Comments | smc36: Seriously? Do we really need this?

smc36

Seriously? Do we really need this?

Mar 20, 2010 13:36

I admit - I've never, ever seen the show "Jersey Shore", nor do I plan on ever seeing it. I grew up at 'the Jersey Shore' and I can state unequivocally that if you call it the "Jersey Shore" then you are NOT from the "Jersey Shore." We went to the beach, and we hated the people who called it "the shore ( Read more... )

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loracj March 20 2010, 21:01:00 UTC

I actually am watching NASCAR too - hee.
I completely agree about any of these Jersey things. We're constantly fighting stereotypes, and the Sopranos didn't help matters. Now we have these.......things (I hesitate to even call them people) 'representing' our state.

Ick.

smc36 March 22 2010, 12:54:23 UTC

Ick is right. I just don't get it. At all. And I dont' want to get it. At all.

Its just BLAH!

Its like saying all Southerns date/marry their relatives. ?? Not any of the southern relaitves I have!!!

finlee March 20 2010, 21:21:25 UTC

I have not seen the show nor do I plan on it. These people on the show are the type I've avoided growing up on LI. I think NJ has had the misfortune of having this "type" move in from NY and LI (and you can keep them).

smc36 March 22 2010, 12:55:30 UTC

But I don't want them!!! Let's just be polite and say, "They're not my type!"

Ugh.

I think I may be able to count on one hand how many of *these* types I've met in my lifetime.

elzed March 21 2010, 01:56:51 UTC

Jersey is totally Essex - in New York City vs London terms. (associted with bleached blondes in white stilettos, boys with souped up Ford Escorts; and general lack of taste)

smc36 March 22 2010, 12:57:00 UTC

Hee- in New Jersey, we have a county called "Essex" where you would find *these* type of people, and it took me a minute to figure out you didn't mean here!
Maybe I'm more this *type* then I first thought....nah. More like just slow on the uptake most mornings.

At least I'd prefer to say I'm just slow and not like *this.*

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smc36 March 22 2010, 12:59:41 UTC

Like I said - I've never actually seen the show. Unfortunately, I've seen enough ads to know all about this show.

I grew up not too far from Cudlitz (he's older!) and the *type* you find down there is more like he is. NOT what you see on this show.

While I was growing up, we used the word B.E.N.N.Y. when referrring to *these* people. It stood for "Bayonne" "Elizabeth" "Newark" and "New York". Definitely not what grew up down there.

romie007 March 21 2010, 15:51:06 UTC

You know, when I was in high school *coughbackintheseventiescough* we had what we called "Ginos". Italian boys with the curly haired perm, driving the Firebirds and Camaros that Mama, Papa, Nonno and Nonna helped buy for their 16th birthdays. They were harmless, still good little Italian boys who went to Mass on Sunday and Confession on Wednesday ( ... )

smc36 March 22 2010, 13:03:48 UTC

I was just thinking of you. I had a family from Canada the other day and when I asked where abouts the woman immediately said, "We don't like in igloos!" Um? That's not what I asked, but ok.

I'm not a fan of stereotypes at all. Southerns aren't slow and they don't marry their relatives.
People from New Jersey aren't all in the mob.
People from Wisconsin don't swim in cheese.

But I will say this - I've been to the Cake Boss bakery a few times. Yeah- what you see on TV is what you get.
All of them.
Pretty much killls it for us here in Joisey-- although they are all really, really nice but I think you can see that on TV.

The other crap? Not so much.

Love ya shithead