What is trashiness?

[micrometers]

The defining element of trashiness that I"ve come up with is anger and frustration. People who don't make other people feel like they can be better, but instead make people feel worse.

 

[slayer202]

umm, no

 

[feralkid]

Hell no.

 

[Baked]

You're white, lives in a trailer park, consumes lots of alcoholic beverages, and fights with your opposite gender friend all the time.

 

[micrometers]

You're white, lives in a trailer park, consumes lots of alcoholic beverages, and fights with your opposite gender friend all the time.

yes, but you end up like that because you're negative and cynical, angry.

 

[feralkid]

yes, but you end up like that because you're negative and cynical, angry.

Nope.

 

[Zebo]

Showing up to the dinner table w/o a shirt on.

Blasting base for everyone to hear.

Chewing tobacco.

Spitting on sidewalk.

Tramp stamps

I'm sure there are 1000's of trashy moves, you know em when you see em.

 

[angminas]

Some of them are victims of severe emotional trauma. Some of them are foolish or stupid. Some of them are lazy and manipulative. Some of them are bitter and cowardly. Some of them are filled with lust and hate. And some of them just like to pick on the others to make themselves feel better.

Unless you want to overgeneralize, there's not one defining element. It's a rat's nest of various kinds of people who don't know how to live. It has little to do with money...there are trashy people at every income level. Money just helps hide or smooth over the trashiness.

But if I had to quickly boil it down, I'd say lack of self-control combined with lack of direction.

 

[micrometers]

Some of them are victims of severe emotional trauma. Some of them are foolish or stupid. Some of them are lazy and manipulative. Some of them are bitter and cowardly. Some of them are filled with lust and hate. And some of them just like to pick on the others to make themselves feel better.

Unless you want to overgeneralize, there's not one defining element. It's a rat's nest of various kinds of people who don't know how to live. It has little to do with money...there are trashy people at every income level. Money just helps hide or smooth over the trashiness.

But if I had to quickly boil it down, I'd say lack of self-control combined with lack of direction.

yeah that's more like it. and when you talk to them face to face, they just seem a little...off, you know?

 

[Zeze]

Just general low-class ness. That has nothing to do with money or wealth, but actually how they carry themselves.

 

[olds]

The defining element of trashiness that I"ve come up with is anger and frustration. People who don't make other people feel like they can be better, but instead make people feel worse.

Not even close

 

[angminas]

yeah that's more like it. and when you talk to them face to face, they just seem a little...off, you know?

One thing most of them do tend to share is being opinionated. They think they already know all the answers, so they don't listen. Problem is, their answers are wrong, which is why they are where they are. It's like trying to fix a car with the service manual from a refrigerator and then telling your mechanic friend that he just doesn't understand.

 

[olds]

Trashy:

Not trashy:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I base my view of "trashiness" based on how well people treat other people. Strangely enough, there are less trashy people in trailer courts than corporate boardrooms.

 

[HeXen]

behavior, plain and simple. every society has expectations of acceptable behavior.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Stupid, uncouth, vulgar, poor values, inflated sense of self worth.

 

[micrometers]

I base my view of "trashiness" based on how well people treat other people. Strangely enough, there are less trashy people in trailer courts than corporate boardrooms.

Ever see those bumper stickers that people put on pickup trucks that go something like...I dunno, just how would I put it, vulgar? That's the mentality I'm talking about.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Not trashy:

Uhhh... did you catch the panties?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Ever see those bumper stickers that people put on pickup trucks that go something like...I dunno, just how would I put it, vulgar? That's the mentality I'm talking about.

So am I. The difference is the boardroom denizens use words with more syllables and put them in memos instead of on bumpers.

 

[feralkid]

Uhhh... did you catch the panties?

He must be joking.

Or perhaps blind?

 

[davmat787]

Uhhh... did you catch the panties?

I bet he is speaking in relative terms for her. And besides, a nice dress does not make someone all of the sudden not be trashy, its a mental condition that will of course manifest itself physically, but a state of mind none the less.

 

[Bovver]

These people are prime examples of trash. http://youtu.be/YvxNgdFeWqM

 

[olds]

Ever see those bumper stickers that people put on pickup trucks that go something like...I dunno, just how would I put it, vulgar? That's the mentality I'm talking about.

Like the balls hanging off the drawbar.