No. Good start Lucy. When Sarah hears Jacob moaning in ways she wants him to do while on top of her but instead hes under Lucy, and that noise shatters her heart, then Lucy will have done a good job.
I know jack about Taylor Swift or her songs. Does this mean i am cringe or womp womp? :p
Blume
Womp womppp… Jk, it’s okay. I’ve only listened to her country songs as a kid, I’ve heard only a little of her newer stuff ^^ so I’d be cringe too.
Carla's #2 Fan
Big same! I was very into Love Story and I liked her other stuff. Then I started to be interested in other artists. Of course, when my sister became obsessed, I got annoyed with Swift. I got more respectful about it because I love my sister, but I still try to avoid Swift’s music.
I do enjoy saying yowza in my everyday life. So maybe try saying it more, it might work out!
Mano308gts
I can confidently tell you that all it takes is a single charismatic kid doing so, and something like that will return, at least on a micro scale. XD
Last year I was working in a school, where one of the students, a very friendly and likable guy, referred to everyone as ‘fellas’, and individuals as ‘my fellow!’; by January about a third of the students were calling each other fellas. XD
Sirksome
“Fellas” definitely has come back into mainstream use. I hear that one all the time. Maybe it never went anywhere, but I don’t hear its gender contemporaries like “dames” or “broads” nearly as much at least not in the states.
I know it from the “Fish-Eye Lens” Homestar Runner cartoon.
Psychie
I’m pretty sure it’s a vaudeville reference, as a shortening of the “sad trombone” used to indicate something comically bad or sad happening. A sort of musical sting for a particular kind of punchline used to indicate that the audience should laugh, much like the rim shot but with a different context/connotation.
I don’t know when specifically it began seeing use as an onomatopoeia for conversational use, but I imagine it couldn’t have been long after the 1930s as that’s more or less when vaudeville died, or it may have been during or after the vaudeville revival in the ’50s. It may have occurred rather later, of course, as the musical sting entered the cultural lexicon and thus was used in other media, first adopted into film by comedy movies largely inspired by vaudeville acts, like the works of Abbot and Costello and The Three Stooges, and still shows up to this day on occasion.
Thor
It actually dates back to the 1800s, if you can believe that. It’s a shortened onomatopoeia of the full “sad trombone” riff. You can hear it at https://wompwompwomp.com/
Alan in DC
Looking for a better horn effect? Or a new ringtone? Search for “trombone gobble”; the classic Warner Brothers head shake effect.
It’s one of the only Swift songs I do know, but that’s because I had a girlfriend that was into Swift around 2010-2012… XD
Thag Simmons
2012? So either this is an album deep cut or I’ve just completely forgotten the verse to a song I actually ought to know.
Mano308gts
Yea, it was on the semi-popular side, but it was right on the cusp of the country-to-pop transition; still called country but really sounded more pop.
Thag Simmons
Apparently it is an album deep cut that got rereleased last year and was a pop hit. I haven’t willingly listened to pop radio in years and I was never enough of a fan to go diving through her albums so it makes sense that I haven’t heard of it
eskimolos
It has infamy mainly for Owl City fans being certain it was written about the Owl City guy, it’s Enchanted.
McNitz
Meanwhile, the only reason I recognize the song is because I was big into Owl City in that time frame XD.
I feel like Taylor Swift is big enough to where she might have just picked some stuff up by just cultural osmosis, hearing it playing when the Spotify playlist goes to random or even just over the speakers at walmart
I mean, I guess she isn’t the most culturally tapped into the pulse of things, but it’d still take some serious doing to not know any Taylor Swift songs.
Sal’s music classes or whatever have required her and Danny to practice MBop by Hanson, which she pointedly refused to remember the title of. I’d guess she now knows a lot of songs that wouldn’t be considered her kind of music.
My older brother listened to her a lot when we were in high school, but the vast majority of my non-consensual T-Swizzle experience was from the muzak at an old job of mine.
I’m never going to get “Shake It Off” out of my head. It was for a while and then I started reading comments and now it’s back.
197 thoughts on “Cringe”
GingerMadman
Good Job Lucy
Vanessa
And Danny too, good job Danny.
