I'm at work and without headphones, but I'm at the edge of my seat! Four parts to this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHj25zd1K_A&mode=related&search=

Dude! Is there a link??

Oh. My. God.

Can you see the link WeeAsp?

One of my top 5 vids of all time[thumb]

Is this the one where they are driving though Alabama with painted cars?

Like this one? http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112107&highlight=top+gear
(might just be a subset of the above)

YIKES !!!

Yes, I finally saw it.

Anyone hear banjos???

Hey-hey, I did a search to make sure it's not a double post. In any case, I'm sure there are those that haven't watched it yet.

lol thats funny

she called "The Boys".....it's saddening people like that still exist......guess "Freedom Of Speech" doesn't cover half man half veggie rednecks.

i think those parts of our country should be forgoten

holy hell

but those rocks would have been bullets if you rolled up in compton in a truck that said "rap sucks" or "snitching is good" or "yo ni**azz"

Yeah, but their cars didn't really say anything directly insulting, they were Liberal.....

So sad, funny but when reality kicks in, it's just sad.

And people in the south wonder why others don't have a high opinion of them...

Well... no I don't think they wonder... they're to busy with... well... frog flogging?

I just spent a year in Georgia, not once did my coworkers refer to me as anything other than "Yankee".

nothing wrong with disagreeing with a liberal but that is pretty funny how intolerant certain areas of the south really are.

I may hate hilary, but i am not one to be pelting somebidy's cars with rocks. I found that highly amusing though.

hahahahaha, i live about 1 hour from that gas station. hahahahahaha, I don't have a southern accent, so when i went through their they asked "what you doin down these parts, yankee?" hahahaha. to bad no one pelted my car with rocks.

nothing wrong with disagreeing with a liberal

So getting all the "good ole boys" together to go lynch someone is considered as "disagreeing" with them?

Repost but still classic, the real sad part (besides the ignorant inbred rednecks shown in the video) is that some people believe that ALL of the south is like that. I live as low in Alabama as you can get. There ARE people like that but its very uncommon to run into them unless you provoke the circumstance. I was raised in NewJersey and moved to AL when I was 14 so I know the dark side of both worlds, let me say if you do the same thing up north (but with northern insults on the cars instead) you will get close to the same reactions just actually said in a different manor.


All in all the Vid is still hilarious

hahahahaha, i live about 1 hour from that gas station. hahahahahaha, I don't have a southern accent, so when i went through their they asked "what you doin down these parts, yankee?" hahahaha. to bad no one pelted my car with rocks.

Was it hostile? I'm not sure how I'd react to it. Perhaps I'll say something like, "Although I may not have your rich accent of the south, I would like to point out that I am not a yankee either. You see, I am half Irish and Korean and my Irish ancestors arrived on these shores in the 1930's while I'm a 2nd generation Korean as well. SUCK IT. Oh... can you spell simpleton?

Well, it wasn't as extreme as the video, but everybody stairs at you if you look a little different. I will admit living in mississippi it is rare to come across a town like this. At the same time i lived up north for a few years of my life as well and they have people like this too. They are just called hillbilly's, and you would want to put something like "farming is gay" on your car to get that reaction. Actually i think northern people are more anal than the southerners.

Well, it wasn't as extreme as the video, but everybody stairs at you if you look a little different. I will admit living in mississippi it is rare to come across a town like this. At the same time i lived up north for a few years of my life as well and they have people like this too. They are just called hillbilly's, and you would want to put something like "farming is gay" on your car to get that reaction. Actually i think northern people are more anal than the southerners.[/quote]

I'm a "Northerner" (about as North as you're going to get), and am half Alaskan Native (Tlingit), and clearly not Caucasian. I've spent a fair amount of time in Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and most recently Mississippi (thank you National Guard).

I've found the Southerners to be generally great people. I tried to walk into a red-neck bar (sawdust, mechanical bull..), and had a lady grab my arm, walk me back outside and tell me that within 60 seconds in the bar, combat would begin. She apologized and said that’s just the way it was. I thanked her and found a more tolerant place. That incident aside, I’ve been treated wonderfully by some very pleasant southerners, both black and white.

