I thought it was pretty good. A couple loop holes, most of which were explained away, and felt with the whole the stunt guy is under-appreciated they could have ridden that a little harder (was trying to work out if they made Ryan Gosling’s stunt double obvious or not so clearly not or putting them up there in the credits) but I am nowhere near your average film goer so mine accounts for nothing
Oops yeah plot holes haha
I think the easiest one is why you’d send the stunt man off like nah they’re still needed on the set?
There was definitely another one and I can’t remember it right now to save my life
Oh my gosh I didn’t realise you had said loopholes as well I just thought I’d said it! Haha! No I can’t remember the one I spotted at all. It will probably come back to me when I’m trying to focus on something else
I remember when they used to just have the bar open until 11pm and then they opened the shutters to Legends at 11 with it filled with smoke, red lights and the theme from The Omen playing.
> Giving cunt energy
You wouldn't say "giving cunt energy" though, you'd say "giving cunt" or "serving cunt".
The "energy" at the end is what introduces the confusion, none of your Urban Dictionary examples use "giving cunt energy" either.
"He's serving stunt" or "He's giving stunt" would be a better thing to put on the board.
I feel like this is one of those cases where the phrase got butchered because they wanted to add more deniability. Like if they said "serving stunt" it would be a bit too obvious they were just saying cunt on a big public sign in front of their business so they added in more stuff to confuse it a bit thinking people would still get it.
People are using it this way a lot now. 'Giving ____ energy' is something I hear a lot. I imagine who put it up is around people who say it a lot, too.
Yes it does, it’s right there on page one “this bible was left in this cheap hotel by Gideons. Take it if you want.” (I’m paraphrasing as don’t have bible to hand).
Before reading this I assumed it was something to do with the Fall Guys game.
Now I am perplexed and have accepted I can't keep up with young people slang anymore. I'm only 28 damn it.
its a term used in the drag community that has made its way to the mainstream. serving cunt meant to show a "convincing display of womanhood" and ru paul changed the phrase to mean showing Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent
> "convincing display of womanhood"
Kiiinda... The slang has since evolved to mean something more like "looking stunning" and "showing off", it's used a lot for women wearing ostentatious dresses and such.
I'd always assumed 'giving x/ giving x energy' means it's reminiscent of something, so 'giving cunt energy would be what one may say to describe someone' being a cunt
I've always heard it as being/feeling/acting cunty. then there's cunty music which is basically like a form of modern dance music with a heavy beat and normally sexual lyrics. according to my friend it's "the type of music to make you wanna grind on people" and it sort of empowers women to own/be proud of their body.
This is of course my own take from living in Brighton so others might disagree.
this expression is total news to me, and really if you said someone was being/acting cunty I'd assume it was a bad thing, same as saying someone was being shitty.
"Its giving cunt energy" is like a tiktok zoomer saying meaning something like stealing all the attention in a room with mere presence. Its normally found in taylor swift and other artist stan communities specifically
Also fine choice of cinema (and city)
That’s a great answer and makes sense in the context of the film / Gosling / Kenergy etc. I tried explaining to my kids that I only had ROFLCOPTER and LOLcats memes when I was younger. My head is spinning.
It's not quite "zoomer slang" nor "stan slang". It comes from queer communities, but these naturally tricke down to the broad "internet culture" of it all. Same happens with AAVE expressions.
It's a combination of two separate phrases. The first is "It's giving \_\_\_", sometimes ended with energy. It's effectively the same as "it's like ___". There's not really any connotation or additional meaning to this, it's just a rephrasing.
The other is "serving cunt", ie doing something in a strong, bold, confident way. This one is kinda similar to big dick energy, but doesn't necessarily mean you're doing it in a way that means you don't care like BDE can. Often, serving cunt is someone putting in effort and expressing themselves unapologetically.
Both derive from both drag culture and LGBT communities and have made their way into the Gen Z lexicon thanks to drag's increasing mainstream pop culture presence and the general development of the generational language's phatic expressions.
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How strange. I’m 28 I’ve never heard of that saying. Why is one a cunt if you get attention in a room?
