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My wife had a guy start at her company the same day she did, but he got fired that same day because for reasons no one understands he decided it would be wise to make his Teams (or whatever they used. Slack? I can't remember) profile picture a meme that said "Epstein didn't kill himself" or something to that effect.
It was a six figure software engineering job, too. I cannot imagine losing a job like that for such a silly, self-inflicted reason.
At my last job some intern burst into Slack calling everyone "mald" for disagreeing with his sexist memes. That whole event was just a couple of hours.
Tf is mald?
I believe it's supposed to be a portmanteau of "mad" and "bald," possibly implying that we were discontent merely because of age.
The portmanteau is correct, but "malding" means that the person is balding from sheer anger.
I assume the intern meant malding? As in, he's saying everyone was upset.
TF is "malding?"
Apparently it's some kind of Twitch meme.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=malding
Damn I'm old
Similar to "coping" and "seething"
I'm curious about the etymology. It's not in any classic lexicon.
Mad & balding is what I understand it to be.
Did I stutter?
Are you not?
It's a slang term used as a verb usually. To mald is to be mad. He was calling them mad.
Mad while balding.
When you are so mad you bald
Maybe maid? But i am not the original commentor
Mad while balding.
I had to look up what "mald" meant. Man you can portmanteau anything, huh? Haha
What made it most perplexing was the full, luscious head of hair I've been sporting the whole time.
But did he kill himself?
I know you're joking, but the department of justice finished their investigation and found a whole lot of ineptitude and negligence, but no conspiracy
Link to PDF of report