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Adminsare ideologist@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Adminsare ideologist@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • odium@programming.dev
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    Tea is slang for gossip

    • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world
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      And doesn’t that imply that her offer for coffee was for sex?

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        Don’t mind if I do.

      • dingus@lemmy.world
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        Wait what?? I’ve not heard this one. Is it regional?

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          I know it sounds silly now but this was really an actual big thing discussed in the mainstream for a hot second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame)

    • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.world
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      UK?

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        It’s a thing in the US for sure, though relatively recent (10-15 years?)

      • odium@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        US

      • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
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        Surprisingly it was pretty popular as slang about 10 years ago. I remember being in high school here in the US and hearing students say “here’s the tea” when they’re about to bring up gossip

        • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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          I had literally not heard this before until Hazbin

          • Maalus@lemmy.world
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            “spill the tea” is a known idiom.

            • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              It is?

              I’ve heard “spill the beans”, but never “spill the tea”.

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                I haven’t heard it very frequently, but enough to know it

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                It comes from the drag community. The “tea” is short for “truth”

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                We’re two of today’s ten thousand!

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          Also “dish”.

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        UK here, no.

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        It started getting popular as drag slang on Ru Paul’s Drag Race

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