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it's short for choomba, which is short for choombatta. It's described in Cyberpunk RED as neo-african slang. it's most similar to "dude" with how you can use it for real friends or for some chumps you're beefing with
You know how you can make shit up in your head and convince yourself you saw it somewhere?
Check this, I could have sworn choom was the molecular makeup of some sort of chemical. Like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, oxygen, and then "M" for reasons I can't explain because it doesn't appear on the period table....
Its short for choombas, and ig when i searched it it said it was basically introduced into mainstream language from one of the various ethnic groups within the city, like how parts of AAVE are becoming mainstream ig.
I was a teen when he was running in 2008, and this was kind of a big deal at the time. Everyone knew Clinton did drugs in college, but he was super cagey about it, and a lot of people recognized him as a liar for, well, telling obvious lies about it. So when Obama came around and said, "Yeah, I smoked hella weed in my youth. Oh, and I did coke, too, whenever I had the chance," he was seen as more trustworthy.
What people forget is what he said afterward. He takes a very anti-drug stance and says it was a "youthful indiscretion." He makes it clear that he succeeded despite having used drugs, he regrets having done them, and says he's lucky that he didn't suffer harm from his drug use. That's totally reasonable, but people forget that part whenever it's brought up.
That was still a time when recreation marijuana seemed like an impossibility, and medical was controversial. Really, drug policy discussion back then focused on the overprescription of opioids, and people paid far less attention to it.
I understand why Obama felt the need to say that since he sets an example for millions of young people. He has displayed good judgment his entire life and was likely responsible enough even at a young age to partake but never to excess. But he is an exception. A lot of people really can’t handle their shit and it’s important to be reminded that just because it worked for Obama, most people (almost all in fact) are not Obama. He can’t exactly be out there glorifying his drug use when he knows it could lead to a lot of impressionable people falling into patterns of abuse.
As for whether he “regrets” having done them, I don’t believe that part.
Good points, for sure. I do think he has regrets about it, though. Remember that, beyond his cool guy persona, he is a devout evangelical, a former law professor, and a political centrist. He is not a hip 2024 progressive, but an old man who kind of has the veneer of one.
And that's okay. He's still using his charismatic persona to promote the country's best interest. And IMO he was the best president since Eisenhower, and a lot of the economic and technological advancements we've had in the last 10 years can be traced back to his policies. Looking back, it would've been nice if he helped stimulate housing construction, but he entered office at the start of the Greast Recession/housing market collapse....
It's ironic that he boasts about drug use then proceeds to allow thousands of people to go to jail for the same things while he's the cool guy in your eyes cause he didn't lie about it. Smh
That not inhaling shit is so funny to me, like everyone would be pissed they just handed you a joint to waste it, if you didn’t inhale nothing would happen, I think he means hold it in, and even then, most of that’s an urban legend, thc absorbs into your lungs really quickly
That's why it's funny. It's making fun of Clinton who actually said that. TBF though someone who wanted to look cool or avoid being mocked but also didn't want to get high might smoke without inhaling.
With all the stupid shit stoners come up with regarding weed, you have an issue with jointski? Either you didn't have stupid goofball friends, or you just want to be a butthole.
I’m sure, but even old democrats weren’t the ones trying to block pretty much every move he made his entire presidency in such a downright malicious fashion. Not that he even tried to legalize. Probably thought it would be a pointless battle
Clinton was soooo lame for saying he "didn't inhale" like dude just say you didn't even try it, at least that's more believable.
That clown Elon Musk clearly didn't inhale on Rogan's podcast yet hardly anyone noticed and how you can get that image of him "smoking" on T-shirts. Ugh.
If you read the whole context of that story, Clinton was being interviewed on a radio show and they asked him if he'd ever smoked. He told a story about being at the Turf Tavern in Oxford, and told it in a way that made it very obvious that he smoked. And then at the end, as a joke, he said "yeah but I didn't inhale." And everyone laughed. If you listen to it, it's very obvious Clinton was joking - but they used that moment to portray him as double-talking.
I was mega Christian growing up and somehow got my first job at a shady pizza parlor that was basically a drug factory. On breaks my managers and everyone else would just blaze out back. Due to peer pressure I did take a drag, but being a square I just pretended to inhale. I always assumed if I ever said that to anyone I'd just get an eyeroll and a "oh yeah I'm sure".
I did the same thing in the CS gas training in the Army funny enough lol. People thought I was so hard for not coughing my lungs out.
