[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Yeah I was talking about Fargo, but it seems I’ve bollocksed my geography all over again. I;ll not be looking it up again, no way, not until you can tell me one Australian town with under 100,000 people in it.
HG[/quote]
Isn’t there some island with a bunch of pirates and inbreeding around Australia somewhere?
Yeah, it’s called New Zealand. They’re not pirates though, farmers and sheep shaggers for the most part. 
HG
Don’t they all have less than that? I seem to remember driving through ten or even twenty towns in Australia, which must be almost all of them, and they were tiny. I’ll bet they still consumed more alcohol than the whole of Milwalkie though. There’s “drunk” and then there’s “Australian drunk”. Everyone knows Americans can’t drink worth a damn.
Spoken like someone who’s never been to Milwaukee. 
Sadly, Miltown, Milwaukee seems to have problems with more than just drinking. 
[quote]MILWAUKEE (AP) – An 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by as many as 20 boys as a 16-year-old girl watched and told her what sex acts to perform, authorities say in the latest mob attack to rock Milwaukee and set off another round of civic soul-searching. . .
Numerous violent crimes have shocked the city this summer, starting with a Memorial Day weekend in which 28 people were shot. Homicides overall are down this year, but two other categories of violent crime are up from 2005 – assaults by 22 percent and robberies by 36 percent. . .
Several mob attacks have taken place in Milwaukee’s inner city in recent years. In 2002, more than a dozen people, mostly boys, chased a man through the streets and beat him to death with shovel handles, rakes and tree limbs.
A mentally ill man died after being beaten and robbed by a group in 2004. Four days after that attack, a 14-year-old boy was kicked, punched and hit on the head with a piece of lumber after he exchanged words with a girl. He was in a coma for two weeks. Also that summer, four brothers were beaten by a group armed with bats, bottles, sticks and socks stuffed with canned food.
On Thursday, Alderman Mike McGee Jr. walked through the neighborhood where the alleged sexual assault happened and talked to residents. He later declared there is a crisis in the city’s neighborhoods. . .[/quote]
nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-G … ref=slogin
Yeah, me ma just told me about the girl. I don’t know what other big cities are like, but that kind of news just don’t suprise me no mo’. Guess I’ve been desensitized to it. One of my dreams is to one day help clean up the place that raised me.
This article is 3 years old but, not surprisingly, it indicates that in addition to high levels of alcoholism and violent crime, Milwaukee also suffers from extremely high unemployment due, in part, to major losses of manufacturing jobs. I expect the problems are not so different from those faced by Cleveland, Detroit, Fresno, Oakland, and various other cities that have seen better days.
[quote]As we approach Labor Day 2003, the economic boom of the 1990s has already become a distant memory for Milwaukee’s labor market. Through most of the 1990s, the unemployment rate for city residents ran below or close to the national average for the nation’s 50 largest cities. Today, at 9.3 percent, Milwaukee’s unemployment rate is over two percentage points higher than the national “big city” average, and significantly higher than the 5.7 percent unemployment rate at which it began the 1990s. In 2003, among the nation’s 50 largest cities, Milwaukee had the 44th highest unemployment rate. Only Cleveland, Detroit, Fresno, Miami, Oakland, and San Jose posted higher rates. . .
Since 1990, Milwaukee has lost 21 percent of its manufacturing jobs and overall job growth has been anemic compared to other cities. Major public investments in tourism and entertainment facilities. . . have failed to produce the job boom - in either tourism-related employment or “spin off” jobs - forecast by promoters. . .
In Milwaukee’s inner city, joblessness is endemic. 56.4 percent of working age males in the city’s “Enterprise Community” - census tracts designated as the “inner city” by City Hall-were either unemployed or not in the labor force. By 2000, in almost one-third of the census tracts in the city of Milwaukee, over half the working age male population was unemployed or not in the labor force. . .[/quote]
uwm.edu/Dept/CED/publication … on803.html
Good luck cleaning up the place. You’ve got your work cut out for you. I don’t mean that in a negative way. I’m sure Milwaukee has many positive attributes. It just has its share of big city problems, like so many other cities, and it’s great when people try to tackle those challenges.
Yeah, me ma just told me about the girl. I don’t know what other big cities are like, but that kind of news just don’t suprise me no mo’. Guess I’ve been desensitized to it. One of my dreams is to one day help clean up the place that raised me.[/quote]
Your mum done did good!
I think you owe it to Milwaukee to return as the freaky judo chopping Hard Gay!
HG
When I went back last Chinese New Year I asked me pops how he ended up in Milwaukee (he’s from “down south.”) Basically, he had to accompany a female family member up there and got offered a job by some factory while he was looking around. Then he just stayed. Guess that would have been 30-40 years ago. A lot of Blacks migrated to Milwaukee, Detriot, etc. during that time I guess.
I always like a challenge 
. That’s why I’m spending (some of) my time now learning about economics, barter exchanges, how to live on less and have more, ekcetra. I hope I can figure this stuff out and bring it with me back to my home town.
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]I think you owe it to Milwaukee to return as the freaky judo chopping Hard Gay!
HG[/quote]
That’s what I’m saying. 
And I’ve also discovered why you leave off the C when you sign posts. 
Ooohoo!
[quote]An 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by as many as 20 boys as a 16-year-old girl watched and told her what sex acts to perform, authorities say in the latest mob attack to rock Milwaukee and set off another round of civic soul-searching.
According to court papers, the 11-year-old girl told police she was interested romantically in the 16-year-old girl, who looked and dressed like a boy.
The alleged victim and two friends went to the 16-year-old’s house, where the child performed oral sex on three teenage boys, according to court papers. The 40-year-old uncle of the 16-year-old admitted he also had sex with the 11-year-old and told police that the 16-year-old was directing the child, the papers said.
The 11-year-old then went to the basement, where there were about 15 males and she told police she “began to choose who she wanted to perform oral sex on,” court papers said.[/quote]
It looks to me like someone didn’t read page 3 before posting that
It looks to me like someone didn’t read page 3 before posting that [/quote]
What the.!?
I’m not sure how I missed that. 
It’s gets worse…the girl had HIV! 