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  • I grew up in Minnesota (Uff-da!) which is next to Both of the Dakotas and has the same

    fierce winters, mosquitoes, etc. Now I live in Los Angeles.

    Los Angeles has better weather. The Mid-West has nicer people.

    Dave Barry grew up in New York. He's probably familiar w/ pretty cold weather. In

    any case IMHO he's America's greatest humorist. Certainly the most prolific.

  • How are the jobs up there? Has it died down or are they still hiring like crazy around Williston in the Oil Fields?

  • i have to admit i live in north dakota an its BORING AS HECK i cant wait till im older im living in oregon

  • Haha this is funny. I live in grand forks and have never heard of that building before though, hmmm maybe I should check it out.....

  • I got a good laugh from this video. He is really funny. I live in ND, Fargo to be exact. I love my state. It is cold in the winters though. It's suppose to get down to -22 below. Burrr!!!! Hey people, just in case you want to visit our state, don't be shy. Pick your season, we have 4 of them. I personally like all 4. The winter may be cold, some days more than others, but there is plenty in winter to do.

  • I live in ND, I can laugh at this. But, be careful, we LOVE our state!!

  • Wow this guy can take his bad jokes and his ego and shove it up his fat ass

  • LMAO! I lived in North-by-God-Dakota for 2 yrs while stationed at Grand Forks AFB - H O L Y C R A P - nearly a 200 degree tempurature range (over a 100 in summer, all 2 days of it, and -85 at worst in the 9 months of winter). And pretty women? Sorry, they're mostly corn-fed husky women to keep warm "a doncha kno?" Then when it does get warmer, mousquitos from hell actually swarm your car, then later flys that carry away small kids & animals, & young kids going crazy with nothing to do!

  • I love Youtube comments. They prove that I am not the dumbest person in the world, and this is quite a relief.

  • I live in Chester, next to West Chester :O

  • North Dakota Rules,we don't have the horrible recession that the rest of the nation has, and if you like winter, it is half the year....

  • @wulfmanscadillac

    If memory serves me correctly, it's October to late May, right?

    That'd be over half the year. Grass? What's grass?

  • @wulfmanscadillac half the year???????? you sure about that i believe its about 75% of the year.

  • north dakota is awesome, we aren't in a horrible recession like the rest of the US. Love it here!

  • Don't understand what there's to make fun of...great place with great people! And YES...the girls are beautiful!

  • @Terrapin7171

    Just don't go to wal-mart.  Ugh.

  • -20, thats noothing

  • That's funny. And ND is awesome. -20 below is kid stuff but that's okay, he's from south of us.

  • ND IS AWESOME

  • Go to hell you bastard.... Go to hell

  • dont make fun of us you ass monkey!!!

  • You could make the same jokes about South Dakota. But love SD and think it is a great place to live.

  • north dakota is the shit <3

  • Go N.D.! X3 Ilove this state so much, and a good thing about it is that there are only awesome people here! And the land is so beautiful it makes me wanna shed a tear or two. :'D

  • Excuse me my spelling was off. dingle barry.

  • His name should be Dingell berry

  • North Dakota is a great place to live if: 1, you have uncles named Ole and Sven;

    2, you hear a weatherman say that tomorrow will be "warming up" to zero degrees; 3. you think that bratwurst, beer, pizza, and lutefisk are the Four Major Food Groups; 4. you think anyone who talks without that lilting Northern Plains dialect is someone who "talks funny" 5. you believe farmers and ranchers are pure and business owners are evil and corrupt and 6. you wonder why anyone would move to your state

  • haha yep. just us hicks up here in nd with all these fancy internet gadgets.

  • I live in Grand forks North dakota, This video was really funny lol I think everyone needs to stop being so uptight.

  • i really wish people would stop making fun of north dakota because there are people here. we may not have a lot of people but we have more than wyoming and vermont and nobody ever makes fun of those two

  • I live in North Dakota now. Great place to raise kids, but i dont have any fucking kids so im leaving.

  • plus we have fuckin hot babes here and the cold is awesome at -20 i run in my skivies its like summer that why we have more men then any other state out there cause we have BALLS

  • the sign probably said dave berry the biggest asshole in the world

  • i havent read all of the comments but if one helpful person out there tries to defend sewage treatment by explaining the real purpose of sewage lifting i will hunt you down

  • woot ND best place in america, hot chicks, low crime, snow, great people, snow, great education, snow, and we are just about unaffected by the depression, did i meantion snow?

