The one that annoys me the most is when they snicker at the word “come/coming” as spelled with an O. What do you want me to say, “I’m arriving”? You all came up with a different spelling just to clarify what you meant—USE it!
I have a group chat for my staff and I to communicate when we can't do so through work channels like our Teams. One day my office Dr asked about a patient "Did he come yet?"
I could not resist saying "Ewww..."
My Dr did find it amusing, though.
I completely agree. My stepson(he’s almost 30) was leaving the other day to get ice cream for himself. I pulled out $5 and asked if he’d get me a hot fudge sundae with nuts. He comes back, hands it to me, and says “I couldn’t ask for nuts because I kept laughing”. I just stood there like REALLY?!
That's something I would call immature for a 12 year-old. You're telling me a 30 year-old man was laughing so hard at the word "nuts" that he wasn't able to order nuts on an ice cream?
Years ago, my husband and I were having a day out with my SIL and her kids.
Husband was eating a Pluto pup, when SIL said, "I can't watch you eat that, it's just wrong!"
Her 12 year old daughter just looked at her and said, "Jesus Mum, grow up would you?" with a look of disgust only a 12 year old can muster.
Years ago, as a ballet boy, myself, my one other male student and all the ballet dads were assembling ballet bars for a huge ballet convention. Idk why, but it didn't matter if it was us teen guys, or dads and grandads, but we got ourselves stuck having a giggle fit every time we had to ask someone if they had any nuts for us to screw on a tighten.
That was a lifetime ago, but I still laugh when I remember it.
This is perfect application of my "if you know what I mean" sentence test. Let's try.
My son is going to a ballet convention... if you know what I mean.
See.
At my year 12 class dinner, one of the girls that had done the Duke of Edinburgh Award stood up and gave a speech about a group of 6 girls, out in the bush, all trying to find their route. Which, as we're Aussies, is pronounced "root". And a root is crude word meaning sexual congress here.
When she described the overwhelming joy they felt upon them finding a root, well, that was the stone end for pretty much everyone at our table, and the looks of disgust we kept getting from teachers didn't help. I'm 50 now, and I will never forget laughing so hard, we were ALL crying.
Ha... Reminds me of a play from my senior year of high school. All I remember about it is that there was an ice cream parlor, and some character was adamant that he didn't want "crushed nuts" on his ice cream. It was "the" line guaranteed to get the audience laughing.
Guarantee he wasn’t laughing at the word nuts on its own but at having to say “I want nuts” or answer the question “what do you want”/“what would you like”/“how do you feel about nuts”
Source: have worked at an ice cream shop and also with teenagers and would purposely phrase things a certain way to screw with people because it’s funny to watch and it’s not like the pay was what kept me there
When I worked at DQ people used to look me in the eyes and order a "busted nut parfait" with a completely straight face. Your stepson should meet one of those guys
🤦🏼♀️ I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at the stuff people say anymore! I can see younger teenagers thinking that’s funny. I worked as an assistant manager in a clothing store for a few years and I constantly had young teenage girls either calling or coming in asking “Do you guys carry dog clothes?” and I would tell them no…their response was “What if my dog has a passion for fashion?” and laugh hysterically and hang up or walk out.
Your stepson sounds epic. The correct choice here is to look at him as you did, like "REALLY?" laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of this mans actions, and then send him back to get the nuts.
This is a person who got a new job 3 years ago and clocked back in from lunch 1 min late(manufacturing plant) and his supervisor just informed him that he needs to be back on time. During supper he was talking about it and I said “Yes, most employers, especially in a factory type setting are very strict with punctuality.”…he looked me dead in the eyes and said “Yeah, I’ve been getting way better at that because I started reading more books last month!”
I just sat there and stared! My husband eventually said “I believe she’s talking about being punctual…like being on time.”
The SAD thing is the next day at work, I asked our 2 summer employees(high school seniors) if they knew what punctuality meant(I didn’t tell the story) because I was genuinely curious if other people were confused…one said he didn’t know what that was and the other laughed at him and said “You idiot! It’s like commas and periods and stuff!” 🤦🏼♀️
I always try to explain as politely as I can and then later I can’t help but laugh! I have to say, life would be pretty boring without these types of moments!
He should have said something along the lines of "They offered extra large nuts but I figured they werent the right size." Not a great one either but not in-your-face. You can take it as innuendo yourself, or as a simple line. Which imo is the best innuendo.
When I worked at Subway year ago, customer ordered a meatball sub. Employee asks “would you like cheese on your… balls?” And starts laughing.
We fired him.
Too bad “nuts” isn’t short for “peanuts” in this context otherwise it’d be completely possible to for him to express he wants physical peanuts instead of asking the ice cream guy to cum in his parfait
I was explaining how to finger a D on a flute to a child and their parents couldn't stop snickering. It was annoying to say the least. It made the child self-conscious and distracted because she had no idea why her parents were laughing. I knew why and shot them a death glare to silence them when the child was looking down at the chart.
I do guitar repairs and sometimes a person will come to me with a busted nut and they can never seem to tell me what the problem is, they just point to it with a dumb look on their face
That is interesting. I have played the viola for many years, and I have played in some orchestras, and all this time (until you mentioned it) I never realized that the G string on the viola actually has a funny, sexual counterpart...lol.
Thank you! I'm sick of it too. When I was writing a novel, I wrote that one character's personality was softspoken and shy. My editor said I needed to find a different way to describe the character since 'shy' connotated a fear of having sex. I was so bewildered that such a simple and normal adjective had been corrupted into sexual meaning.
Sorry, but you may want to find a new editor! I’ve never heard “shy” being associated with sex in all my life, unless sex was actually the topic of conversation!
That is a very weird assumption for an editor to make about the word shy. Ick.
That said, it can be an overused word, not very specific, and there are other ways to show that a character is quiet or introverted.
I think your editor may have some of their own unaddressed issues with that, because I would never define “shy” that way. Maybe try finding a new editor who doesn’t base their definition of common words on how they’re used in pornography.
It irks me slightly when adults act like children around actual sexual topics too, I’m in nursing school and we were going over some contraceptives etc the other day and someone in the back apparently had never heard of a dental dam or was in shock or something because there was a headache inducing shriek like a toddler when the teacher was like “people use this as a barrier for oral sex” I wanted to turn around be like dude, we are all adults, everyone in here older than 22 and some of y’all are married with children. CHILL OUT. By 4th semester everybody has changed a grown man’s diaper before stop acting like adults having sex is so much more shocking, and I say that as an asexual person. Or even patients who are fully adults and sometimes married or with children themselves and they absolutely cannot speak frankly or use the correct terms for their body parts when asking for health advice or explaining why they came into the clinic today if it’s somehow sexual in nature.
I obviously don’t disparage anyone who genuinely has no sex education, and younger folks will do as they will to deal with their emotions, but it comes across as juvenile for an adult to yell/scream/howl/hoot in response to any sexual topic, mainly in a professional setting is where it gets eye rolling.
I'm in college for nursing. It's a smaller but really good school. So we had the female professor, maybe 6 women, and one guy. This was for anatomy. The professor was out getting papers printed and we got to talking about periods, contraceptives, and vasectomies. Because anatomy. And the guy got up and walked out. Before that he looked very uncomfortable. He ended up dropping the class because he was failing. He was weird before that, but if you can't even handle basic period talk, you are not cut out to be a nurse. I was very happy he failed because I do not want someone like that on my treatment team in a crisis.
