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14 minutes ago, Chooky said:

This song writing formula is a money pit. I'm hoping to cash in by writing my new song called Freedom Boner Liberty Pants Eagle Flag Patriot Boots. So far I only have the title but I'll be done in five minutes. 

 

6 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

A few years ago, Brisket and I were well into a bottle of whiskey and came up with the Chinese Restaurant name generator. You got your choice of a an adjective, a place in China, and/or an animal. Happy Dragon, Hunan Lion, etc. We could probably adjust the code to spit out country lyrics. 

I just asked Chat GPT 3.5 for some help, here you go:
 

(Verse 1) In my Freedom Boner, in my Liberty Pants, I'm a true-blooded patriot, gonna take a stand, With my Eagle soaring high, and my Flag unfurled, I'll defend this land, the greatest in the world.

(Pre-Chorus) Got my Patriot Boots on, ready for the fight, Standing tall and strong, for what I know is right, And when the sun sets, on this sacred ground, I'll still be singing, this ol' country sound.

(Chorus) Oh, have you forgotten, the price that's been paid? For the land of the free, and the home of the brave, We'll stand together, hand in hand, Like a mighty army, across this great land.

(Verse 2) Through the valleys and fields, where the tall grass grows, I hear the echoes of the past, where our freedom flows, And in the heartland's soul, where the rivers run, We'll fight for liberty, until the battle's won.

(Pre-Chorus) Got my Patriot Boots on, ready for the fight, Standing tall and strong, for what I know is right, And when the sun sets, on this sacred ground, I'll still be singing, this ol' country sound.

(Chorus) Oh, have you forgotten, the price that's been paid? For the land of the free, and the home of the brave, We'll stand together, hand in hand, Like a mighty army, across this great land.

(Bridge) From the mountains to the seas, we'll defend what's ours, With the courage of a lion, in the Hunan Lion's heart, And no matter the trials, no matter the test, We'll face it all together, 'cause we're America's best.

(Solo)

(Chorus) Oh, have you forgotten, the price that's been paid? For the land of the free, and the home of the brave, We'll stand together, hand in hand, Like a mighty army, across this great land.

(Outro) In my Freedom Boner, in my Liberty Pants, I'm a true-blooded patriot, gonna take a stand, With my Eagle soaring high, and my Flag unfurled, I'll defend this land, the greatest in the world.

Note: This country song lyrics are inspired by "Have You Forgotten" by Darryl Worley and in the style of Jason Aldean, incorporating the requested words: Freedom Boner, Liberty Pants, Eagle, Flag, Patriot Boots, and Hunan Lion. The lyrics aim to celebrate patriotism and love for the United States.

 

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Read this facebook post by some random writer and thought it was a good read:

https://www.facebook.com/markedmelungeon/posts/pfbid02qPTHZQDGHeJJVjsnE69qLf3ttL1RDmdZWauMK3vWYnjA1FumHvmm7y73ikDxcz8Ql

