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Still battling horribly at 37 here.Good kid, sounds like he has his head screwed on. I had no idea at his age.
Lever was talking about kids when he joined the club last year and he is 21What the **** kind of 22yo refers to their GF as their ‘partner’
Different breed these daysLever was talking about kids when he joined the club last year and he is 21
What the **** kind of 22yo refers to their GF as their ‘partner’
Weirds me out, but I do see the upside.Seems to be the standard term now, from what I've noticed. Don't hear people talking about their "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" much, whether they're older or younger. Seems an improvement to me.
Weirds me out, but I do see the upside.
What the **** kind of 22yo refers to their GF as their ‘partner’
Had two beers last night and still woke up feeling gross so my body has definitely revoked my youth cardYoung people weird you out. That's understandable. No one likes young people. You seem young to me, too.
I like to think of it like this:Seems to be the standard term now, from what I've noticed. Don't hear people talking about their "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" much, whether they're older or younger. Seems an improvement to me.
i use to always assume when someone said partner they were gay.Weirds me out, but I do see the upside.
It's all the rage now... non-gender specific... because it's offensive.... apparently.What the **** kind of 22yo refers to their GF as their ‘partner’
It's all the rage now... non-gender specific... because it's offensive.... apparently.
No idea why.
BF is the nearest thing to social media that I use, so I'm completely dependent on you guys to keep me up to date on the latest fads and tell me what opinions I'm supposed to have.
Opinions are also offensive now too. Please stop having them.
You need to stop Potatosplaining, shitlord.
Lemme guess, down with the potatriarchy?
BravoFor those interested in the partner vs girlfriend terminological debate, Steven Pinker wrote about this phenomenon in "The Stuff of Thought". Basically, due to accidents of history or human psychology, we're often left with an absence of appropriate words that would pick out very definite or useful concepts that we would otherwise expect to exist. In this case of the concept of "a person with whom I'm in a serious, monogamous relationship, but to whom I'm not yet married", the words we use to denote it are either too casual ("boyfriend" / "girlfriend"), too sterile or legalistic ("partner"), or just plain ridiculous ("paramour"). A particular reason for this may be the fact that, historically, pre-marital relationships were either delegitimised or stigmatised, meaning there was never the opportunity for a word without inappropriate connotations to arise in the English speaking world as a neutral signifier of this concept.
A similar lexical gap arose, for what it's worth, due to our squeamishness about excrement. Owing to its stigma in polite society, we don't have a neutral word to denote this concept that is not childish in connotation ("poo"), clinical in connotation ("faeces" / "excrement") or vulgar in connotation ("Carlton FC").
A similar lexical gap arose, for what it's worth, due to our squeamishness about excrement. Owing to its stigma in polite society, we don't have a neutral word to denote this concept that is not childish in connotation ("poo"), clinical in connotation ("faeces" / "excrement") or vulgar in connotation ("Carlton FC").
For those interested in the partner vs girlfriend terminological debate, Steven Pinker wrote about this phenomenon in "The Stuff of Thought". Basically, due to accidents of history or human psychology, we're often left with an absence of appropriate words that would pick out very definite or useful concepts that we would otherwise expect to exist. In this case of the concept of "a person with whom I'm in a serious, monogamous relationship, but to whom I'm not yet married", the words we use to denote it are either too casual ("boyfriend" / "girlfriend"), too sterile or legalistic ("partner"), or just plain ridiculous ("paramour"). A particular reason for this may be the fact that, historically, pre-marital relationships were either delegitimised or stigmatised, meaning there was never the opportunity for a word without inappropriate connotations to arise in the English speaking world as a neutral signifier of this concept.
A similar lexical gap arose, for what it's worth, due to our squeamishness about excrement. Owing to its stigma in polite society, we don't have a neutral word to denote this concept that is not childish in connotation ("poo"), clinical in connotation ("faeces" / "excrement") or vulgar in connotation ("Carlton FC").
The true definition of a shitpost. Well done.For those interested in the partner vs girlfriend terminological debate, Steven Pinker wrote about this phenomenon in "The Stuff of Thought". Basically, due to accidents of history or human psychology, we're often left with an absence of appropriate words that would pick out very definite or useful concepts that we would otherwise expect to exist. In this case of the concept of "a person with whom I'm in a serious, monogamous relationship, but to whom I'm not yet married", the words we use to denote it are either too casual ("boyfriend" / "girlfriend"), too sterile or legalistic ("partner"), or just plain ridiculous ("paramour"). A particular reason for this may be the fact that, historically, pre-marital relationships were either delegitimised or stigmatised, meaning there was never the opportunity for a word without inappropriate connotations to arise in the English speaking world as a neutral signifier of this concept.
A similar lexical gap arose, for what it's worth, due to our squeamishness about excrement. Owing to its stigma in polite society, we don't have a neutral word to denote this concept that is not childish in connotation ("poo"), clinical in connotation ("faeces" / "excrement") or vulgar in connotation ("Carlton FC").