Busting My Balls

An often vital practice relating to relationship-maintenance. Relationship counselors broadly refer to this as preserving “healthy vulnerability,” or tletting down your guard, being completely honest,in order to demonstrate loyalty, love, trust, and willingness to self-sacrifice for a friend who might not immediately appreciate such risk, interpreting it instead as intrusiveness and abuse at first.

Theory: A constant background level of nagging can insure that when you do “lose your shit,” you will be around supportive friends who are willing to change your emotional diaper. The insult-trading practice of “Playing the dozens” use to serve a similar purpose in the Black community until it fell out of fashion due to its historically-repugnant origins in slavery (devaluation/objectification when slaves were bundled by the dozen). It's a social means to avoid the emptiness of “I’m fine” when checking in with a friend who may be too full of grit to want to burden others with personal problems. This is also why in New York City, “F*ck you!” and “F*ck you too!” have respectively come to replace “Hello my friend! Are you truly okay?” and “Why yes I am. Thank you for caring so sincerely and deeply!”

Busting My Balls:

Tony and Vincenzo were busting each other's balls until Vincenzo broke down and admitted he he had to put down his 25-year old retriever, Zeus, today. We should bring him some Stromboli and get blotto with him later.

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shopdrifting

To haphazardly relocate store merchandise, due to laziness or lack of cash, rather than to put it back where you found it.

You were hella Shopdrifting that beef jerky and pez into the ice cream freezer the second you had a jones for that rotund burrito.

layin' to the bone

To cause great pain. Originally from blunt-object contusions with multiple hematomas penetrating all layers of connective-tissue, especially bone. Later generalised to indicate any pain which one finds difficult to tolerate, even heartburn from eating too much butter.

S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up. Tightly.

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