I still think of Goon as a hockey enforcer. As a Canadian, i'm obligated to.
"Gimme the good old days when a pair of boobs were a couple of dumb guys." - Sheriff Buford T. Justice
Edited to fix attribution. I was sure it was Dangerfield, but DDG says otherwise.
Boob or booby to mean stupid still lives on in boobytrap.
Sort of. Boobytrap comes from the seabird the blue-footed booby. A famously stupid seabird that sailors caught in such a trap.
remember the old days when "tweeting" meant stabbing a hooker?
-Norm MacDonald
I was never with 'it' and I never cared to be.
I have become the first to advocate for changes. We build the future, there is nothing in the past, the past does not exist.
With their hands & genitals out of frame, those two goons might actually be gooning.
As stupid as it was, "Fap," made sense.
Isn’t it an onomatopoeia? It’s based on the sound “fap fap fap”
😅 Yeah it is.
Goon literally started out as the big nosed henchmen of the sea hag in the Popeye comic strip in the 1930s. It got applied to refer to anti-union fighters very quickly before it became a general purpose word meaning low-level henchman.
Cool any way u seem hot , imma goon
Do you all remember the movie “The Goonies”? Yeah… so many levels of wrong with this new definition when applied to that movie
So don't apply it to that movie.
And there was a time that gay meant happy and a removed was a piece of fire wood. Though the Brits, in their usual word butchery, turned that into fag for cigarette.
Languages change and morph. They are living things. And despite the French's best effort to try and prevent it.
We used it to mean cigarette before yanks turned it into a slur. You're the butchers here!
You butchered your own word removed to get fag. And who eats veg? And soccer that the US gets blamed for. We got it from you! Mangling words is what Brits do because they are orally lazy!
*****For those without a sense of humor, this is meant in fun.
So lazy and yet wanting to be respected. Oh we don't eat cows. That's for the poors, we eat beef.
Bunch of fuckin tea sippin wankers. But for the brits sake, words ending in re instead of er does look better to me. Theatre over theater. Colour is more colorful of a spelling...
Regarding the gays, didn't they use to burn gay people which is why the term connected from bundle of sticks to gay people? And probably why we use flamer as well, now that I think about it.
We raise cows. We eat beef even if we are poor, we don't discriminate. Well, up until the prices these days. It's going back to being a rich person's supper. Much to the joy of Vegans. But even cow is better than beouf or it's variations.
re vs. er? bloody silent letters again. Colour looks like a wannabe upjump word. And there is the whole silent letter thing again.
Those crude heathens probably hanged them the majority of the time vs burn. Wood costs money and takes time. A rope is cheap and faster plus it's reusable and fits their attitude.
F@g for cigarette is still used in the UK. So much so that the BBC once used it in the 2010s to refer to cigarettes in a news report.
That is true. Can't argue that. But isn't slowly fading away as generations pass?
I would feel bad for arsenal supporters but they've always been a bunch of wankers.
Same
Australians think “rooting around” means something very different so you have to be careful not to use it in a work context.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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