(It will never stop being one of the most ironic things that has ever happened, in my mind, that Rush Limbaugh used this as his intro music for like 3 decades… basically everything lamented by this song was dramatically accelerated and worsened by basically everything he ever said or did, everyone he supported.)
Ohio’s notable because of the sheer number of people who still live there, unlike New Hampshire or South Dakota or West Virginia or Oklahoma. But its right in line with your Florida and Texas and Pennsylvania, in that its cultivated itself as a lodestone for exploitable ecology and economic activity. And now it has to fight tooth and nail to keep the increasingly irate large public workforce submissive and pliant in order to impose the next indignity.
But their point is that kids literally use the word “ohio” in speech when they need a word that means “cringeworthy, awkward, weird, bad”. Unlike the other states.
Ohio.
Ohio is now even Gen Z/A slang for roughly ‘cringeworthy, awkward, weird, bad’.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/ohio
It is literally a meme how shitty Ohio is.
My favorite, older example of this:
Back in the 90s, early 00s… Ohio was far and away the state that the most US Astronauts came from, of those who made it to space.
Why?
Because Ohio sucks so much, it makes you want to literally leave Earth.
Hey, oh, way to go Ohio…
(It will never stop being one of the most ironic things that has ever happened, in my mind, that Rush Limbaugh used this as his intro music for like 3 decades… basically everything lamented by this song was dramatically accelerated and worsened by basically everything he ever said or did, everyone he supported.)
It’s “where did you go Ohio?”.
No, it isn’t.
You can say this about a dozen US states.
Ohio’s notable because of the sheer number of people who still live there, unlike New Hampshire or South Dakota or West Virginia or Oklahoma. But its right in line with your Florida and Texas and Pennsylvania, in that its cultivated itself as a lodestone for exploitable ecology and economic activity. And now it has to fight tooth and nail to keep the increasingly irate large public workforce submissive and pliant in order to impose the next indignity.
But their point is that kids literally use the word “ohio” in speech when they need a word that means “cringeworthy, awkward, weird, bad”. Unlike the other states.