What are your neighbors like? : RSS 2.0http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/low.mtmen-usplime.com2008, plime.com.Plime/1http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssWhat are your neighbors like? : RSS 2.0http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gifhttp://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/low.mtm<![CDATA[digitalgimpling @ 5/8/2008 1:32:35 AM]]>
I found my neighbor across the alley asleep in my laundry room once (it's on my back porch).]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q51http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q51politics <![CDATA[maven @ 5/8/2008 1:05:18 AM]]>
They got a teacup chihuahua, and they put it out in their backyard. Unsupervised. It walks right through the wrought iron gate, and wanders around. I'm certain it's going to be a) Run over b) eaten by a hawk/crow/coyote/neighbors dog/my dog/random small child.


Sigh.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q50http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q50politics <![CDATA[blurmore @ 5/5/2008 9:36:39 AM]]>« imnotyoo : According to our neighbors, when you walk by our window can smell our incense (nag champa). They also said that we laugh a lot.
mmmmm...nag champa.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q49http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q49politics <![CDATA[imnotyoo @ 5/4/2008 11:12:52 PM]]>
The couple two units down have been living here for five years. They told me that the old management was awesome and then they recently sold to our current management and the new management sucks. I already knew that, but it was nice to know that I'm not the only tenant who hates our management. They're not resigning their lease.

I then met the blonde woman and the anti-social guy in her basement. They said that they paid the $200 subletting fee and are getting the hell out of here.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q48http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q48politics <![CDATA[MurderousKitty @ 5/4/2008 6:57:17 PM]]>« doggylives : Errrrr, WTF?!Ya, thats what I said.

You cant make this kind of stuff up.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q47http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q47politics <![CDATA[doggylives @ 5/4/2008 5:43:35 PM]]>« MurderousKitty : nasty divorce in which his wife stole his pig Errrrr, WTF?!]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q46http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q46politics <![CDATA[xiatethebish @ 5/4/2008 5:42:08 PM]]>« imnotyoo : The guys on the corner are your average dumbass college boys. Right now they have a sign at the curb that says "you honk - we drink". It's a Sunday afternoon and they're already wasted.That is *the* greatest idea ever.
I know what I'm doing next weekend.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q45http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q45politics <![CDATA[MurderousKitty @ 5/4/2008 4:58:47 PM]]>
Yep.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q44http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q44politics <![CDATA[donteatpoop @ 5/4/2008 4:53:56 PM]]>« cheeselog1234:2 of the homes next to mine are 'for sale'. Well surprise surprise.

lotsofpeople: redneck redneck redneck
I work with a black man in his early 50's who refers to his family as country boys, farmers, and rednecks.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q43http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q43politics <![CDATA[imnotyoo @ 5/4/2008 4:43:38 PM]]>
Across the parking lot is an overweight business mom-looking woman who has one of those back packs on wheels. Her adult son lives with her. He's scrawny with a recessing hair line and has a shirt that says "I'm not a people person".

Next to them is a young blond guy with very red skin who has a disturbingly obese black lab who they let roam around the parking lot without a leash. It always comes and smells our bushes and our dogs go crazy. I hate it.

The woman next to him gets locked out of her house a lot. This worries her cat.

The end of that building is this Mexican guy and his girlfriend and his rottweiler puppy and her little toy dog thing. If a tornado gets too close, we have the OK to run across the parking lot with our pack of animals and join them in their basement (that building has a basement; ours doesn't).

The guys on the corner are your average dumbass college boys. Right now they have a sign at the curb that says "you honk - we drink". It's a Sunday afternoon and they're already wasted.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q42http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q42politics <![CDATA[Sputum @ 5/2/2008 9:44:03 PM]]>« muppet : 
one of the people farther down the street drives an ice cream cart. it is rather loud, and i am not a fan of hearing frosty the snowman and rudolf the red nosed reindeer in the middle of spring and summer. it disturbs me. i have never seen any children buying ice cream from them. i often wonder what else they do for an income.
My neighborhood had an ice cream truck that would never stop for kids. We would chase it for blocks, but he just kept going. He would stop for adults though. Turned out he was selling nice dreams instead of ice creams.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q41http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q41politics <![CDATA[Moe @ 5/2/2008 4:52:02 PM]]>« muppet :the old woman searches the grounds in front of the house with a flashlight every night around 2 am. i've watched her do it for the past 3 years. i still have no idea what she's looking for.Please ask her. I won't be able to sleep well anymore without knowing.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q40http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q40politics <![CDATA[kakana @ 5/2/2008 4:19:33 PM]]>« bluenutria : You know the neighbors probably thinking the same about you right? "The neighbor across the road... s**thead[...] thinks he's someone special. He hates my dog, my yard, etc." LOL! You're probably right.. But.. that's the way s**theads think.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q39http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q39politics <![CDATA[muppet @ 5/2/2008 3:56:14 PM]]>
there is an old couple across the street. they collect a lot of random s**t that sits in their front lawn. they have yard sales every week. sometimes, their customers park along the street in our driveway. i don't really mind, though. the old woman searches the grounds in front of the house with a flashlight every night around 2 am. i've watched her do it for the past 3 years. i still have no idea what she's looking for.

