• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
      36·
      6 months ago

      Outside of Seattle/Tacoma, very redneck. Get up to the mountains where they make all the meth and the cattle farms are pretty redneck too, but they have stripper coffee shacks nearby.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
            5·
            6 months ago

            This is the first time I’ve heard about these stripper coffee shacks. I want reviews (since I doubt I’ll have enough money to ever visit one)

            • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
              10·
              6 months ago

              They’re pretty cheap if you’re in the area, but they are also as trashy as you would expect. My review is… like if you combined a Starbucks and a Hooters with less clothes, put them in a food truck or temporary shack // shed like easy to set up location and most of them have a drive through option if you need coffee and titties on the go. It’s not as crazy as it sounds and I’m actually surprised they really aren’t a more common thing. I guess one thing that helps is that it is illegal to sell alcohol at a strip club in Washington State so strip clubs were already in the coffee business when the idea was created. It’s a little funny because all the strip clubs let you BYOB, you just can’t buy or sell it at the club.

            • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
              6·
              6 months ago

              They’re usually called bikini baristas and its a woman in a bikini or lingerie who makes coffee. Some got busted years back for doing handies.

              I have never actually patronized one but there’s a few in my area, mostly in gas station parking lots. The operations can be pretty fucking rough.

              I always cringe when I see the poor girl throwing on a bathrobe to cart the wastewater across the lot to the gas station slop drain since there’s no internal plumbing in her road facing booth.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                6 months ago

                Yup, I used to live near Seattle and passed a couple on my way to literally anywhere. A lot have a cowgirl theme (one near me was shaped like a boot). I don’t know how good their beverages are (never went to one), but they were quite popular, because sex sells.

                I never heard about the handies, but it honestly doesn’t surprise me. I did hear about massage parlors having happy endings, which is largely the same thing. WA is usually pretty lax about enforcement of stuff like that unless there’s a complaint.

          • JoShmoe@ani.socialEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            So are we talking Christina Ricci in chains or more like Kim Basinger riding Michael Shannon?

      • Default_Defect@midwest.social
        4·
        6 months ago

        You don’t even have to go that far, I used to live in a coastal Navy town that had a meth problem. I bought my car from a dealership that got busted 6 months later. KFC was where they sold the meth that was cooked in the Ford dealership across the street. I almost miss Oak Harbor…

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        6 months ago

        Oh yeah, I’ve been around the country enough to know that anywhere outside of the city is Red, no matter what state you’re in, but “Redneck” just has a very specific southern connotation to me.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          6 months ago

          I lived near Federal Way, and by driving just 15 min, I could go see people riding horses, idiots rolling coal, and trailer trash communities and everything. Just a block or two over from my house, I’d see the stereotypical furniture and appliances littering front lawns. A block or two the other direction was typical was typical PNW neighborhoods with cedar shake roofs nestled into the evergreens. And a few blocks beyond that would be someone with a couple cows on a massive field.

          WA is an odd place. I’m in Utah now in a similar community, and there seems to be far fewer “rednecks” in my area. There are some farms, but I guess there just isn’t as much “liberal” culture to visibly resist or something. Our actual rednecks live a bit further out, and they’re probably more extreme (have some DezNat nonsense here in the sticks). We have more lifted trucks, whereas in WA they’d be older work trucks (they actually have hay to move).

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      281·
      6 months ago

      Does it though? Like saying the Germantown school mascot should be the Krauts.

      Other Options:

      Viziers

      Janissaries

      Genies

      Bombards

      Footstools

      Istan-Bulls

      Harem Girls

      Mhmm

      Wait, what were we talking about again?

    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
      22·
      6 months ago

      People always expect Oregon and Washington to be super liberal but once you leave the city it’s a bunch of hicks in the woods (respectfully)

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
        71·
        6 months ago

        I don’t even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.

        • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          6 months ago

          They tried to make Oregon a whites only state a long while back. Not even wanting slaves, during 1857 when they applied for Statehood they both banned slavery and any free black people from existing in the state. It was more of a “We don’t even want to see them” kind of hatred.

            • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              East TN, West(ern) VA (West Virginia, the state, was admitted to the Union as a breakaway from Virginia State in 1863), and West NC didn’t really benefit from slavery like the rest of their states. There were plenty of independence/Pro-Union movements in that region at the time, like The State of Scott.

