From Prostitutes To Passports: Here Are America's Cost Obsessions By State

Weed, liposuction and laser eye surgery, according to Google, rank among the top searched-for costs of popular products and services in Denver. As fixr blog notes, while Colorado now permits recreational uses of marijuana, what are some of the autocomplete predictions of search queries for goods and services elsewhere?

Most of them seem quite controversial...

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Vasectomies seem oddly popular.. as does prostution... kind of ironic really.

Source: Fixr blog

Comments

[Nafets93]

The ECB assets declined about 1/3, to 2 tn. Gold: (1900 / 3) x 2 = 1267! Add some naked shorts to the equation...

http://inflation.us/gold-continues-to-follow-ecb-balance-sheet-extremely...

[negative rates]

This trying to quit ciggies is killin me.

[PacOps]

http://www.allencarr.com

[Stuck on Zero]

You left out Canada and Mexico.

Canada: Snow shovels

Mexico: Coyotes.

[wee-weed up]

Just like dumb cows...

This is udderly ridiculous!

Come on, Tylers... it may be a slow Saturday night...

But don't get desperate...

This sounds like pure MSM tripe.

[Thirst Mutilator]

Plus ~ There are 7 states missing there...

[tocointhephrase]

And in other news Andrew Maguire reports via KWN that HSBC is closing all its vgold vaults. The custodian of GLD.. Tyler are you snoozing?

[McCormick No. 9]

And the names of those states are:

North Electrobenetrans

New Conceweapermitia

Obamastan

South Greencard

Marijua

Interpornio

Paydalone

Guess which state I live in.

[Handful of Dust]

You forgot, "Mexifornia."

[MonetaryApostate]

You ought to see Kansas City, it looks like migration from Mexico is up 5000%!

[Global Douche]

This is an awful week to try and quit drinkin'

[GetZeeGold]

Here......have some glue.

Don't drink it......just sniff it.

[roddy6667]

You picked a bad day to quit smoking.

[roddy6667]

You picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue.

[messymerry]

You picked a bad day to quit doin' chew.  

[Nafets93]

Ah you fools... It is an interesting correlation with gold

[Smegley Wanxalot]

What is "The T" in Massachussetts?

[Amish Hacker]

Boston mass transit.

[Smegley Wanxalot]

Thanks.  If that's the most interesting thing about the state ... oy veh.

[knukles]

Mississippi = DNA test
LOL

^{_{is that court ordered or just for shits and grins?}}

[Caveman93]

Ahh yes! Where family trees do not fork!

Hi Uncle Granpa!

Hi Auntie Wife!

[metastar]

How much does Obama, CONgress, SCOTUS, ... cost?

How much does freedom cost?

[toys for tits]

What does "a minor" mean in ND?

[manofthenorth]

A gallon of milk is $5.79

A gallon of gas is $3.79

A gallon of diesel is $3.97

A loaf of Dave's killer bread $5.99

good times, GOOD TIMES !!

[GetZeeGold]

I'm just thankful Obama is blackmailing Boehner over an affair with a lobbyist.....we're finally making real progress here.

[symtex411]

"a minor" referring to the cost of a minor in possession of alcohol ticket. A lot of college kids and underaged drinking in ND.

[cigarEngineer]

Come to Williston with your grand/kids and find out.

[zorba THE GREEK]

Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground.

[MsCreant]

Mother earth will swallow you.

[lincolnsteffens]

Reminds me of the country song "I'm my own grandpa".

[A Nanny Moose]

Wyoming = Keg of beer. My kind of state.

[Lumberjack]

DING DING DING... WE HAVE A WINNAH!  +1000 for that one and it's a french company that did it! Tryouts for the next big dig since that offshore wind shit cratered. Next feature is the Olympics... and we all know how that works out.

Now for the next question Alex. 

[Arnold]

Don't forget to visit the Indian Village recreation in HAVad Squayeh.

You know the one that Libby Warren (POTUS elect in waiting) thought she belonged to?

