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In Reply to: RE: I don't think you're being understood. Not even close. posted by Ugly on August 30, 2014 at 00:38:17
more of the backyard rednecked jerry rigging approach to fixing the problem than I'd prefer.
Your point of view is fine by me but why keep banging on about it and, more seriously, be offensive with it?
(I don't know the nuances in US English but, here in Britain, "redneck", though imported, is pretty much a euphemism for racist. It's not a word I'd use lightly.)
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I didn't mean to be offensive. I'm sorry if it was. What carcass said is more or less the way I was using it. I believe it's derived via the red necks of farmers due to all the time in the sun...traditionally uneducated, ignorant, inbred often racist etc. when sampled from the inner core of our country. Some here see it as a term of endearment, actually.
BTW did you see the list of responses questioning me when I woke up this morning? I'm not sure why you'd choose to chide me for banging my views and not address any of the peanut gallery.
I didn't mean to be offensive.
Thanks for the explanation. My (British) dictionary has it as:
(Disparaging) in the southwestern U.S., a poor, uneducated White farm worker; a person or institution that is extremely reactionary; adjective - reactionary and bigoted.
In Brit English, the term bigot nowadays strongly implies a racist.
I'm not sure why you'd choose to chide me for banging my views and not address any of the peanut gallery.
I do not on principle read instrusive posts dominated by "animated gifs" of cats and ignored most of the others. However, my eye was caught by the term "redneck" as I'd be included in the group you defined - I use a dedicated audio PC with a slimmissimOS. (To good effect BTW.)
Wikipedia defines it as "a bigoted and conventional person, a loutish ultra-conservative" - which I guess is close to what Ugly was trying to imply.
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