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
            3·
            6 months ago

            Pretty sure I also heard about how the clan and the Catholic Church formed an alliance to keep the Chinese immigrants out. It worked, then they turned on each other. Because of course that’s what would happen.

        • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          Red Country, Blue City is pretty much the case with every state. The most liberal people I’ve ever met were in Asheville, North Carolina, and I’ve never been surrounded by more MAGA-loving chuds than when I spent a summer in Redding, California.

          • care!!@lemm.ee
            4·
            6 months ago

            Former Asheville punk, turned loose in the hick side of southwest Nova Scotia. I’ve seen a disturbing amount of MAGA here, enough to rivel my time in North Carolina… But In Canada.

            Shit is wild. Everyone here is xenophobic and racist as it gets.

            • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Also former. Did you get gentrified out of the city too? Have you been back since you left? That town is unrecognizable even to how it was just ten years ago.

        • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee
          7·
          6 months ago

          Isn’t this the story of every rural area in every country? Communities that are out in the middle of nowhere won’t have had much cultural exchange and tend to become insular.

    • Jackcooper@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      Yes, if you’re more than an hour from Seattle/ half an hour from Spokane you’re probably in redneck territory

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 months ago

        Can confirm. I grew up about 30 min from Seattle and was on the border of redneck territory. I played high school sports with schools out “in the country” and was able a 15 min drive from some ranches and whatnot.

        WA is a very weird place.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      8·
      6 months ago

      I believe it. Even here in California small mountain towns tend to lean heavily conservative

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 months ago

      Five minutes out the cities or cross the mountains to the east or go on the peninsula or drive south or north…

      Puget Sound has population high density and mostly dominates the politics of the state.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    701·
    6 months ago

    the fucking turks

    If that’s the face he makes while he’s fucking then I think he’s doing it wrong

    • jorp@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      I feel like if an LLM spat this out every time the word “Turk” is mentioned they’d do a few more iterations before launch but in any comment thread on Reddit or Lemmy we get this wonderful reverse Turing test

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 months ago

      Looks like Nasretin Hoca meets Sinbad. Then again, I see literally a “black beard” which is a slur I’m not going to translate here.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
        31·
        6 months ago

        But “Trojans” can be very easily turned into a nasty joke. Funny, but nasty.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          6 months ago

          True. Unfortunately, we had a higher than average level of teen pregnancy, so we apparently didn’t learn anything from our namesake. It’s also sad that I doubt many in my high school know that Troy is in Turkey, most probably think it’s in Greece.

          But at least the mascot looked cool (like this, but more ghetto). It unfortunately looked more Roman/Greek than Turkish though, whereas Hittite would be a lot more appropriate (and way more unique imo). But we weren’t known for our academics, we were known for sports…

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    My small town’s mascot was the Tigers. The next town to the north? Tigers. The town west of us? Their school shut down in 1997, but they were Tigers, too. The town south? Panthers. There is a town in the next county north that also is the Panthers.

    Lots of big cats. No Cougars/Pumas/Mountain Lions, despite the fact that they’re totally a native species. There was one town whose mascot was the Bobcats.

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      My High School was not a sport high school. More or less all the cool kids were what would be considered the band nerds and arts took up half the foot print of the school.

      We were originally officially the… Ahem… “Tillicums and Frontiersmen”. Which most kids were only vaguely aware of. There were no mascots, our teams basically just used our town’s name and sport was one of those things you like vaguely knew was happening. Nobody used the team names because we all thought it was stupid.

      About 15 years ago the conversation developed that it was a pretty colonial name and not cool and they changed it around the same time three other schools in neighboring towns did theirs. All three towns seemingly independently (a student led conspiracy was suspected but never confirmed) all named their school teams “the (insert school name here) Storm”.

      So now there’s just three teams all called Storm with zero mascots and people continue to not give a damn about sports… So I guess sometimes you get a theme?

    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip
      5·
      6 months ago

      Big cats, wolves, eagles, and uncomfortable caricatures of people. Heaven forbid a school ever choose, like, a local frog or hedgehog or whatever for a mascot.

    • krush_groove@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      My catholic school growing up was the Wildcats. Every catholic school seemed to be called the Wildcats. Then I found out the city’s catholic high school has the Buttons as their mascot. The Central High School Buttons. San Antonio, TX.