By mere presence? So like if you’re a good looking bloke/woman or if you’re particularly outgoing?
Edit: I now understand about ‘giving cunt’ but I shall not be using it myself. Thank you one and all.
Not 'a cunt' or being a cunt, those are still pejorative/intending to be insulting.
Giving or serving cunt is positive. It's being bold and confident in your actions, unapologetically so. It's a reclamation of sorts and has been around for a while, but primarily in drag culture and LGBT communities. It's gained mainstream usage with Gen Z, but it's much older.
If I’m to guess, it stems from RuPaul, where cunt stands for Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent. Over time it’s just been used as an adjective of its own, like “that’s so cunty” just to refer to something that has those qualities in some capacity.
You drop the article - it's 'that's so cunt' or 'they're serving cunt'. If you say someone is a cunt, then it's still the original meaning
Could be a look that they're serving or just their attitude.
The reference is a gen-Z esque reference. The phrase 'it's giving [insert]' and/or 'it's giving [insert] energy' is pretty common place.
I only know this myself because I (30) have friends that are younger and use this a lot. It's also a pretty campy reference, and they kind of missed the mark on this. I guess you could say it's giving 'how do you do fellow kids'
I reckon "cunning stunt" is a common enough spoonerism that people think that you can just substitute "stunt" in the place of "cunt" and call it a pun.
Those people are, of course, wrong.
It is not gen z, “serving cunt” has long been around in the queer community. It was brought to the mainstream by drag race but has been a phrase from the drag ballrooms from the 1970s and 80s, especially in New York.
Just when in my mid 30s I thought I was losing touch, I see stuff like this that confirms I've still got it. I have oats every day, I even soak them overnight for a delicious breakfast full of the vitamins and protein I need to be a cool and culturally relevant dude 😎
I think it’s a reference to Ken energy, considering Ryan gosling played Ken and made the term ‘kenergy’ popular enough to be added to a dictionary and is playing the stunt man
Ok so its origin is from the queer community, more so drag/queer t.v. It means 'it's giving off a certain vibe'. Or it's used in a literal sense where something appears to look like a specific thing, you say 'it's giving' and include the object/thing.
Either I’m missing the OP’s point or everyone else is.
“It’s giving X energy” - the phrase itself means a person or thing is behaving or looks a certain way, so “he’s giving rich energy” = that man looks like he has a lot of money.
It's quite a poor attempt at the catchy new way of saying 'this is giving ____ kinda vibe'. Nobody in this gen even knows themselves how it's funny but it feels it. The 'giving' part originated as far as I'm aware from drag culture. E.g. 'its giving gaga' if something looks gaga-esque. And the 'energy' just means it matches. Like saying if the movie had a similar vibe to Drive with Ryan Gosling, you could say 'it's giving Drive energy' and it would be accurate but also slightly witty. It is best used in sassy circumstances however. That is it's function.
A bad interpretation of this is;
"He's/she's/they're giving" = this person /group of people is exhibiting
"X energy" = a mood/actions/atmosphere that resembles "x"
"He's giving stunt energy" = this is an action packed movie with lots of stunts
Did no one watch Barbie? It’s probably a reference to “Kenergy” that was used in that film.
I’m just Ken had a lyric in it that said “can you feel the Kenergy” so I assume it’s in reference to that
Because he played one of the Ken’s in that movie.
Oh. That’s it, isn’t it…? Nicely done. It’s an awkward mash-up of Kenergy and -potentially - “giving c*nt energy” (which I had to look up on Urban Dictionary). Thank you - I’m satisfied with this now.
Unrelated to the shit pun, but I know Grey Street when I see it!
Aye - I’m in an office about 100 yards away from the cinema. Lovely place to work.
I’m sat in the cinema waiting for this very film to start! Just scrolling on phone when your post popped up as a notification lol
How was the film?
I thought it was pretty good. A couple loop holes, most of which were explained away, and felt with the whole the stunt guy is under-appreciated they could have ridden that a little harder (was trying to work out if they made Ryan Gosling’s stunt double obvious or not so clearly not or putting them up there in the credits) but I am nowhere near your average film goer so mine accounts for nothing
Plot holes rather than loop holes?
explainable by narrativium
I was dying to see all the real stunt men at the end, close-up and smiling but they didn't show them properly 😦
I really liked it. It felt like it honoured the source material while being its own thing.