I didn’t know why people kept mentioning “small towns,” but assumed it was a pop culture reference I was missing.
So, I googled it.
Jason Aldean, a country singer I've never heard of and will probably never think about again after people stop talking about him, recently released a song called, "Try That in a Small Town."
The song, if you've not heard it, threatens violence on people who do various things like car jacking, stomping on a flag, “cussing out” a cop, or robbing a liquor store at gun point.
A friend of mine pointed out that Aldean is from Macon, Georgia, with a population of over 150,000.
That’s… not a small town.
I’m from Logan, WV. Population is 1,400.
I came from Chauncey, WV, a coal camp in Logan. Population is 283. I am actually from “Chauncey Holler” (Hollow). Population is probably fewer than 100 people.
I’m from an actual small town.
I’m descended from the Hatfield/Vance clan of Hatfield and McCoy repute. I’m cut from the Shawnee resistance to the Indian Removal Act. My ancestors were freedmen. My ancestors mined the coal that kept the pacified middle class warm and cozy in their domesticated complacency.
And yes, if you come to an actual small town as an outsider and do things that seem threatening to insiders, they’ll handle it internally.
That much is true.
What Jason Aldean is talking about isn’t anything like what people from actual small towns would say. In fact, you won’t hear from them at all because it is not in the ethos of people from insular, isolated communities to try and posture with the outside world.
They don’t think people are actually going to come there and try to burn their crumbling infrastructure and rob their single-wide trailers and their dead grandma’s house they squat with duct tape and cut up trash bags for windows.
No city person is traveling to the middle of nowhere to steal your Aunt Gert’s Buick Skylark, Jason.
They don’t carry enough jugs of oil and coolant to pull over every few miles and top it off because they have not been waiting on that black lung settlement for over a decade to get their car fixed.
Noey (Noah) Mullens, the town mechanic, passes everyone’s car inspection because no one cares about regulations. The police would not ticket Aunt Gert, either, because when most everyone is that Poor, the police know better.
The police don’t “cross that line.”
No one is afraid of getting caught or being reported because no one is looking.
No one cares. No city folk care. No suburban country music singers care.
They’re invisible.
Police do not have much of a role in small towns. People do handle things on their own. No one is spitting in a cop’s face in a small town because Officer Joe Sias and his brother Don aren’t patrolling.
They probably never fired their weapons on the job at anything other than a rabid raccoon or coyote, and they’re considerably less armed than the average citizen. No one calls the police to report crimes.
But in a small town, you are very likely to be robbed by your neighbor’s adult kid with a meth or oxycontin addiction. They’ll steal your grandparents’ cancer and hospice meds and your tube TV.
And no one riots in a small town because they can’t afford to reach the power structures that left them so poor.
At nights, people steal the flood grates around small towns for scrap metal. They loot abandoned houses and businesses for copper wire and metal pipes to scrap. No one is ever going to revitalize those structures, so people just look the other way. By day they pick up beer and soda cans on the side of the road— for scrap.
Anything to avoid the mines.
Aldean’s video shows b-roll of protests, property destruction, violence, and generally unrelated incidents in big cities.
Nobody in those videos cares about what’s happening in somebody’s small town. This is the suburbanite white dude fantasy version of Scarface. It’s the product of having no sense of personal identity and appropriating some ill-imagined mixture of actual generational Poverty culture (which is not a white phenomenon) and a wholly American mythos of having a closed culture that worships assimilation.
They often don’t think they’re racist because they often do genuinely like their Black and Brown neighbors who fish and hunt with them and go to their churches and whose kids are on their kids’ little league team.
They have a vision of living in community that they can’t bring to reality because things have changed since the boomer generation's good hand. They have dreams of being financially successful if they just work hard enough, but those dreams are not coming to fruition because they’re an American myth.
They’re trying to hold on to a sense of grandiosity characterized by surviving struggles they never experienced and by having values they don’t understand or have no connection to.
They are angry at anyone defying the order because they cope with the loss of hope for a mythical future by trying to blame people being crushed by the systems that are also eroding the white working class (at a slower rate).
The rate has been so slow, they don’t realize their sentimentality about how great this nation is came from lies they were told and an identity that is as empty and illusory as the history they learned in school.
It’s the equivalent of trying to be the proverbial “golden child” to an abusive parent, maintaining the illusion that the truth-telling “scapegoat” is actually the problem.
That’s the “great again” that people like that bank on. The proverbial “New Jerusalem.”
Is the song racist?
That’s the wrong question, because it’s oversimplified.
Is the song a mediocre by-product of a mass delusion that white settlers have agreed to maintain because they too had their identities stolen by colonialism, so that they are also defined by Uncle Sam’s toxic legacy as the golden child who is too cowardly to ask questions, hear the truth, accept accountability, or fight back?
Yes.
This peacock of a song is a blatant and pitiable attempt at being unable to accept that they only get a pass from Uncle Sam when they assimilate into a fictional character that upholds the colonial ego of Big Daddy Nationalism and Mama Manifest Destiny.
Unpacking that everything you’ve ever been told is a lie is hard work, and they’re not cut out for that because they’re not actually workers.
They aren’t the cheap labor they benefit from. Their “small town” fantasy is as sincere as their “honest worker” fantasy.
They need to consult their ancestors, and not just the ones who got free [stolen] land.
My “small town” ancestors shot the sheriffs and the deputies, they burned whole towns to the ground, and they led the most violent uprisings in the history of Uncle Sam’s invasion because they did not see the people upholding the status quo as “their own.”
Jason Aldean has no idea who “his people” are. They’re not “small town” people. They’re the middle mass, the embodied entitlement that one inherits when they come from a legacy of settler colonialism, slave trading, and evangelical purity culture that justified genocide.
They’ve been convincing themselves they’re fighting for something noble for so long, they see the loss of that illusion as a threat to the only identity colonialism left them with— generic whiteness.
What he can’t handle is that he’s not a “good ol’ boy,” he’s just a bully doing the business of an abusive parent to preserve the illusion of the “pillar of community.”
If he knew how to be in community, he would not be building a cult following on nationalistic propaganda.
 
