SJWs Attack Tiny House Movement for Poverty Appropriation

[ChrisL]

Grits is just cornmeal. I'll take cornbread anyday. What is it with you southerners and your slimy foods?

 

[mdk]

I could fill one 'tiny house' with just our board games.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Grits is just cornmeal. I'll take cornbread anyday. What is it with you southerners and your slimy foods?

You need you some Okra Shrimp gumbo.

 

[ChrisL]

Grits is just cornmeal. I'll take cornbread anyday. What is it with you southerners and your slimy foods?

You need you some Okra Shrimp gumbo.

 

[ChrisL]

Grits is just cornmeal. I'll take cornbread anyday. What is it with you southerners and your slimy foods?

You need you some Okra Shrimp gumbo.

When you eat steamed clams. Lol!

 

[usmbguest5318]

It could win in Colorado.

It likely could. They'd likely "bitch and moan" about how unhealthy Southern cooking is, but they wouldn't complain about the taste.

I have a colleague who lives in Niwot, CO. They have plenty of "gucci" places to eat there, but not one Southern restaurant.

Denver, I'm told, has a handful of decent Southern restaurants, though the report I got about one of them is that the food was definitely tasty enough, but the collard greens were a touch too bitter, though otherwise good. I'm sure you have your "secrets" for collards just as I do, and though nobody else makes them quite the same, they don't have to because you still know good collards when you get them.

My "read" on that is that they either went to the wrong place or Denver needs another Southern restaurant because I feel that if one can't "thrown down" on some collard greens, there's bound to be more one can't "throw down" on. After all, how hard is it to "put some good stuff in a pot" with leaves and let it simmer for long time until it tastes real good?

You pompous ass.

Are you trying to insult the art of greens cooking?

I have no further words.

I do know the best methods of greens cooking.

I bet you don't.

Give them to the rabbit and cook something other than weeds?

I don't know how anyone can actually like that slimy stuff either. Southerners are weird.

If they were slimy, I can understand why you didn't like them. I wouldn't either. Greens aren't supposed to be slimy. Okra can be slimy, but not collards.

 

[ChrisL]

It could win in Colorado.

It likely could. They'd likely "bitch and moan" about how unhealthy Southern cooking is, but they wouldn't complain about the taste.

I have a colleague who lives in Niwot, CO. They have plenty of "gucci" places to eat there, but not one Southern restaurant.

Denver, I'm told, has a handful of decent Southern restaurants, though the report I got about one of them is that the food was definitely tasty enough, but the collard greens were a touch too bitter, though otherwise good. I'm sure you have your "secrets" for collards just as I do, and though nobody else makes them quite the same, they don't have to because you still know good collards when you get them.

My "read" on that is that they either went to the wrong place or Denver needs another Southern restaurant because I feel that if one can't "thrown down" on some collard greens, there's bound to be more one can't "throw down" on. After all, how hard is it to "put some good stuff in a pot" with leaves and let it simmer for long time until it tastes real good?

You pompous ass.

Are you trying to insult the art of greens cooking?

I have no further words.

I do know the best methods of greens cooking.

I bet you don't.

Give them to the rabbit and cook something other than weeds?

I don't know how anyone can actually like that slimy stuff either. Southerners are weird.

If they were slimy, I can understand why you didn't like them. I wouldn't either. Greens aren't supposed to be slimy. Okra can be slimy, but not collards.

How could it possibly NOT be slimy? If you are cooking it in any liquids, it has to be slimy.

 

[Marion Morrison]

It likely could. They'd likely "bitch and moan" about how unhealthy Southern cooking is, but they wouldn't complain about the taste.

I have a colleague who lives in Niwot, CO. They have plenty of "gucci" places to eat there, but not one Southern restaurant.

Denver, I'm told, has a handful of decent Southern restaurants, though the report I got about one of them is that the food was definitely tasty enough, but the collard greens were a touch too bitter, though otherwise good. I'm sure you have your "secrets" for collards just as I do, and though nobody else makes them quite the same, they don't have to because you still know good collards when you get them.

My "read" on that is that they either went to the wrong place or Denver needs another Southern restaurant because I feel that if one can't "thrown down" on some collard greens, there's bound to be more one can't "throw down" on. After all, how hard is it to "put some good stuff in a pot" with leaves and let it simmer for long time until it tastes real good?

