Post: #1

Unless you are being intentionally vague, don't use expressions like "picked up" or "hooked up"... as in "I picked up 3 girls in one week in Buenos Aires." If you say that, I'm going to assume that you got her phone number or email address, and in BsAs that's not even worth mentioning.

Let's stop fooling ourselves and the rest of the forum.

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Post: #2

To me when I hear..

pick up = got phone number
hook up = make out with a little gropey action

A small few seems to use hook up as sex, but not in my circles.

Post: #3

Well this was a dead-end thread until now. I have another rant on semantics, but not regarding pickup at all.

There was a Harry Potter dress up thing, and I called it gay in front of a few coworkers. The girl I work with who I know very well (we go to happy hour and have good conversations) told me I was using in a derogatory manner..."lame" would have been a better word. So I took a few minutes to respond in my mind why I used the word gay.

Why do I use words like "gay":

1) The term gay is happy, light-hearted, care-free. Very accurate of a Harry Potter dress up ball thing.

2) Your alternative word suggestion, "lame", is delivered in my intonation. It's accurate to substitute the word lame instead of gay. You would be losing the meaning wrapped up in #1.

3) The intonation "lame" does imply a derogatory meaning, true. It's not something that appeals to me, and that I would generally not attend.

4) A good substitute phrase to convey meanings 1-3 would be flamboyantly lame, however, a more in-depth, personalized meaning would be lost. Again in my intonation, and with knowledge of my personality (which is why I would be hesitant to use it around people I don't know), I'm communicating how childish it is to judge light-hearted, care-free behavior as good or bad. There's an allusion the innocent ignorance of 8 year old boys giggling about girls having cooties. I'm making fun of how gay it is to call someone gay.

All of that meaning in one little spoken word. Beautiful.

To the last point, "which is why I don't use it around people I don't know", this applies backward and forward. You get to know someone by through communication, through hearing them speak and understanding their perspective. Shut down words and phrases, shut down communication, and you prevent people from really getting to know one another.

Post: #4

Lame is a verbal microaggression against the mobility impaired, your co-worker is a ableist bigot.

Post: #5

(12-08-2017 01:45 PM)heavy Wrote:  1) The term gay is happy, light-hearted, care-free. Very accurate of a Harry Potter dress up ball thing.

I suppose you also think a rainbow is a meteorological event?

Or a privilege is something you earn?

Or violence is physical?

Or being entitled is something you deserve?

Or rape involves force?

Or positionality isn't a word?

Or gender was originally a euphemism for sex?

Or actual harm means actual harm?

Or tears are tears, even if they are leaking from the eyes of a white girl?

Oh oh oh silly, naive Heavy.

You think the new owners of the language care what you really meant?

They won the moment you explained yourself, because that is what they want.

On the other hand, if you are trying to take the language back, I am seriously in your corner.

Post: #6

If someone told me they picked up a girl last night, in my friend group that means she went home with you.

Post: #7

(03-16-2010 12:56 AM)gringoed Wrote:  Unless you are being intentionally vague, don't use expressions like "picked up" or "hooked up"... as in "I picked up 3 girls in one week in Buenos Aires." If you say that, I'm going to assume that you got her phone number or email address, and in BsAs that's not even worth mentioning.

Let's stop fooling ourselves and the rest of the forum.

-Bang
-Make out
-Number close

Be specific people!

Mate, in England, We say PULLED! Ambi popularized that on rsd lol

Post: #8

Also, let me add, if there is no pics, it clearly, did not happen!

Post: #9

Lame..