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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Maybe pick someplace different.  How about a place where 1) most likely there's never been a lynching, and 2) is actually the most sacred community gathering space?

That's right, if you want to capture the essence of southern small town community, shoot the video in front of the WAFFLE HOUSE.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Vermont, as just one example, is full of small towns with landmarks that don't have a history tied to lynching black people.

This post reminded me of this:

3 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

How in the sam hell did this thread get to 16 pages? Are y’all bored?

Some of us live in small towns, so yes, we’re bored.

 

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Dumbass shit I saw on Facebook:

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Not that into the Cardi B version but Ben Shapiro's reading of WAP was one of the greatest cultural events of the decade.

 

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On 7/25/2023 at 7:29 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

 

She was and they were. In addition to being a racist, at one point she got on shaggy and talked about how she wasn't going any further than edging and "panty play" (whatever that means, I  just like the classics) with her husband because he needed to be sharp and focused for work.

Husband iirc was Frogstyle. He was a good poster and would call her out online when she would have a particularly nutty rant.  I think he was seriously injured overseas not sure if active duty or a contractor
 

I believe one classic thread was where a poster made a critique on the type of woman who had only male friends and she went on basically proving all the poster’s points in her subsequent ramblings

 

somehow some pics from her college days  got posted and yes she was hot back in the day at least

 

for some reason I recall GOLL saying she literally tried to run him over one time while he was on his scooter

 

 

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Husband iirc was Frogstyle. He was a good poster and would call her out online when she would have a particularly nutty rant.  I think he was seriously injured overseas not sure if active duty or a contractor

That's right. I met him in person the night of the infamous El Arroyo jello shots/make-a-wish foundation incident. He seemed like a good guy. 

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Saw Anne Murray there probably 7-8 times.
My dad was a BIG Anne Murray fan.
Also saw Clint Black with my future wife. The lineup these days looks like a lot of crap bro country.

I was pretty mortified to have to witness Eric Church open for Robert Earl Keen during his second-to-last show at Floore's Country Store last September. It went James McMurtry (fuck yeah)-Eric Church (fuck you)-REK (greatness). A buddy of my wife's and I mercilessly mocked Church's set. He wore aviator sunglasses on stage in the rain. My wife said he apparently has some dry eye issue to where he has to wear shades on stage. Clown.

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7 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

A few years ago, Brisket and I were well into a bottle of whiskey and came up with the Chinese Restaurant name generator. You got your choice of a an adjective, a place in China, and/or an animal. Happy Dragon, Hunan Lion, etc. We could probably adjust the code to spit out country lyrics. 

There is a formula: alcohol, truck / farm equipment, fishing and/or hunting, critters, women, articles of clothing on women, names of cities/states (preferably in the South), dirt/mud, bodies of water. Those elements make Bro Country. It’s predictable and terrible. 

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15 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

A few years ago, Brisket and I were well into a bottle of whiskey and came up with the Chinese Restaurant name generator. You got your choice of a an adjective, a place in China, and/or an animal. Happy Dragon, Hunan Lion, etc. We could probably adjust the code to spit out country lyrics. 

If you want a good demonstration of how banal, homogeneous, and unimaginative country music has become, I offer this--

I suppose now this could be updated to throw in a few racist dog whistles.

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9 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That's right. I met him in person the night of the infamous El Arroyo jello shots/make-a-wish foundation incident. He seemed like a good guy. 

