• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Gen-X here. Can confirm that “virgin”, " nerd", and “” were preferred punch lines by the boomers.

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        9 months ago

        We watched an old episode of friends for nostalgia recently and the whole punchline of the entire episode was “yeah but you kissed a dude”.

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      9 months ago

      Wasn’t nerd still common bullying word in 80’ and 90’? Then nerds became the richest people with the internet and it doesn’t work anymore.