Are there intolerant rednecks? You bet. But if you judge all southerners by that video, and buy into that prejudice about the people in the south, without 1st hand experience, you’re no better than the “intolerant red-necks” you point out.

So getting all the "good ole boys" together to go lynch someone is considered as "disagreeing" with them?

lol naw...lynching is no good

Was it hostile? I'm not sure how I'd react to it. Perhaps I'll say something like, "Although I may not have your rich accent of the south, I would like to point out that I am not a yankee either. You see, I am half Irish and Korean and my Irish ancestors arrived on these shores in the 1930's while I'm a 2nd generation Korean as well. SUCK IT. Oh... can you spell simpleton?

I'de leave the Korean part out of it lol [bawling]

I'm a "Northerner" (about as North as you're going to get), and am half Alaskan Native (Tlingit), and clearly not Caucasian. I've spent a fair amount of time in Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and most recently Mississippi (thank you National Guard).

I've found the Southerners to be generally great people. I tried to walk into a red-neck bar (sawdust, mechanical bull..), and had a lady grab my arm, walk me back outside and tell me that within 60 seconds in the bar, combat would begin. She apologized and said that’s just the way it was. I thanked her and found a more tolerant place. That incident aside, I’ve been treated wonderfully by some very pleasant southerners, both black and white.

Are there intolerant rednecks? You bet. But if you judge all southerners by that video, and buy into that prejudice about the people in the south, without 1st hand experience, you’re no better than the “intolerant red-necks” you point out.

You make a valid point, but I've had the 1st hand experience, it wasn't fun.

the same thing could be done in their country, hell roll through there w/ a "the queen sucks" and other artwork on your car and see what happens, i just talked to SEVERAL english ppl who live around here and they say they feel MUCH safer than in England.

You make a valid point, but I've had the 1st hand experience, it wasn't fun.

You've had the experience. Based on that (long?short?) experience you are ready to chalk up a major region of our country as the home of bigoted simpletons?

Another point that no one has made;

How horribly rude, absolutley rude, to go to another country and blatently make every effort to offend the people of a region. Everyone is playing into the film makers hands as they respond with "oh, look at the dumb rednecks!".

This level of uncivility by the film makers got exactly the respose they NEEDED to have to make this trip worth their while. I don't condone violence generally, but these guys deserved to get their asses kicked.

I also didn't like how he made fun of americans in general. He just told the whole world that if you come to america, you will be pelted by rocks and kicked out of the gas station. That's awkward since we have so many people comming to live here from other countries. I may go to england and tell them David Beckham sucks. Wait he moved here. hahaha

Another point that no one has made;

How horribly rude, absolutley rude, to go to another country and blatently make every effort to offend the people of a region. Everyone is playing into the film makers hands as they respond with "oh, look at the dumb rednecks!".

This level of uncivility by the film makers got exactly the respose they NEEDED to have to make this trip worth their while. I don't condone violence generally, but these guys deserved to get their asses kicked.

^^^ Agreed ^^^ I don't condone the violence, but how assinine to come here and do that crap. The wanted a reaction, they got one, a bit more than they caould handle ( [:)][:)][:)][:)]ies), and they made video of it.

Again, I don't condone the violence, BUT when I travel to Scotland this summer to visit friends and family. I DON"T think I"ll go to the local pub and tell everyone that William Wallace is a pansy, and that the queen of Scotland was really just a whore.

You've had the experience. Based on that (long?short?) experience you are ready to chalk up a major region of our country as the home of bigoted simpletons?

I'm not generalizing the region, but I am saying Augusta, Georgia is NOT a town for outsiders.

Never been to Augusta ^^ I"ll make sure to keep it that way. Thanks.

It's not right to bait people like that.

Haha I saw this a while ago, friggin hilarious

yah it's funny as hell lol. Though I do understand the red-necks anger. Like has been said--what if we went to England and wrote "the queen is a whore" or "straight teeth rule" or you went to saudi arabia and wrote "[:)][:)][:)][:)] Allah"...of course the locals will be pissed! Jeremy whatever-his-last-name-is is a duschbag and we all know this..but he is a kickass driver and he's effing hilarious some of the time! It's just comedy. Had they gotten their asses kicked (like they should have) they wouldn't have pulled a stunt like that again I assure you!

