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scarletspeed7 posted...

Using the word 'cringe' makes me cringe, so different strokes!

In all honesty, I tend to ignore anyone's opinion that is founded upon "I cringed." Maybe you don't mean it this way, but it tends to be a lazy umbrella word people use when they don't really want to provide substance to their thoughts.

I don't want to provide substance to my thoughts, you're right, because I've been on the internet long enough and know myself well enough to know that if I do, a) those "more substantial" thoughts will be argued with point-by-point by someone or other (you, apparently!) and b) I, being stubborn and argumentative, will engage in a very long discussion about a movie I really don't care enough about to justify such a lengthy debate.

With that said, I didn't actually use that word to "avoid" giving substance somehow, it is physically what happened. I really dislike the word "cringe" when it is somehow used as an adjective for a ton of reasons, the laziness of it being one of them. But I literally cringed at times during Shazam. Like, the verb. Not in the idiotic, overused way people describe something as somehow being cringe. I physically cringed several times. It was...uncomfortable? Embarrassing? Whatever word you want to use (and no, me not being able to pin down a word for this still does not justify the use of the word "cringe" in that way). It is a physical reaction that some people have to things, fairly often, and its stupid conversion into an adjective doesn't change that.

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