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[–] [S] 49 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Do you not understand that „up yours“ is an insult or are you purposefully trolling?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    I think he was saying "I upped my expectations and so should you".

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  • [–] [S] 46 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    That’s a pretty classic way of sneaking that particular phrase in with plausible deniability. Pat Paulsen made it famous.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    Tim probably asked an LLM for a clever insult and it spat out a Pat quote.

    Another one liner that still stuck with me was, "why spend billions on foreign military dictatorships, when we can use the money to better take care of the one we have at home?" Some things never change.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Okay, assuming your tinfoil hat theory of the secret up yours is true, where's the meltdown?

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  • [+] -6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Yeah I don't think that's what "up yours" means in that context.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Anyone using it in that manner absolutely means it that way in context. It's a gag that's decades old, a staple of Gen X culture, which is squarely Tim Sweeney.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    How great of you to know everything about what everyone else thinks and does.

    /GenX

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    American GenX? It feels impossible that an American GenX wouldn't get the blatant reference Tim is making...

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    Except I didn't assert that non-American GenX wasn't 'true' gen-x, just that it might be a facet particular to Gen-X in America, and perhaps a non-American could be excused for not being in on it.

    On top of everything else, it was the core of 7-up's marketing in the early 2000s.

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