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[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago

please educate me what "brick" means here

[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

brick is also used as an insult in drag, i.e. “she looks like a total brick. her makeup and outfit are obviously terrible.”

but they meant it as in brick like in basketball as to miss a shot, i.e “you totally bricked that shot, you scrub”

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

to further explain: it specifically hails from street ball courts, often wedged between urban apartment buildings, which were often brick buildings. "bricking" is shooting a shot so wild as to miss the backboard completely and hit the brick building behind the court.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I always thought it was because the shot was thrown like a brick, meaning with a poor arc to the basket. The ball can't make it through the hoop easily without a high arc on the shot.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

Can people stop making up new words! My decrepit 30 something ass can't handle it anymore!

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Both of these usages of "brick" are more than 30 years old...

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I was going to say being 30 years old puts you about as squarely as you could be in the target demo for yelling "brick" at a bad basketball shot

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m way older than that and didn’t know either one. Is antisportsball male a gender?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Sinny rizz, cousin. If you don’t have the sauce to fly don’t buy your ticket on TripAdvisor, my gangster disciple.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And it will happen to you!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

im going to start a motion banning all comments that contain those words

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I just learned I am a brick darn

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

it's okay, as long as you keep showing up to the court and keep practicing your free throws, you'll see improvement.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*, but he meant it in the basketball sense as in "you fucked up that shot"

*primarily used by self hating trans women in ny experience, so it makes sense that he wouldn't know it

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a brick is a trans woman who doesn't pass*

Changing my name to Attila the Brick for the next 18 months

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh goodness, I didn’t know either and thought it must have been something to do with Stonewall.

Now I can’t decide which interpretation is worse.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Now days it's being used as an insult to TERF women. They say they have trouble passing, many such cases.

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