What is the most rednecky thing you own?
I know one of you has a helmet that holds a beer can on each side. Or a flannel shirt with the sleeves cut off. Or a Dale Earnhardt thong, or....

We have a deep fat fryer to cook a turkey.
http://shop.com.edgesuite.net/ccimg.shop.com/220000/227000/227085/products/38722480.jpg

I don't think I own anything "rednecky" but I LOVE Neal Boortz' list of stuff!

http://boortz.com/more/funny/redneck_pics.html

:D

This...


http://www.camzretro.com/art/nascar/PC-1-dale%20jr%20plasma-l.gif


Gift from my grandpa :rolleyes:

cept mine says Nascar in big letters on the top.

I don't think I own anything "rednecky" but I LOVE Neal Boortz' list of stuff!

http://boortz.com/more/funny/redneck_pics.html

:D

OH MY FREAKIN GOD!!!! :xctd: The air conditioner.....

....Gift from my grandpa....

sure it was. ;)

While deer hunting, I have been known to say " Hold my beer while I roll down the window" ;)

OH MY FREAKIN GOD!!!! :xctd: The air conditioner.....

LOL!!! I know!!! :D

And the electric toothbrush. :D

http://www.dayoopers.com/gallery/glen05.gif

My home-made Wisconsin-winter ice-fishing shanty!

Whats a rednecky thing?

Whats a rednecky thing?

It's something that only normal people would buy for themselves. See anything you like so far? :shrug:

How about a shitton of fireworks?

http://dodgeram.org/other_pages/mike_demski/chris2.jpg

Just cover it in mud, add a gun rack, and emblazon the "Stars-n-bars" on it somewhere.

No confederate flag?

How about a shitton of fireworks?

Have you met my husband. Crap, there's another rednecky thing.

is a bass boat rednecky?

Have you met my husband. Crap, there's another rednecky thing.

is a bass boat rednecky?

Depends...

http://boortz.com/more/funny/redneck_pics_fishingboat.html

:D :D

is a bass boat rednecky?

Depends, is it the expensive kind, or is it like this bass boat?

http://www.summervillebassmasters.com/redneck_bass_boat.jpg

LOL, its like the ones on fishing shows/competitions.

Depends, is it the expensive kind, or is it like this bass boat?

http://www.summervillebassmasters.com/redneck_bass_boat.jpg

:D Priceless... :D

I'm going to build one of those on my lake^. Seriously, I am! :D

No confederate flag?

The confederate flag is also referred to as "stars and bars"
http://www.usflag.org/history/confederatestarsandbars.html

I have a bratty little '68 Beetle, Baja conversion in authentic John Deere colors, "John Deere 1800" decals, brush guards, pintle hook, LOUD straight 4-1 exhaust topped with a big honking tractor-exhaust flapper. YeeeHaw! It's a hoot. If there's interest, maybe I'll post a picture when the snow thaws off her (no heater - brrr)

I get a kick out of these pics (http://seehere.blogspot.com/2005/12/redneck-pictures.html).

What is the most rednecky thing you own?
I know one of you has a helmet that holds a beer can on each side. Or a flannel shirt with the sleeves cut off. Or a Dale Earnhardt thong, or....

We have a deep fat fryer to cook a turkey.
http://shop.com.edgesuite.net/ccimg.shop.com/220000/227000/227085/products/38722480.jpg

Isn't a redneck a turkey ?

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1854/275/320/Redneck%20Woman%20Brains%20Tee%20Shirt.jpg

I'm guessing she's Canadian. LOL :D

Oh Crap, I just remembered we get our checks from Wal-Mart (http://www.walmartchecks.com/product.aspx?lineid=5&productid=977).

http://www.walmartchecks.com/images/products/small/SpBob_sm.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1854/275/320/Redneck%20Woman%20Brains%20Tee%20Shirt.jpg

I'm guessing she's Canadian. LOL :D

I hear the expression turkey when I was in Canada and assumed you used it also.

She loks far better than your fryer but, as I keep telling you you're sex mad. Why not avoid temptation and send me all the pictures you have. I'm here to help you, day and night.

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/208/1671/400/swimming1.jpg

Rednecks must have a lot of ingenuity to create this kind of stuff. This looks like something I would make! :D

I tell ya what, when the end of the world comes, I think its gonna be the rednecks who survive. <shudder>

I hear the expression turkey when I was in Canada and assumed you used it also......

I only see the word turkey in relation to the bird and bowling.

Whats a rednecky thing?

I do not think this simple question should go unanswered. It raises a vast amount of sociological, anthropological, ethical and descriptive issues.

