This is our newest unrelenting positivity post.

The state in question is the great state of Ohio. To all our foreign friends give a shout ask questions send praise. To our Americans do the same.

Ask questions, share stories, make jokes. Just remember not to be a jerk.

Recall the famous phrase my grandma invented “if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything that isn’t redemptively funny.”

Stay tuned for 16/50 after this one.

The states are in random order based on my whim at the moment.

Today my whim was remembering how cool the gullies in Clintonville are. Limestone is a cool geologic feature.


30 comments

  1. Hocking Hills is absolutely gorgeous, hiking there is basically my only time spent in Ohio (during a road trip) and I was pleasantly surprised by how beautiful it was.

  2. I like to watch “dashcam accident” videos, and the (fairly rare) videos from Ohio show some of the most beautiful rolling hills I’ve ever seen.

  3. Did you know that a Buckeye is a hairless nut?
    GO BLUE!
    💛💙💛💙

  4. Best amusement parks in the country outside of Florida and California.

  5. My home (although I haven’t been back since 2003). Regardless of how you feel about the inductee process, the actual RNR Hall of Fame is pretty great. Cedar Point rules. Buckeyes are not edible.

  8. – Cedar Point is awesome 🎢
    – Skyline Chili 🌶️ 🧀
    – Cincinnati is a cool city. Amazing museums there

  9. Shout out to Norwalk, OH – I took my wife and kids there to watch the solar eclipse back in 2024, and the town was super kind and welcoming. We got a full four minutes of totality and it was mindblowing to experience.

  11. Yes, I’ve seen the video, “at least we’re not Detroit”, ha ha. I’ll tell you what, I’ve never had a bad time in Cleveland.

    Drew Carey was right, Cleveland does in fact rock.

  13. Riptide in Sandusky annually hosts the largest Splatoon tournament outside of Japan where I get to meet a ton of my friends who I otherwise only talk to online. Can’t ever complain about that

  14. This reminds me that my grandmother — who was born in Arkansas and to the best of my knowledge never lived near Ohio was very fond of the riddle:

    “What’s round on the ends and high in the middle? Oh HI Oh.”

  16. My birth state. Birthplace of more Presidents than anywhere but Virginia and a lot of incredibly accomplished astronauts. Loved growing up in Cincinnati- Skyline is delicious, Graeters even more so, and home to an incredibly rich, historic culture. Love my home state.

  17. Well that’s my home state so… I’ve been to places that were worse. Does that count as positive?

  19. Sometimes I fantasize about being a steel worker in Cleveland. I love that gritty blue collar vibe.

  22. Are all Browns fans crazy? Or just the ones I’ve met?

    Also, how the hell did y’all (Ohio) get 2 NFL teams?

  24. I’ve lived in several different parts of Ohio. We have some incredible history and many wonderful people that live here. Lake Erie and the Ohio River are amazing and we have some of the most beautiful natural resources in the country. We have diverse weather, animal and plant populations. We have a diverse and growing immigrant population, just like a century ago. We have a surprisingly strong cuisine scene, and top-notch museums. We’re still a national leader in manufacturing and are also strong in agriculture, while also growing in technology. And our population, for the first time in years of decline, is growing. We certainly have our issues, but there’s a lot to be proud of here in Ohio.

  25. We’ve got 3 cities in the top 30 metro areas in the country. Columbus is growing like crazy and the culture is only getting better, with sports and arts on the rise! Cincinnati has history: the Underground Railroad, the first professional baseball team, and more! Cleveland is also a city in Ohio!

  26. This won’t seem like unrelenting positivity, but I really love Ohio memes.

    Living in Japan, people here absolutely do not have the kind of self-deprecating, self-satirizing humor that Americans have.

    The thing is that the Japanese word for “good morning” is “ohayo.” Not the exact same pronunciation as “Ohio,” but close enough. So a running joke for a while has been for me to come in, and when everyone says “good morning” to me, I insist “I’M NOT FROM OHIO.”

    So, as a Hoosier, when I crack jokes about Ohio being an eldritch horror that mankind would be better off forming a shallow pit within the borders of the state and flooding it with water from the Great Lakes – just to be sure it can’t harm anyone else ever again – nobody here gets it.

    They think I am genuinely racist against Ohio.

    And, like, look – you can be tired of the memes. You can find it unfunny. You can think I’m an obnoxious hack for even bringing it up.

    But, god damn, it will never make me not laugh when I think about how my coworkers genuinely believe I am actually racist against the state of Ohio. They think I mean all of it. And, come on – if you can’t laugh at that, are you really a midwesterner?

    My unrelenting praise isn’t just for Ohio, but for the entire midwest sense of humor. I think it’s actually really great, because the Midwest (including Ohio) is actually a really great place to live, but we aren’t really too full of ourselves. We don’t actually hate each other. We’re all actually just having a good time.

    And I think the Ohio memes are kinda the epitome of that, because it’s such an extreme example of our love of dry humor. The joke isn’t that Ohio is actually bad – the joke is literally just that we *act* like it’s worse than it is. That’s the joke. That’s how dry our humor is. The punchline is that it’s not true.

    Which kinda loops back to the joke – the entire “Ohio is an eldritch horror” meme is indicative of how nice Ohio actually is as a place. The entire midwest is like that – boring, but not actually a bad place to live. Visiting might suck, but living there is great.

  27. Mud Hens, Tony Packos, and the Toledo Museum of Art, there’s good reasons to cross the border from Michigan

  28. I’ve lived here almost fifty years, and it’s only recently (10-15 years) gotten shitty. Really went downhill with Kasich. Still love my state, though.

  29. I was born in Ohio. My mom got us out of there before I was able to form any childhood memories of the place but still, my birth certificate says Ohio

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