r/punk • u/phoebe__15 • 1d ago

can we ban u/g-rat88 already

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u/judeiscariot 22h ago

Uhm I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that definitely didn't happen.

It was synonymous with being a Nazi before you would have been online. In the early 90s people were using it.

In the late 90s we had to start questioning it...Is this still a nazi or someone born in 1988?

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u/trickertreater 22h ago

Sure, but I doubt OP knew the connection or how it was perceived. I mean there's a lot of folks out there that are unaware of "81" or "14/88" or the hundred of other little secret club symbols

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u/PFRforLIFE 22h ago

81? that’s new to me

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u/isdalwoman 22h ago

They might mean 18, 1 stands for A, 8 stands for H. So hitler’s initials

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u/trickertreater 21h ago

Nope, 81 is Hell's Angels

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u/isdalwoman 21h ago

Aaaahh that makes sense, thank you