"What do you call the moisture between two white trash people having sex?"
"Relative Humidity."
Poor white trash; the great thing about making fun of them is that you can be as savagely mocking as you want because, hey, they're white, they're not part of some minority.
Unless you count people living in poverty as a minority, but that's a minor point I guess.
Poor white trash; they're ignorant, inbred, vicious, dirty and always high on speed or drunk. This is the way they're portrayed, it's the received wisdom, so it must be true.
Except....isn't the received wisdom about other groups, blacks or Hispanics or gay people or overweight people or what have you, isn't that called prejudice? And isn't prejudice wrong? Maybe it's less wrong when it's about poor white trash, um, pardon me, I mean socio-economically disadvantaged Caucasians.
Poor white trash; they're the ones who led the charge across the frontier, right alongside the missionaries and the whiskey peddlers. Such folk didn't have anything to lose back East so were always ready to move West with Manifest Destiny, with their mongrel dogs and their towheaded brats, their ragged clothes and their rifles. They had their uses in those days, were helpful when it came to wiping out or driving away the Native Americans, moving as they always did onto Indian land without bothering to check if it was legal to do so. Our government rarely if ever reined them in; they were America's shock troops, far more so than the 7th Cavalry.
Of course, once the frontier was closed we had to set aside a place on the other side of the tracks where they could live without us having to look at them. Poverty isn't attractive, whatever color it comes in, so we shunted them off to the side; out of sight out of mind was the motto. Go to any blighted trailer park or urban white ghetto and you can still see them in their millions.
Poor white trash; feel free to make fun of them if you like. It's a riot, and no one gives a shit anyway.


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He's rich white trash. OK to insult him? Too many damn rules in this world!
Oh wait, that's a rich white trash joke. Sorry, I grew up with the very best people. We would never use such lowly terms for the "less fortunate." We do wish you to understand, it's not that we don't want to look at them, we don't want them to feel bad about being so inferior. It's for their own good.
Want to go to their house for dinner? They come from the best family... old blood! I promise, no duck head soup but you can hear about all the Royalty they knew. I'll have them send you a plane ticket, business class okay for you?
Mike Huckabee is the outstanding political example of this ethnic group. Used to kill squrels and cook em in a crock pot.
Or, per Hunter Thompson, they drifted to the west coast and became bikers.
As a descendent of this particular race, it don't bother me much.
Bleue, business class is fine, but they won't take cash back there any more for drinks, you've got to use plastic and I don't have any!
I used to kill squrels too Nick, but I'm afraid of bikes. They're fucking dangerous.
I don't know what poorsinner had to say, but I doubt his credentials for anything about poor white trash. He just ain't the right kind of arrogant.
Me too Susanne, I'm from a long line of hillbillies and proud of it. Every now and then though the jokes at poor whites' expense get a little old. Regarding Poorsinner, I rarely delete comments unless they're from trolls or the seriously deranged, and he's both. I don't know or care why he's fixated on me, still less what little psychodrama he wants to act out here, but it bores me and I'm not playing along.
There is absolutely no excuse for poverty in this day and age, and the level of it in some sections of Western society is inexcusable. But it will stay the same until people have had enough.
Stupid rich assholes.
I was so poor, we didn't have hand me downs, we went naked. In the winter, when it was 40 below. We'd have been happy with a trailer, we lived in a box, a shoe box.
Times were tough but mama made sure we each had a penny for our hope chest. Yeah, our hope chest was a tic-tac box, screw you!
Damn we were so poor, the government paid us, a dollar. It was the best Christmas ever.
We got married just so we'd have something to eat that wasn't dirt and sawdust. Rice. Got to love it. We didn't throw it, we ate it. Raw. We couldn't afford water. Or a pot. Or a stove. We had fire in a bucket, too bad that damn bucket was plastic.
**More tears, runs off stage**
With grass clippings in it.
Nummy.
What?
**Again wanders off stage**
I know, I know, but I've already got the church rented up and everything. Church of Satan in Paris Texas accepts food stamps!! :D
Tink, you can make a nice tomato soup at a diner for FREE! Just get 3 or 4 packets of ketchup and a cup of hot water (waitresses hate when you order a cup of hot water but they've got no choice), add the ketchup into the water, and grab a pack of those free crackers they have and, voila! Be sure and tip well though; what's 20% of nothing?
"So, Diana, you were saying...you don't think the poor should be allowed in museums..."
