Is there anything else--like crisscross applesauce--that's been renamed since we were kids?

Funny enough our parents' generation called them Guinea Tees, which was later deemed offensive to Italians. This is likely why they started calling them wifebeaters.

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

It's funny how they had to go from one offensive thing to another instead of simply just calling them tank tops lol

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Cold-Monk5436@reddit

Seriously!!! Oh we can't call them something racist? Let's just make it sexist instead!!! 🙄

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myseaentsthrowaway@reddit

Yeah, I was thinking I'd better keep my Jersey mouth shut.

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Past-Climate-8257@reddit

I moved to Missouri but my NY Italian mouth can't keep quiet sometimes

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

I feel the same with having moved to WA state with my NJ mouth lol

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tbs999@reddit

This is surprising. In my Missouri experiences, you’d have to try pretty hard to offend people unless there’s Protestant slurs I’ve never encountered.

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Skywren7@reddit

Way back in the day, I asked my mom where my wife beater was. She said "WHAT?" Then when I found it and told her that's what they are called, she just started laughing so hard.

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Shameless522@reddit

One of my favorite expressions “I’m as serious as a bloody wifebeater”

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LimeSalty4092@reddit

It was called an undershirt until the 90s when I first heard them called “wife beater” which I believe was originally a joke but the term stuck.

Around same the time (late 90s) tank tops became popular for girls and women. I guess guys started wearing tank top style undershirts as outerwear more frequently. Hence a name was needed.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

A-Shirts. I learned that at Target a few years back when I grabbed undershirts and said "oh, i wanted wife beaters. Be right back"

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Forking_Shirtballs@reddit

Yeah, I remember when buying my first wifebeater back in the 90s, the package said A shirt.

I was looking at it recently, and it seems the Hanes packaging now just calls them "tank tops". Which sounds like the female version to me, but I guess it's gone unisex.

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gitismatt@reddit

they've always technically been called a-shirts. that is what was printed on the package

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

Oh I am sure. Fruit of the Loom didn't print "Wife Beaters" on the package. But 2022ish is when I realized don't call them wife beaters anymore.

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motion_thiccness@reddit

Idk if this is just a lesbian thing because I haven't heard it outside my community, but we say wife pleasers lol

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Fantastic_Acadian@reddit

I feel like calling it a "DV T" both fulfills and defeats the purpose of a new name for these things.

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EurekasCashel@reddit

That was always one of the more insane terms. It's just a tank top undershirt... and they were named wife beaters. And I still say it out of habit. A shirt never really caught on for me.

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She_Devours@reddit

My teenage son calls those wife lovers.

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revdon@reddit

significant other partner subjugation tees ?

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mrs-ghetto-gourmet@reddit

My ex calls 'em "wife respecters" but always says it with an exaggerated Southern drawl (we're from Memphis, lol)

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DefinitionSuperb1110@reddit

There have been attempts to rebrand them but the term will never go away. Stella Artois's nickname will always be Wife Beater.

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Crowley-Barns@reddit

It’s their own fault for using the slogan: Reassuringly Aggressive.

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I seriously just thought that's what they were called growing up. I didn't make the connection until later in life. I never purchased or wore them, but I would always refer the them as such without a second thought.

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Ippus_21@reddit

Pretty sure that's still what most people call them.

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seanymphcalypso@reddit

My 21 year old was wearing one not too long ago and I asked him “rocking the wife beater?” He was so genuinely caught off guard by it being called anything other than a tank top.

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joyreddit3@reddit

Suicides (sprint/running combo on a sports field) I’ve heard referred to as “ball busters”

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Flyin_Bryan@reddit

I don’t think kids use “gypped” anymore.

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Cold-Monk5436@reddit

Oh damn. Didn't know that's what that meant..... I also thought it was jipped.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

Same for "jewwed."

I am a jew, and sometimes when people would use "jew" as a verb in front of me, and then remember I'm there, they'd panic and sub-in with "gyp" instead.

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Shameless522@reddit

I had a customer tell me one day I need to Christian him down on the quote. As a Christian it caught me off guard and made me realize what it feels like to be in the other side of words.

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cheribom@reddit

As a kid, we spelled it “jipped” and in my area it exclusively meant to cut in line. Only recently learned the true origin.

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Global_Buddy_2210@reddit

I used it a year or two ago and got told it sad offensive to the gypsy community so there's that

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mrdrewc@reddit

We renamed our cat from Gypsy to Luna when we realized it was a slur.

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Specific_Anybody8306@reddit

https://i.redd.it/40t8zyqx3l4g1.gif

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Silent_Majority_89@reddit

TIL Gypped not jipped.

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tgerz@reddit

I've never seen it spelled and I have never made a connection to gypsies. Had no idea.

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palomdude@reddit

Me too. If I were asked to spell it, I would write jipped.

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maybeimbornwithit@reddit

Japanimation

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Cold-Monk5436@reddit

I still call it that. Is it considered racist?

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tango8911@reddit

Afghanistanimation

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PraetorianXVIII@reddit

Johnny Chimpo!

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SaintedRomaine@reddit

Is that what they do in Arabia, Thorny?

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Nacho_Sideboob@reddit

How the hell am I supposed know?

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Rendakor@reddit

Littering and

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Skywren7@reddit

Smoking the reefer

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

I’m so happy that went away!!!

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cranberries87@reddit

The E word referring to the Inuit people who live in cold climates.

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krnl_pan1c@reddit

What do they call it now when you rub noses with another person?

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bass_of_clubs@reddit

Liberal

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Advocateforthedevil4@reddit

My 4 year old says crisscross apple sauce still.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

If you’re in tech, it’s no longer master and slave. Now it’s primary and secondary.

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esmerelda_b@reddit

In real estate, it’s not the master bedroom, either

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Cold-Monk5436@reddit

What do you call it now?

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I never even thought of master in that way. More of "I am king of my castle. Master of my domain."

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Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit

Which is what “master bedroom” means. It’s completely unrelated to slavery.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

Ok good. Really just thought that is where the owners of the house live. Your parents mostly. Never thought slavery. House slaves of course were a thing but I never heard of a slave room.

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Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit

It’s from “master of the house” (meaning head of household). Master is literally the origin of the word “mister” (and Mrs/missus comes from mistress, which is feminine of master). There’s never been a time that “master” exclusively referred to a slavery context. (Think of things like master of ceremonies, masters degree, master carpenter, mastering a difficult concept, etc.) It’s weird and reductive to assume all uses of the word “master” were connected with slavery.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I am going to trust real estate doesnt use it anymore but man if they dont use it cause of slavery that just seems weird. I only thought the owner of the house. But again, I grew up with a lot of racist terms that I still haven't figured all of them out.

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

Go look at expensive real estate listings. It’s always “primary bedroom” and “primary suite”

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SilentButDanny@reddit

Maybe the expensive listing use this term but “master bedroom” is still very much in use in real estate.

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Jenikovista@reddit

There was a group claiming it was both racist and sexist.

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revdon@reddit

But the old “slave quarters” are now the “staff dormitory”

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

"I'm out!"

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daaaaamntam@reddit

r/unexpectedseinfeld

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buffysmanycoats@reddit

When did that happen and what do they call it now?

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vanwiekt@reddit

It’s now the primary bedroom, alternatives include "main bedroom" or "owner's suite". This shift in terminology is occurring in the real estate and design industries to avoid the historical connotations of "master," which can be perceived as racially insensitive and sexist. 🙄

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

I'm surprised at "Owners Suite" considering there was a push to rename "Owner" when it came to sports franchises. Didn't go anywhere, obviously, but I'm sure the sentiment is still out there.

For the record, I think it's all fucking stupid.

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RainerGerhard@reddit

In all fairness, to be offended by that term would require someone to be really, really dumb or incredibly dramatic.

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Available-Maize5837@reddit

Not even allowed to call it anything other than bedroom 1 in South Australia

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Selmarris@reddit

I mean it is kind of sexist. Women buy houses. I’m not sure I care that much in this exact context but I’m in favor of gender neutral terminology and this is just part of that trend.

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vanwiekt@reddit

I guess it could be sexist. It has never registered that way to me, more of a master of the house, a women can be the master of the house, my mother sure was.

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Selmarris@reddit

Yeah this context doesn’t bother me, but I guess if we’re gender neutralizing everything, a trend I agree with in general, then it makes sense?

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vanwiekt@reddit

I can see that. I’ve been using primary interchangeably with master for the past few years.

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usmcnick0311Sgt@reddit

I upvote the explanation. I down vote the eye roll

It is based on slave terms. We can change it to move away from connections to those bad things. You learned the name one way. Now, learn it another way. It doesn't hurt you and only makes us all better. I won't repeat what Brazil nuts used to be called. But, we don't call them that anymore and neither will the next generation and we're better for it.

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vanwiekt@reddit

It was never based on slave terms. The referred to the "master" of the house, or the head of the household, reflecting a traditional family structure.

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NukeTheEwoks@reddit

I work in the homebuilding industry and I mostly see "Owner's Bedroom"

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Us normies still call it a Master Bedroom

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

I'm already calling the bathroom the "Poop Office" I don't need another name for the ~~Pass Out Palace~~ bedroom.

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Timmonidus@reddit

Oh really, what is it now?

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muhhuh@reddit

I remember watching House Hunters International many years ago. The French real estate agent was talking about the “master bedroom” but the very French accent made it sound like “masturbate room”

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revdon@reddit

Don’t let the Mrs hear you say Mistress’ bedroom!

