"Rich Men North of Richmond"

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly I do understand it is not an anti-rich song, but more anti government. Just a general comment on my side.

Re: US standard of living. That is why I said about perspective.

I think the combination of wealth and power for sure makes the US #1, and I don't see any country in the near future coming close. But, it is always necessary to continue to move forward.

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

@Jolly I do understand it is not an anti-rich song, but more anti government. Just a general comment on my side.

Re: US standard of living. That is why I said about perspective.

"You have no right to complain because look there's someone's worse over there" is a tired fallacy.

[Horace]

People’s feelings about their own status is always relative to their own country anyway. Maybe less so in the flattened world culture of the internet age.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

People’s feelings about their own status is always relative to their own country anyway. Maybe less so in the flattened world culture of the internet age.

It's also pretty easy for those who don't live here to assume everyone has the same standard of living as the American assholes she talks to in online forums.

[Jolly]

Yeah, but us Louisiana assholes are better than the West Virginia assholes.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Yeah, but us Louisiana assholes are better than the West Virginia assholes.

Well, they aren't exactly Southern—they're the only state to secede from the Confederacy, after all—but they are Appalachian. Except they pronounce that in a way that you would probably consider offensive.

[LuFins Dad]

Wait, did @89th really just try to claim he’s a southerner because he lived in Fairfax, VA?

[Rainman]

The people that pronounce Appalachia correctly are the same people that mispronounce Oregon. Yet, everyone that works at the Oreo cookie plant (even in Virginia) pronounces Oregon exactly right. Go ahead, try it: eat an Oreo cookie and say "Oregon." Works like magic.

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Wait, did @89th really just try to claim he’s a southerner because he lived in Fairfax, VA?

LOL I like to remind Jolly from time to time that I was born and raised in the south. Gotta draw the line somewhere…

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Yeah, but us Louisiana assholes are better than the West Virginia assholes.

Show me your buckwheat cakes and then we'll see.

[Doctor Phibes]

You chaps all look the same to me.

[89th]

I also said I thought the song was whiny and yelly, but said I like folk music in general. Jolly claimed I was born wealthy, which isn't true. I guess my dad could’ve recorded a song in the woods, in front of a deer stand, what a coincidence, complaining about taxes and fatties on welfare. Heck, the content isn’t untrue… but I guess he found a way to make money. The American dream!

[Renauda]

@89th

I also said I thought the song was whiny and yelly, but said I like folk music in general.

His voice reminded me of Chris Stapleton’s intonation and style when he was with the Steeldrivers.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

I also said I thought the song was whiny and yelly, but said I like folk music in general!

:pinchbridgeofnose:

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Wait, did @89th really just try to claim he’s a southerner because he lived in Fairfax, VA?

Half the buildings and most of the streets in Fairfax are named for southern heroes.

General Lee marched his troops through Leesburg before crossing the Potomac to invade the north. Those guys certainly claimed to be southerners.

[LuFins Dad]

@Copper said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Wait, did @89th really just try to claim he’s a southerner because he lived in Fairfax, VA?

Half the buildings and most of the streets in Fairfax are named for southern heroes.

General Lee marched his troops through Leesburg before crossing the Potomac to invade the north. Those guys certainly claimed to be southerners.

There are regions of Boston that are more southerner than Northern VA from 1980-2020…

[Jolly]

Shucks... North of Shreveport = Damnyankees.

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

@Copper said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

Wait, did @89th really just try to claim he’s a southerner because he lived in Fairfax, VA?

Half the buildings and most of the streets in Fairfax are named for southern heroes.

General Lee marched his troops through Leesburg before crossing the Potomac to invade the north. Those guys certainly claimed to be southerners.

There are regions of Boston that are more southerner than Northern VA from 1980-2020…

Well hey come on that's not true. Look at this recent photograph of a Fairfax Virginia farmers and ranchers association meeting:

Here's one of old Colton up on Little River Turnpike turnin' soil:

[LuFins Dad]

I mean, even most of the farms in western Loudoun have been gentrified.

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

the farms in western Loudoun

They all became winery, wedding venues.