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[apocalypsos]

The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory poster. *squees*

EDIT: I might not agree with the vitriol and the generalization of the whole South being bad, but it doesn't stop this from being a funny rant. :)

LOOPY FANGIRL OF EDIT: Is it Wednesday yet? They just played a radio commercial for The New Gilligan's Island and all I could think was, "OMG, new Lost in two days! *squeals*!"

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[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

*is dead from t eh sexy*

Gah. Can't. Fucking. Wait.

[barbed-whispers.livejournal.com]

"And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice."

BWAHAHA. That is definitely the funniest thing I've read all day.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

*sigh* It really sucks that there's no real way to clearly distinguish the "recessive" Southerners from the "dominant" ones, if you will. We're not all assholes, really... though I suspect that those of us who don't quite hold with the values expressed in the above diatribe would be as comfortable living anywhere else as we do here. I think it's more a matter of sensible people and... not-sensible people, or educated and uneducated, and we just happen to still have lots of the latter.

Not gonna blame the Southern Baptists, not gonna blame the Southern Baptists... see that? my biased ex-Mormon ass is not gonna blame the Southern Baptists. @_o;

[bellonagoddess.livejournal.com]

Okay...being from the South (GEORGIA), I'll do it....I blame the fucking Southern Baptists. Cheese and crackers, I've never met so many hypocritical jack-asses in my life. ;)

[arks.livejournal.com]

Texan. Seconded.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Thank you, I feel so much better now that someone's said it. *mops brow*

It's just that... some of them are so nice... and at the same time you want to ask them what the hell is wrong with their heads!

(NC myself, and I spent my formative years in Cary ("Containment Area for Relocated Yankees), but I was born in Texas and lived in TN till I was four, so I still consider myself Southern even though I've lived in Maryland and Indiana too) *stops chattering*

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Nah, not the Southern Baptists' fault. They're all independent congregations, anyway. Blame the SBC, if you want, though. I'll go there.

I'm from Middle Tennessee. Yep, got a fair number of buttheads. But then again, uneducated doesn't necessarily mean "racist asshole"...cause I know some poorly schooled folks who are sweet as pie, and I know some bigots with advanced degrees. ::sigh::

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I hate my half of the nation. At least Florida is too busy being stupid and tanning to do some real gun-totin' damage. At least the Space Coast, I can't speak for Central Florida. I KNOW they do their share, my father's side lives there. *facedesk* With their dog named Redbone. I kid you not.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

We don't have a Central Florida, the hurricane ate it

[velocityboy.livejournal.com]

I lived in NC for eleven years. Eleven very long years.

Much of what the writer rants about defines the South to a tee. The problem with the rant, if any, is the insult to the very few really amazing & wonderful people in the South, and they do exist. They're compassionate, they're thinkers, they're a part of the world not against it.

Rednecks aren't what endanger us. Our greatest threat is the mass of people who look & act enough like you & I, but who for some reason unknown to logic adhere to causes that can only be summed up as hateful and/or barbaric.

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[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

As someone born and raised in Alabama, I can tell you I would be none too upset if we just gave the South back its independence, with enough time for me to pack up and haul ass to Northern California. I love Southern accents, Southern weather, Southern food, Southern hospitality. But it gets lost in a sea of Southern redneck dumbass ignorance.

Maybe we could keep North Carolina? It's pretty there, and I think it was only a Weak Bush state...

And I can't stop staring at that poster still. Gah!

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Uhbuhguh! Man! The Man! And the Hat! And the Shoes! This time I'm really dead.

[akacat]

Guh. I can't stop staring at that poster!

Urm... it looks like New Gilligan's Island isn't on until Nov 30?

[shyday.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness... that poster just brightened my entire outlook on life.

2005 is going to be such a good movie year.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

The glamrock fangirl in the very deepest, darkest pits of my heart is dancing much like your icon right now.

I need that poster for wallpaper.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

OMG! Johnny!

Tophat!

Swirly clouds!

Chocolate!

And yay Danny Elfman music! I swear, Danny Elfman and Tim Burton must be best friends or something. Anytime you see a movie with one, the other is there too.

Which is the way it should be. :)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I hope this remake keeps some of the cool tricks of the original. For example, when the characters see the river room setup for the first time...it was the same time the -actors- saw it so the emotions were genuine.

[wicked-dragon-x.livejournal.com]

Just to mention: it's not a remake.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Thanks for The South link. Obviously some generalizations, but a good rant nonetheless.

