I somehow stumbled into right wing anti surrogacy posts on Twitter. It’s obviously just anti gay but they can’t just say that so it’s so wierd to see people replying to a post with two gay guys proudly holding a baby with ‘women aren’t transactions’, ‘the baby should grow up next to the heart beat that it felt in the womb’ and stuff like that.
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Isn’t that stuff a left wing thing too? TBF there’s lots of surrogacy that’s super gross, and lots of surrogacy that’s pretty great.
https://twitter.com/JennaLynnMeowri/status/1620257007008911361
‘Creators’
Reminds me of when Rush Limbaugh used to use the term ‘achiever’ for any idiot with a bit of wealth
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I was today years old when I realized that “breaking the bank” refers to breaking a piggy bank.
Bro there are “creators” and there is “content”. The world is a homogeneous mass of interchangeable “entertainment.”
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It’s also when a gambler cleans out a casino or a roulette table or whatever.
Well yeah but I feel like maybe the term originated with actually breaking a piggy bank. But maybe not.
that’s how the enterprise crew busted out of that false reality created by an alien superconsciousness
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https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1620606264366759936?s=20&t=5TyRsu0DDK4tsbIhB0ahKA
Mind completely blown to learn today that the phrase “bucket list” only goes back to 2007 (and comes from a relatively obscure movie)…
I guess this coincides more or less with the time when I became extremely online (and started using English every day), so it makes sense that it would be indistinguishable for me from something older, but still, I would never have guessed it…
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That was my suspicion.
Wonder if you ask for it’s reference list or to include in-text citations.
I’m positive I used bucket list prior to the movie
Merriam-Webster claims the first use was in 2006 without giving an actually source:
I couldn’t find 100% proof of it online but everything points to the phrase originating with the movie
Google trend
https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1620606572685819905?t=djzEoYNN2lJ26X2X0zu7NQ&s=19
A (paywalled) wsj article which does not give a source (but seems to have talked with the film writer)
The film’s release brought the phrase into common parlance, and, as a testament to how natural and idiomatic it sounds, many people assume the term must have long predated the movie.
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What? I remember writing my bucket list for a high school assignment in the early 2000s. Even back then it was in no way a novel word.
Also when the movie came out, there was no sense of hey this a strange new term that we need to learn the meaning of.
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Mandela effect?
When I was in middle school, I made a “pail list.” It was all the things I wanted to drink out of a pail. Pretty sure that’s how they got the idea.
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Yeah, I think alex is right. I don’t remember being an extremely common term, but it was known and then became ubiquitous with the movie.
Also, the movie isn’t obscure. It hasn’t really had staying power past the title, but it was a pretty big deal to have Nicholson and Morgan in a buddy dramedy.
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The counterpoint is that the TV ads for the movie always had the scene where the actors said the definition of the term, so I don’t think they expected everyone to know it.
I feel like there might have been some other ways of saying “bucket list” before, and the notion of a list of things you want to do before you die certainly wasn’t new, but the movie codified that “bucket list” was going to be the term everyone used and understood going forward.