Coldspring Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 The Winter's Bone book and movie was based on a real family between West Plains and the North Fork River, and look how that turned out. I know some of these people. Scripted fiction based on reality. Not going to say much, but far more interesting things they have done. The show reminds me more of stuff that might have happened 20 years ago, although one of the main characters was caught in real life on an island he canoed to just a few years back. They are not dumb. Spend some time in the dollar store and grocery stores of the Ozarks and do some people watching of all the hllfolk. I don't understand why people get so upset, I suppose it touches a nerve about the fact they we are actually backwoodsy here. lol At least us hillbillies are smarter than the flatlanders due to our depth perception, their clocks don't tick 60 seconds a minute.
Old plug Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 I see nothing wrong with your side of it. I see a lot of perception on the other side of looking down there noses like you all are less human than they are. I do not like to see anything reinforce that thinking. I have live on both sides of the coin. Let me just say i am 100% more comfortable carrying on a conversation with hill people than some of the yuppie type that run in my daughters circle. Hill people tend to real and display their feelings. You cannot tell what you are talking to with some of these city people. Thing will say whatever is the "cool thing" rather than what they think or feel.
Justin Spencer Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 I see nothing wrong with your side of it. I see a lot of perception on the other side of looking down there noses like you all are less human than they are. I do not like to see anything reinforce that thinking. I have live on both sides of the coin. Let me just say i am 100% more comfortable carrying on a conversation with hill people than some of the yuppie type that run in my daughters circle. Hill people tend to real and display their feelings. You cannot tell what you are talking to with some of these city people. Thing will say whatever is the "cool thing" rather than what they think or feel.I'm with you plug. Once you have a friend in someone they stick with you. I am amazed with the honesty seems like no one is ashamed of their past no matter how checkered, live and let live. Plenty of feuding too however sometimes seems like a big sorority house with all the drama, people sure fight a heck of a lot, I have had to tell tourists to stay out of it, they always want to step in which never helps end it. "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
bfishn Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 Saw my first episode today. Dozed off halfway in. Reminded me of several people I've known around here. Personally, I fail to see anything interesting enough to warrant TV coverage, but having spent most of my TV-watching life watching city slickers with Jersey/NY accents, maybe that's all that's left. I think they could do way better with a version shot entirely in a small town tavern though. Call it "Closing Time". :-) I can't dance like I used to.
ness Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 Stumbled onto it this morning.Typical reality show formula. Get some goofy characters, manufacture some tension between them, tease you with the big blow up, drag it out as much as possible, rewind and show the tease after every commercial, then it just doesn't happen. It's a complete farce and I'm done with it. John
Mitch f Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 People just have a magical bubble that they can't see past. Whether you're in an urban or rural environment. They need to increase the diameter of their bubbles! "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
fishinwrench Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 People just have a magical bubble that they can't see past. Whether you're in an urban or rural environment. They need to increase the diameter of their bubbles! You trying to say your bubbles are bigger than mine? ;D Actually I think that the older you are....the smaller your bubbles get.
Old plug Posted March 9, 2014 Posted March 9, 2014 that depends wrench it has something to do with your diet chile will create a big bubble on old folks fast
bfishn Posted March 9, 2014 Posted March 9, 2014 that depends wrench it has something to do with your diet chile will create a big bubble on old folks fast Now that there's funny! I can't dance like I used to.
Mitch f Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Actually I think that the older you are....the smaller your bubbles get. I think the older/wiser you get, you know exactly how big your bubble should be. The bubble just becomes harder to pop though "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
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