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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 hours ago

If you find yourself drunk anywhere in Britain, start singing this song really loudly and you will make scores of new friends who also like to be drunk while singing loudly. Good times.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

See also: Killing in the Name Of

Music is the perfect genre for Getting Crap Past The Radar

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 hours ago

I was curious, as I've heard the song countless times but never really paid much attention because I don't really like the killers.

So I searched for them.

It's funny reading the comments

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858544190/

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's not what the song is about lol

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

That's definitely what the song is about. Have you never heard the lyrics?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Have you?? It's about getting cheated on, he's clearly not on board with it lol

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Cuckolding doesn't imply consent. In fact it pretty specifically implies that the man doesn't know it. The word has been in the English language for almost a thousand years, whereas the fetish is relatively new.

Fun fact: giving someone "bunny ears" by putting two fingers behind their head used to be referred to as "the horns of the cuckold", and it meant that you were saying that person's wife had been unfaithful.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

He wrote "cucked" which is modern slang

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 40 minutes ago

That's just turning the adjective into a verb. It's literally the same thing. This is a common practice in the English language. It doesn't change the meaning, only how it's used in a sentence. If someone "cucks" you, that's them doing the action that makes you a cuck(old).

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So? The definition is the same.

You can look these things up before you comment.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Why on earth would I look up the original definition for a word when someone used the slang that derived from it and I already knew both definitions?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 14 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

4chan/Incel culture has co-opted "cuckolding" from a consensual kink to mean just plain old getting cheated on.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

So you really think the fetish came first? Because the word predates the modern fetish usage by like 800 years.

It comes from the cuckoo bird, which engages in nest parasitism. It lays its eggs in another bird's nest to be raised by birds that aren't its parents.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Kink culture has co-opted it from plain old getting cheated on to a consensual kink.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

My kink is watching people argue over the difference.

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

May I watch you watching them? Because that's my kink.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago
[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

Ugh, another "literally". Fuck that, let's not validate incel nonsense.

[–] three@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

....if you're not going to do anything about it, i.e. watch it happen, that's the definition of cuckoldry

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Have you never heard the lyrics?

I have probably heard this song over 10k times, if I'm lucky. If you were alive in the UK in the 00s, there was no fucking escape.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I swear half of the rock genre is about getting cucked. Every 2000s rock group and was 4 middle aged dudes singing about their wife cheating on them

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That just sounds like country music with a distortion pedal added in.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Nah, Rockabilly at least has a tone of doing something, having agency (or drowning your sorrows in a drink, so there's the country angle).

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

tfw "being cheated on (consensually)" has somehow developed the same meaning as "being cheated on (nonconsensually)"

Don't make this another "literally", please.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 hour ago

Its all the same in my eyes