Damn. I must be getting old, I didn’t understand half the internet slang used in this topic.
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month agoI was more confused about “a neet” tbh. Looked it up on Urban Dictionary and wow. LOTS of ableism and reinforcement of toxic Calvinism 😬
RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 1 month ago
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
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
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I didn’t look at the votes, just went with a concise one that was a bit more neutral than most of the others 🤷
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.
13esq@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep. Well known term in the UK and not derogatory.
BBC News - Supporting NEETs: Schemes help those Not in Education, Employment or Training www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66290926
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
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good point 😄
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