As someone who made quite a few trips to Lafayette working in the athletic department at Middle Tenn, that was one of my favorite places to go. Great people. Always very hospitable.

This guy is receiving the most ire but the radio guy made the worst comments,I wonder if he was reprimanded?

I've been to Lafayette for business, pleasure, and sports. I've never noticed the quality of housing, I'm usually too busy looking to see if there is a new place I should try to eat at.

With an odd exception here and there, lot of normal southerners, friendly and helpful, which I can't say for Baton Rouge.

I can find multiple areas of every town/state, that I wouldn't want to live.
And the major weather channels never have a problem finding people (to interview) that don't exactly represent the average intelligence of the area.

We're all in the same boat.

(06-12-2014 09:15 AM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  I can find multiple areas of every town/state, that I wouldn't want to live.
And the major weather channels never have a problem finding people (to interview) that don't exactly represent the average intelligence of the area.

We're all in the same boat.

It was Pandelerium.

I'm gonna say the biggest problem he had with Lafayette was that freakin Bayball team they had down there......

MSU wins in two and he's ready to move his kin down there.

I think what got to him was the fact he got pulled over by the police and probably wasn't treated with the "respect" he thought he deserved. So he took pot shots at the city and people.

it came back to bite him in the butt

This internet thing is dangerous and a lot of people still haven't figured out what you say or write can make it's way from one person to the whole world with in no time at all. People still believe they are living in a vacuum...

but I do believe he was halfway joking about some of the things he said...both said.

If you can't find good in any place you visit then you're not trying hard enough...

or too uppity to see it. If that's the case I wouldn't want you living close to me.

(06-12-2014 12:20 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I think what got to him was the fact he got pulled over by the police and probably wasn't treated with the "respect" he thought he deserved. So he took pot shots at the city and people.

it came back to bite him in the butt

This internet thing is dangerous and a lot of people still haven't figured out what you say or write can make it's way from one person to the whole world with in no time at all. People still believe they are living in a vacuum...

but I do believe he was halfway joking about some of the things he said...both said.

If you can't find good in any place you visit then you're not trying hard enough...

or too uppity to see it. If that's the case I wouldn't want you living close to me.

I don't doubt that played a major part in his opinion. My thought it that it is typical for police to monitor traffic leaving a major tail gating day after midnight. It also didn't help that he had out of state plates on his rental vehicle.

If he was playing homer, he should have said so. Both of them should have.
He may have been upset about being pulled over by the police, the one guy,
but being an SEC homer has something to do with it also. The perceived
superiority thing is alive and well. I hate crap like that.

(06-12-2014 05:09 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  If he was playing homer, he should have said so. Both of them should have.
He may have been upset about being pulled over by the police, the one guy,
but being an SEC homer has something to do with it also. The perceived
superiority thing is alive and well. I hate crap like that.

I have to say that the funniest thing I saw all that weekend was when MS State scored the three runs on Sunday to tie the game the fans started chanting "SEC, SEC, SEC". Then the Cajuns scored three runs in the bottom of the inning and the Cajuns fans started chanting "SEC, SEC, SEC" right back. We never heard the SEC chant again all weekend no matter what plays took place on the field.

(06-12-2014 08:32 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  I've been to Lafayette for business, pleasure, and sports. I've never noticed the quality of housing, I'm usually too busy looking to see if there is a new place I should try to eat at.

With an odd exception here and there, lot of normal southerners, friendly and helpful, which I can't say for Baton Rouge.

Are you referring to people in Tiger Stadium or are you talking about people that live in Baton Rouge? There is a big difference. About 70% of the people in Tiger Stadium on any given Saturday are not from Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge gets lots of visitors in town from New Orleans and Lafayette to go along with the red necks from North LA. Many of those visitors are typical obnoxious LSU drunks that give our city a bad name.

