longeyes
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Hey, I still live in L.A. and I got belligerent reading about this
latest academic folly. Who sez Honor and hot tubs don't mix?
latest academic folly. Who sez Honor and hot tubs don't mix?
Here's what's wrong with you if you are a southerner
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Kaylee
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Stinger.. I'm not saying the U didn't get public funds (thought they get a fair amount from students, student families, and alumni endowments as well) -- I'm saying that it sounds like an undergrad research project.
At least when I was taking such a class, there WAS no budget. You printed out your own materials and went and bothered your classmates.
Sounds like much the same here. I could easily be wrong of course, and I certainly won't argue against the fact that their idea is stupid and rude to boot. But it doesn't sound like a massive fraud of taxpayer funds either. Just myopic college kids being myopic college kids.
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At least when I was taking such a class, there WAS no budget. You printed out your own materials and went and bothered your classmates.
Sounds like much the same here. I could easily be wrong of course, and I certainly won't argue against the fact that their idea is stupid and rude to boot. But it doesn't sound like a massive fraud of taxpayer funds either. Just myopic college kids being myopic college kids.
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Justin
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What Kaylee said.
-Droz, from the movie 'PCU'
HBK
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Makes me proud to be a southerner. We could do with more honor in the US. I also like Micro's idea about the institution of dueling.
MeekandMild
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Sounds like the southerners were trying to instill a little social responsibility into the otherwise rude and anarchic northern culture.
MicroBalrog
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Yes, directly, it relates to individual liberty, personal bias, and other such subjects.
RepublicanMan
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Southerners tend to be better shots. (there, now it relates to guns)
Besides, more of us own guns than you Yankees do.
DISCLAIMER: I am a Southerner living in the Yankeeland known as PA and therefore should not be taken too seriously.
Besides, more of us own guns than you Yankees do.
DISCLAIMER: I am a Southerner living in the Yankeeland known as PA and therefore should not be taken too seriously.
Body language.
The researcher who was bumping into people was doing it on purpose, not by accident.
As such, he was probably projecting aggressive body-language. The Southrons read his aggressive body-language and reacted as they had been taught - meet aggression with aggression.
The Yankees just wimped out.
An afternoon spent in study on a busy Southern street or mall will show that someone who bumps into another by accident will not draw an aggressive reaction, but I'm here to tell you, you start throwing your weight around on purpose and some ol' boy is gonna wind up seeing just how tough you think you are.
LawDog
The researcher who was bumping into people was doing it on purpose, not by accident.
As such, he was probably projecting aggressive body-language. The Southrons read his aggressive body-language and reacted as they had been taught - meet aggression with aggression.
The Yankees just wimped out.
An afternoon spent in study on a busy Southern street or mall will show that someone who bumps into another by accident will not draw an aggressive reaction, but I'm here to tell you, you start throwing your weight around on purpose and some ol' boy is gonna wind up seeing just how tough you think you are.
LawDog
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What is someone from LA?
A Dude of course, what else would they be.... But keep in mind that is a definition from one of those Southern Boys
A Dude of course, what else would they be.... But keep in mind that is a definition from one of those Southern Boys
RangerHAAF
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I was talking to a man I know who was originally from Ohio and like the majority of retirees from the north, he and his wife are now residents of Florida. It is interesting that he doesn't really consider himself a northerner, per se, because he told me that a lot of people that are from Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois(outside of Chicago) have a different mentality and take great exception to being lumped in to the same liberal group as people from NY, NJ and MA.
I personally have experienced what he's talking about because my stepmother is from MA; she's lived in Atlanta for the past 22 years and she still can't click with the locals.
I personally have experienced what he's talking about because my stepmother is from MA; she's lived in Atlanta for the past 22 years and she still can't click with the locals.
MeekandMild
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What LawDog sez:
Having raised several children south of the Mason-Dixon Line I must agree. I asked a couple of college lads about this today and they told me that if you give in to agression it only gives the aggressor incentive to further infringe on your space.
But there is another interpretation more consistant with Southron culture.
It is possible that the whiney, sissified yankee professor was not projecting aggression, rather playfullness...after all this was a research study. So the good boys from Dixie quickly picked up the game and pushed back. They are like well bred German Shepards, always willing to tussle. (Yankees, on the other hand, would not be able to see this and would flee what they presume to be hostility.)
I can't recall the number of times I've been dumped into a swimming pool by or "swapped licks" with my kids. All in fun of course, no aggression intended.
Sure there is aggression. Take Bill and Al and Jimmy et all, they hire thugs.
Having raised several children south of the Mason-Dixon Line I must agree. I asked a couple of college lads about this today and they told me that if you give in to agression it only gives the aggressor incentive to further infringe on your space.
But there is another interpretation more consistant with Southron culture.
It is possible that the whiney, sissified yankee professor was not projecting aggression, rather playfullness...after all this was a research study. So the good boys from Dixie quickly picked up the game and pushed back. They are like well bred German Shepards, always willing to tussle. (Yankees, on the other hand, would not be able to see this and would flee what they presume to be hostility.)
I can't recall the number of times I've been dumped into a swimming pool by or "swapped licks" with my kids. All in fun of course, no aggression intended.
Sure there is aggression. Take Bill and Al and Jimmy et all, they hire thugs.
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El Tejon
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As to this anti-modern Southerner professor, "those who have to criticize others are those whose minds are void." Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming, THE ESSENCE OF SHAOLIN WHITE CRANE v (1996) (citing Chinese proverb taught by Dr. Yang's master, Cheng, Gin-Gsao).
