White Trash

[SlowwHand]

I don't rememeber using either term.



And Che, I tried SO hard to let your remark pass, as it was uncalled for; but, BITE ME!

[Sten Sture]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I was born in a trailer park and lived in one for my first three years. Eventually we became middle class.

Just after I was born, my family got kicked out of the trailer park - no kidding!

We need a trailer park vets club.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Sten Sture
Sava - your list I think reflects the common perception, but consider my current environment:

San Francisco - most expensive city in the US; high proponderance of inherited wealth among citizens; 85% NIMBY Democrat.

Drives this formerly poor white kid from the midwest crazy - makes me want to be a little white trash sometimes. So I wear my Auburn Tigers ball cap to fight off the Yale Crew sweatshirts.

Well, like I said, it's my opinion. And my opinions are based upon my experience. And considering I've only lived in the Chicago area my entire life... well... there you go. I'm hardly a well-traveled objective source of information.

[Alinestra Covelia]

As the mongrel offspring of a Taiwanese capitalist and a German American possible-fascist, the last choice had to be my line of best fit.

[Jon Miller]

I lived in a trailer for the most of my first 5 years of life

the people arround, for most of my life, have been white trash


Jon Miller

[SlowwHand]

Can a storm be officially designated as a tornado without touching down at a trailer park?

[Japher]

What a silly question Sloww... of course not

but... if a trailer park is destroyed by a tornado, and channel 2 didn't get it on tape, did the trailer park really exist?

[Tiamat]

As someone who lived through Black Tuesday in Wichita Falls Texas may I say Sloww. And no, if it doens't hit the trailer park it's not a tornado!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Can a storm be officially designated as a tornado without touching down at a trailer park?

The tornado normally touches down in a number of areas but the trailer park is filled with the worst constructed homes which have no real foundation so the damage is always worse. It's as simple as that.

[Japher]

I also heard that the layout and construction of the homes attract tornados, I am not saying that it was true. Yet, it could seem reasonable that large trailer parks, which are low lying and generally allow for currents to easily travel through/over/under, could cause minor changes/influences in weather patterns and attract such things a tornadoes.

[Uncle Sparky]

I don't know if anyone outside of Canada can get this show, but it truely celebrates white trash :

http://www.showcase.ca/trailerparkboys/

http://www.trailerparkboys.com/

http://www.tpbfan.com/

[Asher]

Trailer Park Boys is fantastic.

I ran across it by accident at first, and I just couldn't stop watching, even though it looks so amateurish.

[boann]

http://www.skimag.com/skimag/mountain_property/article/0,12795,325370,00.html

trailer parks......
aspen white trash? :P

[GePap]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
They call that "wetback", GePap.

No clue what you are talking about.

No, "live-in maid" was not a euphamism: middle class or rich people in Panam usually hire some young poor person that comes lives in their house and does all the cleaning and laundry, and sometimes the cooking as well.

[Dinner]

When I was in Panama I noticed how stratified Panamanian society was. There was an upper class composed of land owners, educated Proffessionals, and (yes) expatriot Americans who had money and then there were poor landless peasants who had to scratch out a living some how.

The whole time I was there I kept running into Americans who had retired and moved to Panama because they could live like a king with a huge house and servants on just social security and a normal pension. Plus there was the canal zone near by so they could get a taste of America any time they wanted.