ewwwww...
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
just thinking about that to write that is just...ewwwww.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
why do i hate the term "ginger" so much? is that a u.k. thing that i somehow never heard until a couple of years ago? did the spice girls start it?
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
I've been hearing it a lot more lately - the last couple years, as you say. Can't be the Spice Girls.
Always makes me think of this though
http://norwegianity.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/ginger.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
that cartoon bugs me tbh
― human centipede hz (thomp), Monday, 24 September 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
south park popularized the term in usa i think
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e11-ginger-kids
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
UK people have always said Ginger - it's often (but not always) intended pejoratively.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 24 September 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
Amber has had ginger hair from around 6 months onwards (we had decided the name before she was born), and has been a pretty girl since day one. She never heard the word used as an 'insult' until one day some kid tried it and she just burst out laughing at them.
So, yeah don't call her 'strawberry blonde' or other such, she likes her gingerness.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah when an american says ginger I want to stab them
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
what if they are offering you ginger snaps
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
they are really asking for ginger STABS
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
americans were saying ginger before south park
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
popularized
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
popular americans were saying ginger before south park
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
good theory
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
Has everyone forgotten what they learned from watching Gilligan's Island?
― Aimless, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'd never heard anyone refer to a person as "a ginger" prior to South Park.
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
i never heard it once until the internet. i might have first seen it on ilx!
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
there seems to be general consensus that ginger is a newly popular term in america
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gingers-do-have-souls
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
everybody in america saw that MIA vid
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure SP started the whole dumb gingers are evil thing, but i remember being overly familiar with the term by the time that ep aired
― zachylon (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
etymonline suspiciously quiet on this subject
― zachylon (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
much like the douche revival im sure the term was kicking around but south park was def key in mainstream adoption
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
people didn't say it here. they really didn't. i meet a lot of people!
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
maybe i just never talk about redheaded people with all those people i meet...
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
it was never on t.v. here that much i know. i watch a LOT of t.v.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
speak no evil
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
People have been saying douche since old times.
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
the douche revival
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
It never died.
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
ur wrong go stand in the corner w/zachylon
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah douche is in the constitution. we have always loved douche.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
douche was for a long time a completely dated construction, you might as well have been saying get a life or gag me w/a spoon, it then experienced a meteoric revival sparked by south park and is now quickly reseeding into the ether
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
lol as a "ginger" i must say people are really stupid about redheads. i've had the dumbest shit said to me about it. back in the day it was predictable disses and now it's people you meet in bars who are just fascinated by it or mystified by it.
― omar little, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
is it true you dont have a soul tho, whats that feel like
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
have you ever seen yourself in a mirror??
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://books.google.com/ngrams/chart?content=douchebag&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1978&year_end=2008
huh, looks like lagoon's right!
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
i don't remember douche ever going away or being dated! THAT word i have heard almost my whole life.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
feels like a fire burning on my skull, or like a patch of carrots growing from my brain.
― omar little, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
u should do one of those ask things on reddit
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
reddit
― omar little, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
it never stops
oh... my... god
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
its all connected
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Monday, September 24, 2012 12:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not saying you guys are doing this but i do think theres a funny tic w/people who consider themselves culturally clued in in that the deeply felt need to have been an early adopter of whatever trend is under discusion requires such copious backdating of personal usage records that they inevitably end up at the conclusion that things have always been that way, which is somewhat ironic as it represents less actual cultural insight than the current conventional wisdom
fail? come on people have been using fail in that way forever, in elementary school we used to yell fail at each other when we fell down in the school yard, and anyway the word fail i mean thats not new right come on pfft
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
fail i only know from the internet.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
but i'm old.
but for real people have been calling each other douchebag forever. howard stern kept it alive for future generations almost singlehandedly.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link