"Well...I..."
"Excuse me. May I go to the bathroom?"
"Why, of course you may...."
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Michael Caine/Steve Martin, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
I'm sorry, I should not tell my sad, sad tales of such things of my life, it's a sad hard life, filled with whale poop(by the way, did you know whale poop may have a link to helping fight greenhouse effect?? Awesome I know!!!) and playing with myself.
Also, trying to find out how to verify that I registered for Selective Service back when I was 18. Sheesh, 20 years later, someone with connections to my keeping my unemployment is now asking for it, and I ain't got it!! WAAAAAAA!!!!!! :(
I'm registered gosh durn it, how else did I get my federal student loans back in 1902!!???? :( :( :(
Terrible for her that I grew up to be so fucking filthy.......
back with some jokes, just substitute redneck for white trash, most still work. Some of my favorites:
You might be white trash if....
You ever named a child after a dog.
You've painted a car with house paint.
Your Junior/Senior Prom had a Daycare.
The taillight covers of your car are made of red tape.
The FBI surrounded your trailer park twice so far this year.
Your wife has ever said,"Come move this transmission so I can take a bath."
The blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
You take a load to the dump and bring back more than you took.
The people on Jerry Springer's show remind you of your neighbors.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
According to this in 1999 the average income of a single person was $21,587
According to the CIA (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html) it's $46,400 (bullshit)
I guess the point I'm aiming for is 21k is not enough to live well in this country, if that is the average, then the working class poor are the majority.
Lesh
June 18, 2010 06:24 AM"
I don't laugh at poor white trash cuz I were one (till I worked my way up to just plain white trash).
My question is: Is it okay to laugh at really, really stupid and inane posts that contains word combinations like "smartypants in-talk"????
So, when Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself", that's only meant to apply to certain neighborhoods?
Keep on keeping it real, Nana.
ALSO - Between you and I, that has become the normal usage, no matter whether subject or object. Pretty soon our ears and eyes won't even wince...
Wow, Nan, you got PS101 and Lesh, and it's only 8 in the morning...
Girl-turds!
Must be SOME back-story...
White Trash honeymoon; The morning after the wedding night, the groom announces that he doesn't want his new bride. "Why the hell not?" he was asked. "'Cause she was a virgin; hell if she ain't good enough for her own family - I don't want 'er."
R~
~J~
Obviously this is in the "eye of the beholder" -- user of the disparagement.
One side of my family came from the South, and they were quite poor: many, many people were in the generations after the civil war. The Cotton Crisis beggared a lot of families in the early 1900s.
There was a distinction between being poor and white and being "trash" ... the distinction was that the "trash" were considered thieves and drunkards and worse.
You also risked being labeled "trash" if you didn't go to church, had children out of wedlock, or were too friendly/sympathetic to black people.
And thanks to everyone who took the time to read and to comment here, including Lesh before he underwent his Jekkyl and Hyde transformation. I'm thinking about going fishing today so if I'm not here to answer comments or delete PS101's spew that's why. It's Friday dammit and it's June; if I can't fish now then when?
You're right. It's wrong.
What do you call the rich ones masquerading as evolved?
Sad reality is, we all need to learn to be a bit more polite, without going so overboard with the "Double Talk" and "Newspeak" that we forget what the hell we're talking about.
The idea here is this. One we all learn to lighten up, AND be considerate at the same time, our society will have acheived some sort of enlightenment.
Until then, its gonna stay ugly.
-R-
Sure darlin' but first you have to ... you know the deal.
OKDaddy....
(10 seconds later) Daddy, your thingy tastes like poop!
Oh that's right darlin', I forgot... already loaned the car to your brother for the night
About Lesh:
He is the most seriously misogynistic and hateful poster here. I understand he lives on an island out in the ocean or something, so I don't think women here have to worry about being stalked by him, but he seems to have no filter.
Nana, thanks for your words. If it was my blog I would have yanked his comment all together for its venomous intent, but we all have our own choices to make and values and the lack of them to expose, and he certainly is showing his in every word.
Can you imagine asking someone who admits to being raped to prove it on a blog? He is so stuck in the sewer that is his hate-filled consciousness, he cannot even begin to imagine how inappropriate such a request actually is. To think I would revisit that terrible nightmare to satisfy someone who doesn't for a moment care in any way for those of whom he would make such a demand is unthinkable. Why in the world would anyone owe him proof of anything. What is his standing to make such a hateful claim on anyone's time or life. The truth of my childhood is locked away in closed court files, and they close those files for good reason.
