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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·22 hours agoIt’s been around a long time, at least since the ‘80s. You can now add it to your vocabulary.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down12·21 hours agoOr not if noone knows what it means and it makes no sense.
minus-squareNecroscope0@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 minutes agoIt means out in the middle of nowhere. Most people know what it means, looks like it is just you here who doesn’t.
minus-squareThe_Caretaker@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·12 hours agoEveryone said BFE and still says it, where I grew up.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down3·20 hours agoI don’t care, you do you. Nobody’s making you do anything. Plenty of people do know, so not like your lack of knowledge limits anyone else’s usage.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down14·19 hours agoSounds like “I enjoy being indecipherable, not my problem!”
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-220 hours agoEverybody I know knows what BFE is. Ask around. It does make sense. It’s hyperbolically saying it’s so far away it might as well be in Egypt.
minus-squarejecxjo@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoA lot of us in the Midwest say BFI, with I being Iowa. Think it has more to do with none of us wanting to be in Iowa.
It’s been around a long time, at least since the ‘80s. You can now add it to your vocabulary.
Or not if noone knows what it means and it makes no sense.
It means out in the middle of nowhere. Most people know what it means, looks like it is just you here who doesn’t.
Everyone said BFE and still says it, where I grew up.
I don’t care, you do you. Nobody’s making you do anything. Plenty of people do know, so not like your lack of knowledge limits anyone else’s usage.
Sounds like “I enjoy being indecipherable, not my problem!”
Everybody I know knows what BFE is. Ask around.
It does make sense. It’s hyperbolically saying it’s so far away it might as well be in Egypt.
A lot of us in the Midwest say BFI, with I being Iowa. Think it has more to do with none of us wanting to be in Iowa.