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Thanks Cal, not so baffled that I didn't know what it meant. Anyway, I googled (derivation of my bad) it and I was surprised to find that Shakespeare used the same term in a sonnet although the source admits that it is more of a coincidence than a direct derivation of modern usage:

Sonnet 112:
Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
Also interested to find that it was introduced to popular culture during the 1990's from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Scooby Doo TV series...makes sense, I can just hear that great dane "sawwwy ...my bad"

Interesting.

But I have to say, "My bad" was in extensive use on pick-up basketball courts in the USA well before the 1990's. E.g.:

A brilliant backdoor feed from the top of the key to someone cutting to the hoop, and the cutter bobbles and drops the ball out of bounds. Running back down the court to play "D", the cutter informs the passer, "My bad" (often expressed simultaneously with the speaker's hand-emphatically-patting-his-own-chest gesture).
 
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I've never been a fan of those reality/competition shows ('The Apprentice', 'Survivor', 'The Amazing Race', etc.) so I'm sick of hearing hated douchebags saying, "I'm not here to make friends".
 

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I've never been a fan of those reality/competition shows ('The Apprentice', 'Survivor', 'The Amazing Race', etc.) so I'm sick of hearing hated douchebags saying, "I'm not here to make friends".

But if you've never been a fan, then how do you know what douchey things they're saying?

:tongue:
 

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Also interested to find that it was introduced to popular culture during the 1990's from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Scooby Doo TV series...makes sense, I can just hear that great dane "sawwwy ...my bad"

I actually first heard it on Buffy (and thought 'WTF have those strange American's come up with now?' :tongue:). After a while I sort of got used to it. Then I started using it myself :eek:. I was horrified! It had snuck into my brain!

The same goes for 'Come with'.
 

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'Bump' - the action, written or spoken (especially on LSPG)
'My Bad' - embarrassing
'Irregardless' - not a proper word per say
'Awesome' - overused and dated as week old milk
'Sweet' - it's fifteen minutes is long over
 

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'Bump' - the action, written or spoken (especially on LSPG)
'My Bad' - embarrassing
'Irregardless' - not a proper word per say
'Awesome' - overused and dated as week old milk
'Sweet' - it's fifteen minutes is long over

"per se"
 

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'Bump' - the action, written or spoken (especially on LSPG)
'My Bad' - embarrassing
'Irregardless' - not a proper word per say
'Awesome' - overused and dated as week old milk
'Sweet' - it's fifteen minutes is long over

^ Bump.

Actually, this is kinda embarrassing because I use 'sweet' all the time. Oh well, my bad I guess. But it's still an awesome word irregardless of how much it annoys people.

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"Moving Forward" - Prime Minister Julia Gillard's catchphrase from last year's Australian election campaign. It turned out to be a load of bullshit (surprise!). When asked if she would be legalizing gay marriage, she refused, saying "We believe the marriage act is appropriate in its current form, that is recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken steps to equalise treatment for gay couples"

The Australian Marriage Act was written in 1961!

So she won't be updating a 50 year old outdated policy - so much for "Moving Forward"...
 
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"Moving Forward" - Prime Minister Julia Gillard's slogan from last year's Australian election, turned out to be a load of bullshit (surprise!). When asked if she would be legalizing gay marriage, she refused, saying "We believe the marriage act is appropriate in its current form, that is recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken steps to equalise treatment for gay couples"

The Australian Marriage Act was written in 1961!

So she won't be updating an outdated 50 year old policy - so much for moving forward...

Hmm . . . yes . . . equalising treatment . . .

She made it so gay couples were just as disadvantaged by Centrelink 'couples rules', but wouldn't give them the opportunity to marry. She might as well have said 'We'll give you a few negative aspects of being a couple, but we're keeping the positive aspects for the straight people. Sorry.' :rolleyes: Seriously, that Centrelink thing pissed me off no end.
 

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The use of this non word as acceptable among Daily Diary carrying business-like people leaves me very unimpressed, because they "learned" it in a seminar for which they or their company actually paid real money. WFT?

And what was wrong with just being "active"?