I now live back in my home state of West Virginia but I lived right outside of Lafayette in Broussard for 11 years from 1995-2006. Southern Louisiana people made me feel as if I was family from the 1st day I moved there till my last day in Louisiana.

I have no idea what this guy was thinking. But then again Ive always said Mississippi has 3 million people and 13 last names, which might have something to do with it.

(06-12-2014 05:57 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 08:32 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  I've been to Lafayette for business, pleasure, and sports. I've never noticed the quality of housing, I'm usually too busy looking to see if there is a new place I should try to eat at.

With an odd exception here and there, lot of normal southerners, friendly and helpful, which I can't say for Baton Rouge.

Are you referring to people in Tiger Stadium or are you talking about people that live in Baton Rouge? There is a big difference. About 70% of the people in Tiger Stadium on any given Saturday are not from Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge gets lots of visitors in town from New Orleans and Lafayette to go along with the red necks from North LA. Many of those visitors are typical obnoxious LSU drunks that give our city a bad name.

I've only been to Tiger Stadium once, that was for LSU-UGA with my brother-in-law and had no problems. But the three times I've visited, I've had wait staff that ranged from indifferent to hostile, a hotel clerk who all but said he didn't give a crap that the AC wasn't working in our room, a gas station clerk who flipped my credit card back at me like she was skipping a rock across a pond. No desire to return, I'm sure there are lots of nice folks somewhere there but I'm not going to press my luck.

(06-12-2014 06:15 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  I now live back in my home state of West Virginia but I lived right outside of Lafayette in Broussard for 11 years from 1995-2006. Southern Louisiana people made me feel as if I was family from the 1st day I moved there till my last day in Louisiana.

I have no idea what this guy was thinking. But then again Ive always said Mississippi has 3 million people and 13 last names, which might have something to do with it.

Mississippi is a different place.

I've met some really bright, entertaining and gracious people there but I'm not going to tell you about them.

One year we played Jackson State in Jackson. Arrive at the stadium and the guy handling parking (white) asks us if we are from Arkansas State, we say yes and he says, "Y'all beat the hell out of them today, OK!". Then at the concession stand there is one older white guy and two African-American girls working. He asks me how many blacks AState has. I say about 9%. He says, "Only 9%? Hope y'all win today". Then at a restaurant after the game waiter notices our shirt and asks how the game turned out, tell him we won and he says "Good, maybe that'll shut the cooks up about good Jackson State is."

Weird trip.

But the oddest thing was at Wendy's in Hattiesburg. Someone hooked up the syrups up wrong in the fountain. Rather than fix it, the people working are instead having to remind each other that Coke is Sprite, Dr. Pepper is Diet Coke and so on. Apparently re-doing the connections was not an option they were considering. Then the pinnacle was they had one of those canisters with tea. One of the workers tries to get tea out of it and proclaims "The tea is broke". The manager says "Broke?". Worker responds, "Yep, it's broke" the manager lifts the lid off, looks inside and says "It's empty"

(06-12-2014 08:06 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 06:15 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  I now live back in my home state of West Virginia but I lived right outside of Lafayette in Broussard for 11 years from 1995-2006. Southern Louisiana people made me feel as if I was family from the 1st day I moved there till my last day in Louisiana.

I have no idea what this guy was thinking. But then again Ive always said Mississippi has 3 million people and 13 last names, which might have something to do with it.

Mississippi is a different place.

I've met some really bright, entertaining and gracious people there but I'm not going to tell you about them.

One year we played Jackson State in Jackson. Arrive at the stadium and the guy handling parking (white) asks us if we are from Arkansas State, we say yes and he says, "Y'all beat the hell out of them today, OK!". Then at the concession stand there is one older white guy and two African-American girls working. He asks me how many blacks AState has. I say about 9%. He says, "Only 9%? Hope y'all win today". Then at a restaurant after the game waiter notices our shirt and asks how the game turned out, tell him we won and he says "Good, maybe that'll shut the cooks up about good Jackson State is."

Weird trip.

