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Funemployed times of a twi-hard recessionista...
Posted Dec 2, 2009
The can't-possibly-escape-it-even-if-you-try-really-hard word of the year ... *drumroll* : TWITTER
Not exactly a newcomer in Swideland we feel an entire year's worth of emotions, highs, lows, hangovers, crushes... could be summed up in a few tweets. It has also created new aspirations, the finally becoming part of the Twitterati (support a good cause by checking us out on Twitter) or meeting the tweetaholic love of our lives on an impromptu tweetup. Somehow we have feeling this one love affair is far from over...
It's now good to be a birdbrain; plus short attention spans are so much more practical in the land of 140 characters!
The guilty as charged word of the year: TWI-HARD
A step ahead of the Twilighters, the Twi-hard has embraced a new Twiligion, expect loads of pale skin, black and plastic fangs... Okay so we may limit our obsession to drooling on our white desks and indulging on first date fantasies with Edward and Jacob but we we're still pretty robsessed! Hey, if it's good enough for Tom Ford...
Hysterical cougar fans bordering on the twitoohard... The most embarrassing age-inappropriate crush your mum has had since Robbie Williams.
The fash pack word of the year: RECESSIONISTA (also FRUGALISTA)
This talk of recession has bored, bored, bored us more so than Sarah Brown's wardrobe but when it came out that going cheap was getting chic we rejoiced at the thought we wouldn't have to cut out any embarrassing tags from our clothes anymore; a downside however might be the plethora of fabulous(ly ugly) vintage finds we've been visually aggressed by in the name of "thrift chic". That says more trashionista to us...
Susie Bubble, blogger extraordinaire, Swide's favourite poster girl for chiconomics. With a damn good sense of humour!
The glass half-full word of the year: FUNEMPLOYED
Coined by the LA Times for those who might actually look on the bright side of jobless life, funemployment is defined as "the condition of a person who takes advantage of being out of a job to have the time of their life." Whether you were marched out of the door by security or were seduced into leaving by a pretty bonus, this is all about getting out there in the sunshine, enjoying a drink or two (or ten and never risk facing/snogging a disapproving/not-so-disapproving boss).
"I quit my job as an insurance broker to become a ballet dancer! Best decision ever made, funemployment rocks!"
The vintage word of the year: LOCAVORE
Someone who eats food grown or produced locally, and in the best of cases, produces it themselves; think veggie patch à la Felicity Kendal in the Good Life. Okay so it may have been the Oxford Word of the Year 2007 but fashion likes a good comeback and what with Michelle O getting her knees dirty in the White House garden we're feeling there's a very now vibe about it.
Check out Swide's alternative guide to the good life here!
Aurelie Bellavigna
Sources: Bonsai TV, Urban Dictionary
Photo credits: Various.
TAGS: twitter recessionista chiconomics funemployed twihard locavore word of the year
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