Hello everyone, after some time we feel the need to remind everyone in this thread not to use the middle word in Tonys Shop. This is still seen as slur in most areas and while this is a great joke and worth talking about we really dont want reddit to come down and remove anyones account. I would miss you!
It's really weird when real life things like this somehow slip through from a different time. We have a school in a neighboring district(about three hours away) whose sports team name is common racist phrase involving cotton which I won't type cause it's THAT racist. But it's because their town is known for their cotton fields. Yes I am not kidding. So I 100% believe that sign is a thing
It was built a loooooong time ago in the former practice artillery range for a military base near town. The base hasn’t been military since I think the late 1800’s - early 1900’s. So it was just “the elementary school in the old target range.” Not so good now, but cool history I guess.
Our local high school’s mascot is a Boeing B-17 with the team name “Bombers” because part of the Manhattan Project was done here. Please note the school slogan “Proud of the Cloud”
Be sure not to tell anyone around here you think that! Many of them will bend over backwards trying to explain to you that it’s actually not offensive at all and is a completely normal thing to celebrate
They picked the wrong Boeing. The B-29 dropped the bomb. I'm not 100% sure the -17 could leave the ground with an early nuke on board. I'm embarrassed.
Nah, rape is from the Latin rāpum. We've been calling it that for a real long time. The roots are really big, so they named it after turnips and root vegetables. The term for penetrative sexual assault comes from raptus, which is basically kidnapping a woman. Interestingly, that means it became more like the word for the crop, rather that the other way, at least in pronunciation. As long as we're at it, Canola is a portmanteau of Canada and oil, specially bread to make rapeseed oil more edible and less bitter so a natural lubricant and lighting oil could be sold to wider use as food.
My high school mascot was a literal Confederate soldier. Grey uniform, holding a saber and rebel flag and a big grin. The gym had a large mural with him and the flag behind him. It was also on the sports uniforms. This was 30 years ago.
There's a school in my county whose mascot is a Native American. Their team is called the Redskins, I think.
Also, speaking of things from a different time, the elementary school that I went to has the devil as its mascot. It's been this way since the 1940s. Ironic since it's in a heavily Pentecostal area (really conservative Christians). Most don't want to change it, though.
Edit: You may be thinking I'm talking about a cartoonish, silly devil. No. It's a realistic human face with a beard, horns, and a scowl.
It frankly sucks that it's come to be a slur.
For effectively as long as vehicles with a transmission have existed (1880 and onwards), it's been a mechanic's shorthand. It wasn't even until ~1980-90 that it started being used as a slur, and wasn't even used widely as one until I'd say probably 2010 onwards.
Not even a matter of "still using a slur or -ist trope" (such as with the sports team you mentioned), it's just flat-out "someone started using a normal word as a slur and now it's recognized more as a slur than as what the original word was".
Doubly baffling is that the slur itself presumably came to be for the same reason as word it's come to replace- the original word was shortened for ease of use in casual conversation. The difference being that one was used normally, and the other went the route of a shorthand for 'Japanese' (which did not start off as a slur, believe it or not).
As someone adjacent to the industry, this is still the language around transmissions in a lot of shops, and they would look at you confused if you said the word had any meaning outside of transmissions. That is just the word for it.
When I was a kid there was an auto body shop near me with a pinup girl on the sign saying "we fix ALL kinds of bodies" and little eggy me wished HARD that that was a real thing.
I drive by an Asian restaurant called "The Wokery" every so often. Every time I pass it I joke in an angry redneck voice that it must be where they train the liberals.
We remember seeing a few old mechanic shops where I live with a name like that. It has been quite a few years since I've been by those spots or even paid attention but my thought even as a kid was that it was a terrible thing to name a shop.
It's from a lovely meme of people cuddling adorable but potentially intellectually challenged dogs/cats while explaining they have a smooth brain. One sec I'll find it
https://youtube.com/shorts/U-MPxQPektA?is=vci4ut8Zu5IiIKD9
In other words maybe you have a temporary smooth brained but are happy and adorable
Well geez now all I can think of is Tony slapping on a new pair of boobs for Tiff like a new tire. Kinda like how Clover can just remove her boobs(which are actually snack holders)
A group of girls once yelled that me in a public bathroom, intending it to be a slur. I think it’s the best compliment I’ve ever gotten during a hate crime.
First panel: “This isn’t going where I think it’s going, is it?”
Second panel: “Oh. Yeah, it is.”
The only thing that got me was that I was expecting it to be a daydream after Tiff got frustrated trying to get all the approvals and appointments she needs, but, the last panel payoff was still good
Now Miss we can do all that work but with the tariffs going on and shipping issues the price has gone up in recent months. Then you have your mandatory state inspection, insurance overhead and needing to update your registration.
Huh didn't realize that all translates rather well from medical it car mechanics. Easier than I thought.
Inspired by this comic and the trucks I see all the time, I propose that the Tiff & Eve universe canonizes the existence of the long haul hero, Super Trans, specializing in delivering necessary medicine and hormones to those in need. They have a dog named Balto.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 14d ago
Hello everyone, after some time we feel the need to remind everyone in this thread not to use the middle word in Tonys Shop. This is still seen as slur in most areas and while this is a great joke and worth talking about we really dont want reddit to come down and remove anyones account. I would miss you!
Anyway, back to the silly times