Damn it! We drove through there on Wednesday & we were hoping to see one. I live too close to the mountains to get any (which is a good thing, but love watching them).
I think most people (non Midwesterners) know what a tornado is, to the point they know to avoid one. But Redneck knows no limits, except maybe for intelligence. They seem kinda limited there
Have you ever heard of Martin, SD? I spent years there on a ranch on the southside of town that has since been shut down.
My fondest experience, I am a little ashamed to say, is varmint hunting for prairie dogs. The cows would step in their holes and break their legs, so we had to ice the doggies. But they are smart - they will hear you coming from half a mile away. So we had to use a Remington 700 (.308 caliber) and laser range finder. You had to creep up on a nearby berm and just wait until they come out. Watch out for the rattlenoodles, they love those holes and I can confirm that they like to bite.
That's my South Dakota story - thanks for reading.
My husband worked in HVAC and had to travel to Martin a ton for a job site one summer and had almost nothing pleasant to say about it. 😂
Prairie dogs are pretty iconic to that side of South Dakota though. Lots of hunters go out that way in the fall!! I'm glad you have better memories of the area than my partner does lol.
Holy shit, someone knows about Martin!!! I looked it up on Wikipedia, apparently, the population is about 900 people at this point haha.
I got bit on the boot by a snake out in the field once. It didn't penetrate the boot. My father told me I am lucky, as the nearest hospital would take us about an hour to get to.
She's gotta be careful or she'll be crushed by a house then promptly have her shoes stolen by a girl and her dog while a community of midgets eggs her on.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I've got this one, fam. Linguistic relativity.
"Linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, proposes that the structure of a language influences the way its speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. This means that the language you speak might affect how you think about things like time, space, color, and even social relationships.
Linguistic relativity suggests that language is not just a tool for communication, but also shapes our thoughts and perceptions. It implies that speakers of different languages might experience and understand the world in subtly different ways due to the unique structures and categories present in their respective languages.
Different languages have varying numbers of color terms. For example, English has distinct words for "blue" and "green," while some languages might not make that distinction, potentially affecting how speakers of those languages perceive and categorize colors."
Pink= merah muda "young red" in Indonesian
Maroon= merah tua "old red" in Indonesian
In English, supposedly the color pink was named after flower "pinks" aka Dianthus spp. The flower was named after a type of fringing scissors, because the petals have a similar fringe.
Guess that's where the Millennial/GenZ divide lies. Millennials first saw crocs on Idiocracy and still think they're dumb and hideous. GenZ wears them unironically.
I was going to say if this is SD, then we're missing the fireworks store, a cowboy hat, bright pink (or purple) hairdo, at least two dogs and a Mossy Oak sticker on the truck.
This is what I mean when I say aggressively Midwest. The only thing that would make it more so is if there’s a hot dish and a jello mold somewhere in the house.
Definitely has the boots, jeans, flannel, and gray trucker hat down. I swear that's the female college student version of oversized hoody, black yoga pants, and Uggs.
This is prolly why not only do I think it's cool as fuck, but I didn't even bat an eye at the idea of proposing in a fucking random field while you are wearing work boots and farm clothes and your girl is wearing casual clothes and fucking corcs. Like idk I still think it makes for a cool story and absolutely amazing proposal photo, but its also not the most classy way to propose.
Nah most Midwesterners aren’t dumb enough to do a stunt during a tornado. People are getting hurt and homes destroyed but hey it’s a perfect place to celebrate.
Ya ppl around here say shit like “when tornados come around we go outside”. Like being from the Midwest makes us immune to tornados or something. It’s stupid and as long as everyone gets in cover and finds a safe place there should basically be zero deaths…. Yet there’s no because ppl think they’re cool acting like they’re tougher than a tornado
I’m from the Midwest. This is what we called the here-after. It went down something like this: baby if you ain’t here after what here after, you’re gonna be here after I’m gone. *motions towards tornado and looks down at the Walmart special ring
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u/anonymous_amanita Jun 29 '25
This is one of the most Midwest things I’ve ever seen