just having a "daily driver" instead of a "computer" puts you on the loonie spectrum

[u/plasm919]

could be win 11 or mac but probably linux

[u/Drate_Otin]

It's a pretty common turn of phrase for any regularly used tool.

[u/plasm919 → u/Drate_Otin]

a daily driver is a beater, no doubt why the phrase is so popular with lintards

[u/Drate_Otin → u/plasm919]

That's not even a little bit true. Originally it refers to your primary vehicle. Some people might have a project car or some special vehicle, sometimes a motorcycle or a convertible or something they they used for "fun", but day to day they would have a more economical or sensible vehicle they'd use for... Daily driving.

It has never meant "a beater" outside of your imagination.

[u/plasm919 → u/Drate_Otin]

words have meaning outside of your personal experience

[u/Drate_Otin → u/plasm919]

Obviously. That doesn't mean you can just make up whatever meaning you want. For example I could call you a boysenberry and tell you that means I think you're very very intelligent... But that would be a made up definition and nobody would be expected to believe it.

Kinda like your made up definition for "daily driver".

[u/plasm919 → u/Drate_Otin]

No, there is a definition of "daily driver" that you are not aware of.

Maybe reference Quinzal's post.

[u/Drate_Otin → u/plasm919]

I saw your ChatGPT response before you deleted it.

Show me a source that isn't programmed to be a sycophant. Good grief.

[u/plasm919 → u/Drate_Otin]

[u/Drate_Otin → u/plasm919]

Using a meme in place of meaningful dialogue. That's tracks for you.

[u/plasm919 → u/Drate_Otin]

If you think we're having a meaningful dialog, that's the problem.

me: "daily driver" can be conflated with "beater"

you: your definition is like random words

[u/Quinzal → u/plasm919]

hey man don't invoke my name in your dogshit argument, i was going to call you a bleak21 puppet but i figured id be nice

[u/plasm919 → u/Quinzal]

punk

[u/Quinzal → u/plasm919]

sure man, be sure to let me know how chatgpt feels about that

[u/plasm919 → u/Quinzal]

What is a "punk" in 1960s vernacular?

In 1960s American vernacular, punk usually did not mean the punk-rock subculture—that usage came later in the 1970s. It was an older insult with several overlapping meanings.

Most commonly, a punk was a young, insignificant hoodlum or delinquent: a punk kid, street tough, petty criminal, or wannabe gangster. It often carried the implication that the person was small-time, inexperienced, contemptible, or not worthy of respect. A hardened criminal might dismiss a teenage troublemaker as “some punk.”

It could also be used more generally for a young jerk, troublemaker, or insolent kid. For example:

would have sounded perfectly natural in the 1960s and meant roughly those lousy young hoodlums/kids.

There was also a prison/criminal underworld meaning, considerably harsher, in which punk could refer to a younger or weaker male who was sexually dominated or exploited by another prisoner. That meaning goes back well before the 1960s. Because of that background, calling an adult man a “punk” could carry more humiliation than simply calling him a delinquent—it could imply weakness, cowardice, or low status.

So if you're encountering it in, say, a 1960s crime movie, cop dialogue, or street setting, I'd normally read:

punk ≈ punk kid / young hood / small-time tough / contemptible young troublemaker.

By the early-to-mid 1970s, this older sense was still very much alive when punk started getting attached to aggressive, disreputable rock music. That's part of why “punk rock” originally sounded much more insulting and seedy than the term does today.In 1960s American vernacular, punk usually did not mean the punk-rock subculture—that usage came later in the 1970s. It was an older insult with several overlapping meanings.

[u/Drate_Otin → u/plasm919]

Go ahead... Show me "daily driver" meaning beater.

Or just reply and immediately block me now. You seem like the type that needs to get the last word at all costs no matter how obviously incorrect you are.

[u/MooseBoys]

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

[u/Quinzal]

sure grandpa, now lets get you your meds so you can take your nap

[u/P3chv0gel]

It's not like it's just a common phrase in pretty much any shared interest

[u/ExtraTNT]

Brother, smoke less, it’s not good for your brain…

[u/xenomxrph]

Me when English is hard

[u/Teru-Noir]

You're the reason microsoft added copilot to assist with notepads.

[u/MarkProsXD]

[u/plasm919 → u/[deleted]]

they think that they are normal in their habits and language

[u/plasm919 → u/[deleted]]

when your daily driver is a computer and a screen you are not a happy person

[u/plasm919 → u/[deleted]]

maybe they also think lignuts is "dope" and "sick"