I'm not going to act like slang back in the day was top-notch all the time. But the "slang" from the last 5 years has been just extra lazy. It really feels like a sad, sad attempt to get like a "viral" word to trend; it seems really social media forced and not natural like it used to be. There's a reason slang stuck around so long (and some survived) compared to this. To what end, I'm not sure, but idiots still post "first" on youtube videos... so, idk, a race to the bottom, I guess. That is to say, this "slang" is gammy.
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i have never heard the term "washed" to mean "old"
Welcome to the ranch.
Did you know there are people finishing their Master's degrees this year who weren't alive for September 11th?
Crazy. It was less than two months ago. Guess I am old.
Washed?
Will I be fed and cared for on this ranch or is it more like a concentration camp thing?
Yes, cared for..... fed.... fattened......
Yep!
What does washed mean?
Past tense of wash: to clean with soap and water
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"Washed" means to be played out, over the hill, past it. Uncool, no longer trendy, not part of the younger generation who are "with" it.
Not understanding the term "washed" therefore serves as proof that you are, in fact, washed.
Your time will come too
Dang! I'm not even old T-T
"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
Classic.
Ok, so I get it from context but before this I didn't even know "washed" was slang for anything.
I think an unofficial sport of The Internet is to coin new slang and convince others that everyone else is using it.
Removing the "up" from "washed up" doesn't seem all that clever, though.
Apparently it's a thing. Like saying "it's giving (cha)rizz(matic) (vibes)" aka "it's transmiting a lot of charisma" or " it's charismatic", you gotta infer from the context what the full sentence means.
I don't think "washed" by itself is being used a lot, but economising sentences by removing parts and them being inferred via context IS something that is done a lot by young people. We used to just use initials, they are cutting words instead, lmfao.
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Dude we live out of time nowadays. The mono culture is dead. You can listen to any music at any time. You can listen to modern music, then 19th century marches, then older modern stuff like JayZ, and just yesterday discovered “year of the cat” from like 50 years ago and it slaps. We are all closer for it, humanity ho!
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So they literally just removed "up" from "washed up"? Come on, get creative.
Rizz is also just short for Charisma
Language, like everything, is cyclic
Oh for sure, was watching a movie the other day, I think Armed and Dangerous from the 80s and they used cooked the same way as today, it's pretty old, like from the 50s.
Threads like this really highlight how old lemmy is.
It's nice.
Tbh I'd pay a premium to join a service that provides game servers and matchmaking with verified adults just to avoid gaming with children.
I don't want it forced by the government because that's just state surveillance but I'd absolutely pay for a washed only gaming service.
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dont even try to escape.
The doors open. You can leave any time you like. Nobody's ever tried. Constantly being on the lookout incase youre exposed as "not with it" and paying attention to up to the minute trends is fucking tiring. The moment youre out of the game you wonder why you ever bothered playing it
One of the few benefits of autism. I grew up never being 'with it' and have more or less always been content with that. Seems tiring.
Having not heard "washed" before automatically makes me washed. Not that I haven't already been there for a long time.
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BJ fucking slaps, throw me in the dryer
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
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