Jazz legend Louis Armstrong signing a French punk's head, 1961

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PugJesus@piefed.social · 28 pts · 305d (2 replies)

Someone suggested that the proper term would have been un blouson noir, but the translation I found it with substituted 'punk' and I'm not sure what other English term could really fit, so punk it is in the title.

Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 16 pts · 305d

Wikipedia translates blouson noir with greasers, a subculture influenced by rock'n roll which was also present (with local variations) in other countries, e.g. Halbstarke in Germany or Raggare in the Nordics.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d

Very strange seeing a mohican from 1961. No idea what they would have been called. My Mohawk was vintage 1988. :)

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 23 pts · 305d (3 replies)

"Nice! Time to go and get this permanently inked so my kids can live off the proceeds of selling my tanned skull-skin after my demise."

...I kid, of course. No proper punk would do something so mercantile. Ink yes, sell no.

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 304d (2 replies)

I feel like having your skin and/or head removed when you're dead is pretty punk rock though

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 304d (1 reply)

Sure - for a free public exhibition (and as a bonus, it'd be metal too), but there's nothing punk about being transactional about it.

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 304d

Using the money to finance a charitable cause or fighting capitalism in some way would be pretty punk rock.

I agree that just taking the money as profit would not be punk rock at all though.

BC_viper@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 305d (2 replies)

Never realized how much Tracy Morgan looks like him.

rothaine@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 304d (1 reply)

I thought this was Tracy Morgan writing on Elon Musk for a sec

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 304d

He looks even more like a young Matthew Broderick imo

Sh0eb0x@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 304d
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