In case you have never seen urban/modern Minnesota...
 

It's not all cows, iron, elongated "O" sounds and the Edmund Fitzgerald!
We have world-class art museums and people who wear cutting-edge ironic fashions and ride fixed-gear bikes. We also have a light-rail transit system (With ONE LINE to avoid the confusion cause by transfers) and wireless "internet connections" at many local "coffee shops."
We also have minorities and immigrants, in case the corn-fed caucasion stereotype is one you myopic children of privilege insist on maintaining in your minds.
The media feeds you shit like "Fargo" and "A Prairie Home Companion," but let me tell you, we have funny architecture and music not based in a folksy ragtime novelty tradition!

Walker Art Center




Weisman Art Museum




Brown people with cloth on their heads:





A fixed-gear commuter bicycle (possibly single-speed freewheel: note presence of hand brakes):

Wow, Geldof has obviously done a lot of good for your township. I hope he comes to London soon and does something about the cracks in our pavement.
In the meantime, I'm off for a festive ritual dance, dressed in traditional local costume:

Post more pictures.

they're called Somalis

I think he was joking.

I think that was pretty obvious.

Yes it was. So why did you write this:


Sounds as if you didn't realise he was joking.

Somalis are a subset of the "brown people" umbrella.
And I found that image by googling "minnesota somalis," for what it's worth.
We have an enormous Somali population here.

Racist.

Pookie, you changed avatar.

Fattist. All the Somalis I've ever met have been quite slender.

beers, steers and queers.

I seriously miss the Twin Cities. Minneapolis is the best damned city I've ever lived in. Dammit, I miss that place and I hate it here.

Minneapolis, to me, was like the best of NYC combined with a small town feel. It was hip and yet friendly, with all the amenities, all the restaurants and bars and music, all the fashion and style and stores you could want. The only down side was the freaking long, cold winters.

you guys need some orange mocha frappachinos

No, raisins are good enough for me.

Miss my quote or ignored it? Because your little rapport is dead on...something....from some...where..or thing....

LIES

your pictures are nothing but a potemkin village to fool the unwary

fess up...

I used to get a day off during the week. My wife usually had to work it, so I would wander off by myself and roam the city. We lived near the lakes area. I'd spend half my day at the Walker Center, go downtown for lunch and the record stores, sometimes go into the department stores just to gawk at the amazingly beautiful shop girls (I swear they were all models), go back to the lakes and take pictures or just sit there. Man, sweet life, I tell you.

For starting as a parody thread, I don't mind where this has gone.
I like it here too. I don't mind winter half as much as the humid, mosquito-riddled heat/misery of summer here.

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so that the people could know that they were specifically somalis, and also perhaps get the point out that I think was trying to be made, " We have an enormous Somali population here"