Can we drop the term "bubba"?

[Plink]

OTOH, we could just start using a term like Jack-Hole

The all the guys named Jack would come along and ask us to change the term again. Bubba is a funnier name than Jack, so I think we should stick with it. I have a friend named Bubba. After years of mercilous teasing, he now prefers to be called Scott!

 

[woo18]

Keen observation Outlaws.

So is "bubba"-ing a gun a good thing or bad thing?

 

[Caimlas]

Don't you folks in the south appreciate self-depreciatin' humor?

I'll keep using bubba, because it removes the negative connotation by non-nonchalantly using terms used to denigrate. I'd do the same with words like "******", but it's gotten to the point where you can almost get arrested by using that one if you're not black. Ever notice how there are very few denigrating terms for white, urban folk? The only one I can think of is "yuppie", and that's rarely used as an insult. Rural people are heavily pissed on by urban folk for the mere fact that we don't live in their big towering cities and are "backwards" (ie not leftist commies).

Anyway, I'm not going to play by your newspeak. If you find it offensive, that is your problem, not mine; even though I mean no offense to you by using it, it's still my right to do so. I don't see 'bubba' as being a term so offensive it needs self-moderating, especially when you consider that it is very rarely applied by our ilk in a purely derogatory fashion (except by the hoity toity collector types).

 

[hankpac]

'Bubba" means Brother, and is a slang word in common usage.
"Clintoning" ("Clintonizing, Clintonating, Clintoned up") could actually be pretty good if it wasn't linguistically difficult.
Reminds me. We used to have a hat in the military that was shaped like an envelope. We called it by a certain name due to it's uncanny resemblance to a certain part of female anatomy. Then came along the black beret for general usage (rather than restricted to Rangers), and we needed a a new slang name.
Someone suggested that we call it a Lewinski, since it was rather like Her's (and the hat change came about during Clinton's reign possibly insipired by that interlude) .
Sounded like a good idea, since actually it is the same name after all. It's still a....well, never mind.

 

[elrod]

Well, I'm from the South, too, I worked hard for the right to be a "Bubba", and be darned if someone that calls himself a redneck is going to screw it up! Sounds like PC run wild to me. He probably works for the Government and is here to help us!!!

 

[Lonestar.45]

I'm fifth generation Texan. I know a thing or two about Bubba's. And using that term to describe what some folks do to perfectly good milsurps......well, if there's a better word out there for it, I sure don't know one.

 

[Sharps-shooter]

hey guys, This thread has really inspired me. I think I'm going to go and attach a flashlight, scope, and laser to my 130 year old sharps rifle. With duct tape.

 

[cracked butt]

Ever notice how there are very few denigrating terms for white, urban folk? The only one I can think of is "yuppie", and that's rarely used as an insult.

I can think of a few, sheeple is a good one, but I prefer to substitute the word 'douchebag' for 'yuppie'

FWIW, I call my own son 'Bubba.'

 

[Kaylee]

The problem with "Clintonized" is that it already has a meaning - namely a screwed up magazine, nekkid barrel, so forth and so on.

 

[kcmarine]

Okay... we can call it "Slick'd".

 

[dm1333]

Hancpac,

The Coast Guard refers to that hat as a "piss cutter".

 

[aka108]

I'm tired of political correctness. Bubba-ed just sounds better than re-engineered.

 

[trueblue1776]

I always say Bubba because its not PC to say n*****rig. But if I'm not allowed to say bubba, I may backslide a bit...


Smile PC police, it's not so bad.

 

[rocinante]

I am from the south and I don't mind bubbaed. But I do kind of understand his sentiment that we are second rate doofuses.

How about guidoed? As far as I can tell Italians catch just about as much crap as rednecks as far as stereotypes go. Like a redneck they also seem to be pretty easy targets and good natured about it. I mean Tony Soprano probably has at least as much artistic skill as Larry the Cable guy don't ya think?

Nah I like the term bubbaed. I understand it exactly. Been there done that especially with cars.

 

[dm1333]

If you were raised in Connecticut, New York or New Jersey you know that a "guido" has plenty of hair gel, gold chains and some kind of mid 80s Iroc Z or Trans Am. It won't work to replace bubba'd.

 

[boomvark]

Joab said:
Southern bashing is the last bastion of acceptable bigotry, as evidenced by the many redneck references made here.

Oh, I wouldn't say it's the very last. As far as I can tell from the MSM and other manifestations of popular "culture", there's no particular taboo against dumping on Catholics either.

Fitting into both those categories, I've come to appreciate the value of a relatively thick skin. I've always thought there was something a little "off" about playing the More Persecuted Than Thou game anyhow. (To be clear: I do not think anyone here is doing that.)

An afterthought: There are a lot of places on Earth where people are genuinely persecuted for one ethnic/religious/etcetera reason or another. IMHO, the USA isn't one of 'em.

 

[Sunray]

"...bubba'ng...bubbaing...bubbaed" It not spelt like that. It's bubbafying or bubba'd. And it has nothing to do with the South of anywhere. Bubba is alive and well in Canada too. Although you're required by law to use it in both official languages. I think it's le Bubba.

 

[Mike U.]

Sorry redneck. I was born and raised in the DEEEP south and bubba-izing is here to stay. It's just a term that fits it's intended frame of reference so well, it ain't goin' away. Nor should it.

Concentrate on the stereotypes that are really counter-productive. Like the term "redneck" for example. Or hillbilly, or kissin' cousins, or inbred, or, well you get the picture.

 

[geojap]

Can we drop the term "bubba"?

Only if Bubba stops destroying nice milsurps.

 

[joab]

there's no particular taboo against dumping on Catholics either.

Yep

 

[PRazz]

Isn't Bubba your husbands name when you go to prison? I don't ever want to be bubba'd so I stay out of those places.

 

[wcwhitey]

Hancpac, It's a piss-cutter in the Navy as well, LOL!

 

[mister_wilburn]

I'm a kin to one Bubba, and know another one. Thats what they prefered to be called. Never have heard it used in reference to a firearm though...

 

[Phaetos]

Anyone else notice that Joe hasn't responded back in this thread since ya'll started making fun of the question?

and no Joe, we won't stop using the term bubba, Bubba.

 

[rocinante]

For the record I am a catholic redneck. Get an interesting flavor out of live being hatched in Louisiana. Don't ya think Phaetos? bro? pyron?