[GetZeeGold]

I know Polish women that are more Indian than that bitch is......and they're pretty damn hot.

[Creepy A. Cracker]

"What is "The T" in Massachussetts?"

Testicles.  How much to buy a pair. They are in slim supply in MA.

[Lumberjack]

The new Governor has a pair and I can assure you of that.

[negative rates]

It's said be the T in Mass of Two shits.

[stant]

Adopt a child, really!!

[XqWretch]

Hey look! They are all things the government fucks with! No kidding!

[MsCreant]

Sorry, no points for that observation.

Government fucks with everything.

[franciscopendergrass]

Too bad they don't have a spot for DC because it would say "Bribe"  (how much does it take to bribe a politician?)

[Skateboarder]

LOL @ Ohio.

[palmereldritch]

I thought it would be Weed in the middle with Breast Implants on both ends

[Whoa Dammit]

According to the map, Louisiana appears to be the smartest state as they are Googling the cost of succession.

[chunga]

Right? What's that...N. Dakota pricing...minors?

[symtex411]

answered above but... "a minor" referring to the cost of a minor in possession of alcohol ticket. A lot of college kids and underaged drinking in ND.

[Automatic Choke]

....imagine my relief!  the visual imagery of pedophiliophiles shopping at Wal-Mart for tots in the mid-west nearly made my head explode....

[Tall Tom]

I assumed that it meant adoption.

I was purchased by my adoptive mother at birth.

Do you think that the adoption agency is cheap? They need to pay their bills.

It is supply and demand....and by race as well.

She did get damaged goods. Seriously. I am living proof that abortion needs to be legal.

But there were no returns and no refunds were required at that time back in the late 1950s...

Even today children are purchased and sold in the United States every day. Get real.

[e_goldstein]

I know what secession is, but wtf is succession?

[knukles]

2 bjs in a row

[Whoa Dammit]

I it somehow made it through spell check ok. I guess it's the Cajun spelling variant. LOL.

[e_goldstein]

I looked it up. It's how the swamp people refer to inheritance.

[e_goldstein]

_{and knukles hits it out of the park.}

[MsCreant]

Suck Session. Oh! I get it now!

[Steel Magnolia]

You know what they say about Louisiana, we are either under water or under indictment. The results are in and now we just want the hell out of this clusterfuck!!

[SmedleyButlersGhost]

Gotta love DNA tests in Tenn and Miss with Ala next door with Abortions - just coincidence? I'll go with the weed or keg of beer States.

[cornfritter]

"I'll go with the weed or keg of beer States." :-)

Those are at least plausible - the weed for sure, I don't smoke it, but might again some day.

I believe this is more fake demonization of America - "See - look at what you've become America".

I don't buy it.  Google is pretty much owned.  This is the type of cr*p that is being distributed to the world so America can be taken down, fractured.  There are a few running point with the "succession" :-) narrative. 

[thamnosma]

I think it's totally on target.

[NoPension]

What does LA want to be successful at?
Sorry to end my sentence in a preposition.

[knukles]

whatever

[NoPension]

It's a slow day.

As a resident, I can answer Maryland.

A lot. Don't drink, drive and get caught. Unless you are an illegal, they are catch and release.

[MsCreant]

You have to be careful when you catch them to not disrupt the delicate mucilaginous sheath when you take them off the hook and throw them back. They are exothermic rather than endothermic so they have a hard time regulating body temperature...

Oh, wait. 

Different sport.

[Arnold]

Pennsylvania State Mandated drive thru beer sellers can now sell less than case quantities.

You used to have drive to Ohio to buy just a six or single at every corner quickie mart or grocery store.

No big deal for me, an extra half mile, but the State College Kids on a budget............ha.

I wonder if they still collect for kegs on Wednesday for the beginning of the weekend on Thursday morning?

[Arnold]

Part Two:

The last time Iwas in Hilton Head SC the bartenders were learning to pour  shots of distilled spirits.

Yup, precise measuring glass, various styles of liquor bottle with pour spouts filled with tap water and huge amounts of practice.

