Is "blueneck" the least effective insult ever?

[Taxloss]

Poll question: Is "blueneck" the least effective insult ever?

What do you think?

[Left Is Write]

1. I saw the blueneck joke thread.

Do you mean to say that was spurred because someone is actually calling us "bluenecks" and thinking we'll be insulted by that?

[Taxloss]

5. Yes. The Freeptards think it's a clever new insult.

[Left Is Write]

12. I guess the joke's on them, eh?

I don't feel the least bit insulted.

Wonder what they'd do if we started calling them brownshirts.

[AuntiBush]

19. I Can't "THANK THEM" Enough!

It just shows the difference between "us" and "them." They're just showing their true color (red)!

Blue is a color known to stand for:

1) Tranquility
2) Intuitive
3) Trustworthiness

http://myth.com/color/blue_b.html

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[tjwmason]

22. Weel today it's blue shirt

blue tie, blue jacket, and blue eyes.

Guess I must be tranquil, intuitive, and trustworthy...

The tie and eyes have been known to turn red on occasions though.

[Freebird12004]

30. lol

[politicaholic]

2. Blueneck...I like that. It makes me feel classy and intelligent...

It has that "I don't hit women" ring to it.

[itzamirakul]

27. Yes, I feel the same way...

"classy and intelligent."

If "Blueneck" is an insult, I'll take it ANYDAY.

Anyone want to make a little extra money, get some t-shirts made up. different folks can make different shirt designs and advertise them on the MarketPlace at DU. How about buttons, etc. Heck I would buy and wear them proudly

[donheld]

3. I wear it proudly

:bounce:

[Sandpiper]

4. Is that the best they can do?

Seriously, are we supposed to be insulted by this?

[AuntiBush]

20. Honestly!

I was thinking the same darn thing. You beat me to it! Guess like-minds do think alike!

:kick:

[El Fuego]

6. My fave insult: Elitist

"Yeah I know I'm smarter than you, right wing bozo. What's your point?"

[WMliberal]

7. Intellectual/Egghead

I mean, if they insist on calling us educated intellectual elitists, I'm cool with it. Girls seem to like it when I describe myself that way.

[Left Is Write]

13. Hmmm.

I'd rather be an egghead than intellectually bankrupt. Why do they think it's an insult?

[WMliberal]

17. something to do with intellectuals and science undoing religious

dogma. 600 years since the Rennaisance started and we're still having this fight.

[Freebird12004]

31. *wink*

good one - girls like you that way - L O L

[LDS Jock]

8. its pretty lame.. but then

so are they

[sonicx]

9. no, I think "honky" and "cracker" are...

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. It's supposed to be an insult?

I thought it was a compliment. :shrug:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. It's very much like "blue blood" isn't it?

Too much so to be insulting.

[tjwmason]

32. Pointless factoid of the day

The term blue-blood is thought to have originated way back. The wealthy people would live and work inside, thus producing a pale complexion in comparison with those who worked all day in the fields; thus one could see the blue veins.

Tony Benn (a wonderful now retired British left-wing politician) is the son of a previous Labour politician (his son is now a cabinet minister as well) who was elevated to the House of Lords. When his father died Tony Benn became Viscount Stansgate, he wanted to renounce the peerage (so that he could serve in the House of Commons), in the mean time he had an operation and got the hospital to take out a dash extra blood which he kept as his blue-blood.

[Reverend_Smitty]

14. Thats what they are calling us now?

because this is the first I've heard of it, typical of the freepers though...copycat an idea and then make a new lame idea out of it. I prefer "Ivory tower elitists" myself.

Somehow blueneck doesn't have the same sting as "ignorant racist fuckheads" (my pet nickname for them) I donno I could be wrong :shrug:

[Plaid Adder]

15. It's like a two-year-old insult: it doesn't make any sense.

"Redneck" is a term that actually means something: the idea is that the 'redneck' has been working out in the hot sun all day in the tobacco fields or whatever and got burned on the back of his neck, so it's red. It therefore has an anti-working-class bias to it, which is one reason I try to avoid using it.

"Blueneck" was obviously made by replacing the "red" in "redneck" with "blue," because of this whole red/blue foolishness. However, that makes no sense, because while it is possible for someone to get a red neck, it is not possible for someone to get a blue neck, unless they happent to be standing under the bleachers when they're repainting the Yale Bowl. There's no image that goes with it, as there is in 'redneck.'

Now, if you think 'blue' is now a bad word because it's associated with the Democratic Party, then calling someone a 'blueneck' is an insult only inasmuch as it would also be insulting to call someone a 'bluetoes,' 'bluehead,' 'blueuvula,' 'big blue stupidhead,' or whatever.

'Bluestocking' was a real insult because it was based on an actual piece of reality (see below). Blue-blood, same thing. There are all kinds of meanings of 'blue' that you could play on and it would make some sense (most notably the sense of 'depressed,' which we certainly all are). None of them would help 'blueneck' make any sense, though.

Whatever,

The Plaid Adder

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. Good point...

they are piggybacking off an idea that really doesn't make any sense. The "bluest" of blue-staters can still get a redneck if he or she has been outside all day.

personally I kind of like the "blueuvula"

[Withywindle]

24. Actually, though....

...I suppose it is possible to get a bluish tone to one's neck if you're out in the COLD--which I'm feeling right now, cause my blue state is awfully chilly in the winter. (But of course your lips and fingers and stuff would go blue first.)


That doesn't work for Hawai'i, though. Or most of California.


It's the stupidest insult ever.

[MissMarple]

16. And reminiscent of bluestocking , roflol

It may even catch on beyond DU. :D

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/bluestocking

Definition: \Blue"stock`ing\, n.
1. A literary lady; a female pedant.

Note: As explained in Boswell's ``Life of Dr. Johnson'', this
term is derived from the name given to certain meetings
held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation
with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant
of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always
wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for
his conversational powers that his absence at any time
was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became
common, ``We can do nothing without the blue
stockings.'' Hence these meetings were sportively
called bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended
them, bluestockings.

2. (Zo<"o>l.) The American avocet ({Recurvirostra
Americana}).

[ZombieNixon]

21. Not only is a crappy insult,

I consider it a compliment. I like the sound of it.

ZombieNixon - Proud Blueneck Democrat

[drhilarius]

23. That's an insult? Freeps can't come up w/ anything better...

because, I suspect, their thinking is clouded by constant blueballs(seein' spongebob frolicking' about and whatnot).

[Virginia Dem]

25. never heard it before

[Piperay]

26. I LOVE it!!!

THANKS Freepers! :D :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[B Calm]

28. I'm a Blue Collar Worker and proud that I vote for Blue Color

politicans.

[LostInAnomie]

29. Doesn't that mean that by default they are taking on the label "Redneck".

God damn they are idiots. Don't they know that in the real world people don't happily accept a term that implies that they are backward, dim witted, slack jawed dip-shits.

I will gladly take on a label that implies that I am the polar opposite of those fucking idiots.

[baldguy]

33. Smurf?