Okay, I just now saw the pic and the profile shots... man... had to whip out the ol' Photoshop:



 

Worst thing would be dualing banjos. 

Those were hill folk, not swamp folk.

 

^ OMG thank you! hahaha With you knowing the differences, I hearby call you an honorary Floridian for that! lol

I kinda feel that people think we still use washboards and play in jug bands.

I mean, come on! I think we're a little less conservative than that... We've upgraded to electric banjos...  
 

For the last 10 years I've lived in what is apparently the oldest "continuously settled" English settlement in America.
(Fox Hill beats out Jamestown since Jamestown was abandoned for a few years -- hence the "continuously settled" modifier)

We don't exactly have "swamp folk", since it is the marsh, but we do have a few OOOLLLLD family names in the area that I'm sure have done their share of intermarrying over the last 400-odd years.




The real "swamp folk" of this region though are the "Guineamen" from up in Gloucester County. (named such for beaing Guinea Marsh Watermen)

Those guys apparently have their own language and everything that sets them apart from the surrounding inhabitants.


Then you have Tangier Island up on the Delmarva peninsula.  That island is so inbred they have their own disease named after them (Tangier's Disease)




That said, growing up GA, I took a few trips to the Okefenokee Swamp as a kid, so I'm familiar with the FL breed of "swampers", as well, and their storied history of living in the genuine "back forty", with a white-sand yard so they can see the snakes and alligators before letting any of their twenty kids go outside.

Alleged Drunk Driver Had Bearded Dragon Lizard In Her Bra, Police Say

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ent...

Yeah. I hope the lizard is recovering.

So how about those thug bodyguards of Erdogan's that crossed a police line and beat up some protestors in DC?

Should at least result in a civil suit that the protestors will easily win.

Hopefully, they'll face criminal charges, as well, since I read that their legal immunity is only valid in direct defense of Erdogan.
(which beating up protestors on the far side of a police barricade certainly wouldn't qualify...)

"Florida Neo-Nazi Who Converted To Islam Kills Roommates For Disrespecting Muslim Faith"

http://www.ibtimes.com/florida-ne...

TV reporter goes on drunken insulting rampage...

"I didn't realize a video was out. I found out about it later because HR called me and said I was being terminated. They said there's a video. I said, 'What video?'"

Well now, I guess the moral of the story is don't go on drunken insulting rampages, especially for no reason. Oh, and she totally deserved to be fired.

http://nypost.com/2017/06/06/fire...

“That’s not me or how I talk or act or anything at all,”
Hmmm, funny. The video proves otherwise. Always amusing how people do insulting, stupid, unlawful things, and then their defense is "oh, yeah, well, that wasn't me. I mean, I most have been of my meds or something, yeah, yeah, that's it!"

profanity aplenty

Y U TOE TOOPID!?!?!?

http://www.wibw.com/content/news/...

Man pulled over on a lawnmower, attacks police with tools.

Boyfriend and girlfriend want video to go viral. He talks her into shooting at him while he blocks the bullet with a book. I thought the gun would be a .22 or something, but it's a .50 Desert Eagle.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ne...

Man, that sucks. Even the guy's family are saying it was an accident and that she shouldn't go to jail.

My neighbor craped in a sack and threw it in my lawn.

http://people.com/crime/californi...

Calif. Teen Allegedly Live-Streams Crash That Killed Her Little Sister

"Sanchez appears to speak calmly at first and then grows increasingly emotional. "Hey, everybody, if I go to f---- jail for life, you already know why," she says. Aiming the camera at her sister's motionless and bloody body, Sanchez says, "My sister is f---- dying. Look, I f---- love my sister to death. I don't give a f--. Man, we about to die. This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us, but it just did." "I don't f---- care though," Sanchez continues. "I'm a hold it down. I love you, rest in peace, sweetie."

Jesus. People need to stop fucking around. Shooting someone for youtube views... filming yourself drunk and rapping while driving your car... Come the fuck on, people.

Sometimes, I'm terrified for my kids because dumb shits like this exist.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/165...

"Democratic Rep. Val Demings Tells Facebook Commenter: 'My First Amendment Right Is Different From Yours'"

Nothing says "asinine" like a congressional representative... :/

Ouch on many levels. 


 

There haven't been shortages, I've just been busy. But had to share this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2... "Florida gun owners encouraged to 'shoot the storm' and fire their guns at Hurricane Irma "

Lol I saw this on yahoo.  

"Time Traveling" Drunk Arrested by cops in Wyoming Says He Traveled Back in Time to warn Civilization about Aliens

http://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-m...

"Cops said Johnson had bloodshot eyes, slurred speach and a blood-alcohol reading that exceeded legal limits -- but the alleged time-traveler had a perfectly logical explanation: the only way the aliens could send him back in time was to fill his body with alcohol and making him stand on a giant pad."

He was arrested nonetheless.

Old post I know (This was about a teen jumping into allagator pit or something), but that's almost never the case.  People do something like that, they put the animal's life at risk (Like jumping in with animals at the zoo), plus the lives of anyone who tries to rescue them. So it's almost never as simple as people think. 

Excellent point, and very true indeed.

 

Strangers caught in a sex act on Delta flight could face felony charges, authorities say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/am...


"The 48-year-old woman and 28-year-old man, who have not been publicly named, reportedly had not met before the flight, during which the woman allegedly performed oral sex on the man while they were both in their seats"

Seriously, have they never heard of a "bathroom"??

And, yet another idiot who berates an Uber driver for no reason, only to get their rear-end smacked... Why are people so dumb? Anyone know?

Foul-Mouthed State Prosecutor Berates, Threatens Uber Driver

"Oh, my God, you're an idiot. You are a legitimate retard," a woman, identified as Warner by The Dallas Morning News, can be heard saying on an audio recording Platt posted to Facebook. "I want to go home so badly but you're so stupid. I want the cops to come so that they can fuck you up, that's what I want."

You would think if your job involved serving the community in any capacity, you would be nice to those that make up the community. Ah, but logic, tis elusive to most two-legged beasts...