Here’s a highly specific sport mask for baseball fans who give zero fucks about rival pastimes. Because we all can’t wait to get up close and sweaty with 30,000 strangers at a festival, right? (Hat tip: Jordie Welles) Buy at Etsy. Buy at Etsy.Ī holographic F*CK OFF mask is just the thing for raves and festivals, according to the vendor’s product copy.
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“Fuckity-fuck” is such a sprightly expletive, and this shade of coral is so appealing, that you’re practically guaranteed immunity from pesky viruses.* For more on fuckity, see Ben Zimmer’s 2015 post, The Road from Blankety-Blank to Fuckity-Fuck. If you want to ease gradually into sweary-mask style, here’s a discreet statement that allows safely distanced viewers to draw their own conclusions.
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Rather than see masks as an annoyance, why not regard them as an opportunity for self-expression? Fortunately, many crafty merchants appear to know exactly the sort of self-expression we Strong Languagers prefer. (In California, where I live, they’re required attire outside the home when physical distancing isn’t possible.) The current occupant of the White House excepted, just about everyone these days acknowledges that protective masks-or “face masks,” as they’re sometimes called, as though we might confuse them with elbow masks-are here to stay for as long as COVID-19 is uncontained, or maybe forever.