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[–] spacemanspiffy 308 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Washed? Is this some hip new slang term?

I feel liked not knowing this one makes me, well, washed...

[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] bandwidthcrisis 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure? With my knees, you'll need to help me up again.

[–] mPony 5 points 1 day ago

yeah I don't even joke about hurting my knees.
People will laugh when someone gets kicked in the balls, but seeing someone fall onto their knees is all pain and no schadenfreude.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Only like 20-30 more years before I can unironically quote this irl.

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

You can be old at any age depending on who you're talking to lol.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There was a joke about it in 30 Rock, where a teenager tells Liz her boyfriend is "totally washed" and she's like, "typical", while secretly looking up the word on the in-show equivalent of Urban Dictionary.

[–] BradleyUffner 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like she was streets behind.

[–] SidewaysHighways 1 points 1 day ago

oh dip! molotov cocktail

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[–] bradons 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

New to me too. Washed sling meaning Washed up or past your prime. We old.

[–] CM400 145 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The term washed up originated in the early 2020s and gained popularity in 2021.

As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

About a century before, Merriam-Webster cites the first recorded use in 1928.

[–] bandwidthcrisis 16 points 2 days ago (10 children)

All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 23 points 2 days ago

Washed up has been in use for a long time. I have no idea how they decided it was a 2020 invention. Some AI search probably told them so.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

not really, it's short for washed-up, which has been in use for at least a century

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/washed-up

[–] Subverb 41 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Why do we need to shorten a two syllable word?

My knees hurt.

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

We don't need to. But we do it anyway for ease of language flow. See: Every single contraction, some of which don't even reduce syllables. Just contacted to make the tongue say it faster.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Extra egregious depending on your background. We caught my older brother singing along to piano man. We are Latinos with like -50% Irish blood. We had to give him an intervention.

[–] tacosplease 1 points 1 day ago

Came here to say Elton John is my Billy Joel. Send me to the ranch.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 43 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Good music is just good music.

We listened to 20+ year old music when I was in High School. Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Marley, Grateful Dead, and plenty of others along with current music of the time.

Judgy people are the ones throwing you in the washed up area.

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[–] atomicorange 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter how old you are, Piano Man will get you. Drinking songs transcend generations.

[–] JigglySackles 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't stand that song. I heard it one too many times as a teen and it was only ever ok for me at best. I know that's gonna rustle some jimmies, but I gotta make a stand.

[–] mPony 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a tale as old as time: "perfectly good song gets overplayed and, so, ruined". I can't fault you for your circumstances growing up; nobody can. Some of us get exposed to a song like this at a wonderful time, in a wonderful place, and it becomes something we love.

I hope there's other songs that you love as much as some of us love this one.

[–] JigglySackles 2 points 1 day ago

For sure, and I don't mean to shit on it for those that do like it. It's a popular song for a reason. Enjoy what you like. 🙂

[–] ninjabard 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah. Billy Joel (with Stevie Nicks) put on one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

[–] disguy_ovahea 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I saw him a few times, but his last tour with Elton was my favorite. One set of Billy playing Elton songs, one of Elton playing Billy songs, with the last set duets. Great show. Wish I caught one with Stevie Nicks!

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[–] Roopappy 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I do believe that everything old was better, everything new stinks, and my feet hurt all the time.

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[–] LaLuzDelSol 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The guy with the metal detector in the background haha

[–] disguy_ovahea 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think he’s just poking a rock with a stick.

Must be Gen-X.

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[–] dustyData 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me, who is interested on maybe buying a typewriter and perhaps learning shorthand just for fun.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just promise you'll never try to take up the accustic guitar.

[–] dustyData 2 points 1 day ago

I already play both acoustic and electric quite proficiently. But lately have been itching to properly learn piano.

[–] Rhoeri 11 points 2 days ago

Washed is still a thing? I remember 30 Rock doing a joke about this back in the mid 2000’s.

[–] son_named_bort 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Washed Police didn't start the fire

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 1 day ago

It's the next generation on your favourite station.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pfft. *too*

Gawd. *eyeroll*

/s

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (7 children)

What happens if I tell them I like CCR, Johnny Cash or Sinatra?

[–] TwoBeeSan 15 points 2 days ago

You go to decrepit ranch.

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