But the oddest thing was at Wendy's in Hattiesburg. Someone hooked up the syrups up wrong in the fountain. Rather than fix it, the people working are instead having to remind each other that Coke is Sprite, Dr. Pepper is Diet Coke and so on. Apparently re-doing the connections was not an option they were considering. Then the pinnacle was they had one of those canisters with tea. One of the workers tries to get tea out of it and proclaims "The tea is broke". The manager says "Broke?". Worker responds, "Yep, it's broke" the manager lifts the lid off, looks inside and says "It's empty"

Now we got a guy from Arkansas running down Mississippi......blinders must be cheap this month!

Looks like we have quite a few posters in the same boat as the guy who was fired.

(06-13-2014 02:23 AM)WhitetailWizard Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 08:06 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 06:15 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  I now live back in my home state of West Virginia but I lived right outside of Lafayette in Broussard for 11 years from 1995-2006. Southern Louisiana people made me feel as if I was family from the 1st day I moved there till my last day in Louisiana.

I have no idea what this guy was thinking. But then again Ive always said Mississippi has 3 million people and 13 last names, which might have something to do with it.

Mississippi is a different place.

I've met some really bright, entertaining and gracious people there but I'm not going to tell you about them.

One year we played Jackson State in Jackson. Arrive at the stadium and the guy handling parking (white) asks us if we are from Arkansas State, we say yes and he says, "Y'all beat the hell out of them today, OK!". Then at the concession stand there is one older white guy and two African-American girls working. He asks me how many blacks AState has. I say about 9%. He says, "Only 9%? Hope y'all win today". Then at a restaurant after the game waiter notices our shirt and asks how the game turned out, tell him we won and he says "Good, maybe that'll shut the cooks up about good Jackson State is."

Weird trip.

But the oddest thing was at Wendy's in Hattiesburg. Someone hooked up the syrups up wrong in the fountain. Rather than fix it, the people working are instead having to remind each other that Coke is Sprite, Dr. Pepper is Diet Coke and so on. Apparently re-doing the connections was not an option they were considering. Then the pinnacle was they had one of those canisters with tea. One of the workers tries to get tea out of it and proclaims "The tea is broke". The manager says "Broke?". Worker responds, "Yep, it's broke" the manager lifts the lid off, looks inside and says "It's empty"

Now we got a guy from Arkansas running down Mississippi......blinders must be cheap this month!

Remember...our unofficial state slogan is "Thank God for Mississippi."

Nicest treatment I have ever gotten was in Memphis. Last time I was on the UM Campus, I Intentionally wore a shirt referencing Memphis as a High School, walked through the entire student union, and not one person said a thing.

(06-13-2014 02:23 AM)WhitetailWizard Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 08:06 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 06:15 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  I now live back in my home state of West Virginia but I lived right outside of Lafayette in Broussard for 11 years from 1995-2006. Southern Louisiana people made me feel as if I was family from the 1st day I moved there till my last day in Louisiana.

I have no idea what this guy was thinking. But then again Ive always said Mississippi has 3 million people and 13 last names, which might have something to do with it.

Mississippi is a different place.

I've met some really bright, entertaining and gracious people there but I'm not going to tell you about them.

One year we played Jackson State in Jackson. Arrive at the stadium and the guy handling parking (white) asks us if we are from Arkansas State, we say yes and he says, "Y'all beat the hell out of them today, OK!". Then at the concession stand there is one older white guy and two African-American girls working. He asks me how many blacks AState has. I say about 9%. He says, "Only 9%? Hope y'all win today". Then at a restaurant after the game waiter notices our shirt and asks how the game turned out, tell him we won and he says "Good, maybe that'll shut the cooks up about good Jackson State is."

Weird trip.