You pompous ass.

Are you trying to insult the art of greens cooking?

I have no further words.

I do know the best methods of greens cooking.

I bet you don't.

Give them to the rabbit and cook something other than weeds?

I don't know how anyone can actually like that slimy stuff either. Southerners are weird.

If they were slimy, I can understand why you didn't like them. I wouldn't either. Greens aren't supposed to be slimy. Okra can be slimy, but not collards.

How could it possibly NOT be slimy? If you are cooking it in any liquids, it has to be slimy.

Okra and Escargo is slimy.

 

[Old Rocks]

There are children in China living in cardboard boxes.

There are children in the US of A living in cardboard boxes, also.

 

[Picaro]

Grits is just cornmeal. I'll take cornbread anyday. What is it with you southerners and your slimy foods?

Every region has some pretty gross foods. Scrapple in Pennsylvania, some really detestable 'casseroles' popular in the Midwest, some people eat fungus like it's some kind of big 'delicacy', and New Yukkers will actually eat hot dogs off some filthy cart on the street, and Sicilian 'sea food dishes' that look like they're still moving ... California freaks put lumps of spoiled milk on Mexican food, they call it 'sour cream', and they put the awful crap on everything.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

PS: Eating cheap may enable one to acquire wealth. My friend and me were talking about going to Colorado and opening a restaurant. One that serves Southern breakfasts and lunches.

Well, that would be "feeding" cheap -- the stuff of a typical Southern breakfast (not including garnishes and decorations) generally has among the lowest going food costs of just about any style of cuisine -- but as owners of the place, yes, you'd likely, and often, also eat well but quite inexpensively...everyone who owns a "proper" restaurant generally does, after all.

Yeah uhh, you couldn't put a decent Southern breakfast together if your life depended on it.

You're better off not speaking of things outside your realm of expertise, ok?

Ok, you have a vocabulary.

Whip me up some biscuits and gravy.

They eat much poorer choices in just about every section of the country.

Don't forget the eggs on top, do you know how they're supposed to be cooked?

Of course you don't.

STFU on this subject.

Furthermore that wasn't what I meant.

Way to miss the point, fella.

Dude, I live in D.C. I grew up in D.C. My ancestors in both my parent's family fought for the CSA in the the Civil War. I grew up with cans of bacon grease and sausage grease in the fridge. "Crawdads" and grits were regular breakfast items.

Biscuits made from any milk other than buttermilk is just bread. Why does anyone pay extra for nonstick cookware when nothing sticks to a cast iron skillet to begin with as long as you know what you're doing when you cook with it? Although if you got momma riled, your face, butt or whatever would stick to bottom of it when she hit you with a hot one.

That means you have that gross DC/ MD accent.
Pitcher bain soot owen. We're goon danny ayshun to Ayshun City.
( Put your bathing suit on. We're going down to the ocean to Ocean City.)

I thought that was the accent of those in Baltimore or Balmer as it's pronounced.

Not just Ballmer. DC-ites who were really Marylanders living for a time in DC as government workers before moving out into MD suburbs when blacks moved into DC in the 50's and 60's.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I have to admit, I think accent's are pretty cool, even the ones I don't like are still cool. I don't know where the guy who wrote "ayshun" is from. I do know that the way I and other locals would pronounce "ayshun" doesn't come out sounding the way we/they say "ocean." ?

I live a mile from the DC line in MD. Been here almost 50 years. From the Midwest. The DC/MD accent was very noticable immediately upon moving here in the 60's. Most of the suburban Marylanders' families had moved into the MD suburbs from DC when blacks moved in. That Ballmer accent is as much an old DC accent. An interesting development in those days was the fondness white maryland/DC youth had for soul music. It came from the overlap period when blacks moved into DC as the white flight occurred.

 

[Gracie]

I always wanted a tiny house. Until I wound up in an RV for 3 months. A leaky, cold, ant infested one. And it was bigger than a tiny house.

So Mr and Ms Rich can shove their trendy tiny houses right up their asses. Its all a crock of shit and they just want their 10 minutes of fame to brag to their friends they have one. Which sits empty in the back yard and was turned into a playhouse for their grandkids or for their dogs.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Yeah, I kid you not.

