that's a very interesting "hobby"
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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This is just bizarre
Pink Ranger staying #1 forever and always
My first celebrity crush and she continues to not disappoint
"Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners."
Wtaf
wat
shades
When readers hate the word "slams", but you still need a word that fits the same role.
"Shades" means protecting something from the sun. Isn't there a better word that doesn't mean "protects"? Lol
The expressions "throw shade", "throwing shade", or simply "shade", are slang terms for a certain type of insult, often nonverbal. Journalist Anna Holmes called shade "the art of the sidelong insult". Merriam-Webster defines it as "subtle, sneering expression of contempt for or disgust with someone—sometimes verbal, and sometimes not"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_shade
Its been used for hundreds of years mate, get with the times.
Thanks for that!
I'm not from the US, and the usage from the 1800s was "to throw a shade on", and all the other usages on Wikipedia's article are from the 1980's and later. I don't think it's fair to say it's been used for hundreds of years.
The 2015 popularization sounds about right for when I first started hearing "throwing shade", but this is legitimately my first time seeing "shades" used like this in its own.
Well slamming means closing a door so it also means protects.
It is, unfortunately, a property of the English language that every word means everything.
Slamming means closing something hard. It has an exclusively negative connotation unless you're talking about sex, I guess.
Slam dunk
Good point! Not protecting, but definitely a positive connotation.
I saw power rangers many years later and was amazed at how horrible it was. Why did we ever think this was fun?
cause we were dumb kids and had the power of imagination.
Now we're adults with failing health, beaten down by life and full of regret, and we cast a longing eye back to our better days and can only see the flaws,as we have long since lost the wonder.
Because back then, it was different from everything else. The over the top movements, 5 little robot dinosaurs turning into a giant robot, the monsters being eclectic.
Sick guitar solos and giant robots?
Tbf the face actors were probably the weakest part of the show (excluding Zordon, ironically)
That would probably be because they hired martial artists to act instead of teaching actors to do martial arts. For better or worse I respect that decision. Even if Haim Saban is a homophobic Zionist piece of shit.
Imagine having to portray every emotion using nothing but the varying frenzy of your arm wavings.
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