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.
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.
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.
No, no, no! It’s the other way around. Rednecks are just country people- the term comes from people who worked in the fields and got their necks sunburned, hence the “red neck” description. These days, it’s used more to describe someone from a rural area who isn’t a city person, more than anything else. I have friends of mine who are most definitely rednecks, but also have master’s degrees and make lots of money. They just happen to be country and proud of it.
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.
Yeah, a lot of this stuff appears to have come off other websites. but I doubt that anyone owns a copyright on any of it. Tough thing, to copyright a one-liner. On the other hand, we’d prefer that members don’t post things that are a blantant ripoff of anyone, copyright holder, or not.
Well, you see, we can’t insult the blacks because that’s wrong. We can’t call overweight peope ‘fat’. If we’re not allowed to insult the ‘White Trash’ people, then we’ll only be able to insult people with mullets… and you know how they and the white trash label overlap… :rolleyes:
You see, Astro, it makes people feel better about themselves to mock others because of their economic or cultural standing because what they are really saying is “Whew! I’m much better than those people!”
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.
IDBB
Maybe it makes me a hypocrite, but part of the appeal of going to the nitro drag races (as I did last Saturday) is to laugh at the mullets and dirty wife beater tank tops.
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.
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.
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.