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Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit

Such a dumb hypercorrection.

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vanwiekt@reddit

Indeed. We love to over correct.

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exospheric@reddit

Similarly for real estate: primary bedroom instead of master

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RegressToTheMean@reddit

Where I am, it's called an Owners Suite

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adastra1930@reddit

Likewise “blocklist” and “allowlist”

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clobbersaurus@reddit

I’m not sure I’ve heard that before. Not that I use terminology often.

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mike_stifle@reddit

In tech and I need to work on correcting myself here.

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revdon@reddit

Thanks for putting that in black and white.

/s

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tgerz@reddit

These changes, I thought, were more helpful. Just clearer terminology that is a bit easier to understand at first glance.

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FenPhen@reddit

Alternatively "denylist."

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biopsy_results@reddit

I think that’s too reactionary, akin to baa baa purple sheep. So I wouldn’t propose that but I wouldn’t blink if I heard it.

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Turbulent_Tale6497@reddit

We are also not supposed to have standup. Not everyone can

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bumblebeetown@reddit

I’m in tech and I’m trying to make “ordinate” and “subordinate” stick, but no one is having it.

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cthulhu_on_my_lawn@reddit

I know IDE isn't really used any more, but I remember having a primary and secondary master and primary and secondary slave. Would that be a primary primary primary, primary secondary, secondary primary and secondary secondary?

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Forking_Shirtballs@reddit

This is niche, but my alma mater renamed the position of "master" to "magister" (which is Latin for master or teacher).

This came after a black student rightly noted that it didn't feel great to them to refer to as "master" the professor and their family (usually white) who live with their dorm in an effort to be a a resource and a bit of an adult influence.

Only took us 40 years post integration to figure that one out.

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faderjockey@reddit

And “male and female” for connector ends is currently in the process of being replaced with “plug and socket”

Although we have started using “leader and follower” instead of “master and slave” in audio.

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pursnikitty@reddit

Adobe indesign changed from master and slave pages to parent and child

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Emergency-Position24@reddit

Oh thank god, that always creeped me out.

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0dayssince@reddit

Same with photography- flashes are no longer master and slave.

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revdon@reddit

Manager and Subordinate ?

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biopsy_results@reddit

I have never heard primary/secondary, but I see lots of other metaphors depending on the context: ‘main’ instead of master for branches; ‘peripheral’ instead of slave for hardware.

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gwmccull@reddit

and the master branch has been renamed the main branch, at least in Github. I think Gitlab always used a different word

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PartTimeLegend@reddit

Run git init and you get master. I had a place complain about master so I renamed them all to cableselect.

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toaster-riot@reddit

It was a preference for a while and now it defaults to using main on a fresh install. They may have removed the preference after that, I'm not sure.

Try installing a newer version of git and I think it will switch unless you have some global git config overriding it or something.

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PartTimeLegend@reddit

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-Nutshell#:~:text=A%20branch%20in%20Git%20is,branch%20pointer%20moves%20forward%20automatically.

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lospotatoes@reddit

I snorted when I read this. Nicely done.

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ReststrahlenEffect@reddit

I’ve also heard controller and peripheral.

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Muddy_Wafer@reddit

Same in relationships…

ba-dum-tis

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I work in tech distribution and new people do not believe me when I describe HA units were using master and slave back in 2011.

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Skywren7@reddit

This might be regional...when we said we haven't experienced something in a long time we called it "in a grip." I.e. " Oh wow, I remember that song. I haven't heard it in a grip."

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Ippus_21@reddit

"Suicides." Those back-and-forth runs we used to do in the gym. Run to the freethrow line, back, then half-court, back, then the far freethrow line, back, then the whole court, and back.

I used that term with my middle school cross country team and got some major sideye.

"Ladders." They're called ladders now. Which is a more accurate description anyway.

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Rare_Matter_4248@reddit

Where are you from? We called them suicides when I was in school. After college when I started coaching high school they were called UCLAs. (So Cal)

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Ippus_21@reddit

Idaho

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Rare_Matter_4248@reddit

So it’s definitely a regional deal now.

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

I've heard them called ladder drills here in Chicago, too.

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gorilla-ointment@reddit

They were always ladders in Milwaukee asfaik. Never heard them called suicides

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

They were definitely suicides here back in the day.

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Ok-Maintenance-9538@reddit

We always called them ladders. A suicide is when you ran your cup down all the options at the soda machine

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correct_eye_is@reddit

Swamp water

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SlytherClaw79@reddit

According to my twelve year old, those are now called propane tanks.

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YOMAMACAN@reddit

We called both suicides!

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koyaani@reddit

There's also a 3rd meaning!

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DarkArtMarksman@reddit

lol this got me.

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kashy87@reddit

That's kids grog.

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impurehalo@reddit

We called these tornadoes also.

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DadBodMetalGod@reddit

That was called a train-wreck where I came from

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CalamityClambake@reddit

That's a graveyard.

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DisposableSaviour@reddit

Yeah, a suicide is just two drinks mixed together

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Ippus_21@reddit

That, too.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

That's just swamp water.

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burgundyblue@reddit

We always called mixing all the sodas at the fountain machine at the roller rink a suicide

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mindthecliche@reddit

My sons’s little league team (9-10yr) still calls them suicides—the preferred after game free soda for the whole league as far as I know. I was actually a bit surprised hearing them all gathered around the concession stand ordering them, ha.

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Rose1982@reddit

They still call them suicide runs at my kids’ school. Which is like… interesting. In general a pretty liberal/woke kind of school so it surprised me when my 11 year old came home with that verbiage.

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gitismatt@reddit

semi related would be indian runs, although I dont actually know what the new term is.

for those not familiar, it's a sports team workout. youd run in a single file line at a set pace, and the person from the back of the line would need to sprint to the front while the line is still moving at the set pace. once the back person is now the front person, the new back person sprints ahead

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Kangaroothless6@reddit

Our variation in soccer we’d either be on the track or running around the field and first person would have to take off and make a full loop and catch back up with the back of the pack. The pack would set a slowish pace but could be faster or slower depending on how well we liked the person running.

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MeatPopsicle10@reddit

We call them fartlek workouts (Swedish origin; pronounced fartlick) in cross-country.

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

We got a meat popsicle talking about licking farts over here.

Good morning, world.

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

semi related would be indian runs, although I dont actually know what the new term is.

What about Indian burns, too?

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Resident-Device-2814@reddit

We always called them caterpillars.

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wesborland1234@reddit

Idk suicide was pretty accurate to me.

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MrsBeckett@reddit

My daughter calls them killers. I think that's what her gymnastics coach calls them, I'm not sure about her gym teacher calls them. (Anyone else have the teachers who insisted on being called Phy-Ed teacher, and they didn't know who "Jim" is? I hated those teachers)

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karatechop97@reddit

We called them “gassers” or “line drills”

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Holofernes_Head@reddit

Not sure what those drills were called, but when I was little “Suicide” was a variety of wall-ball. You’d take turns whipping a ball (usually a racketball) into a wall and try to catch the rebound. If you fumbled the catch, you had to run and touch the wall before someone else recovered the ball and hit you with it, always at the fastest, most pain inducing speed possible.

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81toog@reddit

Ha! We called that game suicide too. Seattle area early 90s

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cityshepherd@reddit

Core memory unlocked. 6th grade it was the best game ever. 7th grade we were not allowed to play because they were building another gymnasium. We were told “you can play on the great big new outside wall of the new gym next year”. They didn’t let us play in 8th grade either, and the gym wasn’t finished until the next year when I’d already left.

Missed out on two years of wall ball. Missed out on a brand new gym by one year. Missed out on a fucking pool at my high school which was ready the year after I graduated. Played football in college, and wouldn’t you know they replaced the horrifically dangerous and ancient astroturf with the nicest newest artificial turf… you guessed it, the year after I graduated.

Overall it was worth it though because I was lucky enough to be a part of some epic championship teams in high school & college. I’m still bitter about the wall ball though.

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toasterb@reddit

Same in Connecticut around the same time frame

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Drummerboybac@reddit

We called that Spud for some reason

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wintercast@reddit

Maryland - callled wall ball in the 90s.

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flimflammed@reddit

We called that Stretch! Perhaps best played with a Super Pinky.

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Si_Titran@reddit

We called that butts up 🤣

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Ok-Network-4475@reddit

Asses up

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

A suicide is a mixture or drinks at the fountain, e.g. 1/3 Dr. Pepper, 1/3 Coke and 1/3 Sprite.

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Jerrica_xoxo@reddit

Idk i graduated like three years ago and we called them suicides, i think it regional

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Persis-@reddit

The “grapevines” I used to do for sports warmups is now “karaoke.”

No clue why it changed.

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fit-fan-13@reddit

Yeah. I learned they’re now called “lines” where I live. 😆

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Cromasters@reddit

I don't know that saying "The kids are doing lines." sounds better!

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Swimming-Trifle-899@reddit

I remember getting detention as a morose teen for asking why my gym teacher was making us do runs called “suicides” in 1994, after a rather prominent suicide.

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Chimpbot@reddit

We always called those Crushers, and I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s.

It's one of those things that already seemed to have a few named variations.

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Cisru711@reddit

Ladders implies climbing. Which you aren't doing. Progressions might be a better term.

