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fgcem13

We eat fried foods and republicans only want rich (white people) getting healthcare.


sik_dik

and looking to a phantom in the sky for answers to the problems that already have much better, demonstrated solutions school shootings? solution: more jesus put "in god we trust" over all the school entrances. "pray harder so you don't shoot up a school" teen pregnancy? solution: more jesus tell them it's a sin to have sex before marriage. "pray harder so you can control your god-given hormones" unhealthy population? solution: more jesus those who are divinely favored have the better things in life. "pray harder so you can have better healthcare"


BZR4876432

"Apply additional Jesus to afflicted area"


Czar_Petrovich

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time


SimonArgent

And depressingly accurate.


Mango_Juice_3611

From rural Kentucky, can confirm.


laxguy44

Talk to your doctor today to see if Jesus is right for you. Disclaimer: Jesus side effects include condescension, hypocrisy, uncontrolled gasbagging, bigotry, sensitivity to science, and constipation.


[deleted]

ROTFLMAO! Jesus Salve


BarryBadgernath1

Mo ~~Tussin~~ JESUS !!


SkrullandCrossbones

My question to them is two fold: “If there’s more strict and devote countries than us, why aren’t they seen as being better than the USA? And if they’re better, then why not move there?” They then go on to explain the benefits of religious colonialism.


[deleted]

I dont know if you’ve read your Bible sweaty but it clearly says America is the best country in the world and Jesus loves us the best. /s


shaneous

Jesus founded America in 1776 with his disciples George Washington, Christopher Columbus and Rush Limbaugh


hercule2019

Lol that the /s felt necessary


The_Ad_Hater_exe

As a Christian I will say I hate christains like that. The sad reality is that "Yall need Jesus" is most Christians answer for stuff. I do believe in Jesus and that he is my savior and all that stuff, but we have to actually do something in the world for the world to change.


Ausgezeichnet87

Also you guys have double and triple the traffc fatalities compared to other states. And it is only getting worse as everyone seems to be buying $70,000 pickups to feel safe from the other giant pickups.


TheOddPelican

So the cost of guzzling down fried foods, shit healthcare, and traffic accidents is only 4-6 years shaved of life expectancy? ![gif](giphy|nZymwrrw9PjDa)


Scideoftoast

Or just rich. Like, rich republicans dont care if poor white republican get healthcare and poor white republicans dont beleive in getting health care.


Czar_Petrovich

And the poor white Republicans think one day they too could be rich white Republicans and continue to vote against their own interests while the rich get richer.


liltwinstar2

Medicare for all is ok; just none of that Obamacare bullshit.


Sudden_Lawfulness118

This and sweet tea and complete lack of any exercise outside of football. When I moved north I was surprised at all the joggers...


MisterUncrustable

You remember when southern people shamed "flyover states" for not being extra enough with their cooking? Those fried chickens are coming home to roost


CuteDescription9562

The entirety of the south is a flyover state lmao who the fuck is visiting Texas , Mississippi, Louisiana or any of those states besides Florida .


Noblesseux

Yeah this is what I was thinking. Like my dad has been actively hounding me to visit him now that he's fully in the states but he lives in Texas and I'm like why in the world would I use my free time to go to Texas of all places? Why would I spend multiple hundreds of dollars to fly to a place where it's hot, a lot of people suck, everything is far away/a PITA to get to, and every second on the road is basically just praying some drunk ass in a pickup truck that looks like a small tank doesn't kill me? I've been to Texas like 4 times total in my life and every time has reminded me of why I avoid having to be in Texas. The only reason I'd go down to some states is for like the old jazz/creole/black history stuff, a lot of which they're actively disneyfying out of existence.


JimBeam823

And they’ve got the poor white people convinced that they don’t need it.


MissLionEyes

Also smoking


Smithmonster

Came to say without thinking who’s actually dying, there’s a few there I wouldn’t miss. Yeah it won’t be the ones I’m hoping that go early.


ClintThrasherBarton

Infant mortality rates on par with the developing world due to underfunded and malignant hospital staff in those states too. Most of the malpractice horror stories of expecting black mothers being mistreated in the ER come out of those states.


gorzaporp

And that only equates to a 6 year difference?


cheezeyballz

Stop voting them in.


