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08-11-2003, 05:15 PM
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You might be white trash if....
Your wife has said to you, "Come move this transmission so I can take a shower/bath."
You've ever hit a deer (or other animal) with your car, deliberately. Your old mattress is so nasty, even the Salvation Army won't take it. You keep a can of RAID on your kitchen table next to the salt and pepper shakers. You've ever been too drunk to fish. Your lifetime goal is to own your own fireworks stand. You think a subdivision is part of a math problem. There is at least one spittoon in your house. The gas pedal in your car is shaped like a footprint of a bare foot. You've gotten one or more tattoos financed. You'd rather dig wax out of your ear with the truck keys than a Q-Tip. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk., IDBB 
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#3
08-11-2003, 05:29 PM
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I almost forgot one.
You have the name of you and your significant other in faux Gothic print stickers on the back window of your truck. IDBB |
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#7
08-11-2003, 05:49 PM
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LOL
You still think that big leather cowboy hats, silver buckles the size of a child's head and steel-tipped pointytoed boots with your jeans TUCKED IN are still in fashion. You favor airbrushed teeshirts depicting various wildlife and/or Native Americans over other types of tees. You have own three or more teeshirts with logos depicting alcoholic beverages and scantily clad women. You never took down your Cheryl Ladd and/or Bo Derek posters. You own a mirror with the logo of an alcoholic beverage on it. You think getting a 'real home' means buying a cheap 'manufactured home' from Palm Harbor or another manufactured home distributor. Your favorite website is White Trash World. You have now, or have ever sported a mullet. IDBB |
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#8
08-11-2003, 06:07 PM
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It wasn't really that funny when Jeff Foxworthy did it and called it "You might be a redneck..."
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#9
08-11-2003, 08:13 PM
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Maybe to you it wasn't. I'm from the South and I think I laughed harder at his albums than any Yank did because every single thing he said was completely true about the South.
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#10
08-11-2003, 08:18 PM
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You might be white trash (or a redneck) is, instead of a flyswatter, you have a twenty-two.
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#11
08-11-2003, 08:28 PM
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My favorite Foxworthy-ism is still "If you've ever had to shimmy up a water tower at midnight with a can o'paint to defend your sister's honor, you might be a redneck."
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#12
08-11-2003, 08:45 PM
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I think white trash is a big category.
A redneck is a special type of white trash... usually one with a farmer's tan and a hole in the crotch of his pants. |
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#13
08-11-2003, 08:52 PM
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You might be white trash if you rip off someone else's definitions of rednecks for your OP.
For example: http://members.tripod.com/~SilvrWolf/h4.html IDBB, are all Southerners white trash? Does "white trash" apply only to Southerners? Excuse me. I have to go now. The front porch just fell in and killed three of my dogs. |
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#14
08-11-2003, 08:58 PM
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My favorite
If you wear a dress thats strapless and a bra thats not. |
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08-11-2003, 08:58 PM
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You pay for your trailer by the week.
Your car is sporting more than one little spare tire. Formal wear is any t-shirt without holes. You dream of the days you can afford a double-wide. One or more of your relatives have been injured by a tornado in a trailer park. You have three cars but only two batteries. You get a set of jumper cables for Christmas. You buy duct tape by the case. You wear your good teeth when you go to a wedding or funeral. |
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#16
08-11-2003, 09:03 PM
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Hell no, and no... And for the question of rednecks and white trash: You can be a redneck without being white trash, you cannot be white trash without a bit of redneck.. Rednecks tend to be hard working people, just not usually overly educated or classy....White trash usually denotes a lazier person. (And we, of the preservation of Southern gentality, are highly offended you would deem us all white trash.) Well, I'm trying not to be, but it's hard! ~J |
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#17
08-11-2003, 09:14 PM
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You own a subscription to Biblical Archaeology Digest. I only mention this because I was forced to go to Wal-Mart this week and was desperately in search of a decent magazine when I realized Wal-Mart has to have the absolute worst magazine selection of any store around. Its basically Nascar, monster trucks, tattoos, 50 different selections of country home decoration ideas (flags, ducks and more flags) and the above mentioned magazine.
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#18
08-11-2003, 09:14 PM
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You have more than three tattoos that are cover-ups.
