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Originally Posted by Fish
Farmers sit around and belittle everyone that doesn't farm?
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To their face? No. Like I said - they tend to be among the friendliest folks you'll meet.
But my god, 'sissified city folk' are pretty much ever-present in casual conversation between them. Again, usually on about their 3rd cup of coffee while deciding if they want a slice of pie with lunch (farmers eat a ton of dessert, man).
Amazingly, one of my co-workers (who's a good friend) that grew up farming will still yack about how much harder 'all of us farm folks' work and yet all the time he says that he's just going to retire to go back to farming because he's tired of {insert today's problem}. A guy I went to school with quit his job because he was tired of the headaches and went back to working his dad's farm. Everyone has shit to deal with and a lot of folks appear to prefer the farmers shit over others'.
It's damn hard to find a farmer that's willing to give any credit to people that aren't farmers for working hard. Your position throughout this exercise has pretty much firmed that one up for me.