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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Whenever I come up with euphemisms like this, I'm openly honest about the reason and this has done me a lot of good.

"I call it this because people tend to react this way to the normal phrase, but that view isn't accurate to my experience"

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Same. Plus I rarely clarified. Back in the day if someone zinged me anyway I'd generally make a joke about their mom or intelligence using the most hurtful language I could. I do not recommend the last part.

I don't really do it anymore because I'm a middle aged dude who can't give a shit about anyone else's opinion. But I remember what it was like being a teenager who was weird even by teenager standards at a time when being different was not celebrated. I recommend against doing everything I did to protect myself but euphemisms for my hobbies are one I can absolutely recommend.