  • @smilesme43 haha 2 true!

  • @smilesme43 hell yeah!!

  • @smilesme43 hot chicks? bro you'd fuck your mother cause you've never been out of the north!

  • @bob7man you usually fuck your mother in the south, right?

  • @patooey2- No. Not at all.

  • athiest2006 is super dumb... we are a huge farming state, and all u have to do with ur life is make fun of us north dakotans.. u seem to have quite the interest in sewers, why dont u go for a swim in one? dumass

  • north dakota kicks ass its a lifestyle

  • wtf is with the stereotypes?

    this guy must have been born without a brain...and thick skin

    i wouldn't wanna be born any where else then north dakota.

    we grow up strong and right

    we are all able to use jumper cables, guns, and drive through a blizard without blinking an eye

    nd is one of the few places on earth where there are truely good people, we will give you the money you need to get somewhere or the shirt off our backs

    god bless north dakota, i love it

  • @halaritytd thank you, im a north dakota farmer and rancher and i agree with u 100% on that

  • Danm Right dont mess with ND!

  • Good Clip Dave loved it

    The Singing Roofer

    Don Ohman

    PLEASE PASS THE ASPHALT "1996 list

    roofer don

  • This video makes leads me to believe that you have no actual knowledge of what you write about. I appreciate the attempt at humor even though it seems to degrade your credibility as a journalist. perhaps this person should write fiction where he can write what ever the hell he wants and get away with it. I'm not even from North Dakota... Disclaimer.

  • like we would wear mittens when it's -20 degrees outside. how on earth would we be able to open our beer cans ? god knows that's the perfect weather for ice fishing and backroading, and it's damn near impossible to complete either task without a case of beer.

  • your crying about -20 lol that is sweatshirt weather if you live in nd lol

  • Don't make fun of ND it is awesome, we got stuff to do here you can't do in the cities with getting in touble,

  • im actually glad you give people a bad image of north dakota. cause then assholes like you dont come here

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  • Well, I'm from North Dakota, and you're pretty lucky it was only -20. Last winter it got down to -50 in Fargo(the largest town in N.D, if you believe that there is actually civilization up here).

  • what a fucking idiot

  • hey you sob where do you come off making fun of where i live the weather may be crap but its home so dont anyone every talk about ND like that again or i will find you

  • NorthDakota=Assholes like papturtal

  • get a sense of humor dude

  • i live in north dakota.

    it fucking sucks.

    and you suck for enjoying it.

  • im from NoDak and it is boreing as hell

  • omg i hate this!!!!!!!!! north dakota rocks! i wish famous people would come do concerts here! like miley cyrus! its not fair were ignored!

  • Scott Weiland should come.

  • you really shouldnt have mentioned miley cyrus..now we look like hicks

  • i like miley and im from north dakoa

  • like i said, we look like hicks. and you just reinforced that

  • really? miley cyrus? really? i doubt she could even point out ND on a map.

    Ben Folds is playing in Fargo in october.

  • wow ur a dumd ass i live here in Rugby and most ppl hate miley cyrus and come if ur goin to name a band name ACDC

  • i know i wish miley would come i mean taylor swift came best day of my life now to get miley to come !

  • if miley came i would probably kill myself....jaykay...but it would suck if she came here:(

  • @BrandvoldChick18

    OMG

    I love North Dakotans so much.

    Okay, they may not be very smart.

    And they may smell funny.

    But they are so cute.

    I wish I had been born in North Dakota. :(

  • @Atheist2006 I'm not stupid and I don't smell. Yet I was born in Nodak and still live here. Quite the paradox, isn't it?

  • Let me correct you:

    You were born in North Dakota and still live there.

    YET you're (perhaps) not stupid and you (perhaps) don't smell.

  • @Atheist2006 Maybe I smell after I work out or something, but pretty sure on a normal basis I don't smell. I do use deodorant/antiperspirant, lotion, and body sprays. Oh and taking showers helps too. I'm also enrolled at a University majoring in Psychology and Addiction Counseling. Yeah, cognitive psychology and Pharmacology of Addiction are classes only "stupid" North Dakotans take. Oh, and I have a 3.9 GPA, thanks for asking.

