• whoareu
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    132 months ago

    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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        52 months ago

        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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        32 months ago

        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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                82 months ago

                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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                22 months ago

                “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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      72 months ago

      It is totally ill bro