• ThenThreeMore@startrek.website
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    10 months ago

    So that links to an NY times article that links to hopefully the original the sun article. That says it’s because of cyber bullying.

    Is everything OK, why won’t you show up in family photos for the handsome boy that you are anymore?’

    "And then the big whopper…. ‘Are you being bullied?’

    To my surprise he turned to me and laughed saying: ‘No, but I will be if you post pictures of me online without my consent!’

    "Apparently the teens have group chats of their own and they’re very active with school peers on the look out and competing to find and share the most embarrassing family photos of each other so they can ‘roast’ them in the group.

    "He went on to explain how the ‘nose cover’ is just a signal to their peers that they won’t be caught ‘slipping’ which we eventually translated to meaning ‘off guard.’

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      they won’t be caught ‘slipping’ which we eventually translated to meaning ‘off guard.’

      Look, I’m mid 30s, and the time that I was with it has long passed (it’ll happen to you!), but this is just a really sad way to mock someone’s use of language.

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        10 months ago

        They must have been really desperate to make that jab because “slipping up” has been a common phrase for decades (at least in the UK). So the “up” has been dropped and we’re left with “slipping”, if it takes a native English speaker more than ten seconds to work it out I’d be worried for their cognition.

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          10 months ago

          Even more relevant, “you’ll never catch me slipping” in some form has been a common phrase in rap/hip hop since the 80s, meaning to be caught off guard (obviously).

          I have no idea why they decided to look foolish by defining such a common word