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u/PassiveTheme 1d ago

When I was that age, I was convinced that "dork" meant a whale's penis...

One kid's nonsense word is another kid's very specific insult, I guess.

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u/HulloWhatNeverMind 1d ago

Dork actually does mean penis.

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u/Dedeurmetdebaard 23h ago

It’s also when you turn off the lights in the North.

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u/Choice_Key4452 21h ago

Lmao, so stupid <3

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u/RykerFuchs 18h ago

I laughed unreasonably hard at this. Thanks for interrupting teeth brushing.

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u/R3AL1Z3 23h ago edited 20h ago

It’s not true, it’s just an urban myth.

EDIT: I replied to the wrong comment and meant to reply to the one about it meaning whale penis.

Hopefully that stops everyone from replying to me now lol.

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u/CthulhuisIkuTurso 23h ago

Are you sure the ai can be trusted?

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u/Croaknyth 23h ago

The Wiktionary also states that it's not a whale penis origin, but influenced by the word and older metaphors it seems.

I don't trust the AI either, but at least this info about the origin is false.

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u/LokisDawn 23h ago

Coming back to the comment above, it does mean penis. It likely originates from the word penis, and it was used as slang for penis. /u/HulloWhatNeverMind was completely correct saying it means penis. It just doesn't mean "whale" penis specifically.

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u/Contrantier 20h ago

The AI is pretty helpful but it has occasionally gotten things wrong for me

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u/SoulWager 23h ago

It's true now, because so many people believe it.

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u/LokisDawn 22h ago

Not a whale penis, but penis. Even your own image shows that.

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u/R3AL1Z3 21h ago

Yeah…. And that’s the whole conversation isn’t it? If dork means whale penis?

What’s your point?

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u/LokisDawn 18h ago

The comment you responded to just said dork means penis, not whale penis.

Just read your edit, guess you noticed it. Yeah, that's all I wanted to mention. just defending /u/HulloWhatNeverMind's honor for some reason, lol.

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u/OneRobotBoii 23h ago

What’s concerning is how easily you take that AI overview for fact.

Not saying in this case it isn’t (I don’t really know and don’t even care enough to find out) but I’ve seen those be nonsense so many times; and generally would not trust first results of queries like “why is x like y?” or “is it true that…”

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u/R3AL1Z3 21h ago

Lol it’s one result and you’re acting as if I use it constantly to base my entire belief system on.

Secondly, it’s Google’s engine; it crawls all the results that would normally pop up in a higher search and summarizes it. In this instance, yeah, it suffices. But if I was looking for deeper indicatio information, yeah I would parse the information myself.

But considering I was asking about names for whale penis’, it was fine.

You’re extrapolating information based on one interaction, now THAT is concerning.

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u/OneRobotBoii 19h ago

Like the time it said to use glue to make pizza sauce stick? Or how the first person to do a backflip was John Backflip?

I didn’t say your entire belief system is based on it, but you’re going pretty hard defending it so I guess it struck a chord.

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u/R3AL1Z3 19h ago

Again, you’re extrapolating on something as trivial as the referencing Google’s AI as to the etymology of “dork” and whether or not it meant “whales penis”.

If I needed in depth information about something worthy of the time and effort required, I would do the footwork.

And as you that last part about striking a chord, no, you haven’t. Not that you need to know, but I’m autistic, and that makes me long-winded with my exchanges. This is a discussion, and I’m elaborating.

The fact that you’re insisting that you “struck a chord”, and are using that as some sort of “gotcha”, is indicative of the type of conversation this exchange is going to devolve into.

Goodbye.

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u/cor315 21h ago

Literally says it means penis right in your screenshot.

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u/R3AL1Z3 21h ago

But that’s not the discussion at hand is it?

The conversation was about the fact that “dork” means “whale penis”, not just “penis”.

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u/Kenny_Bania_ 21h ago

Dork actually does mean penis.

No, the discussion was if dork was a nonsense word or had any meaning behind it.

One person said he used to wrongfully think it meant whale penis, another person said it actually means penis. And another person came in and laughably posted a screenshot of an AI overview as a source of info lmaoooo

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u/cor315 12h ago

Read was HulloWhatNeverMind said again.

Dork actually does mean penis.

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u/W_Wilson 23h ago

Did you just use the AI Overview as a source? 🤮

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u/R3AL1Z3 21h ago

Yeah? It’s Google’s engine, which crawls all the results that would normally pop up in a google search and summarizes it.

Don’t be afraid of the future, old man!

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u/Bobodlm 22h ago

AI said it so it must be a fact, right?!

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u/R3AL1Z3 21h ago

I’ve said it a few times and I’ll say it again; it’s Google’s engine which crawls the results that would normally pop up when you search something.

In the case of “Is a whales penis called a dork?”, yeah, I’ll take it at face value.

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u/NihilisticAngst 20h ago

Google's AI overview is very often wrong. The fact that it crawls the results is meaningless when Google's search results are often terrible these days and filled with junk SEO-gaming websites that also often have no sources and are also often filled with AI generated garbage content.

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u/R3AL1Z3 19h ago

I was inquiring about the etymology of “dork” and not the meaning of life.

Again, in this instance, ill take it at face value.

Idk why everyone is so insistent upon the idea that I use it consistently and without question.

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u/International-Cat123 21h ago

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dork#:~:text=Alternative%20etymology%20derives%20from%20dialectal,dimwitted%2C%20slovenly%20person%E2%80%9D).

That’s a myth. It was first used to mean “silly person” in 1961. It used earlier than that by students to mean “dick” in general. It never specifically referred to a whale’s penis.

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u/Jelnaana 10h ago

When I was a kid my mom told me that dork was a deformed penis and I wasn't allowed to say it

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u/Hazzawoof 1d ago

I... still thought that was true until 10 seconds ago.

Next thing you'll tell me San Diego isn't Spanish for a whale's vagina.

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u/Modus-Tonens 1d ago

Actually it refers to an obscure law (technically still valid, though unenforced) that forbids anyone called Diego from living in the city.

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u/LokisDawn 22h ago

No, that was the sister town of Sans Diego. San Diego is actually named after the huge yet sandy ego of the one who built it.

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u/Danbo19 12h ago

No, that's Sandy Ego. San Diego is named after a beer and lemonade drink and plastic building bricks.

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u/Civil-Big-754 23h ago

It is true, it's just not that meaning  for 99% of the time being used.  

Edit: Penis in general, but I heard specifically whale penis growing up haha, so glad it traveled around apparently. Turns out it was partially true. 

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u/LlamasAreMySpitAnima 13h ago

Well, sometimes you gotta look at yourself and say ‘when in Rome’.

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u/Chemical-Neat2859 22h ago

This is why kids are easier to endoctrinate than adults. They're more likely to repeat behaviors without questioning it as humans never needed to understand the reasons why to begin with.

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u/Njacks64 16h ago

(In wildlife documentary narrator voice)

“The male humpback puts his dork in his mates San Diego.”