Stereotypes- Any truth to it?

[Kenneth Brown]

I don't want this to turn into a pissing match or troll. I want to know how you and your area may be stereotyped and if you find it true. I'll be first-

Everyone from Texas lives on a ranch, has cows, and drives a truck. Not exactly. Very few live on a ranch, most have never ridden a horse let alone worked a cow from one, but most households do have a truck.

Your turn.

 

[Boomyal]

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Most everyone in the Pacific Northwest is pale and sickly looking, they claim how wonderful the outdoors are here, then shut their garage doors so fast, when coming home, that it almost cuts the trunk of their car off.

They are, in the main, snooty, some would say shy but we from other parts of the country know better. They disdain anyone who has more money than they do and encourage their governments to take away as much of it as they can.

They rush to embrace every new expression of political correctness because it gives them their only sense of self worth.

 

[ob]

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My sophomore high school science teacher was from Holland.All of the students used to ask her if she ever wore wooden shoes.She always laughed and said no.She then said when she was young and going to school in Holland that it was customary to think that people from Texas all rode in Conastoga wagons.

 

[Boomyal]

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My sophomore high school science teacher was from Holland.All of the students used to ak her if she ever wore wooden shoes.She always laughed and said no.She then said when she was young and going to school in Holland that it was customary to think that people from Texas all rode in Conastoga wagons.

She didn't know the half of it ob. We all know that everything is Texas is big, right? A couple of years ago I flew into Houston to pick up a Suburban and drive it back to Washington. A few miles out of Houston, we stopped at one of the infamous Texas Barbeque Restuarants. When I went into the bathroom (my first pit stop in Texas) I actually had to stand on my tiptoes to use the urinal.

I then knew that all those tales of bigness in Texas were, in fact, true. Some distance down the road, we stopped at a mini-mart and found the same thing.8)

 

[ob]

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8) at Boomyal.

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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Well Boom I'll tell ya- I'm 5'8". My dads 5'7". That being said my brother is 5'11" and father in law is about 6' even.

 

[Boomyal]

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Well Boom I'll tell ya- I'm 5'8". My dads 5'7". That being said my brother is 5'11" and father in law is about 6' even.

All I can say KB is that ya'll must hail from somewhere else, 'cause I am 6'1" and had to stand on my tippytoes.:%8)

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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At the risk of getting poofed I'll keep it clean.


I said I was short, but didn't say everything in Texas isn't big.

 

[heycods]

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Boomyall said' All I can say KB is that ya'll must hail from somewhere else, 'cause I am 6'1" and had to stand on my tippytoes.

Short legged hu! me to I always hate using thoes urinals! I use the kiddy ones. I hate having to hang it over thoes nasty things!:'(

 

[Dunaruna]

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[colour=blue]We have Kangaroos everywhere bouncing up and down the street and in our backyards. Nearly every little critter on our little island is deadly.

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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So are those just stereotypes D or are they for real?

 

[Dunaruna]

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[colour=blue]No roos in the cities and burbs but in country towns and sparsely populated areas - yes, in some areas they are in plaque proportions, that's one of the reasons why kangaroo meat can be found on most restaurant menus (same with crocs, deer, wild boar and emu). It is true that some people keep dingos & crocs as pets but it is rare.

With the deadly critters, I was going to answer 'TRUE'. But after thinking about it, we probably have just as many (if not more) harmless critters as deadly so I guess the answer is 'dunno'. One thing is for sure, we got more deadly snakes than I wish to think about but as a suburbanite I never see any. When I'm out fishing in the mountains I see plenty.

 

[Kiwi Phil]

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The only people in Aussie that really wear Akuberers, mole skin trousers, flat-heeled jodphers and dry-as-a-bones are the country people, and they probably don't make up 3% of the population.
Cheers
Phillip

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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We are ol rednecks with plenty of junk cars and trucks sitting around.
We chew and spit tobacco at and on anything.

Next?

 

[Skinnywater]

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California, the "stupid" (liberal) state.
Is actually made up of two highly populated urban areas, Los Angeles and San Fransisco. They and the immediate surrounding urban areas are densely packed populations of ultra liberal populations.

The remainder of the State is a vast and beautiful home for a predominately conservative population.
In fact, my home county Tehama is represented by Republican State assemblymen and by Republican congressmen. Our two Senators Boxer and Feinstien barely pull 20% votes from our county. Tehama county is also the highest concentration of registered ultra conservative third party voters in the State.
Making us in essence front-line warriors in the fight against socialism.

 

[JB]

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Ahhh, if you've seen one stereotype you've seen 'em all.

 

[Coors]

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"North Florida is nothing but rednecks, with junk trucks all over the yard, and a refridgerator on the front porch'"My junk 1946 Ford p/u is under a carport, my junk 1949 Ford p/u is in front of my shop, I drive my junk 1992 Bronco around the yard in order to cut the grass, my 1999 Dodge is allowed to park in the front yard.
My fridges are in my shop, and in the utility room (kegerator is in the dining room o

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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My stereotype was once a Bang & Olufsen, these days it's a mere Sony.

Seriously though, it is my understanding that South Florida is looked upon as the land of geriatrics, this may or may not be the case but i sure feel like i'm detached from America down here. :%

 

[POINTER94]

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In Wisconsin we all live on Farms, and we are issued a cheesehead at birth.

 

[JB]

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Been there, Vlad. When I lived in Ft. Likkerdale everyone had blue hair or spoke only a Carribean or Central/South American language. Of course that was 20 years ago.