Linguist Gretchen McCulloch often writes about how people use language on the internet, so I asked her if she thought these phrases have staying power, or if their potency is fading. Garbage person isn’t inherently lazy or bad, like Gwen Stefani, but it’s overexposed and pretty corny, like Gwen Stefani. “Cum dumpster” is far more evocative but, alas, too nasty for regular use. “Dumpster fire,” on the other hand, is not only worn out, it’s not even the best two-word dumpster-based stock insult. I’d argue that trash has not yet been completely played out. Fusion’s Lilian Min recently wrote about how Tumblr communities are using trash to describe themselves, as a sort of tongue-in-cheek preemptive acknowledgment that it’s not cool to be obsessed with Harry Potter or Hamilton. And then there is “trash.” Unlike the other sanitation-adjacent slang, trash has a more specific use case in some pop culture fandoms. You can spit it like an insult, plus there’s always the option of saying garb-aje like you’re some French éboueur delicately plucking waste from a quaint bin on your way to the brasserie. (Whether Shirley Manson has ever referred to herself as a Garbage person is unknown.) The rise of dumpster fire has coincided with the rise of “garbage person.” Atlas Obscura’s Cara Giaimo wrote a great piece tracing how garbage person became “the internet’s favorite insult.” Giaimo noted that Charles Manson had described himself as a garbage person in 1970, but that its popularity has spiked in recent years, with characters on Broad City, Girls, New Girl, and BoJack Horseman all using it as a catchall term for a suck-human. (No relation to the actor Patrick Dempsey.) Even though many people write it in lowercase anyway, Dumpster is technically a brand-name waste container a mashup of “dump” and the name Dempster. “We now lowercase dumpster, so you could write dumpster fire,” The Associated Press Stylebook recently tweeted - a testament to the word’s faddishness, as well as the AP’s thirstiness. The word “dumpster” is technically supposed to be capitalized, although the rules are relaxing to reflect this new use case. And Oxford Dictionaries added the phrase to its online dictionary this year. Donald Trump and his presidential campaign, on the other hand, get the dumpster-fire designation so often that there are now articles about the trope of Trump-as–dumpster fire. All rights reserved.Two out of three! Carlos Santana, according to my preliminary research, has never been called a dumpster fire online. The company says it will make improvements and invite Dakota News Now cameras back to show the updates in the future.Ĭopyright 2023 KSFY. We look forward to working together to provide enjoyable living spaces for our residents and provide quality housing in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The second is the issue of illegal dumping around the community dumpsters which prevents our trash service provider from being able to adequately collect trash.Īfter several phone calls today, we are proactively working with our service provider, our local councilperson, code enforcement, and the Department of Health to immediately remedy the issue and implement a long-term strategy for prevention. If residents have any information regarding this issue, we ask them to contact the local police department. The first issue is criminal activity with the arson event and determining the responsible party. We are currently working with local authorities to determine the best solution for two issues: We were notified of a situation late last evening of suspected arson by lighting a dumpster on fire. “Basically, it just has to be cleaned up,” said Starr.
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