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!
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
“Tubular” is from surfer lingo right? It makes a lot of sense when you realize they’re comparing whatever cool thing you’re talking about to a wave like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1mXQaSA3-rE
I love surfer slang because it’s rooted in a verbose comprehension of the English language. The hyperbole of it brings me joy lol.
I still use most of the hella tight slang I grew up with
I feel like hella was the west coast version of wicked.
That was hella wicked.
I called something “the bomb” the other day and my mind did a record scratch, like, did I actually say that unironically??
I dig your vibe, dog.
Who you calling a dog, dawg?
I’m finna get my homeboys to whoop your ass, you dig homeslice?
Yo Bro, cool your jets.
Huh.
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
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Now we sail the high seas.
Calling others gay or disabled as a slur.
Also using it for situations of inconvenience. Eg, **The next train is cancelled.*" “That’s fuckin gay!”
I grew up in the 90s, theses were used by everyone all the time. I still use these, even though I don’t like to. Though, if any of an excuse, I don’t use them to denigrate those disabled or homosexual.
“Retard” is used for any person or thing that is hard to work with, complex to use. Anything complex that takes up a lot time, not simple to use. My oven clock is “retarded” as it isn’t intuitive when trying to set the time. I am “retarded” for not taking the time to pull out the manual and learn how to set it after the power goes out.
“Gay” is for anything or anyone that is dramatic, causing a situation or problem when there isn’t one. For people who are overly sensitive, who take offense at “sub conscious facial micro aggression” of others.
I grew up beating up the bullies of disabled kids. When I got older, I became a lgtbq advocate and donated time\money to charity that supports them. Am I trying to excuse my behavior by still using these …?..
Sure that’s not just an age thing you and your peers have outgrown?
Both is unfortunately still in use by youths here, but just not once they are grown-up.
We had a campaign in Canada called “‘That’s so gay’ is so yesterday” when I was in school. A lot of classrooms had stickers or posters with that quote. IDK how well it worked in general but definitely had an effect on me, especially since I was at an age where I didn’t really understand what homosexuality even was, and one of my first exposures to the word was that it’s not okay to use it as an insult.
Wanda Sykes did a PSA about this. It was put on YouTube 17 years ago. I don’t know when it first aired.
Now I feel old…
I’m old enough that teachers referred to us as the “retarded kids” not to our face at least but when they thought we couldn’t hear them.
By us I meant the learning disabled.
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Of course it is. Go rewatch a few episodes of “Psych!” to cure yourself of doubt.
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
Because it started in grade school, and grade school kids were not aware of the word “psych.” So they spelt it how it sounded. Sike or syke, they’re both equally incorrect, but the point is the kids who used them were using them correctly.
The only thing remotely weird about it was when they learned the word “psych” and thought they meant two different things (like they don’t believe “psyching someone out” is a thing, like it does not click for them).
To add to the confusion: For 2 weeks/year I help out the local ballet studio with stage crew. We have this big white backdrop curtain, and colorful lights are pointed directly at the curtain to make dramatic and moody changes to the background during certain dances. When I heard the name of these, I assumed it was the “psyche curtain” and “psyche lights” because that’s how it is pronounced.
Turns out the box is marked “Cyc.” I have to assume that the people that sold the curtain are way less amateur than I am, so I would like to add this third potential spelling.
Cyc is short for cyclorama. A way of lighting a backdrop which kind of wraps around a stage, that wrap around effect which lead to the name.
OMG, I haven’t thought about one of those since I stopped taking ballet. Learned all those French spellings, never thought about how to spell the “Cyc” curtain/scrim, only that we were to stay well clear of it because it was super expensive and can’t be repaired. (Expensive bc huge seamless fabric stretched on a curved frame, and any repair would ruin the seamless illusion.)
I had always assumed it was humorously mis-spelling the word. Like people who would spell it “kool”.
Could be. I just figured since it started in grade school, it wasn’t intentional.
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”
it’s a free country!
Lord help us. Hopefully we can hear it again!
All that and a bag of chips
I once had a coworker who said she was all that and a bucket of chicken. Black lady, too. I would not repeat it… to her. I’ve since picked it up. “All that and a b_____ of ch_____” is the new saying, and anything that starts with a B that makes sense with something that starts with ch- fits. I haven’t actually heard any others, but I noticed that pattern was maintained across the two.
…“All that and a board of cheese”? Maybe…
Grody.
I still call things grody, but it’s apparently twee and shit to say now.
Grody to the max.
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.
Fake and gay
This exchange reminds me of the last boondocks episode.
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.
“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.
‘mad’, as in ‘very’
Fo sho, mostly because growing up made me realize I’m never really sho of anything no mo.
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’
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
I seem to recall hearing Brennan Lee Mulligan saying it quite a bit in Dimension 20 and it made me giggle.
Seriously? as far as i was aware that’s a perfectly normal thing to say?
Phat