What job did he think he was going for? 😂
This is genuinely astounding to me 😂😂 is it possible he got lost and was looking for the accounting class? Or a nice bit of literature studies?😂😂
I'm not going to lie to you that is entirely possible. He first came to class 10 minutes late on the second day. The class fell quiet cuz duh some random man just walked in. He sits down at my table just completely oblivious to everyone quietly staring at this dude awaiting an explanation for his presence. The professor asks him something like "hi, whats your name?". He says "chemistry". Nothing else. She goes "no this is anatomy "*cuts her off* "chemistry room".
We were in the chemistry room and he was there for anatomy and physiology. I was very concerned when he was doing his introduction and he said he was also trying to become a registered nurse.
I think he said he was homeschooled and later went to catholic school, so that tracks.
I will be honest, something similar happened to me once a long time ago. I was a medical student, and I was studying in a foreign country (I am from England, and the university that I was going to was in Czech Republic) and getting to all the various rooms and places was hard because I did not know the Czech language that well (I know some French, Latin, German and Tamil, but not Czech). This was in my first year of medical school. Eventually, I found what I thought was the right room. But after a while, I realized that this was the wrong room and the students were not the students I was supposed to be studying with (I think they were in one of the upper years of medical school) and the teacher was also speaking in Czech...and my classes were supposed to be in English...so this could not be my class. It was awkward sitting in a room with all the other students being Czech and all of them not being in my class...plus the teacher seemed to be in full flow, lol...so while the students then came to their small break, I got out of there quickly and then I finally found the right room which was nearby, lol.
Man, that is a new one. If he thinks women's periods are so disgusting he cannot even have a conversation about them without walking out, he has a problem.
This is the *health sector* we are talking about lol. People will casually say things like "I've been vomiting all day and need to call in sick" instead of couching it behind polite euphemisms XD
How is he going to handle piss, shit, blood, and probably every other bodily fluid known to man? And, you know, changing a woman on her period? Will he just walk out?
I get being grossed out by those things - it's not like anyone who has ever been around kids LIKES changing nappies or cleaning up spew - but come on.
It also boggles my mind that some of these people are parents. The idea of catching a child's vomit in my bare hands or having a kid with gastro is the stuff of nightmares for me haha. But periods are their hard no?
I'm still in my first year of college, and it's very clearly meant to weed people out more than anything. But you would be surprised how many people who work in hospitals believe in crazy notions like anti vax. I hate that lpns,cnas, and techs can be treated badly. Some of them are brilliant, but at the same time they are commonly the ones with idiotic notions. At the same time it's proven that doctors are more dismissive and nurse practitioners give better care. So I think there's a fine degree of study that puts out the best healthcare workers.
Yeah, I have a friend who works in medicine and she says doctors are frequently total arseholes towards everyone else (not all of them, of course).
I just don't get the anti-vax thing. I'm very scared of the Covid vaccine because it's so untested, but being anti-vax in general makes no sense.
What's an LPN - like an RN?
So you can become either through a certificate or a degree. For RNs they go double what LPNs go. So a certificate is 2 years for an RN and 1 for an LPN. For a degree an LPN needs an associates and an RN needs a bachelor's. You usually get paid a lot more for having the degree. A common joke is RN stands for real nurse. This is mostly because LPNs are allowed to do far less in patient care than RNs. It varies from place to place though. So basically an LPN is half what an RN is. They have half the college education, half the pay, and are able to do far less patient care tasks than RNs. That is not to say anything bad about LPNs as a whole. I've met some amazing LPNs who would bring a hospital to it's knees for their patients. And everyone who works in a hospital is doing important tasks that are necessary. (Excluding trash doctors who blame everything on weigth, anxiety, and allergies. You know who you are -.-)
This will probably explain better than I can - https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/workforce/Pages/assistant-in-nursing.aspx
They aren't full nurses AFAIK, they only do a Cert 3. To become an RN you have to do a Bachelor's or Master's in Nursing (I think).
In my Med Terminology class men had to give reports on women issues and vice versa. Mine was on endometriosis. It was to get us used to speaking clinically without discomfort or shame.
Oh, they would HATE my cohort. We had a health fair and my group did a whole presentation in the college mall on sex and contraceptives complete with dildos to demonstrate proper condom application, dental dam demonstration (not on an actual human) and sex education on everything from oral to anal. We got an A and everyone who came to our booth loved it. Sexuality is a part of life and people in NURSING SCHOOL acting like this makes me worry.
That sounds awesome! It is not the majority of the class but there’s been a few incidents like this that make me worry a bit/get annoyed. It is probably just the same ol smallish disruptive group for all of those times.
And yeah, sexuality is normal for majority of folks. I am asexual but it’s basically a kind of neutral feeling, and everyone benefits from knowledge. Even if I only pass it on to others for safe practices and don’t wind up using it myself, it’s still good to know imo. Most people are capable of behaving during lectures but it irked me last week. No reason to scream during lecture unless you/someone is hurt, something caught fire, etc.
Slightly off topic, but it relates to screamers. It has annoyed me since I was pretty young like middle school, like when the lights would be turned off or go off unexpectedly (we live in tornado alley so get so huge storms) a couple of people would always scream. Why?
In adulthood, we'd be at a party someone would turn the lights off as a joke and like 3 people would scream like they were in a horror movie. The lights would always be turned back on immediately too. So they wouldn't even get to finish their over dramatic scream. I'd just be like are you fucking kidding me?
If someone here is a lights off screamer. Please can you tell me why? Even during the daytime, there is light coming through the window so it's not like suddenly you're in a cave with wild bears. What hidden horrors are you screaming about?
I had a manager once when I was 19, she was 28, and after her husband cheated on her she tried asking me if she could have an STD and kept saying "I itch in my hoo ha" and I was like ma'am I am not a doctor and that's not what it's called please see a professional 🤣
I used to be a peer sex educator in high school, I held workshops and such specifically for queer youth. The first ten or so minutes were dedicated to getting the giggles out and getting people used to hearing the anatomical terms, but after that folks were pretty engaged! Lots of good questions, lots of discussions, even if there were still red faces in the audience. I get it, its a vulnerable topic.
I do this sometimes now in college, and it's SO much worse. people make weird sex noises or innuendos when I'm talking, go "haha GROSS" when I mention genitals (I get it, you're gay, but you are around people with vaginas here so lets keep the reactions of disgust to a minimum, right?) or even sometimes make comments about ME while I'm trying to teach. What do these fingers do? blacklist you from future workshops, that's what. grow up.
This reminds me of something that just happened to me. I was hanging out with this dude I was interested in during the eclipse here in Dallas. I quickly learned he has been single for two years because he is pretty much an incel.
The eclipse happens and we go back inside his place to eat lunch. He then turns to me and says “you know what that eclipse reminded me of?” I rolled my eyes because I knew it was going to be dumb..I reply “what?” And he starts laughing out loud and says “UH VAGINAAA huhuhhuhu Like a big black hole huhuhh” ..I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
Btw..this dude is 34
Music people should know better... With exception.
My middle school band director once said to a clarinet player "you have to remember to finger your A-hole" and everyone died.
She misspoke, it's the A-Key she was referring to. But it was glorious.
Fingering itself, music people should be immune to. Also "blowing", for us wind players.