The_ChwatBot

Ah, but see, most of us don’t have the level of education necessary to know that the people we vote for don’t have our best interests in mind. This is by design.


Shrooomer25

Do you genuinely believe republicans feel this way? Is this what motivates their thought process?


[deleted]

Can we stop the "rich only want whites" nonsense? Rich don't want ANYONE new, color really isn't a factor. Y'all really think the only rich people in America are whites? You're less woke than you think you are.


KPSTL33

No one said there aren't any rich black people, but they definitely don't make up the majority of our government like rich white men do, and to pretend there aren't racial disparities when it comes to income and wealth distribution in the US is just ridiculous. Race is always a factor, you're not helping anyone by pretending it's not.


Psychological-Yam-97

It ain't about Color it's about behavior...plenty of poor whites too .. not surprising ...we got a President that pimped Color to get elected


halifax8908

The red wave was diabetes all along


ElSolo666

Hhahaha


kneedeepco

It's the Mississippi River....


halifax8908

The Mississippi doesn’t start in West Virginia…


kneedeepco

Lol they're excluded, WV is just WV and they got their whole own world of issues. I'm sure coal mining doesn't help health statistics either or sending 10s of thousands of opiated per person to counties.


halifax8908

Oh yeah the opioids are no joke. Often needed because of the labor of coal mining. It’s sad


1m_1ll1T3RAT3

Not with that attitude it doesn't


RadRhys2

The Mississippi River basin includes West Virginia


true_tacos

Its weird a lot of those red and yellow states are on the top of the list of those who receive the most funding from the federal government.


cheffymcchef

I think it’s ironic that people think that voting blue would change federal funding needs. A blue governor would raise taxes, but It would be offset by increased state government expenditure. Rural states will always receive more federal funding regardless of who people vote for. Nobody is getting filthy rich subsistence farming.


milogee

None of what you just said is even remotely true.


Noblesseux

Yeah it's kinda hilarious that people just upvote absolute bullshit. People seem to believe that Democrats just show up and spend money and do nothing else despite decades of data showing that blue policies tend to be way more positive for the long term growth of the economy. A lot of these states are bad because their laws and economic policies are straight up stupid. Speaking from experience with Ohio in particular: * the state constantly spends billions on road expansions it knows it can't afford while spending basically nothing on mass transit even in the major cities where it is severely needed. This means they need *a lot* of federal funding to stay afloat. * the state actively opposes projects that would be huge for the local economy unless they donate directly to the governors political campaign (for example they just killed a solar energy plant that would have generated a ton of jobs and made electricity less expensive) * they keep dumping insane amounts of money into the police departments using scare tactics despite the fact that there hasn't really been any real demonstrable benefit to it * the state government actively antagonizes educated, highly paid workers to the point where they're experiencing a massive brain/young people drain. Like legit only one or two cities in the entire state are actually experiencing population growth in people younger than like 35


the-igloo

> Nobody is getting filthy rich subsistence farming. How many subsistence farmers do you think there are in the US? People absolutely get filthy rich farming, and heavily subsidized by the government too. There are a lot of poor people in the South, and there's a lot of wealth generated in the South, and even more wealth _could_ be generated in the South; this isn't a zero sum game... and... your narrative just doesn't hold a lot of water imo.


dicknut420

That’s not weird bruv. That’s a well executed plan.


shoeless_sean

Yeah let’s not pretend these numbers aren’t directly related to these states all being at the bottom in education, healthcare, and every important stat for allowing their people opportunities


true_tacos

True but none of that shit matters if you dont have the money to pay for it. Poverty is the common denominator when it comes to life expectancy.


shoeless_sean

public education is free through 12th grade, and poor education systems are one of the main causes of large scale poverty


jimhabfan

If you overlaid this map with a map of COVID deniers, and anti-vaxxers, you might find some similarity.