Your third and fifth ex-wife are the same person, and she's currently your sister in-law. You reload your own shotgun shells. You're particular about your brand of snuff. You can't understand why all beer brands don't come in quarts. You skinned your first opossum before you were 13. |
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#19
08-11-2003, 09:51 PM
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Thank you, Jaade, for defending all us Southerners. I consider myself a bit of a Goth Redneck. I know people who are white trash, but I do not attempt to associate with them unless I am forced to for some reason. IDBB |
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#20
08-11-2003, 09:54 PM
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WARNING: THESE ARE ALL GROSS EXAGGERATIONS, NOT MEANT TO OFFEND ANYONE!! White Trash: Walmart, feathered hair (I swear I still see this - you know what I mean? All straight, except little "wings" on the side.), trailer homes, heavy metal listeners (I LOVE heavy metal, hmm). Redneck: Cowboys hat, snuff, rodeo, boots, country music. I'm with the white trash camp. And wolf shirts are NOT white trash!! So there. |
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#21
08-11-2003, 10:18 PM
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Apparently I’m a Redneck then! (But I already suspected that – you should see my tan!)
I fondly refer to my 32-year old hunting trailer as The Guest House. I’m down to four dogs. I have a “good” hat and a “working” hat. I keep the good hat safely at home so it won’t get dirty. I’ve been known to get all dressed up for a rodeo (that means starched Wranglers!), and forget the good hat and wear the old one out in public. Just last week, I got caught outside wearing shorts, boots, and the old hat while I tuned up my bow for hunting season. This was right before we all jumped in the truck to go see where the fire was. No, I didn’t change. Um, did I mention that I’m a woman? And sorry, not a one of these is a gross exaggeration. Objects may be closer than they appear, YMMV. |
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#22
08-11-2003, 10:30 PM
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#24
08-11-2003, 10:37 PM
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I'm a black person who loves heavy metal and have relatives who listen to country music. Before I went veg one of my favorite foods was pork rinds which my mom called "paradise". I have an uncle who hunts and another who had a pet wolf/dog hybrid. (All of these people are on AngelMom's side of the family). Now what the heck does that mean? We're not black trash--eveyone owns their own home or trailer and has a job.
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#25
08-11-2003, 10:39 PM
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How interesting this thread is. It's fascinating how carefree and blase some SDMB members are about using the term "white trash" as a code word for poor, unsophisticated, rural white people in order to poke fun at them and mock them.
Why don't you change the thread title to "You might be nigger if..." and see what kind of traction you get before you get banned. The level of aggressive and naked contempt for the white underclass shown in this thread is not that far distant from how a Klansman or white power advocate might view black people, but I guess it's alright to make fun of them because they're poor and uneducated and well they're just plain trash. |
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#29
08-12-2003, 06:35 AM
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White trash on the other hand, are usually, but not always a subset of rednecks. As far as I can tell, part of being white trash is this sort of disengagement from the rest of society- white trash always seemed to me to be in a different world- one where the wolf t-shirts, tasmanian devil jackets, mullets, etc... are perfectly acceptable and even desirable. A world where behavior and social conventions are different than in the larger world- the only people I see at Wal-Mart smacking the s**t out of their kids are the white trashy types. |
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#30
08-12-2003, 07:24 AM
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Moderator's Notes:
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So . . . Thanks for pointing that out Zoe (and others), but in this particular case, I think I'll let it stand - with a word of caution to everyone. Please don't get in the habit of copying things here that you have found elsewhere on the net. Even if the site where you found them doesn't have one of these, ©, the material may be copyrighted. Unfortuantely, not everyone out there is as respectful of copyrights as the SDMB. Quote:
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#31
08-12-2003, 07:39 AM
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08-12-2003, 08:32 AM
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08-12-2003, 08:35 AM
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I will now respectfully ask a moderator to close and/or remove this thread. Apparently some people don't find my sense of humor (and the sense of humor of other posters in this thread) very funny at all.
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#35
08-12-2003, 08:41 AM
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I also like jokes about yer momma, weight loss tips, and information on how to make my penis longer and harder (or at least I would like it if I had a peener) but it doesn’t mean I like my inbox or my favorite message board filled with tired and worn out glurge. YMMV :::shrug::: |
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#36
08-12-2003, 08:53 AM
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You Might Be A Redneck If... Red Ain't Dead: 150 More Ways To Tell If You're A Redneck Games Rednecks Play Check Your Neck: More Of You Might Be A Redneck If... ...and so on. I'm presuming that all of the above entail the appropriate copyrights, and I'm willing to bet that most of what's been posted in this thread so far can be found in one of the above books. I'm just saying....
