Soggy @ Soggy @lemmy.world

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Despite being theoretically most correct, octopodes is least correct in English because it doesn't actually matter what the root of a word is if everybody uses it differently.

My uncle (very near my age) also had a Green Ranger costume, I think there was a lot of gold lame involved. We generally weren't allowed toy weapons though so I'm envious of yours.

I didn't use its proper name because I didn't think people would know what I meant but I see now I was foolish.

1967 is notably two decades into the ethnonationalist colonial project that displaced many Palestinians from their homes.

Well, she's a prominent figure in relatively recent world history whose actions are responsible in part for the world we have today. It's kinda weird to be proud of historical ignorance.

I was using the Dragonzord "flute" for a while but switched to the siren from Silent Hill. My partner hates both but if I need a wake-up alarm I need it to flood my body with panic adrenaline.

.world was already the closest thing to reddit on the fediverse.

Well you've identified the problem at least.

It's more than enough to inject a little fear into the ruling class.

Light derogatory, most of the time it's used half-ironically by other people in the same fandom. (Which is the OP joke)

That probably signal-boosted it for normies but "weeb" was already very well established among nerds by that time.

Or you could use your indescribable wealth to prevent the things you need a bunker for.

I think it's a weird attachment to a glorified idea of heritage that puts too much emphasis on the patriarchal line, it strikes too closely to the concept of divine-right-of-kings and the general familial privilege of wealth. It's a title, like Baron, with a whole lot of baggage.

2000s anime conventions were very horny, or are you too young for glomping and yaoi paddles?

It's uh, a little complicated and not for polite company. It's shortened from "weeaboo" which you'll probably notice has absolutely nothing to do with anything because it's a nonsense word made up for that one Perry Bible Fellowship strip. At the same time people were being normal on 4chan and making fun of Japan-idolizing dorks with the term "wapanese" and a favorite /b/ modgame was to occasionally add an automatic wordfilter just to stir things up. Well at the bottom of the list there you can see wapanese=weeaboo and that stuck around for a while so the nonsense word picked up a meaning. You still see it written out sometimes but people are lazy so it's usually truncated.

tl;dr it means anime fan and like most web culture of a certain age it's 4chan's fault.

Well, because I'm not a sociopath I think preserving the world's ecosystems is more important than a few years at the tail end of my life. Doomsday bunker with a Mad Max stockpile wouldn't occur to me as a thing to actually do.

She points out that things are preventably bad while also being a normal-looking young woman. How dare she.

Guess how many of those prison services are contracted out to private companies though.

People can prefer lots of stuff, "this aspect of the English language is not to apply to me" is a lot of cognitive load to ask for.

Which is an awkward and strange way to speak to people.