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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does it mean now? This is the only definition I know.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (12 children)

And there was a time that gay meant happy and a removed was a piece of fire wood. Though the Brits, in their usual word butchery, turned that into fag for cigarette.

Languages change and morph. They are living things. And despite the French's best effort to try and prevent it.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

makes languages sound kinda gay, all that morphing and changing.

next you'll be telling me they have formal versions and informal versions too

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Why yes, yes they do. And they best part is, nobody knows why.

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[–] daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Spike Milligan used it as meaning idiots/simpletons but says he first new the word from Alice the Goon

[–] SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago

It is crazy how words change meaning. Surprising that low level mafia muscle was a Goon and now it somehow relates to the euphoria one experiences eating Fast Food Chinese crab rangoons.

While I love going at a china buffet as much as the next fella - I don't understand how it became associated with mob henchmen.

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I would feel bad for arsenal supporters but they've always been a bunch of wankers.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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[–] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gives all new meaning to David Bowie's song Fashion.

We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep beep!

Or he's just a time traveler and knew exactly what he was doing...

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Or he was David Bowie and was fucking weird

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Australians think “rooting around” means something very different so you have to be careful not to use it in a work context.

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People keep on using "glaze" to mean to excessively praise somebody, but I'm pretty sure it means to give a wet sloppy blowjob, so it's pretty weird hearing it used otherwise.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

No glazing is what you do to their face after they've given you a wet sloppy blowjob. Thats where it gets its more conversational definition of showing excessive praise to someone.

[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought it was what you do to donuts..

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Its derived from that yes

[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

YES!! My wife was talking to our kids about glazing someone - I almost had a heart attack! They all knew the new term, I only knew the older!

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