OK, I'm a lifelong Southerner but...

[Fumesucker]

This image has had me in tears for fifteen minutes, I can finally see to type again, my sides hurt and I'm gasping for breath.

I can *totally* see some parent or grandparent wearing that T shirt to one of my grandkids' school functions.

[virgogal]

1. If anyone wore it in my area,Eastern MA,they would probably be committed.

[name not needed]

4. My city barely has Republicans.

I'm actually curious to see how people would react to that here.

[DBoon]

8. If anyone wore that in my part of Los Angeles, it would be hipster irony

in the same unfathomable way that Pabst Blue Ribbon has become a hipster beverage of choice

[Fumesucker]

15. Funny thing is, I can drive sixty miles and it will go from dead serious..

To hipster irony and then back to dead serious before I'm done.

A weird place to live.

[virgogal]

40. OMG---Are you talking about the same PBR that we drank in the fifties?

I thought it was all Sam Adams,Coors,and Corona these days,

(I don't drink anymore so I'm out of the loop)

[hlthe2b]

52. PBR... uggh... that's the worst.

but has always been popular in the South. Hip? You've got to be kidding.

[DBoon]

55. No I am NOT kidding

Bar 107 in Downtown LA and the ultimate hipster hangout The Echo both feature it

[DBoon]

54. YES!!!

I swear to god, every faux-dive hipster bar in LA has PBR in cans on special (like $3.50 per can)

(mind you I'm basing this on a sample of the few I have actually visited...)

Blehhh!

[pipi_k]

22. Western MA (my area) also....for the most part...

I mean, I even know some Republicans who think she's a twit.

[northoftheborder]

2. Please put "graphic warning" on this post!

[onehandle]

3. K-Mart? I don't even know where a K-Mart is anymore.

It's Walmart from asses to elbows here in Georgia.

ugh. How I despise that woman and her cult.

[sadbear]

6. +1

I live in Texas and haven't seen a K-Mart in years. It's all walmart here, too.

[trumad]

5. Forget the Palin shirt...

What's the freak wearing behind her?

[Fumesucker]

12. One of the Children of the Corn perhaps? n/t

[JVS]

25. looks more like village of the damned

[w8liftinglady]

7. i had to make sure it wasn't one of my neighbors..

[Major Hogwash]

9. What, did they have an ugly t-shirt contest somewhere?

I'm surprised that pic of Sarah is that bad.
She looks like she has an overbite in that pic.

[asjr]

10. Is that shirt for real? If it is

the woman wearing it either has no tits or those eyes are covering them.

[defendandprotect]

11. What's "Mordor" .... ???

[Fumesucker]

13. ...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RUahpGXWWEY/TRp2MOpZyuI/AAAAAAAAddM/bCm-cuINdZs/s1600/Basildon+Mordor.jpg

[defendandprotect]

56. Is it a clam or a portobello mushroom ?

[Sinistrous]

16. Think "The Lord of the Ring".

[eShirl]

33. "Rings," actually

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

[Sinistrous]

42. True that. Thanks.

[defendandprotect]

57. OK .. so what does this mean to Palin? " In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie" ???

[Skip Intro]

14. I just really don't appreciate the south-bashing. It's just so repub-like to demean entire regions

of the country. Don't find it funny at all.

[Fumesucker]

18. Eh, I fit the stereotype easily..

I'm on the cusp between middle aged and elderly, I'm fish belly white where I've never tanned (much) and my home quite literally has wheels on it.

Poking a little gentle fun at your own people's foibles is an old custom.

[WildEyedLiberal]

36. Yeah, but you're not a stupid illiterate fundie teabagger Beck cultist

Which is the stereotype about the South (and really, the Midwest and all the rural areas of the country) that I find harmful, rather than anything that has to do with culture or fashion or whatever.

[Fumesucker]

39. A tiny speck of sanity in a vast ocean of crazy..

That's the way being a liberal feels down here sometimes.

