My dad gave me a decorative confederate knife and I boneheadedly put it in my carry on bag and tried to take it on the plane home tonight, needless to say I got stopped and embarrased, -EV

i literally laughed outloud. and i thought it sucked when we had to take our shoes off leaving at LAS. :doh: :wall: :clap: :naughty: :hand: :idea:

Be happy that you are not an Arab. With a confederate knife? That is a funny image.

yah it was a pretty sweet knife, its a good thing I look really white or ida been in trouble

So how did you get it home? Checked baggage or Fedex?

The FAA sells confiscated knives and scissors on Ebay.

what about sporks?

so, were you embarrassed because you tried to bring a knife on a plane, or were you embarrassed because everyone saw that you were into slavery and racism?

Cue banjos.

hey, the confederacy doesn't represent slavery. Im not into the confederacy, but I am from the south.

And I support slavery for completely different reasons.

consider the can of worms opened.

yeah, I really hope I didn't need the sw, but lets see where it goes

O RLY? What does it represent?

That's just not cool man.

sorry, I wasn't really trying to start that argument, I just needed a lead in to the "I support slavery" thing (troll thing to do, I'll stop now)

The Confederacy doesn't represent anything anymore..... we lost, or did you skip class that day in US history.

oh god, here it goes


I really should have kept my mouth shut

Are you gonna get the knife back?

Hey man what ya think was gonna happen, just look at my sig.

Had we have won there wouldn't be to many differences though.
The biggest things .

1) There would be Krystal burgers everywhere instead of White Castle

2) All soft drinks would be Cokes, example: " What kind of Coke do you want? ".... " Sprite please."

3) Deer hunting would be the National passtime.

See it wouldn't be so bad.

FYP

Okay, so why do rednecks insist on trotting out the flag if not to 'represent' something?

I've wondered the same thing.
You are talking about a select few idiots that still do stuff like that.
We laugh at them too.

I hate it personaly, like when there is a disaster and the news is covering it they find the dumbest redneck to ever crawl out from under a trailer to interview.
No wonder people in other parts of the country think the normal stereotypes about southerners.

It's what they do. Why do they love nascar? Why do they still rock the mullet? Why do they insist on wearing jean jackets and having sex with their cousins? Why does the wind blow? Nobody knows why the necks do what they do.

You're right. It's not just cool. It's hilarious as well.

Cue kitchen appliance on front porch.

Ha Friggin ha.

No, really, tell me another one.

I'm just serious.

Don't forget about the broke down lwanmower in the front yard.

As a southerner and I take offense to that. Nascar is fun. Mullets are a beautiful and viable fasion option. My jean jacket has many patches so it looks awesome, and I have never had sex with a cousin (more than twice).

FYP

Don't confuse the necks with the Mexicans.

Why haven't I involved myself in this yet? I live in the South, and I'm perceived as racist. Weird.

I know a lot of people who drape themselves in the Stars n’ Bars, and I can say most of them are just trying to identify with something. There are a million reasons why it’s stupid, but few of them are bigots.

Eh, it's true, I don't really know what I'm talking about here. Grew up in NY, live in NH. I don't have much experience with the necks.

Although I always crack up when I visit my brother in TX. He lives in a small town outside of Dallas and I swear 'King of the Hill' was based on this place. He even has a friend who talks like Boomhauer. I love that guy...

Although I always crack up when I visit my brother in TX. He lives in a small town outside of Dallas and I swear 'King of the Hill' was based on this place


King of the Hill was based on a small town outside of Dallas.

Trying to carry-on knives is funny. Trying to carry-on confederate clad knives is even funnier.

congratulations! you are now the stupidist, well ignorant person on this forum, try actually READING some history and stop listening to what PC jackasses tell you, once again congrats on being a ****ing moron


and yah they gave me the knife back and I took it on the plane, they just made me promise I wouldent take it out of my bag

King of the hill is supposedly based on the towns of Garland and alas, my town of Arlington

and yes my old supervisor at Best Buy spoke just like boomhauer just like I do when yankee bastards come to town

This disturbed me.

I cant believe you got it back lol

Or, the ENTIRE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA!

A ton of southern states still feature the confederate design prominently in their own state flags, and many governmental buildings still try and raise the Confederate flag.

I think the NAACP has been boycottiong South Carolina (no joke) for years.

Like many southerners hate Yankees, I hate southerners. Nothing personal. I had long hair for a time, and whenever I went past the Mason-Dixie line, I'd start getting treated like shit. So, to compensate, I just go into tourist memorabilia shops and giggle hysterically. Then, I buy the most outrageous T-shirts and hats I can find:

Example:

"Real Southerners drink BROWN liquor, not MALT liquor." (read, we hate blacks)

And I ask the cashiers who are selling them what they mean. They usually just say something bland about southern heritage, but if you push them and wink a few times, they'll usually say something filthy about negroes.

