They're trying to ruin my youth with pound town

[EllieP]

This is B.S. I grew up here, graduated here, and now these kids want to change the name of my hometown.

'Pound Town': Local group wants to rename Dripping Springs

 

[LaFemme]

Well, I don’t blame you. For so many reasons.

 

[meningreentights]

Always idiots up to something. It might help if they got a real life.

 

[ronin001]

In the hands of today's youths, a little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing

 

[INCUBUS]

AMERICA! What it once was and will never be again! Gawd what is with all these people wanting to change this and change that! tear down this and tear down that just because all of a sudden people have lost their spines and bow down to the sensitive poor me generation. WTF People!

 

[meningreentights]

Bunch of pansies.

 

[meningreentights]

Maybe, EllieP should go pound them with a brick upside the head.

 

[Squirrel1]

They should be happy with what they've got. Imagine the fun people will have with Pound Town.
Pound Town, where the overweight go to retire. Pound Town, you must meet weight limit to enter. Etc., etc.

 

[Tight_N_Juicy]

I'm of the generation behind this. We're not all overly sensitive fuck-sticks.

I'm not in any way supportive of their nonsense.

I don't mind changing the name of something like a library named after a Confederate asshole... But there are obvious and valid reasons.

This is just a waste of time and effort.

 

[twoton]

"They hope the issue will be on ballots in 2020."
Another reason why a representative democracy is preferable to a direct democracy.

 

[Scarletbegonia]

Geez. Only in Tx will idiot millennials decide to take a perfectly fine name and replace it with a slaveholder’s name.
Pound didn’t want it named after him....

 

[EllieP]

They should be happy with what they've got. Imagine the fun people will have with Pound Town.
Pound Town, where the overweight go to retire. Pound Town, you must meet weight limit to enter. Etc., etc.

Well, it's not like many people, including a bunch here, haven't already had a ton of fun with Dripping Springs.

 

[wallyj84]

I don't see the big deal.

If the people there want change the name of the city then they should change the name. If they regret it afterwards then they can change it back.

Personally I would love to be able to say, "I'm from Pound Town". That would be awesome.

 

[wallyj84]

Ticket person: Where are you going sir?
Me: I want a one-way ticket to Pound Town.

I want to be able to do this. I need to be able to do this. I don't want to live in a world where this conversation can't happen.

 

[Shackleford]

I wanna know how two dudes qualify as a "local group."

 

[englad]

Pound Town sounds really, really cheap. Like the place cost £1. I wonder where they're going to twin with in the UK, probably Skegness or Merthyr Tydfil.

 

[Squirrel1]

Pound Town sounds really, really cheap. Like the place cost £1. I wonder where they're going to twin with in the UK, probably Skegness or Merthyr Tydfil.

Yeah. In Britain they have a store called Pound Land. Similar to Dollar Tree in the States or Dollarama in Canada. Cheap discount goods.

 

[englad]

Yeah. In Britain they have a store called Pound Land. Similar to Dollar Tree in the States or Dollarama in Canada. Cheap discount goods.

I know, I'm from there. Poundland is shit, though I think poundworld was even shitter. Tbh, though Dripping Springs is pretty innuendo prone too.

 

[EllieP]

I wonder if the residents of New Amerstadam felt the same way back then?

Maybe Guy Fieri could start a movement in say New Orleans and rename it to Flavor Town.