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• spookex@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    NEET is 100% a made-up internet term.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NEET is an acronym meaning “not in employment, education, or training,” first used by researchers in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.)

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      every term ever used is a made up term my fellow internet user

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      urban dictionary derogatory connotations I never would have thought

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good point 😄

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neet has a “failure a launch” implication - a NEET has a home, a bum might be crashing on a couch

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• RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Damn. I must be getting old, I didn’t understand half the internet slang used in this topic.

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  • Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a fucking ism for everything now. We used to just say it was someone being an asshole.

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    • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Men of science like to categories the different types of asshole.

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      • lath@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What about women and others of science?

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• Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neet is just an acronym and it comes from japan

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  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re thinking of hikikomori, the pathological, taken to 11 version of NEET.

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    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not, I know that’s a different thing, but I could also just be wrong about neet coming from japan

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah… Third is one of the least toxic definitions…

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    • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 🤷

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