For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”. Sirens go off immediately 🚨
“Female” instead of woman or girl.
Edit: as in, where “woman” or “girl” would be grammatically correct. e.g. “a lot of females work at that company” vs “a lot of women work at that company” or “that company has a lot of female employees”
Female is a great adjective but an inappropriate noun.
is it just grammar or just incels ruining that word?
A bit of the second one, but not fully? I don’t think using “female” as a noun when talking about a person sounded good, but it’s appropriate for animals. I imagine incels chose that because it wasn’t the way people spoke, but was only weird at worst, so it wasn’t that suspicious initially.
Keeping up with this bullshit is almost a full time job.
That’s a good way to put it.
it helps if you read females like tamales.
Oh man, that’s gonna stick in my brain. Great, thanks.
I’m forced to read “spectacles” like a Greek because of a post like this.
Oooh, my testicles sound so much fancier now!
And how did they get dusted with glitter?!
Hey, I always do that when it’s used as a noun!
Where’d you get that bag?
Oh, it’s a shemale
This one has bitten me in the ass. Male and female are incredibly common terms in the medical community, but I try to limit my use of female to work only, if at all. On the plus side, I’ve learned I rarely need to use it at work. It literally only matters if we’re doing a deep dive into what’s potentially going on and need to branch out to figure it out
Every time I see the word used outside of a biological context, I imagine the person looks like this:
Although with the distinction between gender and sex continually becoming more prevalent in the zeitgeist, I find myself using the terms “male” and “female” more often than I used to.
I found myself using female and male a lot after visiting a certain e621
spe’fy what show (in Dm if you prefer)
Non-native speakers in shambles. On the other hand, even males are not safe from us
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“I’m a patriot!”
Okay so, 1) I wasn’t questioning your patriotism until you said that. And 2) with zero exceptions, everyone I’ve ever heard say that turned out to be a Christian nationalist.
I think “patriot” is one of those titles that should only be given, and that ideally happens to someone who’s done something especially heroic or monumental for their country. I think of myself as patriotic, because I care a lot about my country despite its enormous, gangrenous flaws. I want to help it realize its potential. But to say “I’m a patriot” these days – I agree with you – really only connotes blind nationalism.
Fits pretty neatly with the word “humble” - it should only be said externally.
“im apolitical, or dont like to talk about politics” or instantly saying " anti-woke stuff", or when you say your supporting a nazi, they respond with" you have stop reading the news, or saying something to delfect/.
“I tell it like it is” Proceeds to be bizzarly racist/ sexist/ homophobic and then gets offended at everyone when they tell them to knock it off.
Anytime anybody tells you “I don’t do drama”, 99% of the time they are the cause of all the drama.
Actually chill people pretty much never bring it up.
For years I avoided TNT for just this reason, always figured it would explode my life
“I hate playing games.”
Buckle up for the relationship equivalent of Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2.
What about people who say that they like drama
Either chill “tea” enjoyers or agents of chaos.
No middle ground.
I’m always up for some “drama” as long as that means “yapping about things that aren’t as serious as someone I care about dying/suffering something grievous”. 🤷
Why doeth thou ask?
AKA younger siblings, if you’re into the whole brevity thing
“I want my country back…”
Yeah, so did all those places we invaded.
I want my country to become what I thought it was when I was a kid, not how it ACTUALLY was.
I would sympathize with this one, honestly.
I think we all (in the US at least) grew up with a very skewed and generalized / propagandized version of its history, one that’s specifically designed so we identify proudly with it. (I’d imagine most countries are similar on that last bit but idk)
The more time goes on, the more atrocities come to light, the more insanely layered and nuanced and complicated it all is, it’s quite an overload with everything else we have to deal with as adults. (Especially when most of it is crap we can’t even do anything about.)
The constant realizations that approach closer to the truth are often painful. Nobody likes realizing they were lied to so much in their formative years.
Yeah, I too would like if my country was run by virtuous people trying their best, and if unknown badass action heroes stopped the bad guys, instead of living in an evil empire run by those bad guys, and if hard work actually meant something.
Time to rewatch The West Wing again.
Hahaha I’ve heard it described as “competence porn.”
I’ve heard similarly positive things about “Madam Secretary.”
As have i.
Never seen that, I’ll check it out!
I can’t. Not yet. It’s like watching videos of yourself with that wonderful girlfriend, before you screwed everything up
Ouch, that hurts.
" I heard you want your county back. no shit me too"
Normally said by people who very literally think that it’s their country (white, conservative, and typically male).
“I’m not racist, but <insert extremely racist take here>.”
We used to joke like this because it was such a dead giveaway that someone was racist. We started saying things like “I’m not racist but the weather is fantastic today!” Or “I’m not sexist, but do you think it’s gonna rain?”
Ya that is fun
Q: How does every racist joke begin? A: With a look over each shoulder?🥸
This one can be fun to mess with, just taking it to a completely arbitrary place.
‘I’m not a racist but I had a salad for lunch yesterday.”
