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What's that? GIMP?
"Ricing"
OK, I'm guessing that term has some extra baggage around here which I'm not privy to... I spent too many years chopping wood and growing corn, so someone will have to fill me in!
Oh no, you're going to make me be that guy lol.
Ricing comes from "rice cooker", meaning a Japanese car. The term is so far removed from any racial implications now, that some people say RICE means "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements", though it's just an excuse where one need not exist.
I regularly see people brigade for others to stop saying it, even though the word now exists on its own. People treat it like it's comparable to something like the Washington "Redskins", it isn't.