I made a lolPalin. Well, a Palin demotivational poster, anyhow.

[LeftyMom]

I'm thinking I should replace the image with one where the daughter's showing, ideally with the trashy baby daddy.



and before anybody starts bitching about trailer jokes, I used to live in one. And I'm the only member of my immediate family who has never owned a Camaro AND my dad's house STILL has wood paneling after the remodel, I get to make jokes about less-than-classy white people since I have a family full of them.

[Zuiderelle]

1. I don't really get it... "you can't take the trailer out of the trash?"

I also don't like the trailer trash bit. Whether you lived in a trailer park or not, doesn't change the fact that that's a pretty classist and insulting term.

[LeftyMom]

2. It's not about money (they have it) it's about behavioral class (they don't have it)

Which is my point. It's one thing when people act like Cletus and Brandine from the Simpsons through no fault of their own, but it's pretty sad if they have other options and choose to be trashy.

[Zuiderelle]

3. I understand the insult, and I'm ok with insulting THEM...

but using "trailer trash" to do it insults more than just them.

[LeftyMom]

6. Okay, I'll put one vote down for "doesn't like it"

But since you don't like me anyway and I don't think much of you either, you'll forgive me for not giving a shit.

[Zuiderelle]

8. I don't know where you get that I don't like you.

I really was just answering your post with my thoughts.

[billyskank]

4. Ahhh like "chav" in the UK

Politically correct Guardian writers complain that the term "chav" is anti-working class snobbery. But actually it's got nothing really to do with how much money you have. Not everyone who is poor is a chav. And not all chavs are poor. In fact you can be loaded and be a chav. Chavdom is to do with how you behave.

[LeftyMom]

7. exactly

I know a lot of people who are totally white trash, even though they have a shitload of money. Hell, the one person I know who epitomizes white trash is actually native american and japanese. :shrug:

[AlCzervik]

10. yup, trash is a state of mind and not a reflection of income. I know trash that

live in really nice houses, still trash though.

[LeftyMom]

22. Uh, that's half of your town.

And almost all of South Sac. Welcome to my childhood. *sigh*

[AlCzervik]

40. shit that's half my neighborhood!

nice house, nice ride and no class.

[Midlodemocrat]

27. Oh, God, yes.

:puke:

[Zuiderelle]

11. You know, it would have been a bit different had you said "white trash" not "trailer trash"

I know plenty of trashy white people. And none of them live in trailers.

[Gormy Cuss]

36. No, it really wouldn't be that different.

"Trashy white people", yes.

"White trash" and "trailer trash" have very specific pejorative meanings associated with poverty and presumed attributes of those in lower-income households. I know that a lot of people don't understand that fine detail and I'll assume the OP didn't do this with that specific sort of malice in mind, but ask most people who live in trailers or white people who live in a low-income community and there's no ambiguity. We knew exactly what was meant by those phrases.

[Zuiderelle]

44. I stand corrected.

Both phrases are bad.

[Guava Jelly]

5. ok

:D

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. now thats a lolpalin

[DeepBlueC]

25. now THAT'S special!

:rofl:

[suninvited]

31. HA!

GOPsUx, you're my hero.

[Tektonik]

9. That's a lot of trash for one trailer

[LanternWaste]

12. Wood paneling denotes redneck status?

Wood paneling denotes redneck status? Oh crap... it's just that I happen to like... what I mean is, wood paneling seems very nic-- uhm, well... never mind.

Yeah-- Wood Paneling is just rude!!1111!

[Tektonik]

14. Wood paneling had been trashy for the past twenty years at least

:P

[LanternWaste]

16. twenty years?

Twenty years? Well, that explains it! Now, if you'll pardon me while I dust the shoulder straps of my Members Only jacket and kick off my topsiders :)

[Tektonik]

17. Well I'm almost 23 and my mom would always express disgust when she saw wood paneling

Some of the costlier paneling is nice, but 99% of the ones Americans have in their dens looks trashy.

[LanternWaste]

18. To be honest...

To be honest, I have no fashion, style or decorative taste or knowledge. Lime green Formica kitchenettes and banana yellow deep shag carpets are a-ok with me! :)

[Tektonik]

19. I'll agree with you about the lime green kitchenettes, granite is so boring

[Midlodemocrat]

28. WHAT???? Granite is teh awesome@!!!!!

Especially mine. Dark blue with silver flecks. Never shows dirt. I can go for weeks without wiping it down.

:hide:

But, I wouldn't.

[LeftyMom]

20. This stuff was glued on and clearly came from a kit at Lumberjack or something.

Also, there are floor-to-ceiling mirrors on a lot of the walls, sometimes in conjunction with the wood paneling. Dad's house is very 70's and very trashy.

[Tektonik]

21. I approve of floor to ceiling mirrors

Only because I'm 6'5" and I normally can't see my head in a mirror unless I duck down :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. doesnt it have to make you laugh in order to be considered LOL?

[Shell Beau]

23. You're gonna get flamed, but you know that already.

They do give trash a new meaning!! Rich trash. Scary!!!

[LeftyMom]

24. Trash with money is the worst kind!

They don't even have an excuse to be trashy!

[asteroid2003QQ47]

26. Some will see it as saying more about you than...

it does about the Palins.
Consider that they may be right.

[sniffa]

29. WHY ARE THEY HIDING THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS KID!!1!!1!911!?

AND WHY DOES BRISTOL LOOK PREGGERS!!1!?

[Midlodemocrat]

30. Dude. You never disappoint.

:rofl:

[sniffa]

32. Thank you, thank you

:D

I always aim to make you laugh. Speaking of which, I hope you notice some of my gems today alone. :D

[Midlodemocrat]

42. I'll have to search. Been working a TON this week

Damn work. Interfering with my DU. Seriously. Who do they think they are?

[AlCzervik]

33. Why do you hate

insert whatever after hate, i'm running low on new shit we hate.


:+

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. They certainly represent the most embarrassing of American trailer trash ignorant redneck garbage.

it's weird, maybe, but Shrubby has a hundred times more class than they do, and he's probably the most tacky, classless rube shitbag ever to inhabit the White House.

Seriously - to think, we started with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and so forth, and now we're seriously considering electing a person with the intellectual capacity of a troglodyte and all the culture and breeding of the most southern of southern white trash?

Embarrassing doesn't even begin to describe it.

[Shell Beau]

35. Just goes to show that some of the trashiest people don't live in the

south!! They live waaay north! :P

[cwydro]

39. Shrub has more class?

You gotta be kidding. He doesn't even have more class than my trash.

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. No, he doesn't have more class than your trash. But he does have more class than Palin.

That's my point.

[Jamastiene]

37. I don't know.

I think my trailer is rather classy, what with my cathedral ceiling and garden tub...granted, the tub is molded PLASTIC, but still...I think it's rather classy, by MY standards. :P

[LeftyMom]

38. Hey, your trailer is classier than their igloo or any of McCain's 27,473 houses, because it's yours.

:hug:

[Jamastiene]

41. Awwwww,

:hug:

[sniffa]

43. Don't miss this 'shop some wonderful DUer made