Gigafreak
Danny has picked up the ukelele and now the healing can begin.
spriteless aunty
Lucy is harnessing Danny’s power for good and not evil! Huzzah!
Insanenoodlyguy
No. Good start Lucy. When Sarah hears Jacob moaning in ways she wants him to do while on top of her but instead hes under Lucy, and that noise shatters her heart, then Lucy will have done a good job.
NGPZ
Danny and his Ukulele FTW ^^
Robin Lionheart
Miss Oli has a ukelele play along cover of ‘Enchanted’
Matrix
Uwu
Sirksome
Do kids still say cringe? That feels very late 2022 of Sarah. Kids today say skibidi toilet or whatever.
Yumi
Oh, they say both. There’s also been a recent spike in “womp womp.”
David M Willis
my kids did a wompwomp to me and i never recovered
Blume
I now know that I’m using the same vocabulary as literal children. Womp womp.
NGPZ
I know jack about Taylor Swift or her songs. Does this mean i am cringe or womp womp? :p
Blume
Womp womppp… Jk, it’s okay. I’ve only listened to her country songs as a kid, I’ve heard only a little of her newer stuff ^^ so I’d be cringe too.
Carla's #2 Fan
Big same! I was very into Love Story and I liked her other stuff. Then I started to be interested in other artists. Of course, when my sister became obsessed, I got annoyed with Swift. I got more respectful about it because I love my sister, but I still try to avoid Swift’s music.
Queen Anthai
My sister fronts a Taylor Swift tribute band and honestly our dad is probably rolling over in his grave about it.
Lena
I think it’s only cringe to like things, not to dislike or be uninterested in things, but I could be wrong.
Sirksome
Slang culture is really just a loop isn’t it? Wait long enough and “swingin” or “yowza” or “groovy” will come back.
NGPZ
Swingin?
Blume
I do enjoy saying yowza in my everyday life. So maybe try saying it more, it might work out!
Mano308gts
I can confidently tell you that all it takes is a single charismatic kid doing so, and something like that will return, at least on a micro scale. XD
Last year I was working in a school, where one of the students, a very friendly and likable guy, referred to everyone as ‘fellas’, and individuals as ‘my fellow!’; by January about a third of the students were calling each other fellas. XD
Sirksome
“Fellas” definitely has come back into mainstream use. I hear that one all the time. Maybe it never went anywhere, but I don’t hear its gender contemporaries like “dames” or “broads” nearly as much at least not in the states.
someone
Fella is now gender neutral, thanks to NAFO.
Bash
“My fellow” is so cute.
Clif
That’s really linear.
Mild Lee Interested
Holding out for “spiffing” personally
morleuca
I’m for 23 skidoo
Hydrargentium
My friends and I used to use “spiffy” all the time, back in the late high school years.
Thinking about it, it was most likely attributable to our consumption of Calvin and Hobbes comics.
Hg
Tan
Lit.
Mark
“Cool” has been cool since the 1950s at least.
Ed Callahan
Various meanings of “cool” go back to the 19th Century, at least.
General Tekno
Where IS Wompwomp actually from?
I know it from the “Fish-Eye Lens” Homestar Runner cartoon.
Psychie
I’m pretty sure it’s a vaudeville reference, as a shortening of the “sad trombone” used to indicate something comically bad or sad happening. A sort of musical sting for a particular kind of punchline used to indicate that the audience should laugh, much like the rim shot but with a different context/connotation.
I don’t know when specifically it began seeing use as an onomatopoeia for conversational use, but I imagine it couldn’t have been long after the 1930s as that’s more or less when vaudeville died, or it may have been during or after the vaudeville revival in the ’50s. It may have occurred rather later, of course, as the musical sting entered the cultural lexicon and thus was used in other media, first adopted into film by comedy movies largely inspired by vaudeville acts, like the works of Abbot and Costello and The Three Stooges, and still shows up to this day on occasion.
Thor
It actually dates back to the 1800s, if you can believe that. It’s a shortened onomatopoeia of the full “sad trombone” riff. You can hear it at https://wompwompwomp.com/
Alan in DC
Looking for a better horn effect? Or a new ringtone? Search for “trombone gobble”; the classic Warner Brothers head shake effect.
