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What does derpy mean in this context? I tried googling it but all I saw were some My Little Pony references.

by budu3 11y ago

smacktoward 11y ago
Socially clumsy or awkward, sometimes painfully so. Non-empathetic. Unable (or unwilling) to put itself in other peoples' shoes.
- ceequof 11y ago
  budu3: Note that this is a very non-idiomatic use of "derpy". Many other words would be more suitable.
underpantsgnome 11y ago
It's the type of place where they can't tell that means "has some problems, in a way similar to what the OP describes."
angersock 11y ago
I usually use derpy as "well-meaning but perpetually flawed in execution". It's often used by my colleagues and me to describe a mistake or state-of-mind that can be fixed but temporarily caused suffering or inconvenience. Almost always admits utility or value outside of the specific thing causing annoyance. For example: "Yeah, the RAID card on that box is kinda derpy--usually fine, but it loses its damn mind on hibernate." Or: "The way IE11 handles web workers is kinda jank. We tried using transferable objects, but for some reason it derps and trips all over itself in the sending worker."
Torgo 11y ago
"derpy" is a third-removed phrase that is short for herp-derp, which itself is short for hurf-durf, which came from a Metafilter comment. The original usage is something like "HURF DURF ${oblivious_statement}" and it meant to denote simplistic cluelessness. Apparently the connection to My Little Pony is that there was a dumb character named "Derpy Hooves". Some people took this character to be mentally retarded, and so "derpy" is seen by some as pejorative term for the mentally retarded. On Reddit, some people use "derp!" to indicate they had a temporary lapse in ability to understand something.
im3w1l 11y ago
>"Derp is an expression associated with stupidity, much like the earlier forms of interjections like “duh” and “dur.”" Knowyourmeme has a good history of the word tracing it back to the 1998 movie Baseketball by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. "Derpy Hooves" was the fan given name to a pony that looked, well, derpy. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/derp http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/derp

What does derpy mean in this context? I tried googling it but all I saw were some My Little Pony references.

by budu3 11y ago

What does derpy mean in this context? I tried googling it but all I saw were some My Little Pony references.

Socially clumsy or awkward, sometimes painfully so. Non-empathetic. Unable (or unwilling) to put itself in other peoples' shoes.

ceequof 11y ago
budu3: Note that this is a very non-idiomatic use of "derpy". Many other words would be more suitable.

underpantsgnome 11y ago

It's the type of place where they can't tell that means "has some problems, in a way similar to what the OP describes."

angersock 11y ago

I usually use derpy as "well-meaning but perpetually flawed in execution". It's often used by my colleagues and me to describe a mistake or state-of-mind that can be fixed but temporarily caused suffering or inconvenience. Almost always admits utility or value outside of the specific thing causing annoyance. For example: "Yeah, the RAID card on that box is kinda derpy--usually fine, but it loses its damn mind on hibernate." Or: "The way IE11 handles web workers is kinda jank. We tried using transferable objects, but for some reason it derps and trips all over itself in the sending worker."

Torgo 11y ago

"derpy" is a third-removed phrase that is short for herp-derp, which itself is short for hurf-durf, which came from a Metafilter comment. The original usage is something like "HURF DURF ${oblivious_statement}" and it meant to denote simplistic cluelessness. Apparently the connection to My Little Pony is that there was a dumb character named "Derpy Hooves". Some people took this character to be mentally retarded, and so "derpy" is seen by some as pejorative term for the mentally retarded. On Reddit, some people use "derp!" to indicate they had a temporary lapse in ability to understand something.

im3w1l 11y ago

>"Derp is an expression associated with stupidity, much like the earlier forms of interjections like “duh” and “dur.”" Knowyourmeme has a good history of the word tracing it back to the 1998 movie Baseketball by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. "Derpy Hooves" was the fan given name to a pony that looked, well, derpy. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/derp http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/derp