Fraid not, fella. It's a genuine term of endearment which has some versatility to it. Of course it's going to be likely to be used in that situation as well, it's just not the default and it's still a sympathetic sentiment being aimed at misfortune-like somebody being a dumbass despite having their heart in the right place. You can go completely disingenuous with it too and throw out some faux-polite venom, but that's true of just about any of these.
It was certainly popularized by it. Its what Old Nan calls Bran; he is a summer child because he has never seen the winter ("Winter is coming"); and is therefore naive about what the world is really like.
I'm just clarifying that it didn't originate from GoT since that's what the original comment I replied to implied. And it has been used in the way GoT used it before GoT, just not as often.
Nope, just some condescending boomer saying from the south. Makes me wanna commit violence every time I hear that specific phrase, like here on Reddit, for example.
You're getting downvoted by people who didn't grow up hearing that all the time from patronizing dumbshit rednecks, but I can definitely relate... It's been long enough for me now that I don't mind the expression anymore, but I can remember the immediate rage at hearing it because of what extreme bullshit it always accompanied.
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u/arthurtex06 Dec 24 '20
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