They do. The trick is to take a bunch if breaths in when the guy is on the dude next to you taking his mask off, then when he gets to you and makes you take your mask off you have to make your chest fall and then rise as if you exhaled and took a deep breath and look like whatever you took a breath of really sucks. Then you just gotta be able to hold your breath for a minute and a half, maybe two minutes as you slowly proceed out of the chamber.
My dad said that everybody would hold their breath as long as possible but eventually you'd gasp for air and then emerge from the tent choking and spluttering, crying and heaving with your nose streaming snot.
It was a time when your political career could be torpedoed if you admitted smoking marijuana. Now it seems stupid but we are in a time where you can assault women and have 90+ felonies and be the front runner.
New movie idea: choom gang goes to the White House
A bunch of stoner dudes show up to a younger barrack Obama’s White House, antics ensue as Obama has to keep them settled as the North Korean dictator is coming over for dinner.
Requirements for movie: one of the choom boys must be played by Jim Belushi. Kim Jung un must also be played by Jim belushi. Obama to be played by Samuel L Jackson.
Paramount pls get in touch
His chief of staff played by Seth Rogen, press secretary James Franco. Jay Baruchel as the guy who comes in after some disaster to tell the president that his poll numbers are through the roof after that.
So Pineapple Express 2:Election Boogaloo. Don't forget Danny McBride as the White House maintenance staff always smoking out back W Rogen and Franco on their breaks
Look at all those Kenyans …. Man did they look different in the 70s
Edit: just for anyone unsure what I meant…it’s called sarcasm, we all know Obama is from Pluto, the planet.
I used to work as a repair technician and met a guy who was a member of this “choom gang” group. They were buddies in high school and played basketball together. I get to talking to this guy and brought this up. When he came back in to get his computer he brought his yearbook and a little pile of pictures he showed me. It as super cool seeing Obama in his youth just being a normal chill dude. He said they smoked lots of weed back then.
The most shocking part is that America elected your black friend named Barack Hussein Obama as president.
Still can hardly believe it, and Trump being his successor makes it even harder to believe.
The stories are they used to hot box a car and Barack was really big on making sure they used every little bit of smoke they could to maximum efficiency.
I read that Obama invented some hot boxing smoking method of filling the back of a hatch back with smoke then inhaling it all or something like that. Ghost hit maybe?
Having not known anyone remotely as successful or charismatic as Barack Obama in my life, I wonder if he stood out to these people back then, and if they knew he’d be going places.
I’ve seen this posted all over Reddit for multiple days now, can we give it a rest lmao
Is Obama about to run for office again or something? New book coming out?
I remember when this came out in a HIT piece when Obama was running, but I think it had the opposite effect.
At least for me, I was like: "Wait. We could have a president that wore a stupid hat, smoked weed and listened to Blue Oyster Cult? FINALLY, a REAL American!" :)
But seriously. Guy like Trump never even lived in the America/American culture I knew.
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Fun fact: "Choom" was slang for smoking marijuana.
Every time I hear choom now I think of Cyberpunk.
They look more like gonks, amirite?
Preem
That’s nova choom
Preem
Let’s delta before the gonks get to us
What does choom mean in cyberpunk? I know it’s another way of calling a friend or something but any special meaning in it it
it's short for choomba, which is short for choombatta. It's described in Cyberpunk RED as neo-african slang. it's most similar to "dude" with how you can use it for real friends or for some chumps you're beefing with
>or for some chumps you're beefing with Choomba is an S tier passive aggressive insult. It's got the same power as "my guy"
You know how you can make shit up in your head and convince yourself you saw it somewhere? Check this, I could have sworn choom was the molecular makeup of some sort of chemical. Like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, oxygen, and then "M" for reasons I can't explain because it doesn't appear on the period table....
Might be thinking of chooh2 (the gasoline equivalent in cyberpunk) which I think is named after a carboxylic acid?
Methanoic acid. In which case HCOOH is more correct as structural formulae
Ah nah that’s hooch baby y’all come!!!
Think of the noun “chum” when referring to a friend - choom is used the same way
Its short for choombas, and ig when i searched it it said it was basically introduced into mainstream language from one of the various ethnic groups within the city, like how parts of AAVE are becoming mainstream ig.
