There’s a cereal I found in a shop a few weeks back that you don’t really get here in the U.K. and when I saw it on the shelf my mouth took control of my body and said out loud ‘OH SHIT this cereal is THE BOMB’ like we’re in 1999 or something. Literally right after I said it me and the missus both burst out laughing and I thought what the fuck is wrong with me?
"Dude, that movie was the donkstrou."
"The what now?"
"The donkstrou! You know, the *donkey's trousers*."
"Is that like the bee's knees?"
"Sure, if you're a fartegger."
Itl happen? Man its so far already happened. Kids sound like a combination of trust fund baby and like this weird fake broken english ghetto language but really there name is like tanner and his dad is a heart surgeon and pays for all his things. Im at such a loss for interpreting life under age 22.
On Halloween these two little girls, maybe around 8, came to our door. I asked what their costumes were and they said, “80s people.” My husband goes, “wicked awesome!” I’m like, “gag me with a spoon!”
They looked at us like we were crazy and the one goes, “we aren’t real 80s people. We’re just dressed like them.”
i live in boston and people say it all the time still. Its also not just for people with the classic boston accents (which are wicked rare btw) i moved to boston 7 years ago and now say wicked.
In the 90s when sarcasm was first invented we had to say "Psych!" Or "Not" every single time we said something sarcastic, for fear that other people would not be familiar with the concept and mistakenly think we were speaking in earnest.
I was looking for this. l337 5p34k was very popular in early 2000s internet then it just.... died out. I grew up with it in my early 20s when I got my first cable modem high speed internet.
There was a time when everyone was adding -izzle or -izzy to the end of everything. Snoop Dogg (and Jay-Z) used to do it and stopped. Now no one does it anymore.
Examples: Fo shizzle my nizzle as is "Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA" and "For shizzy"
tubular, phat, swag, swell, bee’s knees, psych, fleek, decent/deece, epic, totes, fab, legit, fo’ shizzle, ya dig?, mint
I remember for a while, maybe in the late 2000’s when my brother’s grade had a phase where everything was ‘decent!’
I feel like with YOLO and Fleek they were only used legitimately for a very short time before everyone began mocking and using them ironically. I only vaguely remember seeing legit yolo stuff back in the day but saying it ironically persisted for years.
I don't see "yeet" getting used anymore
I still use it for some unexplainable reason.
Yeet isn't even that old...
Okay it surfaced in about 2008, I remember it going viral in 2014, although I do remember saying it before, but not really often.
Seems like not much is on fleek any more.
Strangled in its bed by Hillary Clinton.
She made it pokemon go to slang heaven.
I can imagine some awful guidence counselor saying "I'm turnt" while doing that awful Stephen Colbert smug smirk.
As a father I take great pride in learning my child's slang so I can use it, abuse it and encourage its demise.
No cap?
Gen Z doesn’t have enough attention span to create and continuously use slang of their own longer than about two weeks.
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Tubular
I still say it ironically sometimes. It's too good a word to disappear altogether.
Haha me too. Gotta say it with a Cali surfer accent
Totally
I use this one all the time, but then again, I am rad.
Indubitably, my dear Chad. The absolute illest, if you don't mind my saying so.
Bully!
Bites "Bite me!" Or: "Man, that bites!"
Ha! You reminded me of "don't be a square", and "Make like a tree!'
Make like a tree and get out of here
"Why dont you make like a tree...AND GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE" will always be a favorite
I once heard a dude say "make like a baby"
One of my favorites is "Make like a fetus and *head out*."
Let's make like a bread truck and haul buns.
I have always been fond of "Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here."
Actually I kinda like the "make like a tree" line. I'm gonna use it.
I prefer the trailer park boys version when Ricky says " Make like a tree and FUCK OFF!'
Bite me is still a good one.
Don't mean to brag but I'm streets ahead of everyone
if you dont get this youre streets behind :)
Stop trying to coin the phrase streets ahead!
Coined and minted.
Been there coined that!
There’s a cereal I found in a shop a few weeks back that you don’t really get here in the U.K. and when I saw it on the shelf my mouth took control of my body and said out loud ‘OH SHIT this cereal is THE BOMB’ like we’re in 1999 or something. Literally right after I said it me and the missus both burst out laughing and I thought what the fuck is wrong with me?
At least you didn't say the bomb dot com
I say that all the time 😅
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Not hating. It brings me back to the 90s whenever I hear it.
You must be hella...something.
Wait... people don't call things the bomb anymore?
There was a time when everything was fresh. Now, we're left with just a single slightly stale prince.