Was he the dude that wrote the hilarious story about being out in Dallas one night?  The only thing I can recall about it is a line about being the only armed man at a Deep Ellum party, or something like that.  I think it was all the way back in the hornfans.com days.  

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15 hours ago, irishtexan said:

Read this facebook post by some random writer and thought it was a good read:

https://www.facebook.com/markedmelungeon/posts/pfbid02qPTHZQDGHeJJVjsnE69qLf3ttL1RDmdZWauMK3vWYnjA1FumHvmm7y73ikDxcz8Ql

I didn’t know why people kept mentioning “small towns,” but assumed it was a pop culture reference I was missing.
So, I googled it.
Jason Aldean, a country singer I've never heard of and will probably never think about again after people stop talking about him, recently released a song called, "Try That in a Small Town."
The song, if you've not heard it, threatens violence on people who do various things like car jacking, stomping on a flag, “cussing out” a cop, or robbing a liquor store at gun point.
A friend of mine pointed out that Aldean is from Macon, Georgia, with a population of over 150,000.
That’s… not a small town.
I’m from Logan, WV. Population is 1,400.
I came from Chauncey, WV, a coal camp in Logan. Population is 283. I am actually from “Chauncey Holler” (Hollow). Population is probably fewer than 100 people.
I’m from an actual small town.
I’m descended from the Hatfield/Vance clan of Hatfield and McCoy repute. I’m cut from the Shawnee resistance to the Indian Removal Act. My ancestors were freedmen. My ancestors mined the coal that kept the pacified middle class warm and cozy in their domesticated complacency.
And yes, if you come to an actual small town as an outsider and do things that seem threatening to insiders, they’ll handle it internally.
That much is true.
What Jason Aldean is talking about isn’t anything like what people from actual small towns would say. In fact, you won’t hear from them at all because it is not in the ethos of people from insular, isolated communities to try and posture with the outside world.
They don’t think people are actually going to come there and try to burn their crumbling infrastructure and rob their single-wide trailers and their dead grandma’s house they squat with duct tape and cut up trash bags for windows.
No city person is traveling to the middle of nowhere to steal your Aunt Gert’s Buick Skylark, Jason.
They don’t carry enough jugs of oil and coolant to pull over every few miles and top it off because they have not been waiting on that black lung settlement for over a decade to get their car fixed.
Noey (Noah) Mullens, the town mechanic, passes everyone’s car inspection because no one cares about regulations. The police would not ticket Aunt Gert, either, because when most everyone is that Poor, the police know better.
The police don’t “cross that line.”
No one is afraid of getting caught or being reported because no one is looking.
No one cares. No city folk care. No suburban country music singers care.
They’re invisible.
Police do not have much of a role in small towns. People do handle things on their own. No one is spitting in a cop’s face in a small town because Officer Joe Sias and his brother Don aren’t patrolling.
They probably never fired their weapons on the job at anything other than a rabid raccoon or coyote, and they’re considerably less armed than the average citizen. No one calls the police to report crimes.
But in a small town, you are very likely to be robbed by your neighbor’s adult kid with a meth or oxycontin addiction. They’ll steal your grandparents’ cancer and hospice meds and your tube TV.
And no one riots in a small town because they can’t afford to reach the power structures that left them so poor.
At nights, people steal the flood grates around small towns for scrap metal. They loot abandoned houses and businesses for copper wire and metal pipes to scrap. No one is ever going to revitalize those structures, so people just look the other way. By day they pick up beer and soda cans on the side of the road— for scrap.
Anything to avoid the mines.
Aldean’s video shows b-roll of protests, property destruction, violence, and generally unrelated incidents in big cities.
Nobody in those videos cares about what’s happening in somebody’s small town. This is the suburbanite white dude fantasy version of Scarface. It’s the product of having no sense of personal identity and appropriating some ill-imagined mixture of actual generational Poverty culture (which is not a white phenomenon) and a wholly American mythos of having a closed culture that worships assimilation.
They often don’t think they’re racist because they often do genuinely like their Black and Brown neighbors who fish and hunt with them and go to their churches and whose kids are on their kids’ little league team.
They have a vision of living in community that they can’t bring to reality because things have changed since the boomer generation's good hand. They have dreams of being financially successful if they just work hard enough, but those dreams are not coming to fruition because they’re an American myth.
They’re trying to hold on to a sense of grandiosity characterized by surviving struggles they never experienced and by having values they don’t understand or have no connection to.
They are angry at anyone defying the order because they cope with the loss of hope for a mythical future by trying to blame people being crushed by the systems that are also eroding the white working class (at a slower rate).
The rate has been so slow, they don’t realize their sentimentality about how great this nation is came from lies they were told and an identity that is as empty and illusory as the history they learned in school.
It’s the equivalent of trying to be the proverbial “golden child” to an abusive parent, maintaining the illusion that the truth-telling “scapegoat” is actually the problem.
That’s the “great again” that people like that bank on. The proverbial “New Jerusalem.”
Is the song racist?
That’s the wrong question, because it’s oversimplified.
Is the song a mediocre by-product of a mass delusion that white settlers have agreed to maintain because they too had their identities stolen by colonialism, so that they are also defined by Uncle Sam’s toxic legacy as the golden child who is too cowardly to ask questions, hear the truth, accept accountability, or fight back?
Yes.
This peacock of a song is a blatant and pitiable attempt at being unable to accept that they only get a pass from Uncle Sam when they assimilate into a fictional character that upholds the colonial ego of Big Daddy Nationalism and Mama Manifest Destiny.
Unpacking that everything you’ve ever been told is a lie is hard work, and they’re not cut out for that because they’re not actually workers.
They aren’t the cheap labor they benefit from. Their “small town” fantasy is as sincere as their “honest worker” fantasy.
They need to consult their ancestors, and not just the ones who got free [stolen] land.
My “small town” ancestors shot the sheriffs and the deputies, they burned whole towns to the ground, and they led the most violent uprisings in the history of Uncle Sam’s invasion because they did not see the people upholding the status quo as “their own.”
Jason Aldean has no idea who “his people” are. They’re not “small town” people. They’re the middle mass, the embodied entitlement that one inherits when they come from a legacy of settler colonialism, slave trading, and evangelical purity culture that justified genocide.
They’ve been convincing themselves they’re fighting for something noble for so long, they see the loss of that illusion as a threat to the only identity colonialism left them with— generic whiteness.
What he can’t handle is that he’s not a “good ol’ boy,” he’s just a bully doing the business of an abusive parent to preserve the illusion of the “pillar of community.”
If he knew how to be in community, he would not be building a cult following on nationalistic propaganda.
 

