'Duck Dynasty' Star Also Under Fire for African-American Statements

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Honey Boo Boo is just a 100% accurate depiction of life in George outside of Atlanta. Have not talked to a single person on the phone yet from georgia that sounds any different and i usually have to tell them to call back and hope they get someone from our Georgia office that can understand them.

Well......you might want to google Peachtree City. Its absolutely not your average Georgia town. Many of the citizens are from all around the country and have moved there to retire. Most of the residents actually speak English that you can easily understand and everyone I have encountered is very respectfull. [tho I have to admit....most people take one look at me and think I am in law enforcement. Its always been that way for me, not sure why]. We can't wait to get down there where live moves at a snails pace. I'm hoping to relax so much that I slowly stop breathing one day.

Admittedly, there are some really scary dumb ass people in Georgia/Alabama/etc but I haven't met any in PTC yet. But then again I haven't actually moved there myself yet. When we do finally move I will know of at least one.

[Skell18]

I actually had a teacher at my high school in Virginia that didn't believe me that time zones existed. She thought when a commercial for a TV show said something was on at 9/8 central that you could pay extra and get "central cable" to watch your favorite show an hour early. It even throws off some car dealerships down there. If i email them an ID card and it doesn't arrive instantly they say "oh you're an hour behind me so its only 10 there and 11 here so I won't get that email until it is 11 your time right?"

Please tell me that's a joke? A perfect advert for why stupid people shouldn't reproduce! LOL

[Thunder_Snus]

Funny...and true of some of the people in the SE US, but not all. Just because people speak slower doesn't make them unintelligent, I learned that when I moved to Eastern KY :-) LMAO at the "thinks he's a time traveler", that was funny though.

I actually had a teacher at my high school in Virginia that didn't believe me that time zones existed. She thought when a commercial for a TV show said something was on at 9/8 central that you could pay extra and get "central cable" to watch your favorite show an hour early. It even throws off some car dealerships down there. If i email them an ID card and it doesn't arrive instantly they say "oh you're an hour behind me so its only 10 there and 11 here so I won't get that email until it is 11 your time right?"

Speaking slowly is something i always try to do when i see that GA area code pop up on my phone but it can be very frustrating when they ask you to slow down even more. A good portion of the people there can keep up with me (I've picked up some bad fast talking habits because i take most of my calls from the NY/NJ area and they are a pain in the ass to make happy), but it is typically the ones that I have to slow down to saying one word every few seconds that can't even spell their own name and they don't know their address or what kind of car they have.....its an infiniti..........what year? I don't know....is that like an M35 or from the g series? I don't know.

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The dialect in Georgia is so strong it usually results in telling people you can't understand them and that they have to call back. I'm guessing that is the reason we opened another office in Georgia specifically to take calls from Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, etc. As far as call centers in the U.S go, you usually want to open them in the midwest because they have the most neutral/understandable accent. We like to say we don't have an accent but we do, it just happens to be very widely understood. I can just imagine how shitty a company would be if they opened a call center in Brooklyn. "Bro you gotzta tell me whare da bin number on da caaaaa is, capeesh!"

And PP i absolutely wish you the best of luck. Things to be ready for: People to ask you to slow down when you are already explaining something very slowly, people don't understand time zones in the southeast so when you tell them where you come from is an hour behind they will think you are a lunatic that thinks he is a time traveler. Calling someone Mr "last name" is very frowned upon, they will usually insist you call them Mr. "first name" but just "first name" is also rude, some what similar to German between Sie and du except the people that decide what is acceptable have a 4th grade education. Whenever you call someone to perform a business transaction make sure you don't have any of the pertinent information available on hand, be as far away from these things as possible and say "shucks" alot when you realize what the business man needs you do not have. Even going as far as knowing how to spell your own name or the address where you live is a big no no. Good Luck

Funny...and true of some of the people in the SE US, but not all. Just because people speak slower doesn't make them unintelligent, I learned that when I moved to Eastern KY :-) LMAO at the "thinks he's a time traveler", that was funny though.

