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Can we post old photos of weirdos? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by TheMightyCanuck to c/[email protected]

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Best photo of 2019/2020

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Ewwww Republicans are so gross

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

When you sneeze all the blow right back out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

imagine seeing that in a shadow of your house at night

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Came thru just fine, so apparently the answer is yes. Hello, this is Infectious Disease, do you have a moment to talk about aerosols?

I Love/ Hate this new community.

[–] TheMightyCanuck 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's disgusting but also hilarious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried: [email protected] ?

[–] TheMightyCanuck 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Abso-fucking-lutely I have

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

ROTFLoL

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Gross.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Can we please not defile the word weirdo by making it about alt-right and far-right people?

I used to be a proud weirdo, but now it's a far-right thing rather than a neurodiverse thing :(

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could try calling yourself eccentric instead. That was how the rich used to get away with their weirdness.

[+] lurch 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You could try calling yourself "off-the-wall" instead. That was how the skaters used to get away with their weirdness.

Note: I prefer the word "bizarro".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Bizarro is reserved for your alternate dimension counterpart, that speaks in opposites and looks weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Tbh for me weirdo always had a sexual meaning (as in creep). (English is my 2nd language)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Native English speaker here. It can have a sexual meaning, depending on context. It's not always like that though.

You might check out the Radiohead song "Creep" to hear it in this context:

When you were here before / Couldn't look you in the eye / You're just like an angel / Your skin makes me cry / You float like a feather / In a beautiful world / I wish I was special / You're so fuckin' special /

But I'm a creep / I'm a weirdo / What the hell am I doin' here? / I don't belong here / I don't care if it hurts / I wanna have control / I want a perfect body / I want a perfect soul / I want you to notice / When I'm not around... /

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Get out of my head. . . . My Radiohead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

As a primary English speaker, weirdo doesn't have any sexual meaning. Native speakers won't see that.

Pervert fills that definition you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the thing is they aren't and won't claim it for themselves. claiming to being the normal/majority/default is super important to them and weird is the antithesis of that. we can claim weirdness for ourselves like we have for ages without anyone mistaking us as right wingers because of this. good weird vs bad weird has always been a thing, too.

at least, that's my two cents on the matter. they may end up trying to claim it and take the wind out of it but i doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point, ownership certainly makes a difference. I know I'm weird. Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

People that are offended by being called weird are the bad kind of weirdos.

Thanks for being a good weirdo! 🤩

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like another commenter, I think there's good weird and bad weird, and calling conservatives weird is effective because they're so insistent they're the normal ones

I'll happily keep referring to myself as a weirdo, because I am weird. I just don't have any illusions to the contrary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

As a weirdo myself, It's not my fault conservative snowflakes have a problem with being called weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Probably not till after November, my weird kin, (u/@ms_[email protected]). I've always found and appreciated finding myself in weird company. And yeah the cool, creative, nerdy, neurodivergent folx have always been around me. I'm sure I would have been drugged as a child had I been born later. As it was, I had to do it myself. ;-)