Cybersexxin'
Every new generation is believed to be stupid by the previous. But my lord, I’ve said this, time and time again, how much more blatant silliness done for the sake of irony can we take? We’ve come so far as a culture that we can only look at the past from a snarky, witty, mocking standpoint. I struggle with whether that is good or bad.
I don’t think Oxford is trying be ironic… but haysoose maria, these words a silly. You’d think words would have to be used frequently enough to be entered into the Dictionary, but I haven’t heard a lot of these.
- Blamestorming – n. A method of collectively finding one to blame for a mistake no one is willing to confess to. Often occurs in the form of a meeting of colleagues at work, gathered to decide who is to blame for a screw up.
I guess being a shady-ass-scumbag-clique was too long of a compound word. Not so much that this is the choice of words, but the fact that a word has to be created to encompass the true essence of “douchey office politics,” is kind of fucked up. Maybe now that a word exists for it they’ll be less “blamestorming” ? I fuckin’ doubt it…
2. Grrrl – n. A young woman regarded as independent and strong or aggressive, especially in her attitude to men or in her sexuality.
Does feminist have enough of a bad connotation? (I think so!) But I think Oxford is a bit late, no one uses this phrase since 1996. And I don’t think anyone who used it then meant it in a good way. I mean, the only time I use the word “grrl” is in the context of “Hay Grrl, haaay.” And in that scenario I am making fun of the gays, not the half-dykey-man-hating-wenches.
3. Screenager – n. A person in their teens or twenties who has an aptitude for computers and the Internet.
Seriously… Was there just not enough new words? Wouldn’t Tech/Computer-savvy have been a more appropriate choice of words? I think Oxford needs to lay off the fucking sass, these words don’t even make sense and no one uses them.
Screenage whores are hip to Internetiquette (Internet + Etiquette) and blowjobology (Blow Job + Ology = the study of) but if only the spicyasschickenheads would wead (wiki+read) up on contrabortions (contraband + abortions, as in stolen in abortions, as in hangers in the pussy).
4. Cyberslacking v. Spending one’s employer’s Internet and email facilities for personal activities during working hours.
Why does everything have to be a weirdo punny compound word? Do we really need a word for this? I think we’re imaginitive enough to guess what someone is doing when they are slacking at work and working in a goddamned office.
“Becky, I’ve been slacking at work.” “Really, Bill? What do you do instead of working? Molest elephants?”
5. Lookism – n. Prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of appearance.
… … … >=/
6. Frankenfood – n. Derogatory. a food that contains genetically modified ingredients.
Since when did full words become prefixes, roots and suffixes all by themselves? Urban Dictionary and Oxford have become synonomous.
7. Bouncebackability – n. The ability to recover from near-defeat in a competition; the ability to recover from a setback.
*sigh* Doesn’t the word “recover” cover this? Granted recover doesn’t quantify ones capacity to recover, but wouldn’t the word “recoverability” have been more apt and less dumbfuck sounding? No it sounds stupid too…
8. Ego-surfing – v. Searching the Internet for instances of one’s own name or links to one’s own website.
I happen to like this one, but there is no real reason, I guess I can see people saying this? I think it aptly describes the process of googling ones name. But again, do we really need these words to exist? /shrug
And now for the dumbest word ever..
9. Meatspace - n. The physical world, as opposed to virtual.
Not everything in the corporeal world is MEAT. This makes no sense and is retarded. How about “Reality” will that word suffice? It should. Good God, Oxford, get your shit together.
Are they in the business of compiling words, creating them or selling dictionaries? Holy Christ, such stupid shit.
Other Stupid Words:
- Riffage – Guitar Riffs
- Prebuttal – A rebuttal for an accusation before it’s made
- Muggle – Harry Potter bullshit
- Gaydar – I C U KWEER
- Threequel – Even though sequel refers to anything after the first, we needed threequel…
- Mini-Me – Verne Troyer
lmfao! first of all .. where do you find these photos???