Most New Yorkers are great, but what's up with all the negativity on the trains? (Russia: home, transit)

[TunaBoy]

i still use "dope"

but nyc is the mecca of old school slang....people still say "word up" here lol

[Joe Bama!]

Does anybody remember "save mines" and "gills"?- when you say something stupid someone would rub their fingers on the back of your neck really hard. Or was it just a Bensonhurst, Brooklyn thing?

[scatman]

My gripes about the subways....

1. Men who sit! (especially when elderly or 8-month pregnant women are standing right next to them!).

2. Keeping backpacks on shoulders!

3. The bootleggers, who have Secret Life of Bees and The Express well before it even hits the theaters!

[Dark of the Moon]

Originally Posted by scatman

My gripes about the subways....

1. Men who sit! (especially when elderly or 8-month pregnant women are standing right next to them!).

2. Keeping backpacks on shoulders!

3. The bootleggers, who have Secret Life of Bees and The Express well before it even hits the theaters!

Thank you -- I was just about to say that the "train" of this thread had derailed <*nyuk nyuk nyuk*>, and to suggest that someone start a new thread on slang .....

[Marie1249]

Originally Posted by bmwguydc

I must add that I have never had an issue offering a seat to anyone, but people who are in perfectly good health and do not offer it to someone who's clearly infirm, pregnant, exhausted, etc. really get on my nerves. Yes, they have a right to the seat because it's unreserved, and if it's not an elderly seat then they are not compelled to move, but it's just courteous behavior to defer to someone else.

People must think I am totally insane though because when entering a train I will stand to the side if there is a lady present to allow her ingress to the car before I will get on it. I do this on MetroNorth all the time, and only on a subway when it's not crowded, since at peak times it's more efficient to keep moving. I also do this on an airplane if people are boarding at the same time as I am. And, I will hold an elevator if I'm the only person on it when I see someone else approaching.

It's not a commentary on the equality of women or anyone else to whom I defer. Rather, I view it as respect for another, especially if they might be in need of a few extra seconds to board, since I know that I don't need the time. And, I rarely need a seat on a crowded train, and have good "sea legs" so I generally allow others to have them as opposed to competing for a finite resource that only impedes my egress from the trian most times.

God bless you! It's nice to know that there are still some men who think like you.

And that goes for all the rest of you who still behave like gentlemen. I vote that we clone you.

[jax78]

Originally Posted by Rudbeckia

God help us men with these women! One says you're not a gentleman if you don't offer your seat, the other says whadda ya think I can't stand cause I'm a woman!

Yikes. I'm outta here. Help me somebody, does anyone have the rule book on women with instructions and an answer key, please somebody!


lol miles here is a general rule you can go by

you are not required by any means to offer your seat to a healthy, non pregnant women, and she should not expect you too

but its a nice thing and shows gentlemanly qualities, and if she's cute and you want her digits, its a good way to start!

It should not embarrass a women when a man offers her a seat, not sure why Jax said that.

I didn't. Someone else said the embarrassing thing. I said it could be seen as insulting, like a healthy woman can't stand.

[jax78]

Originally Posted by quelinda

I didn't get the context that this was used in this thread. I know this to mean "weed" "trees" etc.

Nope that sounds like "erb." "Herb" with the h means you're stupid/a loser. It's an insult.

[Marie1249]

Originally Posted by jax78

I didn't. Someone else said the embarrassing thing. I said it could be seen as insulting, like a healthy woman can't stand.

Jax,
I'm curious, and a bit old fashioned, so I don't really understand. Why would you want to stand if someone very kindly offered you a seat? When a man offers me a seat, I see it as a way of honoring me.

[jax78]

Originally Posted by quelinda

You are a bit young as "fresh" "fly" and "dope" were words created in the 1980s (whereas your age group is more 1990s). They were probably used mostly in NY and perhaps other urban areas (this is doubtful) as they came out of the very early NYC hip hop culture. Anyone remember any others, I love to reminisce about old skool NY?

People still say fresh. You got a fresh cut. fresh outfit. etc.

[jax78]

Originally Posted by Joe Bama!

Does anybody remember "save mines" and "gills"?- when you say something stupid someone would rub their fingers on the back of your neck really hard. Or was it just a Bensonhurst, Brooklyn thing?

We said gills, and I grew up in Long Island.