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minus-squarekhepri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·5 days agoDo, did, people call them punkers? It was always just punks where I’m from.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days ago“Punk rockers” was definitely a thing. I read “punker” as a shortening of that.
minus-squareperishthethought@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoI never thought about this before but yes. The Vandals taught me this.
minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 days agoI’ve only ever heard it at the end of that one Vandals song about rednecks: “I couldn’t make it as a punker.”
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days 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-up2·4 days agoIn German it’s common to call Punks 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.
I’ve only ever heard it at the end of that one Vandals song about rednecks: “I couldn’t make it as a punker.”
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.