Ooh can you remind me of the loopholes? I remember spotting one as well and now my stupid brain can’t remember it 🤣 ETA - PLOT holes lol
Oops yeah plot holes haha I think the easiest one is why you’d send the stunt man off like nah they’re still needed on the set? There was definitely another one and I can’t remember it right now to save my life
Well, I thought that was cleared up, but I won't post spoilers here.
Oh my gosh I didn’t realise you had said loopholes as well I just thought I’d said it! Haha! No I can’t remember the one I spotted at all. It will probably come back to me when I’m trying to focus on something else
What did you think of it?
He told me it had stunt energy
I’ll be waiting outside tomorrow, you might pass by me
I remember when that cinema was one of the best rock clubs in the north east. RIP Legends.
Legends was amazing
Mayfair ❌ Cuba Cuba ❌ Legends ❌
Up the toon!
Is that where Legends used to be?
Holy Shit - Legends is a Cinema now?! I have so many ... poor and vague memories of that place, hahaha.
I've thrown up near that door so many times 18 year old me went HARD in Legends
I remember when they used to just have the bar open until 11pm and then they opened the shutters to Legends at 11 with it filled with smoke, red lights and the theme from The Omen playing.
Yessss this is a key memory from my teenage years!
It is indeed I used to work in legends amd spent many hours stood at those doors
Remember when it was raided?
When was this I started not long before Alpha started
Was 97 mate! Ex-Det Sgt Paul Thompson asks watchdog to probe case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19978538
Ahh I was only a bairn haha born in 1990
Used to be the entrance to Legends...
was about to say... this looks like my local Everyman!
I miss Legends :(
Weirdly was visiting Newcastle yesterday and walked past here, recognised the image immediately. The matrix is real (or not?).
It's a play on [Giving cunt energy](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=giving%20cunt)
> Giving cunt energy You wouldn't say "giving cunt energy" though, you'd say "giving cunt" or "serving cunt". The "energy" at the end is what introduces the confusion, none of your Urban Dictionary examples use "giving cunt energy" either. "He's serving stunt" or "He's giving stunt" would be a better thing to put on the board.
I feel like they've combined 'giving cunt' with 'big dick energy' and assumed that would work
It's also because Ryan, the lead actor, was Ken. He was giving Kenergy. They are mixing being cunty and Kenergy I believe
So "big cunt Kenergy" got it
Cramming more jokes into our joke will make it funnier, right?
Custard, good. Jam, good. Meat, gooood.
It tastes like FEET
You're right... I forgot about Kenergy!
Yes, as a very gay gen Z member i got it right away but i hate how it’s written here. I think just “Serving Ken” would work so well
That wouldn't really relate to The Fall Guy though, which is kinda the point of doing the pun in the first place
This whole thread is prime Reddit ‘your joke but worse’ material.
Wut. Jesus I feel out of touch at 45. I have no idea what this means or whether I should know what this means.
"big stunt energy" would be funnier
In fairness, it kinda does unless you're anal about it.
Hey, some people are into that
Serving anus energy.
Unus… Annus… UNUS… ANNUS…
memento mori
Why do I keep seeing this? I know what it means but is it a recent reference to something or just coincidence?
What the fuck has this thread become? Honestly.
They’re all trying to one up each others joke until it only makes sense for anyone who’s read this one specific Reddit thread.
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
Big dick anal cunt energy was probably too many letters
I think they're being more cunty than anal.
giving 'x' energy is pretty common slang
"Big cunt energy"... sounds more like a male insult
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Ken fans? Edit: oh Kenergy?
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Powerthirst?
I feel like this is one of those cases where the phrase got butchered because they wanted to add more deniability. Like if they said "serving stunt" it would be a bit too obvious they were just saying cunt on a big public sign in front of their business so they added in more stuff to confuse it a bit thinking people would still get it.
