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Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by fiblye on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:34AM (#23946856)
Guys have been called “dick” forever now. Words like “Karen” provide a very clear mental image of a specific type of “asshole.”
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Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by Natsu on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:05AM (#23946978)
That's dick, though, not Dick.

I do feel like we shouldn't attach that to a real name that real people have, but instead use actual words like "entitled asshole" that convey the same meaning without lumping in unrelated people who so happen to share the name who have done nothing bad to anyone.

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Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by rainbow-road on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:46AM (#23947692)
> That's dick, though, not Dick.

The origin of "dick" is, nevertheless, the name "Dick". Would you be satisfied if we went from "Karen" to "karen"?

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Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by Natsu on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:45PM (#23951040)
Honestly? I'd rather avoid both. It's not nice to do that to people who are unrelated to the entitled assholes.
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Re:A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant by bartread on Saturday July 25, 2020 @03:27AM (#23947432)
> but instead use actual words like "entitled asshole"

I always think "douchebag" is quite good for this. You can really pile quite a lot of emphasis onto that first syllable for maximal invective effect.

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