time2lose@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 3 days ago"Chill out, Dickwad".lemmy.worldimagemessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1585arrow-down110
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minus-squaredanc4498@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·3 days agoIt should never go away. It’s fun to say. It’s fun to hear. It feels like it conveys the exact meaning you want when you way it.
minus-squareTacoTroubles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days ago100% agree, nothing hits like being called a bozo
minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·3 days agoJust wait till it gains a racist undertone.
minus-squareRepple (she/her)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days ago Perhaps from Spanish bozal, used in the slave trade https://www.etymonline.com/word/bozo
minus-squareFunkt4st1c@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·3 days agoUntil it starts becoming a slur, all old lingo comes back after skipping a generation or so.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoAnd names. How many years before we start having Betty, Wilma, Frances, and Edith again?
minus-squareFunkt4st1c@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoCan you look at a newborn infant and seriously say “your name is now Edith”? I think names need 3 generations or so before coming back
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoI think white people names are overrepresented in the names chosen by white people. Instead of naming your kids France, name them Equatorial Guinea or United Arab Emirates.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoYou mean Equatorial America and United American Emirates.
minus-squarehoundeyes@toast.ooolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoYou know, maybe it is . . . I was watching a Caves of Qud let’s play the other night and wondering why the guy kept calling every enemy a bozo.
Is bozo making a comeback?
Every 10-15 years it pops up
It should never go away. It’s fun to say. It’s fun to hear. It feels like it conveys the exact meaning you want when you way it.
100% agree, nothing hits like being called a bozo
Just wait till it gains a racist undertone.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bozo
Until it starts becoming a slur, all old lingo comes back after skipping a generation or so.
And names. How many years before we start having Betty, Wilma, Frances, and Edith again?
Can you look at a newborn infant and seriously say “your name is now Edith”?
I think names need 3 generations or so before coming back
I think white people names are overrepresented in the names chosen by white people. Instead of naming your kids France, name them Equatorial Guinea or United Arab Emirates.
You mean Equatorial America and United American Emirates.
Yes.
You know, maybe it is . . . I was watching a Caves of Qud let’s play the other night and wondering why the guy kept calling every enemy a bozo.
Unexpected Mulaney
More like unexpected Madge.