![]() The word jerk, after all, has been around much longer, and in the early-to-mid 1900s calisthenics were sometimes called physical jerks without any apparent sense of impropriety (they were even on the program of activities at British summer resorts). The earliest result in Google Books is a hit from 1952 in a book called The Wild Green Earth, but the excerpt displayed suggests that it does not mean the same thing. Aerosmith actually recorded an instrumental track by that name in 1977, but it wasn’t released until it showed up on compilation albums later on.Ī Google ngram shows circle jerk appearing at a low level in the mid-1900s and then shooting up starting in the late 1960s to mid-1970s its use is still growing at a stiff rate. They evidently mean the earliest known use of it in a popular culture context. When did circle jerk come into popular usage? According to, “The earliest known use of the term dates back to 1979, when the Los Angeles punk band the Bedwetters renamed their band to the Circle Jerks after one of the band members found it in a dictionary of English slang words.” Well, then, that’s not the earliest known use, is it? If it’s in a dictionary, someone’s used it already. Figuratively, a circle jerk is a group of people who are getting themselves off. Which is why circle jerks exist in the first place. A circle jerk is when a group of men sit or stand in a circle and masturbate. DAE still angry enough about it to give me those sweet, outrage karma points. But clusterfuck doesn’t literally refer to a potential real-world occurrence-it just replaces a literal bomb with a figurative fuck-and it’s unpleasant for everyone involved, whereas circle jerk refers to something that various texts and anecdotes assure us that some people literally do, and at least some of those directly involved in it may find it pleasant. Here is a photo of Trump doing something we didnt like from 2 years ago. They have the same rhythm they have rhymes or near-rhymes on the stressed syllables they have (dare I say it) liquids-/l/ and /r/-and fricatives-/s/ and /f/-plus two /k/ sounds each, one at the end. They’re both sexual references applied more often to organizations than to orgasms. In the metaphorical sense, circle jerk is a pejorative referring to a positive feedback loop that occurs when an idea, belief or meme that’s already customary within an online community becomes reiterated and rewarded in a perpetual cycle. To begin with, what’s the difference between a circle jerk and a clusterfuck? In internet slang, a circlejerk is when a group of people with a shared interest get together and congratulate one another for sharing that interest. Circle Jerk is a queer comedy about white gay supremacy, a homopessimist hybrid of yesterday’s live theater and today’s livestream (set in tomorrow’s news cycle).It tells the story of gay, right-wing trolls and the algorithms they invent to spread their gay agenda and take over the Discourseand then, the world. Today we’re going to answer the question “What the fuck is a circle jerk?” so you don’t end up like Melissa Rauch’s parents. This post originally appeared on Strong Language, a sweary blog about swearing. ![]()
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