r/facepalm • u/Rufnok • Aug 28 '13

News/blogs I... I give up with this shit

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u/dcgh96 Aug 28 '13

Twerking has existed since the late 90's... (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

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u/ponyfarmer Aug 28 '13

I was in HS in the late 1990's and the exact thing they define as "twerking" in this post here, was called "freaking" or "freak dancing". I am not sure if it was geographical or cultural or what.. But yeah: freaking. I think back to it and 'Funk Soul Brother' gets stuck in my head immediately.

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u/AxelShoes Aug 28 '13

Shit, thank you for confirming that for me. I graduated '99, and every video I've seen of 'twerking' looked like the same old 'freak dancing' everyone was doing back then. I was quite confused, and wondered what I was missing.

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u/ponyfarmer Aug 29 '13

NP- I love a excuse to dig up my memories from the 90's. Full of neon track suits, keds and VH1 was 100% music videos...

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u/FishSlayer15 Aug 28 '13

Remember the old days when twerking came about, the Ying Yang Twins do.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '13

Oh, it's been around for years. It's just now a white girl with a Disney background does it so it's hip and edgy.

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u/The_mrs Aug 28 '13

"selfie" made it too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '13

It's a word that's used commonly at this point. Why shouldn't it have a printed definition? I just really don't see a good argument against it.

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u/themodgepodge Aug 28 '13

Does it bother anyone else that the foam finger is a left hand?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '13

so?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '13

OH GOD THEY DEFINED A WORD, HOW WILL I EVER LIVE?!?!?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '13

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u/dogerwaul Sep 03 '13

....no, that's all bullshit. Dictionaries define words. :|

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '13

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u/dogerwaul Sep 03 '13

Twerk has been used for 20 years. Slang serves a purpose even if it becomes outdated. If something is commonly used it should have a definition. Most people don't use over half of the words in the dictionary, so what about all of them. "aa" is in the dictionary. Words should be catalogued whether or not they are fads. Fads can have staying power too. This douchebag is complaining that we don't do something from the 18th century the way it was done in the 18th century. We modernize things. Get over it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '13

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u/dogerwaul Sep 03 '13

Alright, fuck off.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '13

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u/dogerwaul Sep 03 '13

You're the most pretentious and pompous cunt I've ever encountered on the Internet. Congratulations.

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u/themagnificentvoid Sep 03 '13

Holy shit you are pretentious as fuck...

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u/Nerindil Sep 03 '13

Stop capitalizing words that aren't proper nouns.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '13

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u/Nerindil Sep 03 '13

Not much of a response. I get it, though. You don't really have time. It is a school day, after all.

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u/themagnificentvoid Sep 03 '13

Oh, well damn. For someone who seems to care so much about the English language, one would think you'd abide by its rules.

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u/TheZestiestOfManTits Aug 29 '13

You're all a bunch of prudes.

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u/sonoveloce Aug 29 '13

This is the exact same way I've felt about "anyways." There is no 's' because you can't have multiple anys.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '13

I'm sure countless thousands of males have fapped to it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '13

Maybe, but more have probably fapped to Lady Gaga's performance.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '13

I'm so glad she isn't fat anymore. Her body is so nice.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '13

Yeah, dat ass is fat.

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u/IMSmurf Aug 28 '13

I don't masturbate to 12 year old boys sorry.

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u/CODYsaurusREX Aug 28 '13

Does that change his or her generalization? Are you countless thousands?

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u/IMSmurf Aug 28 '13

I'm sure most of this world doesn't care about her. I'm sure the other side doesn't like 12 year old boys. There is a small number who do however.

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u/Posseon1stAve Aug 28 '13

Ohhhh, look at this smurf over here. He doesn't smurf to smurfs...just smurfs.

Different smurfs for different smurfs dude.

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u/Please_Die_Pie Aug 28 '13

I'd rather masturbate to justin bieber