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RinoaRita@reddit

Yeah why were they called that? It’s one thing when it’s kinda accurate but terrible but that never made much sense.

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revdon@reddit

What was wrong with “wind sprints”?

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I seriously thought you meant actual suicide. I know TikTok hates that word so people use others now.

Nope, just the gym torture move.

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jrunner02@reddit

We also don't say "(someone) committed suicide" or "(someone) died from suicide" anymore. We just say they passed away or died.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I will still say the first one. I won't the second. First date with my last girlfriend we talked about Linkin Park. This was like a year after Chester died. I said depression killed him.

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jenness977@reddit

A "suicide" or "suicide drop" at my elementary school was when you sat on top of the highest bar on the playground and fell forward, no hands, only using your knees to grip the bar and then flipped off and landed, hopefully on your feet. Idk if anyone actually accomplished this. It seemed more of a theoretical thing in my mind.

The "death drop" was my fav where you fall backwards, no hands and flip off the bar, landing on your feet

. The "lemon drop" was holding the bar with your hands as you spun forward before flipping off the bar and landing on the ground. Good memories

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SoCalChrisW@reddit

Indian Runs, too.

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Delta-IX@reddit

Oh tomahawk runs/relays?

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6BigZ6@reddit

I think it was also more basketball court related, because when we did this in soccer we called it something else, although should have been called suicides because those last three of hitting the box, the penalty marker, and then finally the goal line, were brutal. IIRC, we called them ladders in football, which seemed more appropriate considering the hash marks on a football field are more similar to actual ladder rungs.

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Evening_Ad_1099@reddit

Gof damn 97 basketball tryouts

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sanedragon@reddit

In hockey, they've been renamed two monsters.

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

My kids teams still call them suicides

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YOMAMACAN@reddit

Ive been wondering what they’re called more but none of my kids play basketball and they had no idea what I was talking about.

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gwmccull@reddit

I think we mostly called them liners but I do remember hearing of suicides also

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AndrewInMN@reddit

I think we called them killers.

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elsie78@reddit

Oh gawd I hated suicides. They were the worst.

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SpaceLemur34@reddit

The hash symbol, aka the pound sign, is now the "hashtag" symbol because people didn't understand that the symbol was the "hash" and the word was the "tag"

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spuldup@reddit

This is brought up in the very underrated show Loudermilk, which I wholeheartedly recommend.

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FabiusBill@reddit

Aka: the octothorp.

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rex_tremende@reddit

Genuine question: if # was called the pound sign, then what did you call £

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impurehalo@reddit

Both were called pound.

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CrazyMinute69@reddit

gif

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xRVAx@reddit

#cake

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

I'd like to take this opportunity to express my undying OUTRAGE that they no longer make Tunnel of Fudge bundt cakes.

Fuck Betty Crocker.

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xRVAx@reddit

Lubs

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

? That was also a pound. In your world, do you never call two different things by the same name, like the fruit orange and the color orange?

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revdon@reddit

£ was the pound symbol

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lospotatoes@reddit

Genuine answer: outside the UK that symbol almost never appears in daily use and there's no easy way to type it with your keyboard.

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rex_tremende@reddit

That's quite interesting; I didn't know that.

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vanwiekt@reddit

British pound. 🤪

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SpaceLemur34@reddit

The # is used for pounds of weight, and is derived from the ℔ (lb bar). The £ comes just from the letter L. Both ultimately derive from the Latin "libra pondo" meaning pounds weight.

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pburydoughgirl@reddit

This sounds made up, but it’s totally true. The first hashtag I ever saw was #puppies and I read it as “pound puppies.”

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bubba0077@reddit

Pound Puppies? A Xennial two-fer.

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WineAndDogs2020@reddit

They're called "shelter puppies" now.

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brazilliandanny@reddit

“Unhoused puppies”

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Ok_Consequence7829@reddit

Unhoused non humans that identify as puppies

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amccune@reddit

Oh man. Perfection in a comment.

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buttithurtss@reddit

You mean the Octothorpe?!??

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miclugo@reddit

I have heard that this can even extend to calling musical notes "F hashtag", but this might be a joke.

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Jintokunogekido@reddit

They called that symbol a "sharp" in Korea before hashtags as well.

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sjp1980@reddit

And funnily enough we always knew it as a hash symbol in NZ so hashtag made sense...to a point. We were then wondering why suddenly people who we thought used pound were now using hash!

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Alas my poor maligned octothorpe. Of course "pound" did give rise to a tragic yet funny joke about

#MeToo

--Attribution unknown

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ooooooootreyngers@reddit

Got me 😆

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Ok-Network-4475@reddit

It's called an octothorpe

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UnslakableTemperance@reddit

Also previously known as the number sign. Makes searching for things like comics a chore sometimes.

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VaryaKimon@reddit

I was giving the gate code to my complex to an Uber driver and I said "pound (numbers)" and he looked at me like I was crazy. He had no idea what the pound sign is, so I just say hashtag now.

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BudFox34@reddit

The unhoused

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ScreenPuzzleheaded48@reddit

Nah man they homeless, not giving that one up

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throwawaytoday9q@reddit

It’s weird because this one in particular is such a lateral move to me. It means basically the same thing as the original.

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abstraction47@reddit

I always took it mean that homeless means you don’t have a place of your own but usually have places you can sleep indoors. Couch surfing, etc. unhoused is for people literally roughing it.

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Down623@reddit

Yeah that's how I've viewed it. It's not that they don't have a place of their own that they've decorated or whatever the fuck, it's that this person is in need of literal shelter.

Like in my mind, if you're sleeping in a car, that's homeless, but not unhoused. Unhoused is like under a bridge or on a park bench or something. It's splitting hairs maybe, and those aren't perfect examples, but that's now the change always made sense to me.

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Indubitalist@reddit

A lot of these “sensitivity” changes are lateral. It’s like with how you describe unintelligent people, short people, or overweight people. You can call them different things but they will eventually take on a negative and/or insulting connotation and then you have to come up with another term.

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jevring@reddit

The euphemism treadmill at work...

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Specific_Anybody8306@reddit

https://i.redd.it/tlrufi4a4l4g1.gif

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

Even further back, "Hobo"

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graveybrains@reddit

I don't get that one. Who benefits from making a big fucking problem sound like a minor inconvenience?

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Own_Negotiation897@reddit

I’ve seen Urban campers

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mickeltee@reddit

To go with this one, they’re trying to make “justice involved individuals” a thing instead of criminals.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

I didn't believe you at first, because I'm in a field that deals a lot with conscious language choices. And I've never come across this one. So I looked it up, and you're right (the first two words are hyphenated).

I can see not wanting to perpetually call someone a "criminal" if they've served their punishment and are now a law-abiding citizen. But that seems like a clunky choice that isn't going to last. The clunkiest ones never do.

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mickeltee@reddit

That’s my issue with it. I’m all for second chances and I would gladly invite a new word, but this isn’t it.

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faderjockey@reddit

Well that at least keeps “innocent until proven guilty” in play, and tries to separate non violent weed possession offenders and litterers from father rapers instead of putting them all on the Group W bench.

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Indubitalist@reddit

“The differently libertied”

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

Smear the qu**r

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HopeThisIsUnique@reddit

Yeah that one came to mind...wonder if it got renamed, or died off entirely....

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canwealljusthitabong@reddit

There’s a discussion about it upthread. It just got renamed.

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B-Rad911@reddit

It seems all relationship definitions went from boyfriend/girlfriend, fiancée, husband/wife to “partner”.

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Indubitalist@reddit

Yeah I see a lot of this and it kinda irks me since that term used to be much more “business partner,” and every time I hear it used in a romantic context my brain has to translate it. “Partner” feels like an expression that’s going to wear out its welcome pretty quickly and get replaced with another term.

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unknownun2891@reddit

I’ve been using this term since my early 30’s. It felt juvenile to say “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” when we had passed the dating stage and were building a future together but not engaged or married. To me, it signified more than a high school romance but less than an engagement.

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

For the future bank robberies…

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Herky_T_Hawk@reddit

There’s a game where one kid has a football and everyone else tries to tackle him. After he’s tackled, he gives up the ball and someone else takes it beginning the game again. Today they call it Kill the Keeper.

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Past-Climate-8257@reddit

We called it either Kill the Carrier or Cream the Carrier

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Down623@reddit

Yeah on Long Island in the 90s it was Kill the Carrier. Never heard the Smear one until I read it in a book I think

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Hypnot0ad@reddit

I learned smear the queer in south FL. Then I moved to RI and the kids called it muckle.

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Clams_N_Scallops@reddit

Up here 'round Boston we called it Smeah the Queeah.

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venk@reddit

Did the original name rhyme with “near the deer”?

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Guilty_Primary8718@reddit

For those who aren’t English savvy it’s smear the queer, a mean name for lgbt folks.

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NukeTheEwoks@reddit

Which, tbf, isn't the way the word queer is intended in the game.

Queer in this context means "odd one out". However, because the word also became a slur, it was appropriately renamed, due to bad optics.

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atmighty@reddit

Which is also where the LGBTQ term comes from.

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SilentButDanny@reddit

And don’t they call themselves queer? Like how is that a bad thing, or is it a gate-kept word now?

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Salt-Contact-3414@reddit

I am not from the US and I have no idea what this is!

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WheelLeast1873@reddit

Lol yup

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This_Fkn_Guy_@reddit

Yuuuuup

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seamusfurr@reddit

We called it Kill the Man with the Ball in Florida.