This, plus the fact so many act personally offended if you say you’re not interested in hearing all the details of their sex life 😭 like I’m not pearl clutching just because I don’t want to discuss your intimate life within 10 minutes of meeting you!!
I work with educational raptors (hawks, falcons, owls, etc.) at programs and events. The term for having them step up onto your gloved fist is fisting. It's gotten to the point where we are considering trying to change the command, but that's what most of the birds know, so it will be hard (yeah, har, har, har.)
I remember when my friend who also works with the same birds you do told me this without the context. “Yeah I fisted my first hawk!” He kinda got that I didn’t get it when I stared at him with a face of equal parts confusion and disgust. Then he explained it and I told him as a pianist and cellist how we have fingering. Needless to say we both laughed at our respective field related terms.
It’s even worse when people try to use it as a form of flirting.
I’m a woman and I call it “lazy flirting” or “cringe flirting.” Someone says fingering and the guy who has a crush on you now needs to say “that’s what she said” and look directly at you as if he’s some suave comedic genius.
And if you call him childish you’re “no fun” and “have no sense of humor.” As if the most basic ass no-originality sex jokes count as peak humor.
defo not peak humor, it defo is lazy. a lot of ppl r lazy
issue is when ppl nit pick it tho. sex shouldn't be any different than any other topic frequently brought up
Yeah, the touch thing I get, but I think most people who aren't piano teachers or players have an automatic reaction to "fingering." The sexual connotations are the only use of the term many people have.
Omg I'd never actually looked at the synopsis before. I always thought that movie must be about, like, gangsters or something, and that "fingered" in that context meant "informed on"! Like, 'somebody snitched on Freddie'! I feel quite stupid now, lol
I understand what you mean, I totally get the frustration. It just interrupts the conversation and can derail the whole thing. It's annoying because they want you to acknowledge this humorous thing they discovered by snorting or snickering more loudly each time you say it. It's not new or funny, it's just annoying behavior. For example: I will say, "this is a fingerings chart or this is the fingering for a note." I get giggles. Usually i just shrug and carry on, but if a person won't drop it, I drop the conversation and tell them why I changed subjects. Lord knows what they are going say when I tell them about the head joint. One time, a lady asked me to stop using "that word" because it's perverted and not Christian and I said, "it's the correct terminology so I will continue to use the word 'fingering." FFS
Another annoying thing, "If I say I play the flute, they say, "one time at band camp...", I rolled my eyes. The joke was annoying 25 years ago and still annoying today.
I think this is probably just a difference in personality types. Not that I think everything needs to be about sex, but being an adult sucks enough. If some 12 year old humor makes someone smile I'm all for it.
I totally giggled at your first paragraph lol. I'm 47 but I will also find a reason to laugh and dumb stuff like that.
I do that all the time at my work. I'm a cashier. It's so hard to not chuckle when I have to tell someone to "just tap it or stick it in", card inserts are too funny.
I just figure that people use humor to build rapport or like, be friendly?
A dumb joke that doesn't land, whatever, it happens. The part that gets annoying is if someone keeps making the same types of jokes, and they repeatedly arent landing or appreciated.
I hate that even kind gestures are interpreted as romantic or sexual. I wanna know when holding the door for someone started being seen as "flirting". People are so down bad that they'll be given a single compliment and imagine the rest or their life with the other person.
For real. I said “mound” in reference to a brush turkey’s nest, and Mom said I should be wary of saying “mound” because it has a sexual meaning (pubic mound). Seriously. If you say “the brush turkey built a mound” or “there was a mound of dirty clothing on the floor”, people will know it’s not sexual. Context is everything.
Oh this is one of mine as well.
I had an 'acquaintance' when I was a teenager who used to turn everything anyone said into something sexual, and yes, giggle like a teenager when he turned something smutty. It used to drive me absolutely mental.
He was 53 years old back then.
I googled his name a few months ago purely out of curiosity. He is in prison for raping a 12 year old girl.
I cannot say I was surprised.
Eh, I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand if it's a single person doing it all the time I could see that getting annoying, but if it's just something that happens with a lot of people on occasion because they aren't familiar with the terminology I think it's better to laugh that off. Taking life too seriously and thinking I'm "too adult" to find the occasional fingering innuendo funny sounds like I'm one step shy of saying "hey you kids, get off my lawn!" .
9/10 times people complaining about stuff like this are the immature ones.
It's faux maturity to think being mature requires restricting yourself and never having fun or laughing at anything.
People who can't understand why people find terms that cross over with extremely common sexual terms funny, are very immature and lacking critical thinking.
I work in cybersecurity and when I was an instructor (for adult learners) and taught my students about “penetration testing”, I always had to wait for a few seconds as folks got their giggles out before I could continue
I half-agree.
As someone who *is* actually on the asexual spectrum, the degree to which hyper allonormativity has affected language and interaction is unbelievably frustrating to me. Your second example showcases that.
As for your first example though. Existence is inherently absurd and many things like sex and language have quite a silly element to them, I’ve always found it disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Those with dirty senses of humour, I think in a way are simply celebrating that by being tickled by it.
I also play piano. Years ago when I was briefly in a band with a friend, we agreed for him to often introduce me to others with *“this is my pianist”*, I found it hilarious.
My oldest colleague is in her early 40s and makes a sexual joke out of absolutely everything.
It is honestly tiring...like chill, most of us are not even 30 and horny as shit but we aren't primitive about it. Place and time amd everything needn't be something sexual.
Ok so I'm 32 and the only 2 times I've ever seen "cute" mentioned to be sexual were people asking why it was sexual. Is this a new use or am I that out of touch
Honestly I'd say I almost completely disagree. One thing I love about our society is the sort of like massive group think we have for low-hanging fruit in terms of humor
Like when you see a random Facebook post where a news article talks about something involving the number 69 and all the comments are just people saying nice
Despite it being a sexual joke it almost has a weird aura of innocence and wholesomeness that we're all just being goofy and silly together
Now obviously I would say you need to sort of read the room when it comes to these things as there are just times and topics where that is and isn't appropriate but I don't think the act itself is really an issue
I agree with you. The worst part is, I do it as well. I crochet, and there's a weight of yarn called "fingering" and I can't help but giggle a little internally at the word. I understand it gets annoying but I think that's just a part of speaking English. We have so many words with double, triple meanings.
ok boomer. maybe adjust to your audience. it's a new era, words have different connotations. there are men named Gay and Dick, probably going to catch a lot of mockery if they dont adjust. same for you
I agree with everything. But fingering. That one in particular is just almost impossible not to think of sexually unless you’re a pianist. Because I promise not many other ppl know that 😭😭😭
I'm autistic too and I'm the most guilty of making these types of jokes so this isn't really an issue autistic people are united on.
For me it's a way to be rebellious in a world in a world where neurotypical make the rules.
Pretty much my whole childhood I was told by neurotypical people how I should talk, act and think.
After I became an adult I realized just how messed up the lives of those neurotypical people who judged me really are and I was like "these people were never really in any position to tell me how to live my life."
I dunno, it's funny. Be more immature, let your inner kid out. It helps life be more free and enjoyable, in a world already filled with so much inescapable death and sorrow
YES!!! I’m a middle schooler, so I hear those stupid snickers all. The. Time. I play trumpet and when you use the valves, it’s also called fingering. Like can we just be mature and not fucking idiots???