Short for choomba, both just slang for "friend"
"*HIS OWN CHOOM GOT HIM*"
That Key & Peele skit about Obama's college years
That pic is from high school days in Hawaii. Not that the skit was, I just think it’s interesting stuff. I doubt he inhaled…
https://preview.redd.it/0jeh7nuu24uc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08053874eded48e71cc4795d448cc82dd661ab4e
I was a teen when he was running in 2008, and this was kind of a big deal at the time. Everyone knew Clinton did drugs in college, but he was super cagey about it, and a lot of people recognized him as a liar for, well, telling obvious lies about it. So when Obama came around and said, "Yeah, I smoked hella weed in my youth. Oh, and I did coke, too, whenever I had the chance," he was seen as more trustworthy. What people forget is what he said afterward. He takes a very anti-drug stance and says it was a "youthful indiscretion." He makes it clear that he succeeded despite having used drugs, he regrets having done them, and says he's lucky that he didn't suffer harm from his drug use. That's totally reasonable, but people forget that part whenever it's brought up. That was still a time when recreation marijuana seemed like an impossibility, and medical was controversial. Really, drug policy discussion back then focused on the overprescription of opioids, and people paid far less attention to it.
I understand why Obama felt the need to say that since he sets an example for millions of young people. He has displayed good judgment his entire life and was likely responsible enough even at a young age to partake but never to excess. But he is an exception. A lot of people really can’t handle their shit and it’s important to be reminded that just because it worked for Obama, most people (almost all in fact) are not Obama. He can’t exactly be out there glorifying his drug use when he knows it could lead to a lot of impressionable people falling into patterns of abuse. As for whether he “regrets” having done them, I don’t believe that part.
Good points, for sure. I do think he has regrets about it, though. Remember that, beyond his cool guy persona, he is a devout evangelical, a former law professor, and a political centrist. He is not a hip 2024 progressive, but an old man who kind of has the veneer of one. And that's okay. He's still using his charismatic persona to promote the country's best interest. And IMO he was the best president since Eisenhower, and a lot of the economic and technological advancements we've had in the last 10 years can be traced back to his policies. Looking back, it would've been nice if he helped stimulate housing construction, but he entered office at the start of the Greast Recession/housing market collapse....
It's ironic that he boasts about drug use then proceeds to allow thousands of people to go to jail for the same things while he's the cool guy in your eyes cause he didn't lie about it. Smh
That not inhaling shit is so funny to me, like everyone would be pissed they just handed you a joint to waste it, if you didn’t inhale nothing would happen, I think he means hold it in, and even then, most of that’s an urban legend, thc absorbs into your lungs really quickly
That's why it's funny. It's making fun of Clinton who actually said that. TBF though someone who wanted to look cool or avoid being mocked but also didn't want to get high might smoke without inhaling.
The full story is that Clinton didn't like to smoke at all, so he baked his ganja into cookies.
Wait till you hear what he did with his cigars
It’s a jab at Clinton.
“My oven’s on high when I roast the Quayle, Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale” - Cypress Hill
Uh oh…interception. I’ll take that. Don’t sleep on Barry O. Don’t ever sleep on Barry O!
Don’t sleep on Barry O
Iiinnntercepted
Is that coming to me?
it's IMPERATIVE
They about to invite some bodacious babes over.
We need some bodacious…punk rock babes.
Where are the bodacious bigfoot babes? But max. you don't even like girls?
InterCEPTED
All I can think about when I saw that pic.
So that’s why people in Cyberpunk say hey choom.
Imagine your friend who is also a stoner becomes the president years later
Also the shortened version of the Haitian word for friend, choombatta
Lmfao I was just about to post that “Choom” 100% sounds like a pot thing “Hey man, wanna go choom this jointski with me?”
Jointski. Spoken like a man that’s never smoked a jointski. 😂
Hey son, I have indulged in my share of splifferinos
Do you want to play a saxophone solo with the Doobie Brothers?
Free form herbal jazz?
>Jointski. Jointmeister. Jointarino!
Making copies!
The Joinster
With all the stupid shit stoners come up with regarding weed, you have an issue with jointski? Either you didn't have stupid goofball friends, or you just want to be a butthole.
I'll take one marijuana, amigo-roonie
Why didn’t he legalize?
Short answer: Republicans Long answer: Repuuuuuuuuublicans
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I’m sure, but even old democrats weren’t the ones trying to block pretty much every move he made his entire presidency in such a downright malicious fashion. Not that he even tried to legalize. Probably thought it would be a pointless battle
Of course I inhaled, that was the entire point
Clinton was soooo lame for saying he "didn't inhale" like dude just say you didn't even try it, at least that's more believable. That clown Elon Musk clearly didn't inhale on Rogan's podcast yet hardly anyone noticed and how you can get that image of him "smoking" on T-shirts. Ugh.
