I'm a snob too, Fay, if having a generalized distaste for the average post office crowd makes one a snob.

On the plus side, I'm sure they have a generalized distaste for you, too. People who have nothing in common tend not to be fast friends.

I grew up in one of the most anti-intellectual, rabidly right-wing towns you can imagine. (There was a group that armed themselves because the John Birch Society had gone soft on Communism.) This was a town where most of the kids got married in the months after high school and went right to work and started families. I never fitted in - I had less in common with most of them than I'd have with ... well, I can't imagine. I've gone back once, for my father's funeral, and I'll never set foot in that hell-hole again.

Edited to add the point to all this - you're much kinder than I am, Fay.

Nah, babe, but that's why "hooplehead" is my new favorite expression. Because I need a word for The People for when I'm not feeling all Springsteen about them, which is where I try to spend most of my time, honest. But that chick with three kids and three baby daddies smacking her kids in the store? Total hooplehead.(and since I'm borrowing from Deadwood, she should feel lucky I'm stopping there, know what I mean?) Talk radio? Wal-mart? Lousy with hooples.

dislocation and from-another-planetness when she goes back to the town she grew up in as well.

I feel the same way when I visit my home town, which is unfortunately and fortunately only an hour away. I am not only a snob but a hypocrite, because I will mock the people I grew up with but I won't dare let anyone else do the same.

It must be so disconcerting -- it's where you're from, and it's not.

My guilt comes from *not* growing up here. So I *know* I'm being a snob, but there's also a lot of sadness -- the economic depression in this area, as well as the lack of education, is just astounding. And then there's a whole uncomfortable weirdness to mocking people you feel sorry for.

OMG, I want to marry the lot of you!

In conclusion: let's make out.

That's what people do with family. Or the Democratic party. If you're a hypocrite for it, I am too. I do sometimes have to deal with the fact that I was kind of taught to view the bearer of a Southern accent as if they had Goodwin, Schwerner, and Chaney in their basements, although ime, I've personally heard more ugly racial shit from the Midwest, in the same voices that tell *me* "gee, you betcha."

In conclusion: let's make out.

That's what people do with family. Or the Democratic party

Funniest. Crosspost. EVAH.

Aye there be pirates for us tonight. Tickets in hand. Picking up MIL and seeing in Fort Lauderdale near her house. I Can't Wait.

I left a list of stuff for the kids to do today and vibed like crazy for them to do some of the list so I could surprise them with Pirates. They did enough that we can go. Although Bobby decided that the mica counters needed pledge. Ugh. Redo tomorrow.

makes out with Fay

makes out with everybody

Stephen Hawking wants to know how the human race can survive the next hundred years.

Yahoo! Answers should have a "Filter out any posts in which more than 95% of words fail spell check." Also, a "Filter out any posts that contain LOL" option. Then the 17,000 answers would get reduced to something sensible.

Edit: Also, run-ons. Then we'd get to avoid this gem: "Professor, I think that we will be able to survive much longer, because if nuclear war can be prevented and global warming is just a phase like many scientists say, we will be fine until the sun loses it's hydrogen, so it can't create plasma, that won't happen for a long time though." Sadly, I don't think there could conceivably be a "Filter for scientific idiocy" option.