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Pissed off with these idiots (On Hometowns and Why Yours Sucks)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8
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These idiots have been relay annoying me lately.
Not least of all due to me being from Limerick originally (i'm from the county not the city, but still)
Fair enough the place is a shit hole but so is most of the even slightly urbanized Ireland (i'm biast being from the middle of the countryside miles from everywhere where i was happy, and now living in a town with asshole neighbors and unhappy)
And the fact that my neighbor and best friend who is a traveler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller and one of the few people around here i actually like, drives me mad singing "fuck your Mitsubishi i have a horse outside" her ethnic group is otherwise unimportant but just the fact that i have a Mitsubishi and she has a horse outside, i just felt the need to explain why she has a horse in a town its a cultural thing. Like me with my old over-sized 4x4 im a farmer... simple as... you can stick both of us in a town but we are what we are.
It was funny to begin with but it is annoying.
And to get back to the point what the hell kind of a message is that to send out about a place? the madness of limerick that is depicted here is isolated to one part of the city which is a tiny part of the city, the city is a tiny part of the land that is the county of limerick.
also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huhu5sLG-l4
and these are the idiots that have become a national situation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYgZFm43ZN4&feature=related
yep i took their advice and i did f**k off to cork... its not any better and im here since October, in fact its worse
So what does this say about my home county? What is the opinion of people of other nations?
also on the other nations line this is also another comedy song written in limerick that makes us all look like the villagers in borat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfntzfaTv9Y
The only time this song was ever funny was when my friend who is a guitarist sang it directed at me but it was in context because he had a row with a non national lover of mine because i told him my friend was gay to avoid an ass kicking of massive proportions
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Discussion?
These idiots have been relay annoying me lately.
Not least of all due to me being from Limerick originally (i'm from the county not the city, but still)
Fair enough the place is a shit hole but so is most of the even slightly urbanized Ireland (i'm biast being from the middle of the countryside miles from everywhere where i was happy, and now living in a town with asshole neighbors and unhappy)
And the fact that my neighbor and best friend who is a traveler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller and one of the few people around here i actually like, drives me mad singing "fuck your Mitsubishi i have a horse outside" her ethnic group is otherwise unimportant but just the fact that i have a Mitsubishi and she has a horse outside, i just felt the need to explain why she has a horse in a town its a cultural thing. Like me with my old over-sized 4x4 im a farmer... simple as... you can stick both of us in a town but we are what we are.
It was funny to begin with but it is annoying.
And to get back to the point what the hell kind of a message is that to send out about a place? the madness of limerick that is depicted here is isolated to one part of the city which is a tiny part of the city, the city is a tiny part of the land that is the county of limerick.
also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huhu5sLG-l4
and these are the idiots that have become a national situation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYgZFm43ZN4&feature=related
yep i took their advice and i did f**k off to cork... its not any better and im here since October, in fact its worse
So what does this say about my home county? What is the opinion of people of other nations?
also on the other nations line this is also another comedy song written in limerick that makes us all look like the villagers in borat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfntzfaTv9Y
The only time this song was ever funny was when my friend who is a guitarist sang it directed at me but it was in context because he had a row with a non national lover of mine because i told him my friend was gay to avoid an ass kicking of massive proportions
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Or, god help you, anywhere in Appalachia.
Horse Outside is brilliant.
I wish I still had my Horse Outside av/sig combo for this post.
If the only thing your friend takes away from the video is "lol u drive a mitzi like in teh song and i have a horse so fuk u," I'd argue that that's a failure of understanding on your friend's part, not a failure of the song itself. Personally, I think it's a wicked little satire on modern Irish poverty and drug use, and the fact that they just won an IFTA suggests that plenty of other people are able to interpret the subtext of their work as well, instead of just seeing the literal meaning.
Hilarious, and catchy.
And being able to laugh at your hometown is, to me, healthy. It's not like I'm judging Limerick based on these videos, and neither is anybody else. At least nobody who isn't an idiot, and who gives a shit about them. But man, like others have said, a lot of places have it much worse. See: Detroit, Cleveland.
But thanks, 'cause now this shit'll be stuck in my head all week.
Fuck yo' honda civic, I'va a horse outside!
Again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvkjewgF8GQ
And every place is the butt of some kind of joke. Don't take it personally.
fffffff
Yeah I grew up in Alabama (the good part, not the part where people use industrial strength herbicide on a park because their team lost a football game). This is pretty mild.
See?
People don't even try to be clever about it anymore!
Well if we were subtle, Texans wouldn't get it!
So just watched the songs in the OP and I'm not seeing the problem.
Edit: Other than creepy bag faces.
Seriously. Learn to take a joke, OP. This is some Whining Forum goosiness.
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For what it's worth, I thought the song was hilarious, but I still hate the OP for getting it stuck in my head for another month.
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who thought that was a good idea?
5/6 of it is.
you have some youtube videos that are actually kind of endearing
not seeing what the beef is
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You see it all the time in the news. Some celebrity or politician makes a less-than-glowing comment about an area, and suddenly the papers are full of locals calling for their heads on a pole. Boris Johnson has suffered from this a few times.
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I'm from Limerick city. I don't have a problem with these guys, they're pretty funny.
I don't view their act as parody or criticism of Limerick itself, more a parody of the stereotypical view people in the rest of the country have of the city.
Okay, so there was this time in the Air Force. This dude is all socially clumsy and whatnot and people were kind of being rude to him (because he was always snotty and awkward) and finally he goes, "AT LEAST I'M NOT A WHITE APPALACHIA!"
We still are not certain what he was getting at. But it probably has something to do with being from the Appalachia.
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Don't get me wrong. There are a ton of backwards, stupid people around here. But there are those kinds of people anywhere if you just look around a little.
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When I was conscripted into the ROCA a few years back and served out my time, I would get mocked relentlessly for my background. Not because I was mixed (well, maybe a bit for that), or even because I'd lived in the United States, but because I'd lived in the southern United States, specifically, Georgia.
I probably contributed to that by explaining to everyone how to make jokes referencing things like Deliverance and whatnot.
I am from California. We elect stupid people for stupid reasons and go bankrupt as a sort of hobby.
Specifically, I come from Salinas, which I guess is awesome if you really like lettuce and rodeos. Alas, I don't.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Famous things from Kansas include, in roughly this order:
Dumbass farmers
Fred "god hates fags" phelps
The Wizard of Oz
Abortion doctor threats/murders
The rock band Kansas
Zed, am I missing anything?
edit- what am thinking? Evolution! Or rather, the absense of it. Also the absense of liquor for like 40 years after the rest of the country repealed prohibition.
Populated by Mormons.
Cross burnings. (not joking)
Nebraskans also can't drive because half of Omaha plates their cars in Iowa to avoid the wheel tax.
Truer words were ne'er spoken.
I come from the foothills east of Sacramento, and we have a few things:
1. Wildland Fires
2. Overwhelmingly white, conservative population
3. Wildland Fires
During the Prop 8 nonsense, my hometown was a sea of yellow "Yes on 8" signs.
It was depressing.
We have some idiots who hop on any issue being protested as a grindstone for their own.
Just recently there was a case where a cop shot and killed a native american woodcarver that was walking down the street with a knife, after the guy didn't drop it when commanded. There were something like 4 seconds between the first command and shots fired, and he didn't make any movements towards the officer. It wasn't justified, but due to the extreme difficulties in criminally prosecuting officers, no charges were filed. He was about to be fired from SPD when he quit.
So there's a protest about this. Then people start shouting into loudspeakers about Iraq. Then the "anarchists" show up.
Man you'd think 1 would do something about 2.
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