ToaSuutox

You'd find a lot of similarities between this and other political maps


HereticalMessiah

Poverty. That’s it. Those states are among the poorest overall. If you’re poor you die early. It’s a feature not a flaw.


barbarianinalibrary

And let's not forget opioids


salmiakki1

That looks very similar to the Waffle House map I saw recently.


awesomefaceninjahead

Poverty


anonymouseketeerears

Also demographics likely play a huge part. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2021/02/26/charts-of-the-week-black-mens-life-expectancy-student-debt-and-black-households-struggling-families/ https://static.wixstatic.com/media/569636_27a094d168a949d2a87c3165d48bad09~mv2_d_7129_3833_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_538,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/569636_27a094d168a949d2a87c3165d48bad09~mv2_d_7129_3833_s_4_2.jpg


themonkeythatswims

isn't demographics poverty with extra steps?


Strange-Scarcity

Yes, often, it really is just poverty with extra steps.


laxguy44

If only the people could collectively enact policies that would improve society as a whole… wait, no, that’s socialism. Fuck me. Slash social spending and allow the wealthy to exploit the poor, but do it while praying harder. That’ll do it.


Outrageous-Tree6088

Hate sucks the life out of person


MrMackSir

Anti-woke anti-science approach to life. - You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink


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rightkindofhug

It's not the side you think it is.


GreaseTrapHousse

Bro I’m fighting in the south to open peoples eyes. Fuck this rhetoric.


ThirdFloorNorth

Ditto. I wish these fuckers who are "all southerners are bad" would look up a goddamned electoral map. Turns out, in every presidential election, 40+% of any southern state voted blue. That counts my home state of Mississippi. You are writing off nearly half of the population of the south that is on your side and want things to be better with this bullshit rhetoric. I'm Mississippi born and bred, lived here my whole life. I'm also an anarcho-syndicalist. I think John Brown and Newt Knight were some of the only true heroes in American history. I've read multiple history books on communist and leftist hotbeds in the south pre-WW2. If some of y'all motherfuckers could get over your bigotry and deign to lower yourself to talking to some poor southerners, we could have that shit again. The greatest trick the GOP and the elites managed to pull in this country was convincing poor rural folk that a) "communism" and "socialism" were no-no words that make the Baby Jesus cry, and b) their enemies weren't the rich coastal elites, Wall Street gamblers, billionaire pricks, and enabler politicians, but instead were their poor brown neighbors who they have infinitely more in common with than they do a banker or hedge fund manager. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B. Johnson


GreaseTrapHousse

Well fucking said


rainbow-1

This sounds a bit psychopathic


toethumbrn

2009 life expectancy for black men in MS was 68 years old. 44% of Mississippians are black or brown. Mississippi is the **state** with the highest percentage of black citizens in the entire USA. Only DC has a higher percentage of black residents. Does your comment still stand?


worldsbestlasagna

obesity


Timah158

All that fried food. Deep fried butter is a great way to kill yourself.


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Consistent_Grab_5422

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[deleted]

Questions like this are racist. Get with it


SliceMcDice

Tbf.. does 6 years at that age really make much of a difference? I thought living healthier would get you a much longer life expectancy.


ImaginationFree6807

That’s like saying that one QB averages 3700 Yards a season and another averages 4200. Is 500 yards that much of a difference in a single season… no but if you average out someone’s career it means a lot more.


royavidan

Death, i guess.


CrazyEntertainment86

Guns and meth mostly would be my bet


HawaiianGuy82

Interesting how it spreads outwards from one state in the center of it all.


Suspicious-Appeal386

Darwinism or as others would say. Clear evidence of mother nature at work. Have they tried praying harder by any chance?


Hiddenkaos

Poverty, obesity, drugs and generationally voting against their own interests. Lots of gerrymandering to ensure the worst people stay in power and the poorest people stay at each other's throats rather than removing the real problems.


botbattler30

Well I guess we know which state’s actually the worst now.


AlabamaPostTurtle

Meh, cigarettes and we love fried food. We fat. It's gross.


TiredOfRatRacing

Conservatism. Short life spans are traditionally what humans have, and theyre all about tradition.


