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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on October 9, 2012 at 7:57am

I remember that another member here posted an image with the word "nigger" used in it, and the thread was closed/censored because some other thinskinned member couldn't stop bitching about it being offensive. I hope the same wont happen again.

Anyway, you should've asked him AYAK? and see how he responds.

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Permalink Reply by Hank Hell on October 9, 2012 at 9:09am

Man I've been down the whole eastern coast from Nova Scotia to florida and the south is awful. It's like they have a "Self Deportation" policy for anyone who graduated from the fourth grade. I don't know why anyone still lives in the south or the middle east. I tried to by a pack of smokes in southern Virgina and when the lady behind the counter saw the holligram on my I.D. it was like I had pulled out a lightsaber, I shutter to think what would have happened if I had flicked my lighter and said "Oh, Oh, FIre." No smokes for me that day, she wouldn't take my space I.D.

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Permalink Reply by Obfuskation on October 9, 2012 at 12:07pm

I spent a year in Hancock county Mississippi.  When I told people that my occupation was "production machinist" they acted like I was the risen messiah, and everybody thought I was a drug dealer since I drove a new Camaro.  wtf?

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Permalink Reply by Ed on October 9, 2012 at 12:51pm

Come on folks we all know there are Walmart wackos all across this fine land. The deep South is not the exclusive domain for these airheads. I live here in Arkansas and because I am an artisan and try to keep local business opportunities flowing I don't advertise my atheism on t-shirts. If I end my business at some point then I might entertain that notion. The Abrahamic religions are extremely intolerant of we heathens, to the point of taking personal offense that I decline to believe in their particular invisible being. It's childish behavior that says a lot about their religion and it's foundations. 

Not being the type to be intimidated I would of told the redneck to meet me in the phuckin' parking lot and we could continue interacting.

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Permalink Reply by Willson Stoner on October 9, 2012 at 4:52pm

I'm not trying to defend the Christian scumbag in anyway but isn't wearing an atheist t-shirt in a southern Walmart a bit like carrying a sign that says lynch me please? If you're going to ask for it don't be surprised if you get it.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Spokes on October 9, 2012 at 10:12pm

Oh, I wasn't surprised that someone insulted me for wearing the shirt. In fact, half the reason I went to Walmart was to see how people would react, to get an idea of just how backward people are in my area. I was more baffled by the fact that the guy couldn't come up with a better insult than, "fucking nigger". I guess I really need to lower my expectations when it comes to these people.

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Permalink Reply by Diane on October 9, 2012 at 8:24pm

I was at University of Tennessee with 10,000 kids at the Destination Imagination Global Finals in 2003.  I was 7 months pregnant, and when I walked around the corner at the hotel and a kid was running at me full speed.  We had a near miss, and I yelled, "Jesus Christ!"

As I was calming myself down, a lady came out of her hotel room and said, "Who's swearing out here?"  (She was from the Mississippi group staying at the same hotel.)  I sincerely said, "Someone's swearing?"

She said, "Yes, someone took the Lord's name in vain.  We don't appreciate that kind of talk around here."  I said, "Oh, THAT.  I did it.  Shit!   Sorry."

I really was sorry.  We laughed about it for hours though.  I guess we northerners are just heathens.

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Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on October 9, 2012 at 9:29pm

I have seriously torqued some people off with my goddams, goddam-fuckings, godfuckingdamnits, etc.  And I was raised to think "goddamn[ed]" was less obnoxious than "fucking" when used as an adjective.

I never could figure out the point behind "Don't take the load's name in vain."  The sentence doesn't even parse.  If they said "Don't use god's name as a fucking cussword" it would at least make some modicum of sense.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on October 9, 2012 at 9:41pm

Huh? Of course it parses. I feel like I'm missing a joke or something.

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on October 10, 2012 at 9:17am

This has happen to me a few times. The last time I suggested that the fellow mind his own business, and suggested that since he is most likely not an appointed speech nazi to stuff it! 

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on October 9, 2012 at 11:05pm

Sadly, many in my extended family are card carrying rednecks. At a recent family reunion, I did find a few folks that thought nothing about validating the more extream ideas of the Occupy X Paranoid Redneck sub group. I have an Occupy leaning sensability, but my more rationalist desire for honesty, interfers with a full on protestor status/commitment.

I must be nice to my loving, but 'interesting', extended family members. One has gifted a horse to us, after they retire in a few weeks.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Moreno on October 10, 2012 at 4:00am

Do not ware a tee shirt like that in WalMart unless you are looking for a problem. No one should shop at WalMart.

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