You know you are a red neck when.....

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
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When you grew up being one and it was not a derogatory term. The neck was red because there was short, trimmed hair and one worked in the sun. All farmers had red necks at the time. They didn't have cabs nor shades on tractors. If you worked in a field....your neck was red. A field worker.

So....if you work in a field and have short hair......you're a redneck.

If you are old and have a sun leather-ed neck....you're a redneck. Retired redneck.
 

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spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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When you grew up being one and it was not a derogatory term. The neck was red because there was short, trimmed hair and one worked in the sun. All farmers had red necks at the time. They didn't have cabs nor shades on tractors. If you worked in a field....your neck was red. A field worker.

So....if you work in a field and have short hair......you're a redneck.

If you are old and have a sun leather-ed neck....you're a redneck. Retired redneck.

No kidding?

So now red neck is politically incorrect and is off limits?

Guess Jeff Foxworthy is out of a job. Tpp bad Jeff. :confused:
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9bgen5/what-it-means-to-be-a-redneck-or-a-hillbilly-ang
The modern redneck is a yuppie. You see rebel flags with "redneck" on them, but you don't see anything about "hillbilly pride" because nobody really... I don't know. To me, a real hillbilly is someone who lives for the hills, who really does care for their fellow man and their land.

I like hillbillies. I feel like I'm a hillbilly. I might not dress like one, but you can tell by my accent—anywhere I go, people say, "You're from West Virginia, aren't you?"
Is there a red neck here?
 
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Berzerker

Joined Jul 29, 2018
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I've said this in another thread but I am a redneck and proud of it. The jokes about it don't bother at all.
Among the trailer trash and redneck you have forgotten hick, hillbilly, white trash, inbred and many more.
I have been called everyone of these at sometime in my life or heard someone somewhere use these terms at someone.
it's Ok by me to use these terms in a joke but it's a different story when aimed in hatred. Yes southern people are red (tanned) all over not just the neck. I live in the south and it hot as crap down here in the summer so the only way to combat the heat is to go shirtless and allow your skin to become use to it.
spinnaker said:
Guess Jeff Foxworthy is out of a job. Tpp bad Jeff. :confused:
I love Jeff Foxworthy. I don't think you have anything to worry about there. Let you in on a little secret "He's one of us".
 

Berzerker

Joined Jul 29, 2018
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AlbertHall said:
So much so that us refined folk in the UK are not allowed to warch the video in case it corrupts us.
Ah Yes.... Socialism at it's Finest.
And for those who don't know Socialism just a nice name for Communism.
Government run health care, Government run medicare, Government run media
Whenever you hear "Government run" you might want to just do the RUN part.
 

Berzerker

Joined Jul 29, 2018
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Robin Mitchell said:
@Berzerker If I could choose to live anywhere in the world.... it would be America!
I post on another forum and most or I should say a lot of them live in the U.K. I was starting to wonder if there were any sane people even over there. They don't like guns, they let their government allow other people from other countries tell them what to do, have mini countries inside their own borders and they are open (it's madness gone amuck} Thank God for Donald Trump over here and "Trying" to straighten out all the messes the democrats have placed our (my) country in. I'm sorry your not allowed to own guns over there, the bad guys don't go by those rules but your government forces you to. Your welcome anytime you decide to come over, you can give up on them cos they've already gave up on you. the first way you control you people is to take away their way to fight back (which they have) then you remove their rights one by one starting with religion and working your way from there. our leaders want to allow Illegal Aliens to come in because they can't win if they go by their beliefs and policies so they get people to come here illegally and now are trying to give them voting rights and hand outs to make sure they vote for them. cos no matter what the media says about us we're not as stupid as they would like us to be and we didn't fall for it.
Robin Mitchell said:
Does that make me the English equivalent of a red neck hahah?
YES
welcome aboard
 

Berzerker

Joined Jul 29, 2018
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@Wendy Yes ma'am. I will restrain my political beliefs. But the hominem part I don't get, I did not attack "someone" in my post.
I disagreed with a policy and thought I posted that way. Just asking your not a Trump Hater are you? Some people can't handle it when you mention his name.
I did not know politics was off limits and thought this thread was for other things not electronically based.
Redneck joke:
What do a tornado and a redneck divorce have in common
Someone's gonna lose a trailer
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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The best of being 'red neck'.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221980400.html
When the flames came up to his neighborhood in the central part of Paradise, Weldon grabbed a garden hose and beat back the blaze. When the hose line cut out, he started throwing buckets of water, five gallons at a time. His home was spared, but everything around him was wiped out.

Two weeks later, Weldon is still at his house, one of a small group of self-proclaimed “mountain boys” who have defied evacuation orders and are surviving on meat stored in their generator-powered freezers, bagged lunches dropped off by PG&E crews and supplies provided by a mysterious band of volunteers that Weldon calls “the redneck underground.”
...
Weldon said he has plenty of food to stay as long as he wants. The underground volunteer group brought him 25 pounds of tri-tip steak, 10 pounds of chicken, rice, beans and vegetables.
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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@Wendy Yes ma'am. I will restrain my political beliefs. But the hominem part I don't get, I did not attack "someone" in my post.
I disagreed with a policy and thought I posted that way. Just asking your not a Trump Hater are you? Some people can't handle it when you mention his name.
I did not know politics was off limits and thought this thread was for other things not electronically based.
Redneck joke:
What do a tornado and a redneck divorce have in common
A confession and an Outing

Lets just say I stay afraid of this administration. There was a time I was in FFA (Future Farmers of America)in high school, I got stuck with the title Chicken rancher. Most of the people I knew were Rednecks in that high school.

Wendy's Index
 
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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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I don't have a problem with good red necks. One of my best friends as a child was a classic red neck from a classic Texas red neck family. We hunted, fished and gigged crawdads together as kids. After leaving Texas for 30 years we met after he was elected Sheriff of the county. We hugged like brothers at that meeting, talked about old times and how he managed to hide all the things we did as kids. :D
https://www.robertsoncountysherifftx.org/
 
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