the woman who lives on the other side of me is never home. her two dogs sit in a kennel all day long. it makes me sad. the people who lived in that house before her fought a lot. there were lots of screaming matches. once, i was sitting in front of my house smoking and text messaging someone. all of a sudden, a cop busted out of the bushes on the side of my house. he was sneaking around, and i guess he got a call and was investigating. he had the wrong house. he was supposed to be at that house. i wonder if those people were drug addicts or something. it sure seemed like it. i was glad they moved. the guy who lived in the house previous to those people was a libertarian. he didn't pay taxes, and he was really proud about it.

there is an old man who lives next to the old couple across the street. he has a little maltese type of dog. we have strange conversations sometimes because he is a smoker like me, and he's a night owl too. he lets his dog s**t on the sidewalk and along our fence. i don't really care enough to say anything about it.

the people who live on the other side of the old couple are reclusive and have kids. they used to have a dog in their yard. i never saw it, but it barked and whined a lot. you could tell it never got any attention. one day, i noticed a dog house with a "free" sign on it, and i took it. dog houses are expensive. i wonder if the dog died or if they gave it away.

one of the people farther down the street drives an ice cream cart. it is rather loud, and i am not a fan of hearing frosty the snowman and rudolf the red nosed reindeer in the middle of spring and summer. it disturbs me. i have never seen any children buying ice cream from them. i often wonder what else they do for an income.

there is a woman who lives on the street which our street intersects with. she has two big husky type dogs that drag her down the street every day around 5 pm. her husband is in the military and he usually gets home around 3 or 4 in the morning.

the woman who lives 2 houses down from that couple owns a rottweiler. she has a lisp and is a sweetheart. her dog is just as sweet as she is.

i am somewhat of a recluse, so i don't go out of my way to speak or get to know any of my neighbors. i just don't really sleep much, and i smoke too much so i unintentionally observe them.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q38http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q38politics <![CDATA[bluenutria @ 5/2/2008 3:51:30 AM]]>« kakana :
The neighbor across the road.. s**thead.. has a dog that barks all the time.. always has garbage in the yard.. thinks he's someone special. I can do without him.You know the neighbors probably thinking the same about you right? "The neighbor across the road... s**thead[...] thinks he's someone special. He hates my dog, my yard, etc."]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q37http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q37politics <![CDATA[kakana @ 4/30/2008 12:28:46 AM]]> The neighbor on the right.. Quiet.. not home much, works all the time and keeps to himself.
The neighbor across the road.. s**thead.. has a dog that barks all the time.. always has garbage in the yard.. thinks he's someone special. I can do without him.
So.. two decent neighbors out of three ain't too bad.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q36http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q36politics <![CDATA[Sputum @ 4/29/2008 10:21:11 PM]]>
I had a neighbor years ago however, who was a little bit on the flaky side. While I was stationed in Norfolk, Va. in the Navy I got an apartment with an ex-Marine buddy of mine named Chuck. We had a cool downstairs neighbor everyone called "Buzz" who had warned us about "Marie" and suggested that we avoid her. We tried, but no such luck.

We were downstairs getting drunk with Buzz the first time I met her. She came to the door and asked to speak to us. She informed us that she knew we were in cahoots with the secret police and weren't fooling her. She had decifered our signs, signals, and codes so she would be keeping tabs on us. (I immediately hear the Twilight Zone theme playing in my head.)

She was true to her word about keeping tabs. Nothing happened around there without Marie knowing about it. One day while a few of us were walking to the store I saw Marie coming up the sidewalk. I thought maybe if I looked away and avoided eye contact she would walk on by. We met and she walked past. I thought I had made it until she turned around and called to me
"HEY. Where's Dracula?" I think Oh s**t, here we go and reply "I don't know what you're talking about"
"Yes you do" she said "Count Dracula".
I realized she was talking about a guy who hung out with us sometimes. He was very pale skinned, had black hair and crooked eye teeth, and usually wore all black.
And Marie thinks he's a vampire. I shouldn't have done it but I told her "Ummm, it's daytime. He'll be over after dark." I guess it made sense because she just said "Oh", looked up at the sky, and went back to her apartment.

