As in: "My first prediction for 2024 is that more and more Americans will start spelling behavior with a "u" ~ as an affectation of enhanced sophistication, as a kind of push back against MAGA bumpkinism."
Wow, expatriate Brits think Americans are shallow.
As in: "Someone described most of the posts on the Recurring alphabet thread as gunge, but, to be fair, those posts were neither sticky nor viscous, even metaphorically."
Definition: making comments about events in the past that are the opposite of what the speaker really believes, done to make a wry observation or for amusement.
As in: "Someone described most of the posts on the Recurring alphabet thread as gunge, but, to be fair, those posts were neither sticky nor viscous, even metaphorically."
We call this 'slime' here in the US, often in a florescent color, as seen on Nickelodeon.