  • i am serious, come visit ND. you will, without a doubt, love it and want to come back. its SO beautiful and everyone here is nice. in ND you can walk around and you can see the sun. in new york i heard you can barely see the sun cuz of buildings and the brown haze. thats just what i heard. i love nd and the badlands!

  • I live a little over a half mile from that lift station, and remember sneaking away from middle school to watch the ceremony, and was one of those people wearing gloves and clapping.

  • haha me too!

  • i drove an 18 wheeler for a whle, been to 47 states, but not ND, which is y i been researching it and developed an interest. will come visit one day, it seems like a VERY interesting state to me, currently im in King of Prussia, PA (philly suburbs) will visit when the time comes unless some1 sponsors my transportation or a portion of it, but neither way i'm sure ill visit one day and i promise not to mock this isolated state with some of the friendliest people in the u.s.

  • I live in North Dakota and its not as people think it is.

  • I love how he doesn't laugh at his own jokes. Brilliant humorist!

  • this video kinda pissed me off

  • North Dakota may be boring, but the people there are very nice and friendly. And everyone who says all North Dakotans live on farms is a liar. Go to Fargo or Bismarck to prove it. And they don't have a budget deficit. It's a good state with nothing to do.

  • Dave barry is one of the funniest writers to walk upright.

  • I was born and raised in ND and I absolutely love it, but this video is hilarious. People need to relax a little bit, every other state gets made fun of too. About being cold, yes the winters are horrible, but that's why we invest in snowmobiling and occasionaly snowboarding(yes we have hills big enough too here, but not mountains) The summers are beautiful and so is the scenery. Everyone has an opinion and if you lived outside of ND you would be stereotypical too if you have never been here.

  • Dave Barry is so perfectly funny in this clip!

  • Dave Barry always makes me laugh :) You can't be too uptight about humor anyways. I have lived in TN, CA, and WA, which have all had jokes made at their expense at one point or another (sometimes deservedly :x )

  • ND's economy right now is booming. Its as if the recession has not effected my state at all. There are tons of job opportunities. :| haha my state does really suck some dick in the winter, but in the summer when crops are growing you actually have somehting to look at. All im saying is yeah, North Dakota does suck some what, but it is nothing like what everyone makes it out to be...(and seriously? i had a typo and spelt hick like "hic" and every one jumped all over me :P)

  • 20 below is nothing. There was 40 below this year and we still had school.

  • Yea same here, some of us even rode our snowmobiles to school those days! haha

  • I'm from North Dakota, and I think this is hillarious. I don't care if it's accurate or not; the way I see it he's just doing his job as a humor columnist.

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  • my apologies to you north dakotans. you're a pretty cool state if you ask me. but this guy is one of the most hilarious guys i've ever read. just read one of his columns (not the one on north dakota) and you will laugh till you cry. dave barry is awesome!

  • he should have at least done a little research before he said some of that. i dont mind when anyone makes fun of us if it is creative and makes sense. grand forks has what is considered one of the best aviation schools in the world. and we dont worry about wolves eating us. its those damn coyotes you have to look out for...

  • i really dont mind it when people make fun of north dakota. what does piss me off is when people call us hics. i mean wtf, thats southern shit. I do like making fun of my own state cuz its crazy small, but i cant help but feel affended by some of the shit people say. :P were not fucking stupid hics, im sick of people saying that

  • Um...I think the correct spelling might be:

    "Hicks"

    A Hick from Manitoba

  • Chill out hick.

  • @krzycon Me too man. True, there are some hicks/rednecks here in the state, but you can find hicks in every state too. Has everyone forgotten about the Ozarks? And Texas? More stereotyping....

  • lol loving all the ND people grieving. Your state sucks and we don't want you morons. If he made fun of my state I would LAUGH, cause its HUMOR.

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  • You dumbass we only have a $1 billion surplus.

  • do NOT mess with north dakota, were all raised on farms, and we work more in one morning than some do in a week at the gym. and the population has actualy grown this year!! also we dont have to deal with FORCLOUSER and stuff like that, we also have a 10 billion surplus for the state as a whole

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  • nobody cares if you make fun of norh dakota the haten type just hate cause their balls were stuck up their ass when they were born like this ugly ass Dave Barry guy.. us north dakotans fuck like rabbits and send our children out across the country..its a slow process but we'll be taken over the world in five to ten years you can count on it!