A couple of weeks later she was waiting outside for Chuck when he got home from work. She yelled at him and theatened to sue because he was in league with the people from her church who had set her up to be mugged and then broke into her apartment and put fleas in the carpet.

The last time I saw her I was home alone when she knocked at the door. I didn't want to open the door so I just yelled "Whaddaya want?"
"I want to talk to Chuck. Is he in there?"
I told her "Chuck can't have company right now".
"Why not?"
I really shouldn't have done this, but, I said "He's not in his human form right now - come back in a couple of hours". I thought she was going to fall down the stairs trying to get away.

Poor crazy old lady locked herself in her apartment and didn't come out for at least a week and a half. Finally a family member got the fire department to go in through the window and get her. I guess they moved her to a nursing home or something.
We never saw her again.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q35http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q35politics <![CDATA[mobase @ 4/29/2008 2:54:12 PM]]>« horsefeathers : I think a hair dryer can pass as a radar gun from a distance. I actually know someone that used one once, acting like an undercover cop with his car pulled off the side of the road, car door open, and him leaning between the door jam and car, with hair dryer pointed at traffic.

People actually slowed down.

He was alittle odd.Yes, but it should be designed to take over their stereos, not slow them down.
Well, slowing them down couldn't hurt either.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q34http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q34politics <![CDATA[Chez @ 4/29/2008 2:53:53 PM]]>Also last night he was blasting some s**tty rap music at 2 am. I got annoyed so I banged on my roof with a broom (yes, I did feel like an old lady) he must've heard cause he lowered the music. Also he uses AOL cause heard the "GOOD BYE" sound on his computer. Who the f**k uses aol anymore? :P

That being said, i'm glad he's up there and not the couple before him. They would stomp around at all times of the day and would wake me up with their screams as they looooooooved to fight. I had to call the landlord once cause it was pure screaming and loud banging and I was sure there was a homicide... but there wasn't :(

Everyone is super nice here and will always greet you. I guess that's why they call Bradenton the Friendly city.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q33http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q33politics <![CDATA[clscott645 @ 4/29/2008 2:50:54 PM]]>
The neighbors to the left of us are really nice. They have about 7 dogs and the guy has tattoos all over. His front teeth look like they were mostly knocked out from some sort of accident and he seems to be a fun, outgoing guy. His girlfriend/wife (we're not sure) is the exact opposite. She is mousy, quiet, shy.....I would never picture them together. They keep to themselves but we have had chats while doing yard work or hanging outside.

The neighbor to the right of us is also nice. He mostly lives by himself but I think it is his niece that stays there every once and a while. Except for his loud truck and the Harley in the summer, we don't hear much from him.

Now, on to the douche neighbor that lives across the alley. This b***h starts by leaving a wrapped box on our door step around Christmas time with knitted scarves and hats for my girls with a note that says something like "so they don't have to be cold while playing outside." As if I am going to let them go outside with no warm clothes on. THEN, one day we leave for work. We don't have a fence yet so the dog has to be on a lead while she is outside. My girls put her out and left for school. In my haste to get to work on time, I forgot she was out there. Well, it happened to be raining that day. Pouring actually. The crazy wench called the ASPCA and they took our dog. She had access to a covered porch but because there were people in the yard taking pictures of her, she was standing in the rain, shivering. Hopefully trying to chew their faces off too.
So, to make a long story short (this could have been in the collective pasts thread) we ended up having to go to court, plead guilty to animal endangerment or something and paying $800. All because we left our dog outside for one morning and it rained.
This woman is crazy. She really is crazy. Her dog, that is never on a leash, will leave her yard and go into our neighbor's with all the dogs. His dog will jump OUT the window to get at her mutt and when he goes to say something to her, she points at our house and says "What about their dog! Barking all the time! I'm going to get those people!" Okay, your dog cause another dog to be injured by going through a glass window to get your dog and our dog barks a little and we're the bad guys? Oh. We also have suspicion that it was her son that lit our trash on fire on Mischief Night. (for those that don't know, Mischief night is the night before Halloween).

So...other than the woman I would like to see hauled off to the loony bin, our neighbors are pretty cool.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q32http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q32politics <![CDATA[horsefeathers @ 4/29/2008 2:46:52 PM]]>« mobase : I have a plan.. No, seriously- Hear me out.

We need to invent a device, oh- Let's say shaped like a radar gun.
You point this thing at the local "look at me, I have a $200.00 car with $1000.00 rims and $800.00 speakers" kids when they drive by- or sit there in their driveway playing that crap at levels that make your kitchen table vibrate across the floor.

