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Criminal Minds grumble:

"Commack, Long Island." NO ONE FROM LI WOULD SAY THAT!!!!

Long Island court? NO.. it would be Suffolk Country or Nassau County.

Mr. Cop says "Bad guy has NO way of getting off Long Island"

Ummm, what? The ferry, all the bridges, the thousands of personal boats?!?!?!

And now Rossi's stolen a personal effect of a dead guy. WHAT?!?

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Wouldn't it be Commack, NY? People don't do research anymore!

Anyone from Long Island would definitely say Commack, NY.

I've seen people from outside the tristate area specify Long Island.. but more like Commack, NY. On Long Island. Or something like that. LI isn't a state. Especially if you lived there you would NEVER, ever say a city like that.

No one who lives there would say New York City. It's just "The City."

Pretty much. Although the city usually means Manhattan only.

yes of course! Did you know that NY has so many people that it has different speech patterns from one end to another?

Upstate is totally different than the rest of NY. The parts of the city differ from each other. There are some generalities for NY in itself though

I remember that when I took speech in college that there was a special pronunciation found on LI. An extra g I believe.

The south pronounces its vowels completely differently than in NY. The first year I lived in Alabama I had to learn to speak differently so that I was at least halfway understandable, in addition to speaking slower.

LonG Island. Yep. I bet you had to learn to speak slower too!

Where in NY are you from?

Kings County otherwise known as Brooklyn. In other parts of the country you can have a few towns in a county; in NY you have several counties in one city.

Ah, I was there many times. I had lots of relatives that lived in Queens, Brooklyn (park slope) and Manhattan.

Do you now, or have you ever, lived in NY? I'm an expatriate Brooklyner myself.

I'm from Long Island- Lake Grove to be extact

where is Lake Grove? I have/had family in the 5 towns.

Near Smithtown, Lake Ronkonkoma... exit 60 off the LIE. Near Smithhaven Mall. Suffolk County

Ahhhh. A ways out. I don't know Suffolk at all. I know Nassau.

Yep. Well, LI goes quite a bit further out though

All the way out to Montauk. The Long Island is split into 4 counties: Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk.

Yep. And most people don't realize NYC is partially on it

half of Long Island is part of NYC. Richmond is its own island. The Bronx is the only part of NYC that is on the mainland. I sometimes call NYC a collection of off-shore islands.

Which is one of the reasons travelling in and around NYC is so hard. SO MANY BRIDGES

What about all the airports? There's one in Islip, and two in Queens: LGA & JFK. LGA and JFK are international airports. You can go anywhere from them.

Yeah, Islip-MacArthur is smallish, and easy to have the cops keep an eye on, but still...

there's JFK/LGA and Newark not far away.

Ah true. and they are in Queens. And there's the train too. The good old LIRR

I think what they were trying to convey with the cop was that they had all the ways off the island covered, but they sort of failed miserably with that.

And now Rossi's stolen a personal effect of a dead guy. WHAT?!?

I was a bit confused by that, too.

I really don't like Rossi this season. I feel like they were trying a bit too hard to make this a Rossi episode and totally failed at doing anything that developed him as a character.

Also, where the hell did bitchy!Hotch go?

Overall, this episode sucked. The stupidity of the writers kept getting in my way of enjoying it. *sigh*

Yeah, it was just sort of all over the place.

With plotholes you could drive trucks through.

Which is sad, because I thought the season did actually start out pretty well.

I still want to know about random swirly sand of saving.

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