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Title: Redneck TV
Post by: nofi on August 02, 2012, 12:59:29 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/12/07/142861568/disappointing-redneck-tv-shortchanges-the-american-south

television is full of these shows. i don't see any entertainment value here that you can't find in a bar full of drunks. like the article says these shows portray the south in a very poor light and it really annoys me. this is how most of america will percieve the south if they don't already. surely someone can come up with something better if they are hell bent on a reality show. :sad:

yee haw my ass! :sad:
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: gweimer on August 02, 2012, 03:20:58 PM
Stereotypes sell, I guess.  I find more rednecks in Ohio, and my home state of Illinois, than I care to think about.  Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck..." jokes started when he noticed valet parking at a Detroit bowling alley.

I can't actually think of any southern redneck I've met, except maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd.   :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Dave W on August 02, 2012, 04:01:37 PM
If you were forced to watch reality TV, which would you rather watch: redneck reality shows, or the Kuntrashians?

Given that choice, I'd take redneck TV any day. Thankfully I don't have cable.

Stereotypes sell, I guess.  I find more rednecks in Ohio, and my home state of Illinois, than I care to think about.  Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck..." jokes started when he noticed valet parking at a Detroit bowling alley.

I can't actually think of any southern redneck I've met, except maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd.   :mrgreen:

There are redneck types everywhere, whether or not they're actually called that.

Thinking of another southern stereotype, did you know that the largest membership by far in the second Ku Klux Klan (the one that arose in the 1920s) was in Indiana?
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on August 02, 2012, 04:06:17 PM
The best part for me is watching all the Northern transplants who embrace this idiocy as though it's actually the legitimate culture. If I took a tv crew into the woods with me, they wouldn't be coming out.
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: gweimer on August 02, 2012, 04:37:25 PM
If you were forced to watch reality TV, which would you rather watch: redneck reality shows, or the Kuntrashians?

Given that choice, I'd take redneck TV any day. Thankfully I don't have cable.

There are redneck types everywhere, whether or not they're actually called that.

Thinking of another southern stereotype, did you know that the largest membership by far in the second Ku Klux Klan (the one that arose in the 1920s) was in Indiana?

Dave, I know that.  My grandfather was part of that for a week.  They were too extreme even for him.  Indiana has long since been the center of the KKK.
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: uwe on August 03, 2012, 11:51:25 AM
Sometimes (not only) the South rises again ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKGqwZK-5U&feature=related
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on August 03, 2012, 12:11:47 PM
Have you seen what that looks like now? Thank you, no. If I want to fantasize about a child star brought to the spotlight by an incestuous lothario parent, there's Debby Boone.
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: uwe on August 03, 2012, 12:25:58 PM
To her credit, she might have gained a few pounds, but there is no record of her as a KKK member!  :mrgreen:

It's better to be fat than fascist.  8)
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: nofi on August 03, 2012, 02:23:38 PM
now there's a bumper sticker.
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: uwe on August 04, 2012, 05:27:59 AM
 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Highlander on August 04, 2012, 10:18:08 AM
(http://guywebster.com/images/photographs/catherine_bach_1.jpg?1324601989)

Yee... Haw...! def' preeeefur the original... ;D
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: uwe on August 06, 2012, 05:07:59 PM
Do all Southern belles shower at home with their bathing suits on?
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Highlander on August 07, 2012, 02:19:47 PM
They do on prime-time telly... :P
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Pilgrim on August 07, 2012, 03:32:32 PM
I'm a generous and forgiving guy.  It's OK with me if they do that on TV.
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Freuds_Cat on August 07, 2012, 11:45:41 PM
Closest thing we've got to a redneck here are bogans.

Simple but obvious
(http://www.bogan.com.au/photos/cache/1be33b51e31dbc3a28ac12cf2b59ae29.jpg)
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Freuds_Cat on August 07, 2012, 11:50:04 PM
THEN
(http://guywebster.com/images/photographs/catherine_bach_1.jpg?1324601989)

Yee... Haw...! def' preeeefur the original... ;D

Getting older sucks  :-[

AND NOW
(http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2012/06/24/previews/Catherine%20Bach-DGG-036887.jpg)
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Dave W on August 08, 2012, 08:04:56 AM
Closest thing we've got to a redneck here are bogans.

Simple but obvious
(http://www.bogan.com.au/photos/cache/1be33b51e31dbc3a28ac12cf2b59ae29.jpg)

^ ^ ^ Classy!  ;D
Title: Re: Redneck TV
Post by: Highlander on August 08, 2012, 02:37:56 PM
She got rounder... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: