Another word I don't like

[randy_byers]

Bromance.

I kind of just don't like the cutesiness of the word itself, but it's probably the concept that bugs me even more. It's two dudes, and they, like, love each other. Whoa! Kinda cute, and kinda awkward.

I dunno. It seems smug and narcissistic adolescent to me. Am I just getting old and cranky? I really don't like those ear stretchers that bohemian guys are wearing these days either. They just look ugly to me. Perhaps my worst nightmare right now is a bromance about two twenty-something dudes with ear stretchers. On a staycation together.

Where did I put my bermudas? And my best buds?

Comments

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Well, we can only hope that bromance and staycation will suffer the same fate as scientifiction. (On other hand, I like "paleologism".)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I like 'paleologism' myself. I thought I just invented it. Indeed, I did independently arrive at it from first principles just now, but it seems I was not the first. I guess it's sort of obvious, once you think of it. However, having re-invented it, I will now adopt it as my own.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I like one of the usages that includes the description, "a word from a barbarian time." Sure fits "scientifiction," eh?