# Florida is Officially Fucked **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 29, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781 "2020-09-29T02:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/81 "2020-10-05T01:19:47Z")
That’s a beautiful animal. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/82 "2020-10-05T01:23:04Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > That’s a beautiful animal. - It is. And if it wants a catnip mouse, it _gets_ a catnip mouse. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/83 "2020-10-05T01:37:51Z")
Spider kitty [https://images.app.goo.gl/eytorToovJvqeKy56](https://images.app.goo.gl/eytorToovJvqeKy56) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/84 "2020-10-05T01:58:16Z")
I know I should think that is wrong, but I think it’s adorable and I want Jack Skellington to bring me one for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/86 "2020-10-05T12:35:52Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > It’s a very … fertile … place. With almost no taboos; anything will f\*\*\* anything else that moves. And many things that won’t. I believe Xanth was supposed to be Florida, and a major component of that world was that pretty much any cross-breed you could imagine had happened at least once. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/87 "2020-10-05T18:39:19Z")
For those who, like me, don’t recognize “**[Xanth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanth)**”. Sounds like a fun series. I’ll snag a couple from the library. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/88 "2020-10-06T02:37:56Z")
Right up Slacker’s alley if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/89 "2020-10-06T02:46:22Z")
lol just avoid the pit and youll e fine ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/90 "2020-10-06T02:49:30Z")
The first two or three are pretty good - light, fluffy fantasy. After that, they get creepy. Piers Anthony finds reasons to mention panties…rarely those on adult women, however. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/91 "2020-10-06T02:49:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > For those who, like me, don’t recognize “ **[Xanth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanth)** ”. > > Sounds like a fun series. I’ll snag a couple from the library. The first few are kind of fun, with the rampant puns and wordplay, and I enjoyed the books when I was in high school. But, what I can now see is that there’s quite a bit of misogyny (and some pedophilia) in Anthony’s books, so be forewarned. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/92 "2020-10-06T08:43:46Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > The first two or three are pretty good - light, fluffy fantasy. After that, they get creepy. Piers Anthony finds reasons to mention panties…rarely those on adult women, however. Yeah, I agree. All of Anthony’s series are like this - in his _Bio of a Space Tyrant_, the older the main character got, the younger the women he had sex with got (not counting the incest). For all the positives in the earlier Xanth books, it’s probably best not to even start. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/93 "2020-10-06T11:44:22Z")
The _Xanth_ author sounds like a real winner. Color me forewarned. I did note from the wiki article that he’d written a bunch of these things, so obviously by now they’d become pretty formulaic. Given the comments just above about the current smell of the series, the wiki cite of the author’s comment towards “I just keep writing them because the publisher keeps wanting them.” says a little too much about the audience. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/94 "2020-10-06T15:06:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Given the comments just above about the current smell of the series, the wiki cite of the author’s comment towards “I just keep writing them because the publisher keeps wanting them.” says a little too much about the audience. There are currently **43** books in the series, with at least another four on the way. Maybe the first …six? …are decent reads but the quality starts to fall away pretty noticeably, until they’re basically just a bunch of reader-submitted puns and YA innuendo. Fun fact: the title of book 15 is _The Color of Her Panties_. [Really](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Her_Panties). IIRC that was the point I gave up on the series. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/95 "2020-10-06T15:12:06Z")
An earlier thread that may be of interest. > [@Freaked out by Piers Anthony](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freaked-out-by-piers-anthony/35900): > > Has anyone else noticed a trend in his later books, where he seems to be focusing on the ‘sexual coming out’ of his teen characters, then when they’ve ‘matured’, he moves on to younger characters again, and restarts the cycle? Also, in the last book of the ‘Incarnations of Immortality’ series (And Eternity)he has a character that is 50 years old lusting after a 16 year old…and he paints it as a ‘loving, normal’ relationship, then sends the young girl into limbo, where she stays for four days, … ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/96 "2021-02-25T14:18:26Z")
Bumped. > **[The Florida official who set up a vaccine site for affluent ZIP codes and...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/us/manatee-county-covid-vaccine-investigation-trnd/index.html)** > > A Florida sheriff's office is investigating whether a Manatee County official broke the law when she organized a Covid-19 vaccine drive limited to two of the county's most affluent ZIP codes. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/97 "2021-02-25T20:58:41Z")
We’re in FL so my husband can take his folks to _finally_ get their COVID shots - second shots tomorrow. I am absolutely aghast at the casual attitude towards masks here. But then I come from a state where the governor famously said [“Wear the damn mask!”](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=857728131719578) and by and large, citizens comply. But not here. I’ll be so glad when we can return home - just going to stay long enough to ensure they don’t suffer ill effects. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/98 "2021-02-25T21:57:55Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Qualification: this is true, but only if said drunken yoyos have taken the sensible precaution of injecting themselves with Clorox bleach. It’s all fine. The baristas in Florida have all learned to make Clorox Margaritas and Lysol Mai-Tais. You just have to ask for them. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/99 "2021-02-25T22:27:29Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I am absolutely aghast at the casual attitude towards masks here. You’re in / near Gainseville, right? Down here in Ft Lauderdale mask compliance is very, very high. We seem to have gotten over the “won’t wear it because freedumb” thing here. Outdoors is pretty lax, but that’s in keeping with both common sense and the local regulations. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/100 "2021-02-26T00:59:37Z")
Ocala, land of a gazillion retirees. I saw a woman in scrubs in a convenience store sans mask. Yeah, there’s a great example… ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781/101 "2021-02-26T01:46:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I am absolutely aghast at the casual attitude towards masks here. I’m aghast at the lack of a meaningful, enforced state-wide mask mandate, like we have here in Ontario where I’ve never seen anyone in an indoor public place without a mask. But then, Florida is run by a Republican lunatic. AIUI, DeSantis has blocked local governments who impose mask mandates from being able to enforce them via fines or other penalties. He has apparently determined, in his infinite Republican medical wisdom, and contrary to all medical guidance, that “masks don’t work”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-officially-fucked/921781.md?page=6)