Washed

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Kids these days don't know about rocky pokey. Sheeeeesh.

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Washed up has been in use for a long time. I have no idea how they decided it was a 2020 invention. Some AI search probably told them so.

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Are you sure? With my knees, you'll need to help me up again.

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All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.

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not really, it's short for washed-up

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/washed-up

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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!

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they're off by a full century

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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.

Subverb

Why do we need to shorten a two syllable word?

My knees hurt.

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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!"

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What's based? Sorry I'm washed.

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Based in reality, I think.

And if anyone is wondering, riz is charisma.

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Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he's cooked? Cooked what? And who's going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn...................

pruwyben

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.

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Sounds like she was streets behind.

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Based actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack.

Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context.

Now it's sort of the opposite of cringe.

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Everything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.

kadup

Here's a fun little curiosity that profoundly annoys me: here in Brazil "cringe" accidentally got the wrong meaning. It was being heavily used online, so a famous TV news program decided to "explain what it means" to the older generation and accidentally explained it as "cringe means everything older generations are or do" so in other words, a lot of brazilians that aren't used to internet slang believe "cringe" means "somebody over 30" rather than actual cringe.

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just wait until you hear about people saying “comp sci” or worse, “poli sci”. if you are so pressed for time that you can’t afford to say all the syllables in “computer science” you can use an acronym. i will still be upset about the acronym, but i can live with it

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Ahh okay ...opposite of cringe. That makes it easy to remember.