Another great example of this is when companies advertise they are hiring "Rockstars". Name your fav examples of words that have lost their meaning.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    No when I say I want a goblin I mean I need a woman who is three feet tall, green, and has huge pointy ears, who can regale me with riddles when she's not complaining about tricksy hobbitses

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's nothing baby I was just thinking about the ancient Ayleids :sicko-wistful:

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Hacker/hacking: Fuck off, writing shitty Facebook PHP code is NOT fucking hacking, god dammit

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Gonna have to call the real thing ogre mode instead :shrek-troll:

    I promise that my ogre mode is not something anyone would find attractive.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'd wager a guess it's like presenting yourself as openly cringe and it's successful because you more quickly find somebody you get along with. It sounds like bullshit clickbait and I'd never bother to confirm if it's anything else. I recommend you take my interpretation of the headline and join me in not bothering to check

          • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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            2 years ago

            My ex had a suspicion that Winston Rowntree is a pseudonym used by a woman.

            She said that Winston's observations about sexual/romantic relationships between women are too on-point for them to be a man.

            • Dolores [love/loves]
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              2 years ago

              you've made me want to rewatch it maybe i'll take this theory into account :comfy-cool:

              also fuck Cracked for being a place that used to produce shit like that. fuck that buy-out killing all the cool it had

              • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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                2 years ago

                I mean they're sorta trying to rebuild that, but everyone who used to work there is in a far better position now.

                And while they have a crew, they don't interact with each other the way old Cracked staff did.

  • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is your slang needs to be used for the most egregious reasons. No editor at NBC is going to write an article entitled “Why Zoomer Soyjaks Are Resisting Wage Cuckoldry”

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "server"

    No, your shared hosting isn't a server. No, they will not reboot a server with a thousand other accounts on it because your code is bad. No, you do not get root access because you aren't renting a server.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    As a Harry Potter fan, when I say Goblin Mode - I mean only dating Jewish women and bringing them bagels and cream cheese.

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        lmao i have been single for literal years, and i never allow anyone into my house without having cleaned the place thoroughly. Apparently i've been doing it wrong.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I mean, I've had people over with some unfolded laundry out or some dishes soaking in the sink

          Which I guess is the difference between Goblin mode and being Mr. Clean I suppose

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It doesn't mean anything, Juniper made a fake headline that stated (paraphrasing) "Julia Fox opened up about her relationship with Kanye: He didn't like it when I went 'goblin mode'" (the joke is that the reader is left hanging about what going goblin mode on Kanye even means), and it shoot up from there. Baffles me that it latched on, but I guess people intuit it means "slovenly" I suppose.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Literally just an algorithm doing find-and-replace against a template headline with whatever was trending six months ago. This isn't even co-opting so much as it is a glorified regex command allowed to run wild.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I thought goblin mode was like, ripping off your shirt, going tits out and not giving a fuck, which might be good dating strategy i suppose.

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        How's he gonna know if you're into him if you dont let out a primal scream and eat all the appetizers.

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          They actually have a rule at this restaurant that you can't eat all of the fully loaded nachos if you're sharing the plate. You have to share