• @FrChazzz@lemm.ee
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    3710 days ago

    Story time! When I was in high school (~1998/99) a group of kids decided to start a “gang.” I went to a small Baptist school. Kids were bored. This was maybe second period. They called their gang the “Yo’s.” Saying “Yo” was pretty much the extent of their gang. By lunchtime a group of us got annoyed and decided to start a rival gang called the “No’s.” The Bloods to the Yo’s Crips. The sign you were a No was you grabbed a brown paper towel from the bathroom and wore it hanging from your back pocket.

    Anyway, just before dismissal everyone was called into an assembly and given a lecture on gangs and told that anyone wearing a brown paper towel would receive a detention. I am still amused at how seriously our administration took this obviously stupid and juvenile joke.

  • @Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    2910 days ago

    As always, the best way to get kids to stop using these words is to use them yourself. Use the ancient cringe-power to disarm the youth 🦹🔥

    • As a teacher, I cannot tell you how much this changed my life. I just spew their random shit right at them, totally straight-faced, with a painful degree of enunciation. They do not say those words again in my presence. Their cringe feeds me. I also find it helpful to try to get them to define each term, in excruciating detail, then I destroy the word for them.

  • VeryFrugal
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    2710 days ago

    The best way to make sure everyone is saying those words is to ban them lol

  • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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    Not to be confused with band words:

    1. practice
    2. scales
    3. tuner
    4. first chair
    5. recital
    6. solo
    7. clarinet
    8. John Philip Souza
    9. hot cross buns
    10. tuba
    11. bassoon
    12. glockenspiel
  • @spicehoarder@lemm.ee
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    2510 days ago

    Chat, we are so cooked. Diddy hit me with stage 5 LIGMA in Ohio.🥀 I tried to tell the huzz, but I had massive beta energy 🪫🥶 and just stood there like goofy ahh broke boy NPC.🧍No mames! 😫

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        Fein comes from the Travis Scott song FE!N. While it is a synonym of “addict”, Travis uses it more as a musical refrain. The repeated and somewhat goofy intonation of the repeated phrase is what lead to the memification of this slang word. When using “fein”, it can be used like any other nonsensical filler word.

  • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    When I was in the 1st grade, I successfully got sent to the Principal for saying “Cookie Crisp” too many times.

  • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    As an elder gen Z I can assure you that the list of banned things in my class circa 2015 was somehow worse. Just off the top of my head.

    SpongeBob laugh

    WW2 Propaganda (Just cause it’s historical doesn’t make it not pornography vaultdweller013)

    Any discussion of the killdozer

    Bulldozer noises

    Tank noises (You will all make annoying lawyers)

    Kazoos are not longer allowed

    Compressed air canisters are banned especially if you have a whistle and duck tape

    Arma is not allowed to be watched on computer property

    Soviet national anthem

    Russian national anthem

    State anthem of Mississippi

    Djibouti National anthem

    Sakkinarven Polka

    Those are just the ones I remember, I am the direct source of at least half of them.

    • @Hobo@lemmy.world
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      They changed the state anthem of Mississippi a couple of years ago from Go Mississippi to One Mississippi. It’s no longer contextually hilarious and not nearly as hoki. I guess Mississippi decided they were not on the right track and probably were never going to get to the top.

      • Shame the old one is pretty unique, frankly if anyone needs an update it’s us Californians. But we are also a somewhat lazy bunch and would probably just make California Dreamin the new anthem. Either that or the committee would let their insanity take hold and ya would end up with something reminiscing a Latin war cant.

    • volvoxvsmarla
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      I will proceed to check out the national anthem of Djibouti and the state anthem of Mississippi. I might be back with some questions.