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Decrying the basic bitch's love of bland, boring products like Ugg boots and Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes is a rhetorical technique that allows the singer to appear cooler by comparison. [ 40 ]
In these works he labeled a dull person as a "Bromide" contrasted with a "Sulphite" who was the opposite. Bromides meant either the boring person himself or the boring statement of that person, with Burgess providing many examples. This usage persisted through the 20th century into the 21st century.
Bland Shire, West Wyalong—a farm community and former gold prospecting site in New South Wales, Australia [18] —joined the initiative in 2013, [19] creating not a "twinned town" relationship but a League of Extraordinary Communities to group Dull, Boring and Bland. The group became known as the "Trinity of Tedium".
How boring got cool Holistic psychiatrist Dr. Sham Singh says the increased interest in Dull Clubs “underlines an important shift in how people forge social bonds and friendships.”
The spring/summer 2024 runways have spoken, and fashion's about to enter its "bland" era. Even though it sounds boring, here's why we're more than ok with it.
As you’re likely well aware, fashion trends are cyclical. We thought low-rise jeans were out in the 2000s, but they’re very much back, just like Tripp pants. The ’90s are back in full force.
It is as well. Tediously grouped with Boring, Oregon and Bland Shire, New South Wales to form a Dull, Boring and Bland "League of Extraordinary Communities". Dumb Hundred: Imagine telling people you're from "Dumb Hundred". I have no idea how dumb they really are, but there's only eighty-four, so not even a hundred. Dumbo: A neighborhood in ...
The word "bore" as a noun meaning a "thing which causes ennui or annoyance" is attested to since 1778; "of persons by 1812". The noun "bore" comes from the verb "bore", which had the meaning "[to] be tiresome or dull" first attested [in] 1768, a vogue word c. 1780 –81 according to Grose (1785); possibly a figurative extension of "to move ...