Did she use “gyatt” correctly, given the term can be used to express excitement but is mostly applied to a woman’s curvaceous behind?
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And how much does Payman really want to be associated with “sigma”, a term used by men who consider themselves isolated “alphas”?
For a generation used to the irony and absurdism of the internet, it won’t matter. The cringe of a senator saying “skibidi” in parliament is meme enough.
The handful of watching senators certainly had no answers, though Liberal Andrew Bragg, 40, gamely claimed to have understood every word. The Greens’ Nick McKim, 59, bravely called it a “skibidi speech”, echoing Payman’s own use of the nonsense word. Labor’s Raff Ciccone, 40, appeared baffled.
Nationals senator Ross Cadell, 55, interjected to say, “I’m not sure any of that should be recorded.”
But like everything else on the internet, it already had been.
With Jewel Topsfield.
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