to themselves, "If only we had this sort of inconvenience and lack of options back home."

How bout a little theraputic slack guys? May I propose pairing "lil lost esteem" w Ms. Dowd for a week in Nevada within walking distance of the Stud Farm? We accept credit cards.

Could be a two-fur or maybe the ladies will enlist in Dykes on Bikes.

Either way, problem arbitrated and Ohio can remain in the Union!

Ohio is the most embarrassing state to come from.

Apparently she's never heard of Mississippi. I also like that there are "acceptable answers" when europeans ask you what state you are from. Is the state of kiss my ass acceptable?

It's not my fault I was born in Ohio either. I just assume it was a wonderful, wonderous gift from God.

Or maybe it was my fault. Perhaps in a past life, I singlehandedly saved an entire village from a horde of pillaging Vikings, and that was my reward.

I have to wonder, though, what Ohio ever did to deserve whiny, stupid twits like her.

Grr. Didn't realize Harry called her a "twit" too. I was just wanted a different, more fun word than "bitch."

A few people noticed that this "poor kid" was apparently traveling through Europe in November of last year. Nobody mentioned this, though:

Once I receive that meaningless piece of fancy paper next year, I am actually thinking about leaving the states altogether. Hmm...Hello, Ibiza! Wait for me!

Don't forget to renounce your citizenship, dear!

Once I passed that conversational hurdle, I always dreaded the follow-up question,
“Which state?”
See, there are some acceptable answers.
It would be OK to say I am from California, New York, Vermont or even North Dakota. Hell, what has North Dakota ever done to anybody? But Ohio...?
“It is not my fault I was born in Ohio!” I wanted to scream as I would run into the middle of the street and shake my fists at the sky.
yeah, as if any of those eurotrash poseurs knows where ohio is, let alone that it's a red state.

Oh yeah, she also mentions "the rapid KKK." Now, I've lived in Ohio my entire life and I have never met, nor even seen, a KKK member in person. Where the hell does she hang out?

Damn it, I meant "rabid," not "rapid."

Loose shit.

When she leaves the US, all us Texans will be saying "Adios, Mofo!"

Oh yeah, she also mentions "the rapid KKK." Now, I've lived in Ohio my entire life and I have never met, nor even seen, a KKK member in person. Where the hell does she hang out?

Posted by Jason at December 9, 2005 01:50 PM

Well, Jason, she did mention all those "corn fed white boys."

Where there are corn fed white boys, there is crossburning fire.

She is not allowed in Michigan. Ann Arbor is embarrassing enough.

> If she goes to Kent State she could be living in Geneva, Ohio which ain't far.

That was my first thought, until she started mentioning the people who wondered what country she was from. Then again, she may have been talking about her visit to the Medieval Faire.

> Now, I've lived in Ohio my entire life and I have never met, nor even seen, a KKK member in person.

Supposedly Lodi used to be crawling with 'em. I don't know of any now -- but then again, I guess that was the whole point of the hoods...

She should be embarrassed for not realizing that Europeans KNOW she's American from her accent.

Anyone not proud to announce she's American should live elsewhere. If she can't apprecitate what we have, she doesn't deserve to live here.

Cripes, that's some terrible writing. Even for a college newspaper. Poor sentence construction, terrible grammar and overwrought prose. It reads more like the diary of a hyperemotional 12-year old girl than the essay of a college student.

It's as bad as a U2 Christmas song.

But there you have it - this is pretty sympatico with my college newspaper a decade ago. There's your government funded schools at work.

Ted Rall's from right here in Dayton.

Anyway, wherever she goes, she'll probably raise the average IQ ever so slightly there, and in Ohio too. (Old Joke)

Glad you liked the link!

This kid is MoDowd's replacement. I could understand her vetching if she was from Youngstown, Oh.. That place is scarey.

Looks like the BUCKEYE states turning red bad news for the dems

Guess What? Poor kids like Erin have the ability to study abroad because of a crazy concept you fascist pigs try to take away from us called student loans. Oh, and spongeworthy, if you ever so much as think such a repulsive thought about my girl ever again , i'll fuckin kill you. If you feel like flexing nuts over it, come to kent and i'll teach you to mind your fuckin mouth. if not, then just shut the fuck before i take some sharp instruments to your stupid face.

