The word "Oi"

[TBone]

Bottom line, who gives a shit? This is like "The View" except with people who bought a Crass album and sewed a Subhumans patch on there Carhartts. Aren't we supposed to be sharing pertinent information on shit that actually helps or matters? "hey trying to get out of Sioux Falls, just got a rat and a dog, thinking of leaving my house for the first time. Any suggestions on getting to Tallahassee?" " I hate when people say schwilly." I know this is "General Banter" but this is general bullshit. Fuck. Bring back the Train section too.

 

[Vonuist]

Bottom line, who gives a shit? This is like "The View" except with people who bought a Crass album and sewed a Subhumans patch on there Carhartts. Aren't we supposed to be sharing pertinent information on shit that actually helps or matters? "hey trying to get out of Sioux Falls, just got a rat and a dog, thinking of leaving my house for the first time. Any suggestions on getting to Tallahassee?" " I hate when people say schwilly." I know this is "General Banter" but this is general bullshit. Fuck. Bring back the Train section too.

Why do you assume that they are all fakes?

 

[Jimmy Beans]

Bottom line, who gives a shit? This is like "The View" except with people who bought a Crass album and sewed a Subhumans patch on there Carhartts. Aren't we supposed to be sharing pertinent information on shit that actually helps or matters? "hey trying to get out of Sioux Falls, just got a rat and a dog, thinking of leaving my house for the first time. Any suggestions on getting to Tallahassee?" " I hate when people say schwilly." I know this is "General Banter" but this is general bullshit. Fuck. Bring back the Train section too.

As much as I fully agree with you on so many levels, one thing I'm pretty certain of is if the forum was strictly business as you're suggesting, it wouldn't thrive. I think you need to have a little chit chat in with the useful stuff. For one, it helps to mask the goodies. If you put all your items of value on your front lawn, thieves won't have much trouble making off with it. You tuck that shit under a bunch of garbage, they're gonna have to go looking for it. General banter yo! What exactly do you expect?
That could be another reason to not have the trains section, it is obviously a section we need to make sure the wrong things aren't being said far more than any other topic, so for the wrong person to stroll in, they'd know right where to go. You layer trains under hitching, between someone asking suggested techniques on ramming dildos up their boyfriends asses, next to what should I name my new rat, they're not digging through all that nonsense to find something someone shouldn't have mentioned about trains.. that's just my thoughts on it.

 

[TBone]

Alcohol fueled rant after a shitty night. I apologize.

 

[CXR1037]

Hey, I like trains.

 

[Jimmy Beans]

Hadn't noticed

 

[dprogram]

Hey, I like trains.

Personally afraid of them but deeply intrigued.

 

[Deleted member 3948]

Watched in a documentary the word oi came from a nat Zi advertisement, it was picked up by skins who were into a racist group called the national front.

 

[Hazardoussix6six]

oi means friendly, like thunder..lightning.
oi to me is friendly. someone walking up at night and I get an OI welcome. my dog knows the same. OI is always friendly.

 

[Anagor]

Well, being from Germany (no one is using this word there) and travelling mostly around England in the last years of course I picked up the word "Oi" ... but for me (and in the context I heard it from my friends) it's just another word for "Hi" or "Hey" ... just to draw attention to myself or someone or something.

No special, deep meaning. Mostly just the punk/vagabond/dirty kid/whatever meaning of "Excuse me, may I say something" or "HELLO guys, I'm here!!!"

 

[starfarer]

My ten cents worth,oi was a style of punk popular in the 80s. Lots and lots of sixties skinheads were black! YouTube Lauren Aitken" skinhead" !!!! Many read skins hate what they call boneheads aka nazi/oi skins. Now the weather

 

[roughdraft]

that's the correct way to specifically say 'hey' in Brazil -"oi" - so it exists in at least that type of Portuguese.

apparently there's more than one way to oi an oinker

 

[Wanderingwolf5150]

Just wondering your thoughts on the word? I know kids that use it entirely too much and kids that fucking HATE it. Personally I use it, mostly because it gets kids attention and mostly because I'm just used to it at his point. I had a kid freak out at me screaming "my name's not fucking OI!" because i said to too him once to get his attention. I dunno. I'm just curious about people's opion I guess.

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[Wanderingwolf5150]

Just wondering your thoughts on the word? I know kids that use it entirely too much and kids that fucking HATE it. Personally I use it, mostly because it gets kids attention and mostly because I'm just used to it at his point. I had a kid freak out at me screaming "my name's not fucking OI!" because i said to too him once to get his attention. I dunno. I'm just curious about people's opion I guess.

My opinion is I really don't use it because I too have heard it way too often. I am guilty of it when first introduced in 1998 Jackson square new Orleans. I ran away from foster care and hitched out with some kids to Longview TX to start a helluva journey lol. I just about quit wearing skanks and actually look just normal. Kids sometimes be like I totally didn't realize you a hopper! Wow cause I didn't oi you or have a skank... Well that's because I am who I am and dont have to pretend to be what I'm not....(to those that wear black skanks to be cool and become agro not even know what it is)...... Wandering wolf. Just my opinion.

 

[MFB]

My grandma often said it, usually in conjunction with 'vey' - as in 'Oi vey'

Apparently cultural misappropriation has been going on for quite some time...

Meshegenah!

 

[Coywolf]

Oi to me is deeply rooted in early punk and ska music. I dont really use it anymore.

This is definitely not originally a skinhead term. They took that shit over.

 

[MolotovMocktail]

This thread is old as fuck but I'm glad it got resurrected because it's a funny one.

I recently realized the only time I say "oi" is when a driver isn't paying attention and I need to yell something to get their attention so they don't hit me. It doesn't happen often but for some reason whenever it does, the word that instinctively comes out of my mouth is a resounding "Oi!"

 

[MFB]

i say 'oi' when I'm feeling physically beat up, and have to stand up from sitting or bend over and it hurts. Im old. Oi.