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danilase9@reddit

Same in upstate NY

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Ok-Network-4475@reddit

Same in Jersey

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aqiwpdhe@reddit

Surprised they haven’t renamed it again to “Unalive the Keeper”.

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revdon@reddit

Unalive the Usurper

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seriouslynope@reddit

It's not a YouTube algorithm

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CitizenCue@reddit

I thought this was called rugby.

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tonhtubra@reddit

We would play this occasionally at youth group in the late 90s and I was confused when the youth pastor called it “smear the peer”. It was only then that I realized queer was being used in a derogatory way for that name. I had always just thought it was a stupid rhyme because there was nothing strange about tackling someone just because they were a ball carrier. Because surely that’s all the name meant since I learned that name from maybe my dad or uncle and that’s how they used that term back in the day…just like in the old times songs we sang in choir where it was used.

I also didn’t realize the racist term for ding-dong-ditch was actually using the N-word until I moved to a less rural area and didn’t understand why people said ding-dong-ditch. I think I thought people were saying knickerknocking, like knickerbockers.

I was a naive child who didn’t hear things very well.

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tbs999@reddit

Maybe you were naive but bigotry is learned. If you’re not exposed to it there’s no reason to assume you immediately pick up on it.

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BellaCrash3487@reddit

I came here to say this but wasn’t sure how - you did it with class. Props.

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Mondoweft@reddit

We used to call it "kill the dill with the pill". Often played with medicine balls to slow down the fast runners.

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Inevitable_Channel18@reddit

When I was a kid living in New England at the time, it was called “Smeah tha Queeah”

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PreposterousTrail@reddit

We called it Kill the Carrier, and that was around 1990, so that might be a regional rather than temporal difference

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Hitthereset@reddit

I went to a Christian elementary school in the early 90s and when we talked amongst ourselves we called it what you'd expect we'd call it. When teachers were around we called it "bumble fumble." I wonder what they call it, or if they even play it anymore.

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

That’s an impressively sophisticated euphemism. A little like the phantom Mr. Bunbury (pronounced ‘bumbree’) from Oscar Wilde. But ‘bumble fumble’ is actually better, it’s at least a quadruple entendre.

I might start using it for the thing I’ve done since high school that made me eligible for smearing.

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key_buds@reddit

And what was this game called? Just kidding... I always wondered what it's called now

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FollowingNo4648@reddit

I watched enough HGTV to noticed how "master" bedrooms are now called "primary" bedrooms. I'll watch an episode of something like 10 years ago and they say "master bath" like 20 times so this change came about pretty recently.

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nin4nin@reddit

Used to say “I got jipped” out of something until I learned it was making fun of a Gypsy stereotype

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nin4nin@reddit

And now gypsies are called roma

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Nephite11@reddit

Things. Somehow they’re now “flip flops” and I hate the change

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canwealljusthitabong@reddit

My grandma definitely used to call them thongs. She probably still does.

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karatechop97@reddit

Agree — and the footwear was pronounced “tongs” while the underwear was pronounced “thong”

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graveybrains@reddit

I blame Sisqo

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

Born in ‘78, they were always flop-flops

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ToeProfessional7852@reddit

My mom called them thongs back in the day (80s), you just made me remember that!

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LassieDear@reddit

I’m from Florida and have called them flip flops my entire life

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cthulhu_on_my_lawn@reddit

I'm from Michigan and same. I never heard them called thongs until recently.

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Funkopedia@reddit

Yes they absolutely used to be called thongs, but now I always get the ones without the column aka "thong" in the middle so the name would technically be incorrect anyway.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

In your regional area, yes. In my regional area, they were always called flip flops.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Regional. I only ever knew them as flip flops. Born in the late '70s like you.

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

They were only thongs to old people where I lived, because everyone else knew the term for the type of bikini bottom starting in the 80s.

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

That was mostly a regional thing or something because I always heard them as flip flops being from the NE of the states and then moved to the west coast. I heard someone call them thongs (not sure where that person was from originally) but immediately thought "ew no it's flip flops" lol

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Surrybee@reddit

Reading all of the responses to you, I just want to be in your corner and say my aunt definitely called them thongs.

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CalamityClambake@reddit

They were always flip flops. Thongs are bathing suit bottoms with butt floss.

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revdon@reddit

The Thong Song came out about 25 years after Americans were introduced to ‘thong sandals’. Did you think the confusion was from after the song came out?

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CalamityClambake@reddit

Idk? OP didn't say? Americans were introduced to flip flops in 1942 and have been calling them that since then. Idk when "thong sandals" started because that wasn't a thing we said.

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revdon@reddit

I was introduced to them in the 70s as “thongs” and called them that well into the 90s. Suddenly younger people had redefined thong as something very different.

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kantmarg@reddit

I only knew some people called them thongs because of the Friends episode.

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dragon_morgan@reddit

no I remember the sandals being called thongs too until the thong song came out and then overnight it exclusively meant underwear

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CalamityClambake@reddit

The only people I know who called flipflops "thongs" were Australian. In the US West and Midwest they were always flip flops afaik. A quick look at the OED has the term used in 1942.

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SoCalChrisW@reddit

Grew up in southern California, we called them thongs in the 80s and 90s.

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Atarihouse@reddit

We called them both things and flip flops in my part of coastal Southern California

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OkPie8905@reddit

We called them thongs in Canada before the dental floss bikinis became popular then ee flip flopped

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HugeTheWall@reddit

What part? From ON and I never heard of that term until the buttfloss variety appeared.

Also, take my upvote for that pun

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OkPie8905@reddit

The okanagan. Spent lots of time on the beach with my rainbow coloured thongs as a little kid :)

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Daphne-odora@reddit

In the Midwest 80s & 90s we called them thongs too. My mom still does

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CalamityClambake@reddit

Idk, we definitely called them flip flops on the beach at Lake Erie in 1986.

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TALieutenant@reddit

It's funny that my mom (70) and grandma (90) were talking a few weeks ago about thongs now being called flip flops. They've both lived in a variety of states (Grandpa was in the Air Force) so I'm not sure where they picked it up.

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beatlegirlstl@reddit

Grew up in Missouri and we called them thongs.

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dragon_morgan@reddit

idk my mom called them thongs and she was a conservative boomer from colorado who would never fathom talking about the other kind of thongs

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Gr00mpa@reddit

Flip-flops definitely were called thongs in some areas. Growing up, people I knew called them thongs. I haven't heard them called them that in decades, though.

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

Try Jandals instead!

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Available-Maize5837@reddit

Found the kiwi

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PreposterousTrail@reddit

Kiwi?

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

Of course

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Available-Maize5837@reddit

Aussie?

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Selmarris@reddit

They were always flip flops. Thongs go in your butt.

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RedOktbr28@reddit

Born in ‘81, always knew them as flip flops (grew up on the east coast). Thongs are a different thing altogether 🤣

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Lazy_Mood_4080@reddit

Sameeeeeee

Never called flip flops "thongs"

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sanguineheroine@reddit

My Kiwi husband unironically calls them 'jandals'.

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VixxenFoxx@reddit

Indian giving

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EveningRequirement27@reddit

Yep, can’t say that. Now it’s just rene….

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FatReverend@reddit

What do they call it now?

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revdon@reddit

A “limited time offer”?

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slugboi@reddit

This gave me a hearty chuckle.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

Same, I fucking spit laughed so hard.

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tgerz@reddit

I haven't thought about this one in a long time. What's wild is how many times European and American gov's were the ones who offered indigenous peoples something and then either fully betrayed or took it back.

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kateastrophic@reddit

I thought that’s what it meant. Giving (to Indians) and then taking it back.

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tgerz@reddit

I think that is an interpretation, but I would say that a lot of people (majority maybe?) associate it with "Indian", because it's like word association.

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ACoinGuy@reddit

Anyone want to trade their land for a treaty. This time will for sure honor it….

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ItchyBlackberry722@reddit

Raw dogging! I can't handle people using it for everything now. 🤣

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LimeSalty4092@reddit

But This was never a commonly used word until recently?

I never heard rawdogging said colloquially during the 90s, 2000s, or any of our formative years.

Only popularized in the last 5-7 years 10 max.

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aroundincircles@reddit

I drive 4 teenagers to school every morning, that is one of the banned phrases in my car. I made it stick by describing what that actually means, so now they are too embarrassed to say it around me. If I can only get them to stop saying “bru”…

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dudical_dude@reddit

That really blows. I mean sucks.

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kissmeimfamous@reddit

The essence is still there even when used outside of sex. During Covid I would say people in public without masks were just “raw dogging air”

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

It still means that to me. I can't use it otherwise.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

You don't want to know what my town called Ding Dong Ditch.

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glavent@reddit

Well now I want to know! We’re adults here!

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nicunta@reddit

Hard R word knocking...

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Bandit6789@reddit

Don’t you mean N?

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Forking_Shirtballs@reddit

In my neighborhood I understood the accepted term to be knickerknocking.

But some older kids said it with a hard g sound in place of the first ck.

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thepuncroc@reddit

JFC,.it took me a minute to remember what it used to be called.

Then it hit.

Yuuuuup.

But it was only for doors without doorbells.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

It didn't hit me until I was well into adulthood holy shit the amount of things growing up I needed to get passed.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

Yeah, grew up in rural Florida and the normalized childhood slang I grew up around is best left in the script of Django.

