Radical. Tubular. Bodacious. Gnarly. Basically anything a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would have said.
Cowabunga it is, then!
I love surfer slang because it’s rooted in a verbose comprehension of the English language. The hyperbole of it brings me joy lol.
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
It only works when you say it with that TV California surfer accent too though, like
Shyeah, duuude, it’s like tohtally tubular! 😎
I still use most of the hella tight slang I grew up with
hella
i picked this one up from living in california for 15 years and it keeps tripping up the people i talk to everywhere else i’ve lived since then.
i don’t even notice that i do it until someone points it out to me. lol
I dig your vibe, dog.
Huh.
Information superhighway
We were so full of hope.
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. :)
You just described going down a Wikipedia hole too. Always a good way to procrastinate
Calling others gay or disabled as a slur.
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…
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.
it’s a free country!
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…
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
“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.
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.
Back in the 70s we used to say “fuckin-A” as a kind of agreement
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.
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’
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
Mint
Ooh, it’s been a good while since I heard that
‘mad’, as in ‘very’
Fo sho, mostly because growing up made me realize I’m never really sho of anything no mo.
