• notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    If you find yourself drunk anywhere in Britain, start singing this song really loudly and you will make scores of new friends who also like to be drunk while singing loudly. Good times.

    • moakley@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      That’s definitely what the song is about. Have you never heard the lyrics?

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        16 hours ago

        Have you?? It’s about getting cheated on, he’s clearly not on board with it lol

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          11 hours ago

          Cuckolding doesn’t imply consent. In fact it pretty specifically implies that the man doesn’t know it. The word has been in the English language for almost a thousand years, whereas the fetish is relatively new.

          Fun fact: giving someone “bunny ears” by putting two fingers behind their head used to be referred to as “the horns of the cuckold”, and it meant that you were saying that person’s wife had been unfaithful.

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              That’s just turning the adjective into a verb. It’s literally the same thing. This is a common practice in the English language. It doesn’t change the meaning, only how it’s used in a sentence. If someone “cucks” you, that’s them doing the action that makes you a cuck(old).

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              10 hours ago

              So? The definition is the same.

              You can look these things up before you comment.

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                10 hours ago

                Why on earth would I look up the original definition for a word when someone used the slang that derived from it and I already knew both definitions?

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          15 hours ago

          4chan/Incel culture has co-opted “cuckolding” from a consensual kink to mean just plain old getting cheated on.

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            11 hours ago

            So you really think the fetish came first? Because the word predates the modern fetish usage by like 800 years.

            It comes from the cuckoo bird, which engages in nest parasitism. It lays its eggs in another bird’s nest to be raised by birds that aren’t its parents.

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            15 hours ago

            Kink culture has co-opted it from plain old getting cheated on to a consensual kink.

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            15 hours ago

            …if you’re not going to do anything about it, i.e. watch it happen, that’s the definition of cuckoldry

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        15 hours ago

        Have you never heard the lyrics?

        I have probably heard this song over 10k times, if I’m lucky. If you were alive in the UK in the 00s, there was no fucking escape.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    17 hours ago

    I swear half of the rock genre is about getting cucked. Every 2000s rock group and was 4 middle aged dudes singing about their wife cheating on them

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      11 hours ago

      tfw “being cheated on (consensually)” has somehow developed the same meaning as “being cheated on (nonconsensually)”

      Don’t make this another “literally”, please.