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notinferno OP t1_iwgcx9j wrote

>”I didn't want anyone else's sloppy seconds, particularly Sydney's, so now that we've got the event, we put on the best show that we can and then that sets us up for the future."

>The Macquarie Dictionary defines the colloquial use of sloppy seconds as "an instance of sexual intercourse with someone shortly after that person has had intercourse with someone else".

>Mr Malinauskas said he only understood the meaning of the phrase after someone in his office explained it to him after the press conference.

>"When I used the term, I actually thought it was in reference to leftover seconds on a plate, in respect of food, like when someone eats a meal on a plate normally it can be categorised as sloppy by the time you've finished with it," he said on radio this morning.

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LittleBadWitch t1_iwh2bpo wrote

Tbf, I knew it had a sexual connotation, but completely thought it was a derision towards secondhand anything from food, to clothes, well... anything. It's been used in professional work environments, comic books, etc. that way around me in the US for decades now.

So, I doubt we're all on the same page about it being 'only' a sexual slang.

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Outspoken_Douche t1_iwhrqxx wrote

It’s people wanting to be offended for the sake of being offended, this is a nothing burger

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notinferno OP t1_iwhuuhx wrote

it refers to the cum left inside by the first sexual partner

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Outspoken_Douche t1_iwhv9e3 wrote

...And? Who cares, lol

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notinferno OP t1_iwhvexd wrote

it’s pretty funny when naively blurted out by a Premier

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AqUaNtUmEpIc t1_iwinvlj wrote

It was the Liberal MP, the Greens, and Georgia Health; a gender equality advocacy group

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HighlightFun8419 t1_iwinkha wrote

literally all the people debating this in these threads. don't be such a schmuck.

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Quadrassic_Bark t1_iwjgemp wrote

It’s not offensive, though. At all. It’s just gross. People have lost all understanding of what constitutes offence or being offended

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InvestigatorLast3594 t1_iwhv57u wrote

It’s the first time I’ve heard it as an explicit and specific sexual act and when I tried to look for definitions all I could find was sloppy seconds in a sexual context. I’m not sure if I am being Mandela effected, but I could have sworn to have heard sloppy seconds in many normal contexts

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snowmuchgood t1_iwi4oep wrote

Yeah I was pretty sure that the sexual connotation came from the idea that no one wants leftover food - like no thanks kid, I don’t want your half chewed cookie, which then evolved into a sexual reference because that’s what people do.

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ConvenienceStoreDiet t1_iwhzuxl wrote

It reminds me of when people use the term groupie. Usually we think of it like someone who's a fan of someone in a band, at least using the term casually. But it also means someone who had sex with multiple members of a band or follows them on tour to have sex with them.

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HighlightFun8419 t1_iwinpso wrote

just chiming in that this is very much a dirty term in my book. I would never use this unless i want to be grossly funny with close friends.

or, y'know, on reddit or youtube or something.

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In0nsistentGentleman t1_iwi8dip wrote

>So, I doubt we're all on the same page about it being 'only' a sexual slang.

Yeah, agreed. 100% feel like most "sexual slang" can be applied to...a lot of different scenarios that arent sexual and describe the object or event in question better than other phrases might.

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JohnHwagi t1_iwhqow8 wrote

I could see how it would be offensive up until I realized he meant the city of Sydney, not a person named Sydney lol.

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Quadrassic_Bark t1_iwjgb45 wrote

There’s literally nothing offensive about the phrase “sloppy seconds”, it’s just gross.

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Smudgie-cat t1_iwk3ni2 wrote

Yeah I agree it’s gross and offensive but not misogynistically offensive, just a lewd term but not really misogynistic but of course someone concerned about gender equality said it was offensive. I’ve had female friends say this about men they’re considering dating “oh I don’t want him, he hooked up with so and so and I don’t want her sloppy seconds”

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Apophyx t1_iwj30du wrote

>"When I used the term, I actually thought it was in reference to leftover seconds on a plate, in respect of food, like when someone eats a meal on a plate normally it can be categorised as sloppy by the time you've finished with it," he said on radio this morning.

You mean to tell me it's not that? I legit thought the sexual meaning was just an apllication of the idiom to sex, not the primary meaning. TIL

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Zyxyx t1_iwlec8h wrote

There is no way it can be primarily about sex.

The urban dictionary has a definition from 2003, which wikipedia is quoting as the true meaning (because of course it is, it's wikipedia).

I'd be pretty surprised if the sexual use wasn't just an application, because no way such a aexual phrase would garner this much popular usage.

I hope someone does research on the history of the term

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FlaredButtresses t1_iwiyiv1 wrote

Huh. I thought it was about food as he said but could be applied elsewhere, including to sex as described above. Glad I read this before I got fired or something lol

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OperationMobocracy t1_iwk1zeo wrote

I always knew it referred to a second round of intercourse, made sloppy by the secretions of the first round.

I never thought (and maybe still don’t) that it required the sex partners to be different people for each round. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it used in writing as if the sex partner was the same.

The reference I remember was some kind of comic take on dating and offering one’s date sloppy seconds as a kind of half-hearted show of interest and virility.

But it does add an extra dimension of crudeness to imply a second sex partner.

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ysabelsrevenge t1_iwi7g77 wrote

That is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever heard. This man is a liar.

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