• Lemminary
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    331 month ago

    (Rebranded to “Nito” a while back)

      • Just curious: where was that? Since I was a child, “Bimbo” meant a dumb, attractive, woman, and implied promiscuity. I heard it most in (Italian) gangster movies, mostly. From what I can tell, the racial slur meaning is used in Germany.

        Funny; I lived in Germany for a couple of years and never heard that version, but then, I didn’t hang out with the types that would be inclined to teach it to me. I got standard cuss words and some colloquial Bavarian curses.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month ago

          I haven’t heard it since I left elementary school. I only realized later that there were some really racist kids on that school. Also, it was the 80s. It’s shocking to me now that I learnt basically all the racist and antisemitic jokes I know during my time at elementary school.

          • Yeah, me too. And a vast amount of misogynistic stuff. The latter, I suspect, was just bog-standard puberty and oral lore, most of which was crude. But I still remember many limericks.

        • @Shardikprime
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          11 month ago

          Apparently it is a term that began with WW2. It’s highly regional and not many people use it

      • Flying Squid
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        61 month ago

        It’s a slur for white blonde women in the U.S.

        🤷

      • @Shardikprime
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        1 month ago

        That’s Germany only. That’s a very, very small subset of the Hispanic America population