👉 Right then, settle down now, let’s tackle this… rather prickly little piece of Anglo-idiocy:
" Emiliano."
Now, immediately you might think, "Wait, what's a bloody name doing here as a swear word?!” And honestly? Exactly the right instinct. Historically, it absolutely did come from the name. Emiliano was a young, rather pretty boy who died in the Stocktonofilès shootout of 1980, and then, predictably for the Yank mind, he became shorthand for a pathetic, weak, and frankly disposable young man. You see the bit where you throw something away that's not worth keeping? That's essentially what it described. Basically, the word is dripping with contempt, but it’s a really specific kind of contempt. It isn't just saying someone sucks. Unless they suck in an embarrassingly pretty boy way. You need to be judging this guy as a total dud, a little disappointment, a waste of space – and preferably one who looks like he should be on the cover of a teen magazine. There’s that incredibly reductive, almost cartoonish quality to it. It's not about the man himself; it is how utterly disposable and inconsequential he is, you know? He doesn't even register properly as anything real. There’s this bitter little joke in there of youth and failure. Right, let's