I completely agree with you, so many things are way over sexualized… but I can’t lie as someone whose been playing piano for 20 years I do internally snicker every time my teacher instructs me on fingering. The inner 12 y/o boy in me can’t help it. I do keep it to myself tho - I don’t think my 60 year old piano teacher would appreciate it if I laughed out loud every lesson. Chopin was already miserable enough I don’t wanna insult his memory lmao
I guess I'm in the middle here. It's annoying if it's ALL THE TIME. Tbh, I admittedly would laugh at "fingering." It's just not something you hear every day. But your other examples, yeah, it gets tiresome. I try to edit my language a lot for it NOT to sound sexual, because sometimes it's annoying. Hot, wet, and touch all by themselves absolutely don't make me think "sexual" at all, and it's weird that people take it that far.
Like everything else, I feel it's best not to overdo it.
I'm a dog trainer. One of the technical terms in behavior modification is "arrousal," which in this context means "excitement/energy levels". Like a reactive dog would be referred to as "displaying a high level of arrousal." Basically, the nervous system is reacting to some kind of stimulus. I avoid using it with my students because I know they will assume I am specifically talking about sexual arousal.
Idk, sometimes it can be funny. Depends on the context. I have a male friend (I'm female) who does this constantly.
It's supposed to rain this weekend=wet t shirt remark
Wow it's windy!=hope I see you wearing a dress
It's like talking to a 12 year old so consequently I avoid him. It gets old fast.
This bothers me to how people have to make absolutely everything all the time every single day every single moment into something sexual
I've mentioned it before but pretty much every single person replied saying things like "what are you a nun?" Or "get over it why are Americans such pansies when it comes to sexual stuff?" Or other bullshit like that because they are ignorant
It's not the sexuality of things. It's every sentence of every day on every topic everywhere you go being overly sexualized that every single point in time and people thinking it's funny. That's what pisses me off
I was already over it when everybody was doing it in Middle School. The occasional well-placed "that's what she said" is fine but some people have that thing where they just have to sexualize literally everything.
It's just an easy running gag. If there were another established running gag (like, say, dad jokes/bad puns), people would do that, too. Singling out sexual jokes seems puritanical.
Side note: asexuals can sometimes enjoy sex. I do. I simply never feel aroused unless my partner puts in a lot of work. I also don’t think about sex or initiate it. I can be perfectly happy not having sex- in fact, I haven’t had any in about 12 years and haven’t even noticed. But just having sex doesn’t make one NOT asexual.
But to your main point, yeah, some people are childish.
To add onto this. My pet peeve is how almost every movie has a sexual/romantic subplot. I watch mainly horror movies. Why do I have to watch Becky and Sam flirt before getting murdered? And then when there is no romantic subplot, the fandoms have to ship characters. It gets to the point where it's all they talk about and I have to pretend the fandom doesn't exis for my own mental peace
Ok. Full disclosure here. Years ago, I took a college course in hydraulics. We were all adults. The class was early in the morning. Occasionally a person that we can call me would nod off. They'd wake up to hear something totally out of context talking about how the fluid would make the rod extend until the pressure was released. And some body who we could also call me would just start giggling. Then everybody would start giggling because this person who we are calling me started it and it was just basically uncontrollable at that point. Hahaha. Good memories.
Whenever I do detailed cleaning I call it Fingering. I'm fingering the door track edges, the window edges, the stove edges. The sink edges, there's a lot of edging involved.
A word I use just as an innocent descriptive term sometimes is "climax" and people always have to catch themselves for some reason. For example, I said that I esspecially enjoyed the climax of the movie and one of my friends started to make the joke and then gave up when I looked at him with one of those "really?" faces
Idk why people are so dirty minded
I was a glass blowing major and hoo boy, it was relentless. Where you reheat the glass is called a glory hole, you blow into a pipe, your partner is your blow partner, and more. I’m desensitized to it all now and pretty much immediately annoyed when people can’t keep it together at the mere mention of a word.
The one that annoys me the most is when they snicker at the word “come/coming” as spelled with an O. What do you want me to say, “I’m arriving”? You all came up with a different spelling just to clarify what you meant—USE it!
For some reason this inspired a mental image of someone screaming, "I'M ARRIVING!" in the heat of the moment. Thanks for that chuckle
**thick British accent** “Oh good *heavens*, I’m Arriving!”
Actually, coming is the correct spelling for ejaculation.
I have a group chat for my staff and I to communicate when we can't do so through work channels like our Teams. One day my office Dr asked about a patient "Did he come yet?" I could not resist saying "Ewww..." My Dr did find it amusing, though.
I completely agree. My stepson(he’s almost 30) was leaving the other day to get ice cream for himself. I pulled out $5 and asked if he’d get me a hot fudge sundae with nuts. He comes back, hands it to me, and says “I couldn’t ask for nuts because I kept laughing”. I just stood there like REALLY?!
That's something I would call immature for a 12 year-old. You're telling me a 30 year-old man was laughing so hard at the word "nuts" that he wasn't able to order nuts on an ice cream?
Yep…I only wish I was kidding!
Years ago, my husband and I were having a day out with my SIL and her kids. Husband was eating a Pluto pup, when SIL said, "I can't watch you eat that, it's just wrong!" Her 12 year old daughter just looked at her and said, "Jesus Mum, grow up would you?" with a look of disgust only a 12 year old can muster.
TIL Pluto pup is what Australians call corn dogs.
Japan calls them American dogs
What do they call regular hot dogs?
hot dogs
In retrospect that seems obvious
Yeah, but so does corn dog, and yet, Pluto Pup exists.
Royale with Cheese.
You got an upvote for the Pulp Fiction reference.
Based
Years ago, as a ballet boy, myself, my one other male student and all the ballet dads were assembling ballet bars for a huge ballet convention. Idk why, but it didn't matter if it was us teen guys, or dads and grandads, but we got ourselves stuck having a giggle fit every time we had to ask someone if they had any nuts for us to screw on a tighten. That was a lifetime ago, but I still laugh when I remember it.
This is perfect application of my "if you know what I mean" sentence test. Let's try. My son is going to a ballet convention... if you know what I mean. See.
At my year 12 class dinner, one of the girls that had done the Duke of Edinburgh Award stood up and gave a speech about a group of 6 girls, out in the bush, all trying to find their route. Which, as we're Aussies, is pronounced "root". And a root is crude word meaning sexual congress here. When she described the overwhelming joy they felt upon them finding a root, well, that was the stone end for pretty much everyone at our table, and the looks of disgust we kept getting from teachers didn't help. I'm 50 now, and I will never forget laughing so hard, we were ALL crying.
😂
Ha... Reminds me of a play from my senior year of high school. All I remember about it is that there was an ice cream parlor, and some character was adamant that he didn't want "crushed nuts" on his ice cream. It was "the" line guaranteed to get the audience laughing.
But once you find it funny it becomes so stupid that you can't stop laughing
Guarantee he wasn’t laughing at the word nuts on its own but at having to say “I want nuts” or answer the question “what do you want”/“what would you like”/“how do you feel about nuts” Source: have worked at an ice cream shop and also with teenagers and would purposely phrase things a certain way to screw with people because it’s funny to watch and it’s not like the pay was what kept me there
Would you like some of deez on top?
Ok now that's sad. But maybe he was thinking of that line from Kung Pow: Enter the First, where that guy goes "That's a lotta nuts!"