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#37
08-12-2003, 08:55 AM
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Well I'm sure as soon as the busy, busy mods get around to it, they will close and/or get rid of this thread as I've asked.
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#38
08-12-2003, 08:58 AM
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No, I don't. |
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#39
08-12-2003, 09:02 AM
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Which is why I asked it closed, Who_Me.
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#40
08-12-2003, 09:11 AM
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Actually, let me explain...
Jokes like this can be funny. Jokes about blacks can be funny when Chris Rock tells them. Jokes about rednecks can be funny when Foxworthy tells them. And it's not so much that only blacks can tell black jokes, but it's the spirit in which the jokes are told. On a message board, you can't tell if a joke is mean spirited or an exaggeration of a trait that may be funny even to the party the joke is about. I have some self-admitted redneck friends, I used to kid with them that they wouldn't be REAL rednecks until they put up one of those Billy Bass singing fish. Just to be spiteful, they went out and bought one. |
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#42
08-12-2003, 09:47 AM
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Who_me? says pretty much what I would about this issue. It's the tone of the presenter that determines whether such humor is funny or not. If the joke teller acts as if "Hey, I'm one of these folks and ain't we funny when this happens?" instead of "Look at these rubes. Have you ever seen anything more stupid?" then I'm more apt to laugh with rather than at.
The lack of anything but typed words leaves it to the reader as to whether that tone is even present. If I get redneck jokes in email, I know who sent them. If the sender is a fellow Southerner I laugh along with him/her on how apropos they are. If the sender is somebody not from this area and has made it a point in the past to try to demonstrate some superiority based on being from some other region of the country, I just delete the goddamned thing with a kind and gentle "fuck you" muttered under my breath as I do. The fact that other jokes sites have an abundance of these as part of their display dilutes the issue of copyrighting for me. It's not like Foxworthy created these things out of whole cloth. I would wager that Foxworthy heard these (or had them sent in to him) from dozens of sources. If we want to get technical about the copyright issues, Foxworthy would have to answer to Lewis Grizzard, Dave Gardner, Jerry Clower and most every other Southern comic who ever stood in front of a mike in a comedy joint. |
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#43
08-12-2003, 10:00 AM
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I'm constantly amazed at how any little thing can be construed as offensive on here. I didn't particularly find it funny, but it certainly didn't upset me any.
Come to Indianapolis and I'll take you places where the people can be labeled as nothing other than white trash. In fact, this week would be really great because we're having the State Fair. Whoo hoo! Hillbilly heaven!! |
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#44
08-12-2003, 10:09 AM
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Like I said before, any mention of the term "redneck" or "white trash" is now interpreted by some as an offense that's as bad as using the n-word. However, there is no supposedly inoffensive alternative to "redneck" or "white trash." Sometimes, I use "white working-class people of a rural Confederate cultural orientation," but that reeks of an awkward political correctness that makes liberals like me the butt of jokes on the Rush Limbaugh show.
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#45
08-12-2003, 10:14 AM
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#46
08-12-2003, 10:17 AM
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elmwood, the question is now under what circumstances would you ever need to specify in one sentence that the person or people you are talking about are 1) white, 2) working class, 3) rural, and of a 4) Confederate cultural orientation. When is it ever so important to get all of that out at once?
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#47
08-12-2003, 10:27 AM
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With all due respect, IDBB, you had to know this thread wouldn't last too long with this crowd. You do remember the trainwreck awhile back when a poster dared to use the term "white trash" to describe someone. I'm suprised it lasted as long as it did.
By the way, weren't you the one who started a thread awhile back about your husband's mullet?  And Diane, don't you know that it's wrong to judge and/or laugh at people, such as the wife beaters and mullets you said you make fun of? Interesting... |
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#49
08-12-2003, 10:43 AM
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Lessee...I overhauled a motorcycle engine in my living room once, and I found a lawnmower while I was cutting the grass one time.
And I'm originally from Detroit. Go figger. |
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#50
08-12-2003, 10:44 AM
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Well lets see apparently despite having a degree in Anthropolgy emphasis Archaeology, a B.S. in History and half a degree in Art I am still white trash because:
1. I have several beautiful well made t-shirts with wolves, native american symbols and other wildlife on them. I suppose non trash supports Nike's poor use of their labor. 2. I read things like Bibical Archaeology. God damn don't want people to know anything about the past. I suspect that poster has never read the magazine and has no idea of its content. 3. My husband has a mullet. Its his head let him look as bad as he wants. Bah... |
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