North Vs South

[Malikon]

Northerners think they're soooo smart.

Southerners are smart enough to let them keep thinking that.

[MineGoesTo11]

You're all southerners to me.

[Malikon]

oh? what are you going on aboot, eh?

[Joeydego]

Originally Posted by Webtroll

As a Southerner I've encountered my fair share of ignorance, but for every idiot I encounter here I encounter 2 or 3 more idiots from the North who think making fun of Southerners is good sport. Maybe you could ask the jackass who started the thread wondering how people can smoke or get fat? That guy is the biggest idiot on this forum, but I don't see you going after the drivel he spouts. What's worse, someone who doesn't know the way the Confederacy is rightfully looked down upon or the Northerner who thinks he's witty making fun of others?

Oh wait, you mad, bro?
Nice try for a hearty meal.

[Webtroll]

Originally Posted by Joeydego

Oh wait, you mad, bro?
Nice try for a hearty meal.

that's U mad bro. You like to start threads making fun of others, don't you? Keep it up, I'm sure the more people who read them the bigger your reputation gets. I know you're an ass, and I know you could give a shit what someone else thinks of you. What I don't know is why the mods tolerate you.

[Joeydego]

Originally Posted by Webtroll

that's U mad bro. You like to start threads making fun of others, don't you? Keep it up, I'm sure the more people who read them the bigger your reputation gets. I know you're an ass, and I know you could give a shit what someone else thinks of you. What I don't know is why the mods tolerate you.

Still not feeding you. Go play somewhere else. Adults are speaking. Run along now....

[Thumpalumpacus]

Shit, Joey, you've got a regular goddamned fanclub going here.

Fvckin' sellout.

[Mantis]

those Skynyrd boys seemed to be all right !

[MineGoesTo11]

Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

Shit, Joey, you've got a regular goddamned fanclub going here.

Fvckin' sellout.

I was into JoeyDego before he was popular

Poseurs!

[Hairless_Ape]

I love Southerners!

Especially when I'm in their neck of the woods (usually NC or GA) and they ask me where I'm from.

"New Jersey"

They take 2 steps back... I LOVE IT!!!!

[Malikon]

I remember when Joey was just about the music.

Now it's always, "drugs and chicks, drugs and chicks,...where'z muh haterz at?"

[Joeydego]

Some of y'all simply slay me...................

[Skintaster]

Originally Posted by ZoomZilla

I find it interesting how they label you down here. I am a northerner, and when I moved to the south, you would get comments about being a yankee. Why? Who cares. If southerners ever moved to the north, would they get the same type comments? No.

There are fringe people everywhere, but it seems more than fringe down here. Maybe they were raised to hate the north? It's no different than people raising their kids to be racist. It's quite sad.

I assure you it's a two way street. I've travelled all over this country, and had MANY encounters with people disparaging Southerners or Texans in a few cases. They don't usually come right out and say it, but what happens instead, is upon meeting me, and deciding that I'm an "ok fellow" or whatever, they launch into some variation of:

"How can you stand to live in a state with so many rednecks?" or: "You don't seem like you're from the South, most of those people are awful."

Some version of one of those. They generally meant well. trying to "compliment" me for not meeting their negative southern stereotypes, but that's not really a compliment is it? And it just betrays a strong regional bias on their part... And a lot of ignorance too.

Yes, some people in the South fit those stereotypes, and some are a bit sensitive to criticism from Northerners, but there are reasons for that kind of attitude.

Now me? I think all of that weird regional stuff is LAME, and I try to avoid stereotyping people based on where they live, even if they meet those stereotypes from time to time. Generalizing about enormous populations of people is never accurate.

so both "sides" feed this. Some Southerners are prickly about being criticized, and some people from other regions can be offensive at times... Perhaps by accident.

And I got to come to Joey's defense. He's one of the good guys on this forum, and I think his motives for these kinds of threads are mostly about gaining a broader perspective, and not just stirring shit.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Originally Posted by Joeydego

Some of y'all simply slay me...................

You're just trollin' for haters. I heard Morrow is going to start a social group, "JoeyDeGo Away Already". He's already ordered lube, too.

[MineGoesTo11]

Originally Posted by Joeydego

Some of y'all simply slay me...................

That's what ya get for bringin' a knife to a gun fight!

