Because they are too backwoods to have a Tilted Kilt.
Seriously, when I saw this chain of sports bars on "Undercover Boss" I couldn't believe it. They are a cut rate "Hooters" with busty gals dressed in abbreviated kilts. So this dude goes undercover and is astonished to find out that the girls get harassed by customer. And that some of the girls are whorey little pieces flirt and cocktease to get a bigger tip. Is this guy kidding me or what? Hasn't he ever had a beer in his own joint? WTF?
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Dear God that's hot.
I might need an ablation now.
Cody: I am a giver...
Evi, are you trying to kill me? I mean, it's okay if you are, just say so!
But thanks.
The mountains are full of Scots-Irish. Every stereotype is represented to this day--drunk, violent rebels. Today's newspaper (published twice a week, exclusively local news) has a story about a guy shooting at the cops. A sixty-something woman shot and killed a neighbor over a land dispute a few years back.
Horace Kephart's "Our Southern Highlanders" is a classic work on the people in these hills. Lots of moonshiners and pot growers. And a few Ernest T. Bass types. I could fill a book, but nobody would read it, and besides, Kephart already wrote one.
Born Fighting - bitches!
Land, the loss thereof to government and corporations is a sore spot that never heals.
My ancestors were in S. W. Virginia 300 years ago, but we have wandered a bit since then and now I am content to remain in the piedmont and leave the fightin' and feudin' to those so inclined to do so.
You never know, windbag. If it's well written--I'd read it. There's a whole genre now of Appalachian stories. Plus moonshiners are hot now.
And yes, I know the mountains are full of scotch irish peeps. It's why they hate the guvmint so much.
Plus moonshiners are hot now.
You've never seen our moonshiners.
My stories are better told over dinner or a campfire. They never seem to translate to the the written word with quite the effect.
well that's true. and the real moonshiners are, as I understand it, greatly offended by the hoohah.
You ever read Daniel Woodrell?
No, I haven't. I haven't read as much fiction as I should have.
Evi, are you trying to kill me? I mean, it's okay if you are, just say so!
There are worse ways to go than Scottish vixens.
But that was just out patient internet ablation.
He wrote Winter's Bone among other things. He's part of the Appalachian gothic movement.
Among the most moving trips I've taken was a slow seven day ride along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Some areas like the Shenandoah Valley are so beautiful that a person just wants to do no more than sit and look at it all day.
I came to believe that the best job on earth was held by the guy who drove the lawn mower along one side of the parkway, then the other, all summer.
The Scots and Irish have fought in every war America had, up to the present if you look at the enlistment numbers from the Carolina's and Virginias. The Whiskey War is still being fought.
And whiskey is still winnin'.
They kilt us first!
Malcolm Gladwell points out that mountainous type people are feuders because they are herders not farmers and so when you steal their sheep and goats, it is a life or death situation for them...worth a blood feud.
Look at the Afghans...mountain folk. That group of mountain warriors in Vietnam Nam that helped us fight. Scots-Irish. Moral: never pick a fight with a mountain dweller.
Even the Romans couldn't tame the Scots, so they built Hadrian's Wall to try to keep them out of England.
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