Bling WTF?

I was curious to find out what exactly is 'bling' or its meaning. Here is a blog I came across on some weird ass Gypsy scholar blog site. Still dont know what the hell a Gypsy Scholar is but who the hell cares about that.......and the more I think about it who the hell cares what bling means. Well apparently I have cared for what it means in the last 30 minutes of my like....and just thought to myself, you dumbass thats 30 you will never get back! Anyway it looks like it depends on who you ask about the meaning of bling... here the blog:

OK. "Bling". Dr Richard Scott Nokes is quite right, with just a bit of North English translation added. "Bling" is a word that has filtered through American hip-hop into popular UK youth culture. It is used to refer to jewellery, particulary gold. There has been quite a cult made of popular archeaology programmes in the UK...inevitably, the media don now speaks with a mixture of academic and street lingo. Hence, "serious bling factor". In the UK, "bling" implies cool/having credibility. A parallel is being drawn between the hearth-guardians and a hip-hop posse, so the hip-hop "bling" passes over into the Anglo Saxon world to mean "kudos", as swords indeed did in that warrior ethos.
Also, he appears to be using "factor" in the sense of "X-factor" which has currently passed into English to mean "that special something". He is reading from one culture over to another to show his modern grasp of both! So, to translate, "bling" implies that the sword had a star quality that conveyed status on its owner. Hell, and you thought Medieval English was abstruse.

Seems bling has been around a lot longet than I thought. Anybody remember it in cartoons? Or do you guys have something better to do?

Good Lord man ..... Back away from the computer!!!!!!!!!!!

Wingman wrote:

Good Lord man ..... Back away from the computer!!!!!!!!!!!

It's addicting when the world is at your fingertips.

My father had never punched a key on a type writer. The last year of his life he purchased a computer and became an Internet junky.

BLING is mostly useless junk added to most anything to get the attention of others. In some cases its jewerly, on cars its those giant chrome wheels, or other items that make you look. In the south it could be just putting some shiny chrome baby moon hubcaps on the wheels of your trailer home

GunRunner wrote:

BLING is mostly useless junk added to most anything to get the attention of others. In some cases its jewerly, on cars its those giant chrome wheels, or other items that make you look. In the south it could be just putting some shiny chrome baby moon hubcaps on the wheels of your trailer home

But they are useful because they double as dog bowls...were just invintive in the south

Wingman wrote:

Good Lord man ..... Back away from the computer!!!!!!!!!!!

I NEED HELPPPPPPPPPPPP

wvyankee2 wrote:

Wingman wrote:

Good Lord man ..... Back away from the computer!!!!!!!!!!!

It's addicting when the world is at your fingertips.

Ditto that.