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Dazzling_Line_8482@reddit

We called Nicky Nicky 9 doors

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I can tell you why on the first two words...

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Pita_Girl@reddit

Yep. When/where I grew up we called it something similar but…

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revdon@reddit

Can you do it with a truncheon?

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

Sure depending on skin tone.

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

That one was so gratuitous. It didn’t even make sense. Straight white middle school boys in the 90s are still to this day the worst people I have ever met.

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Calculusshitteru@reddit

I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood, I was literally the only white kid on the block, but even all the black kids around me called it n***a knocking. I knew as a white kid I couldn't call it that though.

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cupcakerainbowlove@reddit

I’ve never even heard this… it’s a wonder how not… and another on in this comment section either.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

I grew up and lived in a poor white trailer trash neighborhood but I went to a predominately black school and for real I heard the N word probably more in one day at school than I did in all the years of living in my neighborhood.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

HEY! I resemble that!

I am joking. I know we more or less were fucking awful. But my town was also a sundown town. We didn't make these up. We were taught them.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

We had that one in my hometown, too.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

Did you also have another term for fixing something cheaply?

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

We absolutely did.

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zombietrooper@reddit

Y’all must be from Florida too.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

Buffalo New York. Once named the most racist town in the US by Twitter.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

They might not be wrong but I wouldn't exactly quote twitter as a source.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

It was a survey they did on most uses of the N word in an area code. No context, just use. Does it prove we are the most racist? Of course not. Shows why I learned the term as I did? Maybe.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

I mentioned to someone else I grew up in a white trailer trash neighborhood but went to predominately black schools. I heard it more in one day at school than I did probably the entire time I lived in that neighborhood. The googles says that Buffalo's black population about 36% (as of the last census data). So...I don't know. Maybe that has something to do with it.

of course, that doesn't account for someplace like Jackson, Mississippi which is 82% black so maybe there's something to it, anyway.

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threefeetoffun-@reddit

36% sounds about right. It's also a heavily segregated city. Black people as a community live in one area. So when in 2022 someone drove to Buffalo to kill black people we werent shocked on where he picked.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

Virginia.

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_jjkase@reddit

My dad told me about a baby-shaped gummy from when he grew up that started the same.

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This_Fkn_Guy_@reddit

Yeaaaa

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WhiskeyGirl223@reddit

We must be from the same town

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sarkoh_37@reddit

Stuffed animals are now stuffies

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performa62@reddit

The DL in baseball is now the injured list instead.

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KarenEiffel@reddit

What did "DL" stand for? I'm not a baseball person.

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karatechop97@reddit

Disabled List.

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Intrepid_Elk_4351@reddit

Tether ball...it's now just Tether

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Intrepid_Elk_4351@reddit

Yugoslavia

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mamabird2020@reddit

Someone corrected me for using the term china instead of porcelain and I was embarrassed - had no idea that was offensive and still confused about it.

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karatechop97@reddit

Ok that’s ridiculous. It’s called fine China because the style literally came from China.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

I think they were pulling your leg. Just don't capitalize it if you're writing about grandma's set of fine china.

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Trick-Session2388@reddit

I threw a fancy tea party with my grandmother's china set and that never did come up.

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Indubitalist@reddit

I am also now confused as I had not heard this.

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xRVAx@reddit

Starfish are now sea stars

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CreativeUsurname@reddit

Istanbul was once Constantinople

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Substantial-Ad2200@reddit

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

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SlowGoat79@reddit

Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head. Thanks!

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WasteGeologist-90210@reddit

Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople

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Hoppy_Hessian@reddit

So if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.

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graveybrains@reddit

Even old New York was once new Amsterdam

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faderjockey@reddit

Why’d they change it?

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Important_Tennis936@reddit

I can't say

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emoorangez@reddit

People just liked it better that way

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dogtroep@reddit

But that’s nobody’s business but the Turks’!

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ElvisAaron@reddit

Why did Constantinople get the works?!

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MyKidsArentOnReddit@reddit

Czechoslovakia

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Funkopedia@reddit

Zaire is one I sometimes say wrong

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Dicky_Penisburg@reddit

Vell vich one is it?

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Second_City_Saint@reddit

I went to an all boys Catholic school for K-4th grade. The first time someone found Niger on a globe in the mid 80s...

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theguineapigssong@reddit

Well, the country split in two and each of the new county got to keep half the name.

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markamscientist@reddit

Czech Republic changed its name to Czechia a few years back.

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afakefox@reddit

What about Lithuania? I think that doesnt exist now, right? What's that now?

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markamscientist@reddit

Nah, they're still going as Lithuania.

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Selmarris@reddit

Ooh crap I didn’t even realize that was the same country.

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markamscientist@reddit

Yeah think they voted on it. Turkey also became Türkiye

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megamanx4321@reddit

Zaire

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nobearable@reddit

Apparently I was so checked out of the news cycle in my early adulthood that I thought I'd lost my mind when I couldn't find the country. I'd done a book report on Zaire as a kid. For some reason, this name change really unsettled me.

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Past-Climate-8257@reddit

Myanmar but it will always be Burma to me.

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buttithurtss@reddit

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BigAccess6408@reddit

What is that the discount pharmacy?

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RedDawnWlvrines@reddit

Are you an assassin?

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Novel_Ad_9575@reddit

You there on the motorbike - sell me one of your melons!

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onesleekrican@reddit

Turkey is not Türkiye

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El_Duder_Abides@reddit

That was a close shave

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revdon@reddit

With whiskers gone you’ll be the rave keep ‘em gone with Myanmar Shave

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revdon@reddit

Watch out for Myanmarian pythons.

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Clams_N_Scallops@reddit

I might just be able to make the last fanboat out of here.

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Scrounger888@reddit

Yugoslavia too.

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6BigZ6@reddit

Had an old family friend who fled Yugoslavia, and to this day I still call peanuts “penyuts” because that’s how he pronounced it.

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SneakerTreater@reddit

I met a bloke once, introduced himself as Yugo.

"Nice to meet you, Hugo." I say, sticking out a hand.

"No. Yugo." He replied, my hand hanging.

"Sorry, Yugo." Slow shake.

Scariest n-word pass.

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revdon@reddit

New Amsterdam

Constantinople

New Holland

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markamscientist@reddit

It became multiple different countries, it didn't just change its name.

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OrchidLeader@reddit

Turkey (now Türkiye)

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ShartFlex@reddit

Guy was an interior decorator

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BulkyOrder9@reddit

Does Yakko need to rewrite the song?

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faderjockey@reddit

Rockapella does too

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itsmiddylou@reddit

He did!

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mrstanksmom@reddit

No way! It's perfection even if a bit dated. I don't think I have the brain capacity to relearn the song if it is updated

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nightmer5@reddit

Underrated comment

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Remember New Delhi?

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novisimo@reddit

I used to live in the Czech Republic. Now it's czechia. This was 20 years ago. Wild. Will always be Czech Republic to me.

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EasternCode2688@reddit

czechoslovakia was kinda cool tho, vibes were different

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Past-Climate-8257@reddit

West Germany (FRG) East Germany (GDR). Both were separate countries when we were born.

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a_solid_6@reddit

And the Soviet Union

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esmerelda_b@reddit

Rochambeau was called “paper, rock, scissors”

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graveybrains@reddit

Jan ken FIGHT!

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

Paper, then scissors, then rock

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makerofrandomthings@reddit

I thought that was when I kick you in the nuts as hard as I can, then you kick me in the nuts as hard as you can, and we keep going back and forth until somebody falls.

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

That's what I knew it as.

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revdon@reddit

Or you get the first kick in and concede while the other guy is writhing on the ground.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Ahem, it was called rock, paper, scissors.

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DocBEsq@reddit

It was John Cam Po (phonetic, since I’ve never seen it written) at my elementary school.

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JumboThornton@reddit

The master bedroom and bathroom are now the main bedroom and bathroom. And I teach graphic design so this one isn’t as well known but master pages in Adobe InDesign are now parent pages.

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johnnyhammerstixx@reddit

People were calling the 'master suite' the 'owners suite'.

I was like, that didn't accomplish what you think it did...

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dkonigs@reddit

The was all part of the great performative language change during the summer of 2020.

Since then, we're now supposed to banish certain words from the English language, even if they were the most obvious and appropriate terms for certain things.

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Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit

I’m with you. These are such stupid hypercorrections since the use of the word “master” in these contexts is completely unrelated to slavery.

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MeinePerle@reddit

Sure, a bit of over correction, but in the IT world master and slave servers absolutely were a thing.

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2020hindsightis@reddit

What were child pages called before

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Substantial-Ad2200@reddit

Sitting Indian style

Master bedroom

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i_never_lost_control@reddit

Getting jewed. I was watching people's court and a guy said he got jewed and the judge quickly corrected him. Im kinda shocked they aired it.

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2020hindsightis@reddit

What does it mean?

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Pale_Row1166@reddit

Same as getting gypped

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IpeeInclosets@reddit

Not that nuance is really important here, but "jew" simply means being either cheap or frugal

Getting gypped is to rip someone off or cheat or steal from them.

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PhysicalBullfrog7199@reddit

My MIL said someone tried to "jew her down" and my jaw dropped. I'm probably the most jewish person she's ever known being a quarter and I was speechless. She's pretty county, in the Bible belt, there are a whole bunch of offensive things coming out of her mouth.

