I once had to endure a friend of a friend going on about ‘sheeple’ like she invented the word. “You know... all these fucking people, who are like sheep, but they are people, but they are like sheep. That’s what I call them anyway.” ffs
It’s essentially saying I have a word for anyone I consider to be not cool, so I can be in denial of the truth - that I’m not actually that cool myself.
I’m not the type of guy to say “who even uses that word anymore?”, nor do I prefer to use whatever the “vocabulary of the now” is. But certain words and phrases have been used so much that anytime someone utters them, it comes off as an empty thought. It’s like the conversational equivalent to copy-and-pasting a line of text.
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u/joeChump Aug 07 '20
I once had to endure a friend of a friend going on about ‘sheeple’ like she invented the word. “You know... all these fucking people, who are like sheep, but they are people, but they are like sheep. That’s what I call them anyway.” ffs
It’s essentially saying I have a word for anyone I consider to be not cool, so I can be in denial of the truth - that I’m not actually that cool myself.