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Today, I saw a classy gentlemen with a lovely bumper sticker

shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
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He sported a goatee and cheap walmart shades and cigarettes all over his dashboard as if they were battle tokens.

I wonder why people still think its ok to be overt monsters. I can understand being racist on the inside, what makes him think running around acting like a moran is a smart idea?
It reminded me of an incident at Hooters back in 2010, when 2 black dudes walked in and sat at the bar. A white guy sitting there asked the waitress if she was gonna serve their kind. I don't recall the exact words but he ended up throwing a fistful of change at her and storming out.

Was hoping in 7 years the residents of Manassas would have made a bit of progress.
But then it occurred to me we are knee deep in the 21st century and they still haven't joined civilized society, so I guess I'm asking too much.

On an unrelated note, I dont like this place much even though I'm white. Northern Virginia has the rudest, meanest, angriest, most hostile human beings I've ever met. And I've lived all over the world.
If someone would give me a damn job I'd leave this place in less than 24 hours.
 
I used to have a foreman who had a similar bumper sticker on the back of his work truck.

If I had known then what I know now, I'd have picked my own damned cotton!"

For some reason, it wasn't very popular when we had to work in Oakland...
 
shortylickens said:
On an unrelated note, I dont like this place much even though I'm white. Northern Virginia has the rudest, meanest, angriest, most hostile human beings I've ever met. And I've lived all over the world.
If someone would give me a damn job I'd leave this place in less than 24 hours.
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I think that living somewhere you don't want to live is pretty terrible, maybe start looking for a new job?
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
I think it might mean "If I knew I'd have to deal with all these black people I'd have picked my own cotton". That's my guess.
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Could be, I suppose, seems likely that's it, but it doesn't seem apparent just reading it. Must be a quote or something that a certain region would be aware of or something.
 
sandorski said:
Could be, I suppose, seems likely that's it, but it doesn't seem apparent just reading it. Must be a quote or something that a certain region would be aware of or something.
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I never saw or heard it either. Honestly I can't get too riled up and go for monster. I think "Man of Walmart".
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
I think it might mean "If I knew I'd have to deal with all these black people I'd have picked my own cotton". That's my guess.
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It may have racist connotations to some, but it could also mean something like, "If I knew we would lose the war and be run by the North (liberals/Obama etc.), then I would have released the slaves and picked my own cotton". I guess its popular because no one knows what "this" is, so they put whatever grievance they have as the "this" in their mind.

This is why I have no bumper stickers on my car, because people see what they want in them.
 
KB said:
It may have racist connotations to some, but it could also mean something like, "If I knew we would lose the war and be run by the North (liberals/Obama etc.), then I would have released the slaves and picked my own cotton". I guess its popular because no one knows what "this" is, so they put whatever grievance they have as the "this" in their mind.

This is why I have no bumper stickers on my car, because people see what they want in them.
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Since you have no bumper stickers I automatically assume you are some sort of stuck up liberal who thinks they know everything. :Colbert:
 
shortylickens said:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm5qefIIcAA2wGz.png


He sported a goatee and cheap walmart shades and cigarettes all over his dashboard as if they were battle tokens.

I wonder why people still think its ok to be overt monsters. I can understand being racist on the inside, what makes him think running around acting like a moran is a smart idea?
It reminded me of an incident at Hooters back in 2010, when 2 black dudes walked in and sat at the bar. A white guy sitting there asked the waitress if she was gonna serve their kind. I don't recall the exact words but he ended up throwing a fistful of change at her and storming out.

Was hoping in 7 years the residents of Manassas would have made a bit of progress.
But then it occurred to me we are knee deep in the 21st century and they still haven't joined civilized society, so I guess I'm asking too much.

On an unrelated note, I dont like this place much even though I'm white. Northern Virginia has the rudest, meanest, angriest, most hostile human beings I've ever met. And I've lived all over the world.
If someone would give me a damn job I'd leave this place in less than 24 hours.
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You know what they say about people who meet assholes all day long.
 
KB said:
It may have racist connotations to some, but it could also mean something like, "If I knew we would lose the war and be run by the North (liberals/Obama etc.), then I would have released the slaves and picked my own cotton". I guess its popular because no one knows what "this" is, so they put whatever grievance they have as the "this" in their mind.

This is why I have no bumper stickers on my car, because people see what they want in them.
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Having worked with people like this, yes, it's absolutely racist and the intention is to mean that they now have to 'deal with black people'. Insert black people for any other race/creed/nationality/religion/sexuality these kinds of people don't care for (there's a bumper sticker for each).
 
shortylickens said:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm5qefIIcAA2wGz.png


He sported a goatee and cheap walmart shades and cigarettes all over his dashboard as if they were battle tokens.

I wonder why people still think its ok to be overt monsters. I can understand being racist on the inside, what makes him think running around acting like a moran is a smart idea?
It reminded me of an incident at Hooters back in 2010, when 2 black dudes walked in and sat at the bar. A white guy sitting there asked the waitress if she was gonna serve their kind. I don't recall the exact words but he ended up throwing a fistful of change at her and storming out.

Was hoping in 7 years the residents of Manassas would have made a bit of progress.
But then it occurred to me we are knee deep in the 21st century and they still haven't joined civilized society, so I guess I'm asking too much.