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Pale_Row1166@reddit

Jewish Lightning too, although I don’t know what that’s called now

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OkPie8905@reddit

Retirement is now called death

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lgndk11r@reddit

No, no, we're supposed to say "unaliving" /s

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

Unaliving is murder, not death

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nobearable@reddit

I still don't understand why we're not calling it "murder". Is it the mix-up risk with a bunch of crows that offends?

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

TikTok and Reels, etc. don’t let you say certain keywords if they detect them in your submissions. That, or they tag your videos and show them to different audiences if they detect certain words.

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idontknowhat2put182@reddit

gif

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EyeDclareBankruptcy@reddit

I legit just LOL’d.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

And then 😭

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kgcatlin@reddit

Master bedroom is now primary bedroom.

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jbwest17@reddit

I had a coworker get coached a few years ago for saying during a meeting that they needed to have a “pow-wow” to discuss something outside the meeting.

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smokeshack@reddit

People who smoked pot in the 90s~2000s: there was a wildly racist term for putting your lips too far up on the pipe/joint that is being passed around. Is there a non-racist term for it?

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Drew_of_all_trades@reddit

Do Atlanta Braves fans still do the Tomahawk Chop?

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JoeInMD@reddit

Sudden death overtime is now sudden victory

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misdirected_asshole@reddit

Istanbul was Constantinople. Now its Instanbul, not Constantinople.

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non_clever_username@reddit

I don’t think you’re supposed to call it the loony bin anymore.

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aravarth@reddit

Easy Peasy Japanesy –> Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.

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non_clever_username@reddit

Tbh I think the only time I’ve heard the original was in Shawshank Redemption.

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KarenEiffel@reddit

Thanks for posting this, I was unaware of the "new" phrase, though I knew/know the former is bad. Nice to have an alternative as for some reason this is something I say often, just leaving off the last bit.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

Anyone else remember AIDS being called GRIDS?

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jevring@reddit

I have heard of this, but never actually heard someone irl use the term GRIDS.

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

I'd forgotten until this reminder. Gross that they felt they needed to call it out as a "gay-related" disease. Probably killed thousands by perpetuating a falsehood that it could be transmitted by straight sex.

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berdulf@reddit

I don’t recall GRIDS. Along those lines, I remember some homophobe clown somewhere coming up with Anally Injected Death Sentence.

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atmighty@reddit

I'm sure you mean "could NOT be transmitted by straight sex"?

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Efficient-Log-4425@reddit

?

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revdon@reddit

Or “gay cancer”. SMH

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Don_T_Blink@reddit

Ask any European about these:

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jevring@reddit

Here in Germany they're called "super dickmanns"...

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HeyBird33@reddit

Hey European, what are these?

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MeinePerle@reddit

N-word kisses. Now just Kisses. Usually.

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HicJacetMelilla@reddit

I had to look them up because I love all candy.

Negerzoen, a marshmallow treat. I found an article that says now they’re just called Zoen, but a European could confirm how true that is.

They look delicious

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Indubitalist@reddit

Wait, so Hershey Kisses are rooted in that term?

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kantmarg@reddit

Wait what are these?

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PlaceboRoshambo@reddit

Oh. No.

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DisposableSaviour@reddit

Bonbons?

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slapwerks@reddit

Teacher work days are now “digital learning days”

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919_919@reddit

Washington Redskins

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Massive-Resort-8573@reddit

It's now the "primary bedroom".

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Funkopedia@reddit

Might be generational, but also might be regional. We used to play a catch game we called "Keepaway" but my neices, who are only 10 years younger than me, called it "Monkey in the Middle"

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AlferdPacker-@reddit

Always knew it as "Pickle in the Middle"

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

We played "monkey in the middle" in the '80s, so it's not a new thing.

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CrushyOfTheSeas@reddit

I’m from Michigan. For us in the 80’s, monkey in the middle was a keep a way variant where the person who was it was in the middle and everyone else had to throw the ball over or around them. If they got it, the new person was now in the middle.

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Into-the-stream@reddit

I’m older then you, and we used both terms, but monkey in the middle was way more common.

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Dazzling_Line_8482@reddit

We used to call that Piggy in the Middle.

But that was body shaming so they changed it (to something that to me sounds racist)

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toasterb@reddit

I grew up with Monkey in the Middle (East Coast US), but my kids (Vancouver, BC) call it Piggy in the Middle.

Never really thought much about the connotations on either one.

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YOMAMACAN@reddit

We just called it piggy. Actually my mom’s a boomer and that’s what she called it, too.

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EverybodyHits@reddit

When I was a kid, monkey in the middle was a subset of keepaway when there was only one person trying to get the ball. Keepaway was more of a team thing with 2+ on 2+

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GorganzolaVsKong@reddit

They call suicides shuttles

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More-read-than-eddit@reddit

Gulf of Mexico :/

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

Does anyone actually use the "new" name? I have never heard nor seen it in the wild.

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Indubitalist@reddit

Seems like it was a thing for about a month and then people either went back to calling it the Gulf of Mexico or found artful ways to avoid using the name.

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lost_horizons@reddit

I saw lots of Tshirts being sold, and signs (including one huge metal one bolted up at the state park beach) last month when I was in Florida. Some folks are still really pushing it.

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OrchidLeader@reddit

I bought a paper road atlas recently (mostly for the nostalgia), and it used “Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)”. I didn’t think anyone was taking that seriously.

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faderjockey@reddit

Yeah, some people use it as a shibboleth - companies use it to signal compliance

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swiggs313@reddit

Here in Florida, it’s always referred to as the Gulf and it always will be.

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bookfaery02@reddit

Florida locals use Gulf of Mexico. I only see the snowbirds wearing hats and shirts that say Gulf of America.

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ass_unicron@reddit

I was there for a few days, most stores sold shirts with the new name. Could've just been that area.

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jenbenfoo@reddit

I saw a guy (probably in his 20s/early 30s) at Target the other day wearing a shirt that said "Gulf of America '25" and I just rolled my eyes and kept on walking

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therealpopkiller@reddit

You got triggered, lib! /s

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lgndk11r@reddit

Oh, wait til you see the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea brouhaha...

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

Hide and seek is now called manhunt

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

Manhunt was a game when we were kids, just done at nighttime in the neighborhood and with multiple people involved. Hide and seek existed then and now, just typically can be done anytime of day, indoor or outdoor, and as little as just 2 people.

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

I don’t remember calling it manhunt when I was a kid

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

Maybe it was a regional thing? I remember being 8 and finally able to play it with a big group of kids one night ranging from little to teen when before that I was always told I was too little to play lol. I grew up in the NE of the states, suburbs.

But now as a parent, I don't see kids play it anymore but maybe that depends on the type of area you live too. I'm now in the greater area of a larger PNW city, more urban, and have not heard or seen manhunt happening in forever. Hide and seek still happens though at playgrounds, schools, etc.

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

We could t run around my neighborhood at night as kids, so maybe that’s why I never heard of it. I never heard it until my kids played it with their friends the past 10 years or so.

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kissmeimfamous@reddit

The houseplant Wandering Jew. Called something else now (forgot what)

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_smoke_me_a_kipper_@reddit

I think some people use "Wandering Dude", or use the Latin name. Or maybe "Wandering Jewel" because the leaves are colorful?

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99beesOnABike@reddit

Surely there’s a new name for Chinese fire drills.

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Affectionate_Emu335@reddit

Oh my goodness….. I haven’t thought of that in forever 😅

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

what on earth is that?

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graveybrains@reddit

Happy Days

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KeySlammer1980@reddit

Bunch of people (kids or teens), driving in traffic, all in one car. You stop at a red light, somebody yells "Chinese (I've also heard "Indian"-just as bad) fire drill!" and everybody jumps out of the car, runs around it, and piles back in, as quickly as they can before the light turns green.

There may be more nuance to it, but that was how my dad had explained it back in the 80's. Definitely one of those "What did you guys do when you were bored before cell phones?" answers.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

This is exactly it. Usually the driver wouldn't get out when we did it, but the idea was a scramble for the front seat.

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donthavenosecrets@reddit

Everyone gets out of the car at a red light and runs around the car and switches places

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IronbAllsmcginty78@reddit

This turned out to be a life skill for when your husband gets old and he doesn't feel good. Kids love it.

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

Ahh, I didn't do that one.

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Every_Instruction775@reddit

When you stop your car at a red light and everyone has to get out, run around the car and get back in before the light changes to green so you can go.

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ThePhebus@reddit

ICE raids

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TijayesPJs443@reddit

Borrowing your neighbours ice when youre having a oarty

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Past-Climate-8257@reddit

Nah. Those have always gone on. The media only paid attention to them the last decade. Remember Elian Gonzalez in the late 90s?

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IndomitableAnyBeth@reddit

It wasn't ICE till after 9/11.

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

It was the INS. Not sure there’s a huge distinction when you’re staring down the business end of a gun barrel, but you’re technically correct.

With BP, that whole apparatus has been ‘sadistic impunity, inc.’ for way more than a century. Greg Grandin lays them all out in The End of the Myth.

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IndomitableAnyBeth@reddit

Given the topic is renamed things, I figured technically correct was the right way to go.

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

lol bang bang

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Past-Climate-8257@reddit

Fair. Did the same thing though.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Yes, but it was a joke.

