• whoareu
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      Could you explain it to me? I don’t really know the meaning of “it’s sick” (Is it ill?)

      • @Beardsley
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        452 months ago

        Sick can be used either to refer to something unfortunate (as in ill), or to refer to something really awesome. It’s just casual American slang.

        • @Fades
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          Calling something sick is far more than unfortunate, it’s closer to demented or disgusting

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s just casual American slang.

          We used to use it in Australia in the 2000s too. If something was very awesome, it was “fully sick”.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        192 months ago

        Sick is said as a bad thing. But in teenager slang it can be used as something cool.

        • whoareu
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          That’s why biden used this double meaning word… I see.

          • @TrickDacy
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            112 months ago

            He clearly didn’t intend it to mean anything else but the literal meaning

          • BarqsHasBite
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            No. It only has that meaning if you’re 14 and very edgy. No adult will use it like a teenager would.

            • @[email protected]
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              Sick has had this meaning since like… The 70s or 80s. Its not just edgy teens. In fact I suspect that this has probably fallen out of favor with gen alpha.

              So if anything, I think you probably have that exactly backwards

              • @grue
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                62 months ago

                Still at least two generations newer than any slang Biden would use.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Oh for sure, my comment wasn’t literal. No way does Biden have the presence of mind to make a slick response like that

                • @samus12345
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                  “The shooting was the bee’s knees.”

              • BarqsHasBite
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                It’s been around for a long time but you stop using it like that once you have a sliver of adulthood. The point being that no Biden did not use it as a double entendre.

            • BeardedBlaze
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              32 months ago

              Ah yes, only 14 year olds skateboard and/or surf. Lol

      • Obinice
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        It is totally ill bro