How do we win over those awful, idiotic inbred hicks?

[franksolich]

Lurker Deluxe (114 posts)    Fri Jan 25, 2013, 01:18 PM

109. Reading this thread

In reading this thread it shows me how many people have absolutely no clue at all about "rural" towns and the life the people in them have.....

There occurred an incident the other day, when a friend of a friend dropped by here.  The friend wasn’t with her; she was just checking up on me as a courtesy for her friend.  The friend, who’s now a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and lives way over on the other side of Nebraska, and this friend of hers are both natives of Maryland, where the friend of the friend still lives; an “urban planner” with some governmental agency.

She’s kind of a pushy, rude person, and an eastern establishment effete to boot; she’s been to Nebraska before, and usually finds something strange about us.

I was sleeping when she came in, and she quite obviously thought it declasse that I was sleeping in a pair of light grey cotton pants (cuffed) and a tan cotton shirt (short-sleeved).

No shoes or socks, though.

I explained that I’ve been ill (which she already knew), and wished to be presentable in case I have to be carried out to the emergency room or the morgue.

“Well, you should be dressed for bed,” she advised; “pajamas make one presentable.”

I don’t own pajamas, never have, even as a kid, I replied; “pajamas are decadent.”

She suggested a bathrobe could cover one‘s underwear, when one gets up.

I don’t own a bathrobe, never have, I replied; “bathrobes are queer.”

And besides, I added, usually I don’t wear underwear to bed anyway.  “Although right now,” I helpfully pointed out, “I’ve got on clean underwear, so that if I end up in the emergency room, I won’t be embarrassed wearing dirty ones.”

“Well, what do you usually wear to bed?” she asked.

As I said, she’s kind of a, uh, pushy person.

I told her, and she freaked.

Damn uptight easterners.  Everything's a cultural shock to them.

[delilahmused]

Well, it's pretty obvious none of those inbred city folk have done any farming...it takes critical thinking skills & hard (dirty) work...I don't think they're familiar with either.

Cindie

[98ZJUSMC]

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 08:37 AM
 global1 (10,299 posts)

If The Dems Made A Concerted Effort To Appeal To Rural Voters What Would You Recommend They Do?....
I was reading a post this a.m. that garnered a lot of responses about "why Dems don't do well in rural areas". It made me wonder - what could Dems do to appeal to rural voters to get their vote?

You know something, smartest people on the planet?

I was born urban, raised suburban and have been, more or less, rural since I was 18, by choice and yes I consider the military rural.  Rural folks have an abundance of something you will never have:

Common Sense.


It doesn't require book smarts to know that you come in out of the rain......

...unless you're on ambush, but that would scare you.


We don't want your solutions to problems that don't exist.  We don't make decisions based on emotion.  We live and survive by experience, by what works and what does not work.  We won't listen to you because you have no real idea what you're talking about.  And you're stupid.

Mostly because, you're stupid.

..and before you go off on the education thing, you would be amazed at the number of BA/BS/MA and even PhDs that live out here.

[98ZJUSMC]

There occurred an incident the other day, when a friend of a friend dropped by here.  The friend wasn’t with her; she was just checking up on me as a courtesy for her friend.  The friend, who’s now a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and lives way over on the other side of Nebraska, and this friend of hers are both natives of Maryland, where the friend of the friend still lives; an “urban planner” with some governmental agency.

She’s kind of a pushy, rude person, and an eastern establishment effete to boot; she’s been to Nebraska before, and usually finds something strange about us.

I was sleeping when she came in, and she quite obviously thought it declasse that I was sleeping in a pair of light grey cotton pants (cuffed) and a tan cotton shirt (short-sleeved).

No shoes or socks, though.

I explained that I’ve been ill (which she already knew), and wished to be presentable in case I have to be carried out to the emergency room or the morgue.

“Well, you should be dressed for bed,” she advised; “pajamas make one presentable.”

I don’t own pajamas, never have, even as a kid, I replied; “pajamas are decadent.”

She suggested a bathrobe could cover one‘s underwear, when one gets up.

I don’t own a bathrobe, never have, I replied; “bathrobes are queer.”

And besides, I added, usually I don’t wear underwear to bed anyway.  “Although right now,” I helpfully pointed out, “I’ve got on clean underwear, so that if I end up in the emergency room, I won’t be embarrassed wearing dirty ones.”

“Well, what do you usually wear to bed?” she asked.

As I said, she’s kind of a, uh, pushy person.

I told her, and she freaked.

Damn uptight easterners.  Everything's a cultural shock to them.

Reminds me of that thing a few years ago about having to get shots before going to a NASCAR event.

*head------------>desk*

[txradioguy]

frank reminded me of something with his story.

Do any of the DUmmies know exactly WHERE the Mason-Dixon line is?

You know...that line that divides the North from us Southern yokels.

[AprilRazz]

DUmmies, you should never criticize a farmer with your mouth full. Who do you think puts food on your table and fills the bins at the supermarket? You would never be able to use your EBT card without them.


And Frank, not all of us here in the East are like that. She sounds like the typical yankee lib to me. (No offense to you decent yankees out there. I married one and lured him to the south. I don't think he ever wants to head back north. )

[Tucker]

Well, it's pretty obvious none of those inbred city folk have done any farming...it takes critical thinking skills & hard (dirty) work...I don't think they're familiar with either.

Cindie

Laborious tasks are what other people do. They think of themselves as the overseers who control the whip.

[Karin]

Fellow cavers, be skeptical if you get an invite to a democrat party barn dance or a democrat party hay ride or a democrat party hootenanny.  They're probably going to try and get us drunk on moonshine and then indoctrinate us.

   "hootenanny."  That's what they're thinking.  Put on one of those charming country parties and hand out obamaphones.  That's the ticket! 

It was amazing in that thread, the entire absence of values.  Lurker Deluxe tried to talk some sense into them, but he was ignored.  When that one freak started to bring communist themes, he was aghast.  He really, really doesn't belong there.