[zephiey.livejournal.com]

Amazing how someone rants about the south but fails to remember that five of the original colonies were southern. Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia were part and parcel of the original thirteen. The writer of the Declaration of Independence was southern.
Twenty one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were from southern states. Of those 21, 13 were lawyers, 1 practiced medicine, 4 were soldiers and 3 were private citizens. If it hadn't been for those 'hicks' there would be no United States, no republicans nor democrats.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

So the hell what? I can't stand all the "Founding Fathers" bullshit, anyway. Sure, great, good for them, but regardless of history this country will only ever be as good as we continue to make it. No matter what the historical significance of the South, the point is that a lot of its current inhabitants are acting like assholes.

And just so as not to be unfair, so are a lot of the current inhabitants of... pretty much the entire country, really. The backwardness is just a little more obtrusive down here.

[zephiey.livejournal.com]

What I was answering to was the original writer's opinion that the struggle for independence started in states like Massachusetts, or New York. To suggest that the other colonies simply followed behind those other colonies is ludicrous. The struggle for independence began in all 13 colonies.

As for backasswardness I experienced more racism, intolerance and general asinine behavior when I lived in PA, worked in NY and NJ then I did when I lived in Maryland or now in South Carolina.

The perfect example of asinine behavior is the 4 men who visited the public golf course where I work. All were from New York, all professionals and all asses. They made sure everyone knew exactly what they did for a living, very loudly and very rudely. Why they would think being corporate lawyers, stockbrokers and software designers would impress people is beyond me. They acted like petulant 5 year olds because they could not purchase any alcohol. They did not understand that without a liquor license we are not able to sell liquor or beer on Sundays. It is a state law, and has nothing to do with being southern, Southern Baptists or living in the bible belt.

Many southerners may have voted for Bush but there are just as many that voted for Kerry.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

So, uh, they have him chanelling Marilyn Manson do they?

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

...All I could think of, when I was reading that rant was "God, don't mention how much Texas sucks, don't mention it don'tmentionitdon't."

Why yes, I do like my state. It's not MY fault there's still asses in it. Besides, Texas has the better food. soory blue states, Texas has you beat in the food department. no. sorry.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I agree. I went to Texas. If it wasn't for my dogs and my carefully established life in Hurricane Country, I would have stayed in Texas. It just rocks.

Except no one there but one believed me when I complained about the toilets being too tiny. Seriously. It's like trying to whiz on a penil tip.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

XD.
Yay! *snoogles with carefully prepared Texmex and cajun monstrosities*

Where did you visit? I'm in Houston, thiiis close to Galveston and the freaking coast.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I visited Dallas and the Half-Price Used Bookstores.

If Half-Price was a woman, I'd propose. Them places rocked.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

amen, man, amen.

wait. Half-Price books is male? *propose to*

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

I have conflicting feelings about that rant. My elections teacher occasionally busts out with West-bashing rhetoric about how we were founded on the federal tit. In revenge, I'm not doing his paper tonight. Eat that!

Yeah, but look, California, Nevada, Washington and Oregon? Are the federal tit over here. But the West is this whole other non-Mason/Dixon (oh someone slash THAT) affiliated issue nobody from the North OR the South like to remember.

Wow, we are all self-centered little shits aren't we?

I'll never consider my homestate red. Better dead than red, as the old guard said. ;)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Now I'm thinking about Gilligan with a smackfarthing addiction

[loesaurus.livejournal.com]

OMG! Kick. Ass.

That is all...

O. K.

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

Poster is all I needed. CANNOT wait.
Rant is hysterical, prejudiced, accurate, inaccurate, provacative, and funny.
California is not the federal tit- it's either unreclaimed Mexico, or abandoned Russia. Or washed ashore Japan...(see Assembling California by John McPhee, and Ecotopia</> by Ernest C. something or another) (besides, the feds disown CA as "the land of the fruits, the nuts, and the flakes")

And returning you to our regularly scheduled program:
Johnny Depp.
Tim Burton.
Danny Elfman.
Thank you.

Re: O. K.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

Or washed ashore Japan...

*snicker* California is flotsam... I'm sure there are people out there who've been saying that for years. ;)

(no offense to anybody-- I'm just amused by the image.)

Re: O. K.

[sagejupiter.livejournal.com]

California, the "smoosh lots of shit together" state. works anthropologically AND geologically!

Also from NC, love the state dearly, hates generalizations.

LUVS Johnny Depp. *Drooool*

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Yay, new Lost!

Sorry, I'm unable to squee over Depp. ;)

J