He says it’s not racism then he says this:

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Jason Aldean has no idea who “his people” are. They’re not “small town” people. They’re the middle mass, the embodied entitlement that one inherits when they come from a legacy of settler colonialism, slave trading, and evangelical purity culture that justified genocide.
They’ve been convincing themselves they’re fighting for something noble for so long, they see the loss of that illusion as a threat to the onlyidentity colonialism left them with— generic whiteness.

Warrants …

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14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I imagine that to people who have never actually encountered one, they could be a tad frightening.

I wish I remembered more specifically what it was but there was a post from Rocko at some point indicating that he wasn't aware of the moistening effect that arousal has on vaginas. It could have been bedouin but the feeling I have associated with that memory is pity rather than terror so I believe it was Rocko.

 

I'm not a bro country guy at all but my gf/fiance/wife and I went to the rodeo a few years in a row before pandemic and then moving. Luke Bryan at least put on a good show, the next year I got more influence in picking and we settled on Brad Paisley. I don't love his songwriting but I'd watch him play guitar at any opportunity.

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They’re the middle mass, the embodied entitlement that one inherits when they come from a legacy of settler colonialism, slave trading, and evangelical purity culture that justified genocide.

This is just dumb

name a society in human history or prehistory that did not expand and migrate based on population and need for resources. The only things that have ever checked human expansion are natural physical barriers, communicable disease, and other humans better adept at waging war than they were. 
 

chattel slavery of course was not practiced in all societies, but subjugation and servitude of captives was ubiquitous as was genocide

i cannot think of any where priests were not part of the ruling class, and the people were not convinced that what they were doing was right in the eyes of their god(s)

 

 

Also was Alan Jackson the father of bro country? Seems like Way Down Yonder on the Chattahoochee started it all

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