I saw this episode when it came out. One of the more edge of your seat episodes for sure. I find it extreamly funny being part british and all. But still its interesting that people are still like this.

But if you compare it to the english side of things and doing over there and doing the same thing, you wouldn't get this sort of a reaction. face it the brits are panseys generaly. Up until receat events most cops didn't carry guns.

^^^ Agreed ^^^ I don't condone the violence, but how assinine to come here and do that crap. The wanted a reaction, they got one, a bit more than they caould handle ( [:)][:)][:)][:)]ies), and they made video of it.

Again, I don't condone the violence, BUT when I travel to Scotland this summer to visit friends and family. I DON"T think I"ll go to the local pub and tell everyone that William Wallace is a pansy, and that the queen of Scotland was really just a whore.

Don't mind me for saying so, but it really does sound like you're condoning their behavior. They may have been trying to get a reaction out of them, but its not like the locals had to become a self-fulfiling stereotype and have a bunch of shirtless yahoos jump in the back of a pickup and chase them down the road.

I think in the UK, to get a reaction like this you'd have to go into a pub in downtown Trafford and tell everyone that Manchester United sucks (etc.) What you guys are suggesting (saying that William Wallace was a whore, or insulting the royal family) might get a slight rise out of someone telling you to go sod off (similar to what you might do to a foriegner who insults George Washington or a well-regarded political figure, like Dwight Eisenhower or JFK) but its not going to be remotely as bad as this unless you insult the FC of a bunch of boozed-up football hooligans on their home turf.

And just to back up what others have said...in my experience traveling in the south, the locals' opinion of me is greatly influenced by their knowledge of my geographic origin. Comments of "are ya'll a yankee?" (etc.) was not uncommon the last time I was in NC, although the real down point of that trip was showing up for my friend's wedding and basically getting kicked out the door almost immediately after the ceremony by his new inlaws because pretty much everyone he invited was a "yankee." Nobody he invited to the wedding was invited to the reception...including his own parents. So much for "southern hospitality." Not to say that everyone there is like that, but after that fiasco it would take a pretty important event to get me to travel south again.

The closest thing I have to a religion is the concept "What goes around, comes around".

I think that these condescending, arrogant visitors had a good ass beating coming. Not to say I would feel a need to become personally involved in their karmic retribution mind you, but it would have a nice symmetry.

As far as your experience Ska, I don't have enough experience in the South to know if you were experiencing a dysfunctional family's dynamics, or this is a sub-regional norm, or something more common to the South in general. I suspect the social snubbing is most likely is the result of the first or second of these possibilities. Being called "Yankee" on the other hand might be more common, but I've spent months of my life in the south and heard that word once or twice.

If you guys haven't seen upright citizens brigade episodes you ought to watch them..they have some hilarious red-neck skits!!

Being called "Yankee" on the other hand might be more common, but I've spent months of my life in the south and heard that word once or twice.

It was definitely common where I was, and frankly, I found it somewhat offensive. Not from the use of the word, but rather that they had to make a distinction between me and everyone else. Probably the same way that someone from the south would react to visiting a "northern" state and being asked "are you a redneck?" by a large number of people.

It was definitely common where I was, and frankly, I found it somewhat offensive. Not from the use of the word, but rather that they had to make a distinction between me and everyone else. Probably the same way that someone from the south would react to visiting a "northern" state and being asked "are you a redneck?" by a large number of people.

The redneck analogy is just what I was thinking.

I'de leave the Korean part out of it lol [bawling]

Yeah... but... the ladies love the asian side... [woot]

<==Not me. BTW... lol!

In the end... I found this rather fun to watch.

haha...even the redneck ladies?!

when I travel to Scotland this summer to visit friends and family. I DON"T think I"ll go to the local pub and tell everyone that William Wallace is a pansy, and that the queen of Scotland was really just a whore.

Oh good LORD.... I you did that, I think they'd mail you back to the US in several different packages.....

I used to like the show Top Gear. It used to be mostly about cars. The last couple of episodes I caught it seems they were mostly just poking fun at other people that were not like them. It's sad.