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A Boring Dystopia
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”
— someone called Greek Proverb.
It’s the exact opposite of these fuckers.
Also:
Ffs Guardian. It’s cringeworthy, or at a push cringey, or embarrassing, or awkward.
I fucking hate “cringe” used as an adjective (or whatever it is).
/rant
bro literally cambridge dictionary has added cringe as an adjective, language changes over time get over it.
adjective
informaluk/krɪndʒ/ us/krɪndʒ/
very embarrassing, because of being so bad or silly: Everything he posts on social media seems so cringe.
When you're watching the show you constantly think "this is cringe", but it's completely addictive!
A dictionary represents modern usage, it doesn’t make it less ignominious to use it 8 times in one article.
yes it is soo ignominious to use common turns of phrase to convey meaning, they must be so embarassed