CashmereThoughts
Veteran
That's crazy
The 1 train is usually pretty safe

That's crazy
The 1 train is usually pretty safe
Heard this term particularly on the news my entire life. Never associated a sexual connotationJust looked up what straphanger meant. It's just a person who stands on the train.
But it's seems extremely tasteless and disrespectful to use a word that sounds sexual.
8 million people in NYC
With half of them motherfukkers being mental cases
But NY wants to have tough gun laws
Motherfukker would have gotten smoke in Louisiana and Texas free of charge
nikkas from places with more cows than people won't understand.
NY is an old city so we keep traditions alive.Yep. The redbirds were the last subway cars to use the actual straphangers and those were retired in 2003.... over 20 years ago.
Whats crazy is Gen Z probably doesn't even remember or even know what an redbird is, even ones that grew up in NYC.
I think it's common for people not from NYC not knowing what an straphanger is. Straphangers were only used in NYC when it comes to transit systems in the U.S, far as I know.
Also, New Yorkers using outdated terms for random stuff in the city seems to be common, I heard of people call the numbered subway lines the IRT in modern times
My father still calls the Mets stadium Shea Stadium till this day even though Shea got demolished in fall 2008 and got replaced with a new stadium called Citi Field years ago![]()
Guns are working great in Louisiana
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You country boys don't how things work in the big city. You have to drive everywhere and there's no foot traffic.
You can have hundreds of people walking around on a busy NYC street. There's no way you can allow guns with that population density. There was a recent police shooting on the street and 8 bystanders got hit. If they can't safely use their guns how are random people going to avoid killing innocents.
You can keep your guns. We're good here.
And how can you say there's 8 million people, 4 million are crazy, and they should have guns?![]()
nikkas are just retarded.Population density of Manhattan is 74k/sq mi
Brooklyn 38.6k/sq mi
Bronx 34.9k/sq mi
Queens 22k/sq mi
Staten Island 8.6k/sq mi
Miami 12k/sq mi
Los Angeles 8.2k/sq mi
Atlanta 3.6k/sq mi
Dallas 3.4k/sq mi
New Orleans 2.2/sq mi
These people don't understand that it is not the same.
Thanks.- The word is straphanger, not "hangstraper".
-It's in the dictionary.
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Definition of STRAPHANGER
a standing passenger in a subway, streetcar, bus, or train who clings for support to one of the short straps or similar devices placed along the aisle… See the full definitionwww.merriam-webster.com
-Straphangers Campaign has been around since 197
Straphangers Campaign - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
-It's been used in all kinds of publications, books, newspapers, etc. for years.
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Let Go, Straphangers. The Ride Is Over. (Published 2003)
*'Redbird' subway train makes its last run, from Times Square to Woodside, Queens; Redbirds are 1960's-vintage subway cars, painted Tuscan red, that are beloved by subway buffs everywhere; over last few years, New York City Transit officials have phased out these trains, the last ones that had...www.nytimes.com
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If a Pregnant Straphanger’s Bump Isn’t Obvious, Maybe the Button Will Be (Published 2017)
“Baby on Board” buttons, available for free online, are the latest part of the transportation agency’s campaign to encourage New Yorkers to be polite on the subway.www.nytimes.com
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NYC homeless man violently pummels female straphanger in graphic caught on video attack at Queens subway stop
A 41-year-old homeless man with seven prior arrests is held without bail in the unprovoked, caught-on-camera attack on a 33-year-old female straphanger at a Queens subway stop.www.foxnews.com
It's not slang. It's a legit word that's been used for over a century.
You're also from NYC or at least resided there at some point yes?Heard this term particularly on the news my entire life. Never associated a sexual connotation
And colloquialism isn't slang.
Oh nah, deranged buddy got get unEarthed![]()
Disturbing new details emerge about subway sex attack on male straphanger: court documents
Disturbing new details emerged Friday about an attack by an accused rapist who sexually violated a 27-year-old man on a Manhattan subway car, as the suspect flew into a deranged, expletive-filled tirade during his arraignment. “How long, how long?” defendant Mohammad Azeem, 36, shouted as...www.yahoo.com
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I love how I've already said you were right at least 3 times yet you still aren't satisfied.
But it is.
This is the 1st time I've ever seen someone not just confused by the term but somehow thought it was sexual. It sounds like you might want to chill out on the porn.
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first day out.. that bussy calling to him.