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lemmy.world

My dad's nickname since the 60s has been Goon, and it doesn't feel as cool as it once did...

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I train combat sports and Gen X still refers to mean-moves-that-work-fast as "gooning".

Cut to Me sitting next to a bunch of teenage boys when a female instructor says it and I had to give them all the stfu look.

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David Bowie has a song called Fashion, one of the lyrics is "we are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep beep!"

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lemmy.world

The term gooning makes me cringe so hard. Yall like looking like you are pathetic or powerless to resist someone else? Seems like a weird type of incel begging. Definitely seems like its people trying to normalize unhealthy obsession and cringy worshiping.

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Heh, that's funny I'm the opposite, the term cringe makes me goon so hard

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I miss when goon meant entry level mafia employee | Spyke