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Posted on 6/7/14 at 5:12 pm to Phat Phil
Posted on 6/7/14 at 5:12 pm to Phat Phil
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I live in Atlanta and people here are assholes. No southern hospitality here. I have my guard up at all times.
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You run into an a-hole in the morning, you ran into an a-hole... You run into Assholes all day, then you're the a-hole...
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Posted on 6/7/14 at 6:13 pm to PacoPicopiedra
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Funny you mention working the tobacco fields. My wife was born and raised in Alcoa, TN and her family had a farm in Seymour. When I first visited the area with her 20 years ago her family's farmhouse (they had a tobacco farm which she worked as a little girl and still, to this day, talks about with disdain) was surrounded by mostly fields and a few houses built by her relatives. Now it's surrounded by subdivisions. Lots of changes in that particular area in a relatively short period.
Working tobacco is by far the hardest work I've ever done
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:05 pm to BigOrangeBri
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Working tobacco is by far the hardest work I've ever done
Hardest work I've ever done, too.
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:13 pm to abellsujr
I wouldn't move to DFW if my life depended on it. You have got to be joking with that comment. That city represents everything that is wrong with this country. Urban sprawl wasteland of mindless consumerism. With shitty weather as a cherry on top.
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:28 pm to JustinBieberFan
quote:JBF, though I spent the majority of my life in the bootheel and other parts of SE Missouri, I now live up in Wentzville. I have not really experienced anyone up here that seems to share MIZ-SEC's opinion of semo, though its still fairly rural where I live so maybe that's the difference. There is zero doubt however, that the two are in two different worlds culturally.
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Mizz-SEC
The way you feel about southern Missouri is the same way I feel about northern Missouri
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:36 pm to Sleeping Tiger
quote:I really don't care about my history. I'm curious where my family immigrated from, but that's about it.
Most of you don't even know or understand your own history.
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:46 pm to pvilleguru
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Is Southern Culture Dying? quote: Most of you don't even know or understand your own history. I really don't care about my history. I'm curious where my family immigrated from, but that's about it.
Good for you. You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been. Knowing about the people and places that made you gives you depth of person
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:51 pm to BigOrangeBri
quote:Knowing where my family came from won't change me at all or give me "depth of person". I know my dad's side came from England and my mom's side from Germany. That doesn't change anything about me and sure doesn't affect where I'm going. Knowing if my great-great-great grandfather came from Monchengladbach or Munich or London or Manchester won't make any difference either.
Good for you. You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been. Knowing about the people and places that made you gives you depth of person
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:54 pm to pvilleguru
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Knowing where my family came from won't change me at all or give me "depth of person". I know my dad's side came from England and my mom's side from Germany. That doesn't change anything about me and sure doesn't affect where I'm going. Knowing if my great-great-great grandfather came from Monchengladbach or Munich or London or Manchester won't make any difference either.
I didn't say knowing where "from" I
said knowing "about" the people and places. It's all good, do your own thing bra
This post was edited on 6/7/14 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 6/7/14 at 7:57 pm to DawgsLife
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Your Spurs did pretty well, did they not? Something like 22 turnovers and they still won. If they can cut their turnovers down they should do pretty well!
Yessir! Hopefully more of the same in game 2. Also got lucky with MIA missing a lot of open threes. Gonna have to play much better to get game two, but here's hoping!
Posted on 6/7/14 at 8:50 pm to Czar Castick
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I have not really experienced anyone up here that seems to share MIZ-SEC's opinion of semo
I actually laughed when I read it. I guess Missouri will always be a state divided.
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two different worlds culturally
No doubt about it.
Posted on 6/7/14 at 9:09 pm to BigOrangeBri
Who gives a frick
Posted on 6/7/14 at 11:11 pm to parrothead
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Who gives a frick
Here, here.
Posted on 6/7/14 at 11:57 pm to parrothead
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Posted by Message parrothead Is Southern Culture Dying? Who gives a frick
frick you bama bitch
Posted on 6/8/14 at 1:39 am to UAFanFromNOLA
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T here are certain aspects of Southern culture I wish would die such as the prevalence of many forms of prejudice and much of the ignorance that its undereducated population often prominently display, but the strong sense of tradition, respect for our past, and the general attitude that Southerners have toward one another is something I believe that should be cherished and perpetuated.
Or perhaps the undereducated population is the driving force behind one's prejudice.
Posted on 6/8/14 at 7:42 am to Czar Castick
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JBF, though I spent the majority of my life in the bootheel and other parts of SE Missouri, I now live up in Wentzville. I have not really experienced anyone up here that seems to share MIZ-SEC's opinion of semo, though its still fairly rural where I live so maybe that's the difference. There is zero doubt however, that the two are in two different worlds culturally.
It's a joke. Sort of. I've enjoyed the folks and time I've spent in So. Mo., east and west. It's the climate that created this map that I'd rather not infect Missouri. It's going to be a losing battle, however, and Missouri will be the worse for it.
Posted on 6/8/14 at 10:10 am to BigOrangeBri
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Is Southern Culture Dying?
Dying? No.
Changing? Yes, like it always has. Southern culture is in constant flux. It is such a fluid thing because it covers so many different sub-groups, races, and cultures and as those groups change, so too does the South. It's like one big coral reef, constantly blossoming with new coral and losing established colonies when the tide sinks too low or an outsider intrudes and plucks one of the branches from its foundation.
Posted on 6/8/14 at 10:14 am to BigOrangeBri
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Good for you. You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been. Knowing about the people and places that made you gives you depth of person
That's not necessarily culture, but identity. I think you're wondering more about the latter rather than the former. And Southern Identity is even harder to get a grip on than the culture. What makes a Southerner? Clearly its not race or an adherence to certain traditions because we all seem to be different in those respects. And it can't be purely geographical, though we could say that Southerners tend to reside in a certain area of the country. It may be as simple as a Southerner being someone who self-identifies as Southern.
Posted on 6/8/14 at 11:28 am to tylerdurden24
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tylerdurden24
Great post.
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