As if we needed more evidence that SJWs were total wack jobs anyway.


SJW Turns Against Tiny House Movement as 'Poverty Appropriation'

This background, this essential part of who I am, makes it particularly difficult to stomach the latest trend in “simple” living  -- people moving into tiny homes and trailers. How many folks, I wonder, who have engaged in the Tiny House Movement have ever actually lived in a tiny, mobile place? Because what those who can afford homes call “living light,” poor folks call “gratitude for what we’ve got.”

And it’s not just the Tiny House Movement that incites my discontent. From dumpster diving to trailer-themed bars to haute cuisine in the form of poor-household staples, it’s become trendy for those with money to appropriate the poverty lifestyle  -- and it troubles me for one simple reason. Choice.

[...]

It’s likely, from where I sit, that this back-to-nature and boxed-up simplicity is not being marketed to people like me, who come from simplicity and heightened knowledge of poverty, but to people who have not wanted for creature comforts. For them to try on, glamorize, identify with.

Such appropriation isn’t limited to the Tiny House trend, or even to the idea of simplicity. In major cities, people who come from high-income backgrounds flock to bars and restaurants that both appropriate, and mock, low-income communities. Perhaps the most egregious example is San Francisco’s Butter Bar, a trendy outpost that prides itself on being a true-blue, trailer park-themed bar, serving up the best in “trashy” cuisine and cocktails.​

Apparently, SWJ's are people who will whine like hell about the way people should behave. Then when start to behave that way, SJW's will be insulted because the people aren't doing it for the " right" reasons.

 

[EverCurious]

I /had/ considered getting a tiny house to make into my recording studio, but I was voted down by the family who wanted an addition for an endless pool. There wasn't really another flat spot to put a tiny house.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I don't know how anyone can actually like that slimy stuff either. Southerners are weird.

Yep and we fly our Weird Flag High with Pride.

As Molly Ivins once said, this is not a direct quote but a paraphrase from a 59 year olds memory, 'In the rest of the world, people hide their mentally ill and damaged relatives in a mental institution, but here in the South, we put them on full display on the front porch with pride.'

There is a reason for that; one day we know there we will be as well.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I /had/ considered getting a tiny house to make into my recording studio, but I was voted down by the family who wanted an addition for an endless pool. There wasn't really another flat spot to put a tiny house.

 

[OldLady]

Well, that would be "feeding" cheap -- the stuff of a typical Southern breakfast (not including garnishes and decorations) generally has among the lowest going food costs of just about any style of cuisine -- but as owners of the place, yes, you'd likely, and often, also eat well but quite inexpensively...everyone who owns a "proper" restaurant generally does, after all.

Yeah uhh, you couldn't put a decent Southern breakfast together if your life depended on it.

You're better off not speaking of things outside your realm of expertise, ok?

Ok, you have a vocabulary.

Whip me up some biscuits and gravy.

They eat much poorer choices in just about every section of the country.

Don't forget the eggs on top, do you know how they're supposed to be cooked?

Of course you don't.

STFU on this subject.

Furthermore that wasn't what I meant.

Way to miss the point, fella.

Dude, I live in D.C. I grew up in D.C. My ancestors in both my parent's family fought for the CSA in the the Civil War. I grew up with cans of bacon grease and sausage grease in the fridge. "Crawdads" and grits were regular breakfast items.

Biscuits made from any milk other than buttermilk is just bread. Why does anyone pay extra for nonstick cookware when nothing sticks to a cast iron skillet to begin with as long as you know what you're doing when you cook with it? Although if you got momma riled, your face, butt or whatever would stick to bottom of it when she hit you with a hot one.

That means you have that gross DC/ MD accent.
Pitcher bain soot owen. We're goon danny ayshun to Ayshun City.
( Put your bathing suit on. We're going down to the ocean to Ocean City.)

I thought that was the accent of those in Baltimore or Balmer as it's pronounced.

It's close enough to say and think that if you aren't from the Mid-Atlantic region.

I have to admit, I think accent's are pretty cool, even the ones I don't like are still cool. I don't know where the guy who wrote "ayshun" is from. I do know that the way I and other locals would pronounce "ayshun" doesn't come out sounding the way we/they say "ocean." Where that member is from, that phonetic spelling probably does reflect the way to depict what Marylanders sound like.

