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  • Well, that’s not at all what I said. Japanese compact cars were generally pretty cool and affordable in a way most similar small American cars were not, so of course they get customized a ton more that their American equivilents.

    The people who actually made their cars perform were the racers, those who did the truly terrible mods were the ricers.

    Yes, racist due to stereotyping. But it was more wordplay for insulting the taste of the person in question in comparison to the racers, not their ethnicity or the origin of their car. Bad taste is pretty universal. And as with pretty much anything in language, people can and clearly have used it as a racial insult. I just don’t think that was it’s origin.

    I am really amused it has morphed into a more positive connotation with the *nix crowd, while still meaning essentially the same thing. Language truly is a living thing.









  • Dunno if Lexx is really worth it tbh. The original movies were worth watching just because it was so weird and different.

    But if you were on the fence after those, well it doesn’t really change. Just season after season of the same sort of plots…if you like that, it’s great. If you don’t, it’s gonna get old really fast.

    I rewatched all of Andromeda recently, and after a season and a half is was mostly awful, but it was occasionally entertaining.

    I rewatched the first Lexx movie, remembered why I never finished the show the first time around, and moved on to something else.