“I’m not a racist but at some time later this week I need to take my car in for an oil change.”
“I’m not a racist, but I think Family Guy used to be a lot funnier than it has been recently.”
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“I’m not political” almost always really means “I think Hitler did nothing wrong”
One time I said “oh I don’t get involved in politics” by which I meant, “I don’t organize with any particular party” (which was the context). But I think about that all the time and hope they did not think what I always think when people say they are apolitical.
I’m very political, I just generally prefer non-partisan work.
I asked chat gpt…
I treat this one with a grain of salt, because its very good at some things and utterly fucking useless at others.
I needed to know what company made the gearbox in a certain car. No matter what I searched in 3 different search engines all I could find was people wanting to sell me stuff for the gearbox or gearboxes. I spent an hour before I asked ChatGPT and it immediately spat out “The gearbox is a 4l80 produced by Aisin transmissions” which I then spent some time verifying. At the core if search engines hadnt been enshitified, ChatGPT would be nothing more than a novelty. But because they have, its a sometimes useful tool that anyone with half a brain verifies.
If you treat it like gospel, yeah… your an idiot.
That’s the thing though. If someone has used chat gpt to find information and then spent the time to verify it independently, they rarely, if ever, start a sentence with “I asked chat gpt…”.
The ones that say that usually just stop at the first response they get from it. Even if what they say ends up being correct, you now know that they’re the kind of person that’ll blindly believe an LLM.
yes!! I was setting up Lyrion Music Server and I’m kind of an idiot, so when I had a specific question about that I asked a clunker. There’s very little documentation or discussion about it (weirdly, it’s awesome) so it was extremely helpful. But yeah for the most part I don’t use it.
Ever thought of checking the factory service manual or prodemmand or all data? It’s not hard to find this sort of info…
I think a big problem is the info is out there, but they are awful at search. They still think Google is good. In today’s world you need 3 different search engines and also asking folks in the fediverse helps a lot if my issues.
But people want to go to the orphan crushing machine bot to ask it questions, because its easier.
We never needed llm slop for this. We needed a non corporate greed driven search and educated populace (now THERES a good joke!!)
I usually let this one slide. It’s the “I asked grok” folks i go full send on
Self-identified centrists are always well to the right of the actual center
Centrism is an ill-defined concept that loses meaning outside the US
What a Americanocentric thing to say. What do you call centralism outside the US? I’m the middle?
TBF nobody does the 2 party system quite as 2 party as the Americans. At first I was inclined to agree with you and disagree with OP, but the more I think about Canadian politics the less enlightened centrism I see… Just conservative doofuses who view the world through tik tok.
Centrism as it exists in its colloquial form often ends up referring to a bridge between Republican and Democrat ideas—both American parties. As the other comment said, no one two-party-systems quite like the US.
“I want to eat the people from the surface.”
good reference
Is this a reference to Morlocks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D
Full disclosure, I only know it from Rick and Morty
For me it was Simpsons and Clerks 2.
“And that’s when the CHUDs came in”.
Never heard of it! I do enjoy a B-movie now and again. I’ll see if my library can request this.
“Cry more 🤣🤣🤣”.
My man, you might have just hurt my feelings for no good reason, why are you so happy about it?! I’ve only seen it in YT comments, TBF, so they might all just be bots. Hopefully.
lol cry more nerd
Grown men getting extremely worked up about cartoons or woman in videogames.
Or getting worked up about the nationality/skin color of fictional characters where nationality/race is not a central issue to the plot or character.
Guys who refer to women as “females”
ninja edit - I see I’m late to this party
I would say it depends on the context.
Edit: This has been covered elsewhere as well.
Blame the military. In the 1980s to 2000s, probably up through 2010ish that’s all that was ever heard “that’s not a woman, that’s a Female Soldier”. It literally got drilled into a lot of heads.
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I dont think you quite get the point.
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The point is/was that soldiers are not male or female when in uniform … they are just soldiers.
Dont throw “fascist” around so much, it makes you sound like a NPC bot and the word literally loses its bite.
The older generations use the word female literally (as in by textbook definition) to describe a subjects gender. As examples; “The dog is female, there was a female police officer there, we could have had the first female president”. The younger generation wants to get offended by the usage of a clinical term. All in all its pretty fucking dumb … they should direct that energy into getting offended by billionaires tampering in politics.
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It is hyperbole. The conservative “fascist” movement will be in your area soon. Its trying to spread everywhere. Racism is a very appealing to stupid people and it is being used by corporations as a rallying cry to spread rampant capitalism.
I’ll still give the upvote 😌
Anyone who uses ‘woke’ unironically
or saying they “arnt political” or saying YE isnt an anti-semetic nazi. or my favorite, ask them why they voted for trump and they get defensive, and cant explain it,
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“There are things I like about both sides.”
I have a friend who says this and every time I’m like “when did anyone on the left do anything close to as bad as ____” (DOJ lying constantly, trump saying officials who oppose him should be executed, etc) and every time he says “well if they’re doing that that’s pretty messed up but the left does bad stuff too.”