  • "The world is thinking" but apparently the world, or at least, FORA, can't spell.

  • LOL i've never seen a wolf in Minot north dakota cept for the zoo but I have seen a few mountain lions :)

  • Haha, they spelled "syndicated" wrong. Still, Dave Barry is as funny as ever.

  • 20 below hell thats not cold.. thats every day life moafucka hahaha

  • North Dakota is the 6th largest nuclear power in the world. :)

  • I thought ND was the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world.

  • You sir are correct

  • you know in the cold war. when the world was going to end that one day. u might know. but some ships where aiming bombs at minots airforce because north dakota had the most nucleaur bombs. and if you still drive around you can see some sometime. its not hard to miss its just a fence around something in the middle of nowehere

  • Why would you be happy about that. Nukes are one of the worst things that can happen to us. Running out od shit to be proud of in ND>?

  • I miss Dave's TV show "Dave's World". I wonder why none of it is posted here? If someone has it please post. Thank you.

  • Being a North Dakotan, I think this is hilarious. :)

  • Dave Barry: a humor god among men. I dearly miss his weekly column (it means I have to reread his books over and over).

  • The unwritten motto of the great state of North Dakota is, "you get out of life what you put into it". This dude got exactly that. Mess with us and we will teach you a lesson. We work in that 25-30 degree below zero weather and we don't cry about it. Work ethic or die. Our friends in Canada will concur...they have tougher winters than we do.

  • I totally concur. I work in Winnipeg in Symington train yard for CN. Sometimes it reaches -60 celcius. Now THAT is cold...lol

  • haha i would totally agree with your comment. except that the low was actually -60 degrees FAHRENHEIT. and it also happened in 1936. so your wrong. and sorry im just bustin' chops today. ya can ask anyone.

  • Well, with the windchill, it hit -60 Celsius last year at the airport...lol

    and hey.....bust all the chops you want :D

    Merry christmas.

  • Um, I can agree you get what you put into it, but that is the same everywhere you go. But teaching him a lesson?? I believe it was more of a humorous joke that even this presenter guy thought was funny. So teaching a lesson... no, funny ass get-back for the authors jokes about ND, that just made me realize that there are SOME people in ND with a sense of humor

  • I sang at a dinner for him, who cares if he doesn't like ND I love it we have low crime, great hunting and fishing, and GREAT PEOPLE go ND!!!!!!!!!!!

  • we aint gangsters dang it ur the gangster we have a good heart and we are rednecks and will slap u silly!

  • north dakota kicks ass we shoulda took over the US when we had all the nuke bombs here, it nice i live in fargo there isnt much crime in the summer the lakes are 40 miles away and and the winter snowmobiling, its a great place

  • Took over the US? Boy you couldn't create a big enough militia to have a solier in each city of this country, unless you are talking about trying to high-jack the country with nukes, and for that case any dumbass could attempt that as well. I believe your loosing bloodflow in your brain thinking ND could take over the US,

  • When the U S goes to hell we'll all be sitting up here in ND raising our own food, owning an shooting our guns and pretty much living the same way we do now. Where the hell will California be? or New York for that matter? Dont come here, we dont want your kind and by the way... The language we all speak up here is still English, always will be.

  • Right On..........North Dakotans will inherit the earth after all the coastal scum have either shoot themselves, burned up in forest fires or fallen off into the sea. We probably shouldn't advertise the fact that this such a great place to live....we'll end up trying to secure our own boarder as all the riff-raff heads our way.

  • I wouldn't bring up California, our state economy is the highest, we have deficits because of our lax laws on immigration, and the fact that we lock up so many non-violent criminals with out-dated laws that should be upgraded. Moat of the problems in Cali would be fixed if lawmakers made the right choice,

  • wtf n.d. is not funny it maybe small but we stand big

  • So go back.

  • I can't im here with my family

  • LOL, that's hilarious. Nope, not eaten by wolves. We leave 'cause it sucks there!

  • I left in 04' Summers suck there too the mosquito's there are huge!

