• @quixotic120
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    383 months ago

    old Doritos bags had so much more soul than the current garbage design

  • @norimee
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    143 months ago

    Is this the proper English word? Cockeyed? COCKeyed?

    • mozingo
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      443 months ago

      Yea, it comes from the verb form of cock, meaning to tilt, same word used when we cock a gun. So one eye is just tilted.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      A doctor would say you have amblyopia and a polite person would call it lazy eye. Cockeyed is a proper English word, but it’s kind of rude when you use it to describe a person and not an object.

      • @theangryseal
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        93 months ago

        As a cockeyed person, it doesn’t bother me. People rarely say anything. Sometimes you can catch people being confused about which eye to look into but it’s brief.

        I did have a kid say to me one time, “Wow, your eyes are like, seriously crossed!” I acted surprised and said, “Seriously? Oh my god! Do you think other people notice?” She felt bad about it and said, “No! No! It’s just where I was standing. I doubt anyone ever seen it.” :p

        My eyes are nowhere near as bad as biggie’s though because my sweet mother got me surgery when I was 5 years old. I still thank her for it regularly.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          That’s understandable, it’s definitely not on the level of like a racial slur or anything. But if my niece or nephew blurted that out about someone I’d want to put a stop to it pretty quickly, you know?

          And oh my god, that story about the kid is hilarious and adorable!

    • @danc4498
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      -43 months ago

      Technically it’s “cock for eyes” or if they have glasses “cock four eyes”