[Thunder_Snus]

PP is moving there, he is using Honey BooBoo as an education tool to understand the locals

The dialect in Georgia is so strong it usually results in telling people you can't understand them and that they have to call back. I'm guessing that is the reason we opened another office in Georgia specifically to take calls from Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, etc. As far as call centers in the U.S go, you usually want to open them in the midwest because they have the most neutral/understandable accent. We like to say we don't have an accent but we do, it just happens to be very widely understood. I can just imagine how shitty a company would be if they opened a call center in Brooklyn. "Bro you gotzta tell me whare da bin number on da caaaaa is, capeesh!"

And PP i absolutely wish you the best of luck. Things to be ready for: People to ask you to slow down when you are already explaining something very slowly, people don't understand time zones in the southeast so when you tell them where you come from is an hour behind they will think you are a lunatic that thinks he is a time traveler. Calling someone Mr "last name" is very frowned upon, they will usually insist you call them Mr. "first name" but just "first name" is also rude, some what similar to German between Sie and du except the people that decide what is acceptable have a 4th grade education. Whenever you call someone to perform a business transaction make sure you don't have any of the pertinent information available on hand, be as far away from these things as possible and say "shucks" alot when you realize what the business man needs you do not have. Even going as far as knowing how to spell your own name or the address where you live is a big no no. Good Luck

[Skell18]

Honey Boo Boo is just a 100% accurate depiction of life in George outside of Atlanta. Have not talked to a single person on the phone yet from georgia that sounds any different and i usually have to tell them to call back and hope they get someone from our Georgia office that can understand them.

PP is moving there, he is using Honey BooBoo as an education tool to understand the locals

[Thunder_Snus]

Yea....its like Honey BooBoo for adults. Except instead of talkin bout biscuits [vaginas] they talk about beards [facial hair].

Honey Boo Boo is just a 100% accurate depiction of life in George outside of Atlanta. Have not talked to a single person on the phone yet from georgia that sounds any different and i usually have to tell them to call back and hope they get someone from our Georgia office that can understand them.

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I got your honey boo boo right here!

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Duck Dynasty is the name of a reality TV show based in some shithole in the south. People like to watch it because all of the rednecks like to say stupid things that can sometimes be misunderstood as being wise. During a time here in the U.S where people like to pretend to like country music and wear flannel shirts and drive shitty trucks because they are "totally redneck" despite living in the north and having a high standard of living, duck dynasty is a very enticing show for them. One of the main people in the show said something about gay people and now people are in an uproar over if they agree with him or not. To put this into context it is a REALITY TV SHOW so this man's opinions are about the equivilent of the internet saying "hey did you hear what thunder_snus from snuson has to say about gay people?" These people are famous because a network followed and exploited a trend in the U.S where people like to pretend they are "poor rednecks from the south" despite being the complete opposite. So they put a bunch of rednecks on camera make them sound like hicks and now all the wannabe rednecks watch it and feel so strongly they will voice their opinions about one of the characters opinions about gay marriage.

Pretty ridiculous eh?

Yea....its like Honey BooBoo for adults. Except instead of talkin bout biscuits [vaginas] they talk about beards [facial hair].

[Thunder_Snus]

Who is Duck Dynasty and why do people care so much about his opinions?

Duck Dynasty is the name of a reality TV show based in some shithole in the south. People like to watch it because all of the rednecks like to say stupid things that can sometimes be misunderstood as being wise. During a time here in the U.S where people like to pretend to like country music and wear flannel shirts and drive shitty trucks because they are "totally redneck" despite living in the north and having a high standard of living, duck dynasty is a very enticing show for them. One of the main people in the show said something about gay people and now people are in an uproar over if they agree with him or not. To put this into context it is a REALITY TV SHOW so this man's opinions are about the equivilent of the internet saying "hey did you hear what thunder_snus from snuson has to say about gay people?" These people are famous because a network followed and exploited a trend in the U.S where people like to pretend they are "poor rednecks from the south" despite being the complete opposite. So they put a bunch of rednecks on camera make them sound like hicks and now all the wannabe rednecks watch it and feel so strongly they will voice their opinions about one of the characters opinions about gay marriage.

Pretty ridiculous eh?

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because few people have their own lives.

^^This, and also anything that can be construed as "us against them" grows legs.