Radical. Tubular. Bodacious. Gnarly. Basically anything a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would have said.
Cowabunga it is, then!
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
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 love surfer slang because it’s rooted in a verbose comprehension of the English language. The hyperbole of it brings me joy lol.
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Phat
Phat and cattywhumpus.
Phat fell out of fashion and cattywhumpus isn’t a thing where I live now
cattywhumpus
Square rig sailors have a whole lexicon of unique terms of art and slang not used outside of that niche and I always thought this was one of those, I’ve only heard other tallship sailors say it. TIL
No it’s definitely around in the South. You have a real hootenanny and things might get away from ya faster than a greased pig so things go all cattywhumpus.
bae is the one that was really everywhere and then just fell off a cliff.
Boo.
I was so glad when that one got left behind.
Tripendicular Be there or be square
“Roflmao” :(
Also: cool beans
Awe, i still use cool beans all the time.
Same. Sometimes ironically, sometimes actually.
Cool beans is in regular rotation. My daughter has also banned me from taking her to school.
Retard.
I hate how that word became pejorative, because it was used correctly. By the way, it’s still used in plumbing. Retard is a verb which means to slow, e.g. retard the flow. When you call a person who is developmentally disabled that, yes it’s rude, but it means their mental process is slow. The word was being used accurately. It’s just not nice to say.
I don’t think “window licker” was ever accurate, but for some reason it’s slightly more socially acceptable to say (or imply, e.g. “I will say this for him, his windows are always clean”).
There’s a few term of that kind of age which were like that. Medical terms or just plain English words that became labelled “derogatory” because of how they were used. I always felt it showed how poor the vocabulary of some people was. If they only knew the derogatory meaning they’d get offended by it’s use in all situations even if the meaning was innocent.
I’ve been hearing this a lot more within the last ~14 months.
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Maybe by you… Unfortunately.
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.
“Everyone’s always asking me: ‘What are you doing, retard?’, but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'”
How are you doing retard?
❤️
I really try not to say this out loud. Im mostly successful. Its deeply imprinted.
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.
rad and radical
Back in the 70s we used to say “fuckin-A” as a kind of agreement
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.
Are you surprised at my tears, sir…?
Bummer man. That’s… (hits joint) that’s a bummer
I still use it…
Me too
Page me
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 dig your vibe, dog.
Who you calling a dog, dawg?
I’m finna get my homeboys to whoop your ass, you dig homeslice?
I called something “the bomb” the other day and my mind did a record scratch, like, did I actually say that unironically??
My nephew’s initials are b.o.m.b unintentionally.
He’s the bomb.
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
it’s a free country!
Lord help us. Hopefully we can hear it again!
Information superhighway
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
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.
We were so full of hope.
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.
Coolness
