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[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 33 points 7 months ago

It's an unpaired word. The same reason why we never describe someone as "hinged".

[-] nul@programming.dev 25 points 7 months ago

You would if you'd seen my cabinet impression.

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Finally a fresh take on political humor

[-] Pilgrim@beehaw.org 23 points 7 months ago

Imagine how deranged someone would sound calming saying "I'm very whelmed by this"

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

I actually know someone who says this, or at least they used to.

I've said "this is very.... Whelming" as a sort of insult that it's particularly middle of the road.

Almost always just for a bit of a personal chuckle since it sounds funny to me.

See also: "this is certainly one of the movies of all time"

[-] Old_Fat_White_Guy@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

The concept of CHALANCE exists but you cannot nonchalantly introduce it into a conversation.

[-] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the new word, it's a good one

[-] Old_Fat_White_Guy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Not really new..... I think it was part of an old George Carlin bit.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

You can in Europe

Source: am currently whelmed in Europe.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah this post must come from uncultured (but likely very popular) teenage girls, probably sophomores.

Source: I am, as well, currently whelmed in Europe.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Judging from my memory of the documentary evidence, those teenage girls might have been quite Mean to boot!

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago
[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 7 months ago

I want more of young justice. I'm most sad it's over.

[-] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Came here to make a Young Justice reference. I'm whelmed that you beat me to it.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago

I sometimes am. I just don't feel like talking about it.

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was intrigued by this so I had a look in the good ol' dictionary, and whelmed is a word... Although it's meaning is closer to overwhelmed than it is to, say, nonplussed as you might assume. The "over" has been added for emphasis rather than to change the meaning, and I assume underwhelmed came later.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

This information has left me plussed

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

One might say that I am currently whelmed. We generally don't have much to complain about when everything is fine.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The world is never right

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