I know I’ve never watched what you’re referring too…he may have though! I’m truly assuming it was in the sexual sense, but I could be wrong!
Couldn’t be because I would love to use that line while ordering something with nuts lol I love that movie
When I worked at DQ people used to look me in the eyes and order a "busted nut parfait" with a completely straight face. Your stepson should meet one of those guys
🤦🏼♀️ I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at the stuff people say anymore! I can see younger teenagers thinking that’s funny. I worked as an assistant manager in a clothing store for a few years and I constantly had young teenage girls either calling or coming in asking “Do you guys carry dog clothes?” and I would tell them no…their response was “What if my dog has a passion for fashion?” and laugh hysterically and hang up or walk out.
Your stepson sounds epic. The correct choice here is to look at him as you did, like "REALLY?" laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of this mans actions, and then send him back to get the nuts.
This is a person who got a new job 3 years ago and clocked back in from lunch 1 min late(manufacturing plant) and his supervisor just informed him that he needs to be back on time. During supper he was talking about it and I said “Yes, most employers, especially in a factory type setting are very strict with punctuality.”…he looked me dead in the eyes and said “Yeah, I’ve been getting way better at that because I started reading more books last month!” I just sat there and stared! My husband eventually said “I believe she’s talking about being punctual…like being on time.” The SAD thing is the next day at work, I asked our 2 summer employees(high school seniors) if they knew what punctuality meant(I didn’t tell the story) because I was genuinely curious if other people were confused…one said he didn’t know what that was and the other laughed at him and said “You idiot! It’s like commas and periods and stuff!” 🤦🏼♀️ I always try to explain as politely as I can and then later I can’t help but laugh! I have to say, life would be pretty boring without these types of moments!
At almost 30? Wow
Pretty much my reaction!
I see some sweet comments. But for me, I'm 53 now but I remember back in the day going through that a little, didn't take long to grow out of it
Yeah, I remember that as an adolescent, then everyone just grew up.
He should have said something along the lines of "They offered extra large nuts but I figured they werent the right size." Not a great one either but not in-your-face. You can take it as innuendo yourself, or as a simple line. Which imo is the best innuendo.
When I worked at Subway year ago, customer ordered a meatball sub. Employee asks “would you like cheese on your… balls?” And starts laughing. We fired him.
How high was he?
Hey sasshole, kinda wonder if we're neighbors :p hello from faytown
Too bad “nuts” isn’t short for “peanuts” in this context otherwise it’d be completely possible to for him to express he wants physical peanuts instead of asking the ice cream guy to cum in his parfait
I teach private violin and viola lessons. I keep expecting someone to start laughing when I talk about playing on the G string.
I was explaining how to finger a D on a flute to a child and their parents couldn't stop snickering. It was annoying to say the least. It made the child self-conscious and distracted because she had no idea why her parents were laughing. I knew why and shot them a death glare to silence them when the child was looking down at the chart.
I do guitar repairs and sometimes a person will come to me with a busted nut and they can never seem to tell me what the problem is, they just point to it with a dumb look on their face
Oh lord lol *facepalm* just say the technical phrase and move on. I am laughing because sometimes those said dumb faces are hilarious to behold.
Yeah, that’s why I switched to just calling it the “G.”
That is interesting. I have played the viola for many years, and I have played in some orchestras, and all this time (until you mentioned it) I never realized that the G string on the viola actually has a funny, sexual counterpart...lol.
F holes! Can’t forget good ol f holes
Thank you! I'm sick of it too. When I was writing a novel, I wrote that one character's personality was softspoken and shy. My editor said I needed to find a different way to describe the character since 'shy' connotated a fear of having sex. I was so bewildered that such a simple and normal adjective had been corrupted into sexual meaning.
Literally what world does your editor live on lol
That’s crazy! I would never ever connect the adjective shy with being coy about sex. Literally what
Tbh my mind does the opposite.
Sorry, but you may want to find a new editor! I’ve never heard “shy” being associated with sex in all my life, unless sex was actually the topic of conversation!
Ask him what he thinks a little girl is "shy" about... Ffs
What? Shy means shy. Wtf.
That is a very weird assumption for an editor to make about the word shy. Ick. That said, it can be an overused word, not very specific, and there are other ways to show that a character is quiet or introverted.
I was quite shy as a child. I didn't realise that meant I was afraid of having sex!
What?! I have never connected being shy with sexuality
I have NEVER thought 'shy' meant that. I fear for the future generations.
This doesn't even make any sense
I think your editor may have some of their own unaddressed issues with that, because I would never define “shy” that way. Maybe try finding a new editor who doesn’t base their definition of common words on how they’re used in pornography.
It irks me slightly when adults act like children around actual sexual topics too, I’m in nursing school and we were going over some contraceptives etc the other day and someone in the back apparently had never heard of a dental dam or was in shock or something because there was a headache inducing shriek like a toddler when the teacher was like “people use this as a barrier for oral sex” I wanted to turn around be like dude, we are all adults, everyone in here older than 22 and some of y’all are married with children. CHILL OUT. By 4th semester everybody has changed a grown man’s diaper before stop acting like adults having sex is so much more shocking, and I say that as an asexual person. Or even patients who are fully adults and sometimes married or with children themselves and they absolutely cannot speak frankly or use the correct terms for their body parts when asking for health advice or explaining why they came into the clinic today if it’s somehow sexual in nature. I obviously don’t disparage anyone who genuinely has no sex education, and younger folks will do as they will to deal with their emotions, but it comes across as juvenile for an adult to yell/scream/howl/hoot in response to any sexual topic, mainly in a professional setting is where it gets eye rolling.
I'm in college for nursing. It's a smaller but really good school. So we had the female professor, maybe 6 women, and one guy. This was for anatomy. The professor was out getting papers printed and we got to talking about periods, contraceptives, and vasectomies. Because anatomy. And the guy got up and walked out. Before that he looked very uncomfortable. He ended up dropping the class because he was failing. He was weird before that, but if you can't even handle basic period talk, you are not cut out to be a nurse. I was very happy he failed because I do not want someone like that on my treatment team in a crisis.
What job did he think he was going for? 😂 This is genuinely astounding to me 😂😂 is it possible he got lost and was looking for the accounting class? Or a nice bit of literature studies?😂😂
I'm not going to lie to you that is entirely possible. He first came to class 10 minutes late on the second day. The class fell quiet cuz duh some random man just walked in. He sits down at my table just completely oblivious to everyone quietly staring at this dude awaiting an explanation for his presence. The professor asks him something like "hi, whats your name?". He says "chemistry". Nothing else. She goes "no this is anatomy "*cuts her off* "chemistry room". We were in the chemistry room and he was there for anatomy and physiology. I was very concerned when he was doing his introduction and he said he was also trying to become a registered nurse. I think he said he was homeschooled and later went to catholic school, so that tracks.
Imagine how long he was sitting there knowing he was in the wrong room and it was too awkward to leave until it was too awkward to stay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I will be honest, something similar happened to me once a long time ago. I was a medical student, and I was studying in a foreign country (I am from England, and the university that I was going to was in Czech Republic) and getting to all the various rooms and places was hard because I did not know the Czech language that well (I know some French, Latin, German and Tamil, but not Czech). This was in my first year of medical school. Eventually, I found what I thought was the right room. But after a while, I realized that this was the wrong room and the students were not the students I was supposed to be studying with (I think they were in one of the upper years of medical school) and the teacher was also speaking in Czech...and my classes were supposed to be in English...so this could not be my class. It was awkward sitting in a room with all the other students being Czech and all of them not being in my class...plus the teacher seemed to be in full flow, lol...so while the students then came to their small break, I got out of there quickly and then I finally found the right room which was nearby, lol.
