Radical. Tubular. Bodacious. Gnarly. Basically anything a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would have said.
18 year old daughter just uttered “gnarly” tonight during a horror movie.
We were shocked!
“gnarly” still exists as a word for convoluted or fouled.
Gnarly is back thanks to Katseye
Cowabunga it is, then!
God its hard to remember but yes all of those were said completely seriously, not a drip of sarcasm or tongue in cheek. Now it’s hard thinking that anyone would say tubular without being completely ironic
I love surfer slang because it’s rooted in a verbose comprehension of the English language. The hyperbole of it brings me joy lol.
Retard.
I really try not to say this out loud. Im mostly successful. Its deeply imprinted.
I’ve been hearing this a lot more within the last ~14 months.
“Everyone’s always asking me: ‘What are you doing, retard?’, but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'”
How are you doing retard?
❤️
That was very common when I was growing up. Unfortunately, it has been replaced with variations of autistic, though “anti-woke” people will use both.
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Eh, I use it for very stupid people. Obviously devoid of ableist intent.
I feel as though the context matters with this. For the genuinely evil and criminally unintelligent I would use the clinical “Mentally retarded”.
“Retard” and music (low volume) on buses are the controversial hills I’m willing to die on.
Pick better hills.
Maybe later, for now I have petty culturally unpopular positions that I will maintain. They are few but they are mine.
Information superhighway
We were so full of hope.
Have you seen a superhighway? It’s still accurate.
Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.
Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.
I dunno I still kinda love it. In part I think it might sound a little dumb now thanks to how big money has turned the primary web interaction into “Schlorping at the Centralized World Trough.”
But web surfing is still a thing with the Indie Web, and it can still be an apt description because you can catch and ride “waves” of various networked pages and find really neat stuff. There was a sense of exploration to it, the whimsy that you could get carried really far from where you started and potentially have a lot of fun along the way.
I still like to surf the web. Cowabunga. :)
You just described going down a Wikipedia hole too. Always a good way to procrastinate
And the act of traveling on said highway was…surfing. For some reason. The 90’s were stupid, and I’m from there.
Now we sail the high seas.
Now it’s just a series of tubes
One could even call it… tubular
I love it when threads come together
It’s more like four tubes and then a whole bunch of tiny little hose pipes.
Syke. Or psych. Early 90’s kid slang, had a definition akin to just kidding or fooled you but more mean spirited. Said to mark the previous statement as intended purely to mess with the listener’s mind or psych them out. Similar in spirit to ending a sarcastically spoken sentence with “NOT!” though distinct.
“Yeah man, you can drive my car. Psych! You’re not touching my ride.”
The more I type about it, the less “psych” looks like a valid English word.
Of course it is. Go rewatch a few episodes of “Psych!” to cure yourself.
You know I know that you’re not telling the truth.
🍍
Dude, don’t try to psych me out! You and I both know it’s:
🎶I know you know that I′m not telling the truth,
I know you know they just don’t have any proof.
Embrace the deception, learn how to bend
Your worst inhibitions tend to psych you out in the end🎶
We spelled it “sike”. No clue why.
Cause the cool kids didn’t read
This is truer than you might think. A lot of slang developed out of a need to express oneself without having the vernacular (or even desire) to clearly articulate. It leads to innovating interesting (and in some cases more practical) new ways to say something in a way others (typically in your in-group) can understand easily.
I suspect a lot of that crazy Gen Z stuff comes from kids getting into social media well before fully developing their own social skills, so it just started manifesting through terms and phases they picked up from video games and such.
Wow, interesting explanation. It makes a lot of sense
Supersingular isogeny key exchange (SIKE) is very secure post-quantum replacement for Diffie-Hellman…
SIKE!
PJ & Duncan earned exclusive rights to that term in perpetuity with their seminal classic “Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble”
The more I type about it, the less “psych” looks like a valid English word.
…because the word is ‘psyche’: “I psyched him out.”
I think it’s Greek origin, and it’s like “psychology”.
“Psyche” is a different word to “psych” in English. “Psyche” is a noun, pronounced “sye-kee”; “psych” is a colloquial/casual verb, pronounced “syke”.
One’s psyche (2 syllables) is one’s soul/personality/mind. It’s not a verb.
They all come from the Myth of Psyche (also 2 syllables) a princess loved by Cupid and disliked by his mom.
Psyche (mythology) - Wikipedia https://share.google/kjpSB8R9ySQPDwx6k
Grody.
I still call things grody, but it’s apparently twee and shit to say now.
Grody to the max.
I didn’t learn until an embarrassingly late age that you shouldn’t say “jewed them down” or “I got gypped” when discussing prices, etc. Once it dawned on me what I was saying, I felt pretty mortified, but I grew up hearing them as normal words. It was just a thing you say.
Same with me. Didn’t even think of where it came from.
Most of the stuff that was said back when I was in school were slurs. Like nearly every spoken sentence contained at least one slur.
‘mad’, as in ‘very’
“Roflmao” :(
Also: cool beans
Cool beans is in regular rotation. My daughter has also banned me from taking her to school.
Awe, i still use cool beans all the time.
Same. Sometimes ironically, sometimes actually.
Fo sho, mostly because growing up made me realize I’m never really sho of anything no mo.
Back in the 70s we used to say “fuckin-A” as a kind of agreement
I still use it…
Me too
Are you surprised at my tears, sir…?
Bummer man. That’s… (hits joint) that’s a bummer
It was pretty common when I was in high school in the 90s. But for some reason the kids I knew insisted it was fuck-a-nay.
DL
Short for down low.
Never really hear it anymore.
Also
The bomb.
No one says that anymore.
And
Phat.
To refer to a thick gorgeous woman.
Phat.
That has morphed into thicc.
I recall “Phat” being problematic. Especially since it was applied to thicker women.
Since it sounds like “fat”, its use was generally followed with a “phat with a p” to clarify.
Making the short slang word void for being used easily and casually.
I did respect the approach of trying to change a word that’s usually used to demean someone as a way to complement someone. But it just didn’t stick.
Phat to me in the '90s meant either good, or big. But specifically big, gnarly stuff. Like jumping your mountain bike and getting phat air.
Bread. Yes, the word bread. It was quite popular in northern India. We use to call stupid people bread. Like, “Tu bread hai kya?” (Are you bread?)
This was alternative to the word “chutiya”, which is a curse word, that we could use in front of teachers and elders.
Phat
rad. as in a conjunction of radical, which is also a slang term no longer in use.
people look at me real weird when tell them the cool thing they just told me is ‘rad’
I seem to recall hearing Brennan Lee Mulligan saying it quite a bit in Dimension 20 and it made me giggle.
Still use it, unironically, along with things like “righteous.”
I like taking what I like from various ways of speaking, until mine is my own. Don’t let anyone take that away from you. :p
Seriously? as far as i was aware that’s a perfectly normal thing to say?