Once you point this thing at their car, the sounds of fiddy cent disappear-
All the sudden there's obnoxiously twangy bluegrass or better yest- southern gospel quartets blasting from the car stereo in question.

Watch them injure themselves frantically pushing buttons and ripping knobs off.

Anybody know a good engineer who can build this for me?I think a hair dryer can pass as a radar gun from a distance. I actually know someone that used one once, acting like an undercover cop with his car pulled off the side of the road, car door open, and him leaning between the door jam and car, with hair dryer pointed at traffic.

People actually slowed down.

He was alittle odd.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q31http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q31politics <![CDATA[eLJay @ 4/29/2008 2:44:30 PM]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q30http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q30politics <![CDATA[Marz @ 4/29/2008 2:30:02 PM]]>His wife is a dote. She's always well dressed in crisp white shirts and beautiful Pearls, but she is lovely. She acts like a second mother sometimes. I know that if I have a problem the 2 of them are there.
Next door, 2 new people have moved in. I think they're man and wife, but I'm not sure. The mans name is Gareth and I met him once, but I've never seen the woman. Apparently she works in Scotland, so is there during the week. Gareth was friendly, but I never see him really. All the other neighbours on the street seem friendly enough. I don't know them though.
at home in Ireland it's very different. There are about 30 houses in a row,and I pretty much know all of them. Recently though, a lot of the elderly owners have died, and new people have moved in. On our right is a friendly couple (Though my mum reckons the man is a bit weird). On our left there is a family of "chavs" I'm not sure how many altogether live there. I was in school with 2 of them, and they are vicious and intimidating. They have a large family as well, and the poilce will do nothing to them. They have huge fights on the street, have kicked in the front door, and we can hear them fighting through the walls. They also rev cars and blow their horns late at night, though I'm not sure what for. When I visiting home I never sleep well, especially on a weekend, with the fighting and screaming.
But, my parents own a farm, and have a house nearly built there, so we will be neighbourless. Except I'll still be in the UK, but it might persuade me to move home]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q29http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q29politics <![CDATA[ReBoot @ 4/29/2008 1:56:01 PM]]>
We live on a relatively quiet street. The neighbors aren't as friendly here as where I come from, and so I don't really know them all that well.

Next door to us is a Polish couple who are in their 90's who keep their place in immaculate condition. He looks like a walking skeleton, but he absolutely insists on shoveling the snow off his driveway and cutting his own grass. I made the mistake of trying to help out with the grass once; he followed me around the whole time trying to help, telling me what to do, and trying to slip money into my pocket.

On the other side is a man (whom I've never seen) and his son. Their place is a complete junkyard, and they're always having late night parties. Every Saturday morning without fail there are beer bottles and cartons strewn on the ground, in our yard, and in the street. Other than that, they're pretty decent neighbors.

Across the street is a 40+ couple who have been renovating their house for probably the last three years. Someone must've really lit a fire under them recently, though, because they just finished putting up the ugliest vinyl siding you've ever seen. She stands outside and smokes in all weather, and he sits in the house and plays video games.

Next door to them is the crackhouse. I've already mentioned it. Suffice to say, the relatively recent drug bust appears only to have emboldened them, and business continues to boom. Yesterday I even saw a young girl carrying a baby go there to score drugs.

On the other side of them is the coolest dude you'll ever meet. They're Catholic immigrants from Bethlehem, and he talks very fast. No matter how cold it is outside, he always has his shirt unbuttoned halfway down.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q28http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q28politics <![CDATA[bluenutria @ 4/29/2008 12:14:31 PM]]>« icepigs : As I said in an earlier post:




The textbook definition of Redneck is "an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South."


That is always been the way I have used the moniker.

If you're not white....if you ARE educated...if you don't work on a farm, then you are NOT a redneck.But still, if said white person goes to college and becomes a stock broker he loses his "redneck" name. That's why I think this term is classist.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q27http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q27politics <![CDATA[doggylives @ 4/29/2008 12:13:43 PM]]>Click here to show image]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q26http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q26politics <![CDATA[icepigs @ 4/29/2008 12:11:40 PM]]>earlier post:



« blurmore :
For those of you have labeled someone a "redneck" please define.
The textbook definition of Redneck is "an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South."


That is always been the way I have used the moniker.

If you're not white....if you ARE educated...if you don't work on a farm, then you are NOT a redneck.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q25http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q25politics <![CDATA[blurmore @ 4/29/2008 12:09:45 PM]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q24http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q24politics <![CDATA[bluenutria @ 4/29/2008 12:09:43 PM]]>
Below us is an apartment with a several girls. One of them was being abused by her boyfriend. I heard what sounded like rape one day and called the cops. They handcuffed the douche, but the girl wouldn't press charges (How could she? She was being threatened.) so the cops let him go. He said he was wrestling her on the ground while grabbing her neck. He said he was angry that she wasn't taking care of his dog (which is true, she had been leaving a large breed dog locked in her bathroom). I am not convinced he was merely wrestling her. Both the dog and the boyfriend still can be found at the apartment, occasionally. And there's nothing I can do.