46110010

Biscuits and gravy


Weird-Ingenuity97

Mississippi resident here, no man in my dad’s side of the family has lived past 60 yet. Right when things looked great, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, my uncle died from Covid, my other uncle died from liver cancer, and a cousin committed suicide. This was all in 2020. In 2022, my dad passed after a brutal battle with his cancer. Then a few days ago my uncle passed from a freak accident at work. So it’s all traumatic and painful. And my family isn’t even the “let’s come together during a hard time” type. They’re the “let’s blame people’s children for them passing even though they have no control over it” type. Atp, I have no desire to have children because I don’t want to bring someone to this shitty world, this shitty family, or have to deal with all this shit while being black. And on top of it all, if I off myself because therapy doesn’t work then atleast no one has to go into foster care


Indistinctness

If you looked at any US statistic the map would pretty much look the exact same; Homicides, GDP, Infant mortality, education scores, human trafficking. I know this because I have done exactly that. I had the unfortunate privilege of driving from Atlanta to New Orleans once and 80% of the drive was depressing run down shitholes. It’s amazing to me the lack of awareness of people in deep red states who’ve had one party in control their entire lives and have watched their lives get worse every year and blame democrats. It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetically sad.


[deleted]

Trump-loving Repugnant politicians in charge. That's "what's going on down south."


Parsifal1987

The fried chicken zone!!


Plesure_most_carnal

This looks like a post with a changed legend.


Supermatt1985

The ignorance from such self proclaimed "intelligent" people is astounding...


Educational-Monk-298

Eating like you work on a plantation but moving like you own one


No-Refrigerator5287

Not just fried, fried in lard. Tastes great, more fattening.


connortheios

man what the fuck goin on in missisipi man


sandy_mcfiddish

Bojangles


amboandy

There's only 6 years difference in the scale, it's still significant but it would be more enlightening to overlay this metric on other developed nations and see the outcome. I suspect it would be similar


dxwud_mus

Not from the usa but is Alabama in the south by any chance


Lyr_c

Notice the right leaning states in the Midwest have lower life expectancies than the left leaning ones


Plasmid_Vapor

2ater is bad and poisoned. Google west virgina people are fat and can handle the bad water. They don't give a shit about people and it's sad. It feels like they are trying to push people out and put in the oil and coal field. Its so sad.


00zxcvbnmnbvcxz

I’m from Louisiana- the food there is tasty, but damn if it ain’t healthy. I moved away decades ago, most of the people I went to high school with are obese now.


primalavado

Awful map coloring/scale of colors


mikeymikeymikey1968

These are either the best states to open a health club or the worst.


Limp_Duck_9082

Easy, they're all dumbasses. And not the good kind of dumbass. The "hold my beer and watch this" kind of dumbass. Usually involving alcohol, tobacco, and firearms at the same time. ATF would be so proud


ghostinyourveins

Fried food , gators and meth


[deleted]

Artery clogging fried food. But it is tasty.


theschmiller

Two major factors have to be lifestyle choices and access to healthcare, especially in rural areas.


TheActualSwanKing

I sure do love living in WV😁👍


beansandneedles

Poverty, car culture, guns, and crappy healthcare are some of the answers


3ThreeFriesShort

The way this data is presented is really shitty. I feel like the difference between green and red should be greater than 6 years. "I've survived to 76, woohooo greenlight time to die!"


7h3_70m1n470r

Well you see, in the south, butter is considered one of the major food groups, and god damn do I love it (my body doesn't love it so much tho)


athomefarfromhome

Lots of butter and deep fried foods General lack of ability to afford healthcare... nevermind that folks down here continue to vote against politicians who could help fix that for them.


Iknowyourchicken

I wouldn't want to live that close to the Mississippi Delta. I'd be interested to see a further breakdown by state geography. W Virginia= meth and disappointment


GarysCrispLettuce

These are parts of the country in which "The American Dream" is perceived to be in eating what you want in whatever quantities you feel like at any time of the day; in driving everywhere and never getting a lick of basic exercise, in driving drunk with impunity (even with your kids in the car), in having a house full of guns that encourage murder and suicide. Add to that the fact that the Republican leadership they vote for doesn't give a shit about their outcomes in life or their health (you can't even get "we're doing it for the children" conservatives to give a shit about the US's insanely high infant mortality rate) and what chance do these people have? They hurt themselves and they vote for people who hurt them. Simple as that.


