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I’ve heard about way more things being 86’d than people. 86-Ing something has always meant removing it, cutting it out. I didn’t learn it from the service industry, but I can believe it started there. My friends and I would 86 a section from a presentation if it was running too long. We’d 86 plans if circumstances changed.
I’m in my 50s, so I’m not familiar with Gen Z lingo. I just asked my 17 year old, “If I said ‘let’s 86 Jack,’ what would you think I meant?” She responded, “Let’s not include him in our plans.” I’m sure some people do use it in the context of offing someone, but that’s far from being the most common interpretation. I assume that most of the time a person says “86 [insert president here],” they’re saying get rid of him, as in, we need a different, better president. I wouldn’t jump to the assumption that they were talking about assassination. Theoretically, a president can be removed from office without a drop of blood being shed. Trump won’t be removed from office, but it’s entirely possible that he will be impeached by the House and tried in the Senate again if the House changes hands with the midterms. |
OMG Wikipedia is largely used by people 40 and above. It’s a tool of ancients and it’s dying. Please, you are just digging in and it is embarrassing. Also, I’m not MAGA, I’m a Democrat shocked at how out of touch DCUM is. Gen Z uses TikTok, not freaking Wikipedia. And on TikTok, you can’t use terms referring to death. So, they get around it. 86 isn’t the only alternative use but it specifically means to call for someone’s death. Examples: Unalive - suicide (verb or noun) 86 - to kill A Pew-pew - a gun To pew-pew - to shoot someone 8647 is a death threat in contemporary parlance. Now, Comey may be ignorant, like you, but that doesn’t change the usage. |
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Right, which is why MAGA doesn’t have a leg to stand on here. Yes, it’s an assassination reference but MAGA has been doing this for years so they can hardly legitimately complain. |
I started in the restaurant industry in the early 80s. In every restaurant I worked in there is a list in the kitchen. It is the 86 List. It is written on the list "86 List". It had things like "pickles", "rye bread". Things you are out of. It remains that way. If you children aren't creative enough to come up with your own terms, that's your problem. |
Yes. The 86 46 republican merch is on sale on Amazon. Methinks MAGA doth protest too much. |
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Stop debating MAGA. They are laughing at you wasting your time.
Their only standards are double standards. Their only faith is bad faith. |
Old man shakes fist at sky, angry that language morphs and changes. |
It's funny that because MAGA never check a source behind their daily talking points, they assume that no one else does either. "Among the most recent senses adopted is a logical extension of the previous ones, with the meaning of “to kill.” We do not enter this sense, due to its relative recency and sparseness of use." |
| I’m a former waitress and I thought this was restaurant slang for were out of. Like midway through the evening the word would go out to 86 the prawn salad bc we didn’t have any more. Is it commonly thought of as a threat? |
Noted Zoomer James Comey definitely was thinking of TikTok. You cracked the case, detective. |
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Gen Z says "Luigi" for political assassinations, bro.
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Only by MAGA moron liars. |
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Someone Comey's she knows that 86 means fornicate.
86 75309!!!!! |
My Gen Z cousin is the social media manager at a company. They have a 0 to Luigi scale to gauge how 'far' they are toeing the line of appropriate vs inappropriate. |