Previously. they could only make a distilled liquor drink with individual 1oz bottles.

[Automatic Choke]

I remember my surprise the first time I bought beer at a drive-through in Wyoming.  They handed me 5 bottles of a six pack in the bag, and handed me the sixth already opened.

[BurningFuld]

I'm pretty sure that is state law.

[Jerome Lester H...]

I took a bartending class once and that was part of the course. But it was practicing to pour a 1 oz. shot into a rocks glass by using a count. You had to pour 3 out of 4 to pass the course. The instructor would take the rocks glass and pour it into a shot glass. If it overfilled the shot glass it was a failed pour. After practicing this a hundred times it was rather easy to get 3 out of 4. Nobody in the class failed this part.

The hardest part of the course was remembering the ingredients to make about a hundred different drinks. We were taught phrases to remember the ingredients. For the test we had to pour something like 20 drinks in 10 minutes. You had 30 seconds per drink (which was way more than enough time if you knew the ingredients). I passesd the course but never became a professional bartender.

I have a bar in my basement and still have to consult a book to make certain drinks. I just eyeball the liquor in mixed drinks. I have about 50 bottles of various spirits and don't want to buy 50 pour spouts plus it tends to get messy as for the count to work you have to put your thumb over the spout turn the bottle completely upside down and start counting when you remove your thumb.

This also makes me think the count method (while faster than measuring) is not very sanitary as all bartenders handle cash.

[NoPension]

Alcohol is a good sanitizer.
Besides, if the customer wakes up in the am sick as a dog.....

[Lumberjack]

Zumba Zumba Zumba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7R-9X9XjA4

In reference to this:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/23/justice/maine-zumba-prostitution-release/

[Blano]

Before this chick got busted she had videos on at least 1 amateur porn site and was extremely popular. She did pretty much anything and everything.

And hell yes, I'd have done her too. 

[delivered]

Leave it to Californians. More interested in looking good than being able to grow food seeing that there is no water in the state. 

No better quote than from Forrest Gump - Stupid is as Stupid does. 

[Arnold]

With Nanny as the poster child, even burn patients are thinking twice.

Alright I'm done and gone now.ald

[Lumberjack]

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

[Yes_Questions]

thank you

[John_Coltrane]

Very nice.

But you omitted his most profound observation: "E = m*c^2"

Expressed in earth's most beautiful and universal language.

[Wahine]

Floridians! Find a Latino flea market they sell the pills there. Buena suerte

[kareninca]

I've read about those pills.  They are really something.  Apparently they work with a fair degree of safety (for the woman), at every stage of pregnancy, not just at an early stage.  Now that Obamacare requires that all of your medical records be digitized and sent to seven different government agencies in an easily hacked form, I'm guessing women of every ethnicity will be going this DIY route.  Another thing:  supposedly abortion rates are way, way down over the last 10 or so years.  Are they really, or are these "flea market pill abortions" just not counted?  That would be my guess.

[TruthBeforeAll]

"cab"

"tummy tuck"

"golden corral"

"abortion"

I can only assume Harley Davidson was next, followed closely by tattoo.

[knukles]

Oh, that is seriously funny....

[onewayticket2]

Searching for 'nail gun' was #2 in CT, NY and NJ.

[quasimodo]

LOl @ Iowa. I thought for sure it would be "how much does a new John Deere cost?" or "how much can I depreciate my John Deere?"

[Rootin' for Putin]

i like how all the dna test and abortion states are together.
I think with the oil price and layoffs now those ND rigpigs wont be looking to find how much a handjob from a minor costs anymore.

[Moe Howard]

Kentucky wants to adopt due to increased welfare payments.

[kareninca]

Okay, this is NOT by STATE in most cases.  It is by the CAPITAL of each state, for the most part.  There is a big difference.  Here is the chart; if you go to the fixr survey site, you will see it is by capital:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NtN7RH74eQTs6ExPcNyQJEL6d4bpaP04....