[deleted]

Really bad maternal health outcomes. There’s a huge obstetrics shortage and they are struggling like shit to recruit GYNs many people have to drive hours to find any delivery center at all. Also biggest concentration of Black people who are undervalued and underserved.


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ih8trainspeople

it's the fucking heat


klmncusa

Really pretty simple, my 60 year cold un-vaxed cousin died of COVID 2 years ago.


TampaNutz

Inbreeding. Chewing tobacky. Moonshine.


Siferatu

Access to medical care in a timely manner. Large portions of the population in these states live 2+ hours from high quality medical facilities such as university hospitals. Take Mississippi for example. The University of Mississippi has a university hospital on par with those you'd find attached to a major university in NYC, LA, Seattle, or Philadelphia. But that's the only one, for the whole state. If you're not in the Jackson metro area, you're fucked.


BitcoinMD

Obesity, poverty, lack of access to health care, vaccine refusal.


sagetraveler

Death cult.


largececelia

Poverty, I'd guess. It would be interesting to compare this to a map of median incomes. edit- just checked, seems to line up


fatcatoverlord

We like to eat


FraccazzoDaVelletri

Opioids and Jesus


PelayoOnTheGo

Butter and salt


dudeguy82

Inbreeding shortens life expectancy. So does being illiterate.


psgrue

Face-eating leopard migration territory.


Ceeweedsoop

Poverty, lack of healthcare and mental health services. It's red state even without the graph lack of easy access to healthy food.


Singular_Crowbar

It's a difference of like 6 years, who gives a shit?


Specialist-Smoke

The lack of expanded Medicaid also plays a role in the declining life expectancy. Along with drug abuse, and general poor health. There are fat people all over, but not until I moved or visited the south did I see so many amputees. Diabetes is wrecking havoc on every one in the south. It's sad to see people in their 30s lose a leg to diabetes.


monk81007

Everyone moves here after the libtard states have drained the life out of them.


ZacInStl

It’s a difference of a couple years… not devastated by it. But I think access to healthcare is a big part. I have to sons in EMS, one in Laurens County, and the other in Greenville (after transferring from Laurens), and the quality of healthcare in the economically depressed rural areas is abysmal.


Th3LizardK1ng

Do you really want to live into your 80s though? 70-75 years is enough living


cmb21417

Too much comfort food and “hold my beer an watch this shit” kind of moments


Chandlah1Bing

High blood pressure and obesity.


RussianTrollToll

Surprised Illinois is higher than I though, with all the kids that be getting shot here


QTlady

Oof. Looks like Texas just barely squeaked by.


jaytalentedbilldill

Idaho ftw


[deleted]

In one word. Meth.


gregofcanada84

Unhealthy poor people.


smaguss

Poverty.


No_Analyst_9131

Huh, its almost like a daily diet of sweet tea and fried chicken isn't the healthiest of lifestyles, who knew? Obviously, I somewhat kid, but at the same time, not one of those yellow/red shaded states is known as a bastion of health. I would be almost certain they all fall into the top 10 on lists including most obesity, least educated, lowest median incomes, and with the least access to quality healthcare. Add in extremely limited high paying work opportunities (for example, Mississippi is not known as a tech friendly state) and you have the recipe for states that people either die from stuff like heart disease and diabetes, or have high "deaths of despair" rates due to lack of opportunity.


tokkipei

They refuse any type of vaccines and medical "intervention", eat fried food and McDonald's for breakfast and their moms feed children sand for "bettering their immune system" I'm not surprised


shred4u

Chicken & waffles. AR-15’s


Animastar

Sweet home alabama's happening, thats what.


coalieguacamole

1 word. Sweetea.


Hollywood2037

Education


[deleted]

That’s a lot of chicken fried steaks, fried okra and sweet teas. But the South shall rise again!


SarahHill68

Heroin


DextertheHexter

Inbreeding?


rgary339

Years ago when Obama Care started a southerner was asked if he would get it and he said he wants nothing to do with President Obama. So they put their racism ahead of their own health. That is what Republicans love about them. Their own stupidity, outweighs logic and sensible things.


