What is a "Yinzer"? (Pittsburgh, Millvale: hairstyles, atheist, area)

[TechieTransplant]

I just thought of a few more:

A yinzer is :

Someone who doesn't like the thought of having beautiful women cheering on the Steelers on the sidelines (cheerleaders)


Someone who will quickly tell you "I'm from Pittsburgh", but when asked what part of the city they live in, will tell you "oh, I would never live in the city"


darn, there was one more......hmm

[gallacus]

Originally Posted by scottrpriester

I just thought of a few more:

A yinzer is :

Someone who doesn't like the thought of having beautiful women cheering on the Steelers on the sidelines (cheerleaders)

So, for you, Scott, the word "yinzer" means someone from Pittsburgh that disagrees with you on just about anything, no matter how trivial?

[TechieTransplant]

Originally Posted by gallacus

Not to get too far off subject, but I find that you could teach an entire college psychology/sociology class on the basis of this one response. From reading this post, one can infer that people have the tendency to take issues about which they have loads of pent-up aggression, and apply them like a glove to any number of pejorative stereotypes, in this case the "yinzer." I don't think there's another person on the planet for whom the word "yinzer" conjures up images of someone timidly driving through a rainstorm, but isn't it interesting how for Scott that somehow applies.

What I take from this is that, if you are a negative person, any class-identifying stereotype can/will be used to pin frustrations on. On the inverse, if you're an optimist, class-identifying stereotypes tend to conjure nostalgic thoughts of things you love about different types of people.

I follow the Post Gazette traffic reporter on Twitter, and even he made a statement the other day regarding how Pittsburghers can't drive in the rain.

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by gallacus

So, for you, Scott, the word "yinzer" means someone from Pittsburgh that disagrees with you on just about anything, no matter how trivial?

I guess dogs are yinzers, too.

[TechieTransplant]

Originally Posted by gallacus

So, for you, Scott, the word "yinzer" means someone from Pittsburgh that disagrees with you on just about anything, no matter how trivial?

This is the only city in the US where men would complain about the thought of having cheerleaders. But bring on the 200 pound women wearing Steeler hard hats waiving their dish rags!

[WINDCHIMES]

i do believe that anyone could be one then, lets not stereotype it with the white man who drinks beer and doesnt go out in the rain however, cause I know alot of progressives who do that and are also boorish and uneducated...lets knock it off with the stereotypes here please, its offensive, I know alot of people who live in places like polish hill etc who fit that bill but they are also people, who have feelings and lives, imagine someone reading that, how they would feel, maybe that person is not well, wanting to end their life, how do you feel now? PLEASE people, have some compassion and stop saying you want to get rid a segment of the population because they do not think or feel the way you do, I mean ...didn't we learn from that already in history? Or maybe NOT.

[ex-burgher]

Scott could write the Yinzer version of Jeff foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck If" series!

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by ex-burgher

Scott could write the Yinzer version of Jeff foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck If" series!

Except Foxworthy was "laughing with", not "sneering at".

[WestLibertyAve]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

I blurted this out at the husband of the woman who totaled my vehicle on 09/29 as he got in my face harassing me, and he was quite offended to be called that, which is why I also assumed "yinzer" had a negative connotation.

I'm surprised he didn't then call you a ***, and wonder why you were so offended. You're really just too dense to get it. Virtually no one I've ever come across uses that term in every day conversation, and when someone who's only been here a year starts using it as a condescending catch-all term, it just makes you look as stupid and ignorant as the people you're trying to debase.

I'm sure in a few years you'll be on another sub-forum, complaining about the people in Pittsburgh mistreating you like the ones in NEPA and NoVa did...when it's quite clear you bring most of the problems upon yourself by propagating such inane topics as this.

[gallacus]

Originally Posted by scottrpriester

This is the only city in the US where men would complain about the thought of having cheerleaders. But bring on the 200 pound women wearing Steeler hard hats waiving their dish rags!

The Bears, Browns, Giants, Lions, and Packers all do not have cheerleaders, and I believe most fans of those teams would be unhappy if cheerleaders were added.