New meme

April 10th, 2006 | 1:52pm by Jim Bliss

Via PigDogFecker (as we in Ireland would say), who cites d-squared, comes this lovely idea…

If I started using the term “anti-Semitic” as a general term of undifferentiated disapprobation like “lame” or “gay” (as in “god, those trainers are pretty anti-Semitic”, “The first few series of Friends were quite sharp and funny, but it got really lazy and anti-Semitic toward the end”, “I don’t know; there’s nothing specific about Shoreditch that I don’t like — it’s just a bit anti-Semitic”), how long do you think it would take to catch on? And what sort of reaction would I get in the meantime?

Well I like it.

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3 responses to "New meme"

  1. April 10th, 2006 | 3:42pm by Smokewriting » Blog Archive » Spreading It Around - Another Fine Edition of Me

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  2. April 10th, 2006 | 7:16pm by Joel

    I like it too. Another good one would be ‘Islamic’, used randomly. As in, ‘I love Mini-Cheddars, they’re like totally Islamic’ (you’re not going to believe I came up with that example off the top of my head, because I notice I have used the word in the sense of ‘Moor-ish’ — clearly nothing is random, it’s all Islamic).

  3. April 11th, 2006 | 8:09am by Pisces Iscariot

    Brilliant – everybody’s doing 1984 – not just big brother.

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