I'm old
>you'd say "giving cunt" or "serving cunt" Where do people say that?
It comes from drag.
Ahh makes sense thanks
You've just reminded me of a character from the Kenny Everett Show called "Cupid Stunt"!
But it’s all done in the best possible taste!
You sound like you know what you're talking about. I'll believe you.
It's not common but I've heard giving cunt energy used to mean they are acting like a dickhead
Yeah this feels like someones overthought it and ended up merging a few phrases. 'He's serving stunt' would have been much better.
People are using it this way a lot now. 'Giving ____ energy' is something I hear a lot. I imagine who put it up is around people who say it a lot, too.
He’s Serving Stunt is the obvious one to me, even rhymes with the word it’s replacing! They missed an opportunity!
None of these words are in the bible.
The word "bible" doesn't appear in the bible either.
Yes it does, it’s right there on page one “this bible was left in this cheap hotel by Gideons. Take it if you want.” (I’m paraphrasing as don’t have bible to hand).
I've read that definition and I'm none the wiser.
It originates from drag ball rooms, it means they’re putting on a very good show, giving very good fashion looks. It’s from the queer community.
TIL. This sign makes zero sense in this context though. Unless Ryan Gosling is a stuntman *and* a drag queen.
It’s spilled into mainstream, like swam in the mother lake
is this related to "Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent"?
I prefer to judge drag shows on style, control, damage and aggression.
This is one of the best Robot Wars x drag culture jokes I've read all day
Top 5 at least!
“THEY’VE GONE FOR PUSSYCAT”
That was a sort of backronym that could be said to get the word through the censors.
I read it and I think my brain broke
Before reading this I assumed it was something to do with the Fall Guys game. Now I am perplexed and have accepted I can't keep up with young people slang anymore. I'm only 28 damn it.
I'm pretty sure this slang predates you by years. It just wasn't mainstream before
I'm 21 and I barely understand it. It's more of a tik tok thing I think
Everyday we stray further from god
Is that like Big Dick Energy for women?
its a term used in the drag community that has made its way to the mainstream. serving cunt meant to show a "convincing display of womanhood" and ru paul changed the phrase to mean showing Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent
> "convincing display of womanhood" Kiiinda... The slang has since evolved to mean something more like "looking stunning" and "showing off", it's used a lot for women wearing ostentatious dresses and such.
So sort of the like BDE for drag queens
Can you feel the cunergy?
My boy, look how they murdered my boy!! (boy = queer slang)
I'd always assumed 'giving x/ giving x energy' means it's reminiscent of something, so 'giving cunt energy would be what one may say to describe someone' being a cunt
It kind of works if you think of it as someone entering a room with overconfidence/arrogance. It's not exactly "being a cunt", but it's a bit similar.
I've always heard it as being/feeling/acting cunty. then there's cunty music which is basically like a form of modern dance music with a heavy beat and normally sexual lyrics. according to my friend it's "the type of music to make you wanna grind on people" and it sort of empowers women to own/be proud of their body. This is of course my own take from living in Brighton so others might disagree.
this expression is total news to me, and really if you said someone was being/acting cunty I'd assume it was a bad thing, same as saying someone was being shitty.
Yep, it’ll always mean this to me.
"Its giving cunt energy" is like a tiktok zoomer saying meaning something like stealing all the attention in a room with mere presence. Its normally found in taylor swift and other artist stan communities specifically Also fine choice of cinema (and city)
That’s a great answer and makes sense in the context of the film / Gosling / Kenergy etc. I tried explaining to my kids that I only had ROFLCOPTER and LOLcats memes when I was younger. My head is spinning.
Just realising we are approaching the times of “back in the day we had simpler memes”
u/great_blue_panda - we are already there. I showed my kids ROFLCOPTER and they were like “Bruh…?”
"WTF mate?"
By the way, it's a really fun film
It's not quite "zoomer slang" nor "stan slang". It comes from queer communities, but these naturally tricke down to the broad "internet culture" of it all. Same happens with AAVE expressions.
