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“I’m not racist.” is a great statement. “I’m not racist, but” is quickly entering dangerous territory.
“I don’t want to yuck your yum.” is also a great statement. “I don’t want to yuck your yum, but” has the same problem as the above.
That “but” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and contradicting the preceding part.
“I’m not X but <position statement that clearly requires them to be X” and “I don’t want to Y but <proceeds to do exactly Y>” are used by people that mistakenly believe a disclaimer provides instant absolution.
On the other hand, I’ve never had anybody threaten to yuck my yum in exactly those terms, and I’m slightly intrigued by the prospect.
Yep
While I’m definitely one to get mildly irritated at the phrasing (and am even more irritated by “fur babies” lol), I’m really bothered by people excusing their own rudeness - right up there with saying “no offense” right before being deliberately offensive. Like if you don’t want to yuck my yum or cause offense then why are you about to do it anyway?
Between the lines of “I don’t want to” reads “I have to”, which is easily disputed if said out loud.
You mean people with “no filter”, that if you couldn’t handle at their worst you don’t deserve them at their best?
The reason I say “no offense” is to indicate to you that my intention is something other than offending you.
For example “no offense but your breath stinks. We should stop and get some mouthwash before we get to the party”
I’m not saying that to make a person feel bad, though they will likely feel bad after I say it. I’m saying it to help them.
I’m autistic, man. If the autistic kid can figure this stuff out so can you. No offense, but maybe you should consider things you don’t understand more deeply before tossing them in the waste bin.
Thanks for your comment, certainly there are people like yourself who mean those words earnestly to convey a delicate point. I also imagine that comes out in your demeanor and character when you are saying that to someone.
Unfortunately, in my experience, many people say it without any sense of empathy or compassion at all despite the literal meaning. 😕
I think people misinterpret it more than people use it as a cover for being mean.
Yeah I agree! I usually interrupt with “offense taken” before they get through their sentence.
Either say it or don’t, but lets not pretend the disclaimer does anything other than act as a mild spoiler that they are about to say something edgy.
What about “skin dogs”
Is that like the reverse of the above, used on human children?
Exactly
I prefer “pets of the flesh”
his yum is probably licking ass
Why did they make the asses so delicious?
Yeah - the whole dynamic of claiming that you don’t intend to do the specific shitty thing that you then intentionally and specifically do is infuriating already, and “yuck your yum” just adds an extra layer of cringe to it.
Yeah, I’ve only ever seen it used as an admonishment against someone. Like, someone says something rude as fuck and they get told “don’t yuck someone else’s yum” … which, isn’t terrible, when it’s advice being given to people acting like children.
Saying “I don’t want to yuck your yum, but, the thing you like is blah-blah-blah” could easily be changed to “I’m an asshole and I think the things you like are blah-blah-blah” and the context of what was being said wouldn’t change.
I’ve never heard that phrase before but it sounds like something I can use to annoy the piss out of my kids and their friends. Kind of like yeet, rizz, or cap. Especially if I use it wrong intentionally.
Hey cap, your yeet is pretty rizz, ong smh
Yeet makes sense. Rizz, I at least understand where it comes from (cha[rizz]ma). But I do not get “cap”.
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Interesting.
On an unrelated note, did Mastodon fix/change something with interacting with Lemmy and Kbin posts? I’ve been seeing a lot of y’all all of a sudden.
@QuinceDaPence
I don’t know. Perhaps familiarity? Or the subject matter?I just happened to see the comment and wanted to contribute. From a Mastodon perspective, you guys have ‘default’ avatars and sometimes the conversation seem to fly by. Might be a reason others don’t engage. On reddit type places having a default was “norm” but at least on Mastodon I think it’s considered “norm” to have an avi.
Different interface so the engagement is different, maybe?
Cap doesn’t come from Kappa. The term “capping” has been slang for lying or exaggerating in the hip hop community for many many years.
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I say this on purpose to annoy my friends, especially in situations where it’s not needed
Ditto, I use it ironically for things that truly reprehensible. I.e. “I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, but cannibalism isn’t for me.”
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The expression, “yuck my yum” mildly infuriates me.
It is definitely a face punching worthy turn of phrase
Face punching is “yuck my gum”
Never heard it before, don’t want too
I’m going to start using this after someone tells me a story or something interesting.
I don’t even know what it means!
Wait: Wait, I get it now. it’s along the lines of someone else’s trash is someones treasure and you should not put them down because of it?
Definitely worthy of a subtle eye roll at least. My number one would have to be “it is what it is”. They all fall under the category of “saying something without saying anything”.
That’s politics for ya
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But you are saying something - the subtext could be “and we can’t change it”. It’s a way of acknowledging the situation without wanting to waste further time on it.
It’s like Vonnegut’s “so it goes.”
It was just said a bunch by Seth Rogen in ‘Platonic,” so you’re about to hear it even more.
“yet still you don’t intend to stop talking”
That’s a fairly common saying in the bdsm community. Don’t “yuck someone’s yum”
Yes.
It infuriates me, too.
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