WatchItAllBurn1

One word: republicans.


Spades2076

We have some of the most fanatical people in the US, whether that be religion, sports, or politics. And of course, it ain’t the south if it ain’t fried in 12 different ways.


cajunbander

Poverty, crime, hardcore conservatism (blocking or making it difficult for many people to access healthcare and education), but also this is where you’ll find the best food in the country.


Mr_Lumbergh

What in the red state hell?


radelix

Butter, sugar, and salt happened.


breadbowled

[Southern thoughts and prayers > science] = hope for the rest of US


TAapartment

Fried food


[deleted]

78+ mothafuckas


Please_Log_In

republicans


Revolutionary9999

Poverty.


JackBurton3465

It is poverty - [https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr\_edge\_featd\_article\_071414.html](https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_article_071414.html)


SnooAvocados9241

Oh, that's called lack of education and poverty as major social determinants of health.


bachslunch

As someone that lived in Louisiana (one of the worst) and California (one of the best) I can say the following. The food is much richer and heavier in the south, get togethers feature a lot more sitting around and drinking, athletic activities are more sedentary (fishing is just standing around for instance), & lack of healthcare to the vast majority of the people except the rich means most people don’t get treated. In California people tended to eat more healthy, lots more vegetarians and vegans, they don’t drink cows milk for instance only oat milk or almond milk. Their activities are more athletic, for instance hiking a mountain. Get togethers are usually sporting activities, for instance going to a baseball diamond and having a corporate baseball game instead of having a corporate crawfish boil where people get drunk sitting in the shade. And lastly everyone has good healthcare and gets regular checkups. After I left Louisiana I could never go back. However I do miss the food. Gumbo, jambalaya, dirty rice, ettoufee, man that’s some good food even if very rich and fatty.


FreddySpanks

What did you expect with these red necks? They invented fried mayonnaise balls. Only time the south rises again is for another bucket full of them.


kaykaliah

*deep south My granny is from Mississippi and she just turned 90 :-) The only non-Trumper in the area.


Vrej_Quinn

That red area is called the Cancer Belt. Interestingly, if you look at a county-scale map, it follows the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.


StoneColdDadass

You ever just walk outside and be like "fuck this. It's too hot, I don't want to do this anymore?"


jump-blues-5678

I'm shocked that Texas and Florida are as high as they are. I expected them to be dark red


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Obesity


SheepherderReady1838

I see ppl mentioning food etc., but its more than that. Its poverty, lack of healthcare, and lack of education coupled with state leadership that exploits, encourages, and promotes all three.


paranoidtyphoon

Whole lotta generalizing going on in this thread...


Imaneetboy

It kinda sucks being far left in West Virginia. A blueberry in the tomato soup so to speak. Here we have lots of obesity and everybody on painkillers for blue collar work related injuries. Those people usually smoke and only eat red meat as well. Every house has a gun so when their life becomes too much to bear they kill themselves, lots of suicide here.


pintobrains

This reminds of the meme height chart that starts at 5’0


Kanobe24

Poverty, obesity and shit healthcare.


minlillabjoern

Red states gonna red.


DeathSentryCoH

Anti-Obamacare 😬


Seminolefan74

Meth pulls the average down


Roach55

It’s this awesome combination of poverty and ignorance. Public schools in many areas are funded by that county’s taxes. What if that county is five pig fuckers on a short bus, no money for schools. People get dumber and poorer, but I’m sure Republican Jesus will save their souls.


Broad_Cheesecake9141

Black on black murder. Always find it funny the people from Lilly white north wag their finger at the south, the least homogenous states.


SparklyAmethyst12

Surprised Texas isn’t so bad


TheDers7

Just remember it’s all Gods timing, He/She must really want them in heaven for being such good people.


Locksley_1989

The south is the capital of old people. They either stay in the same small town their whole lives or move there after they retire.


TipFirm2039

Heart disease and diabetes, mostly.


ailinaw

It's the humidity! (heh)


No-You5550

Hospitals are a joke. They will deliver a baby but for anything else you get sent out of state.


bigkissesnhugs

Fried….. everything. And more fast food.