If Texas stops being “Texas”, I’ll stop using the term.
As an American, I don’t understand this. Texas is a horrible US state. It’s backwards, pushy, and socially regressive in every way (with a few blue dots in it).
Edit: thanks for explaining it everyone. I guess that’s the point. Now I get it.
I have never heard anyone actually say it. It certainly isn’t that common, but some people clearly use it.
Apparently its much more common than i thought, but i haven’t really come across it much myself.
It is also in the dictionary, both bokmål and nynorsk:
For our younger foreign redditors – “Helt texas” is an old saying from the days of the Wild Wild West and how that was portrayed over in Norway – as a wild and crazy place without rules.
It’s means that things are «crazy». Maybe we have the expression from the oil business? But i don’t know.
When something is stupid, big and dangerous? Or just red with a smidge of blue? Oh I know when something looks good but it’s actual garbage… “look that’s a Suzuki Ninja! Oh that car is Texas “ like that??
Is Florida also an adjective?
Texas is in a knife fight for the title of worst, most lunatic asylum deserving state of the union with Florida, has been for almost a decade. The question is who will win such a fight?
A willfully malicious serial killing sociopath in a suit, with only right wing religious rhetoric where a soul is supposed to be, plus a stetson, cowboy boots and silver studded bolo tie of the best quality money can buy from south east Asian sweatshops, brandishing an bowie knife that won a competition between a thousand publicity hungry backyard knifesmiths?
Or a pants-on-head, incoherent meth head on steroids and speed, surrounded by a cloud of flies after the stank of his assless leather chaps and his ratty Davy Crockett hat made from freshly skinned, untreated and largely unshaped raccoon, swinging an alligator jawbone and pointing obscenely to his crusty, filthy “I’m With Stupid” T shirt and trying to move so the arrow points at his opponent.
I used to live in Texas.
It’s as shitty as y’all imagine lol.
Lol.. good one
Hah I got shit on for using Texas as a derogatory term when a whole country uses it. Jeg elsker dere, Norge!
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[Here’s the article](https://www.vg.no/sport/skiskyting/i/7doMQV/norske-helseopplysninger-paa-avveie-i-ol-det-er-helt-texas) if you’re interested.
If Texas stops being “Texas”, I’ll stop using the term.
As an American, I don’t understand this. Texas is a horrible US state. It’s backwards, pushy, and socially regressive in every way (with a few blue dots in it).
Edit: thanks for explaining it everyone. I guess that’s the point. Now I get it.
I have never heard anyone actually say it. It certainly isn’t that common, but some people clearly use it.
Apparently its much more common than i thought, but i haven’t really come across it much myself.
It is also in the dictionary, both bokmål and nynorsk:
https://ordbokene.no/bm,nn/search?q=texas&scope=ei
For our younger foreign redditors – “Helt texas” is an old saying from the days of the Wild Wild West and how that was portrayed over in Norway – as a wild and crazy place without rules.
It has nothing to do with modern Texas.
Also today, at [nrk.no](https://nrk.no):
https://i.imgur.com/qvHNQES.png
Even Bergen use it!
It’s means that things are «crazy». Maybe we have the expression from the oil business? But i don’t know.
When something is stupid, big and dangerous? Or just red with a smidge of blue? Oh I know when something looks good but it’s actual garbage… “look that’s a Suzuki Ninja! Oh that car is Texas “ like that??
Is Florida also an adjective?
Texas is in a knife fight for the title of worst, most lunatic asylum deserving state of the union with Florida, has been for almost a decade. The question is who will win such a fight?
A willfully malicious serial killing sociopath in a suit, with only right wing religious rhetoric where a soul is supposed to be, plus a stetson, cowboy boots and silver studded bolo tie of the best quality money can buy from south east Asian sweatshops, brandishing an bowie knife that won a competition between a thousand publicity hungry backyard knifesmiths?
Or a pants-on-head, incoherent meth head on steroids and speed, surrounded by a cloud of flies after the stank of his assless leather chaps and his ratty Davy Crockett hat made from freshly skinned, untreated and largely unshaped raccoon, swinging an alligator jawbone and pointing obscenely to his crusty, filthy “I’m With Stupid” T shirt and trying to move so the arrow points at his opponent.
I used to live in Texas.
It’s as shitty as y’all imagine lol.
Lol.. good one
Hah I got shit on for using Texas as a derogatory term when a whole country uses it. Jeg elsker dere, Norge!
[Make Norway apologize…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbEnbcf_CA)
Is this similar to saying something is like “the wild west” or does it just mean “it’s a clusterfuck”
It’s not that many that use it, but yeah.. Using Texas to describe something insane is pretty fucking accurate I’d say.
You guys wish 🤣
Lol I just learned about this today.