Vaping, wow!

[lilranch2001]

Funny, then there is this one, totally different
A Canadian Company Ranked All 5 U.S. States by How Polite They Are. Here'''s the List | Inc.com

 

[lilranch2001]

and then this one......
'Sweet Home': Alabama named most polite state in the U.S. - Yellowhammer News |
Yellowhammer News

take your pick
:confused3:

 

[/pine]

You need to learn to consider the source...(doh!)...like social media has any credibility...LoL...!

 

[lilranch2001]

Come on Piney, you KNOW I am a sweetheart!

 

[/pine]

lily lily lily...tsk tsk...

 

[atsah]

Very true. Southerners go on and on how rude we "yankees" are, I don't see any region as any more or less hospitable than anyone else. Unfamiliar customs can give the wrong impression.

Me either, I'm in the south a lot and I don't see special hospitality in the south. When I drive through the southern states at 2:00am I have had on a few occasions people do very weird things.. I notice there are cops at gas stations at night for protection, we don't have or need that here..

 

[aczlan]

Curiously, how do groups like the Mennonites or Amish decide what modern technology to embrace and what to scorn? Doesn't always seem like there's a pattern.

As I understand it, the Elders of each congregation decide what is acceptable and where it is acceptable (ie: you might be able to use a prepaid phone for work, but it has to be a flip phone, not a smart phone or your company trucks can be any color, but your personal vehicles have to be plain and dark in color)

Everyone recognizes "southern hospitality"...you never hear anyone say "yankee hospitality"...

"Southern Hospitality" just like "Bless your heart"?

Bless your heart is not really a compliment. It sounds sweet as pie, and sometimes is said affectionately about pitiable situations, but it’s often acid-tongued because you’re pitiful and did something you shouldn’t’ve but were too dumb to know better, which is why it’s a perfect saying to export from a region that has hung on for dear life to its manners because it has little else to boast about that isn’t problematic, like the food, or the music. ****, the manners are problematic, too. Some people call it “nice meanness,” but the ability to sound proper while being awful is a central tenet of Southern identity, and you see it best these days in their holdover sick burns.

Aaron Z

 

[/pine]

Me either, I'm in the south a lot and I don't see special hospitality in the south. When I drive through the southern states at 2:00am I have had on a few occasions people do very weird things.. I notice there are cops at gas stations at night for protection, we don't have or need that here..

You only see the cops like that along the Interstate...they know there is a bunch of evil doers passing through...

To realize southern hospitality you have to slow down and spend some time in the smaller towns etc... experience all the mom and pop establishments and the citizens...just traveling through states on major roads does not give a well rounded impression...

 

[/pine]

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"Southern Hospitality" just like "Bless your heart"?


Aaron Z

Generally when you hear something like that in the south...it's more like "bless their heart(s)"...usually uttered over a baby or a litter of puppies or kittens etc...something entirely innocent.

 

[Diggin It]

Yeah. I have to remind myself when some group of millennials start going on how their ways are so superior to everyone who came before them that our parents/grandparents probably thought the same of us. No matter what generation we're part of.
Every generation makes its mark, for better or worse (and usually a combination of the 2).

Remember when you were in your teens and twenties and firmly believed no over thirty knew anything? Now you're in your xxxties and no one under thirty knows anything.

Everyone recognizes "southern hospitality"...you never hear anyone say "yankee hospitality"...

Yankee ingenuity comes up with phrases like Southern Hospitality.