You must log in or # to comment.
There was a hyper local meta ironic uni-punchline my small friend group used back in the mid 90s.
It would be hilariously used for anything, even if it didn’t make any sense.
Ex: Mom: ‘Why aren’t the leaves racked?’
Teens in chorus: ‘Because the man sat on the toilet!’
That was the answer for just about everything until college, and no, none of us have experienced success.
It may not mean anything, but I was able to find out its origin, which was good enough for me.
And…?
baba booey
The fact that the only adults I know regularly saying it are right wingers, has made me paranoid that it’s some secret Nazi shit. Even though I can find no evidence of that online.
I think that’s because it’s a tiktok thing and the right is way better at using apps like that to brainwash people, so naturally they’ll also see the other unrelated memes and stuff
Near as I can tell, there’s nothing nefarious at all about it. Rightwingers like it for the same reason children do
They love their shibboleths.
thanks for teaching me a new word!
that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise… in my school, it was one dude yelling “BIG BOOTY HOES” and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT"
good times.
Know what’s funnier than 24…?
there are some theories, behind the number, mostly that the kids who are chanting it in the original video, there was a tall basketball player before the camera panned to them and it might hint at a connection at the height of the player (that being 6ft 7ins)
In Philadelphia,
Which is the town the rapper Skrilla is from,
The police department uses many of the same “10-codes” in their radio communications as many other law enforcement agencies.A 10-67 is used to signal that a dead body has been found or that a probable fatality is being investigated on scene.
The kids who are parroting it don’t know what Skrilla meant when he was saying 67…
But what he was implying with that lyric is that the police just found a body and that he may be responsible for it.
Akin to boasting: “hear that radio call just now on the police scanner? I’m the one who merc’d that sucka. Remember that, and don’t fuck with me.”
wtf.
It’s from this song apparently. It’s at around 1:45 if the psychic damage gets to be too much
The moment you’re talking about was one of the incidents that helped memify it though
yeah i forgot to mention the song. but the basketball game was what memed it.
e
I lost my faith in the “new word” committee for ‘Big Dictionary’.
They don’t decide what a new word is, just document usage. And if it gets used enough, well…
In my language, “6 7” reads “six sept”, which sounds like “cis het”, a shorten form for “cisgender heterosexual”.
“my language” - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
It was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French.
But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.
If I say I am using Plasma 6.5, people will guess I use NixOS or Arch, even if I don’t say that separately.
That’s kinda similar, except that you were much more specific.
You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.
Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
That’s honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!
It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
what is six times nine, canonically
Eek! There’s mice on the table!
Yeah, Arthur definitely did not have the great question in him.
I mean the entirety of the planet earth is supposed to calculate that. Would you expect a stick of RAM to be able to do what a complete computer can?
Also, the planet was infected by a virus. Its processes got corrupted, so of course the output is bad.
Five four.
four two.
I see you had a functional scrabble bag to pull from.
We had Pauly Shore and valleyspeak so I really can’t say anything about any other generations slang.
calling it slang is…a stretch.
The real meaning:
I was coming to post this
a plausible explanation with an excellent linguistic deep dive on the entire vernacular terrain.
TYVM for the link.
Millennials losing their minds over this when we used to shout ‘fuck your couch!’ and Rick James, Bitch! all the time, before memes were a thing.
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
Kilroy was here. A vintage cartoon meme from the midcentury; quite rare these days.
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
That’s a “catch phrase”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase#History
fuck your couch
Oh it all makes sense now
Shady JD took that as a suggestion.
No, this one is uniquely incomprehensible
I find this actually annoying. I don’t mind that it’s meta or a reference to something I don’t know about, I mind that there’s nothing to play with except invoking it
It’s so meta it’s only meta, it’s a reference to white noise
I also found “the game” annoying for comparison
“The game” actually had a thing to it, there was logic and reason behind it and it was actually funny for a bit.
Someday centuries from now web archeologists will discover it and share it among their collogues a fun little inside joke. But then it will spread to their friends and families and then to their coworkers and their loved ones. And it will be born again like some ancient evil.
Damn man, I was on a streak (totally joking while kind of being serious).
Thanks for the source though, I still don’t get it but I’m also still using the same ringtone I used when my son started school (he’s in college now).
I just spread it again without realizing it, damn cognitohazards…
But yeah, here there’s literally nothing to get. There’s no cultural context, no deeper meaning - the whole thing is just the hand motion and saying “six seven”
you’re breaking my balls with that
Those words mean things. They might not make a lot of sense in the context we used them in, but they formed a thought.
6-7 isn’t even a semi complete concept on the surface of it. It’s literally devoid of any meaning at all.
I fucking dig it. Surrealist slang is the best. We had our own shit like that too.
A favourite pastime of every old fart is to tell everyone who can’t run away, how much better culture, music, memes, and life in general was when they were young, and how stupid, devoid of meaning, inferior current youth’s activities are.
Then explain it! What does 6-7 mean? Because even though people might use it wrong, “Fuck your couch” actually means something.
It refers to radio code “10-67” used by various public safety agencies:
Dead body found and/or fatality being investigated on scene.
Adjacent to 10-66 which instructs dispatch to notify the medical examiner.
It’s the classic gangsta rap boast of “check it out i murdered someone, I’m a tough hard-boiled badass”
The kids saying it out loud don’t realize that was what the rapper they’re quoting was referencing, though.
Does the hand gesture mean anything?
You grew old and lost that sense of excitement you get being a group of young people, feel of comradery you get yelling nonsense in unison, being stupid to the same wavelength. That’s what that means. You may try to justify your nonsense because your adult brain doesn’t want to grasp the reality that you also was young and stupid so you try to feint some justification for it.
Never yelled random stuff. It was never a thing. And WTF is Fuck your couch never heard of it.
i’m sure there’s other folks here who remember No soap, radio!
We are living in the dumbest times imaginable, so I find this quite fitting.
I’m my day. we just quoted Monty Python and everyone would laugh at how clever you were. This is effectively the same thing.
No one expects the 6-7 imposition!
Back in uni when I’d go out drinking I’d be walking through campus and people would just randomly scream out “WHAT!'” And someone else would scream out “OKAY!”
There were many "fuck yo couch"es too
Wait a sec… I never said that first one. JD is that you?