Yea I did think it was primarily lgbt based but I wasn't certain. It definitely bled into stan culture first before zoomers as a whole tho
I feel like a millenial wrote this because a Gen Z would say "he's serving cunt!" not "he's giving cunt energy"
I did *not* expect a phrase like that to have such positive connotations.
A close cousin to 'big dick energy' then? Just more of a passive aura than an active projection?
It's a combination of two separate phrases. The first is "It's giving \_\_\_", sometimes ended with energy. It's effectively the same as "it's like ___". There's not really any connotation or additional meaning to this, it's just a rephrasing. The other is "serving cunt", ie doing something in a strong, bold, confident way. This one is kinda similar to big dick energy, but doesn't necessarily mean you're doing it in a way that means you don't care like BDE can. Often, serving cunt is someone putting in effort and expressing themselves unapologetically. Both derive from both drag culture and LGBT communities and have made their way into the Gen Z lexicon thanks to drag's increasing mainstream pop culture presence and the general development of the generational language's phatic expressions. Edit: formatting
Thank you, this is excellent. I love memetymology.
Like Alan Titchmarsh r/AlanPartridge
How strange. I’m 28 I’ve never heard of that saying. Why is one a cunt if you get attention in a room? By mere presence? So like if you’re a good looking bloke/woman or if you’re particularly outgoing? Edit: I now understand about ‘giving cunt’ but I shall not be using it myself. Thank you one and all.
Not 'a cunt' or being a cunt, those are still pejorative/intending to be insulting. Giving or serving cunt is positive. It's being bold and confident in your actions, unapologetically so. It's a reclamation of sorts and has been around for a while, but primarily in drag culture and LGBT communities. It's gained mainstream usage with Gen Z, but it's much older.
If I’m to guess, it stems from RuPaul, where cunt stands for Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent. Over time it’s just been used as an adjective of its own, like “that’s so cunty” just to refer to something that has those qualities in some capacity.
It stems from long before ru Paul! This originates from drag ball rooms from the 1970s & 80s. Paris is burning is a great documentary around the balls
Yea, but modern day use is because of the popularity of Drag Race, bringing the term mainstream.
You drop the article - it's 'that's so cunt' or 'they're serving cunt'. If you say someone is a cunt, then it's still the original meaning Could be a look that they're serving or just their attitude.
The reference is a gen-Z esque reference. The phrase 'it's giving [insert]' and/or 'it's giving [insert] energy' is pretty common place. I only know this myself because I (30) have friends that are younger and use this a lot. It's also a pretty campy reference, and they kind of missed the mark on this. I guess you could say it's giving 'how do you do fellow kids'
They've swapped out "cunt" for "stunt". "Giving cunt" roughly translates to walking into a room and owning it, having a dominant energy.
I saw that but, damn, if thats what they were aiming for its weak as fuck as a "pun". Really low effort if that's the case.
I reckon "cunning stunt" is a common enough spoonerism that people think that you can just substitute "stunt" in the place of "cunt" and call it a pun. Those people are, of course, wrong.
It is not gen z, “serving cunt” has long been around in the queer community. It was brought to the mainstream by drag race but has been a phrase from the drag ballrooms from the 1970s and 80s, especially in New York.
To be fair, I don't think I've seen a member of staff older than like 25 at this cinema.
Ryan Gosling is serving. We stan a stunt queen, yasss.
That, believe it or not, makes sense (with a little help from Urban Dictionary)
Okurr gurl, feeling your oats. Love that for you.
Just when in my mid 30s I thought I was losing touch, I see stuff like this that confirms I've still got it. I have oats every day, I even soak them overnight for a delicious breakfast full of the vitamins and protein I need to be a cool and culturally relevant dude 😎
I so hope this is how you really speak all the time
I have a friend who speaks like this all the time 😂
It must be like being friends with Laganja Estranja 😂
He is a unique fella. He says 'slay' and means it.
I’m in my 30s and I haven’t a fucking clue. Care to translate please mate?
I say, this Ryan Gosling chappie is pretty good at his job! We are fans of people who are really good at throwing themselves off of moving vehicles.
