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Topic: Purdue (1-2, 3-3) at #7 Wisconsin (3-0, 6-0) Post Game

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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #42 on: October 11, 2017, 03:28:07 PM »
Quote from: grillrat on October 11, 2017, 03:09:58 PM
I do not want this to dip into the political world, but from my understanding of the concept, a Snowflake is someone who is "an overly sensitive person that doesn't take criticism well" or "is too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own."  IE, someone who is short doesn't want to be called short, but instead prefers "vertically challenged" or somesuch.

Since you / the older alumni are the ones that are objecting to this name, doesn't that make you the snowflakes? :sign0151:
You suck.
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #43 on: October 11, 2017, 03:29:33 PM »
As a native of the state and about 28 total years of my life, I'm much more open to Wisky (either using the term or hearing it w/o cringing). I tend not to use it though.   I do not embrace the use of 'Sconnie' and do not use it for any purpose.  It reminds me of the lazy baseball nicknames that are far too common.  'Let's put a 'y'/'ey'/'ie' at the end of his name.'   'Jonesey'  'Brauny', 'Mollie', etc. 

Though see it quite a bit when I'm in WI, which is fairly regularly.  Alum and non-alum.  I do think it skews younger.
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #44 on: October 11, 2017, 03:32:21 PM »
Sconnie:

A crass, humorously trademarked attempt at marketing a stereotypical vision of the "Wisconsin lifestyle." Frequently emblazoned upon t-shirts or sweatshirts, this term easily identifies people who are of below-average intelligence. Accordingly, many believe that wearing such a garment will make people think they are actually from Wisconsin, although this is never the case, as people actually born and raised in Wisconsin know just how ridiculous and sad the whole so-called "movement" is.

Person 1: "Yeah, I ate brats all day yesterday, and washed them down with a tall, cool Old Milwaukee! I'm such a sconnie, man!"


Person 2: "Shut up before I kill you. You are from Seattle."
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #45 on: October 11, 2017, 03:34:15 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on October 11, 2017, 03:29:33 PM
As a native of the state and about 28 total years of my life, I'm much more open to Wisky (either using the term or hearing it w/o cringing). I tend not to use it though.   I do not embrace the use of 'Sconnie' and do not use it for any purpose.  It reminds me of the lazy baseball nicknames that are far too common.  'Let's put a 'y'/'ey'/'ie' at the end of his name.'   'Jonesey'  'Brauny', 'Mollie', etc.  

Though see it quite a bit when I'm in WI, which is fairly regularly.  Alum and non-alum.  I do think it skews younger.
Nor does anyone else who is from and/or lives there.
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #46 on: October 11, 2017, 03:37:14 PM »
Just fulfilling my bi-monthly contractual obligations to really annoy the piss out of you.  :72:
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #47 on: October 11, 2017, 03:42:03 PM »
I agree, one of my closest friend's (UW alum) theory is 'Sconnie' is attributable to the kids (students) who lived in Towers.*   I know this has been 20+ yrs ago, but Towers were (are?) private dorms in Madison, which were generally full of out of state students, generally east coast.   
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #48 on: October 11, 2017, 03:56:15 PM »
So.. the game...

Anyone gonna be there? I know I will not be (no games at all this year for us, actually).
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #49 on: October 11, 2017, 04:05:57 PM »
None for me this year either.  Got this year and then next year.  After that, the youngest will be out of Cub Scouts and I wont be spending every bleepin' weekend in the fall selling popcorn or planning den / pack meetings.

If Wisconsin is on the schedule in 2019, I'll be coming up.
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #50 on: October 11, 2017, 04:10:46 PM »
I remember when kid stuff got in the way. Don't have that anymore, but a trip to Europe looms. Gonna have to figure out if I can catch the 3 games I'm going to miss.
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #51 on: October 11, 2017, 04:47:42 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 11, 2017, 03:56:15 PM
So.. the game...

Anyone gonna be there? I know I will not be (no games at all this year for us, actually).
Nope (shocking I'm sure lol), and this is actually one that I won't get to see on TV either. 
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #52 on: October 11, 2017, 09:07:32 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 11, 2017, 03:28:07 PM
You suck.
Masterful by grillrat. 
Also notable that either snowflake and millennial have been sort of melted down into base pejoratives, where there's some tone behind them, but much of the shape has been lost. What happened to them (and what they meant to different people to begin with) would be a fascinating discussion in some other spot, perhaps the offseason. 
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #53 on: October 11, 2017, 09:16:19 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 11, 2017, 03:32:21 PM
Sconnie:

A crass, humorously trademarked attempt at marketing a stereotypical vision of the "Wisconsin lifestyle." Frequently emblazoned upon t-shirts or sweatshirts, this term easily identifies people who are of below-average intelligence. Accordingly, many believe that wearing such a garment will make people think they are actually from Wisconsin, although this is never the case, as people actually born and raised in Wisconsin know just how ridiculous and sad the whole so-called "movement" is.

Person 1: "Yeah, I ate brats all day yesterday, and washed them down with a tall, cool Old Milwaukee! I'm such a sconnie, man!"


Person 2: "Shut up before I kill you. You are from Seattle."

If I may provide some of the history as I understand it (the company's rise coincided with my time in Madison).

As Marq said, it starts with the towers. The longstanding private dorms tended to draw from a particular subset of students: wealthy, showing certain trappings of that wealth, from the Northeast or Los Angeles, often associated with a particular religious background but not limited to it (as a member of said faith, I can say that). They tended to flow into Greek life in high numbers. They tended to associate more with each other and become somewhat cloistered. What's more, they tended to stray toward a particular appearance, more the ladies but also the men.

These folks were known as coasties.

As those people were treated as outsiders, people from the state became a yin to that yang. Obviously painting things as broad binary stereotypes oversimplifies, but in-state folks hailing from smaller towns or less luxury were assigned the mantle of Sconnies simply for contrast. That in some ways was visual, describing people dressed in a less pretty or ditzy manner (plaid was mentioned, though obviously not everyone was in on that).
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #54 on: October 11, 2017, 10:23:02 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on October 11, 2017, 09:07:32 PM
Masterful by grillrat.
 
He's been at it since about 2002 or so. He should be a master.

I'm from Chicago. I was just a FIB up there.

I got along pretty well with the "coasties" while in Madison, although they weren't called that when I was there. But being in Ag Engineering, I was always around Wisconsin folk. Good people most all of them, including that one kid from NYC, of that one religion, that I hung out with all the time. Bastage beat me out for tops in the class by 0.02 on the GPA. MF'r.
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Re: Purdue (3-2, 1-1) at #7 Wisconsin (5-0, 2-0) Game Week
« Reply #55 on: October 11, 2017, 11:39:05 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 11, 2017, 09:06:37 AM
"If we all were hanging out I could tlk about this for 3 hours."


I'm pretty sure we've done that bro.  :)


Well of course we hung out, was slamming Morgan on my brain that night?
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