The first time I looked at his emboldened sentence, I thought, "WTF? That "sounds" like Middle English, not Delmarva." It took me a few times of reading his phonetic spelling to figure out how it resembled the Mid-Atl sound.

This is what come to mind when I first read the emboldened text, especially upon reading "soot."

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour,
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth...
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue"
​

P.S.

Anyone here know where kids in "regular" school are required to from memory recite any parts of Chaucer or some other Middle English classic?​

Rote memorization isn't a "thing" anymore in education. Was in my Dad's day--he knew Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Hamlet's Soliloquy, all kinds of really long pieces that he would recite sometimes in a deep stenorous voice. People used to think memorization of long pieces like that was a kind of mental calisthenics, that it made your brain function better to use it in difficult tasks like memorizing lengthy works. They have found, though, that is not how the grey matter actually builds smartness.
Still fun to listen to, when someone can start spouting the old stuff, though.

 

[OldLady]

Grits is just cornmeal. I'll take cornbread anyday. What is it with you southerners and your slimy foods?

Every region has some pretty gross foods. Scrapple in Pennsylvania, some really detestable 'casseroles' popular in the Midwest, some people eat fungus like it's some kind of big 'delicacy', and New Yukkers will actually eat hot dogs off some filthy cart on the street, and Sicilian 'sea food dishes' that look like they're still moving ... California freaks put lumps of spoiled milk on Mexican food, they call it 'sour cream', and they put the awful crap on everything.

picky, picky, picky

 

[Picaro]

Yeah uhh, you couldn't put a decent Southern breakfast together if your life depended on it.

You're better off not speaking of things outside your realm of expertise, ok?

Ok, you have a vocabulary.

Whip me up some biscuits and gravy.

They eat much poorer choices in just about every section of the country.

Don't forget the eggs on top, do you know how they're supposed to be cooked?

Of course you don't.

STFU on this subject.

Furthermore that wasn't what I meant.

Way to miss the point, fella.

Dude, I live in D.C. I grew up in D.C. My ancestors in both my parent's family fought for the CSA in the the Civil War. I grew up with cans of bacon grease and sausage grease in the fridge. "Crawdads" and grits were regular breakfast items.

Biscuits made from any milk other than buttermilk is just bread. Why does anyone pay extra for nonstick cookware when nothing sticks to a cast iron skillet to begin with as long as you know what you're doing when you cook with it? Although if you got momma riled, your face, butt or whatever would stick to bottom of it when she hit you with a hot one.

That means you have that gross DC/ MD accent.
Pitcher bain soot owen. We're goon danny ayshun to Ayshun City.
( Put your bathing suit on. We're going down to the ocean to Ocean City.)

I thought that was the accent of those in Baltimore or Balmer as it's pronounced.

It's close enough to say and think that if you aren't from the Mid-Atlantic region.

I have to admit, I think accent's are pretty cool, even the ones I don't like are still cool. I don't know where the guy who wrote "ayshun" is from. I do know that the way I and other locals would pronounce "ayshun" doesn't come out sounding the way we/they say "ocean." Where that member is from, that phonetic spelling probably does reflect the way to depict what Marylanders sound like.

The first time I looked at his emboldened sentence, I thought, "WTF? That "sounds" like Middle English, not Delmarva." It took me a few times of reading his phonetic spelling to figure out how it resembled the Mid-Atl sound.

This is what come to mind when I first read the emboldened text, especially upon reading "soot."

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour,
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth...
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue"
​

P.S.

Anyone here know where kids in "regular" school are required to from memory recite any parts of Chaucer or some other Middle English classic?​

Rote memorization isn't a "thing" anymore in education. Was in my Dad's day--he knew Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Hamlet's Soliloquy, all kinds of really long pieces that he would recite sometimes in a deep stenorous voice. People used to think memorization of long pieces like that was a kind of mental calisthenics, that it made your brain function better to use it in difficult tasks like memorizing lengthy works. They have found, though, that is not how the grey matter actually builds smartness.
Still fun to listen to, when someone can start spouting the old stuff, though.

Actually some new studies are proving those methods to have been the best all along, like having to write out papers by hand. There are a few interviews on NPR about the studies; can't remember if the shows were Diane Rheems or one of the other two, and a few were 'TED Talks', I believe.