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Only In Ohio

@ohio-thestate

A blog run by the Buckeye State itself!
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Welcome to the mistake by the lake, Ohio!

Might be slow to respond. Feel free to tag me if you feel like I forgor about something

You can call this blog by it/they

WORST ENEMIES best friends with @maryland-officially

I don't do chain asks*

Let me know if there's anything else I need to put in the pinned post!

for legal reasons this blog has zero affiliation with the Ohio state government

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beetledrink

im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain

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holy-muffins

We’ve made it 5 years folks

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reblogged

You know, rivers catching on fire used to be a regular occurrence.

Boring, even. Mundane. People just accepted that rivers had oil slicks floating on them that could be lit by somebody throwing their cigarette in the wrong place. Cities had regular protocols in place on what to do when the river caught on fire.

The modern environmentalism movement wasn’t just started by hippies you know. Regular people cared about this stuff because their rivers caught on fire and existing near farms gave them cancer and by the 1970s they weren’t even seeing that much economic benefit from it.

If you don’t live in a world where rivers regularly catch on fire it’s because of stuff like the clean water and air acts. A lot of rivers in the US that in the first half of the 20th century regularly caught on fire are now safe to swim and fish in.

A lot of environmental damage is reversible if we act. We’ve got a lot of success stories like this actually. A lot of formerly endangered species have come back, fish have returned to American rivers, the ozone layer is being restored.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen next with the environment but I hold out at least a little bit of hope. Because rivers used to catch on fire and now for the most part they don’t.

@ohio-thestate saw this and thought of that one time you told that story about water catching on fire and I thought you meant in the kitchen

yeaaaa

I'm glad things are better now compared to when that was a common thing

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Silly Game Time: Bringing back a crowd favorite! Tell us all a dumb joke!

If English isn't your first language, feel free to tell us one in your first language! (I'd almost prefer that, in fact.)

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What’s the most common phrase uttered in an Ohio cornfield?

β€œA-maize-ing”

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Silly Game Time: Who are the protagonists of two stories you really enjoy? (could be from any media: movies, shows, novels, games, comics, etc.) (yes, OCs count) AND which of them would win in a game of ping-pong?

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Jyugo (Nanbaka) and The Lamb (Cult of The Lamb)

The Lamb would win because Jyugo is comedic levels of bad at everything except for escaping prison

Alternatively, Jimmy (Mouthwashing) would actually lose against Jyugo, but only because I hate him and probably rigged the game so that not even comedic overexaggeration could let Jimmy win

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My life motto: Be transgender and support live music

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