I remember when gay meant cheerful…
Sorry, but this conversation has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with rappers. I am not a rapper. I use the word pimp quite often when contextually proper.
Hitting women and blaming them for it = treating women as chattel. There isn’t a literal exchange of money for a person, but the mindset required to do both is the same.
Yep. Like when you insult someone or something by saying “That’s so gay!” you mean “stupid” not homosexual.
:rolleyes:
This is whack if you be making pimptastic smack. Yo yo, it be Know yo place beeyotch! You fools be running off at dey mouth with no respect.
You better reck-o-nize! :dubious:
That’s an example of the same thing, but the meanings aren’t as divorced. It’s obviously an insult. When you’re talking about pimping someone’s car, it’s clear you’re not talking about putting a bunch of prostitutes in it.
Just like NIGGER is okay to say cause Fiddy Cent says it!! It doesnt mean anything bad! I yell it out of the back of the mini van when my mom drives me to the pimp store yo!
;j <-ma nig
I don’t mean to change sides drastically because I really hate teenagers who say pimp, but it’s like saying “you are the master of baseball” doesn’t mean use guns, whips and dogs to force baseballs to pick cotton on your plantation.
On the other hand it’s not like pimps existed in ancient times and people can’t be expected to remember the origin of the word. Sometimes when girls call a guy a pimp, he’s actually living off the avails of prostitution. Those minivan people should watch more Larry Clark movies and think about it.
Wow, we almost had a discussion for a minute there, thanks. :rolleyes:
Who did?
Right, because saying, “wow, those rims are ‘Pimpin’”! is that same as saying, “that was SO gay, did you see those pink pants? Oh my gawd!” One is obviously a direct insult, the other simply a word that some people don’t find to be a “positive” attribute.
Thanks for injecting a calm, rational on-point opinion. :rolleyes:
Sam
Well, pimps were already cool and sexy when Libby Holman sang “Moanin’ Low” to her abusive pimp (Clifton Webb, of all people, back when he was kinda hot!) in the Broadway revue Three’s a Crowd (1930).
"Moanin’ low, my sweet man, I love him so, though he’s mean as can be . . . "
isn’t it a win-win situation?
me: aren’t you da pimp? [sub]wanker[/sub] smiles
loser: why thank you! i’m da pimp! yeah!! smiles
At around the age of 17 or 18, Billy the Kid killed his first man, a blacksmith named Frank Cahill, after Cahill called him a “pimp.”
Just thought I’d throw that out there.
New sig line!
If you’d allow me?
I always just assumed that people used that term as a positive thing (when referring to another human being) to mean that they had been with a lot of women. And we all know that sleeping around in HS (as a male) makes you cool. :rolleyes:
Absolutely. Now that I think about it, I may have stolen that from Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live, though.
The original overheard conversation was between two girls. I expect that they watch MTV and see rap videos.
What your vocabulary is has nothing to do with it. (I can tell you that jolly few teenagers use the phrase ‘contextually proper’!)
[pouty voice]Huggy Bear was cool[/pouty voice]
Not the guy from the recent movies wtih the stupid braids and the wet cardboard personality, the REAL Huggy Bear circa 1974.
"course, I don’t remember ever seeing Huggy actually in the act of Pimping, he just gave Starsky and Hutch “the word on the street”.
Number one, Umm, YES it does, that crap is expensive, and a car all tricked out in chrome is a pretty big status/money symbol.
Secondly, you may not have a hardon in the sense that your genitals react, but PLEASE, don’t tell us you don’t look at that car and do some version of “I want it” type reaction or behaviour, such as “droool, look at that cherried out 57 Chevy [or insert classic or ricer of your choice here], DAMN I’d like to have one of those”.
And that’s another thing, (sorry slight hijack), the hijacking of the word “hardon” it means to have it in for someone, as in wanting to beat their heads in. It means want and lust after something. etc…so yeah, if you are lookng at the chrome and enjoying it, you DO have a “hardon for it”.