White Trash

[Dis]

public television? too liberal for my tastes

[monkspider]

I come from a very poor family (bottom 5%), and make very little money myself, but I like artsy stuff like going to an opera. Heh, go figure. Diss and I are sort of the yin and yang to each other I suppose.
Although like Diss, I feel more comfortable being around my old friends from the projects than affluent, possibly snobby, people.

[ceroomaster]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
I am, without a shadow of a doubt, the English equivalent of White Trash.

I've drunk too much scrumpy, I've got into fights with Gypsies at funfairs and I once owned an XR3i.

Do you also sit in your garden in a string vest, play music until 2:30 am with total disregard for neighbours, and chant Ing-ur-lund at the TV when the footy's on?

Re: Gypsy fights- they're always asking for it... chopsy little gypsy punks. Havent'y been back to Weston-super-Mare since... should I change my vote to YES since I've fought with gypsies?

[Dinner]

Thankfully, I am not nor is anyone in my family poor white trash. A person can be poor and still not be trashy all it takes is a desire not to be crass and to remember how you are portraying yourself to other people.

The correct attitude will move you out of the "trash" category even if your income limits your physical circumstances. When I was in college just about all of my friends and I were poor students but believe me when I say being poor doesn't make you trash; acting like trash makes you trash.

[GePap]

Being "hispanic" and an Immmigrant, i am automatically not white trash...plus I had a solid middle class upbringing, both in Panama (I had a live in maid once..) and here in the US.

[Kropotkin]

Yesh right, try to keep up the lie. We all know by now that you had a lot more than a maid back in your little banana republic.

[GePap]

We had several! But not all at once, more like in succession.

Don't make me call my Mossad buddies..I mean, what Mossad buddies?....

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Dissident
another thing is art. I just can't get into it. And operals, ballets, and broadway shows. I don't see what the appeal is. Don't get me started on abstract art. It's crap.

Hell, that makes over 90% of the people I know white trash. Well, except for the ones who aren't white, I guess.

Another rubric to apply is that 90% of the people who do like operas, ballets, broadway shows, and abstract art are snobbish cheese-eating beatniks.

[Az]

Don't make me call my Mossad buddies..I mean, what Mossad buddies?....

*sigh* told you not to talk about it.


*drags GePap away. *

[Dis]

Originally posted by GePap
(I had a live in maid once..)

I know several maids I would like to have

I wonder how much those run. I think I could afford a live in maid if I stretched my income. She'd have to be hot though. And she'd have to be willing to have sex with me.

But perhaps I'm not acting trashy, but acting poor as some people have suggested. I never really recognized the difference, but I suppose there is one.

[Sava]

I don't think I would classify anyone on 'Poly as being white trash. There aren't requirements for being white trash per se. As a Supreme Court Justice once said, "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it."

[Starchild]

I sometimes veer in the direction of euro-trash but that's less mullets and cheap beer and more bleached blonde hair and fancy beer.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by DetroitDave


The typical Michigan species (Michigandus Beerbellius ) usually has more than a passing interest in NASCAR, typically owning season passes to Brooklyn Speedway where he makes his annual migration with keg of beer, and huge flag with his favorite driver's name, in tow.

Sad but true.


At the hospital, some call obese patients "Michigan Class One" or so on and so forth, due to our state's preponderence of pendulus potbellies... I've treated more than a few Michigan Class Fours.

[Frankychan]

Why is it that when I saw the title to this thread, I immediately thought Albert Speer was the one who made it?

[Dis]

he's usually rallying against white suburban Apolyoners who are privelidged in his eyes.

Well I kind of thought the same way when I was a teenager. I grew up in the inner city when I was age 15 to 18.

the bitterness goes away with time. Well not really .