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As I am often amazed that "country folk" think they are so much more American and better than those who choose to live in urban surroundings.
Your personal bias is coming through loud and clear. You give the condescending attitudes of the rural bashing urban crowd a free pass yet continue to criticize the rural folks for responding in kind.
Your personal bias is coming through loud and clear. You give the condescending attitudes of the rural bashing urban crowd a free pass yet continue to criticize the rural folks for responding in kind.
No, what I tire of us is the whole inferiority complex that many rural Americans have with the whole "oh city slicker in your black shiny car think you so much better than me cuz you gots fancy college 'grees n' stuffs, well I can farm and live off the land." It's a persecution complex, so many country slickers think that everyone from the suburb/city is mocking them or looking down on them, they constantly whine about this. But then to sit on this thread and do the exact thing you complain so mightily about is tad hypocritical. Most of the "city slickers" on here rarely complain about being "looked down upon," so when they talk trash at least they're not being hypocrites.
I also tire of the "oh po' city slicker couldn't last a day out heruh in these parts." Please, just because I don't live in a trailer or on a farm doesn't mean I can't handle myself. I grew up in a suburb that was literally 5 minutes away from being in farm country, anyone from my part of Minnesota can attest to that. I've also lived in Southern California, Virginia, rural south Georgia, and now I live in the city in north Georgia. Stop with the arrogance. Or at the very least don't whine when it's dished right back to you.
And no one has said that at all.
It would be folks that share this attitude that I would be highly wary of sharing anything with if the supply grid shut down suddenly.
Tell me, do you have the wherewithal to feed you and yours if it did happen?
Yes. Just because I don't live on a farm currently don't assume I don't know what I'm doing. Contrary to your false black/white world where everyone is either a real 'Merican living off the land without the oppressive guvmint intruding on their lives or a limousine ridin', latte sippin' opera attendin' effeminate liberal some of use who live in a city setting can manage to adapt to all sorts of different cultures and areas.
Yes. Just because I don't live on a farm currently don't assume I don't know what I'm doing. Contrary to your false black/white world where everyone is either a real 'Merican living off the land without the oppressive guvmint intruding on their lives or a limousine ridin', latte sippin' opera attendin' effeminate liberal some of use who live in a city setting can manage to adapt to all sorts of different cultures and areas.
You are tossing out a false premise with your second sentence.
Gee, I LOVE opera, does that mean -gasp- I am effeminate?
I must be going straight to hell!
Oh noes!!!!!!!
No, what I tire of us is the whole inferiority complex that many rural Americans have with the whole "oh city slicker in your black shiny car think you so much better than me cuz you gots fancy college 'grees n' stuffs, well I can farm and live off the land." It's a persecution complex, so many country slickers think that everyone from the suburb/city is mocking them or looking down on them, they constantly whine about this. But then to sit on this thread and do the exact thing you complain so mightily about is tad hypocritical. Most of the "city slickers" on here rarely complain about being "looked down upon," so when they talk trash at least they're not being hypocrites.
I also tire of the "oh po' city slicker couldn't last a day out heruh in these parts." Please, just because I don't live in a trailer or on a farm doesn't mean I can't handle myself. I grew up in a suburb that was literally 5 minutes away from being in farm country, anyone from my part of Minnesota can attest to that. I've also lived in Southern California, Virginia, rural south Georgia, and now I live in the city in north Georgia. Stop with the arrogance. Or at the very least don't whine when it's dished right back to you.
Get real. I've lost count of the number of times your supposedly superior and accepting city crowd have referred to rural residents as trailer trash, uneducated, rednecks, and a host of other intentionally insulting labels. As I pointed out in an earlier response to one of your one sided requests for civility it was suggested in this thread that we should stick to farming and leave governance to others. Remarks like that do not encourage polite discourse yet you voice no objection to them.
Despite the scores of negative remarks directed at those of us that choose to live somewhere other than cities you can only find fault with our responses. Your feigned indignation is an utter load of crap.
Hey- that's a beautiful thing! A junkyard! That looks like a '49 Ford to the right. I think I see a '70 Buck Skylark and a '57 Chevy in the back.When I was a kid, I used to love to investigate junkyards for old auto parts. I really miss (even as a wealthy 50 year old) the lack of junk yards to look for good parts. Heck, we used to shoot rats with .22 rifles in dumps for entertainment; now there are only landfills and no open dumps, which deprives a generation of that sophisticated form of entertainment.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Old tires propagate disease spreading mosquitoes, rats breed very well and are able to share the diseases they spread, ......................
I have seen many rural homes along highways that look as bad, or worse, than the picture I posted. Europeans, who visit America, comment on this and make it a joke when they return home.
Old tires propagate disease spreading mosquitoes, rats breed very well and are able to share the diseases they spread, ......................
I have seen many rural homes along highways that look as bad, or worse, than the picture I posted. Europeans, who visit America, comment on this and make it a joke when they return home.
Then turn off that highway and drive onto some roads where beautiful homes are.
Old tires propagate disease spreading mosquitoes, rats breed very well and are able to share the diseases they spread, ......................
I have seen many rural homes along highways that look as bad, or worse, than the picture I posted. Europeans, who visit America, comment on this and make it a joke when they return home.
Yeah,...like there's no urban slums that are worse than the picture posted. How many slum pictures would you like to see? The internet/news is full of them.
Would you care to comment on the burned-out cars, vacated buildings, and rows of slum housing? Or, are you contending that "rats and mosquitoes" only live in the country?
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