Mouthbreathers WTF?

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mouthbreathers - what on earth does it mean? ive heard it used on ILX a bit, on things like threads about chavs and stuff. what is it meant to imply?

do you take it literally to suppose it means people who breath using their mouths rather than through their noses, ie always have their mouths open? cos i do this, partly cos my nose is always blocked due to my perpetual cold. so if im a mouthbreather, what socio-economic/cultural inferences are there about me?

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

you vote republican, listen to shit music, and believe everything that the media spoonfeeds you. ambrose, you are america

― gear (gear), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

it's the name of a Jesus Lizard song on Goat. The lyrics in the song go something like, "Yea, he's an alright guy-- but he's a MOUTH BREATHER!!" I guess kind of implying that Yow has a problem with anyone that breathes through their mouth, i.e. everyone.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I leave my home, I leave for a couple weeks
I leave my home, I leave it in the care of a friend
Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine
But he's a mouth breather
Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine
But he's a mouth breather
I expect when I return, I return to some sort of order
Such is not the case, no, such is not the case
I leave my home, I leave for a couple weeks
I leave my home, I leave it in the care of a friend
Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine
But he is a mouth breather
I leave my home, I leave for a couple weeks
I leave my home, I leave it in the care of a friend
And in my basement, I found rainin' piss
And in my kitchen, I found my friend deceased

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Interchangeable with 'knuckle-draggers' and with the same sort of social Darwinism implied, the term 'mouth-breather' is much older than anything by Jesus Lizard.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

you need to breath thru yr mouth to vote republican? america is fucking weird dude

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

right-o. but mainly ilxors use in reference to the song, yea?

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― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard this alleged song and I (mentally) use the term "mouth-breather" all the time.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Yes Ambrose - it's not 100 per cent LITERAL, this term, but next time you are in London I will point a few out.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

For me, the image is tied to those people who go around with their bottom jaw hanging open as if their "neutral" position of rest is slack-jawed & vacant eyed.

This type is also, speaking of social Darwinism, related to "neanderthals", but I think N. types conspicuously lack manners whereas mouthbreathers are just dim.

― Laurel, Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.traceysspace.net/blog_images/cletus.jpg

― PappaWheelie II, Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't find any mouthbreathers on Google though I only searched two terms. However, I did find this.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

"Some folk'll never eat a skunk
But then again, some folk'll
Like Cle-tus the slack-jawed yokel!"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's so much a problem of your mouth hanging open, but just loud BREATHING NOISES. This is what I think of when I think of a mouth breather. Like someone who constantly sounds like they just walked up 10 flights of stairs.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

scoial darwinism WTF

you are all fucning cunts
i might be drun k byut WTF you fucing cunts

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

the guy standing behind me in line at the campus bookstore the other day --- that dude was a mouth breather.

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

a.k.a. "mooks"

this is a pejorative term, synomynous with "fratboy" or "lad", depending on your country of origin.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

sorry........was really drunk and angry last night, cos someone nicked the saddle off my bike. apologies for the weird aggression.

but seriously, isnt it a bit problematic to be use terms to describe people that assume that those people are less "evolved" than yrself? like, didnt we spend the last 100 years trying to move away from such thinking? so victorian!

its a horrible term at any rate. i guess its the same as "chav", although that has less directly offensive/weird connotations and ideas behind the term.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Can you explain "chav" for USians? I've heard the term and understand it is bad.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

er i think "chav" = etym. "traveller" ie "gypsy;" sorta euro of "redneck," insult turned self-applied badge of tuff dishonor

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Its more or less white trash, innit? We call them "bogans" where I'm from. I guess I don't feel too comfortable with tossing phrases like this around myself, it does feel a bit righteous and uppity.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

etym?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

I never saw mouthbreather as having class connotations really.... I always applied it to literally slack-jawed idiots at school.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

think mr. "get a brain, morans" and you've got the perfect image of a mouthbreather (or a knuckle-dragger).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

etym= etymology I assume.

There's a guy I know who is living in the UK at the moment and he's picked up and used "chav" constantly with great disdain, the snobby little hipster fuck.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

trust me. after working in the mortgage industry for 3+ years(having finally escaped it, thank god), i can assure you that "mouthbreather" is represented on all class and income levels.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Mouth-breather types can be found in all social classes, to wit:

http://www.astrodomus.com/PortAstro/IMAGES/oriente%20ocidente/george%20w%20bush.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 21 August 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/12/01/images/jon_heder_napoleon_dynamite_interview_top.jpg

― mzui (mzui), Sunday, 21 August 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

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