Two fine choices. I also recommend Pappys. Their pulled pork is top notch. I've been to missouri mike's once. Fifteen dollars for a takeout sandwich and side that were gone in five minutes. It was mediocre and I was still hungry. All douchebaggery aside I'm not sure how they're still around.

Any idea where there's tango dancing around here? It is a lot of fun and I used to enjoy it, but the place I used to go (steo by step) doesn't seem to do it anymore. The teacher is still taking covid precautions I think.

I dunno... do you enjoy the comedy of nick offerman?

Totally unrelated to the dog, sweet looking pupper btw, but if they need help with diapers;

https://ccozarks.org/programs/diaper-bank/

Always seemed to me that most violent crime in Springfield is downtown or along a western corridor around scenic and bypass. And I assure you the problems on the west side extend further south than grand.

You apparently don't work in manufacturing or tech. With the exception of jack Henry and part of SRC, virtually all of that is on the north side. The south side is more retail and medical than industry. You dont build factories where the money is. You build them where the skilled workers are. Nobody wants to put a science lab next to southern hills where the rich old maga farts live. They want it next to a university full of younger, more educated workers. I know from experience, it's where we're building ours.

Personally I find the weekly 'north side is full of poors so dont go north of...'' posts reassuring. It's nice to know the people who think this stuff will never be my neighbor.

You never left your own school district? That's kind of boring.

When your name is ShartsvilleDestroyer you just have to get used to being a sex symbol.

This. I had an injured hawk seek refuge in my house once. Animal Control took him to the zoo vet.

I grew up with friends that didn't celebrate holidays, or didn't celebrate the same holidays. They were happy to get paid double time. Even now I have a coworker who chooses to work Thanksgiving week while we're off, she collects overtime, then takes NEXT Thursday off instead.

None of these things is fiscally sensible. They're astroturfing Cooper Park over the winter at a cost of 25 million. They want to bring in big soccer tournaments. What it will really do is wreck the neighborhood for people that live there and wreck a really nice park and probably wreck some children's knees. We aren't all about the smart thing in this country. Right now there's a lot of unspent covid money and debt be damned, we're going to find stupid things to spend it on. Personally I'd prefer the greenways trail to a plasticized park, but over the years I've only found one of the trails to be uncrowded enough to be useful at all. I would bet most of them get way over 100 users a day.

Car wash, but with a vape shop at the beginning, an Asian massage while you go through, and some cashew chicken waiting at the end. Most Spfd business ever.

I've always felt Drew Carey never got the credit he deserved for popularizing the concept of coffee beer on his show in the nineties. I'm sure it existed somewhere before then but not in popular culture. Then along comes the Drew Carey show with Buzz Beer, the beer that'll keep you awake to get drunk longer. And next thing you know every microbrewery has a coffee stout.

The American Legion reminded me of the Junebug Jamboree. It's a big VW festival held there every year in June. Lots of bugs, dune buggies, micro buses on display and competitions. Last time I went they had a slow drag race. VW Bugs went up against each other to see who could drive 50 yards the slowest without using their brakes. Also it goes along with the botanical gardens, the Japanese Stroll Garden is a pretty cool little place. Especially during their fall festival. Riding bikes on the greenways trails is a fun way to spend the day too. Or if a person is into mountain biking and sailing, Fellows Lake has both of those things now. I'm a huge fan of the Route 66 festival in August. Great live music and cool cars on display. Pretty good list, I've been here over forty years and I'm seeing some things I need to try.

Edit: wanted to mention Thriller on C-Street every October. Pretty fun, though like a lot of those other events I mentioned it's a one day only thing.

Or catch a live band. During summer they have live music on Wednesdays at lunch and on Artwalk Fridays they have bands while painters work on pieces live for the crowd. It's pretty fun.

And some rasslin'.

Hopefully the foot bridge will be back in a few years. My understanding is that the refurbishing came in more than they had budgeted so they're looking around for more funding. But on the plus side, when it's completed it will have elevators for wheelchair accessibility and will be way safer than what it used to be. It was fun, but it was getting sketchy by the end.

I assumed the same.

Solid list. I'd like to add Fun Acres mini golf for the old school crowd. Also Millsap Farms pizza nights in warn weather, and I think they do some art and pottery classes in cold weather now. Roller derby is a blast. Airport Raxeway has dirt car racing in summer. Miller Missouri down the road has skydiving, airplane rides, and a cool aviation themed restaurant. Can't remember if Nature Center was on the list, but it's always fun.

I'm the same. I get attached. Haven't sold a car since parting ways with my crx in the late 90s. An ex pressured me into it and the del sol I bought after it was nowhere near as good. And I die a little every time i see an old bronco at a car show. Bought my 71 back in high school when they were still cheap, sold it a few years later. No way i could afford one again. Now i keep them forever or until someone hits me. My D16 was in fine shape last i started it but that was over a year ago. Im afraid of how it might smoke now. Thought about a turbo too but I think now that car might just syay NA, get some suspension and brake upgrades and a new timing belt and turn into a rally crosser. My issue is always more about time than money. That all being said, I keep old cars but also have a reliable daily driver. If it came down to spending 6k on an engine rebuild to keep driving to school and work I'd bite the bullet and find something reliable for cheap. There are decent, albeit less fun cars in the 5k range and a car loan is way more affordable and attainable than an unsecured personal loan.

The people in this group are who we're talking about. It's weird to watch the group think reverse course.

It seems like any other day, this group wants more mass housing in walkable neighborhoods. Except just not their neighborhood?

We did fight it in my neighborhood. We just didn't have the means to take it to court or get it on a ballot. But we went to zoning meetings and it didn't matter. In my parents neighborhood a developer actually tore the windows and doors off the houses and told them they wouldn't finish demolition until the zoning change was approved.

I remember reading that comment and its when my no became a yes for sure.

I get that second thing. I wavered back and forth a bit at first and that might not have happened if it weren't about luxury apartments. But then again I think the neighborhood would have opposed it even more vigorously in that case. It just had a NIMBY feel to it from the beginning. Plus, they bought their houses when there was an active gravel quarry, I remember how loud and dusty that neighborhood used to be. So the argument that it would ruin their neighborhood seemed kind of hollow to me. Really this group and some of these discussions affected my opinion. I saw people talking about how this sort of thing didn't belong on that end of town and I kept wondering why it wouldn't. They put all that work into making it a walkable, inviting neighborhood and it seemed like they were now shutting it down for new people. I really am happy for the residents, now hopefully they'll carry some of that goodwill into my neighborhood when soccer season comes back and maybe they'll keep in mind that people live there who need to get around and don't enjoy old socks and trash all over the park. Hopefully.