I checked because I was wondering WTF with Connecticut.  But yes, I can see that if someone is checking for the price of something in Hartford, it would likely be the price of a prostitute (or drugs).  But then I checked again, and in the case of Connecticut, it is for the whole state.  But then I tried google; I entered "how much is a * in Connecticut", and I did NOT get prostitute as the top answer; was up there, but it was about number five.

This is not of much value.

[Future Jim]

how much does a * cost in america

#1 search: cow

[mt paul]

mooooooooooo

how much you got cowboy..

[MsCreant]

Ride em cowboy? 

Are you a cow poke?

Where's the beef?

I need to stop milking this joke...

[flyingcaveman]

Interestingly, if you type in

Price of gold in *   or

Price of silver in *

What do you suppose you'll get?  Hint: not Indiana.

[thamnosma]

WTF is wrong with Missourians.  Wanting to build a house, how ridiculous. 

[q99x2]

PA has State Stores for hard liquor and to compete with them you have to pay a high price. Lot of bad alcoholics come from there. That's where Q99X2 was born.

[Againstthelie]

LOL. This article is a (good!) joke, isn't it?

[22winmag]

Tip your hookers... bitchez!

[MsCreant]

Just the tip?

[czarangelus]

Sorry, I was picturing Whore Island.

[q99x2]

Whatever the price take note the brown acid is not specifically too good.

[Atomizer]

Canadian man faces fines and jail time for refusal to unlock BlackBerry at airport

http://crackberry.com/canadian-man-faces-fines-and-jail-time-refusal-unlock-blackberry-airport

Stop travelling the boarder. If you do, wipe your phone and re-install on link back-up. Or use blend to acess, or just don't visit Canada to minimize tourism taxation of looney.

[stacking12321]

note that the guy was coming back from puerto plata, in DR, a notorious destination for sex tourists.

or, so i've heard.

[Atomizer]

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[wissen dass scheiBe]

Who keeps picking on knuckles?  No matter what he says, 

In any damn thread,

There is that down vote

Seemingly for no reason.....

I cry foul!!!!!!

[NoPension]

Knuckles Knows,
Ain't no fun unless you irking somebody!

Not me, btw

[Oswald did it]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlg91FG9m5Y

[401K of Dooom]

Hi everybody, the reference for searches in Massachusetts is for the T.  That is the transportation system of the greater Boston area.  It is a subway that serves the city and burbs' of eastern Massachusetts.  It is infamous for being a resting home for the well-connected Irish pols who want a "retirement" job for the end of their life.  That or a position to get wealthy while serving yourself by the taxpayers of Massachusetts.  According to the other posters on this subject, it looks like the new governor of Massachusetts might make some improvements. 

[Don Diego]

If it was by city, I am sure the number one search for NYC would be "Nose job"

[BurningFuld]

I've been there. Why are they all getting their noses made bigger? I don't get it.

[Manipuflation]

I would think Minnesota should be "Silver bullion for sale" simply becuase I live here.  Either that or "How to buy silver bullion and get assfucked by a bunch of Wall Street crooks on the deal".  There also should be "I ain't paying you fuckers any capital gains taxes so shove it up your huge cellulite encumbered asses and fucking DO something productive rather then just sitting there and getting an even fatter ass by legislating stealing from me."  Other auto-fills should include "Fuck you, go to hell, kiss my lilly white ass and blow me". 

[DutchBoy2015]

All 50 states world renowned for  morons per square mile  MSQM

[DutchBoy2015]

All 50 states world renowned for  morons per square mile  MSQM

[Arnold]

Butt wi kn spel

[DutchBoy2015]

For those anti-semites that were mutilated at birth there is a new thing called ''Foreskin Replacement Service''.  Get yourself a franchise.

[atomp]

DNA test! LULZ!!

How 'bout that NY, though? A POUND! Go big or stay home, right?

Fuck it. I'm moving to MT.

[Jorgen]

For some reason, the D.C. has been omitted on that map. If it was there, this might be (one of) its obsession(s):