▲ 502 ▼ Experienced glizzeurs only (thelemmy.club) submitted 6 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children) Why "glizzy" tho? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children) People started referring to Glock handguns with extended magazines as 'Gluzi', being short for glock-uzi. The Uzi is another gun with a commonly extended mag that pokes out the bottom of the grip, hence the comparison. The slightly derogatory 'Gluzi' became 'Glizzy' Now, another more derogatory nickname for a gun with a mag that sticks well beyond the handgrip was "Hotdog" because, well it looks like the sausage sticking out the end of a hotdog bun. So people are calling these guns "hotdogs" and "glizzy", and so naturally, at a barbecue somewhere where the sausage was notaby longer than the bun, someone must have started referring to their extended sausage hotdog as a "Glizzy" as a joke, comparing the sausage to the extended mag of a Glock, and it stuck. The comedy lives in referring to an innocuous food item as a weird looking, often gang or crime-associated style of gun. Maybe because there's a high chance of encountering both kinds of Glizzy at certain barbecues, and bystanders are subject to the ol' switcharoo when one person asks for a Glizzy, and received a hotdog. Or maybe they asked for a hotdog, and recieved a gun, IDK I wasn't there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] 0ops@piefed.zip 15 points 6 months ago Can't learn that in college permalink fedilink source parent [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 child) I hope you made every word of this up, because this is the de facto history of glizzy now. Like, a screenshot of this comment should be the entire Wikipedia page. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 child) I shall do no further research into this topic, this is now canon for me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 child) i decided to do some single-onion-layer level of research. wikipedia article has at least one reference supporting OP's description: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908052/food-doesnt-slap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* It makes perfect sense, like how glizzy could be short for Glizzabella or Glizzaac, it can mean two things! permalink fedilink source parent [–] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Dang and here I thought Australians were the first to call a hotdog a glizzy. And I assumed it was glistening with grease, and that's why they abbreviated to glizzy. According to a quick search, you appear to be correct tho with the glock-uzi slang permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago I wanted to give you a reasonable answer. There isn't one. The only answer I found is super fucking stupid. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children) People started referring to Glock handguns with extended magazines as 'Gluzi', being short for glock-uzi. The Uzi is another gun with a commonly extended mag that pokes out the bottom of the grip, hence the comparison. The slightly derogatory 'Gluzi' became 'Glizzy' Now, another more derogatory nickname for a gun with a mag that sticks well beyond the handgrip was "Hotdog" because, well it looks like the sausage sticking out the end of a hotdog bun. So people are calling these guns "hotdogs" and "glizzy", and so naturally, at a barbecue somewhere where the sausage was notaby longer than the bun, someone must have started referring to their extended sausage hotdog as a "Glizzy" as a joke, comparing the sausage to the extended mag of a Glock, and it stuck. The comedy lives in referring to an innocuous food item as a weird looking, often gang or crime-associated style of gun. Maybe because there's a high chance of encountering both kinds of Glizzy at certain barbecues, and bystanders are subject to the ol' switcharoo when one person asks for a Glizzy, and received a hotdog. Or maybe they asked for a hotdog, and recieved a gun, IDK I wasn't there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] 0ops@piefed.zip 15 points 6 months ago Can't learn that in college permalink fedilink source parent [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 child) I hope you made every word of this up, because this is the de facto history of glizzy now. Like, a screenshot of this comment should be the entire Wikipedia page. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 child) I shall do no further research into this topic, this is now canon for me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 child) i decided to do some single-onion-layer level of research. wikipedia article has at least one reference supporting OP's description: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908052/food-doesnt-slap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* It makes perfect sense, like how glizzy could be short for Glizzabella or Glizzaac, it can mean two things! permalink fedilink source parent [–] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Dang and here I thought Australians were the first to call a hotdog a glizzy. And I assumed it was glistening with grease, and that's why they abbreviated to glizzy. According to a quick search, you appear to be correct tho with the glock-uzi slang permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 15 points 6 months ago Can't learn that in college permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 child) I hope you made every word of this up, because this is the de facto history of glizzy now. Like, a screenshot of this comment should be the entire Wikipedia page. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 child) I shall do no further research into this topic, this is now canon for me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 child) i decided to do some single-onion-layer level of research. wikipedia article has at least one reference supporting OP's description: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908052/food-doesnt-slap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* It makes perfect sense, like how glizzy could be short for Glizzabella or Glizzaac, it can mean two things! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 child) I shall do no further research into this topic, this is now canon for me permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 child) i decided to do some single-onion-layer level of research. wikipedia article has at least one reference supporting OP's description: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908052/food-doesnt-slap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* It makes perfect sense, like how glizzy could be short for Glizzabella or Glizzaac, it can mean two things! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 child) i decided to do some single-onion-layer level of research. wikipedia article has at least one reference supporting OP's description: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908052/food-doesnt-slap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* It makes perfect sense, like how glizzy could be short for Glizzabella or Glizzaac, it can mean two things! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* It makes perfect sense, like how glizzy could be short for Glizzabella or Glizzaac, it can mean two things! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Dang and here I thought Australians were the first to call a hotdog a glizzy. And I assumed it was glistening with grease, and that's why they abbreviated to glizzy. According to a quick search, you appear to be correct tho with the glock-uzi slang permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago I wanted to give you a reasonable answer. There isn't one. The only answer I found is super fucking stupid. permalink fedilink source parent