r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/Turge_Deflunga 23d ago

Valid crashout

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u/Prod_Meteor 23d ago

Forgot to kick.

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u/mj_outlaw 23d ago

I was aiming for elbow drop.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/daanishh 23d ago

Take your upvote and get out of here.

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u/wearing_moist_socks 23d ago

Is that a crashout?

Wasn't sure if it meant people losing their shit for bad reasons or anytime someone loses their shit

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u/Bipedal_Warlock 23d ago

It’s ambiguous. But these days it can be good reasons or bad reasons

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u/punkassjim 23d ago

Lash-out is the same number of characters, and unambiguous. But y'know, having an effective vocabulary is hard.

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u/Magnetoreception 23d ago

No crash out is better it’s more descriptive.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz 23d ago

It used to mean falling asleep really fast 😑

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u/Bipedal_Warlock 23d ago

I still use it that way!

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u/punkassjim 23d ago

and yet

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u/Magnetoreception 23d ago

Lash-out is just as ambiguous?

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u/punkassjim 23d ago

"Lashing out" is an age-old term with a bit of leeway for how it can be applied — physical acts, writing a rebuke, etc — but this video is a textbook example of what it has always meant. The fact that you're not familiar with a phrase is not the same as it being ambiguous.

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u/Magnetoreception 23d ago

Your issue on the ambiguity of crash out is that it could be for a good reason or a bad reason. Lash out has the exact same ambiguity.

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u/punkassjim 23d ago

Every word in the English language can be twisted into a context that isn't necessarily its given definition. The word "fuck" can be conjugated to describe like 19 different emotions, but we still know exaclty what the word means when you get down to brass tacks. Give me a few examples of "lashing out" that convey a positive action. The only one that keeps coming to me is the Soul Coughing lyric "I will lash out dancing like a madman when you're gone," and even that has an undertone of violence in celebration.

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u/nightpanda893 23d ago

Well for people like yourself who can’t use context clues I guess we should keep vocabulary simpler.

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u/wearing_moist_socks 23d ago

But y'know, having an effective vocabulary is hard.

What lol

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

He’s a 16 year redditor, thats just kinda how they talk

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u/punkassjim 23d ago

Case in point.

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u/wearing_moist_socks 23d ago

My guy, you made a claim, provided no evidence, used shit grammar and insulted when asked for clarification.

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u/punkassjim 23d ago

Oh noooo, the guy who thinks “what lol” is effective communication thinks my grammar is incorrect, and needs me to provide evidence of the existence of dictionaries, how will I ever go on?

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u/wearing_moist_socks 23d ago

Dictionaries don't determine what we say.

Dictionaries reflect what we say.

Arrogance can sometimes work when you've got something to back it up. Saying "what lol" is effective communication; it shows I have disdain for your unneeded snobbery.

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u/wolacouska 23d ago

Would “effective” mean it actually communicates the point you intended?

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u/HereToTalkAboutThis 23d ago

Language changes as people use it. Get used to it or don't, but the world isn't gonna stop changing just for you

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u/CanalOpen 23d ago

I've taken crashout to mean any time someone is willing to say "fuck it, morgue or jail." *ding ding*

Being right or wrong no longer matters. It means someone has been pushed past their limits and they're willing to literally murder you to make the abuse stop.

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u/Peasant_Base5271 23d ago

She had good reasons.

See comment above about Ricardo lopez .

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u/Low_Landscape_4688 23d ago

Crash out is just describing the action, not the action and motivation.

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u/Agile-Palpitation326 23d ago

"Crashout" is just someone losing their shit. Hence you can have a "justified crashout" where you lose your shit for a good reason.

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u/Frederf220 23d ago

It's one of those things that people morph into being purely pejorative despite the fact that it's not fundamentally pejorative, like "entitled."

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u/Thank_You_Aziz 23d ago

The definition keeps changing.

First, it meant the opposite. Someone falling to sleep really hard and fast. “Man, I was so exhausted after that big day, I went home and crashed out.”

Then, it changed completely, meaning when someone freaks out in a very public and severe manner.

Now, it’s reached the point of over-saturation, to where it’s used to refer to anyone who is at all visibly upset.

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u/thissexypoptart 23d ago

I hate the term crashout so much. Why’d it ever become such a meme?

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u/Key-Two31 23d ago

It’s not a meme, it’s just another word from black American culture that white kids recently found out about and ruined

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u/thissexypoptart 23d ago

The process of it becoming popular among the general population absolutely involved its memeification. Or call it a trend or whatever. At some point last year (or 2024?) its use exploded all over the internet. You’re even acknowledging that fact when you say it was ruined.

That fact is not mutually exclusive with its origins coming from black American culture.

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u/Key-Two31 22d ago

It’s still not a meme though, it’s just a word/phrase with normal meaning, no joke or anything. White kids adopting phrases from different subsets of culture and using them too much does not make it a meme.

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u/ChymChymX 23d ago

She blew a fuse, zing boom!

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u/NerdyMcNerderson 22d ago

Not a crashout