"Rehab is for quitters."

[bustaballs]

Back in my high school ages long past, it seemed that almost every day I would be able to point out a couple dozen people wearing the shirt with the text, "You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same."

[LivingtheDream]

"I came here to drink some beer and kick some ass and it looks like we are almost out of beer"

[Chrono]

There were a load of t-shirts saying this a while ago that irritated me

FUSH
BUCK

[vejita]

Well, first there were the "Love and Peace" shirts, so recently we've had teh "hate and gangsta" shirts...

saying "rehab is for quitters" is like saying "suicide is badass"

[neilwron]

Everyone who found acks post interesting would do well to read The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad, i think you can preview a bunch at amazon.com. This book was amazing and really gets to the heart of society's unchecked discrimination towards rednecks. Its very tongue in cheek though so don't be fooled by how that sounds haha.

[General Chaos]

Everyone who found acks post interesting would do well to read The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad, i think you can preview a bunch at amazon.com. This book was amazing and really gets to the heart of society's unchecked discrimination towards rednecks. Its very tongue in cheek though so don't be fooled by how that sounds haha.

I found the post informative and I grew up in Texas. I always thought I was surrounded by hicks but now I'm thinking they were just rednecks. It's the racism and blatant opposition to education and intelligence that bothers me the most. I've met plenty of "country" people who do not harbor these same sentiments and are actually quite pleasant to be around.

Anyway, I've even seen a few confederate flags in Canada so far. I've been told people here don't understand what it means, but that's a debate for another day.

[Limewater]

Anyway, I've even seen a few confederate flags in Canada so far. I've been told people here don't understand what it means, but that's a debate for another day.

The confederate flag apparently pops up lots of places where there have been or are active secessionist movements. If you're in Toronto, you're pretty close to Quebec. That's probably the reason you see it a lot. Apparently, it's also pretty common in northern Italy.

A friend of mine who is married to a Filipino woman says that he sees lots of random flags all over the place over there just used as decoration without any context. He specifically mentioned seeing the Texas state flag, Alabama state flag, the Saudi flag, et cetera outside of shopping centers and stuff.

Maybe I'm just around too many geeks, but I really hate the shirts that say, "There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't."

[General Chaos]

Anyway, I've even seen a few confederate flags in Canada so far. I've been told people here don't understand what it means, but that's a debate for another day.

The confederate flag apparently pops up lots of places where there have been or are active secessionist movements. If you're in Toronto, you're pretty close to Quebec. That's probably the reason you see it a lot. Apparently, it's also pretty common in northern Italy.
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That makes sense to me. My problem with the confederate flag is that regardless of what the displayer thinks it represents, to a huge number of people it represents a movement that, whatever else it fought for, was intimately connected with slavery. Having spent some time in Georgia, I was amazed to see this flag flying at some government buildings, especially in Savannah where a huge percentage of the population is African American.

Having also grown up in Texas, I saw this flag used as a symbol to antagonize more than anything else, and again those displaying the flag usually embraced other values and beliefs associated with the "southern culture of violence."

[glynnahab]

Having also grown up in Texas, I saw this flag used as a symbol to antagonize more than anything else, and again those displaying the flag usually embraced other values and beliefs associated with the "southern culture of violence."

In high school, I knew a kid who broke into the school one night to hang a Confederate flag in place of the US one.

Same exact kid used to walk around school reading Mein Kempt.

Appropriately, he ended up becoming a cop.

[GSZX1337]

"I came here to drink some beer and kick some ass and it looks like we are almost out of beer"

...Great way to knock off Duke Nuke 'em.