Being in academia all that time that I was, I can say that the Chinese are dead on, yet again.
Being in academia all that time that I was, I can say that the Chinese are dead on, yet again.
Butch
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OK El Tejon ( alias Grasshopper )
I'M still a TEXAN
I'M still a TEXAN
God please get me back to Missippi! If I get one more southern joke from these yankees pretending to be southern bc they are in Northern VA, I'm gona lose it. These folks in DC are so fra from the south, they might as well be in Canada. It is good to hear that I'm not alone. Maybe I'll start "Radio Free Dixie" for all my souther brothers trapped behind the lines
JohnBT
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What kind of Southerner goes to college in Michigan?
A confused one? One from a Yankee family that just happens to have a Southern address? Heaven forbid, a Yankee wannabe? One that can't read a road map and is lucky they didn't end up in South Dakota or South Bend when they were looking for South Carolina?
Research? More like a party game?
John
A confused one? One from a Yankee family that just happens to have a Southern address? Heaven forbid, a Yankee wannabe? One that can't read a road map and is lucky they didn't end up in South Dakota or South Bend when they were looking for South Carolina?
Research? More like a party game?
John
Marko Kloos
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As someone who has lived both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line, I much prefer the courteous Southerners over the (many) rude Yankees.
There are exceptions to the "rude Yankee" classification. When I lived in New England, I found that New Hampshirites and Mainers are comparable to many Southerners in that they are more laid-back, and more "old-fashioned" polite than folks from Massachusetts, Connecticut, or folks from NYC or NJ. Upstate New Yorkers are a whole different breed than their NYC neighbors, they're more "country" than most Yankees.
My ex-wife once said that she perferred to live in Yankeeland because "at least they're rude to your face". I strongly disagree...it doesn't matter to me what kind of names you call me when I am out of sight, as long as you are polite and courteous to my face.
Manners are the lubricant for social intercourse, and Southerners as a whole have much better manners than Northeastern Yankees or Californians.
There are exceptions to the "rude Yankee" classification. When I lived in New England, I found that New Hampshirites and Mainers are comparable to many Southerners in that they are more laid-back, and more "old-fashioned" polite than folks from Massachusetts, Connecticut, or folks from NYC or NJ. Upstate New Yorkers are a whole different breed than their NYC neighbors, they're more "country" than most Yankees.
My ex-wife once said that she perferred to live in Yankeeland because "at least they're rude to your face". I strongly disagree...it doesn't matter to me what kind of names you call me when I am out of sight, as long as you are polite and courteous to my face.
Manners are the lubricant for social intercourse, and Southerners as a whole have much better manners than Northeastern Yankees or Californians.
El Tejon
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Butch, that's "brasshopper", suhr.
Sylvilagus Aquaticus
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In the '80's when the Rust Belt got cranked up churning the unemployed into the south there were a couple of bumper stickers that were popular around here-
"We don't care how you did it up north"
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"Yankees ae like hemorrhoids- the ones that come down and go back up are less problem than those that come down and stay down"
By the way, one of my best friends in those days was an underemployed design engineer from Cleveland who moved here to cast pipe in a foundry for 1/5 of what he had been making up there.
Regards,
Rabbit.
"We don't care how you did it up north"
and
"Yankees ae like hemorrhoids- the ones that come down and go back up are less problem than those that come down and stay down"
By the way, one of my best friends in those days was an underemployed design engineer from Cleveland who moved here to cast pipe in a foundry for 1/5 of what he had been making up there.
Regards,
Rabbit.
Duncan Idaho
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Law Dog nailed it.
Most Yankees (I are one by birth, and I are one now by geograffy, but I used to was a southerner - SC & FL - good while it lasted) have no situational awareness. You might need to go so far as to actually hit them with your fist before they "get it".
Bump into a southerner by accident (when they are sober ), and they will most likely simply say 'excuse me'. Bump them on purpose however...well, just imagine the outcome if all of the 9/11 hijackers had flown out of Houston that fateful day...
Most Yankees (I are one by birth, and I are one now by geograffy, but I used to was a southerner - SC & FL - good while it lasted) have no situational awareness. You might need to go so far as to actually hit them with your fist before they "get it".
Bump into a southerner by accident (when they are sober
), and they will most likely simply say 'excuse me'. Bump them on purpose however...well, just imagine the outcome if all of the 9/11 hijackers had flown out of Houston that fateful day...Sean Smith
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Alot of dead Texans.
I've lived in several parts of the country, and have family that has lived for many generations in Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. One thing I've always noticed, is that the first thing out of a many Southern mouth, is a boast about how good their manners are. The second thing, is typically an insult to his visitor's heritage, state, or whatevuh! I even get that crap from some of my Southern friends and relatives. Pretty contradictory if you ask me. I've always wondered about folks who have a constant need to boast and toast (regardless of where they're from). Normally, it's a sure sign of a deficiency of some sort. Perhaps the definition of mannerly, friendly, or proud, is subjective.
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I've been to Tennessee, South & North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Texas, & Florida. All in all, the southerners can teach the Berkelites and Californians something called Manners. California use to be nice, but I think we got invaded by a breed called New Yorkers. We gave the world drive by shooting. What the heck are those egg-heads thinking of?
Orthonym
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Well, we ARE better shots by nature. Proof? The NRA was founded by DYs to try and teach themselves to shoot as well as we do.
As for the other thing, Ah jest caint hep it, it must be mah Celtic timpamint!
As for the other thing, Ah jest caint hep it, it must be mah Celtic timpamint!
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