A few terms and trivia I learned in 2024, and share here with you because why not? 2024 is done and dusted for the most part, except historically, and my taxes which I will file shortly (always early!). My hope with this blog is always to clear out my teeming brain, as well as to maybe let others in on the trivial and not so trivial stuff I read, think, and write.
For example, when discussing potential donors to a fund I am creating with a close friend, a name came up about which I know some historical trivia. I woke more than once during the following week, thinking with regret how I’d missed an opportunity to share this tidbit, because I am a nerd, and can’t help myself. The potential donor’s last name is Gerry; Eldbridge Gerry – an ancestor – was VP under James Madison, and his name and political career is the genesis of the term, and long-term problem, of gerrymandering. Oh! I feel such relief! I let them know and now I have shared this tidbit with y’all. Phew!! Insert eye-roll and deep sigh right here ___________.
Christmas Adam. This one I really want to forget because it is beyond the valley of the stupid. For your information, Christmas Adam is the day before Christmas Eve because a really idiotic subset if man-ist freaks insists that because in the Bible Adam came before Eve, Christmas Adam should come before Christmas Eve, I kid you not. Of course what these freaks don’t and cannot understand is that, sadly, for women everywhere, Adam almost always comes before Eve, or Sue, or Mary, or Joan or any other female engaging in sex with selfish, stupid, spoilt straight men, if – and that’s a big if – Eve comes at all. And it’s evening, you assholes, not Eve. JHFC.
Menty B. = Mental Breakdown. Does shortening a term that denotes pain or vulnerability make for good outcomes? Only time – and hard stats – will tell.
Rizz. Short for charisma. Lord help me I wish I had never heard this one, either, and thought, what was that he/she just said??!, but I did. And now I know.
Touch Grass. Get off-line and go outside. This one I get behind 100%. 200%. Get off line and touch some g.d. grass. As I write and post this… on line.
Ate and left no crumbs. This means you did something so well no one can top it, you did the best outta all comers. It does not mean that you’re a scarfer of food and a thrifty one at that (thrifty? clean? whatever).
Bed Rot refers to someone who is spending too much time in bed scrolling and napping and whatever. Sounds like a Menty B to me, but what do I know?
I’m starting to feel like I’m trapped in an episode of Gossip Girl, which I actually did watch back in the day, a show which in no way reflected real life or any real life with which I was at all familiar.
If you feel a need to get up to speed on current slang, have at it, altho by the time you read this, things might’ve changed? Personally, I like the Urban Dictionary, but not always because combine people (mainly men), and the internet, and what do you get? A hot mess, and a nasty obscene one, at that. Still here’s a decent slang source: https://gabb.com/blog/teen-slang/