In another apartment is a young aspiring singer, whose sweet voice occasionally can be heard filtering through the layers of brick and wood from her apartment below. It's muffled but still beautiful.

One of the bottom apartments is filled with young, college males. They're young, horny and completely consumed with the desire to get completely wasted and play foosball. They're often gathered around the foosball table in their living room, shouting and waving the beer they drink those blue and red plastic cups.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q23http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q23politics <![CDATA[RowanGrey @ 4/29/2008 12:02:10 PM]]>« 2manyusernames : now you are nitpicking on a matter of semantics. Yes, there is no such thing as "race" when it comes to skin color. That doesn't change that we use that term correctly or incorrectly. Spic, wetback, n****r, etc can all be defined as a certain class or subclass of people that behave in a certain stereotypical way.

My point is as clearly stated, it is often used derogatorily the same way that any other slur is used. It is accepted because it is against whites.No, I have to agree with nutria, here. Redneck is (at least in my understanding) in NO WAY associated with race. It is used (again, in MY understanding) to refer to uneducated, unrefined country types who spend their days working physical jobs (often in farm settings, but not always), and quite often come home dirty. The "red neck" in redneck refers to the sunburn on the back of the neck from being under the sun all day.
I know of no one who does not potentially include all races in this heading.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q22http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q22politics <![CDATA[2manyusernames @ 4/29/2008 11:57:12 AM]]>« bluenutria : I disagree. It's a more of a classist term. It has more to do with what an educated, middle and upper class person would call a person of the working class. White people calling other white people names doesn't make it a racial slur. And anyway, there's no such thing as race, only different cultural and economic classes. "race" is in the eye of the beholder. Culture and class have more rigid boundaries. But even then, there's no easy way to describe someone by one or two categories.
now you are nitpicking on a matter of semantics. Yes, there is no such thing as "race" when it comes to skin color. That doesn't change that we use that term correctly or incorrectly. Spic, wetback, n****r, etc can all be defined as a certain class or subclass of people that behave in a certain stereotypical way.

My point is as clearly stated, it is often used derogatorily the same way that any other slur is used. It is accepted because it is against whites.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q21http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q21politics <![CDATA[2manyusernames @ 4/29/2008 11:55:16 AM]]>
Redneck and the rest of the racist terms can be used derogatorily as well.

When any racist term is used as humor, great. Always love a good joke.

When it is used pejoratively then it is 100% equal to any other racist term.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q20http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q20politics <![CDATA[bluenutria @ 4/29/2008 11:54:37 AM]]>« 2manyusernames : redneck is a derogatory racist term just like any other. Certainly most of those who used it here did no in the same way that other pejorative terms would be used.

You can make the same claim that "redneck" defines a certain type of white person as you can that "n****r", "spic", "k**e" or any other ethnic/racial slur is defined as a certain type of a certain race/culture.I disagree. It's a more of a classist term. It has more to do with what an educated, middle and upper class person would call a person of the working class. White people calling other white people names doesn't make it a racial slur. And anyway, there's no such thing as race, only different cultural and economic classes. "race" is in the eye of the beholder. Culture and class have more rigid boundaries. But even then, there's no easy way to describe someone by one or two categories.


This thread is getting to be a problem in my opinion. There are a few posts which are insulting and derogatory, posts which are mean-spirited and yes, bigoted.
The reflection isn't pretty, is it? This is what happens when we try to sum up someone in a few words. We create a cultural shorthand for them; we rely on stereotypes. Thanks for calling this out.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q19http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q19politics <![CDATA[RowanGrey @ 4/29/2008 11:54:36 AM]]>
Unit 1: A revolving door of tenants. Each one stays for 6-12 months, and none of them has ever been friendly or in the slightest bit interested in meeting the rest of us.

Unit 2: Don - a single gentleman (probably in his late 50's) who chain smokes. His voice is destroyed (see above, re: chain smoking), and is now so low and gravely that it registers in my chest. He works odd hours at an auto parts store, and when he's home, he is always sitting at his desk in front of the picture window facing the parking lot, cigarette in hand, concentrating very, very hard on something on his desk that I can never see. There is always sports on the hugetastic flat screen TV.