But the oddest thing was at Wendy's in Hattiesburg. Someone hooked up the syrups up wrong in the fountain. Rather than fix it, the people working are instead having to remind each other that Coke is Sprite, Dr. Pepper is Diet Coke and so on. Apparently re-doing the connections was not an option they were considering. Then the pinnacle was they had one of those canisters with tea. One of the workers tries to get tea out of it and proclaims "The tea is broke". The manager says "Broke?". Worker responds, "Yep, it's broke" the manager lifts the lid off, looks inside and says "It's empty"

Now we got a guy from Arkansas running down Mississippi......blinders must be cheap this month!

Didn't run down Mississippi made it reasonably clear that the two stories weren't representative but if you feel run down all I can say is you live a really sad life being hurt all the time.


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(06-12-2014 07:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 05:57 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 08:32 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  I've been to Lafayette for business, pleasure, and sports. I've never noticed the quality of housing, I'm usually too busy looking to see if there is a new place I should try to eat at.

With an odd exception here and there, lot of normal southerners, friendly and helpful, which I can't say for Baton Rouge.

Are you referring to people in Tiger Stadium or are you talking about people that live in Baton Rouge? There is a big difference. About 70% of the people in Tiger Stadium on any given Saturday are not from Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge gets lots of visitors in town from New Orleans and Lafayette to go along with the red necks from North LA. Many of those visitors are typical obnoxious LSU drunks that give our city a bad name.

I've only been to Tiger Stadium once, that was for LSU-UGA with my brother-in-law and had no problems. But the three times I've visited, I've had wait staff that ranged from indifferent to hostile, a hotel clerk who all but said he didn't give a crap that the AC wasn't working in our room, a gas station clerk who flipped my credit card back at me like she was skipping a rock across a pond. No desire to return, I'm sure there are lots of nice folks somewhere there but I'm not going to press my luck.

I hate you had such a lousy experience when you visited. I assure you that the vast majority of Baton Rouge citizens are not like that. We're very welcoming to guests in our city. All the restaurants are packed on home game weekends, so sometimes the service can get pretty slow, but there is no excuse for pure rudeness. They say that first impressions can last a lifetime, so I understand your feeling the way you do after being treated so poorly. Perhaps we'll make a better impression on you if you ever visit again.

(06-13-2014 07:25 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 07:53 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 05:57 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(06-12-2014 08:32 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  I've been to Lafayette for business, pleasure, and sports. I've never noticed the quality of housing, I'm usually too busy looking to see if there is a new place I should try to eat at.

With an odd exception here and there, lot of normal southerners, friendly and helpful, which I can't say for Baton Rouge.

Are you referring to people in Tiger Stadium or are you talking about people that live in Baton Rouge? There is a big difference. About 70% of the people in Tiger Stadium on any given Saturday are not from Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge gets lots of visitors in town from New Orleans and Lafayette to go along with the red necks from North LA. Many of those visitors are typical obnoxious LSU drunks that give our city a bad name.

I've only been to Tiger Stadium once, that was for LSU-UGA with my brother-in-law and had no problems. But the three times I've visited, I've had wait staff that ranged from indifferent to hostile, a hotel clerk who all but said he didn't give a crap that the AC wasn't working in our room, a gas station clerk who flipped my credit card back at me like she was skipping a rock across a pond. No desire to return, I'm sure there are lots of nice folks somewhere there but I'm not going to press my luck.

I hate you had such a lousy experience when you visited. I assure you that the vast majority of Baton Rouge citizens are not like that. We're very welcoming to guests in our city. All the restaurants are packed on home game weekends, so sometimes the service can get pretty slow, but there is no excuse for pure rudeness. They say that first impressions can last a lifetime, so I understand your feeling the way you do after being treated so poorly. Perhaps we'll make a better impression on you if you ever visit again.

Dude, you may be a cool cat, but no one who has ever experienced Baton Rouge for any length of time has enjoyed it. Especially when you compare it to the North Shore, New Orleans or Lafayette.

I lived right outside of BR for 2 years and hated it, I've lived in Metarie and it was ok, but nothing comes close to Lafayette.