I didnt say it hasnt caught on, I said I have never heard it in that context.
I also said-
But that meaning of “goon” appears to be a flash in the pan, altho “gooning” appears more widely used. But not in the OED.
Like your post here- I said they were Common, but I stated I have never heard.
Is it your contention that I have heard these terms? Again- not hip. Showing how common a slang term is doesnt prove that us “non hip” have personally heard it.
I dunno exactly what you are arguing, i didnt claim those terms were uncommon- so what is your point?
I didn’t really give a context, but for future reference, if you stan something, you love it ardently and defend it to the death, perhaps even in a sort of deranged way.
It is changing, but there are many here on the SDMB that will argue that the newish meaning of “literally” is totally, completely wrong. And that change was at least 100 years ago.
Or that words have two pronunciations or spellings- many here fight that idea with tooth and nail. (personally I like “Rime” rather than “Rhyme” since the spelling retrogressed due to a stupid reason).
So I am “hip” (in this context anyway) that words change, but here in my corner of SoCal, some slang terms have never crossed my path. i am also a senior citizen, so there is that.
Except in some cases, where people did choose to make it harder than it needed to be. Rhyme came to English from French where it is spelled “rime.” And that’s how it was spelled in English at first too. But in the 16th and 17th centuries, when English spelling conventions were getting standardized by printers, fancy-pants writers started to spell “rime” as “rhythm” or “rythme” to show off that they knew “rime” was ultimately derived from Greek rhythmos through Latin rythmus. Other show-off spellings started around this time, including receipt (instead of receyt), indict (instead of indite), and many others.
My understanding of “gooning” is not as a simple synonym for masturbation, but prolonged sessions involving edging (the withholding of climax.) A practitioner of gooning is a “gooner.”
Wait, you mean the place where people say stuff like “I’ve never heard a Taylor Swift song in my life” and “I don’t even know what a Kardashian is” isn’t the place to learn what’s popular in youth slang?
That was the original technical term but these days it’s also just used for excessive masturbation. Like if you said someone has a “goon cave”, you’re not worried about the mechanics of when he’s climaxing, you’re just saying he’s a guy who spends all day in a dark room jerkin’ it to the internet. Masturbation is masturbation but gooning is effectively making it into a lifestyle.
The fact that the Urban Dictionary entry has to start off with “well-known slang term” is proof that it’s not actually in common use. Phrasing it that way means that it’s only well-known to an extremely tiny minority who live in a bubble, and that they have to insist to anyone outside of that bubble that it’s well-known.
Beside which, every word in every language has a sexual connotation in some context or another.
It somehow filtered down to me, a 50-year-old man, so it can’t be that completely esoteric. I’d assume most middle school, high school and college kids know what it means, at least. My Millennial brother is aware of it. My similarly aged band mates know it. Of course, we all do take in online content, so I suspect that’s where most of us learned it.
Also there have been scams where the scammers registered the domain ‘rnicrosoft’ in order to be able to use it for the sender’s address, which would pass DKIM and SPF checks and be misread as ‘microsoft’
There is an unexamined assumption in “never heard of it” threads like this that something only counts as common if your own demographic knows about it. If the word is only known by tens of millions of middle school, high school, and college kids and a few million more adults that use social media, it is an obscure niche word. It has only made it when it reaches the crossword puzzle in AARP magazine. (Said as a 53 year old man.)
That fellow certainly seems to want to stop the recording our webcam was just making of him.
It seems Copilot has read some of that extortion spam that comes around every so often that reads more or less:
I was watching you through your computer while you were watching porn and doing stuff. Boy you’re a pervy little perv! Pay me X bitcoin by Tuesday or I’ll publish all the the shots I took of you and your screen. Click here to make payment arrangements.
When this thread first popped up, those were the goons I immediately thought of.
That hokey old Batman series often had very clever costuming. I don’t recall if we ever learn what G.O.O.N. ostensibly stood for. Besides just clever wordplay with “goon”.
