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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anyone is wondering

N word toes

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not as messed up as Midwesterners calling stones sticking out of the ground risking dulling the mower blades n-word heads...

Couldn't believe that one when I heard it used by a racist country bumpkin dumbass.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm from the Midwest and I have never heard that. Goddamn that's a bad one lol

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's specifically the Ozarks?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Could be! Or maybe just a more rural thing. I grew up on the border of a major city and while it was generally frowned upon, I was no stranger to a lot of charged terms.

It (embarrassingly) took me until my 20s to realize the phrase I used to say something was poorly cobbled something together meant "rigged up like a black guy did it" - I assumed it was some ancient English word.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Never hear this one.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. Caused quite a stir at Christmas one year!