Hey, Longshanks. While I was in 'Bama, I bought 3 cases of Southpaw Light (greatest beer on planet), and a license plate that says, "American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God." It was easily the biggest joke in my house for 2 years. Just classic stuff.

How am I not shocked by this judging from all your posts in the past?

Not funny Wang.
I don't go around insulting Yankees. I love the south, having been all over the planet ( Army ) and plenty of states north and west the south is the place to be IMO.
Having said that, there's still plenty of ignorance when it comes to race and creed here in my home state.


Texans are by far the worst when it comes to bumper stickers and license plates.

The REAL problem I have with the South is that ignorance (especially re: race/creed) is excused in the South. Racism (both casual and passive) is more likely to be greeted with a shrug and a chuckle in the South than anywhere else in the country.

There are plenty of racists in this country, but in the South, there's a casual attitude about it, even among those who are decidedly NOT racist. They allow their southern brethren to get away with too much, and don't hold them responsible for their ignorance. There's this passive ACCEPTANCE of the Southern ethic that bothers me, and always has. I've never spent much time in the Texas south (Texas, Oklahoma), but I've been to Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, along the Carolinas, and I have to say that- as a purebred Northern yuppie- it creeps me out a little. There's this ambience of bigotry that makes it tough for me to breathe down there.

Wang

Perception vs reality Wang.

I supose that I could make the same argument as a southerner when I go to NYC.
I'm just saying that yes it exists but not to the level that you suspect and you're definately talking about a select few idiots.


Fred.

I usually don't get involved in this type of stuff on here, but I have to say, your ignorance is amazing.

There is racial prejudice everywhere, it is not limited to the southern United States. Having been born and raised in NC, I was shocked at the level of overt racism I found when I moved to MI 8 years ago. We have neighborhood schools here, which is a not so subtle way of keeping certain groups of people separated. We did away with that kind of thing years ago in NC.

For those of you who have no understanding of the Confederacy of Southern States and the reasons behind the Civil War, please do a little research instead of regurgitating what you were taught in school. For instance, anyone care to take a guess as to who was the first country in this hemisphere to ban the importation of slaves?

The Civil War was about so much more than slavery, yet very few people understand this.

Anyway, there are racist rednecks everywhere. I've even run into a few in Canadia, tho I can't say there were many.

Have a good day, resume regular programming now.

:shock: Cool, cause I was gonna shave my head and get a swastika tatooed on my forehead and apply for a job at a bank, but I was worried that people might take it the wrong way, but since the Germans lost the war it should be okay. Huh?


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I'll be the first to admit there might be more hicks in this my home state of MI than anywhere(If you're a member of the Michigan Militia, please stand up).

I also know pretty much everything about the Civil War. I went to college (for a while at least). I'm not a middle-school moron. I don't even think I mentioned the Civil War once in my post (though I did allude to it, I suppose, by mentioning the Confederate Flag).

I also allowed that there is racism, bigotry, and prejudice EVERYWHERE.

Those things aside, I still think Southerners are more defensive of their oft-bigoted brethren than other regional persons. For example, I absolutely HATE the Michigan militia. I'm embarrassed by them. You also wouldn't see T-shirts in northern Michigan with Oklahoma City jokes on them, whereas much of the tourist South is rife with jokes at the expense of former slaves and African-Americans.

Look, I don't hate all Southerners. I just think you're too easy on each other. I mean, I was on a random Southern Road Trip and stopped at at rest-stop. Guess who was memoralized as a hero in bronze on the inside of pavillion: George Wallace. It's stuff like that; those little digs go a long way towards my discomfort when I'm in the South

Cheers,

Wang

Are you that bored?

I wasn't born, but was raised in VA. I agree for the most part with Shimmering Wang about what he is trying to say (it's hard to put into words), but the point about the North is well taken. Casual attitude/passive acceptance may be in the South, but in the North it's there just as much if not more so. It's just not as obvious.
Like Fphilips, I've been around the world. I've been raised in tri-cultural household. The North IMO is no better, just different.



For those of you who do have understanding of the Confederacy, etc., please stop assuming no one else does.

As for your question, gimme a break. How about you tell me who how much time between the ban of importation of slaves and the Emancipation Proclamation?

lmao

make your 5000th a good thread for us dig.

all he was asking was why you were embarassed...why dont you answer?

maybe, you dont have an answer, or maybe, you dont want to admit that youre a racis t lil fuc k.

Really? The "stupidist"?