FWIW I've used this for "please respond to this like an adult" as well as "please take this in as emotionally-neutral way as you can" which is sometimes not quite the same thing.
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Haha exactly, I was literally just leaning over to
@EmilyGorcenski irl like, “FALSE, it means ‘yo businessperson, you need to read what I just wrote on your dang screen and deal with this already because this is the last polite message you’re getting on the subject’”
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I use it as office speak for ‘for fucks sake, give me an answer already’
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If I just scream that very loudly will someone rescue me?
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Is "I'll pass this up the chain" adult for "No, you need an adultier adult"
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Ha! I mostly use this to mean “Give me a plausible reason this shit is happening cos I’m struggling to come up with one” but “I need an adult” works
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How I would *love* if that was the phrase I heard over the next police scanner recording. "This is- uh- car 216. We got aaaaaaaaa possible 10-92, black man in public- uh- I need an Adult. Over."
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“What do you want me to do because if I take too much initiative you feel threatened and yell at me”
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Also used in work e-mails as code for “what the fuck”
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But an adultier adult.
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V tru. Although ive also used this to mean "i know what the correct answer is to this question but youre being a dumbass so im going to let you think you have a choice here"
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I typically use it as “get your shit straight and then talk to me again.”
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Sometime this means the adult you're talking to fucked up.
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