There’s a lot of “for instance” comments in several things you’ve posted just here in this topic. If they're not intended as insults of us & the South, then what would you call it? It's for sure not funny.
I call it handing back what I got for expressing my view.
(Albeit on a third-grade level, but I expect that around here, mostly).
Judging by what I read in the papers down here, if we were in church instead of on a newspaper forum, you guys woulda started shooting by now. ("Goldang furriners!")
If there's one thing I've noticed on these forums, with a couple of exceptions, most here get their feelings bruised quite easily-and it seems that the more 'conservative' they are, the bigger the buttache.
If CNN is looking for devils, they can start with the teabaggers……What does this have to do with this discussion?
LMAO!!!! IT'S WHAT THE #$&* ORIGINAL TOPIC WAS ABOUT BEFORE YOU BECAME A TALKING 'PREPARATION H' ADVERTISEMENT!!!! LMMFAO SRSLY!!! REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL TOPIC???? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!111ONEONEONE
It's called making a comparison point for emphasis. Something somebody who thinks literally might find hard to grasp.
I realize that if you've spent your life in Hooterville munchin' hawg maws it might be incomprehensible.
Until you and semi and bud and now Ubergoober made it that way.
Why did you feel the need to insult him by not using the correct ID?
Because we got history you're obviously not aware of. Ubergoober drew first blood in another thread quite some time ago-thereby removing himself from my list of people deserving my respect. I give what I get here. I've already made that clear.
just because you can't believe it from your Mayberry standpoint doesnt mean it didn't happen.
With maybe three or four exceptions, nobody at all is polite here.
Then what are you doing on this forum?
Expressing my views-just like you, but I didn't come here expecting to get my butt kissed. The internet (and most forums) are big, scary places. Nobody cares. You want your hand held and your butt kissed, go to church, not the internet. SRSLY.
I didn't move down here cuz I couldn't find a job-I left a job up there that paid five times more to come down here. Try paying attention with the other end
With the economy as bad as it's been for the past several years, we're supposed to believe you left a job that paid five times more to come to the South? Really? No application, they just happened to find you & picked you out of the blue?
Listen with the other end & that's not an insult?
No. I found them and they begged me to work for them. They paid so little before the drivers organized they couldn't get good employees and they couldn't keep them. They jumped at the chance to hire two veteran, licensed drivers. The economy up there was just great until the mortgage crisis. I found I couldn't continue to pay my $3,000/month mortgage AND fill my 275-gallon heating oil tank twice a month at $6/gallon for the seven months of winter we had back in '07 and '08 and I got behind and lost my house to foreclosure. Sure. I had a great paying job for what I do, but rents had gone thru the roof by then. By the time I left in '09, efficiency apartments were going for $1500/month in Fairfield county CT. (As opposed to the $300/month I pay for a decent sized trailer here.). I loved my job there but could no longer afford to live there.
once I could find a decent parking space in the middle of that Hee-Haw fuster cluck), and ya know who I saw standing outside smoking in all their fat, filthy, toothess glory? Not northerners
We’re supposed to be impressed by your Redneck Rampage? I would say you're making fun of the South & those of us that were born/live here.
No, I would say you're overly sensitive because I was merely countering Best's derogatory statements about northerners outside the flea market. The only people I saw/met anywhere at the flea market were as southern redneck as "Redneck Rampage" characters. People walking around with matted hair/ snaggle teeth/ filthy clothes, etc. In other words, people who obviously have no self-pride. If you purposely go out in public dirty and disheveled, you deserve whatever judgement you get.
They and bud immediately jumped on the butthurt wagon and aimed it at me (as you can see how this thread has completely deviated from where it started, so intent on 'putting me in my place' as they are...)
You've used the term butthurt more than once? Is that supposed to mean something to us "Southerners"?
No one is trying to "put you in your place". I started this discussion when I mentioned never having seen you say anything positive about this area, it's people or the State of Alabama. That you talked like we were all a bunch of stupid rednecks. Didn't mean anything rude or ugly but you jumped all over me about it.
Butthurt is just what it sounds like. It means the exact same thing to yankees that it does to southerners-it is understood worldwide by just about everyone under 60, but you'll never hear it on The Andy Griffith Show. . It was Best who made mention of my 'station in life.'. If yer gonna gimme a hard time, semi-please try to keep up.
I agree with Best that at first your attempts to insult the area/South was kind of sad. I also thought maybe you were here with no friends or family, homesick, and bitter at having to move. But after your constant insults of the South, I didn't feel sorry for you anymore. I saw your insults exactly in the way you meant them but I don't find it cute/funny as you seem to.
Well, then I'm sorry... you've obviously mistaken me for somebody who gives a s#!t.
I wasn't aware this was a popularity contest-although I *can* say I've done fairly well in that respect if some of the new friends I've made on these forums are any indication. Seems it's just the bitter, broken old men and the stuck-up women who don't like me, but that's OK. I really have no use for high-maintenance personalities anyway...
Where exactly did Politics come into this topic? Nobody has ask you to stroke them as far as I've seen, anytime on this forum. I haven't seen you called a POS liberal or gimme-that once in this topic. If you think this discussion is a political bongo-party, you need to re-check yourself at the door. I don't think anyone here wants to "bite you" and/or ask you to show them any respect. It would be nice to see you be a little more respectful of the South & it's people, but that's your call to make. No one can make you do anything you don't want to. If you think it's funny to insult the South, keep having at it.