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ZipperJJ@reddit

Didn’t we used to say GLBT for a minute before LGBT?

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MeinePerle@reddit

I’m still a fan of QUILTBAG as it’s super inclusive (and easy to remember) but I may be the only person in the world still using it.

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CalamityClambake@reddit

I love it!

What does the U stand for?

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Indubitalist@reddit

Thinking it’s just a mnemonic for QLTBG, a rearrangement of LGBTQ, so there’s no U.

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MeinePerle@reddit

No, the U is for undecided, the I for intersex, and the A for asexual.

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Low_Celery_7325@reddit

Undecided or unlabeled

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altAftrAltAftrAftr@reddit

I really liked QUILTBAG, but it doesn't seem to have taken over the less punchy LGBTQIA. I suppose mainstream is always lagging behind the avant-garde, it's why they're referred to as such.

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CalamityClambake@reddit

Yes. The L was moved to the front out of respect for the enormous effort lesbians made to take care of sick and dying people during the AIDS crisis.

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csonnich@reddit

Wait, seriously?

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CalamityClambake@reddit

Yes. Lesbians had a lower infection rate because one of the biggest infection vectors was semen-to-orifice. They stepped up and cared for the sick and dying gay men and bi and queer men and women in their community. This was a crucial act of support because a lot of queer folks had been suspended by their families and were either denied medical care entirely or treated like crap by doctors and hospitals.

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vanwiekt@reddit

Yes

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AngletonSpareHead@reddit

Yes seriously. Hard to overstate the devastation AIDS wrought on the gay community, the fear, stigma, abandonment and loneliness experienced by the dying. Lesbian community stepped up in a big way.

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

yeah and there were a few orgs and events (ahem Equality Forum in Philly) that clung to GLBT way, wayy, wayyy too long.

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OkPie8905@reddit

I thought it was homo

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OperaGrrl71@reddit

I still call it "Indian style".

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

I wonder what other countries call it

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LassieDear@reddit

I’m reading a book that just called this “pretzel style” and that is so much less embarrassing than a full grown adult saying criss cross applesauce, I mean have some dignity

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OperaGrrl71@reddit

True, true. It sounds silly to hear a grown up saying "criss cross applesauce".

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ToeProfessional7852@reddit

Yes this only works if you’re talking to ppl under 8.

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

Ohh ‘criss cross applesauce’ is for Indian style? I had no idea.

Lol That’s re— diculous.

Srsly tho I thought it must be a Miss Mary Mack clapping game or something.

Actually tho… wait. Are we sure it meant indigenous American? I mean what else is it but a modified lotus position? All this time, could it have meant South Asian? 🤔🫤🫩

What if it turns out the term was sort of respectful and accurate, but WE were all just lil’ shitbag racist anklebiters?

Lol gross.

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vanwiekt@reddit

I too thought we were talking about a clapping game until I came across this comment.

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bismuth17@reddit

It was definitely the Native American kind of Indian. They sit cross legged too. It wasn't really an offensive stereotype to be honest, it's just that we stopped calling them Indians for some reason. (And no, the reason wasn't that they wanted us to.)

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gitismatt@reddit

when I was a kid, criss cross applesauce was part of the rhyme or mnemonic device to teach kids to tie their shoes. I was very confused when I heard recently it meant cross-legged sitting

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

or cross-legged.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I riff on it and call it "West Indian style" in my house because my children are West Indian.

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mom_bombadill@reddit

We always just called it “cross legged.” I never heard “Indian style” until I was an adult 🤷🏻‍♀️

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dragon_morgan@reddit

cross legged is too ambiguous though because it could also mean sitting on a chair with one leg over the other

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EdenHoneyGold@reddit

ralphie may the comic did a whole bit about this topic and it's comedy gold. I think it was his first big DVD release.

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

Nah, that's legs-crossed.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Same

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OperaGrrl71@reddit

I grew up in the South, lol. Kidding aside, I've heard that phrase while living in Vegas when my mother was in the Air Force.

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cherry-care-bear@reddit (OP)

Same.

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Cross_22@reddit

Didn't know that's what it was called. Growing up in Germany we called it "tailor style"

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Don_T_Blink@reddit

Tailor seat, not style.

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Hitthereset@reddit

Same.

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boygirlmama@reddit

Well, Pluto is no longer a planet.

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OrchidLeader@reddit

In elementary school (early 90s), my teachers taught us that Pluto was a planet for now, but that was probably going to change.

So in 2006, the reclassification didn’t surprise me, but realizing most people didn’t grow up knowing it was going to happen was surprising.

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Important_Tennis936@reddit

That's messed up.

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

We had Smear the Q... I can't remember exactly what it was, I think one person had the football and everyone ganged up to stop them from crossing an arbitrary line. I'm not sure if it's been renamed or just not played cuz I haven't seen any kids doing that in a while.

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aqiwpdhe@reddit

I wonder what they call it now when someone asks for a drag of your cigarette (I guess vape pen now) and they slobber all over it?

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Adventurous-Depth984@reddit

You “lipped” it…?

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Holofernes_Head@reddit

Man we had to sanitize that one even way back when. That was a slip-lip.

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mellibutta@reddit

We just called it lipping

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Easy-Dig8412@reddit

Suck on a fag, of course

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nodogsallowed23@reddit

I don’t know this one.

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bismuth17@reddit

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigger+lip

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ArtaxWasRight@reddit

While leering and handing me a honey blunt, that expression is the very first thing my very first black boyfriend ever said to me. An electric little lesson in critical race irony.

Also he was 26 and 6’6” and I — tho of age — was a pasty 5’8” & still in high school.

Christ that was hot. 😮‍💨

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HeyBird33@reddit

This person’s relationship is no longer ok

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

I think I know what you’re getting at. It was bad back then, too. I never personally said that one, but heard it a lot

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Jerlo82@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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311jawn@reddit

Dot Shop.

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ninetysevencents@reddit

I remember when we were being told to sing "ten little Indian boys AND girls" .

Y'know, to be up with the times and inclusive to girls.

A few years back I heard it's now "One little, Two little, Three little....numbers"

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311jawn@reddit

“Good Morning Boys & Girls” (school) now- “Good Morning Friends”

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tylenol3@reddit

I recently came across a lot of confusion about the name of the game where you whisper a phrase from person to person and see how it changes by the time it gets to the end of the line.

Seems like some people know this game as “Telephone”, some as “Whispers”, and others still as (the unfortunate and poorly-aged) “Chinese Whispers”. I can’t tell how much of this is regional bs generational— I grew up in the South and definitely heard the last version, but I also know a younger person that grew up in the UK that calls it this as well.

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ToeProfessional7852@reddit

I’m from the South too. We called it “telephone” or “grapevine.” I’ve never heard “whispers.” Interesting.

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atmighty@reddit

I'm an American raised in the southwest but now live and work in Western Europe and they call it Chinese Whispers. Every single time I hear it my subconscious winces that little bit more 😬😬😬😬

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Hot-Garbage123@reddit

I, also, grew up in the South and called it "telephone"

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revdon@reddit

PMW it was “telephone”

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HugeTheWall@reddit

Same up in Canada

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Available-Maize5837@reddit

Still Chinese whispers in Australia. Don't think we've got a better term for it yet.

Same as we still use Chinese laundry to mean we have clothes hanging up everywhere..

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StanleyCupsAreStupid@reddit

Grew up in Philly. We called it “Whisper Down the Lane”

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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

Mental Retardation is a big one.

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ho4oatmilk@reddit

this was changed to “special needs” and now i think it’s “differently abled.”

without fail, people (and especially kids) just start using the new term as an insult, so the language moves to the new new term.

i am sure this is already happening with the newest term. i wonder what it will be replaced with next.

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altAftrAltAftrAftr@reddit

It's been called the "euphemism treadmill".

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Healthy_Sock_9880@reddit

It sure does. Whatever the new term is, it will just be used in a derogatory way.

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smoothops85@reddit

French Fries -> Freedom Fries -> French Fries

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Remember when something like that would be in the news cycle for weeks? Now it's like an average Tuesday.

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Free-Cherry-4254@reddit

This mightve only been a local thing, or maybe only in suburban areas. In HS my friends and I would go Reflector Hunting (basically, reflectors on sticks near the roads to advise drivers that it was a lawn and not roadway because there were no streetlights)

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

So what is it called now? We're talking about things that used to be called something else.

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solstargazer@reddit

My kids tell me it’s Never Eat Soggy Waffles now instead of Never Eat Shredded Wheat

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sanedragon@reddit

Emoticons.

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Pita_Girl@reddit

Have a friend who actually types them all out. Like “laughing so hard I’m crying emoji” or “red faced angry emoji” it’s incredibly annoying.

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faderjockey@reddit

Nah those are still a thing

:-> is an emoticon 🦶is an emoji

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DarkScorpion48@reddit

I uses to run a forum with over 200 curated emoticons. Fuck emojis

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bismuth17@reddit

I still use emotions :(

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Pineapple-Due@reddit

Cable connectors are not male and female, but pin and socket

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Holofernes_Head@reddit

Do Brazil nuts have an unsavory nickname anymore?

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Positively_Eric@reddit

N word toes?

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

As a small child, an adult neighbor told me this unsavoury alternate name while cracking one at a Christmas party. Looking straight into my eyes and grinning. Always unsettled me, and I never really liked that neighbor again. Still bothers me 40+ years later. Like, why was he so happy to tell a small child that? Did he expect me to laugh? Agree with him?

