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minus-squarekhepri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·3 months agoDo, did, people call them punkers? It was always just punks where I’m from.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months ago“Punk rockers” was definitely a thing. I read “punker” as a shortening of that.
minus-squareperishthethought@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoI never thought about this before but yes. The Vandals taught me this.
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoIn the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie Casey Jones asks Raphael if he’s some sort of punker, and then states that he hates punkers. I watched that movie WAY too much as a kid.
minus-squarebestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoIn German it’s common to call Punks Punker.
minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoI’ve only ever heard it at the end of that one Vandals song about rednecks: “I couldn’t make it as a punker.”
Do, did, people call them punkers? It was always just punks where I’m from.
“Punk rockers” was definitely a thing. I read “punker” as a shortening of that.
I never thought about this before but yes. The Vandals taught me this.
In the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie Casey Jones asks Raphael if he’s some sort of punker, and then states that he hates punkers.
I watched that movie WAY too much as a kid.
In German it’s common to call Punks Punker.
I’ve only ever heard it at the end of that one Vandals song about rednecks: “I couldn’t make it as a punker.”