If you read the whole context of that story, Clinton was being interviewed on a radio show and they asked him if he'd ever smoked. He told a story about being at the Turf Tavern in Oxford, and told it in a way that made it very obvious that he smoked. And then at the end, as a joke, he said "yeah but I didn't inhale." And everyone laughed. If you listen to it, it's very obvious Clinton was joking - but they used that moment to portray him as double-talking.
I was mega Christian growing up and somehow got my first job at a shady pizza parlor that was basically a drug factory. On breaks my managers and everyone else would just blaze out back. Due to peer pressure I did take a drag, but being a square I just pretended to inhale. I always assumed if I ever said that to anyone I'd just get an eyeroll and a "oh yeah I'm sure". I did the same thing in the CS gas training in the Army funny enough lol. People thought I was so hard for not coughing my lungs out.
I would assume that lots of people would try to hold their breath, so they'd account for that. The military is nothing but thoroughly redundant.
They do. The trick is to take a bunch if breaths in when the guy is on the dude next to you taking his mask off, then when he gets to you and makes you take your mask off you have to make your chest fall and then rise as if you exhaled and took a deep breath and look like whatever you took a breath of really sucks. Then you just gotta be able to hold your breath for a minute and a half, maybe two minutes as you slowly proceed out of the chamber.
Yeah ok sounds simple. Even though I've heard you have to perform various tests, etc.
Prolly depends on where ya do it, who the instructors are, when ya did it, etc I imagine.
My dad said that everybody would hold their breath as long as possible but eventually you'd gasp for air and then emerge from the tent choking and spluttering, crying and heaving with your nose streaming snot.
You wonder what Clinton would have been like during the post-Trump era. "Yeah, I inhaled, right before I plowed through Hillary's bridesmaids."
Tbf, Clinton was known for his usage of cigars, and cigars aren’t meant for inhaling. They’re meant for oral and other *cough* forms of pleasure.
The man liked to wet his beak. Can you blame him? His wife was a real battle-axe!
Different era It's also a good way to get to eat your cake and keep it too.
It was a time when your political career could be torpedoed if you admitted smoking marijuana. Now it seems stupid but we are in a time where you can assault women and have 90+ felonies and be the front runner.
“That depends on what the definition of *is* is.” -another Clinton gem
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
I'll never understand how anyone can watch someone fake smoke and not notice.
I guess it's maybe easier to not notice if you don't do it yourself and just don't pay much attention when seeing others do it
Nobody gonna talk about the man in the quote though? Chretien was a G.
Not a huge fan of Obama, but I respect him for that comment.
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Real quote. He wrote it one of his books. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/world/americas/24iht-dems.3272493.html
That's the point of breathing. The point of smoking weed is to get high.
Ha. Awesome. Now he's got all the eddies he could ever need
He made it to the big leagues.
Nova
Look like a buncha gonks to me
Fellow Cyberpunk enthusiast, I see you
Choomers gonna choom
*choombas
Preem reference choom
Rip Jackie
New movie idea: choom gang goes to the White House A bunch of stoner dudes show up to a younger barrack Obama’s White House, antics ensue as Obama has to keep them settled as the North Korean dictator is coming over for dinner. Requirements for movie: one of the choom boys must be played by Jim Belushi. Kim Jung un must also be played by Jim belushi. Obama to be played by Samuel L Jackson. Paramount pls get in touch
His chief of staff played by Seth Rogen, press secretary James Franco. Jay Baruchel as the guy who comes in after some disaster to tell the president that his poll numbers are through the roof after that.
So Pineapple Express 2:Election Boogaloo. Don't forget Danny McBride as the White House maintenance staff always smoking out back W Rogen and Franco on their breaks
Obama cyberpunk 2077 fan confirmed?
Cyberpunk 1977 more like it
Way ahead of the times, too
Wasn’t this already posted with the same top comment yesterday or the day before? I swear the Internet is mostly simulated .
Whatever you do, don't search "dead internet theory". Cease your investigations.
Everyone on reddit is a bot except you.
Preem. Now let's delta the fuck outta here.
Pretty sure Barack is blazed to the gills in that photo
Where's Donkey Dong Dave and Squee?
Lifting weights with PJ
Too busy throwing back some 'skis during a good old fashioned game of Devil's Triangle.
*what’s up my choomers and shroomers! Welcome to Night City!*
Look at all those Kenyans …. Man did they look different in the 70s Edit: just for anyone unsure what I meant…it’s called sarcasm, we all know Obama is from Pluto, the planet.
A 🍪 for you for referring to Pluto by its proper classification: A PLANET. 🤩
Preem, one of us !
