Before I thread on the main problem with this horrible video, I want to talk about something that I haven’t seen discussed elsewhere that I think is actually a component of the main problem demonstrated by the video: “Timbs”.

I had to look up what “Timbs” are.

It sounded like some kind of jewelry or piercing or bracelet or ring or something like that.

As it turns out, I have owned and worn what is being called “Timbs” here before.

The specific phenomenon here that I have long noticed in society that I find rather horrible is the referring to everyday common items – like shoes and shirts and, to a lesser degree, automobiles – by their brand names rather than just what they actually are.
I am NOT talking about “Kleenex” or “Frigidaires” wherein there is a legitimate use of the practice when they were the first of their products on the market.

No, shoes and shirts have been around for thousands of years.

I have been subjected to this myself multiple times, causing confusion and time wasting, when petty, shallow people want to refer to the shirt or shoes that I am wearing by their brand names when EVEN I do not care what brand they are!

People start talking about “Polos” in reference to me.

I’m like, what?

Then it gets explained.

I’m like, “it’s a f***ing shirt! Why don’t you just say “SHIRT”? Why do YOU care what company made it? Why do you think that I care?

Save us all some time and just say “shirt.”

I’ve had similar problems with people (usually in workplaces, you know, the people you HAVE TO deal with) and my shoes.

This dude in the video, why didn’t he just say “shoes” or “boots”? Why “Timbs”?

I’ve even had this problem with a police officer, a PUBLIC SERVANT, doing this kind of stupidity!

I was once out somewhere where I found myself with an officer saying something through an electric bullhorn in my direction.

I didn’t know what was happening.

This is one of those things where noncompliance could have meant force used against me or some kind of legal penalties, and, as it turned out, I was coming across to this officer as noncompliant.

He had to keep repeating himself.

Why?

He wanted me to move my truck off of the levee.

That was the whole point of him speaking over the bullhorn.

But, apparently, just saying “move your truck off of the levee” was too much to ask of him.

Nope.

The thing that he kept telling me over the bullhorn?

It took me a while to figure out that he was saying the name of the vehicle model that he thought that mine was but that it wasn’t, like I’m supposed to know that he’s talking about me, when he could have just said “TRUCK”!

Gosh, WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS? I felt like asking the officer, “are you being paid by the auto companies to say names of models of vehicles instead of just simply saying “car” or “sedan” or “truck” or “SUV”???

Why 👏 not 👏 just 👏 say 👏 “TRUCK”? 👏

The only reason that I even was able to figure out that he was talking to me when I did is that the place where I used to get the truck washed also made the same exact mistake, which is the only way that I even knew of this other model’s existence!

And the car wash place hands you a ticket with a number on it, just like a takeout restaurant does!

But the car was place kept saying the name of a model that my truck wasn’t over and over again instead of just saying the damn number!

Why do people have to know the name brands and models of every damn thing?

Why not just say what the object IS?

Who decided that we have to call things by brand names, and what’s the agenda for this?

Ultimately, I think that the reason is the same reason that some men pressure other men with invasive personal sexual questions: it’s a crude, crass, and destructive game of social status assertion.

These two flexes are connected.

They serve the same gross purpose.

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