eddie/romeo

why do you think we are emotionally unraveling? it doesn’t matter because it’s better for you to make money off our burden anyway. i hate you.

a few years ago, a pet youtuber i like collaborated with celsius. he said, “we’re going to give some celsius to the people who love it more than anyone i know— nurses!”

why do you think we need to drink this psuedo-healthy gasoline every day? do you even care? or would you rather just keep selling it to us? i hate you.

our stress and suffering isn’t worth fixing- it’s just a part of the job, isn’t it? we’re always suffering, so why should anything change? after all, so much money would be lost if you lowered patient ratios (i hate you) or returned to 8-hour shifts (i hate you) or actually enforced breaks (i hate you) or let us unionize (i hate you) or gave us the time and resources we need to address moral distress as it happens in the workplace (i hate you)

we know you don’t give a shit about us and never will. i hate you. covid taught us that if you weren’t gonna care about us then, you never will, and you’ve kept us under the pandemic’s horrendous working conditions— even though they were also horrendous before that too. i hate you. everyone knows that you don’t care about patients but you don’t even care about the ones taking care of them. i hate you. the nurses, cnas, providers, respiratory therapists, pt, ot, pharmacy, lab. we hate you.

Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)

Daffodil: effeminate young man (1925)

To throw a fuck into: to have sex with (1919)

Top sergeant: a masculine lesbian (1939) [‘she takes command of the girls’ privates’]

Lily: penis (1919)

Wolf: sexually aggressive man (1847); a homosexual top (1918)

Soul kiss: a deep kiss, involving putting one’s tongue into one’s partner’s mouth (1907)

Tom: a lesbian (1909); [in 'old tom'] prostitute catering to lesbians (1966)

Church mouse: a male homosexual who frequents crowded churches in order to fondle any potential sex partners. (1941)

Discover one's gender: to accept or acknowledge one’s homosexuality (1941) / Lose one's gender: To return to living as a heterosexual

Minty: a masculine lesbian (1941)

Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who's dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It's insane. You can find copies of it online & it's a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were "supposed" to be like.

note for writers: these are dated to the first time they were recorded, not necessarily to their first use. I imagine for many of these, they came about naturally through spoken language before they were written down anywhere. This is especially true of more underground slang because it's probably being recorded (in ways we still have) the least. So if you wanna use a term but it's a little off date-wise, give yourself some wiggle room.

also gonna take this moment to highlight two more i found recently:

Best boy: a sweetheart, a boyfriend, a husband. (1893) [w the obvious equivalent term 'best girl']

Honeydripper or honeydrips: a sexual partner (1917)

1. I put in an Annual Leave request form almost 3 weeks ago and my boss has not approved it yet

2. I went into my office today and replaced every single writing utensil with crayons in preparation for April Fools Day on Monday

3. Whilst searching for pens to remove, I found my unsigned Annual Leave form in my boss’s drawer

4. I placed my unsigned Annual Leave form in a photo frame and put it on his desk

5. The frame I used was from a photo of his kids that I deemed less important than my Leave form

6. My boss sometimes goes into the office on Saturdays to work

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