See also "adult" as a verb, as in
I forgot to eat all day and had a tub of frosting and some scotch for dinner. I need to learn to adult.
(I am not disparaging frosting and scotch for dinner, fyi)
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
WAIT WHAAAAT
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that's just horrible.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
See also "I can't adult" as here - http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/post/95816230431/i-cant-adult-i-have-accepted-my-fate
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
good luck millennials
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ec3Iti9Ti3M/UYRHpC5eOlI/AAAAAAAAWvI/LPgYaWykL-Q/s640/adulting_book_cover1.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
how to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office?!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Adulting gives me bad feels in my tum-tum.
― A Hole In You The Size Of A Medium Grapefruit (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Look at that pizza box. What a child.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
I don't normally advocate burning books, but that book screams for it. J.J. Abrams be damned.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
I also didn't know there were people who forced themselves to listen to NPR like it was adult medicine.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Ok not a phrase, but what is this thing now where people write YASS or YASSSSSSSSSS or even YAYYYYSSSSS for an enthusiastic yes. Fucking hateful is what it is.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
'patience is a virtue'. i mean.. fuck off.
― piscesx, Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
"more unique""most unique"
something unique can't be compared to other things because it is IN ITS OWN CATEGORY, UNLIKE ANYTHING. IS THAT SO HARD?
― davey, Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
xp to Hurting, it seems to have come out of queer culture. Do you hate queer culture?
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
I always figured that came out of Lil Jon impressions.
― how's life, Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
― davey, Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:15 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
THANK YOU. Other things that are ultimate all by themselves: pregnancy, death. YOU CAN'T BE A LITTLE BIT DEAD, OKAY?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
The people I have seen using it are not queer afaik. It did vaguely sound like it was appropriated from somewhere so that makes sense. Also the use I'm talking about is like posting an article on facebook with "YAAAAYYYYSSS" in lieu of "^this"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
well i mean ppl who say "basic" or talk abt twerking largely aren't woc or qpoc anymore either
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
ime "YAAAAASSSS!!" is something that came out of drag (and possibly ballroom) culture and was elevated to pop-culture status via RuPaul's Drag Race
actually it's kind of amazing when you think abt it how this show with relatively low ratings on a niche cable network has managed to inform quite a bit of things slang-wise that have trickled down into #shitwhitegirlssay-level detritus
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah IDK, I don't have an opinion on "basic" but YAYYYYYSSS just hurts me to look at when it accompanies some slate article posted by a white nerd from u. chicago.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Oh shit, I had totally been hearing it like this
http://youtu.be/PoWEESRrNK8?t=28s
― how's life, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Huh I didn't know it came from drag but sure! I've seen a lot of people write it, like on fb, but the only people I've heard say it convincingly are Black women? I think I assumed it was a church lady thing like snapping your fingers to agree w something, or waving your fan.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
When people write it as "YAAAAASSSSS" I hear it in a nasally long island accent
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
"YAAAAASSSSSS" and 'YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS" are not the same thing. Is "YAYYYYYS" even a thing? I've never heard that before.
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
actually laurel you are right, it could very well have come from from not-necessarily-queer black women! Slang seems to move v fluidly btwn the two (p sure "basic" came from black women, "shade" and "reading" came from ballroom qpoc, etc) but idk it seems like RPDR was the (admittedly appropriateive) catalyst that actually launched them
but I could be v wrong, I really don't know
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Stevie I need you to break this down for me
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
but I just did :(
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
I mean what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
"transitioning" as a verb in anything except sex reassignment contexts.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"
One would be pronounced either as /jɑːs/ or /jæs/ (with requisite extension of the 's' sound) and the other would be pronounced as /jeɪs/ or /jeɪz/. I can't comment on the sociolinguistics at play here but they're clearly different words.
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
do they have different usages?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
in case you needed a (actually pretty good) thinkpiece about "basic":
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/basic-class-anxiety
xp
― davey, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
YAYYSSS is prob lil jon
YAAASSS is like this (this is my fav example of "yass")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbV4tl9n20
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
omgomgomg
― carl agatha, Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
this is also prime "YAAASSSSS", like this is *exactly* the intonation, context, everything you could possibly want from a "what is yaaassss" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZgrnm37MwE
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 31 October 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.
― ewar woowar (or something), Friday, 31 October 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
Ok upon viewing these videos I am ok with YAAAASSSSS, but remain anti-YAAAASSSSS-appropriation
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 October 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
Just to be clear, it's supposed to be obvious that someone else is voicing the cat right?
I'm watching a YAAAASSS GAGA compilation now. I feel like I am now re-thinking my whole entire understanding of the meaning of Gaga as a vessel for YAAASSSS, it's blowing my mind.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 October 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Scottish people have been saying YASSS for a long time.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 31 October 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
I love when ILX gets all YAAASSSS'd out.
― nashwan, Friday, 31 October 2014 11:36 (nine years ago) link
I kind of want to post this subthread with everything but "YAAAASSSSS"es blacked out
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 October 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Did we talk about the odious phrase "open the kimono" here or in another thread? I can't remember, but here's an article that attempts to trace its origins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744/why-corporate-executives-talk-about-opening-their-kimonos
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
yeah that phrase basically makes me think about old man bodies
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Anyone come across 'pooing in the pool', meaning 'to kill somebody else's idea during brainstorming sessions' - e.g. 'I don't want to poo in your pool here, but I don't think this new logo plan is going to fly'.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
"You already pooed in my pool just by using that phrase"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
What's wrong with good old poo-free "rain on your parade"?
Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?
Man I hate business, and meetings, and work, and capitalism, and productivity, and white boards, and jargon.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's why the phrase got termed allegedly - you're not supposed to poo in other people's pools during brainstorms, although I will make an exception for the person who thought the term up in the first place.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link