The term was used back on the r/The_Donald subreddit, well before GAW began, and it's short for "centipede". It came originally from this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/vJhoLUgeIhc. The video shows footage of Trump along with a voiceover about centipedes as "predators" and "nimble navigators".
Unfortunately, "pede" is also a slang term from French, related to the words "pederasty" and "pederast" of Greek origin.
The users of GAW, insofar as they are aware of either meaning of the word, use it almost always with the former meaning. I'm sure more than a few use the term without knowing of either origin just after observing its usage here at GAW and repeating it.
The term was used back on the r/The_Donald subreddit, well before GAW began, and it's short for "centipede". It came originally from this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/vJhoLUgeIhc. The video shows footage of Trump along with a voiceover about centipedes as "predators" and "nimble navigators".
Unfortunately, "pede" is also a slang term from French, related to the words "pederasty" and "pederast" of Greek origin.
The users of GAW, insofar as they are aware of either meaning of the word, use it almost always with the former meaning. I'm sure more than a few use the term without knowing of either origin just after observing its usage here at GAW and repeating it.
Do you think the mad cow wouldn't use it, and we are not predators.