DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 years agoGay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobiawww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down142
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minus-squareoatscooplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoWell shit, I’m going to demand a refund for the waterproofing spray I just bought! It says “hydrophobic” but by god I used it and my tent still ain’t afraid of no water!!!1111
minus-squarefirebreathingbunny@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoHydrophobia is named by way of analogy to irrational and disproportionate human fear. It’s not literal because water is not a person.
minus-squarefirebreathingbunny@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years agoMerriam-Webster does not get to define phobias. Licensed psychiatrists do.
minus-squareErtebolle@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoMe, sheepishly taking a second piece of chocolate cake: “yeah, I guess I’m a bit of a chocoholic” You, glaring from another table: “HOW DARE YOU”
minus-squarefirebreathingbunny@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years ago“Alcoholic” is a deprecated medical term.
Well shit, I’m going to demand a refund for the waterproofing spray I just bought!
It says “hydrophobic” but by god I used it and my tent still ain’t afraid of no water!!!1111
Hydrophobia is named by way of analogy to irrational and disproportionate human fear. It’s not literal because water is not a person.
Dude, do you even own a dictionary?
Merriam-Webster does not get to define phobias. Licensed psychiatrists do.
Me, sheepishly taking a second piece of chocolate cake: “yeah, I guess I’m a bit of a chocoholic”
You, glaring from another table: “HOW DARE YOU”
“Alcoholic” is a deprecated medical term.