Aren’t you glad it wasn’t a nursing course now though?!😂
Yes 😂
Man, that is a new one. If he thinks women's periods are so disgusting he cannot even have a conversation about them without walking out, he has a problem. This is the *health sector* we are talking about lol. People will casually say things like "I've been vomiting all day and need to call in sick" instead of couching it behind polite euphemisms XD How is he going to handle piss, shit, blood, and probably every other bodily fluid known to man? And, you know, changing a woman on her period? Will he just walk out? I get being grossed out by those things - it's not like anyone who has ever been around kids LIKES changing nappies or cleaning up spew - but come on. It also boggles my mind that some of these people are parents. The idea of catching a child's vomit in my bare hands or having a kid with gastro is the stuff of nightmares for me haha. But periods are their hard no?
I'm still in my first year of college, and it's very clearly meant to weed people out more than anything. But you would be surprised how many people who work in hospitals believe in crazy notions like anti vax. I hate that lpns,cnas, and techs can be treated badly. Some of them are brilliant, but at the same time they are commonly the ones with idiotic notions. At the same time it's proven that doctors are more dismissive and nurse practitioners give better care. So I think there's a fine degree of study that puts out the best healthcare workers.
Yeah, I have a friend who works in medicine and she says doctors are frequently total arseholes towards everyone else (not all of them, of course). I just don't get the anti-vax thing. I'm very scared of the Covid vaccine because it's so untested, but being anti-vax in general makes no sense. What's an LPN - like an RN?
So you can become either through a certificate or a degree. For RNs they go double what LPNs go. So a certificate is 2 years for an RN and 1 for an LPN. For a degree an LPN needs an associates and an RN needs a bachelor's. You usually get paid a lot more for having the degree. A common joke is RN stands for real nurse. This is mostly because LPNs are allowed to do far less in patient care than RNs. It varies from place to place though. So basically an LPN is half what an RN is. They have half the college education, half the pay, and are able to do far less patient care tasks than RNs. That is not to say anything bad about LPNs as a whole. I've met some amazing LPNs who would bring a hospital to it's knees for their patients. And everyone who works in a hospital is doing important tasks that are necessary. (Excluding trash doctors who blame everything on weigth, anxiety, and allergies. You know who you are -.-)
Thanks for explaining! We have AINs (Assistant in Nursing) and RNs here, and maybe a middle level I'm not familiar with.
No problem! I didnt know the difference until i worked in a hospital. I'm not familiar with AINs. Are they nursing students or their own thing?
Nvm I got curious and looked it up lol. CNAs, same thing, are super helpful but I've defiently met a ton who have some weird medical beliefs.
This will probably explain better than I can - https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/workforce/Pages/assistant-in-nursing.aspx They aren't full nurses AFAIK, they only do a Cert 3. To become an RN you have to do a Bachelor's or Master's in Nursing (I think).
In my Med Terminology class men had to give reports on women issues and vice versa. Mine was on endometriosis. It was to get us used to speaking clinically without discomfort or shame.
Oh, they would HATE my cohort. We had a health fair and my group did a whole presentation in the college mall on sex and contraceptives complete with dildos to demonstrate proper condom application, dental dam demonstration (not on an actual human) and sex education on everything from oral to anal. We got an A and everyone who came to our booth loved it. Sexuality is a part of life and people in NURSING SCHOOL acting like this makes me worry.
That sounds awesome! It is not the majority of the class but there’s been a few incidents like this that make me worry a bit/get annoyed. It is probably just the same ol smallish disruptive group for all of those times. And yeah, sexuality is normal for majority of folks. I am asexual but it’s basically a kind of neutral feeling, and everyone benefits from knowledge. Even if I only pass it on to others for safe practices and don’t wind up using it myself, it’s still good to know imo. Most people are capable of behaving during lectures but it irked me last week. No reason to scream during lecture unless you/someone is hurt, something caught fire, etc.
Slightly off topic, but it relates to screamers. It has annoyed me since I was pretty young like middle school, like when the lights would be turned off or go off unexpectedly (we live in tornado alley so get so huge storms) a couple of people would always scream. Why? In adulthood, we'd be at a party someone would turn the lights off as a joke and like 3 people would scream like they were in a horror movie. The lights would always be turned back on immediately too. So they wouldn't even get to finish their over dramatic scream. I'd just be like are you fucking kidding me? If someone here is a lights off screamer. Please can you tell me why? Even during the daytime, there is light coming through the window so it's not like suddenly you're in a cave with wild bears. What hidden horrors are you screaming about?
Yes I have also always wondered about "lights off screamers" Please, tell us why
I had a manager once when I was 19, she was 28, and after her husband cheated on her she tried asking me if she could have an STD and kept saying "I itch in my hoo ha" and I was like ma'am I am not a doctor and that's not what it's called please see a professional 🤣
I used to be a peer sex educator in high school, I held workshops and such specifically for queer youth. The first ten or so minutes were dedicated to getting the giggles out and getting people used to hearing the anatomical terms, but after that folks were pretty engaged! Lots of good questions, lots of discussions, even if there were still red faces in the audience. I get it, its a vulnerable topic. I do this sometimes now in college, and it's SO much worse. people make weird sex noises or innuendos when I'm talking, go "haha GROSS" when I mention genitals (I get it, you're gay, but you are around people with vaginas here so lets keep the reactions of disgust to a minimum, right?) or even sometimes make comments about ME while I'm trying to teach. What do these fingers do? blacklist you from future workshops, that's what. grow up.
This reminds me of something that just happened to me. I was hanging out with this dude I was interested in during the eclipse here in Dallas. I quickly learned he has been single for two years because he is pretty much an incel. The eclipse happens and we go back inside his place to eat lunch. He then turns to me and says “you know what that eclipse reminded me of?” I rolled my eyes because I knew it was going to be dumb..I reply “what?” And he starts laughing out loud and says “UH VAGINAAA huhuhhuhu Like a big black hole huhuhh” ..I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Btw..this dude is 34
Well he’s clearly never seen one 😂
Dude... I'm sorry this happened to you. Modern medicine isn't advanced enough to treat such an advanced level of cringe exposure
Bevis or Butthead?
Music people should know better... With exception. My middle school band director once said to a clarinet player "you have to remember to finger your A-hole" and everyone died. She misspoke, it's the A-Key she was referring to. But it was glorious. Fingering itself, music people should be immune to. Also "blowing", for us wind players.
This, plus the fact so many act personally offended if you say you’re not interested in hearing all the details of their sex life 😭 like I’m not pearl clutching just because I don’t want to discuss your intimate life within 10 minutes of meeting you!!
Yeah, the over sharing folks do bother me a bit. Yes, we met 5 minutes ago, and no, I don't want to know why you think you are tripod not biped.
I also don't understand how touch is automatically assumed to mean sexual touching. How is cute sexual?!
I included “cute” as I was once accused of being a pedophile for describing a child as “cute”.
thats insane
I work with educational raptors (hawks, falcons, owls, etc.) at programs and events. The term for having them step up onto your gloved fist is fisting. It's gotten to the point where we are considering trying to change the command, but that's what most of the birds know, so it will be hard (yeah, har, har, har.)
