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thefunkyfresh Dec 18, 2004

when skinny guys walk around in WBs and so what if maybe i used to be a victim of this fashion fopah

socalgal socalgalOG 2003

are WB's wifebaters?

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

wifebeaters actually (some find the term offensive but i think "guinee tee" might be too)

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

How about white form fitting tank top. WFFTT

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

lol... and add "slash undershirt" to the end of that

socalgal socalgalOG 2003

LOL have you seen the girl tanks that say "boybeaters" on them?? hilarious.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

I saw that last week at the mall and fell out. I'd love to see a girl whippin' on a boy.

sunshyne sunshyneOG 2004

you mean, guinea tee?
The use of guinea as an extremely offensive ethnic slur directed against Italians or those of Italian descent is only one of several uses of this word.

The earliest related form to note is Guinea negro, first recorded in the mid-eighteenth century. This referred literally to a black person from Guinea, a region on the coast of West Africa. Common in the eighteenth century in this form, by the early nineteenth century we began to see guinea used on its own (without negro) to refer to a black person. This sense is now rare or obsolete.

The usual sense 'an Italian person or person of Italian descent' is first recorded in 1890 and appears to have been reasonably common thereafter. (It even appears in the well-known 1894 song "Sidewalks of New York," the one with the chorus "East side, West side, all around the town": "Boys and girls together, we would sing and waltz/While the Ginnie played the organ on the sidewalks of New York." This verse is often euphemized to "While Tony played the organ....")

This sense was probably inspired by guinea in the sense 'a black person' with reference to the relatively dark skin of southern Italians, who made up the majority of Italian immigrants at that time. Other racial slurs that normally refer to black people are also often applied to members of other dark-skinned groups.

Guinea is found reasonably often in two other senses in the early twentieth century: 'a Hispanic person' and 'a guy; fellow; person'. It is found less frequently in the senses 'a Southern European [not from Italy]' and 'the Italian language', and from World War II 'an Asian'.

i however am not offended.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

Here we go again.

sunshyne sunshyneOG 2004

did i say this outside of a private forum before? whoops! i am always repeating myself.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

Hahaha, I'm kidding, Soomer.

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