Needfuldoer
Far out.
morleuca
Radical, dude!
Formerly Glenn
Sometimes I Womp-Womp my kids.
They do not appreciate it.
Dragonfire
Lot of ‘what the sigma’ going on between my niece and nephew.
Needfuldoer
How do you skibidi, fellow youths?
Mendel
well, Willis’s buffer is legendary
Davus
Oh my gosh! Lucy’s Doing it! I knew she could do it!
Bash
Willis fooled us all! The lukewarm relationship with Walky is what unlocked confident, assertive Lucy.
Bryy
I feel like the “cringe” part is a clue that the Reality Shoe is about to drop on Lucy.
Doctor_Who
I am 0% surprised that Danny knows Taylor Swift songs.
I am 100% surprised Sal does, since by this point she was about 6 when Swift switched from country to pop.
Yumi
Maybe Danny’s sung to her before about how he was enchanted to meet her.
Thag Simmons
I’d say if you’ve grown up in this era you know Taylor Swift but I actually don’t recognize this one.
Mano308gts
It’s one of the only Swift songs I do know, but that’s because I had a girlfriend that was into Swift around 2010-2012… XD
Thag Simmons
2012? So either this is an album deep cut or I’ve just completely forgotten the verse to a song I actually ought to know.
Mano308gts
Yea, it was on the semi-popular side, but it was right on the cusp of the country-to-pop transition; still called country but really sounded more pop.
Thag Simmons
Apparently it is an album deep cut that got rereleased last year and was a pop hit. I haven’t willingly listened to pop radio in years and I was never enough of a fan to go diving through her albums so it makes sense that I haven’t heard of it
eskimolos
It has infamy mainly for Owl City fans being certain it was written about the Owl City guy, it’s Enchanted.
McNitz
Meanwhile, the only reason I recognize the song is because I was big into Owl City in that time frame XD.
Taffy
Owl City is like Metallica for gay people.
elebenty
Now I either want Owl City to cover Enter Sandman or Metallica to do Deer in the Headlights.
Alongcameaspider
I feel like Taylor Swift is big enough to where she might have just picked some stuff up by just cultural osmosis, hearing it playing when the Spotify playlist goes to random or even just over the speakers at walmart
alwaysrightneverleft
You have to remember that Taylor releasing her re-records is probably relatively recent, which brought those songs back into prominence.
GingerMadman
She went to a private boarding school for troubled girls.
i guarantee she knew many Taylor Swift fans.
DailyBrad
I mean, I guess she isn’t the most culturally tapped into the pulse of things, but it’d still take some serious doing to not know any Taylor Swift songs.
Frelance
they haven’t JUST been making out in the practice rooms
thakoru
I’m most surprised that Sarah is familiar enough to recognize it just from the chord progression.
Taffy
No, that’s Sal singing. All Sarah recognised was the instrument.
DashWallkick
Best odds are that Danny and Sal have been singing pop hits in practice and this was one of them.
anon
at least he’s not singing WAP again
SpaceDorf
I am proud to say, that I recognize exactly 0 Taylor Shwifty songs
Taffy
That’s a weird thing to be proud of.
Mark
I’m bored to say the same thing.
Hof1991
I’m old enough to say the same thing. I’m well outside her target demographic.
StClair
Same.
Daibhid C
Sal’s music classes or whatever have required her and Danny to practice MBop by Hanson, which she pointedly refused to remember the title of. I’d guess she now knows a lot of songs that wouldn’t be considered her kind of music.
Chubseus
Perhaps Sal had to learn it for a class, just like she did Hansen and Mmmbop.
Schpoonman
My older brother listened to her a lot when we were in high school, but the vast majority of my non-consensual T-Swizzle experience was from the muzak at an old job of mine.
I’m never going to get “Shake It Off” out of my head. It was for a while and then I started reading comments and now it’s back.
True Survivor
“It’s me hi
I’m the Sarah
it’s me”
Nono
Danny: Sun’s going down real low
Jesse