Unit 3: Michelle - not very interesting, so I'll talk about the FORMER owner. Lois - older lady (70's), single. Lived with the oldest poodle EVER (I called it the Poodle That Death Forgot), and a hugely obnoxious bird. This old lady kicked ass! She was on the board of the condo association, and was the go-to woman if you wanted to get them to actually DO anything. She loved to sit out on her pack porch in the early evening and drink beer out of a wine glass.

Unit 4: The Meatses - I have no idea what their names actually are. I only know that they grill vast quantities of meat every day without fail. The breezeway always smells like a BBQ joint. We affectionately call them Mr. and Mrs. Meats.

Unit 5 is haunted. A loooooong string of tenants have passed through. Every one of them leaves in the middle of the night and the unit has to be completely renovated from the floor up. The longest anyone has lived there in the 10 years we've been in our place was 8 months.

Unit 6: Rachel - Bless her heart (as we say in the South to absolve ourselves of all guilt), she's the sweetest little old lady you'd ever want to meet... but she will NOT SHUT UP. We live in terror of coming out of our condo when she's around. She will talk your damn ear off all day if you let her. Walking away does not stop her. Ugh.

Unit 7: Us. We have an anatomical skeleton hanging outside our front door that we dress for the holidays. Also, we have several skulls magnets that I made stuck to the front door, and a Haunted Mansion plaque... and a gravestone next to the front door that says "Welcome to the Graveyard". We can be heard fighting or having loud sex at just about any time of the day. We're awful neighbors.

Unit 8: Jamaica Lady - A very nice 40-something woman and her grown son. Both have the coolest Jamaican accents ever. She seems to think that Andy and myself are her personal soap opera. She just looooves to catch us smooching, and has the uncanny ability to walk up on us while we're smooching in public places... like the grocery store. It's crazy.

Unit 9: This one has housed two oddities. The first was a 40-something single dude who fostered a string of teenaged boys who were "at risk". The only time this got odd was when one of them died in this sleep one night. Crazy. The next set of tenants (who just moved out) were a younger couple who refused to speak to us, or to even look us in the face if we saw them in the breezeway. Since they were our closest neighbors (they shared one whole side of their condo with us), I can only assume that we were too loud for them. Jerks.

Unit 10: A house full of college boys. Bleah. Their place is always trashed, and there's a train of underage girls coming and going. We try to stay as far away from them as possible.

If I had more free time, I'd write a whole comic book series based on these people. It would be hugely popular and they'd make a movie out of it. Alas.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q18http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q18politics <![CDATA[SpamTrap @ 4/29/2008 11:52:22 AM]]>« 2manyusernames : redneck is a derogatory racist term just like any other.Why is it racist? Why do you think only caucasians can be rednecks? IMO the definitive guide to rednecks is the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour". At least that is what I accept as the definitive guide. Therefore I dont see much offensive in the word itself.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q17http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q17politics <![CDATA[Fuff @ 4/29/2008 11:37:00 AM]]>
some posts have been derogatory tho, it's just absurd i guess.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q16http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q16politics <![CDATA[Nicky666 @ 4/29/2008 11:30:38 AM]]>
upstairs: nice female that doesn't really speak my language, nice male that does speak my language but seldom speaks in general, countless kids (at least, I never tried to count them, what's the point).

On the right: no idea, never seen anyone going in or coming out. After reading this thread, I'm pretty sure it's a hostage situation involving a priest.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q15http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q15politics <![CDATA[2manyusernames @ 4/29/2008 11:24:46 AM]]>
You can make the same claim that "redneck" defines a certain type of white person as you can that "n****r", "spic", "k**e" or any other ethnic/racial slur is defined as a certain type of a certain race/culture.

This thread is getting to be a problem in my opinion. There are a few posts which are insulting and derogatory, posts which are mean-spirited and yes, bigoted.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q14http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q14politics <![CDATA[icepigs @ 4/29/2008 11:09:15 AM]]>« blurmore :
For those of you have labeled someone a "redneck" please define.The textbook definition of Redneck is "an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South."


That is always been the way I have used the moniker.

If you're not white....if you ARE educated...if you don't work on a farm, then you are NOT a redneck.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q13http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q13politics <![CDATA[blurmore @ 4/29/2008 10:54:37 AM]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q12http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q12politics <![CDATA[icepigs @ 4/29/2008 10:42:26 AM]]>« Moe : There is no such thing as Steeler "crap"Oh, if you live in the Dallas area - anything that isn't Dallas Cowboys is crap.

The Dallas Stars and the Dallas Mavericks stuff is still considered crap...but high end, completely acceptable crap. (although with the Maverick's current woes, the "crap approval level" is slowing going down)

The Texas Rangers stuff is crap, but "almost acceptable" crap.

