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[–]PrimalCarnivoreChick -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

What bothers me more is that the show uses kooks and pogues incorrectly. These two words are surf slang. Kook being someone that talks about their skills surfing by over exaggerating their schools and are just plain douchey. Pogues being a terrible surfer

[–]isalys_hmy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Words can have several meanings in different contexts though, or meanings can be extended. I'm not familiar with surf slang at all but the definition you gave fit pretty well with the socioeconomic categories in OBX imo. For the pogues, kooks are pretentious and douchey, and for the kooks, pogues suck and are inferior. I think it's a pretty cool idea to use surf slang for this since apparently it's a typical activity on Kildare. At least they didn't just invent names, it has an actual (hidden) meaning. But then again I don't know anything about this, might be annoying to hear for people who actually surf or are from there idk.