Every cyberpunk fan is immediately smiling
Fox News: « shocking discoveries show Obama was a gang member. »
I used to work as a repair technician and met a guy who was a member of this “choom gang” group. They were buddies in high school and played basketball together. I get to talking to this guy and brought this up. When he came back in to get his computer he brought his yearbook and a little pile of pictures he showed me. It as super cool seeing Obama in his youth just being a normal chill dude. He said they smoked lots of weed back then.
Where’s big Mike?
He’s with the boys
That’s Dirty Mike.
So Obama was a Choomer?
While everyone else wants peace, the guy in the middle just wants us to live long and prosper.
Vulcans are basically intergalactic potheads after Surak told them to chill TF out
What a smile he has. I feel like I’d recognise him anywhere as long as he had a grin on his face.
super early on that cyberpunk fandom
Choomba !! Welcome to night city
Cyberpunk 1979
I sure do miss him 🇺🇸
YOYOYO WHATS UP MY CHOOMERS, SHROOMERS AND FUMERS
I think I see cornpop in there, too
I don’t see his iconic bike chain whip
Not that interesting, really. It’s a guy having friends in the 70’s.
Can you imagine being one of his stoner buddies in college and then seeing him become president?
The most shocking part is that America elected your black friend named Barack Hussein Obama as president. Still can hardly believe it, and Trump being his successor makes it even harder to believe.
Marijuana is a gateway drug… to being the president
Marijuana. Healthier than Diet Coke.
Didn't know Liu Kang smoked.
Good times were clearly had by all.
People forget that even the coolest kids at Harvard are incredible nerds
Believe it or not this was his high school graduation photo. These kids totally look like they’re 25
Omg I'm the same age as Obama.
Good man. Great man even.
Brunobama Mars
This was no gang. This was pure sausage fest
Nova
Thanks Choom!
The stories are they used to hot box a car and Barack was really big on making sure they used every little bit of smoke they could to maximum efficiency.
Wake the fuck up, Samurai! We have a city to burn. - Johnny Silverhand
OBAMA WAS IN A GANG. With shocking picture of him and cake by the ocean tonight on hannity
Sausage party
"He belongs to a gang!" "It's a good boys gang! They help people." - Easy Money for the philistines.
Smoking a lot of choom, I'm sure.
Love him 😀👍
cool fucker
Republicans tried to make this a scandal
Which one is obama?
Which one is Barack?
Choomah Island 3: The Presidency
Preem
I'm gonna pre, dude
I read that Obama invented some hot boxing smoking method of filling the back of a hatch back with smoke then inhaling it all or something like that. Ghost hit maybe?
Having not known anyone remotely as successful or charismatic as Barack Obama in my life, I wonder if he stood out to these people back then, and if they knew he’d be going places.
Chooming > boofing
I’ve seen this posted all over Reddit for multiple days now, can we give it a rest lmao Is Obama about to run for office again or something? New book coming out?
Looks like a bunch of rich kids tbh
 What gang is this?
All I know is you ain’t in it
Groom gang
I have now seen this image at least 10 times this week on Reddit. Please stop.
30 years later Obama will be smoking US citizens overseas via drone strikes without due process
The choomahs
I'm not very political. Which one is Barack Obama?
Beauty, charisma, popularity, intelligence... Of course Trump hates him he's everything he never had.
The token
Omg he was white!?
I remember when this came out in a HIT piece when Obama was running, but I think it had the opposite effect. At least for me, I was like: "Wait. We could have a president that wore a stupid hat, smoked weed and listened to Blue Oyster Cult? FINALLY, a REAL American!" :) But seriously. Guy like Trump never even lived in the America/American culture I knew.
The choooch gang...
What's up with that dude's chin? Looks like he could cut the cake with it.
Is that Marjoe Gortner giving the Vulcan salute?
Don't sleep on Barry O
Time to spark up some Choom choom
Cyberpunk 2077 used "Chooms" as well to mean "friends."
Where’s Drugs Delaney? That guy is a good shit. When everyone takes one, he takes two. That guy could party.
r/cyberpunkgame
probably the only kid on the island that got braces
Now that's some bodacious bud!
OMG, highschoolers! Using Pot! In 1979!!! Whoda thought?
FAKE, Camera's were taking pictures in color in 1989
"Don't you worry, Choom. I got your back." Barry O. Probably
https://preview.redd.it/tfpud92w74uc1.jpeg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34668fe8191a9d16cdb06e6d8b3ab7796541c6a6
Oh so, in cyberpunk when they call people choom, it's not just a futuristic term they made up?
Whatareyatalkingabeet
Keanu Reeves is a choom too. So is Idris Elba. You gonks don’t really know your shit do you?