Any sports team that's home arena/field/stadium that is NOT within 25 miles of where the Cowboys play is "totally unacceptable crap".

I don't make the rules, I just try to live by them.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q11http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q11politics <![CDATA[Moe @ 4/29/2008 10:19:47 AM]]>« icepigs :I do know they the husband must be from Pittsburgh as he had "Pittsburgh Steelers" crap all over his truck.There is no such thing as Steeler "crap"]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q10http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q10politics <![CDATA[SpamTrap @ 4/29/2008 9:57:28 AM]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q9http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q9politics <![CDATA[horsefeathers @ 4/29/2008 9:31:08 AM]]>
Other neighbor next to us is a hoot. She doesn't care what anyone thinks. She's a school teacher in the city, live-in boyfriend/fiance that she has thrown out a few times and would just pile all his stuff in her front yard. She has a daughter in college and a 14 yr. old son that Mobase teaches guitar lessons to. She walks around outside in her pj's and soup cans in her hair. She tells people what she thinks, completely doesn't hold back. She likes to drink, can be a bit loud, but is a great neighbor, and the BEST cook in the world. We have new neighbors behind us, people that used to live there are getting divorced. They have a daughter in her twenties and a teenage son. The new neighbors have 3 toddlers. That will take some adjusting to. The youngest seems to wail non-stop. The AC may have to be turned on early.

As you get back into the heart of the development, there are alot more families with kids, small kids, and some teenagers. A friend that boards her horses where I do, lives in the middle of the development with her 4 kids and husband. Some are friendly and will say hello when we are walking the dogs. Some are not so friendly. One night, late and it was dark, we were walking the dogs and two loose dogs were running around. We had just adopted our Rottweiler and were not sure how he would react to two loose dogs circling us, so I walked ahead with our other dog and was trying to shoo them away. Mobase was tentatively walking behind with the Rottie. Rottie stopped and peed on a guy's bush, out of nowhere in the dark he comes barreling across his front yard, gets in Mobase's face, Rottie is startled and lunges and growls, and the drunken idiot tells us to control our dog. He then told us he was going to put poison out so neighborhood dogs stop peeing on his bushes, yet he then proceeds to tell me the loose dogs running through his yard do not bother him.

Thankfully, his house is up for sale.

I would love nothing more than to have about 10-20 acres out in the middle of nowhere.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q8http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q8politics <![CDATA[icepigs @ 4/29/2008 8:57:50 AM]]>
When we first moved there, it was full of DINKs and we were all about the same age. We all started having kids at the same time. We had "street BBQs" where everyone would show up and eat and drink and have a great time.

Then it slowly went to hell. It was full of nice, small, inexpensive houses so it quickly became full of less than desirable people. Some were sold to Mexican families - the owner of the house was a US citizen, but the 30 other people living there were not. (These were 1200 sq feet homes). One house truly had at least 25 people living there. There were 12 cars/trucks that were parked in the driveway and on the street. Then some druggies/dealers moved in.

Then the friends we had made started moving out. We left 2 years ago. Now there is only 1 of the 7 families left...and since she's divorced with 3 kids, she can't afford to buy a new house.


I now live in a cul-de-sac. There are 4 houses there. We're the only one with elementary school aged kids, but there are plenty of same aged kids a block over. In House #1 lives a man who is a "Mr. Fix-It" (as his business). Really nice guy. The wife works in an office, but I'm not sure what she does. They have 2 daughters - one is a freshman in college and one is a Jr in high school. The Jr is our babysitter.

House #2 is the "NASCAR" family (Husband, Wife, a boy who's a SR in high school and a girl who is in 8th or 9th grade). The weekend before any race at TMS, they will go get their HUGE RV and park it in the cul-de-sac. Then on Wednesday, they will take it to TMS and it will stay there until a day or two after the race. It shows back up in the cul-de-sac while they clean it out and wash it, then it disappears until the next race.

We live in house #3.

In House #4, we have new neighbors...Husband and wife, no kids. They've only lived there for a few months and I have only seen them once. I do know they the husband must be from Pittsburgh as he had "Pittsburgh Steelers" crap all over his truck.


Behind us (across the alley) is the family from Toronto who love to get drunk, the ultra-religious family who home school there two kids and attend church 3 or 4 days a week, and the noisy family who the husband and wife brought in kids from previous marriages and have had some of their own.

But I love my new house and am happy where I'm at.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q7http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q7politics <![CDATA[thebluefrog @ 4/29/2008 4:18:54 AM]]>
I have called the cops on an 8 year old boy that was breaking into a vacant unit.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q6http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q6politics <![CDATA[doggylives @ 4/29/2008 3:24:56 AM]]>
We live in a quiet road and get on with all the neighbours, I like to keep myself to myself, I don't go in for having to be best friends with people just because they live near you but we are on good terms with everyone, apart from one neighbour!

