r/facepalm • u/wach_era13 • 9d ago

This is just💀 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/lanceplace 9d ago

I got it but am unsure the origin of the word. Is it British slang?

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u/Accomplished_Rip_352 9d ago

Yes what British people call smoking a cigarette is what Americans call a hate crime .

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u/throwawaynbad 9d ago

Ironically it's also a fascist symbol.

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u/Small-Palpitation310 9d ago

a cigarette??

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u/havoc1428 9d ago

no, an American

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u/notRadar_ 'MURICA 9d ago

great thread today guys. go hit the showers

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u/TheAnxietyBoxX 8d ago

For people who don’t wanna look it up, gonna censor it in case it bothers someone.

Some people say that it’s because queer people in the UK were burned (some even specify rolled in carpet and burned) though this isn’t substantiated. It actually is thought to have come from the term being used to refer to underclassmen in British boarding schools who were forced by upperclassmen violently to do favours for them, both sexual and non-sexual. This process was called f@gging and it was literally an official structure at these boarding schools, it wasn’t student bullying it was faculty enforced. It’s incredibly disgusting no matter which you subscribe to.