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FixerOrange@reddit

I had a very similar experience, except in a classroom. Our 5th grade science teacher saw a photo of a bowl of nuts in our textbook, and tried to coerce one of the students into saying the word: “Does anyone know the OTHER name for Brazil nuts?” After an uncomfortable silence in which no students spoke, the teacher eventually said it herself with such glee. I had never heard them called that until that day.

Completely unnecessary tangent that she took that day just to show us who she really was, I guess.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

If anything, she taught the class how *not* to be.

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Positively_Eric@reddit

I share a similar story about my friend's dad. He said it without any hesitation as if everyone called them that.

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tbs999@reddit

Everyone called them that. I heard the term Brazil Nuts before the internet and never knew what they were.

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Stop_Already@reddit

My mom told us about that one (b1950) when we were kids.

Also the little licorice gummy baby things had a very unsavory name.

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Holofernes_Head@reddit

Yep

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Outrageous_Picture39@reddit

Secretary: Administrative Assistant

Stewardess: Flight Attendant

Roseanne: The Conners

Berenstein: Berenstain

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Pita_Girl@reddit

That last one still ticks me off!

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Cross_22@reddit

You're funny

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roonilwonwonweasly@reddit

Not renamed but they changed the alphabet song. It's so dumb. My child was the last class they taught the old way and I am way way thankful for that.

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Indubitalist@reddit

Does the new version not race through “lmnop” like they’re less important for some reason?

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MrsSpookyMulder47@reddit

I used the original for crisscross apple sauce the other day and my 11 year old was so confused.

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StickyThumbs79@reddit

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I'm happy "Oriental" went away

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mamabird2020@reddit

Do people not say oriental rugs?

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

True, but are "Persian Rugs" really any different? 😅

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

I am as well, except for as a Maruchan ramen flavor. Something about oriental as a flavor name is really appetizing to me.

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revdon@reddit

It’s ramen, all the flavors are ‘oriental’. Now it’s ’soy sauce’ but apparently we jumped past ‘Asian’ flavored.

Oriental isn’t racist of itself, its Latin for East(ern), hence the Far Easy was The Orient. Romans used to face maps with East at the top (instead of North), hence ‘orienting’ the map.

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goofytigre@reddit

Gulf of ~~Mexico~~ America

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revdon@reddit

The Gulf of Mexico was called that before there was a nation of Mexico. It’s possible the nation is named for the gulf. Should our southern nation change its name to America?

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Indubitalist@reddit

They would if they cared about one nutbag’s feelings.

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anakusis@reddit

Brazil nuts

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ViewAskewRob@reddit

Bombay to Mumbai, Calcutta to Kolkata.

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kissmeimfamous@reddit

Turkey to Türkiye

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lgndk11r@reddit

Madras to Chennai
Rangoon to Yangon
Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Kiev to Kyiv 💀

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No-Kaleidoscope6848@reddit

Fanny-packs are now Bum-bags. I wish I was joking.

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roonilwonwonweasly@reddit

They also wear them wrong. It's supposed to go around your waist for easy access, not around your chest like a wonky side saddle bag.

Also, side saddle bags are now cross body bags. I don't know who got offended by side saddle. It's just the way women used to ride horses way back when.

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

The fact that yoing people are actually using and wearing them is the real shocker. There aren't many things that absolutely scream lame and dorky.

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2020hindsightis@reddit

Or hip packs

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WhoYouBoo_eek789@reddit

Mm, this was more regional I feel. They have always been bumbags in the UK and Australia. Cos a fanny is NOT the butt in those places. 😆

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

and NZ. Fanny is a vulva, so vulva-pack lol

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YOMAMACAN@reddit

What? My kid asked for a fanny pack for Christmas. I’ve never heard the other version

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smittydacobra@reddit

I still call sitting like that "Indian style".

People in India sit like that all the time.

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Own_Physics_7733@reddit

Thats what the origin was! It was yoga based. But Americans didn’t know that and probably just assumed they were being offensive. (I’m American)

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IComposeEFlats@reddit

Brown bags are now lunch and learns.

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

I have never heard that before. Had no idea. My wife and I were using the bags for a craft project just this weekend. We've never called them anything else.

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dkonigs@reddit

I always thought a "brown bag" was a lunch meeting you brought your own food to, and a "lunch and learn" was an (often catered) presentation on some topic of interest to the team. I guess I heard both in use around the same time.

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IComposeEFlats@reddit

Brown bag is no longer used because brown paper bags were used to decide if a black person's skin was light enough. At least thats what they told us when they said we had to now call them Lunch and Learns (and you bring your own lunch).

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jrunner02@reddit

I think it has more to do with the fact that people don't really bring lunch in brown paper bags anymore; young people wouldn't understand that phrase simply because the custom is obsolete.

People use plastic bags or actual lunch bags/boxes nowadays.

You're referring to the paper bag test.

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GrizabellaGlamourCat@reddit

As a restaurant worker, it was waiter, and now server. Or is that backwards?

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Indubitalist@reddit

I really like “aviatrix” and any other terms ending in -trix. I wish we didn’t abandon those.

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revdon@reddit

Waitron didn’t catch on?

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GrizabellaGlamourCat@reddit

I don't know that one

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revdon@reddit

It was a thing in the 90s. Unisex, rhymes with “patron”. It guess it didn’t stick.

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GrizabellaGlamourCat@reddit

I'm no expert, and that is interesting.

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Cer-rific_43@reddit

Squat thrusts are now called burpees

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SkarlyComics@reddit

My grandfather was raised in Alabama, and always had a bowl of Brazil nuts available. He didnt call them Brazil nuts.

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mnfimo@reddit

Bomb pops aren’t bomb pops anymore, forgot what they are now

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Ok-Reputation-6297@reddit

Is it still called an Indian burn?

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Aednfell@reddit

Anything with “Indians”: (“One-Little..”, sitting “Indian-Style”, etc)

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mamabird2020@reddit

Do people still use pow wow for having a meeting?

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throwawaytoday9q@reddit

“Crippled” gave way to “handicapped” which eventually became “disabled” and/or “differently abled”.

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Saucy_Baconator@reddit

Istanbul was Constantinople.

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muhhuh@reddit

Brazil nuts.

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somanysheep@reddit

I sat Indian style..

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FuckYouNotHappening@reddit

What? Is Indian Style gauche?

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HugeTheWall@reddit

Wait is this the old term or the new term?

I've always called it just "sitting crosslegged"

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MrsEmilyN@reddit

When I worked at a daycare center, we called it pretzel legs.

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Selmarris@reddit

It’s no longer ok to call it “Indian style” which was the cute term for kids when I was growing up. Now the cutesy version is “crisscross applesauce”. I’m 42, I say cross legged like an adult. And I’m a millennial, I sit cross legged like an un ladylike slob (according to my mother)

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orange_avenue@reddit

The old term is Indian style.

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EvenIf-SheFalls@reddit

Turkey is nowTürkiye, but honestly, 🎵that's nobody's business but the Turks.🎵

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smellybulldog@reddit

My 4 year old says criscrosapplesauce so if it went somewhere its come back.. at least at this particular kindergarten class. YRMV

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gilbertgrappa@reddit

It used be called “sitting Indian style” and was replaced with Crisscross Applesauce.

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TulsaOUfan@reddit

Istanbul was Constantinople...

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TulsaOUfan@reddit

Criss Cross applesauce was the renaming of "sit Indian Style" from my grade school days.

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naalbinding@reddit

The game Telephone was called Chinese Whispers when I was a kid (UK)

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biopsy_results@reddit

“Criss cross applesauce, hands on your lap” — my kid chants this and it is nothing to do with me so must be used in UK nurseries at least.

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Hipcatjack@reddit

..its now called “Ding-Dong-Ditch” me and my friends called it something else, even my black friends.

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NoMembership2831@reddit

Retirement, its a word that dont exist no more...

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PokerbushPA@reddit

Brazil Nuts

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shinobi-dragonninja@reddit

It used to be the INS. Now they are called ICE agents

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seriouslynope@reddit

Those are two separate agencies

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seriouslynope@reddit

Yugoslavia

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seriouslynope@reddit

West Germany and East Germany

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SoCalChrisW@reddit

Brazil nuts....

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GreenApples8710@reddit

Yeeeaaaahhhh. That was really something, wasnt it?

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bs6@reddit

Smear the is now kill the carrier

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ZafiroAnejo@reddit

Burma - Myanmar

Kill - Unalive

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sanguineheroine@reddit

Lolly cigarettes. You know the ones. Renamed 'Fads'.

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lorazepamproblems@reddit

In Sweden when I was a child chocolate balls were called negerbollar. I only lived there a little over a year (it's where my mom is from), but she had made them since the time I was very young. In fact she used to sell them at a county fair in the US with other Swedish sweets. The name changed to chocolate balls (chokladbollar) at some point. I don't know if it's enforced, but I kind of remember seeing a newspaper article about a pastry shop in Sweden that was defying either the social norm (or law?) and still advertising them as negerbollar outside the shop. The extent to which the word is offensive and what its equivalent would be in English (the n-word or negro) are questions I don't have the answer to. I just know that it switched to chokladbollar.

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Positively_Eric@reddit

The neighborhood kids would play a pickup game of football and when someone got tackled everyone would jump on and make a pile. Boys would scream N* PILE!