• spinnetrouble@sh.itjust.works
        151·
        3 days ago

        In New York (where I grew up), it’s the rarity of the insult that’s meaningful, not the word used. For a New Yorker to insult someone using something other than a common vulgarity (“fucking piece of shit,” “asshole,” etc.) means that the insult was heartfelt. Almost no adult New Yorker says “dork” and means it; writing it on a post-it in all caps and gently tucking it underneath the base of the wiper implies that the note writer stood there and laughed at the thing and its driver before walking away.

        It’s one of the most vicious insults I’ve ever seen and I’m glad it was shared with the world.

  • owl@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    New Dork
    Panels rust before they just fall off
    There’s nothing that won’t bork
    Now you’re the New Dork
    These gas pedals will get stuck down
    Launching you to the new world
    Now you’re the New Dork, New Dork, New Dork

  • renard_roux@beehaw.org
    5·
    3 days ago

    Is this really what we’ve become, people? Dork-shamers?

    Some poor dork saved up all their money, and bought a dork-car that they knew was defective by design, starting to fall apart even before it rolled off the dork-car assembly line. Because they had a deep, sweet dork-passion for the RoboCop franchise, Bud Light, and gun shows, with enough Venn diagram overlap to let them set common sense on indefinite hold, and follow their dork dreams, little dork heart aflutter with excitement. And then the dork returns from a hearty breakfast at Applebee’s, and finds this note pinned to their dork-mobile 😓

    How would you feel if that happened to you? Maybe we’re the real dorks. Shame on us.