[old mark]

51. Well, no one is perfect....nt

[gateley]

20. I've gotten in trouble for that before, Skip, but when I lived in NC nobody appreciated

the cliches more than the people who were REALLY Southern! And that was a small town!

It's the cliche we're joking about, not the people themselves. I don't take offense when I hear the Seattle Birkenstock-wearing tree hugging latte-swillers. Nor do I take offense when Irish Catholic drinking jokes abound. They become cliches for a reason.

Just my opinion, natch, but I really don't think anyone is being cruel by these statements.

[Skittles]

49. aw fuck, they make it so easy

don't bash me - I have lived in the south for decades

[defendandprotect]

58. Anything specific .... ?

After all it was the home of Segregation, Inc until less than 40 years ago!

Slavery gave us the Civil War which we still haven't recovered from --

Help us along -- give us some reasons to cheer!

[WillyT]

17. It's Not About The South...

These idiots are EVERYWHERE!

It's about evolution and death. Some will get it while they are still alive, other will never get it, and will be gone upon their demise.

:shrug:

[Fumesucker]

19. Yeah, but we have an exceptionally target rich environment down here..

I have neighbors whose honeymoon plans involved a deer camp and when their minister anoints them he uses Valvoline.

[WillyT]

29. Now Don't Get Me Laughing Here... I'm Trying To Be Supportive...

:hide::rofl::hide:

:hi:

[Fumesucker]

34. Let me put it this way..

Everyone in my entire zip code is limited to one call a day by the UFO hotline and all of us who can still find their mailbox in the grass get a mass mailed catalog of Elvis shaped Jello molds.

[WillyT]

35. ...

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Stop!

:evilgrin:

[mmonk]

30. Pffffft!

:spray:

You live near me or something?

[oldlib]

23. I agree.

The South didn't produce this person, Alaska did.

[NuclearDem]

21. One does not simply reload into Mordor...

[LuvNewcastle]

24. That is a trend-setter for political rallies.

The possibilities with airbrush t-shirts are endless. People could get gun-toting Sarahs, orange Boehners, Confederate flag carrying Haley Barbours..... I'm serious about this -- we could have a lot of fun lampooning the teabaggers and it would be interesting to see how the librul media covers it.

[Fumesucker]

26. Haley Barbour as King Crimson?

Actually that is indeed an interesting idea.. Why don't you put it up as an OP?

[enuegii]

27. In the Court of the Crimsonneck King...nt

[demosincebirth]

28. She looks sooo proud, too!

[Mojeoux]

37. Palin's eyes are so weird even on a shirt. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

31. "It's like Mordor, with a K-Mart..."

:rofl:

[unkachuck]

32. oh my, that is priceless....n/t

[medeak]

38. mentally ill in the south is "colorful"

can attest to personally from distant relative attempting to smother my mother with pillow in sleep and much more...relatives think it's funny. One 3rd cousin out of mind addicted to morphine was especially "colorful"

[Mopar151]

50. "Up Noth" they call you a "real carachter"

And the deer camp and Valvoline thing can apply, too.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

41. Isn't that the same woman

who wore a bandaid with a purple heart on it at the 2004 Repuke convention?

[Cerridwen]

46. Good. I wasn't the only one who saw the resemblance. n/t

[Duppers]

43. by Beck, I think you've got a TEA-SHIRT there.

Bwahahaha!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Hannah Bell]

44. "does this head make me look fat?" = yes.

[Beacool]

45. Don't take it so hard, it's just a T-shirt.

A T-shirt I wouldn't be caught dead wearing, but that's part of living in a democracy. As for school functions, plenty of people around here were Obama T-shirts to school functions in 2008 and I found them just as objectionable. Churches and schools, they both should leave politics at the door.

;-)

[Swamp Rat]

47. LOL!!

:D

[Warren DeMontague]

48. All I can say is, Thank God it's been decades since I did psychedelics.

Seeing that would fuck my shit RIGHT up.

[Ichingcarpenter]

53. I posted the picture during the 2008 elections I think it was at

either South Carolina or North Carolina rally. Anyone remember?

It creeped me out back then as it does once again.