Paraphernalia

white trash

Wikipedia has the following definition:

White trash or poor white trash is an American English pejorative term referring to poor white people in the United States, suggesting lower social class and degraded living standards.

OR people who have fallen on hard times in the economic crisis..........

The term suggests outcasts from respectable society living on the fringes of the social order who are seen as dangerous because they may be criminal, unpredictable, and without respect for authority whether it be political, legal, or moral.

The term is usually a slur, but may also be used self-referentially by whites to jokingly describe their origins, as in the humorous book by Michelle Lamar and Molly Wendland :

The White Trash Mom Handbook: Embrace Your Inner Trailerpark, Forget Perfection, Resist Assimilation into the PTA, Stay Sane, and Keep Your Sense of Humor (2008).

Check you 'Trashiness' below :

How to gather the nessesary information

SCORING BREAKDOWN:
0-300: Not white trash. We’re sure you have tons of other undesirables in your city, but they’re most likely not white trash.
301-600: A little white trash. There’s probably pockets of your city that have tons of white trash, but most of the city probably doesn’t have much.
601-800: Your city is pretty white trashy. Not only are there pockets of white trash, but there’s a fair amount of white trash in every sector. Most likely you can’t go very far without hearing the cry of an illegitimate child or seeing a car parked on a lawn.
801-999: Your city is in the white trash elites. You look down on other cities that have "parks" and "libraries."
1000+: Jerry Springer White Trash. Your city is crawling with white trash. The majority of shirts are sleeveless or mesh. You most likely know someone who’s had the fact that they fathered a child revealed to them on a talk show. Most times when you sit down to eat, the dish can be described by saying the name of the meat, and adding the word "casserole" to the end of it.

discriminatory road signs

There seem to be a lot of variations in road signs for the more senior members of society......

Why

are the elderly always so bent over?

A lot of them could still do the hula hoop
or dance the night away

And this one is expecially made for Uncle Fred :~)
A good job he's not online to see this !

money can't buy happiness but you can search for it in a taxi

Wikipedia has this definition :

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

It's hard to measure or quantify it... but there is constant research going on all around the globe. For instance here in Holland we have the World Database of Happiness. They have, among other things, an interactive map of the happiness levels in various countries. I take part in their research by filling in a monthly happiness questionnaire :~))

There are indeed lots of ways of being happy.................

The very word happy is used for so many ways of wishing people well - HAPPY :
Birthday - Anniversary - New Year - Christmas - Holidays - Hour
the list goes on and on

Money and happiness are often seen to be related ?

But the ultimate in happiness must be "Death by Chocolate"

OR

Stroking the cat

Heinz 57

What would life be without ketchup ??

Watch video HERE

Left : Twin Towers of MacDonalds chips (fries for Yanks) glued together with tomato ketchup

Below : recipe for Ketchup Cake

A Purebred Heinz 57

Also referred to as mixed or cross-breeds, mongrels and mutts,
the Heinz 57 group comprises nearly half of the world’s dog population.

geek OR nerd ?

The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from "a computer expert or enthusiast" to "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts".

With a general pejorative meaning of :
"a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person,
especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual".

This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German. The root geck still survives in Dutch and Afrikaans gek: crazy.....

Geeks have a special Geek Code to let other geeks know what type they are. Example:
GED/J d-- s:++>: a-- C++(++++) ULU++ P+ L++ E---- W+(-) N+++ o+ K+++ w--- O- M+ V-- PS++>$ PE++>$ Y++ PGP++ t- 5+++ X++ R+++>$ tv+ b+ DI+++ D+++ G+++++ e++ h r-- y++**

To de-code click HERE

They tend to be male, between 10 and 30, they wear jeans and t-shirts, have loads of gadgets with them at all times and speak techno jargon.

There are the occasional female nerds....

If your not a Geek, you might be a Nerd:

The stereotypical nerd is intelligent but socially and physically awkward.

sanctimonious

Merriam-Webster’s defines sanctimonious as “displaying high-mindedness with intent to impress.”
It’s a holier-than-thou thing with an etymological connection to the “holy” part.

People these days who might be thought of as sanctimonious are rarely puffing up their religious piety for the sake of show (although there are some). But that’s definitely where the word came from (pretending to be very holy or pious)

At first though it wasn’t a bad thing to be sanctimonious. This is because sanctimonious is one of those words that started out good and then turned bad. People who were really and truly thought well of based on their devotion to religion were the first to be called sanctimonious. But the word must have quickly been used mockingly for those who were just putting it on, because people rapidly stopped using sanctimonious as a compliment.

Both senses emerged from the verbal into the written within a year of each around 1600, but the complimentary sense was forgotten within 200 years while our current negative sense lives on.

Can also mean = Making a show of being morally superior to other people.