OK. Here's an urban northerners shot. Please, real rednecks, and those situated closer, correct and adjust:

Rednecky adj. (adj form of redneck)

1) having the qualities of or being an object suitable for use by or likely to be purchased or created by a redneck (ie. a socially conservative rural USA citizen, individual, probably with not more than a high school diploma and probably part of the working class or unemployed and generally. Please note: this is a cliche description with many exceptions.)

2) having a combination of these qualities: tacky, practical, ad hoc, loud in colors, patriotic, and having traditional values. Often with details of blunt humor - sexual, political, etc.

3) informed by an aesthetic of down to earth who gives a shit how it looks common sense practicality. Function over form on one level. But on another level the form is central since it proclaims indifference to aesthetics and a denial of pretentiousness. An anti-elite quality. An underlying proclamation that everyone's shit stinks and that most aesthetics is an expensive and pompous denial of this fact.

Close but with the socio-economic thing, redneckery transcends financial boundaries( state and national borders too).

http://sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2485&d=1075173456

Close but with the socio-economic thing, redneckery transcends financial boundaries( state and national borders too).


links to international rednecks? (I'm not testing your theory, but curious to see examples)

links to international rednecks? (I'm not testing your theory, but curious to see examples)

http://sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2485&d=1075173456

pardon an edge of skepticism, but....

those are fake pics cosmic. There is a difference between redneck and poor.

Those were poor rednecks!;)

Those were poor rednecks!;)

They look like, as she said, fake images. And not images of international rednecks, ones from not the US.

.... international rednecks...

http://light-spark.com/share/Blog/MexicanArmy.jpg

Does this qualify?

Check out those silver anklets. Yeehaw!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Decorated_Indian_elephant.jpg/800px-Decorated_Indian_elephant.jpg

has anyone ever seen mexican's truck? They have a ton of crap on it. Extra lights, mudflaps, stickers, etc.
Or an old man's yard with every conceivable wooden whirly-gig ever to me made?

Hmm what about this?

http://www.hat.net/album/asia/india/03_desert_and_people/20_people_in_rajasthan/041221113932_indian_truck_driver.jpg

A welcome party:

http://www.hat.net/album/asia/india/03_desert_and_people/20_people_in_rajasthan/041215233814_sahdu_welcome_party.jpg

Dancing with fire:

http://www.hat.net/album/asia/india/03_desert_and_people/20_people_in_rajasthan/041218060310_dance_with_fire.jpg

Hmm what about this?


See now, I get what you see here. I just can't unlock my 'rednecky' from American culture. But I love your images as metaphoric transcultural play with the idea.

maybe these are kitsch.

has anyone ever seen mexican's truck? They have a ton of crap on it. Extra lights, mudflaps, stickers, etc.
Or an old man's yard with every conceivable wooden whirly-gig ever to me made?

I get you, but wouldn't that be Mexican kitsch and not Mexican redneck.

Its what we call desi bling (or gauti for gaon or village. aka dehati)

The kind of stuff you see in some parts of the country (the rural representative, though not always rural) who like the COLORS and GADGETS and DECORATIONS. And overdoing it.

Is the concept right?

http://www.geocities.com/northwest27/auto-rickshaw-india.jpg

Here's an international redneck and his portable computer:

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3840/donkeycomputerph4.jpg

Sam,

The original term comes from people who work in the fields, bent over, so the back of their necks would be sunburn. It's evolved into a term that means mainly rural people who aren't quite as "sophisticated" as city folk.

Its what we call desi bling (or gauti for gaon or village. aka dehati)

The kind of stuff you see in some parts of the country (the rural representative, though not always rural) who like the COLORS and GADGETS and DECORATIONS. And overdoing it.

Is the concept right?

http://www.geocities.com/northwest27/auto-rickshaw-india.jpg

Taste is involved in the answer. But that thing just does not remind me of redneck aesthetics. I would call it folk art.

There is something self-deprecating and intentionally low brow about redneck aesthetics. An in your face, so what if it's tacky.

I would guess the maker of the above thought it was beautiful in terms of its visual appearance, whereas to me rednecky stuff is fun for the redneck often as a collection of signs and symbols. Who gives a shit if it's beautiful is some of the message.

I think you are getting the related concept of kitsch

kitsch (kĭch) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass).

gaudy is often part of definitions of kitsch.

My family got very very lazy this year and went with the "We don't give a **** how it looks" redneck ideal for Halloween. So, instead of bringing down all the usual decor from the attic, and buying pumpkins...we took an old basketball, drew a face on it, and sat it outside on an overturned bucket covered with an orange Zellers bag. That is about as redneck as it gets folks. Oddly, we got a lot fewer kids coming to the door this year. :D We took pictures because we thought it was funny, but I don't know where they are.