  • YOU'RE ALL DUMBASSES. He's JOKING. If he made fun of California I wouldn't give a fuck. Grow up and stop being so sensitive.

  • FOR 1.WE HAVE NO WOLVES AND FOR 2. THERES LOTS TO DO IN ND! and we have more than 600,000 people

    smarto

  • umm there are wolves here in north dakota

  • No wolves? Where have you been?

  • Grand Forks in January = Sioux Hockey....7 national championships anyone?

  • who watches college hockey? unless you live in Grand Forks ND or your a student at U.of M. NOBODY

  • I sang at the dinner that this guy came to when he had that lift station dedicated to him as a joke, i still live in grand forks, and love it, but walking to class in -50 wind chill sucks, and yes if u went to college here you would realize it is still cold here, and there are no wolves in ND so how would that work, and also my graduating class was twice as many ppl as he said sent him letters!!

  • Okay, so some North Dakotans might be simple people. But, really..what is wrong with that? Born and raised in ND and not leaving...that's where I stand. I love it here!

  • Nothing wrong with that. Some people just try to bring other states down to make themselves look better. I mean you sound like a cool person.

  • wow!

    i think it's AWESOME how people think that because we don't have a strip joint on every block that we aren't an AMAZING town. I've lived in North Dakota my ENTIRE life and i would never move to some GAY ASS STATE like New York where you pretty much get Jumped if you take a damn COIN PURSE out in public! dude SCREW OFF! honestly you stupid city slickers need to get your HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES!

  • Sooo you lived there your whole life, so what makes you think where you live is better than anywhere else if you only been frozen in your cabin your whole life? I can say that no matter where I move I am going to have fun so people that can't make it in ND probably just followers and can't make shit happen for themselves. I been knocking some of the people from ND because they say stupid shit, but I mean I am sure ND is ok in some spots where there is a strip joint

  • omg i kno nd get barely any snow now like wtf....

  • u live in a bad place....we dont have like ganesters or anything like that...:P

  • i hate those damn ganesters

  • wow ive lived here all my life and i could give a shit less if he doesnt like it

    you know ill be laughing my ass off when the rest of the nation becomes over crouded and where will you go????

    not north dakota because we wont let you in.

    oh and we dont have wolves here?????

    oh well he was at least funny

  • my mom made us move here 4 years ago. and he's right in my opinion XD

  • i have loved dave barry for years. i used to have a mad crush on him. he rocks. EVERYTHING is funny.

  • THIS GUYS IS AN ASS HOLE!

  • on what do you base this?

  • ya this guy is really stupid i mean i love north dakota hes just being retarded and thinking north dakota isnt even a state well you know what budy your a loser and o ya north dakota has a pretty damn big population and ya im pretty sure that the whole state is pissed at you our state is the geographical center of North America so ya your a DICK!

  • It's humor!

    You'll live longer if you don't take comedy writers so seriously and in anger.

    JT

  • you don't understand the concept of comedy or very little else, do you, sweetie?

  • wow.

    this guy is gay.

  • i agree

    i live here and he really doesnt know what he's talking about???

  • yeah well your name is cumsicle.

  • what does that have to do with anything??

  • Hahaha, ah shit I love fuckin with these ND people. The cold has eliminated their sense of humor

  • Ah, North Dakota.

  • go North Dakota!!! go Valley City!!

  • woot go valley city

  • go grandin

  • lemon patsy, you are truly the fu(king sh!tdip... how would you know anyway, do you live in this state? Its dumb f()cks like you that think you know all... you will probably end up voting democrat, ya HOMO!!!! SUCK IT

  • It's LemonPartier. You are a dumb fuck. I know what I'm talking about and you obviously don't. I hate Clinton, Obama, and McCain. I voted for Ron Paul in the primary.

    Check your messages on here, I'm gonna send you a link to the USGS's website because YouTube is acting gay, like you, and not letting me post the link in this comment.

  • Hmm, do I have to go to Iraq to know that they would prolly kill my white ass even though I'm Muslim? My point is no one has to travel to ND to realize they won't like it there. I can do research, watch videos, and other forms of data to conclude that so don't think because we haven't been there that we don't know what's going on. Dude, your state voted Bush nuf said....

  • dude this guys a fag. North Dakota is awesome.

  • please don't let travismany out of the state