Maybe that's why I only tell red neck jokes :)
'scuse me if it was here - my memory's shot.
She knocks on the door & asks if there's any work.
He says, Well, you could paint the porch. I'll give you $50.
Paint's in the garage.
Couple hours later she knocks on the door ...
... you've heard it before, I can tell.
I'll go read the comments. Noticed lesh is there. Sounds like fun.
Lesh lives outside a village in Malaysia.
The saddest part here, was to learn that he once taught in a boy's school in England.
None of it's ok.
You are an unalloyed creep.
Look to shit-posts like thoth's, if you want readership here.
So they can both watch NASCAR...!
Ha, relative humidity.........funny shit man .........
Signed, fellow white trash.....
Well-said, Nan!
DID YOU CATCH ANY FISH??????
Also, if you did,
ARE YOU GOING TO SHARE THEM WITH THE BESTEST CAT IN ALL OF OPENLAND, AFTER SID AND MARY BUT BEFORE RASCAL, CAUSE WELL, HE HASN'T POSTED IN LIKE A YEAR AND SO BY THE DEFAULT, TINK WINS!!!!?????
Hello?
Damn cold sausage and warm beer again, I guess!!
**wanders off to Grandma Gretel's house**
She says it's all done. He gives her the 50.
She says thanks, & " By the way, it's not a Porsche, it's a Lexus. "
Lesh, for example, is mentally ill WT who may even take a bath now and again and who may have a job. He showed up at your back door to beg for a cup of attention! See?
As for deleting, don't let the hard heads manipulate you into doing everything their way. Some of them even want the spam to stay. Thank God that they don't rule here.
Z, congratulations, your comment warranted a riposte from someone's sock puppet. I wonder who it could be?
Kim, thanks for the punchline, it was worth the wait. I think. And yes, the experiment in communication seems to have been a wash.
Tink, it grieves me to say I have no fish for you:( I wound up going to a Kaw Indian dance exhibition instead of to the lake; I'll be posting about it soon I hope. With pitchers!
Delia, Blind Dog, thanks for reading. I've told a few of those jokes myself, operating under the premise that I'm making fun of myself in the process so it's OK. To be honest, I'm not sure how valid that premise is; it reminds me of the character on Seinfeld who converted to Judaism so he could tell Jewish jokes with impunity. Oy!
Lesh, you claim to not be motivated by misogyny. I could go on at length here but I'll just reference your use of the witticism "girl-turd" and the things you said to Susanne and leave it at that. You're of course free to believe whatever you like, as others are free to interpret your posts and commentary as seems best to them, but it's worth considering the possibility that if nearly everyone you encounter sees hatred of and contempt for women in your words that the problem may lie with you rather than with the numerous insightful and intelligent people who are less than impressed by your assertions. You're a smart person, but there are plenty of other smart people around; the fact that they'd disagree with you doesn't make them less so, sorry but it just doesn't.
Xenonlit is about the smartest person in the world. I have no white trash jokes, but trig's made me gag. My only question is, will the white trash let me join their (hopefully, motorcycle) club? Most country clubs have to let me in now, but I hate golf. I hate the rich, not the poor, though if I ever win the lottery, that might change.
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I just can't. I'm going to behave.
But I will say that some of us might want to look a little farther back in history (ok, maybe a lot further back in history) before we start speaking of pacts within the parameters of human being. The *evidence* of who broke first lies there.
Not that this has a thing to do with Nana's post subject :D.
I actually like Jeff Foxworthy most of the time ;).
And while my momma's people came from the right side of the tracks my poppa's side came straight out of the hills. As many have said it's not the people, it's attitude - and fear, and greed and need.
In short it's just human (if not particularly humane).
Sorry I missed the party Nana (or maybe not ;).
Rated for counting on always up in the air here at Nana's.
They do this by blaming all the past attrocities and genocides and racism on poor whites. This way, wealthy and middle class Arabs, Chinese, Hispanics and Blacks will not be suspicious of rich white folks and their corporations when they come to town to hire them and exploit the natural resources and humanity of the area.
Its a clever strategy, actually. For the first time in history, we see poor, powerless white people as resposible for things they never, really had the power to accomplish. Wierdly, we see rich white folks wearing Benneton shirts and dockers as liberal, compassionate saviors, even though they are just a friendly version of the old Imperial Powers.