Is "DMV" a low class / working class term?

[Anonymous]

Wut.

[Anonymous]

Stop trying to make Fetch happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

Even if you stop using it, OP, people will know that you are low class/working class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not low class but it is a relatively new term that had not been used before 10-15 years ago or so.

that's probably why some people don't like it. I find some of the DMV area (ahem) a bit classist, with the new "new money vs old money" attitude.

OTH, I cringe when I hear people call CA "Cali", or SF as "San Fran". I'm originally from there. So, I guess I'm a bit of a snob about labels, too.

[Anonymous]

I know it from sports talk (radio, high school recruits who "are from the DMV") mostly.

--Bethesda resident.

[Anonymous]

Oh brother. I don't use DMV in regular conversation, but it's just an acronym you might hear on tv or the radio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

Thanks for explaining.

There’s a term for you, too, but it won’t get past a DCUM filter.

Seriously, however I think Smug Loser will pass that filter. Moreover, original PP must be old AF or has no friends in the area if they don't know a soul who has ever said DMV.

[Anonymous]

I've bene hearing in DC rap music for at least 20 years. The fact that you all have never heard it before or claim that, when in college, you lived in Fairfax and never heard it, doesn't mean it's cringy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that associating people who work hard for a living with "cringey" is despicable. Wherever you live isn't "nice" if people talk like that.

+1000

Also, I thought OP was talking about the Department of Motor Vehicles. When I found out what she was really saying, I fondly imagined a guillotine being set up where ever her "nice" neighborhood is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. I grew up in NW and Chevy Chase. Now live in Arlington. No one I know calls it DMV. That’s a term for people who have to sit in tons of traffic to commute to work.

Oh boy. What a moronic loser you are. I guess doctors who have to sit in traffic to get to their jobs would fall in this category of people too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For some reason, I find the term "DMV" extremely cringy. It feels like it's for the kind of people that listen to those mindless Top 40 radio station shows in the morning.

No one in a nice part of DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, or Arlington would use this term, would they?

No but someone who constantly asks about class (and working class? this is not England) is definitely class insecure and not in the ranks if you know what I mean.

+1 and it’s pathetic, sorry to say.

I use “DMV” all the time and never thought twice about it (nor will I going forward).

Same! I am a lawyer OP. If you purport to be so fancy, what to you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, check your racism OP.

Because DMV is frequently used in the black community, I guess that makes it “cringey” for you.

No it’s not. “DMV” is a term used by transplants who come here from somewhere else. Natives don’t use it because we’ve always said “DC metro” or “metro area” or just DC. “DMV” is not l a black thing. It’s a non-native thing.

Stop trying to find stuff to get offended about, Susan. Focus on reckoning with your own abundant racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it from sports talk (radio, high school recruits who "are from the DMV") mostly.

--Bethesda resident.

Shows hosted by radio people who came here from someplace else, in other words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, check your racism OP.

Because DMV is frequently used in the black community, I guess that makes it “cringey” for you.

No it’s not. “DMV” is a term used by transplants who come here from somewhere else. Natives don’t use it because we’ve always said “DC metro” or “metro area” or just DC. “DMV” is not l a black thing. It’s a non-native thing.

Stop trying to find stuff to get offended about, Susan. Focus on reckoning with your own abundant racism.

Actually, you're absolutely wrong. The term DMV came from DC. It was started by a DC based Go-Go artist. Stop acting like a know it all.

[Anonymous]

I also don’t use the word “ping” instead of phone or call.