Did she use “gyatt” correctly, since the term can be used to express excitement, but is most often applied to the curves of a woman’s buttocks?

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And to what extent does Payman actually want to be associated with “sigma,” a term used by men who see themselves as isolated “alphas”?

For a generation accustomed to the irony and absurdity of the internet, it won’t matter. The groan of a senator saying “skibidi” in parliament is meme enough.

The handful of senators watching certainly had no answers, although 40-year-old Liberal Andrew Bragg bravely claimed to have understood every word. Greens’ Nick McKim, 59, bravely called it a “skibidi speech”, echoing Payman’s own use of the nonsense word. Labor’s Raff Ciccone, 40, looked bewildered.

Sen. Ross Cadell, 55, interrupted the meeting and said, “I’m not sure this should all be on the record.”

But like everything on the internet, that had already happened.

With Jewel Topsfield

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