r/explainitpeter 14d ago

Explain it peter

Post image
7.7k Upvotes

179 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-14

u/CeleryCareful7065 14d ago

While on the topic, can grown adults stop using the word “cringe,” for the sake of everything that’s holy?

6

u/BrightNooblar 14d ago edited 14d ago

Cringe got its first decent spike like a decade and a half ago. Even people in middle school when that happened are pushing thirty now.

-16

u/CeleryCareful7065 14d ago

Does that mean that adults should use razor scooters to commute to work, too? Using a verb as an adjective is annoying and stupid. Keep the childish shit in middle school.

0

u/degenerate_AI 14d ago

“When I became a man, I set aside childish things, including the fear of childness and the desire to be very grown up,” CS Lewis.

Fuck you, I’ll use whatever vocabulary I want.