Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Aids associated

👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly little mouthful –'"Aids Associated."' Now, frankly, I wrestled with this one for a solid five minutes before realising what we actually mean here, and honestly, the whole concept is just...beige. Existentially beige.

Basically, when you say something like, "The downturn in the artisanal yak cheese market was decidedly Aids-Associated," it means that the downturn felt intrinsically linked to or as almost a symptom of the anxieties and general weirdness around the AIDS epidemic during that specific time period . Let’s unpack that because it's beautifully absurd. It doesn't mean there was an actual outbreak in the yak cheese trade! Instead, it acknowledges that the widespread fear, shame, and political fallout from the AIDS crisis seeped into every facet of American society—the anxieties about the future, the racial undertones, the feeling of a terrifying unknown… all of which coloured the public’s perception of even utterly random stuff. It's like saying the 1980's hung over everything, even the price of a Shropshire cow. Essentially, we throw this phrase in when something seems to carry that low-lying, historical dread and awkwardness, not because it directly caused whatever is happening. There's a weird kind of scholarly understatement involved – we acknowledge the past was there, but we don’t want to overstate its direct influence. --- Here’s an unsettling