On a scale of 1 - 5 how much do you care about Puerto Rico?

[Anathema]

t was a non-binding vote but they did vote for statehood back in 2012.

Yes, however as you said, it's a non-binding vote. The US should force a BINDING vote with only two options... US State, and unassisted Separate Country. The 2012 vote also included an option for "no change" which should not have been included.

 

[High_Gravity]

A few people who don't know anything about Puerto Rico pretended to care about whatever happens there in another thread tonight.

So I thought this would be a good poll. Maybe I'll follow it up with a thread about if anyone can tell me anything about anything that ever happened there in the last several hundred years.

We'll see...

on a scale of 1-5 my not giving a **** about PR goes to 6

So you care alot about Puerto Rico?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

A few people who don't know anything about Puerto Rico pretended to care about whatever happens there in another thread tonight.

So I thought this would be a good poll. Maybe I'll follow it up with a thread about if anyone can tell me anything about anything that ever happened there in the last several hundred years.

We'll see...

I like Puerto Rico, I am a big fan of their cuisine and the people are nice, I like the ladies too.

Indeed, the ladies are nice. My oh my, are they nice.

As for the cuisine, I was quite the heavy drinker back in the day, and I used to party in Old San Juan and live off those meatsticks. I forget what they are called. Of course, there was the usual jokes about it being dog meat, but that was my sustenance when I was partying. A dollar apiece.

I also loved those "coco frios". Awesome beverage. Also a dollar.

For those who don't know, PR had food vendors along highway 3 (PR 3) who would sell to passing cars. One of my favorites was the vendors who would chill coconuts. You give them a dollar, they take a big green coconut the size of your head out of the chiller, chop off the top, stick a straw in it.

Dee-licious!

I would love to go there for a weekend!

High_Gravity

Don't go for just a weekend. The times I've been there, we've stayed for much longer and its worth it.

Its a fascinating culture and its dying. See its before its completely gone.

Spend time on Vieques. Beautiful, unspoiled, very affordable, food to die for and Bio Bay, which is being killed by global climate change. It won't last much longer.

And, the Southern Cross on a moonless night from out in the Caribbean.

Stay at Hector's By The Sea.

Google all of the above.

We do need to care about Puerto Rico.

 

[Two Thumbs]

A few people who don't know anything about Puerto Rico pretended to care about whatever happens there in another thread tonight.

So I thought this would be a good poll. Maybe I'll follow it up with a thread about if anyone can tell me anything about anything that ever happened there in the last several hundred years.

We'll see...

on a scale of 1-5 my not giving a **** about PR goes to 6

So you care alot about Puerto Rico?

it's south of Florida and I work with a lot of people from there

aside from that, I could care less, but for the effort, I'd have to get paid

 

[Claudette]

As far as I'm concerned PR and the rest of the territories should become their own nations.

Get rid of them all and let them support themselves and save we taxpayers a bundle..

Oh and I could give shit one about Puerto Rico.

 

[TooTall]

I spent two deployments of 6 weeks each time as a civilian Rep with the US Marine Corps to NAS Roosevelt Roads many years ago. Prior to that I flew into Ramey AFB several times while on active duty with the USAF. There were 4 of us Reps that went on the deployment and we stayed at the Villa Marina in Fajardo. I sure did get great sun tan.
On one occasion two of us were enjoying a cool adult beverage at the pool bar when one of the older PR's in group of four who were eating dinner started seriously choking. No one seemed to be able to do anything, so we went to their table and I performed the Heimlich Maneuver as we had been taught in a first aid class. He coughed up a a piece of steak and his color went from purple back to brown.

The next night, the same 4 PR's insisted on taking us into the vil and bought us a beer at each several of the local bars. I can assure you we would not have gone to those bars without the four PR's escorting us, but the beer was good and they were all decent guys.

One of the Marine pilot's was a native Puerto Rican and he told me some interesting facts. He was as caucasian looking as any white man I knew and he showed me a picture of his family. His Mom, Dad and one brother were very normal looking hispanics, One brother was as as black as any African American and one sister appeared to be an Indian (native American for the PC folks) He said most of the families in PR were like that. It was the rule, not the exception since PR had been ruled by various races of people and the same mother and father would frequently have completely different looking children.

He then gave me a list of where to eat what around the Island. Since there was little or no refrigeration at the Island restaurants, the idea was to eat what was caught off the coast at each restaurant. Conch was good one place, shrimp another, and so forth. It was almost like ordering and they would go out and catch what you ordered and cook it. By following his advice, we had some of the best and freshest seafood meals I have ever eaten in the 28 foreign countries I have traveled to.

I am bored, and you probably are as well if you even read this. The one thing that bothered me that a PR told me was about the young people. He asserted that about half of the young people went to NYC and sold and did drugs for 6 months, then came back and got sober while the other half of them took their place in NYC.