• Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    26·
    21 hours ago

    My wife basically did this to her racist grandpa one time. I think they were having dinner with friends and she goes “Gwampa, I have a question, is a ‘Jive-Ass Jigaboo’ the same thing as a ‘Jungle Bunny’?”

    It did not go over well with her grandpa’s friends lmao.

    Edit: My wife wanted me to add because I didn’t mention it originally that she was 15 when she did this. So she was 100% aware of the live grenade she was lobbing into this conversation. I was also misremembering a little of the context these people weren’t friends they were people related to her grandpa’s labor union basically he was trying to impress and really laying it on thick. One of whom was a black man. Hence it being this particular live grenade.

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        Short version, Wife’s granddad was an old racist. Old racist granddad made wife mad. Old racist granddad wanted to impress some people. Wife casually asked old racist granddad about some super old super racist terms he said to her in front of said people to embarrass him in front of them.

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        From what I can gather it’s like a super old racist term for a black person. idk if I’d call it a full on slur, but definitely in that ballpark. But either way we’re talking like 1920s old. Like this term was at least 75 when my wife did this to her grandfather in 2000.

        • derfunkatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Yeah, jive isn’t the offensive part; the appropriation mixed with the racist slur is.

          Jive is a set of slang or cant originating from NY jazz culture, specifically Harlem. Jive was a “cool” way of speaking; we owe the word hipster to jive (hep-cats became hepsters became hipsters).

          Jive-ass is just an adjective meaning useless, worthless, or full of shit. A way less offensive variation is jive-ass turkey i.e. a bullshitter. Probably stems from jive speakers using jive to hustle or exclude outsiders from the conversation.

          I think it would be safe to say that jive is a subset of AAVE, but not an equivalent term. AAVE is recognized as the official dialect but jive is specifically tied to music, region, and time period.

          FWIW, I think the humor of the Airplane! jive scene is twofold: 1) it demonstrates how mainstream both jazz and jive had become by the 70s (to point that old white ladies got it) and, 2) the the implication that jive speakers couldn’t understand regular American English and were in need of translation.

        • thanatotus@lemmy.ml
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I remember the scene you referenced, and i recall that i hadn’t understood the jive reference then and i just assumed that it was just funny gibberish.

      • LordCrom@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        In the police academy movie, its what the white asshole called the black lady who ran over his foot… which made hightower fucking pissed at him and flipped the car he was hiding in.

        So its probably a bad slur.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    I got three different playa phones. One for each part-time shorty.

    But I really have a work phone that they pay for because I am absolutely not putting any work shit on my phone. No teams, no outlook, no workday, no authenticators, no emergency alerts. I think a guy who got fired was using it as a playa phone or porn phone. My boss said his data use was always maxed out and everyone else used roughly 1-2 GB.

    I only take it home on weekends on the rare case i want to check an email or request time off through workday. It does come in handy while camping/road tripping. I charge it up and turn it off then toss it in the glovebox as an emergency phone.

    We used to have pagers as recently as 2022 which seems way more sketchy for the time but i miss them. Always worked, only got important notifications, smaller.

  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
    591·
    2 days ago

    I used to have 2 phones just because I liked having an iPhone and an Android phone. Nobody believed me when I told them that I was genuinely just a tech enthusiast.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      1 day ago

      There was a guy I worked with years ago who did the same. He always had the best android and the best iPhone. He liked to be the go to guy when you wanted a new phone or something.

      • Denjin@feddit.uk
        55·
        2 days ago

        I have a work phone, a personal phone, one for my drug deals, one each for my 3 mistresses and a Nokia 3210 for playing Snake.

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            2 days ago

            Hands and arms get tired, so it’s always good to have options.

            Then again, at that point you should just be poly and not lie to your partners. Much easier that way.

              • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                9 hours ago

                100%

                During the pandemic, I bought a house with my wife and girlfriend because it’s somewhat cheaper to pay a mortgage and all utilities vs 2 rents and the utilities not covered by the building (plus dealing with bullshit landlords that fuck around with serious shit like bedbugs)

        • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          15·
          2 days ago

          if you use a google pixel with grapheneos, you can have multiple profiles that work similar enough to having multiple phones, with apps in each profile only being able to see what’s happening in that one profile, and if you close a profile every app in that profile is stopped completely

        • IWW4@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 days ago

          I have thought about doing that. Do you use one for all your business apps?

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 days ago

      The implication that the child is mad the dad spanked then, so they is going to out the father as a cheater at the family diner. The second phone is for the adultery.

      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I used to wonder who my dad was talking to out in the garage on the landline he had our there. Seemed to always make his way out there when mom was working or running errands.

        Hey dad, why do you have a word document hidden on the computer that lists things like “house” and “tools” with amount of money beside them?

        Record scratch

        Yep. That’s me. My whole life is about to get turned upside down - I just don’t know it yet…