What? UD does get sidetracked a bit l, but NEET is actually an acronym for “Not in Education, Employment, or Training” and it is not just some made-up internet term.
It was part of the curriculum in my Geography lessons in primary school 15 years ago, in a non-English speaking country, even though it’s an English acronym.
Yeah, with big derogative connotations from most of the ones using the term. Basically another way to say “bum”, which is explicitly spelled out in some of the other UD entries.
UrbanDictionary is generally offensive in all their definitions, but even so, you skipped past the first definition with 19x as many upvotes (at 16% downvotes) to show the one with 67% downvotes
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was more confused about “a neet” tbh. Looked it up on Urban Dictionary and wow. LOTS of ableism and reinforcement of toxic Calvinism 😬
spookex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What? UD does get sidetracked a bit l, but NEET is actually an acronym for “Not in Education, Employment, or Training” and it is not just some made-up internet term.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 1 month ago
NEET is 100% a made-up internet term.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It was part of the curriculum in my Geography lessons in primary school 15 years ago, in a non-English speaking country, even though it’s an English acronym.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 month ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
every term ever used is a made up term my fellow internet user
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, with big derogative connotations from most of the ones using the term. Basically another way to say “bum”, which is explicitly spelled out in some of the other UD entries.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 month ago
Neet has a “failure a launch” implication - a NEET has a home, a bum might be crashing on a couch
RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Damn. I must be getting old, I didn’t understand half the internet slang used in this topic.
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s a fucking ism for everything now. We used to just say it was someone being an asshole.
Leg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Men of science like to categories the different types of asshole.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Neet is just an acronym and it comes from japan
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You’re thinking of hikikomori, the pathological, taken to 11 version of NEET.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m not, I know that’s a different thing, but I could also just be wrong about neet coming from japan
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah… Third is one of the least toxic definitions…
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Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
UrbanDictionary is generally offensive in all their definitions, but even so, you skipped past the first definition with 19x as many upvotes (at 16% downvotes) to show the one with 67% downvotes
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