About five years ago I got introduced to a new bit of slang that, I don't know, maybe you all have heard it forever, but I hadn't heard until about five years ago.

I noticed this in a bunch of discussion threads where rival teams fan bases would get together and bicker about their sport thing and I made that

sound like I don't like sports I like sports I did not mean to poo-poo that I'm so sorry

sports please still love me back no what I'm talking about though is you know really in the big

scheme of things. Your sports teams do things and you have fun with it and you enjoy it

but after that you move on with life and some people though they stay mad and they get mad at other fans and when they do

I've discovered they employ the expression somebody's salty they call people who are

mad about their team losing, salty.

And I remember seeing that for the first time,

and I'm going to say that a lot

because I want to sound cool and smart and with it,

but I should probably figure out what they actually mean

by salty first,

because Salty could mean a ton of different things.

I mean, Salt has a lot of attributes, right?

So does Salty mean like this is the taste of the salty tears that the embittered fan is crying about

as they complain about the refs or whatever went wrong does salty mean like a

is you know a bitter bite that they were forced to swallow and because they didn't like the

taste of it because it's all salt now they're you know spewing venom and their

face is twisted up and mad. I don't know what I figured out eventually is

that nobody actually knows and the expression just means

Somebody's really grouchy or fussy about things and they didn't like the way stuff went down with their sports team

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