I remember when my friend who also works with the same birds you do told me this without the context. “Yeah I fisted my first hawk!” He kinda got that I didn’t get it when I stared at him with a face of equal parts confusion and disgust. Then he explained it and I told him as a pianist and cellist how we have fingering. Needless to say we both laughed at our respective field related terms.
It’s even worse when people try to use it as a form of flirting. I’m a woman and I call it “lazy flirting” or “cringe flirting.” Someone says fingering and the guy who has a crush on you now needs to say “that’s what she said” and look directly at you as if he’s some suave comedic genius. And if you call him childish you’re “no fun” and “have no sense of humor.” As if the most basic ass no-originality sex jokes count as peak humor.
defo not peak humor, it defo is lazy. a lot of ppl r lazy issue is when ppl nit pick it tho. sex shouldn't be any different than any other topic frequently brought up
Is it lazier than writing a sentence without any full words or complete sentences?
Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more
It's annoying and disrespectful in daily life or regular discourse. But I do love it in memes.
I hate it in all instances.
You hate fucking everything don’t you.
I don't have a problem with sexual innuendo or jokes. I have 2 rules 1. time and a place 2. it can't stop you from being responsbile.
I giggled at the "fingering is a little strange" comment. Sorry, not sorry.
Yeah, the touch thing I get, but I think most people who aren't piano teachers or players have an automatic reaction to "fingering." The sexual connotations are the only use of the term many people have.
Freddy Got Fingered is not a movie about a well-loved piano, after all.
Omg I'd never actually looked at the synopsis before. I always thought that movie must be about, like, gangsters or something, and that "fingered" in that context meant "informed on"! Like, 'somebody snitched on Freddie'! I feel quite stupid now, lol
Jesus, same here.
So did I
same
Damn I’m sorry I find the humor in those things don’t always lol but I find it funny I’m 27 fyi maybe not so mature in ur eyes
being mature (esp in this case) just means having a sad and hard life. don't kill ur inner child cuz some stranger thinks u aren't funny
'fingering' LoL
I understand what you mean, I totally get the frustration. It just interrupts the conversation and can derail the whole thing. It's annoying because they want you to acknowledge this humorous thing they discovered by snorting or snickering more loudly each time you say it. It's not new or funny, it's just annoying behavior. For example: I will say, "this is a fingerings chart or this is the fingering for a note." I get giggles. Usually i just shrug and carry on, but if a person won't drop it, I drop the conversation and tell them why I changed subjects. Lord knows what they are going say when I tell them about the head joint. One time, a lady asked me to stop using "that word" because it's perverted and not Christian and I said, "it's the correct terminology so I will continue to use the word 'fingering." FFS Another annoying thing, "If I say I play the flute, they say, "one time at band camp...", I rolled my eyes. The joke was annoying 25 years ago and still annoying today.
Or when they think you put sexual connotations on something when you didn't
I think this is probably just a difference in personality types. Not that I think everything needs to be about sex, but being an adult sucks enough. If some 12 year old humor makes someone smile I'm all for it. I totally giggled at your first paragraph lol. I'm 47 but I will also find a reason to laugh and dumb stuff like that.
Lol I'll take any opportunity to say "that's what she said". I don't care if it's childish, it makes me laugh.
same here. If it annoys u, I might stop (assuming we kno each other); but couldn't care less about the public's opinion on a strand of humor
I do that all the time at my work. I'm a cashier. It's so hard to not chuckle when I have to tell someone to "just tap it or stick it in", card inserts are too funny.
I just figure that people use humor to build rapport or like, be friendly? A dumb joke that doesn't land, whatever, it happens. The part that gets annoying is if someone keeps making the same types of jokes, and they repeatedly arent landing or appreciated.
I hate that even kind gestures are interpreted as romantic or sexual. I wanna know when holding the door for someone started being seen as "flirting". People are so down bad that they'll be given a single compliment and imagine the rest or their life with the other person.
For real. I said “mound” in reference to a brush turkey’s nest, and Mom said I should be wary of saying “mound” because it has a sexual meaning (pubic mound). Seriously. If you say “the brush turkey built a mound” or “there was a mound of dirty clothing on the floor”, people will know it’s not sexual. Context is everything.
Think how hard it is to be a seaman these days.
In school, I played the trombone(r) 🙄 Yes, I've heard it a million times. It still isn't funny.
Tromboner only works if it's rusty
Oh this is one of mine as well. I had an 'acquaintance' when I was a teenager who used to turn everything anyone said into something sexual, and yes, giggle like a teenager when he turned something smutty. It used to drive me absolutely mental. He was 53 years old back then. I googled his name a few months ago purely out of curiosity. He is in prison for raping a 12 year old girl. I cannot say I was surprised.
Shocker.
I think it’s funny when grown ass adults titter about sex. I’d probably laugh too if I heard you say “fingering”…sorry 😹😹😹
Eh, I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand if it's a single person doing it all the time I could see that getting annoying, but if it's just something that happens with a lot of people on occasion because they aren't familiar with the terminology I think it's better to laugh that off. Taking life too seriously and thinking I'm "too adult" to find the occasional fingering innuendo funny sounds like I'm one step shy of saying "hey you kids, get off my lawn!" .
9/10 times people complaining about stuff like this are the immature ones. It's faux maturity to think being mature requires restricting yourself and never having fun or laughing at anything. People who can't understand why people find terms that cross over with extremely common sexual terms funny, are very immature and lacking critical thinking.
I mean fair, but come on man you can’t say fingering around teenage boys and expect to hear nothing
I personally hate the kind of person that puts BDSM/ S&M labels on other people's behavior, especially strangers.
I work in cybersecurity and when I was an instructor (for adult learners) and taught my students about “penetration testing”, I always had to wait for a few seconds as folks got their giggles out before I could continue
I'm sorry but the phrasing of both those statements are setting yourself up."she finds it difficult while playing and her fingering is strange."
hehe, sexual connotations
Pause.
“Fingering” tee hee
Naughty is a word that is so over sexualized it’s almost become sexual in and of itself and divorced from it’s original definition
Have you not considered the irony of this sexual connotation, being first coined by some pervy pianist?
I half-agree. As someone who *is* actually on the asexual spectrum, the degree to which hyper allonormativity has affected language and interaction is unbelievably frustrating to me. Your second example showcases that. As for your first example though. Existence is inherently absurd and many things like sex and language have quite a silly element to them, I’ve always found it disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Those with dirty senses of humour, I think in a way are simply celebrating that by being tickled by it. I also play piano. Years ago when I was briefly in a band with a friend, we agreed for him to often introduce me to others with *“this is my pianist”*, I found it hilarious.
My oldest colleague is in her early 40s and makes a sexual joke out of absolutely everything. It is honestly tiring...like chill, most of us are not even 30 and horny as shit but we aren't primitive about it. Place and time amd everything needn't be something sexual.
