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Trying too hard (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The only reason I miss smoking is because there is nothing better than calmly busting out a cigarette at a bar, pulling a real deal strike anywhere match out of the same pack, lighting it with my thumbnail, lighting the burnie, and continuing my conversation with the beautiful woman that I was 100% trying to impress like it was nothing. Fortunately for my lungs (and un-, because I want them) they don't make the matches anymore.

Sidenote if anyone has a red phosphorus connect hmu, I'm not making meth I want my matches back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm annoyed that smoking looks even cooler in comparison to vaping which basically always looks dumb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Smoking is cool... until you want to kiss a non-smoker. Few things narrow the dating pool quite as much

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

For people like me who are out of many slang loops, can somebody explain what "You're not a vibe bro" is saying, and also why it's cool to mock somebody for using matches in the same world where disrespecting their pronouns is hateful?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Mocking someone for trying to look cool is very different to mocking someone for how they actually want to live their life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

In my life I have been mocked for things I did to try to be cool... And the mockery was justified every time.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So it's good to mock somebody because you don't approve of what your psychic powers tell you is in their mind - Got it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's much better to go online and mock obvious jokes as if they're serious problems so everyone knows what a virtuous person you are!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You are a sidekick but you are not lovable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I can help with the first part: I think saying someone is "trying to be a vibe" is sort of like saying they're "trying to pull off a look/personality"

For another example, if someone buys a Harley, dresses head to toe in leather, and starts talking like a tough guy.

OOP is saying they're not pulling it off, then comes back and admits that they kinda were pulling it off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People talk about how they hated the whole high school social world, but for some reason they bring it with them into adult life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They're joking though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Boomer, get these kids off your lawn.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The poster is saying that match-man isn't cool. He then goes on to say that he does think match man is cool and that he's just jealous that he can't be cool.

He's not really mocking the person, although I guess it could be considered a backhanded compliment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I get the feeling people can almost use words any way they want now and somehow it's recognizable because of general shared culture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They always did, you're just exposed to it more now. Because Internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, that's how language works, but in the last 15 of 20 years I've noticed a really distinct upsurge in the amount of slang being invented. A lot of terms are abbreviations made up to reduce thumb keystrokes, as opposed to traditional slang that gets adopted because it sounds catchy. That's a very new trend created by cellphone use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think also because POC and women are all online too now. 15+ years ago it was probably 90% white men.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No doubt more POC and women are online now, but why would slang grow faster because of this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

People can almost use words any way they want

Definitions come from the way people use words, not the other way around. This has been the case for a long time, that's how Shakespeare got away with inventing so many words. He just used em and people were like "yeah that's alright, those collections of sounds can definitely describe this feeling/thing/whatever"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, I love it. English is such a twisted, fucked up language and it's like we're collectively acknowledging it and using it to our advantage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

English is the only language that acknowledges the fact that I'm a divine being of chaos at the infinite centre of creation, which is the main thing holding back my study of French

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I get it, but can someone translate to plain English just in case ?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

"using matches isn't cool

just kidding it is, I'm just jealous"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Neat, thank you !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of liquor stores will give you a book of matches for free with a pack of cigarettes. It's not common anymore.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Many small independent liquor stores still do this, but you have to ask. But yeah, long gone are the days where every restaurant had matchbooks right next to the peppermints and toothpicks in your way out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love it when they do. Always take one on principle. Its been about 2 years since I last saw one in the wild though