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Oh, okay. I thought maybe it was the bird. Or maybe you went as Jack Sparrow on Halloween.
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Can't get my head around that and trying to is causing anxiety...
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Ha! Jack. I don't travel with the bird.Oh, okay. I thought maybe it was the bird. Or maybe you went as Jack Sparrow on Halloween.
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It took me a moment as well. I figured other countries had rednecks, but that calling them that was either one of those uniquely American things or that the term took on a different meaning outside of the U.S..
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Here it is seldom used but is simply used in a derogatory sense to a rural person defining them as uneducated and uncultured. Culchie, mulchie, bogtrotter, redneck, neanderthal etc.
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My thoughts exactly, Jim.
I like that one. Maybe equivalent to knuckledragger?
maybe you need to give them the birdOh, okay. I thought maybe it was the bird. Or maybe you went as Jack Sparrow on Halloween.
We have rednecks here in Australia too. Sometimes we just call them d!ck heads
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I just call them "neighbor"...
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Well the least fertile land is bogland, most of it has been drained and burnt as fuel (turf), you own what's left of that land and trotting on it is about as much as it's good for. You sure as sh** ain't going to grow anything on it. It's pretty derogatory so us city folk use it a lot. They call us worse things.
Yes we do, along with cousin, brother, friend and dammit man.
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Cork people call Dublin people Jackíns (pronounced jackeens) as Dublin is in the bit of Ireland that capitulated to the British first about 800 years ago. It's a reference to the union jack, the flag their (the Brits) navy now flies, so jackeen means 'little Brit waiting for his navy to return'. They pretty much deserve to be called bogtrotters for that, so city or not cork people are bogtrotters. It's all light hearted banter, my dad was from Cork.
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Oddly enough I just started a book called 'Hillbilly Elegy' right now. And on page 3 the author one JD Vance says Hillbillies are what he calls, neighbours, friends and family.
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"Mouth breather" works too.
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Well, we already had one thread on this topic closed, but to some it's derogatory, to others a point of pride.
Like Sly said, " Different strokes..."
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
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I got a Depp comparison comment last week, also. At first I didn't understand it, never having been likened to him before, but after I did a search I came up with some of the same pictures posted a few posts up, and I can see how, if you use your imagination, its is possible to make a comparison.
I wish I had his hair. haha
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