She lives in the house next to ours and when we moved into our house we got warned by other neighbours that she was a bit batty, we just ignored this as gossip because we prefer to make our own decisions about people, turns out they were right.

So far she has:

Called the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) on us 9 times. After the last time they threatened her with legal action as every time they came our animals were in perfect condition and happy.

Called the police on us 5-6 times for reasons ranging from having no tax on our car (we did and always have) drug dealing (the local officer that knows us came round, had coffee and a laugh at how barmy she is) and a few other equally petty things.

Taken photographs of our cars to try and prove we park illegally, shouts at us whenever she can ect.

The worst thing was a letter she put through our door. Our daughter is mixed-race and one day we got a letter put through the door when she thought we were out (I was in and saw her put it through the door) The letter basically said that "n****rs weren't welcome in the village" and that we should take "that little black b***h and move" or we'd be forced to move. The police wouldn't do anything for lack of evidence!

So yeh, we didn't invite her for a BBQ last summer :D]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q5http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q5politics <![CDATA[imnotyoo @ 4/29/2008 1:58:21 AM]]>
Sitting on my couch, I can see out the front window.

To my left are two college girls who like to party and smoke pot. They love my dogs and think Yogurt is the cutest thing they have ever seen. One of them is a dancer.

The unit to my right are two brothers. They fight a lot and they sometimes have a girl over who laughs loudly at night. Or maybe it's the TV.

One over from the brothers are a tightass couple. They're both brunettes and they like the color red. They're non-confrontational yet rude.

The building perpendicular to my building starts with this red-headed college student who likes to smoke pot and play the clarinet.

The unit next to his contains [b]The Unhappies[/i]. The Unhappies are a very religious family that somehow fit four strawberry blond children and two parents in a two-bedroom townhome. The children are the most disobedient children I've ever seen. The mother's long hair is always messy and she never smiles. The dad leaves the wife and kids at home a lot. Their car is filled with fast food bags and cups. They yell a lot and I don't know why they're married. The dad goes outside a lot and stares at his mulch. I like to think he's farting.

Update: I was typing this when the girls to the left of me came over for some... thing and we all went over to a friends house and got super drunk and I'm dunker right now then I have been in a long time and it was fun.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q4http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q4politics <![CDATA[gammerus @ 4/29/2008 1:33:49 AM]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q3http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q3politics <![CDATA[mobase @ 4/28/2008 11:28:45 PM]]>« Bornbad : My neighbors should have their breathing permits revoked. When I first moved here it was a quiet, upscale place. Now it's loud car stereo hell. Windows open weather...lock and load.I have a plan.. No, seriously- Hear me out.

We need to invent a device, oh- Let's say shaped like a radar gun.
You point this thing at the local "look at me, I have a $200.00 car with $1000.00 rims and $800.00 speakers" kids when they drive by- or sit there in their driveway playing that crap at levels that make your kitchen table vibrate across the floor.

Once you point this thing at their car, the sounds of fiddy cent disappear-
All the sudden there's obnoxiously twangy bluegrass or better yest- southern gospel quartets blasting from the car stereo in question.

Watch them injure themselves frantically pushing buttons and ripping knobs off.

Anybody know a good engineer who can build this for me?]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q2http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q2politics
What are your neighbors like?
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I would like to poll all plimates about their neighbors.
(or neighbours in some case)

I have a redneck neighbor with "Family, Faith, Freedom, vote for Huckabee" sign on their yard (my children keep reading all words there as if it started with an F, just for the sake of alliteration)
My other neighbor is gay, and he comes home late, and sleeps late so I dont see him very often.

The third one living opposite to me is democrat and since we have this 2 elections system here on one she voted for Obama, on the other for Hillary. It seems she would really want a black male who is white female as a president, I am just happy Michael Jackson did not run this time for the office.

My diagonal neighbors, well, one of them is a Cuban refugee, his family does not seem to speak much English, so there is not much communication between us, but I know he is in prison now for beating up a policeman who tried to tell him to turn their music down a bit in the middle of the night. One of the neighbors probably couldnt sleep (not me, just to remind you).
The other diagonal neighbors do not speak to me any longer because they kept bringing their dogs to take a dump on my front yard and my attempts beg them not to do so were in vain, so I told them if this happens again I will shot the dogs. Even if I dont have a gun this threatening gave the results I wanted but they dont talk to me or any member of my family ever since.

So these are my neighbors. What can you tell about yours?]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q1http://www.plime.com/politics/f/4062/1/rss2_0.rss#q1politics