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Disgusting

posted 14 years ago by laura-170
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This is a good documentary as far as being...well...interesting (???)

But I thought I would smile and laugh as I did with "American Hollow." Heh...not so much. This doc made me angry!

These people are NOT "outlaws!" They're nothing but worthless, skank-ified, poor white trash. They make Ernest T. Bass look like George freaking Clooney graduating with honors from Yale.

Just because you're so freaking ignorant, uneducated, and ill-mannered that your usual behavior mimics...INSANITY...doesn't mean you actually are crazy and qualify for disability SSI. You're just white trash. But what does your disabled body do with itself and all of this free time?

Bar-hopping, drug dealing, drug using, getting wasted, fighting, sleeping around, supplying pregnant women with drugs, supplying the new mother with drugs while she's still in the hospital, having babies, losing babies, getting married, tracking down your husband, shooting people, fantasizing about shooting people, stealing cars, stealing guns, singing karaoke, and ruining your mom's birthday party by being your stupid, ignorant self right in front of her...AND CHILDREN.

That's the worst part - everything is said and done in plain sight of the children. The drug use, the talk of violence, everything is said and done so HAPPILY around the kids that I wonder what anyone means when they say they want their children to "have a better life" than they did. Well, let's see...first, you don't do drugs in front of them and then JOYOUSLY talk about how much you love it. Don't talk about your nephew blowing your face off like its a completely normal occurence. Don't brag about stabbing your boyfriend and laugh at your kid "being cute" when he voices his desire to do the same.

Those poor kids don't know any better. They probably think all families are like this...everyone's got a nephew who has shot them three times. Everybody's got a grandma that would hide evidence and clean up a crime scene for you.

Hank Williams III said that they are the "freest" people. I beg to differ. They are the most PRIMITIVE. They are slaves to their own desires, they are impulsive, they do what they want, exactly when they want to without any forethought to the consequences. And then they wonder why they die so young....why they have such "hard luck."

They remind me of Ron Cummings and Misty Croslin...and that's enough to tick me off!

[–] Wreck-It_John 14 years ago

You mad? lolz

[–] laura-170 14 years ago

LOL, yeah! But I live in KY - I see "Whites" all the time!

I'm sick and tired of pretending to feel sorry for people when they tell me, "I got dis larn'in dis'billy, done got barn with dat aye-dee-dee, or dat arrtism or sump'in. I cain't work. Kin y'all gimme a rahde to Southside Liquerrs? I done lawst mah lahhcense fer dee-you-eye."

[–] iscream22 14 years ago

Theres people like that everywhere in the world. Just lazy people who dont want to work. You dont need to feel sorry for them if they arent putting forth any effort. Theres definately some people out there who are screwed by the system who try really hard and will work but theyre the minority.

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[–] Dragon000 14 years ago

There are people with this sort of mentality who live every place you go. I live in the Southwest, and we have the "white trash" types, but also those of other ethnicity, who do the same thing here. If there is a way to live on the dole while partying it up and shooting one another, there will be people who will find that way.

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[–] lynn72 14 years ago

Well said Laura-170. I watched The Wild and "Wonderful" Whites last night and was shocked! Primitive is a good word for these people. They are destroying their lives and their children's lives...all on our tax dollars. The extent of their ignorance is shocking. At first I couldn't help giggle at the antics of these dumb hicks,(the kid bouncing off the walls and the idiot almost hitting the ceiling fan with the rifle) but the woman doing a line of coke right next to her newborn is gross. She was still in the hospital for pete's sake! I've always heard jokes about the lack of intelligence among hillbillies, not a joke apparently. God help them and those they leave in their wake. Makes me wonder if there's a way to help them without letting them stay on government funds. Education???

[–] laura-170 14 years ago

Don't you love how the song says, "They don't need nothin' from nobody 'cause they're all doin' fine?"

Don't need nothin' from nobody? I guess that means they are going to return those SSI checks? Yeah right.

I don't think Kirk was doing cocaine in the hospital. I don't know very much about drugs to begin with, but I do know people crush and snort pain pills like Oxycontin to get a quicker/better high. And it would make sense that what she was doing was Oxycontin - I was prescribed some after I had my tubes tied and I wasn't even in any *real* pain. Just ibuprophen did the job! But I was curious to see what the hubbub was about, so I tried one. *ONE* I'm a completely sober, teetotaler type of gal, so the one did it. I acted like Kirk for the rest of the day. I can't imagine what it's like to take 3-4 at a time, much less taking one a day every day. But coke is an upper so I'd imagine it wouldn't make Kirk act the way she did.

I hate to say this because its so un-PC, but it really is time we stop enabling parents with "charity." I do not want to see children suffer any more than anyone else does...however, I will not give parents money "for the kids." When I was about 18 and didn't know any better, I gave a friend $20 for "medicine for her sick child" which she DID use the money for, but I found out later the reason she didn't have the $20 in the first place was because she'd spent it all on drugs. I unwittingly enabled her to continue next paycheck...when she asked me for $20 again "for the kid." But by then I'd wised up and didn't give it to her. I'd also found out she'd recently gotten the baby back...it was taken away because there were drugs in his system. Not another penny. Ever.

We have got to stop throwing money at these people. Just like my friend, they are using their children to tug at our heartstrings. They KNOW we won't refuse WIC, welfare, SSI, rent subsidizing, etc. if we know there are children involved. Of course, this does not mean I do not agree with having social programs at all. I do, however, wish they were harder to enroll in and even harder to KEEP.

[–] Strongsad38001 14 years ago

I think Mamie and Jesco were the only true outlaws in the film. Bo was just a hideous washed-up old hippie, Kirk, Mousie, and Sue Bob were just Jerry Springer-style white trash, Derek was an obnoxiously smug deadbeat redneck, Annie Mae was a terrifying psychopath, and Brandon was just a criminal. The only ones with the real charming "outlaw" aura were Jesco and Mamie - Jesco, with his cult-status and poetic words of hidden wisdom, and Mamie with her tough-as-nails personality and the "hard road to go down" life. An outlaw is like a pile of garbage that's been doused in gasoline and lit on fire in a spectacular explosion. White trash is just the pile of garbage with no appealing fire.

[–] TarheelNC 14 years ago

Good point! I think you are dead on.

If I had to listen to Kirk and her lil six pack Pepsi chugging son curse "Dennis" out the entire film I would have cut it off!

TarheelNC