'Potential'
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I don't find it particularly jokey.
I think it's an attempt to be funny in the way rhymey phrases often are. That said, humor FAIL.
And being from the Upper Midwest, I think of the word "beater" alone as an old second car in not-very-good shape that's useful for winter driving because then the road salt won't damage the first (and nicer) car.
Uh, don't really like to hear/read people talking about inflicting violence upon their spouse, even if the phrase is meant to be a "funny" way of referring to an undershirt. Why WOULDN'T I object?
Again, I'm clearly coming at this from a completely different place in my head than, apparently, everybody else here, [unnecessary, deleted, sorry]
I thought they were called muscle shirts before "wife beater" took precedence.
Before they were wife beaters, they were dago tees.
We cheerfully called them Guinea Tees when and where I was a kid -- until it occurred to me what in the HELL I was saying. And then I stopped because it was awful. And I pointed out to my friends that it was awful. And eventually that name seemed to go away.
I just don't see much of that reaction to "tramp stamp". (Well now I do :)
so I will shut the hell up and go the hell away
2 separate thoughts, and the second is never desirable.
The shirt in question is my preferred sleep-wear and I wish it had a better name. One time we had a sleep over and three of us gals were wearing them. A guy said, "when I die and go to heaven, all the women will wear those shirts."
I guess I got a little defensive about this because I do occasionally use the term, and when I do use it, I usually mean it to be derogatory, and I don't feel particularly apologetic for that.
I don't feel particularly apologetic for that.
Never apologize for using the phrase in a derogatory fashion. I think we're just analyzing why that particular phrase and usage.
sleeveless undershirt- doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?
Bummer.
I think we're just analyzing why that particular phrase and usage.
Yeah, that's why I realized it wasn't really an attack on ME, and I didn't at all need to shut the hell up or go the hell away.