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Friday, 15 February 2013

real talk about real talk

Posted on 20:33 by Unknown
When somebody says "real talk"-- or more likely, #realtalk-- what they mean is, "I'm going to use an inexplicably hip slang term to justify an assertion I can't actually defend."
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