Your Defining Of A Punk, Street Edition

Punk seems to have a different defining by different people in different areas of the united states.

So what I want is to hear your or your area's definition of punk.

I guess I'll go 1st. This is my defining:

A punk is someone that does alternative warrior tactics. Like instead of using a gun like a modern day warrior who is a gangster would to kill a person, a punk wouldn't kill a person but would rather use an alternative weapon like superglue to do in their enemies' home door keyholes.

In other words, gangsters will murderously target people, but punks will maliciously target properties of people. Gangsters will kill people, punks will rather damage and destroy properties of people.

A common different defining of punk is a kind of fashion. See punk rockers for that fashion statement.

 

There are different ways to say punk.

If we're talking about punk rock and that scene that is one thing.

If we're saying punk in a way that's.... not nice... it's some loser kid who does dumb stuff... I don't know, a kid who does something stupid and destructive and you'd say "what a little punk".

 

Punk is a very broad term and could apply to many things. You got the music, the fashion, the different subcultures (old-school punk, anarcho-punk, crusty punk, etc.), the lifestyle... I know at first it was based on an attitude called DIY, Do It Yourself, which explains the tendency punks have to make their own clothes, support anarchist ideals and reject capitalism, among other things. So, I define a punk as someone who applies DIY in his/her life, no matter if they got the outfit or not. I would also include punk rockers in that list to some extent (somebody who's into the music but maybe not into the lifestyle).

 

gangsters are fuckin weak, they make assumptions with little intelligence.

 

i don't think the word has made it to my area yet. i can't even find punk music at the used cd store here.

 

I listen to mostly punk music. There are a few parts of me that you could say still look the part but not as much as I used to. I used to be really into the local punk scene here years ago but then I got older and life got in the way. I don't think you can define it by what someone wears although there is definitely a fashion statement when it comes to the punk world. I don't think someone has to dress the part to be punk though. I think it comes from within. The kind of "I don't care what anyone thinks" and marching to your own beat mentality. I think its something that is in you or its not. I could go on but it's late and I'm tired.

 

My dad called me punkie when I was little.....

 

the meaning of the word has gone through a lot of changes since furst being coined. i have no idea what anything would mean 'on the street' today.

a prime example of what punk meant when i was growing up, might be a white supremists. that kind of me furst attitude, that says everyone who agrees with it is right and everyone who doesn't is wrong.

like i say, i really have no idea what that word is being used to mean today.

in its earliest incarnation, (it seems to have first appeared in edwardian england) i believe it origeonally ment something like pimp, actually. but by the time i came along, it had meant several other things, and then when i was in school, you know, it meant someone with an attitude bigger then they were. sort of like chump.

i'm guessing its completely shifted again and means now something else entirely from any of those, but i really have no idea what.

 

Ihave heard the bad usage of the word...people calling someone just a punk.....and I have heard of punk music.....I don't really use the word.

 

in that incarnation it is an expression of praise and appreciation for physically small person having a big amount of real honest bravery. words in our language can have so many, sometimes contradictory meanings.
like the fictional characters gidgit and punkie bruster.

 

I know...my dad was always proud of me when he called me that. i always had spunk.

 

punk music is another one i'm a bit foggy on. the dean milkmen i think were considered an example. something like garge grunge metal only not as loud and before there was metal as a musical genre.

 

I don't really know what punk music means.....

 

it was something that came along after i was no longer young enough to care but not quite old enough to not care, just busy doing something else, interested in other things, to really gat any kind of handle on what it was about. it wasn't completely morbid, but partially so, and partially also seemed to be based on deliberately not making a whole lot of sense.

 

http://youtu.be/yqrAPOZxgzU

 

This is OLD!

Here's more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfInFVPkQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATJsICvsbJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCa5X9as00w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvN0Ebf7B5k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-S23EzvIA

Enjoy!

 

A punk is someone who instigates the fight in which you kick his tattooed ass, and then you DON'T tear his throat out or kick his ribs through his lungs, he gets up humble and contrite UNTIL he gets to the other side of the street, then yells he's going to set fire to your home while you're sleeping. And then two weeks later either a rock comes through your window, or your cat or dog gets poisoned, or you get a cellphone picture of your kids waiting at a bus stop, or he starts fucking with your woman at your job, and you have to leave Jesus at home and go hunting.

At least that was the definition last I remember.

 

The word punk had little meaning to me other than a smart-ass kid; then punk music made a comeback in the 80s and along with the advancement of computers, A.I. and a dystopian outlook, the word cyberpunk took hold in the american consciousness.


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A punk is someone young with a big ego that has got away with lots of stuff that wont work in the real world.

 

When I hear the word punk I first think of the music. Most people seem to think of punk rock like Greenday when they hear the word punk, or an act like the Sex pistols or Ranchid or the Ramones. I prefer oi punk myself although I'm not that big on it, it is the best in the genre (imho).

It most likely made it to your area long ago. When punk was 'in' in it was pretty much everywhere. It has left town because as you probably've heard: punk is dead.