White Trash Xmas video, this is funny

[GrizzlyTaco]

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[wavery]

That was TOOOOOOOO Funny

Merry Christmas  :!

[Starcraft Dad]

Gives me warm fuzzy feelings of years gone by.  Too funny.  I always wondered what made Rudolph's nose glow red.

[dthurk]

It's a bit difficult for me to see humor in this.  I recently attended a conference which centered on the poverty stricken, particularly it's effects on school age children.  It was a very striking day with many eye opening moments.  Many of the things that we find humorous in regards to those who are very much less fortunate than us are actually survival techniques they have developed just to stay alive.  It causes those who are poverty stricken to develop a complete mindset and mentality that is diffierent than those of us who are more fortunate.  It is actually very difficult to help them unless you can begin to change their mentality.  But you can't do that until you help them.  Kind of a catch 22.  It's sad to be thinking of those in poverty during this season of gift giving and love.

There are people of poverty in most every area of our wonderful country.  It just takes a little work to find them.  Then what do you do?

[Camping Coxes]

It's a bit difficult for me to see humor in this.
 

In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, "It's a joke, son!  Don't ya get it?"  It was simply comedy, the same way the redneck jokes of Jeff Foxworthy, the hillbilly jokes of Larry the Cable Guy, etc. are comedy.  Don't take a cartoon so serious as to cause you to lament over the misfortunes of the poor.  I think this cartoon was more poking fun at those who choose to live this way, not people who may be homeless, etc.  I've lived in the
south -- people do choose to live the "hillbilly" lifestyle.
 
Yes, we know the poor are there.  Yes, we feel bad for them.  And yes, I've done something to help those less fortunate (I was in charge of an ongoing ministry at a local homeless shelter through my church, that is still ongoing though I have left the particular church that does it 8 years ago.).  
 
So relax and let something tickle your funnybone once in a while.  It makes life so much better.

[wavery]

What's part of the humor is the fact that they feel sorry for the people that are not like them.

The fact is, if you enjoy being who you are, why do others have the right to say that your way of life is wrong and theirs is right and you have to change.

This little bit of humor really has nothing to do with poverty. It has to do with a way of life that seems humorous to some of us. At the same time, they could make a similar parody about our way of life that would be equally funny to them.

[AustinBoston]

It's a bit difficult for me to see humor in this.

Hmm...I have been homeless (twice).  I have lived out of a trailer (not a mobile home, a trailer).  And while I understand that many people in poverty are or percieve themselves to be trapped, most still find room to enjoy life.  It is only those who think they are trying to provide misguided "help" that don't find it funny.

Me? I'm sending it to my (until recently trailer living), truck driver brother-in-law and his wife.  I expect to hear them laughing from two states away.

Austin

[GrizzlyTaco]

I have to say this video is not to make fun of anyone, its just meant to be fun. My family and I have been doing volunteer  work at the Henderson senior center at least once a month for 7 years. We give and help at our church. We can be serious people, but we also like to have fun and enjoy life. This video was sent to me by an old cowboy I met at the senior center, so just enjoy it and dont be so serious!!!!!..............Ed C. :sombraro:  :J

[unclejeff]

That was very funny!!
Brings back memories of home when I was a youngster.

[wkndarcher]

reminds me of younger days ,, its not always the things we have that count ,, its the things we have in our heart

[griffsmom]

I saw the humor in this (even though I didn't think it that funny) and didn't think it was targeting those who are truly poverty-stricken. Having grown up in a mobile home, I can say from personal experience that more often than not, poverty isn't something that just happens to people; rather, they usually make very definite decisions that lead to the life they lead, even though they knew what the consequesnces were before they made the decision.
 
My mom became a single mom when I was 1 year old and she worked two jobs to be able to put the roof of that mobile home over our heads as well as food on the table and clothes on our backs. There were a few other families where we lived that also were not well off, and like us, this was the best they could do for their families. But for every one family like us, there were 6 to 8 families who chose the life they had by either wanting to not work, or dropping out of school, or having 3 kids before they were 18, or allowing alcohol and drugs make their lives for them.
 
I hated, no...despised that mobile home growing up, even though it was actually quite nice as mobile homes go. I went to high school in a somewhat affluent area and was so mortified at how poor we were and what we lived in that I would rather have died than bring someone home to my "house." Of course, I appreciate now what it meant--and cost--for my mom to be able to provide this home for us, but when I was in high school, that mobile home was a huge motivating factor for me to pursue not only college but graduate school so that I could aspire to live in something better than a mobile home. I now live in a two-story, nothing fancy, tract home, and if I, as the child I was, saw the home I live in today, I would think the people who lived there were "rich."
 
Please don't misconstrue this post as a condemnation of people who are poor and are struggling to survive from consequences over which they had no control, nor am I stereotyping all people who live in mobile homes. I really do have a heart for those less fortunate than myself, and my family and I also volunteer with our church to help those in need. I'm just saying that we all make choices in life and sometimes, the people who most play upon our sympathies and ask for our help are the ones who made choices that led them to where they are because they didn't want to take the more difficult road that we took. I think that there is a rampant trend of "victimization" and "entitlement-without-doing-the-work-to-earn-it" mentalities in the world today, and it's not doing us, our children, or our country much good.
 
Hmmm...where'd that soap box come from... [stepping down...]

[wavery]

In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, "It's a joke, son! Don't ya get it?"

I loved that post :sombraro:

BTW......................Santa and his reindeer :frosty: ..................yep, you guessed it..............Those images of the North Pole were made up outa fun :p . However, the manger scenes..........well, they may be fairly realistic.

Oh ya.....................no offense to over-weight people, the under-privileged, over-privileged, religious organizations or PETA members...hehehehe........or is that.......hohohohoho :XMas

[AustinBoston]

...PETA members...

I knew somebody would bring People Eating Tasty Animals into this.

[aw738]

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I knew somebody would bring People Eating Tasty Animals into this.





Mmmmmmmm! I like tasty animals. The grilled, roasted and fried kind. :p