I tried to tell these guys that, Glynn, but for some reason it kept coming out as "Do me where I poop."

And they did. Boy howdy, they did.

Glynn, it took you 17 days to think of that cowardly, anonymous threat?

"...a crazy concept you fascist pigs..."

I love the use of fascist pigs - kind of old fashioned. Sort of like when you watch an old movie and they call cops "flat foots".

Glynn: Even though you're a dickless, internet coward I'll give you some advice that might save your life. Get one last piece of good-bye ass from your girlfriend and then run away as quickly as you can.

BTW, dbs is 6', 280lbs and has a concealed carry permit, so feel free to come by and kick my okie ass anytime. I've had turds tougher than you.

I love the use of fascist pigs

I like 'running dog imperialist' or 'running dog imperialist lacky.' Either's pretty cool.

I think I'm going to make a concerted effort to reference "the proleteriat" regularly. However, to prove I'm non-partisan, I'm also going to call people "reds", "Trotskyites", etc.

If anybody wants to read some more crappy writing by Erin check out the following:

http://www.stater.kent.edu/stories_old/04spring/3304/concerned%20coffee.asp

Here's a taste "Ever since Starbucks opened its corporate jaws upon Kent...".

It is all so predictable...

"It’s finals time again. That means it’s the season to watch cops and students do the sacred billy club dance as people serenely drinking beer on their porches get hauled away by riot police. It’s also time for cops to remember the sweet, sweet sensation of crashing protesters’ faces into bus windows and throwing them down onto the streets. Ahh, yes, it is spring!"

Hmm... internet cowards? seems to me like all you degenerate, inbred, redneck douchebags started the trend... I'm merely riciprocating the hate. Anonymous? i posted my name and email address, unlike you. fuckin hypocrite. You slow country folk need me to start using smaller words that you can understand? must be nice to live in denial and have such a narrow world view. narrow, but not as narrow as your puny, unthreatening excuses for dicks.

Tuesday is Troll Day!

Hey Glynn, how about you learn to fucking spell before attempting to call others "slow," okay?

Poor kids like Erin have the ability to study abroad because of a crazy concept you fascist pigs try to take away from us called student loans.

. . . and this is at the heart of the perceptual differences of the left and right. You believe that it is perfectly legitimate to take the money resulting from somebody else's labor so that you can study abroad. We believe that, in a moral sense, that is flagrant theft in support of a gratuitous cause.

Student loans are a benefit, not a right. We don't 'take away' the benefit, we just stop giving it.

If you feel like flexing nuts over it, come to kent and i'll teach you to mind your fuckin mouth.

Whoa. I hadn't even noticed that first comment.

What the hell does "flexing nuts" mean?

Sounds painful if you ask me.

What the hell does "flexing nuts" mean?

Yeah, she seems unclear on some fundamental anatomy. I thought she was kidding about being Erin's lesbian lover, but apparently she's completely serious. Check this out:

but not as narrow as your puny, unthreatening excuses for dicks.

So normally she finds dicks 'threatening.' Hey, maybe if she finds us unthreatening, she'll let us watch. Hot, dorky, wasted-education, girl-on-girl action!

...your puny, unthreatening excuses for dicks.

What man would use such phraseology?

The answer is a homosexual, or a woman.
Glynn is probably a homo. And he further proves my theory: In the end, it's all about the penis and rebellion towards the authority (phallic) figure.

What man would use such phraseology?

A man who just saw Dick Cheney naked and feels inadequate in comparison?

Actually, dipshit, I was hoping she'd use the sharp instrument on Klein after he does a number on her self-esteem. But if you're not up on the joke you couldn't be expected to know that.

There's a lesson in there about assuming the worst of others when you're new. You could look like a jackass!

And I assure you I'd be about the last guy you'd ever threaten to his face so Internet threats mean less than nothing to me.

You've got some good advice here--pop her once in the stinky starfish and give her her walking papers. She's a kook.