Why don't we spell it "cwm?"

Solution
Racism against the Welsh.

I looked it up, and according to this thread on Stack Exchange, the earliest known usage of "come" (in the sexual sense) was in 1650, with "cum" becoming popular only with the explosion of porn in the 1970s. "Coom" is a much more recent construction (I've only really been hearing it maybe in the last five years or so?), so even IF the Welsh weren't so marginalized and ignored, it wouldn't have had time yet for enough people to make the switch to "cwm".

It is a good idea, though. Maybe we could try to force-meme it? Subtly implant the idea in the minds of some impressionable furry cwmyrs, and let these cwmyrs take cwm to Tiktok and Bluesky?
I got to the same place starting from radiation horror and space program deaths, with a sprinkling of barotrauma and cave diving. And the Death Valley Germans. I'm all about the "Walking Ghost Phase" and Rumsfeld would call the "Unknown Unknown."

Everest is a lot like having a version of outer space that you can just hike yourself into, taking selfies all the way.

Freakin' cwmers.
Oh, yeah, the guys whose spaceship caught fire was horrifying, and cave diving/barotrauma-tube is very closely connected to mountain horror-tube. Nowadays I mostly limit myself to Mentour Pilot, the turboautist airplane crash analyst, for the sake of sanity and because I have a busy schedule of laughing at Lou and Graeme Kelly. But after that first cwm man...

People tell you that cwming is dangerous, that it'll ruin your algorithm; but you're young, you think you're invincible, you tell yourself you can handle it.

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It's not until that immense white cwm is right there, in your face, that you realize you made a horrible mistake.
 
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