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12-10-2007, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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Wife Beaters
You know what I'm talking about. The style of shirt referred to as a wife beater. Why has there never been any kind of uproar to get this name dropped? I could ask my mom to buy me a wife beater and she wouldn't flinch, it's so normal. How in 2007 is that possible?
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12-10-2007, 07:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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I had to google this to see what you are talking about, those are always referred to as A-Shirts for me.
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12-10-2007, 07:27 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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"Wife Beater" is a slang term for them, isn't it? I don't think they'd advertise them that way... over here we call them wife beaters for slang, but "offically" they are just singlets.
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12-10-2007, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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I've heard plenty of people bitch about it.
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12-10-2007, 08:02 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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You know I never heard this term until I moved to Phoenix. When I was growing up, we just called them tank tops. I don't know when this term came into style, but I definitely don't remember it being referred as that in the 80s or 90s.
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12-10-2007, 08:13 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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Groundhog stole my answer. It's just a nickname...they don't say "Wife Beaters" on the package when you buy them. If any company actually did put it on the package, I'm sure there would be an uproar...
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12-10-2007, 08:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Troy, NY
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Actually agree with Shorty. That is the ONLY thing I have ever heard them called and I have NEVER actually heard anyone complain about it.
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12-10-2007, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Bloomington, IN
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It they sold them as "wife beaters", more men would buy them.
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12-10-2007, 09:17 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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It just means that your dad has trained her well, Shorty.
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12-10-2007, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Dola,
why are you still asking your mom to buy your underwear for you???
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12-10-2007, 09:27 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Umm...can you picture an unemployed college drop-out in a wife beater? Thought so.  |
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12-10-2007, 09:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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It was hypothetical. And I'm not unemployed you assclown Bucc |
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12-10-2007, 10:28 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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Yeah Bucc!! What the hells wrong with you? Now get off the boards and get over here with my Pizza you assclown Shorty! Last edited by BYU 14 : 12-10-2007 at 10:29 PM. |
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12-10-2007, 10:34 PM
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Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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we don't deliver to the british kind
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12-10-2007, 11:26 PM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Phoenix
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"So, K Fed, how does it feel to have a closet full of wife beaters, but no wife?"
-"Weird Al" Yankovic
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12-11-2007, 09:07 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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I always find men who wear wife beaters amusing, because at this point everyone knows they are called wife beaters, and yet these dudes have decided that wearing one is still a good idea.
"Wife Beater eh? Ya, I can relate to that. This product seems to embody the image I want to portray. I'll take 6."
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12-11-2007, 09:08 AM
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H.S. Freshman Team
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Albany, NY
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My six year old son wears these type of shirts, and loves them. But we call them "sister beaters". He's only six, there's no wife.
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