Things I like about Millennials

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Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
I never heard "dube" but if it's regional, then you're OK
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Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
I'd love to find out the etymology there. What sort of population there? Scandinavian?
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eumaas wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
I'd love to find out the etymology there. What sort of population there? Scandinavian?
Lots of Scandis where I grew up. And Ukrainians. Otherwise, the white population is mostly English and Scottish. I just asked B about it and she'd never heard of it.
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Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).

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revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
Oh fuck, that made me laugh.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
Oh fuck, that made me laugh.
They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.

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revbob wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
Oh fuck, that made me laugh.
They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.
Urban dictionary backs you up on this.
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101Walterton wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
Duberry (shortened to dubes) was the name given to anything you forgot the name of. It was like saying thingy.
In America, a common version of this is "doohickey," but my mother used to say "doo-flotchee," a term I've literally never heard anyone else use.
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Wolter wrote:
101Walterton wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:Apologies for the hijack, but just this morning I had a weird word pop up in my memory. I remembered that as a kid, condoms were known as dubes. And I realized I haven't encountered the word (to mean condom, anyway) in ages, so I wondered whether I was misremembering somehow. Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "condom...used by adolescents in Northern Canada"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... id=1583897
Duberry (shortened to dubes) was the name given to anything you forgot the name of. It was like saying thingy.
In America, a common version of this is "doohickey," but my mother used to say "doo-flotchee," a term I've literally never heard anyone else use.
My father says grabbenhausen.
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This is rich...

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Delaney’s attitude is typical of his youthful cohort. Millennials—the demographic group also known as Generation Y, Generation Me, and Daesh—have found it difficult to balance dueling priorities as they exit their parents’ basements and enter the real world.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
revbob wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
Oh fuck, that made me laugh.
They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.
Urban dictionary backs you up on this.
As does Philip J. Fry, who went to Coney Island U, home of the Whitefish.
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Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
revbob wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
revbob wrote:Never heard that term... where I grew up they were known as hudson river white fish (used ones anyway).
Oh fuck, that made me laugh.
They are closely related to the Coney Island white fish.
Urban dictionary backs you up on this.
As does Philip J. Fry, who went to Coney Island U, home of the Whitefish.
Is this just a regional term I wonder.

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Things Boomers like about Millennials: their BLOOD. :eek:

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Rat Patrol wrote:Things Boomers like about Millennials: their BLOOD. :eek:
This is precisely the type of person you don't want to live longer, let alone forever.

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Millennials become death, destroyers of the economy!
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