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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Still means "bested" to me. I'm not hip to sexual slang.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Clearly you are if you know what type of slang "topped" is lol

[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At my age I just assume anything I don't know is sexual.

[–] jballs 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't you come "bussin' no cap" at me young man, I'm happily married.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jballs 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you... are you hitting on me?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reading all this, I gotta ask; Did it work?

[–] jballs 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes, veroxii and I are married now.

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[–] mindbleach 10 points 2 months ago

Neil : "Ah, here's one. This means that someone has just done something which has never been done before. 'Richard Moore of Sugarland, Texas, hollowed out an eggplant and filled it with hot sauce and nickels.' And amazingly, it's not a weird sex thing. 99% of all new human behaviors are weird sex things. But not in this-- oh, no, it is a weird sex thing, yeah."

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's clearly sexual from the context of the meme. Pretty much any time this happens, it's sexual in nature. Otherwise it would just be confusing rather than presented as humorous.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Topping" means taking an active role in sex, whereas "bottoming" is a passive role.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Nyeah... partly.

If that were entirely true, a "power bottom" would make no sense.

The terms sexual usage originated in gay circles where it only delineates who penetrates and who gets penetrated. Traditional views on sex ascribe a submissive or passive role to the bottom and an active or dominating role to the top, but you can totally have a power bottom who takes control and an active role in the intercourse but is the one getting penetrated.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least she didn’t pull a boner.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll show them how many boners Betty can make!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

She can pull three boners simultaneously

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My favorite is the Nixon campaign buttons that says "They Can't Lick Our Dick"

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago

That's not a language change, they knew.

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[–] merc 62 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You shall rue this day apparently.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the actual meaning of boner?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'm assuming boner here means mistake but actual boners can be mistakes sometimes and lead to unintended consequences

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I half remember being told this originally came from bonehead. so like a bonehead would make a mistake like that. which then got shortened to boner.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

Good for her.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

I dunno, the looks on the bystanders faces implies it's got the same impact as it might today.

[–] Socsa 32 points 2 months ago

Get topped idiot

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is this supposed to have meant?

[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 months ago (2 children)

She got one upped, outdone, lost to her rival, and now needs to take it in ass again from her.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mmmhmm, yup, yeah, wait...wut??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I've seen the source, it's all true. That's why they eventually formed a poly triangle with Archie, and, occasionally, The Predator.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But as an old fucker, I don't know the current meaning.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the same one, but it's used in a sexual context. Being the top is being the dominant one on a relationship, sexually speaking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oohhhhhhhh. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Something like "one-upped", I believe.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Bottom energy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

I wish that was me

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This apparently changed around the same time people stopped using "Give 'em the high hard one".

[–] mindbleach 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If you want some cultural whiplash, read the first Archie comic. You'll know why when you get there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I read it, no clue what you were referring to

[–] TheRealLinga 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (4 children)

lol I'm not reading 60 pages of ancient manga for a single joke

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

*comic

It's not from Japan

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I read it just and there was definitely some very 1940s lingo but was there one in specific that you were referring to?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

As another example, the man isn’t queer at all.

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