On an unrelated note, I dont like this place much even though I'm white. Northern Virginia has the rudest, meanest, angriest, most hostile human beings I've ever met. And I've lived all over the world.
If someone would give me a damn job I'd leave this place in less than 24 hours.
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Oh, don' drive down ol' Virginny. I also lived in Manassas during the '80s. It was time in my life when I thought I was middle-roadin' liberal Republican. My eyes were starting to open by mid-1985, and by '87 I was using my plastic RNC-membership card with a carefully-cut serrated edge to scrape the mud from my shoes during bad weather -- always within plain view of people I'd begun to despise.

I '84 Manassas, I lived in a neighborhood of a black and white racial mix, an old librarian across the street and her postal service mailman neighbor, the mulatto car-mechanic on the corner lot of my side of the street. When the mailman discovered that I called myself a Republican, he more or less suggested he would go home and get his .22 and shoot me. Somehow, that didn't bother me too much.

I've known all sorts of people, people with roots in Petersburg, people from Richmond, good-ol'-boys from Thornburgh and rural Fredericksburg -- cornpone Li-berrr-alls righteously speaking blue-collar drawling kitchen language when expounding on the merits of the Civil Rights Act. Black, white, mulatto, part Native American -- they all get along. I have seen all of these folks just getting along fine.

Even the Virginia State Troopers are refined gentlemen, and they are cultivated as such -- just watch your pedal-foot or use a radar that can be quickly removed and obscured.

Do yourself a favor. You're ON the RIGHT SIDE OF TOWN! NEAR the I-66! It's JUST aBOUT that TIME of YEAR!! Fill the tank Friday night, and then take off immediately or early next morning, and head down the I-66 toward Front Royal. Find the Blue Ridge Parkway.

And pack a bottle of wine or whatever, and a lunch. The dogwoods will be in blossom.
 
BonzaiDuck said:
Oh, don' drive down ol' Virginny. I also lived in Manassas during the '80s. It was time in my life when I thought I was middle-roadin' liberal Republican. My eyes were starting to open by mid-1985, and by '87 I was using my plastic RNC-membership card with a carefully-cut serrated edge to scrape the mud from my shoes during bad weather -- always within plain view of people I'd begun to despise.

I '84 Manassas, I lived in a neighborhood of a black and white racial mix, an old librarian across the street and her postal service mailman neighbor, the mulatto car-mechanic on the corner lot of my side of the street. When the mailman discovered that I called myself a Republican, he more or less suggested he would go home and get his .22 and shoot me. Somehow, that didn't bother me too much.

I've known all sorts of people, people with roots in Petersburg, people from Richmond, good-ol'-boys from Thornburgh and rural Fredericksburg -- cornpone Li-berrr-alls righteously speaking blue-collar drawling kitchen language when expounding on the merits of the Civil Rights Act. An African-American statistician, and law professor -- teaching both sides of that fence.

Do yourself a favor. Your ON the RIGHT SIDE OF TOWN! NEAR the I-66! It's JUST aBOUT that TIME of YEAR!! Fill the tank Friday night, and then take off immediately or early next morning, and head down the I-66 toward Front Royal. Find the Blue Ridge Parkway.

And pack a bottle of wine or whatever, and a lunch. The dogwoods will be in blossom.
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Grew up in Arlington which was quite conservative when I was young. Things have definitely changed there. I would suggest that really good schools, on top of 'immigration" of professionals of all kinds to support all kinds of government and government contracting, is what changed the makeup of NOVA.
Edit: Also, a high mean income also helps.
 
BonzaiDuck said:
Oh, don' drive down ol' Virginny. I also lived in Manassas during the '80s. It was time in my life when I thought I was middle-roadin' liberal Republican. My eyes were starting to open by mid-1985, and by '87 I was using my plastic RNC-membership card with a carefully-cut serrated edge to scrape the mud from my shoes during bad weather -- always within plain view of people I'd begun to despise.

I '84 Manassas, I lived in a neighborhood of a black and white racial mix, an old librarian across the street and her postal service mailman neighbor, the mulatto car-mechanic on the corner lot of my side of the street. When the mailman discovered that I called myself a Republican, he more or less suggested he would go home and get his .22 and shoot me. Somehow, that didn't bother me too much.

I've known all sorts of people, people with roots in Petersburg, people from Richmond, good-ol'-boys from Thornburgh and rural Fredericksburg -- cornpone Li-berrr-alls righteously speaking blue-collar drawling kitchen language when expounding on the merits of the Civil Rights Act. Black, white, mulatto, part Native American -- they all get along. I have seen all of these folks just getting along fine.

Even the Virginia State Troopers are refined gentlemen, and they are cultivated as such -- just watch your pedal-foot or use a radar that can be quickly removed and obscured.

Do yourself a favor. You're ON the RIGHT SIDE OF TOWN! NEAR the I-66! It's JUST aBOUT that TIME of YEAR!! Fill the tank Friday night, and then take off immediately or early next morning, and head down the I-66 toward Front Royal. Find the Blue Ridge Parkway.

And pack a bottle of wine or whatever, and a lunch. The dogwoods will be in blossom.
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After reading something like this I am always thankful for what I have and where I live.
 
sandorski said:
Could be, I suppose, seems likely that's it, but it doesn't seem apparent just reading it. Must be a quote or something that a certain region would be aware of or something.
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I'm confused about your confusion. The meaning of it seems crystal clear me. First of all, it displays a confederate flag. What do we generally know about people who display confederate flags in the 21st century? Then there's what is says, which seems pretty obvious me to. YMMV I guess.
 
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