Ghetto Blaster or Boom Box

[Akira]

There can be only one.

[RickLM]

I usually wait for black folks to coin the proper phrasing of such things, then I go with that.

[Maxwell]

I've always thought it was boom box.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Have to go with Boom Box. Ghetto Blaster always sounded derogatory to me.

[Ryan_ZOOM_Turner]

Boom Box

[Thomas Mauer]

It's called Ghetto Blaster in Germany and France.

[Jef UK]

I say, "Boom Box," but "Ghetto Blaster," is much cooler.

[DAVE]

Every Ghetto Blaster is a Boom Box, but not every Boom Box is a Ghetto Blaster.

[GelfXIII]

I prefer to call mine "My Car".

[Lyfeforce]

gotta agree with my man Q from The Living Daylights.

"It's called a ghetto blaster!"

[Marc Lombardi]

A radio is a Boom Box.

A fantastic videogame from the 80s is Ghetto Blaster.

[cPol]

Growing up, I called it a ghetto blaster. Realizing later in life that I lived neither in nor near the ghetto, I started calling it a boom box. Nowadays, I call it an iPod and I wonder who in the fuck is spinning CDs in a radio the size of a small suitcase anymore.

[Xorn]

It's called cell phone in Germany .

fixed that for you :surrend:

[Thomas Mauer]

fixed that for you :surrend:

Yeah, you're too young to remember the good old days. :p

[Kedd]

Have to go with Boom Box. Ghetto Blaster always sounded derogatory to me.

Agreed. I HATE the way the word "ghetto" is used these days*



*by "these days" I mean for the past 30 years.

[Kedd]

Growing up, I called it a ghetto blaster. Realizing later in life that I lived neither in nor near the ghetto, I started calling it a boom box. Nowadays, I call it an iPod and I wonder who in the fuck is spinning CDs in a radio the size of a small suitcase anymore.

You mean tapes right? It's not a boom box if you're not popping in tapes, waiting for play button to click so you can flip the side.

[Whip]

Ghetto blaster. Just plug it up sit it somewhere central and have yourselves a party.

[Akira]

You mean tapes right? It's not a boom box if you're not popping in tapes, waiting for play button to click so you can flip the side.

Word. Popping a "pause tape" in the boom box and sitting on the stoop was summer personified

[cPol]

You mean tapes right? It's not a boom box if you're not popping in tapes, waiting for play button to click so you can flip the side.

I was gonna go with "tapes", but then that would've necessitated explaining what tapes were to the younger crowd.