[Skintaster]

Also... I was thinking about this at work... But some people (Not necessarily Northerners) DO seem to paint the American South as being "Less civilized" and maybe even "More dangerous" than I think is fair.

I think a lot of it is rooted in long running cultural biases based on the South's past as a rural society vs the more "civilized" urban centers of the North East. Those biases are still alive, but for what reasons?

I can find backwards people ANYWHERE in this country, and I just don't see why those stereotypes still exist.

Consider this... There are entire movie genres that rely on "Evil Southerners" as villains.

Watch "Deliverance" and try to mentally substitute the scary "hillbillies" with any other racial or cultural stereotype. think that would go over very well? But in that movie, Southerners are portrayed like subhuman racists. They even throw in a retarded kid... Perhaps suggesting what? Inbreeding or something?

And then there are other films like "Southern Comfort" or even "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and many of it's descendants. Now I love "TTCM", and it was made by a Texan, but it still relies on scary rednecks to spook people.

Oddly, the real cases that spawn these types of horror movies all seem to happen in places like Wisconsin (Ed Gein) or Ohio (Jeffery Dahmer), but still film makers seem to think that southern rednecks make scary ass cannibal movie villains for some reason.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm not so sure they classify the South as "scarier", myself. I've met an awful lot of New Yorkers, Bostonians, and Angelenos who take a perverse pride in how dangerous their rough parts of town are.

[Skintaster]

Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

I'm not so sure they classify the South as "scarier", myself. I've met an awful lot of New Yorkers, Bostonians, and Angelenos who take a perverse pride in how dangerous their rough parts of town are.

I understand that, but I think to a lot of non Southerners, parts of the South have taken on an almost mythic level of danger... Full of evil throwback boogeymen that might want to rape or eat them.

[Malikon]

well to be fair Skin,......you did try to rape and eat me.






Luckily I grabbed your banjo, started playin' and we had a ho-down instead.

[Hairless_Ape]

Originally Posted by Skintaster

I understand that, but I think to a lot of non Southerners, parts of the South have taken on an almost mythic level of danger... Full of evil throwback boogeymen that might want to rape or eat them.

That's because some of us have had the misfortune to travel to WV.

**Shudders**

[121064]

Well, when you look at culture, the South has it all over the north (and I'm a Yankee by birth). Music and food, almost ALL the good stuff comes from the south. Or south of the border.

Sadly, the highest out-of-wedlock birth rates, the highest illiteracy rates and the highest welfare rates are mostly in the south, too.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Originally Posted by Malikon

well to be fair Skin,......you did try to rape and eat me.

Luckily I grabbed your banjo, started playin' and we had a ho-down instead.

"Instead"? It looks like Skinny was gonna have a hoe down no matter what you did.

[Skintaster]

Originally Posted by Malikon

well to be fair Skin,......you did try to rape and eat me.






Luckily I grabbed your banjo, started playin' and we had a ho-down instead.

All I know is that I really just want to grab a bunch of "yankees" this weekend, and well... Torture and eat them.

It must be because I live down here.

[Malikon]

*takes a tentative step south of the Mason/Dixon line*

[Skintaster]

Originally Posted by Malikon

*takes a tentative step south of the Mason/Dixon line*

[MineGoesTo11]

I'll vouch for eating cornbread with bbq... that's good stuff right there.

[FrankieOliver]

Yeah, I want to invite all my southern fried friends up this way, take them out to eat and show them how fast diners are supposed to be served in this century.

[Skintaster]

Originally Posted by FrankieOliver

Yeah, I want to invite all my southern fried friends up this way, take them out to eat and show them how fast diners are supposed to be served in this century.

I tell you one thing I really wish the South had - New Jersey style diners. So good.

[Malikon]

The north has good food, don't get me wrong. I love a lot of the food up here.


But if you're going to have a BBQ, a picnic, any kind of outdoors party with beer and music?

Forget about it. The South crushes!!!

Best food, awesome music, shitty beer, and generally attractive women who know how to put a hurting on ya

The good kind a hurtin'

[FrankieOliver]

I ate a lot of incredibly delicious food during the seven weeks I was down south. I also learned a thing or two about patience, ffs. In one place, I waited just under one hour for my breakfast. The food was to die for, but holy sh*t I could have passed away just waiting.