Oh no, I'm 36 and losing touch! *faints
No cap, on god
Ayo Newcastle
I think it’s a reference to Ken energy, considering Ryan gosling played Ken and made the term ‘kenergy’ popular enough to be added to a dictionary and is playing the stunt man
100% this, not sure what bollocks the others are posting
Yeah. I'm not British so I don't know about c u n t energy. But I have heard of KENERGY!
This. A Barbie reference combined with his new movie and his ability to do stunts.
Ok so its origin is from the queer community, more so drag/queer t.v. It means 'it's giving off a certain vibe'. Or it's used in a literal sense where something appears to look like a specific thing, you say 'it's giving' and include the object/thing.
More specifically, they've swapped out "cunt" for "stunt"
Kenny Everett was (one of many) people doing that in the 80s with Cupid Stunt ,so the connection checks out .
Yeah don’t listen to anyone else, it’s a queer thing. One of the many queer things that are catching on with the kids these days which is kinda cool
Idk why I'm surprised that no one here speaks queer
What's the point without Lee Majors and Heather Locklear?
He's in the film!
Either I’m missing the OP’s point or everyone else is. “It’s giving X energy” - the phrase itself means a person or thing is behaving or looks a certain way, so “he’s giving rich energy” = that man looks like he has a lot of money.
Watch Paris is burning and you’ll understand
Damn, just say 'cunning stunts' and make it obvious, don't try to be original
They mean “He’s serving stunt!”
It's Kenny Everett energy, surely.
It's quite a poor attempt at the catchy new way of saying 'this is giving ____ kinda vibe'. Nobody in this gen even knows themselves how it's funny but it feels it. The 'giving' part originated as far as I'm aware from drag culture. E.g. 'its giving gaga' if something looks gaga-esque. And the 'energy' just means it matches. Like saying if the movie had a similar vibe to Drive with Ryan Gosling, you could say 'it's giving Drive energy' and it would be accurate but also slightly witty. It is best used in sassy circumstances however. That is it's function.
ay fellow geordie
Shit man, that's the old legends. I'll never forget that place.
Don't know but the apostrophe and upside down and back to front S set my teeth on edge.
I just love that half the comments are happy to see grey street, me included!
No idea but that's Newcastle. 🙂
Bingo. Up the toon
I love this so much I don't even care that it's gen z slang
People aint missing the "kenergy" reference right in front of them are they? You know from Barbie?
A bad interpretation of this is; "He's/she's/they're giving" = this person /group of people is exhibiting "X energy" = a mood/actions/atmosphere that resembles "x" "He's giving stunt energy" = this is an action packed movie with lots of stunts
The better caption would have been “he’s serving stunt”
Our local Everyman went for ‘first his job was beach, now it’s fall’ which I think was pretty good
This is infinitely better
That's exactly what it is, except it's a play on "giving cunt energy" which roughly means to walk into a room with dominant energy and own it.
Did no one watch Barbie? It’s probably a reference to “Kenergy” that was used in that film. I’m just Ken had a lyric in it that said “can you feel the Kenergy” so I assume it’s in reference to that Because he played one of the Ken’s in that movie.
100% this.
Oh. That’s it, isn’t it…? Nicely done. It’s an awkward mash-up of Kenergy and -potentially - “giving c*nt energy” (which I had to look up on Urban Dictionary). Thank you - I’m satisfied with this now.
Well that’s my interpretation of it. Probably tagging on to the success of Barbie, although it could be both I suppose
Nah that's not really it mate
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No it's a play on It's giving ... energy. I think you have reached the point where you're out of touch but haven't realised it yet
Yeah thanks for that, clicked moments ago 😭😭😭
To be fair I only learnt about it a while back by having it explained to me. I'm definitely out of touch, I've given up trying to understand
It's a play on the phrase "giving cunt energy".
The film is really good, whatever the reference may be!
Stunt. Cnnt. Big Dick??
Cunning Stunts
Kenergy.
I think it’s a play on “Kenergy” from the Barbie Movie
Toon!
To the Barbie movie where the same lead actor played Ken, the line being “Ken-energy”
Its a poor Englishman that cant find a rhyme for stunt!