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butiez @sh.itjust.works

1mo ago

Washed

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Washed? Is this some hip new slang term?
I feel liked not knowing this one makes me, well, washed...
- GET ON THE FLOOR! NOW!
  
  Are you sure? With my knees, you'll need to help me up again.
  
  Free your mind and your ass will follow
- Only like 20-30 more years before I can unironically quote this irl.
- New to me too. Washed sling meaning Washed up or past your prime. We old.
  
  The term washed up originated in the early 2020s and gained popularity in 2021.
  As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.
- There was a joke about it in 30 Rock, where a teenager tells Liz her boyfriend is "totally washed" and she's like, "typical", while secretly looking up the word on the in-show equivalent of Urban Dictionary.
  
  Sounds like she was streets behind.
  
  This sounds like brainwashed. I'm not saying that's what they meant, but the context you provided makes it sound like that.
- not really, it's short for washed-up, which has been in use for at least a century
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/washed-up
  
  Why do we need to shorten a two syllable word?
  My knees hurt.
- Washed up maybe?

Nah. Billy Joel (with Stevie Nicks) put on one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
- I saw him a few times, but his last tour with Elton was my favorite. One set of Billy playing Elton songs, one of Elton playing Billy songs, with the last set duets. Great show. Wish I caught one with Stevie Nicks!
  
  I saw that tour with Billy Joel and Elton John, too. To date, still one of the best concerts I've been to. Face to Face. Wish they'd done a DVD of it!
  
  I saw one of the shows from that tour too except Billy Joel was like just absolutely wasted drunk and kept falling off his piano stool and couldn't remember the lyrics. He even tossed the bench of the stage at one point and a stage hand had to run out another chair for him.
  He kept playing the piano the whole time basically perfectly though which was absolutely wild.

I do believe that everything old was better, everything new stinks, and my feet hurt all the time.
- Funny you should say that. Near the end of WSB's 1953 novel "Junkie", IIRC, the main protagonist complains that he doesn't understand the slang of the new generation anymore. For example their use of "that stinks!"
  
  You mean “Junky” from William S. Burroughs?

The guy with the metal detector in the background haha
- I think he’s just poking a rock with a stick.
  Must be Gen-X.
  
  Oh, maybe. Hours of fun either way!
  
  Kids these days don't know about rocky pokey. Sheeeeesh.
- "Did you see University Challenge last night?"

What happens if I tell them I like CCR, Johnny Cash or Sinatra?
- You go to decrepit ranch.
- Frank or Nancy?
  
  Mostly Frank, but I don't think it matters much I'm this case.
- It depends on whether TikTok has revitalized them. Also Cash was really popular for a minute with the teenagers when the movie came out.
  
  Nine Inch Nails made Johnny Cash popular again when he covered "Hurt". Now Trent Reznor is older than Johnny Cash was when he covered "Hurt".
- You probably don't care what teenagers think
  
  True

My knees hurt to.
- Pfft. too*
  Gawd. eyeroll*
  /s
  
  Despite being in my 40's mine don't hurt at all, neither does my back.
  PSYCHE!

brand's backwards
- No, you're seeing it from this side of it, so it'll appear correctly. Think about if you had X-ray vision and could see through a stamp; viewed through the stamp, it would look like it was the right way around.
  
  oh yeah, I'm drunk

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