Buffy ,'Chosen'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Chocolate, glazed donut and coffee:
I am not removing "gypped" from my vocabulary anytime soon, either, despite its cultural baggage.
How about its synonym, "jewed?"
I hear you on your frustration, Hec, but I tend towards eliminating culturally offensive words. On a related note, anyone got a good term for "wifebeater" that isn't "ribbed tank top?"
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Also, I like to use the word asinine because it sounds like ass, but I can say it in polite company. I imagine some users of niggardly use it like that. It just isn't worth it.
I don't think I realized that the expression wasn't "chew someone down" until I was over 25. The one I am trying to strike is "jerry-rigged". Especially since it is supposed to be "jury-rigged".
In a related note, anyone got a good term for "wifebeater" that isn't "ribbed tank top?"
I believe the proper name is "A shirt", at least that is what we call them in the costume shop. Of course, I grew up calling them "guinea t's", so what do I know!
I am not removing "gypped" from my vocabulary anytime soon, either, despite its cultural baggage.
Well now, "niggardly" doesn't come from any racially charged word or concept. "Gypped," however, does. "Gypped" is no better than "Jew him down." I mean, god DAMN.
t edit Okay, we had a fire alarm scare here, so I paused before finishing my post, and everyone else got there before I did. Well done.
In a related note, anyone got a good term for "wifebeater" that isn't "ribbed tank top?"
I believe the proper name is "A shirt", at least that is what we call them in the costume shop. Of course, I grew up calling them "guinea t's", so what do I know!
I just call them "tank tops."
Why "A shirt"?
Happy birthday, Jessica!
Why "A shirt"?
I think it's the basic shape of them, to distinguish from a "T shirt."
Why "A shirt"?
I think either short of "Athletic Shirt" or because it is shaped sort of like an "A". I actually used to call them singlets, which I think might also be right, but no one knew what I was talking about and thought I meant wrestling garb.
Also, I never really understood wearing an A-shirt as underwear. It seems to me that the undershirt's job is to protect your outer shirt from your armpits, and the A-shirt does not do that!
Fuck the persimmons!
Did anyone else go to an American Pie place? Just me?
Fuck the persimmons!
Did anyone else go to an American Pie place? Just me?
I *did* say "not literally" to forestall you pervy people! I see it cannot be forestalled. It is a force unto itself, like El Nino.