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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
stop calling me names! P Everything has religious connotations in Ulster. Thanks for the reading list. Appreciate that. -
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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
Well it may have originated in 17th century Ireland if you want to get all possessive, there's an argument about the origins, so in northern Ireland it can have religious connotations (king William of orange's hillbillies)but not down here. Here it's just country bumpkin... -
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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
Hillbillies here is neutral on religion, it's just a mild derogatory term like 'country bumpkin'. As I said above I'm reading a book about hillbillies there to better educate myself. (-: -
How do folks react to your hat wearing?
I doubt he meant to insult you. But it is an international forum, and even common languages divide. For example 'lumpenproletariat' seems to mean something other than it used to in Russia to him too. (-: -
What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Two top drawer hats before I switch off and turn on Ireland Vs Denmark world cup 2018 qualifier play-off. We'll probably snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as usual so good to switch on with some more positive images burning my retina. -
How do folks react to your hat wearing?
I always thought it might be that the lumpenproletariat were too smart to revolt, history might be on my side there. But I suppose what he is referring to are a bunch of jackasses slagging his hat. Jackasses are jackasses. -
What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
cool hat and looks like a nice jacket. -
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
maybe you dodged a bullet rather than the draft (-: Ha thanks Red, nice cav today, like the Merc pin. -
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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Wonderful borsalino. I caught the last two episodes of that nam documentary. It's back on another channel so am recording it. Will binge it also at some stage. Not easy viewing. -
How do folks react to your hat wearing?
Oddly enough I just started a book called 'Hillbilly Elegy' right now. And on page 3 the author one JD Vance says Hillbillies are what he calls, neighbours, friends and family. -
How do folks react to your hat wearing?
Cork people call Dublin people Jackíns (pronounced jackeens) as Dublin is in the bit of Ireland that capitulated to the British first about 800 years ago. It's a reference to the union jack, the flag their (the Brits) navy now flies, so jackeen means 'little Brit waiting for his navy to return'... -
How do folks react to your hat wearing?
Well the least fertile land is bogland, most of it has been drained and burnt as fuel (turf), you own what's left of that land and trotting on it is about as much as it's good for. You sure as sh** ain't going to grow anything on it. It's pretty derogatory so us city folk use it a lot. They call... -
How do folks react to your hat wearing?
Here it is seldom used but is simply used in a derogatory sense to a rural person defining them as uneducated and uncultured. Culchie, mulchie, bogtrotter, redneck, neanderthal etc.