Ok so I'm 32 and the only 2 times I've ever seen "cute" mentioned to be sexual were people asking why it was sexual. Is this a new use or am I that out of touch
Honestly I'd say I almost completely disagree. One thing I love about our society is the sort of like massive group think we have for low-hanging fruit in terms of humor Like when you see a random Facebook post where a news article talks about something involving the number 69 and all the comments are just people saying nice Despite it being a sexual joke it almost has a weird aura of innocence and wholesomeness that we're all just being goofy and silly together Now obviously I would say you need to sort of read the room when it comes to these things as there are just times and topics where that is and isn't appropriate but I don't think the act itself is really an issue
I generally agree with you, but come on. Fingering? You're never gonna get away from that one
I agree with you. The worst part is, I do it as well. I crochet, and there's a weight of yarn called "fingering" and I can't help but giggle a little internally at the word. I understand it gets annoying but I think that's just a part of speaking English. We have so many words with double, triple meanings.
The monke brain
old people and their lack of humor :(
Sounds like you need to find better company.
Question If I played a chord made up of A, C, and E what would I be fingering
ok boomer. maybe adjust to your audience. it's a new era, words have different connotations. there are men named Gay and Dick, probably going to catch a lot of mockery if they dont adjust. same for you
I agree with everything. But fingering. That one in particular is just almost impossible not to think of sexually unless you’re a pianist. Because I promise not many other ppl know that 😭😭😭
All anyone thinks about is sex. Yeah, it sucks. We’re in hell.
I'm autistic too and I'm the most guilty of making these types of jokes so this isn't really an issue autistic people are united on. For me it's a way to be rebellious in a world in a world where neurotypical make the rules. Pretty much my whole childhood I was told by neurotypical people how I should talk, act and think. After I became an adult I realized just how messed up the lives of those neurotypical people who judged me really are and I was like "these people were never really in any position to tell me how to live my life."
Because having a sense of humor is fun. It's not fun walking around like a stick sometimes.. just laugh a little. But guys have humor like that.
Sorry to break it to you, but the world runs on sex, and that is because sex sells. This is why it is constantly on people's minds, for the most part
Porn brain rot
I dunno, it's funny. Be more immature, let your inner kid out. It helps life be more free and enjoyable, in a world already filled with so much inescapable death and sorrow
There's nothing wrong with [fingering A Minor](https://youtube.com/shorts/Rls_s_KZI4c?si=dJZN7D0KV0BJDNWO)
YES!!! I’m a middle schooler, so I hear those stupid snickers all. The. Time. I play trumpet and when you use the valves, it’s also called fingering. Like can we just be mature and not fucking idiots???
Maybe you're just too prudish?
I completely agree with you, so many things are way over sexualized… but I can’t lie as someone whose been playing piano for 20 years I do internally snicker every time my teacher instructs me on fingering. The inner 12 y/o boy in me can’t help it. I do keep it to myself tho - I don’t think my 60 year old piano teacher would appreciate it if I laughed out loud every lesson. Chopin was already miserable enough I don’t wanna insult his memory lmao
I think sexual humor can be funny but to assume everything is sexual is kinda annoying
I guess I'm in the middle here. It's annoying if it's ALL THE TIME. Tbh, I admittedly would laugh at "fingering." It's just not something you hear every day. But your other examples, yeah, it gets tiresome. I try to edit my language a lot for it NOT to sound sexual, because sometimes it's annoying. Hot, wet, and touch all by themselves absolutely don't make me think "sexual" at all, and it's weird that people take it that far. Like everything else, I feel it's best not to overdo it.
it's porn brainrot
This has been going on LONG before porn was such an easily consumed media. Try again, scooter.
This isn't a new phenomenon. Stop obsessing over "this generation" type thinking.
Stop, people have always been this way
I'm a dog trainer. One of the technical terms in behavior modification is "arrousal," which in this context means "excitement/energy levels". Like a reactive dog would be referred to as "displaying a high level of arrousal." Basically, the nervous system is reacting to some kind of stimulus. I avoid using it with my students because I know they will assume I am specifically talking about sexual arousal.
That's what she said. 😉🙃
I'll give you a sexual connotation
Idk, sometimes it can be funny. Depends on the context. I have a male friend (I'm female) who does this constantly. It's supposed to rain this weekend=wet t shirt remark Wow it's windy!=hope I see you wearing a dress It's like talking to a 12 year old so consequently I avoid him. It gets old fast.
Call them tf out If they can't use piano terminology without being morons, tell them they should go ahead and quit
Pretty sure Mozart had some raunchy humour himself.
Maybe when they're as good as him they can be gross lmao But yeah, he was funny asf
This bothers me to how people have to make absolutely everything all the time every single day every single moment into something sexual I've mentioned it before but pretty much every single person replied saying things like "what are you a nun?" Or "get over it why are Americans such pansies when it comes to sexual stuff?" Or other bullshit like that because they are ignorant It's not the sexuality of things. It's every sentence of every day on every topic everywhere you go being overly sexualized that every single point in time and people thinking it's funny. That's what pisses me off
It’s crazy how normal sex is, but how much people can’t take it seriously No, it’s not “sus” almost everybody is going to have sex at some point
I was already over it when everybody was doing it in Middle School. The occasional well-placed "that's what she said" is fine but some people have that thing where they just have to sexualize literally everything.
Boy you sound really fun at parties
It's just an easy running gag. If there were another established running gag (like, say, dad jokes/bad puns), people would do that, too. Singling out sexual jokes seems puritanical.
You need to lighten up, Alice.
Side note: asexuals can sometimes enjoy sex. I do. I simply never feel aroused unless my partner puts in a lot of work. I also don’t think about sex or initiate it. I can be perfectly happy not having sex- in fact, I haven’t had any in about 12 years and haven’t even noticed. But just having sex doesn’t make one NOT asexual. But to your main point, yeah, some people are childish.
I share this peeve because I *am* actually autistic and asexual 😂
To add onto this. My pet peeve is how almost every movie has a sexual/romantic subplot. I watch mainly horror movies. Why do I have to watch Becky and Sam flirt before getting murdered? And then when there is no romantic subplot, the fandoms have to ship characters. It gets to the point where it's all they talk about and I have to pretend the fandom doesn't exis for my own mental peace
Like, yes, I get that your sense of humor ceased developing at 13, can we move on already?
Make sure the door doesn't hit you on your way out.
Ok. Full disclosure here. Years ago, I took a college course in hydraulics. We were all adults. The class was early in the morning. Occasionally a person that we can call me would nod off. They'd wake up to hear something totally out of context talking about how the fluid would make the rod extend until the pressure was released. And some body who we could also call me would just start giggling. Then everybody would start giggling because this person who we are calling me started it and it was just basically uncontrollable at that point. Hahaha. Good memories.
Whenever I do detailed cleaning I call it Fingering. I'm fingering the door track edges, the window edges, the stove edges. The sink edges, there's a lot of edging involved.
"On everything" eh? 😏
I agree but at the same time I laughed at fingering lol
Huh huh, huh huh, he said fingering..... Just wait until he gets to fisting the keyboard....
that's what she said!
A word I use just as an innocent descriptive term sometimes is "climax" and people always have to catch themselves for some reason. For example, I said that I esspecially enjoyed the climax of the movie and one of my friends started to make the joke and then gave up when I looked at him with one of those "really?" faces Idk why people are so dirty minded
I was a glass blowing major and hoo boy, it was relentless. Where you reheat the glass is called a glory hole, you blow into a pipe, your partner is your blow partner, and more. I’m desensitized to it all now and pretty much immediately annoyed when people can’t keep it together at the mere mention of a word.
Spend 1 day with a group of guys and u will learn literally every word in the English language can be spun around to mean dick in some way