What is GOAT? Someone here called me that, and I'm not sure if it was good or bad.
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Being "the goat" or "goated" is good. No clue as to the etymology though.
I finally was brave enough to Google, and it means Greatest Of All Time.
"Older" needs a reference point, son.
I'm 5 yrs older than a caterpillar that turned into a cocoon. I've never seen it again for two decades
Found the nuanced saying.
Oh my God one day I walked out of my room and my high school kid looked at me and said:
"That fit shreds"
And it was the first time I had been honestly perplexed by slang, had absolutely no idea what they were trying to convey. Turns out they liked my clothes that day.
I'm so sick of everything being a "fit". OUTFIT. Drip? Ugh.
Oh do I have a song for you. Jason Isbell "Outfit". His dad's advice on being a man.
"Don't call what you're wearing an outfit, don't ever say your car is broke.."
"That fit shreds" = that's an awesome outfit
Synonyms for Fit: outfit, drip, gear, cloth(es), getup
Synonyms for shreds: killer, swag, gnarly, rad, sick, dank, cool, fire (๐ฅ),
Your drip is fire
Your outfit is cool
Your gear is rad
Your clothes are sick
Your getup is dank
Your cloth is killer
All pretty equivalent statements which you may relate to more based on era of terminology you grew up with.
(This is from my brain dictionary, real life experiences may be different)
Edit: Proper spacing to avoid aneurysm
TIL I hang out with just enough youngins to read this and be like "they like your outfit." It's gotta be the early 20s kids at work that I've caught onto what they're saying lol.
Why don't the people of Hex Bear get new jokes? They were worn out already on reddit after the first couple of years.
"Ohio"
What does it mean? Yknow other than a place in the US that had some scary chemical leaks some time ago.
Ohio has a LOT of people in it for no real reason, if you look at the population for states the top 3 all have something that's unique... then there's Ohio. There's nothing going on from Ohio it's just kinda.. there. So naturally it became a meme
What I'm getting out of all these replies is that Ohio is to the United States as Acre is to Brazil.
... I wonder if every country has a place like this. Some god-forsaken part of the country that has nothing at all going for it and so people like to clown on it (for Acre the joke we do is "it doesn't actually exist" and/or "it's home to all sorts of cryptids and bizarre creatures")
Well in Germany people joke that Bielefeld doesn't exist, so there's that. I feel like there's a lot of different themed places that exist in many countries though, like "the incest place" (Alabama in the US, Saarland in Germany)
Ohio as a state is a liminal space full of cornfields and a feeling of wasted potential. A disproportionate number of American astronauts come from Ohio, proving that the primary thing on the minds of Ohioans is getting as far away from Ohio as possible no matter the cost.
If something is Ohio it's a place or a situation that you don't want to be in. It's a dead end with a feeling of vague discomfort.
Thanks, that's the most explanatory answer I got
Does anyone actually want to be in Ohio? If something is Ohio, it's that vague uncomfortable ugly failure feeling.
I think it means boring.
Basically New Jersey
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