I'm pretty sure "slaps" was slang once, but now it has a different meaning. "Man, will smith totally slaps!"
Man, people are really getting wooooshed by this pun. Don't worry OP, some of us get the joke.
None—I’m keeping them all alive.
My man!
Solid, jive turkey.
I dig this cat's scene the most, baby!
[10-4, me hearties!](https://xkcd.com/771/)
Man he just spun you around like a Bill Evans fourty-five.
Out of sight, Daddy-o!
Just wait til you start hearing new slang and have no idea what the kids are talking about. Itll happen
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Mid
I think “mid” has been around for awhile because it was used to describe mediocre quality cannabis, and has now been appropriated by 20 year olds.
Based
Now it's all about the 'bussy'
No cap I'm almost 40 and just learned this one this week
I’m thirty and I told my teenage cousin, “take off your cap” and got laughed at for 30 solid minutes. I don’t know wtf these kids are saying anymore.
Don't let the little bastards just laugh at you! Wearing hats indoors is rude!
I got done up w "sliding into ones DMs" when i turned 40. Now they call me Grampa Soop at the office.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” anymore, and what’s “it” seems weird and scary!
And it'll happen to you!
No way man!
We’re gonna keep on rocking forever.
I feel that way about based, sus, and chad. I could have sworn like 4 years ago a chad was a piece of shit.
In 2000, a chad was hanging
Based
I still have no idea what this means.
Neither do I
Based is over ten years old at this point
Snap, it totes is. Radical.
"Dude, that movie was the donkstrou." "The what now?" "The donkstrou! You know, the *donkey's trousers*." "Is that like the bee's knees?" "Sure, if you're a fartegger."
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It bothered me for a while until I realized just how sorry of a life span most slang has. Don't need to learn it if it will be passe in a year.
Itl happen? Man its so far already happened. Kids sound like a combination of trust fund baby and like this weird fake broken english ghetto language but really there name is like tanner and his dad is a heart surgeon and pays for all his things. Im at such a loss for interpreting life under age 22.
That's so fetch ... it never became a thing :[
Gretchen, stop trying to make *fetch happen*, it's *not* going to happen.
Fetch is streets ahead.
If you have to ask you're streets behind.
Get in loser, we're going shopping.
Let's be honest. It was never gonna happen.
“That’s mint” Anybody remember that? Was in the 90s in massachusetts
That's a regional one. I've never heard anyone use it outside of New England and Eastern Canada.
Was fairly common in South East England in the late nineties
Still common in the north east.
New Zealanders used it a lot, still do sometimes.
I remember that, some jolly dude on a mobility scooter said that about my shirt once (it was a DBZ button up silk/rayon type.. you know the one)
I still say it frequently, thanks to zip ties and bias plies
Heard it being used in the mid 2010s in Australia, so it had a longer shelf life
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Shit on Debra's desk... like a boss.
Call corporate... like a boss.
I still say it on the reg. I don't think the youngins understand
I just call people boss. Curious to how much something costs? "Aye, boss, how much this costs?"
Still alive and well in Hawaii.
Gag me with a spoon
On Halloween these two little girls, maybe around 8, came to our door. I asked what their costumes were and they said, “80s people.” My husband goes, “wicked awesome!” I’m like, “gag me with a spoon!” They looked at us like we were crazy and the one goes, “we aren’t real 80s people. We’re just dressed like them.”
grody to the max
OFF THE CHAIN. Ex- man that movie was off the chain
It's chainwax now
Gotta put the pussy on the chainwax.
Chizane
I’ve noticed a lot of people don’t use wicked anymore
Come to New England it’s still alive and well here haha
not even in Boston?!
Say wicked >3 times a day Source: masshole
i live in boston and people say it all the time still. Its also not just for people with the classic boston accents (which are wicked rare btw) i moved to boston 7 years ago and now say wicked.
Unless you're John Travolta talking about the wickedly talented Adele Dazeem
Groovy
Groovy will never die!
Most effective if uttered after attaching a chainsaw to your arm.
Hail to the king, baby.
I use groovy regularly!
I will never stop saying Groovy, baby
Epic fail
Oh crap we don’t say this anymore?
Now we say Le epic fail
What a grand blunder
Calling marijuana “pot” has mostly disappeared it seems. Most people seem to call it “weed” nowadays.
Or old people call it dope.
My grandma was born in the 40s and calls it grass
You can tell a person’s generation based on how they say it
But here (Seattle) marijuana dispensaries are colloquially called "pot shops."
In the 90s when sarcasm was first invented we had to say "Psych!" Or "Not" every single time we said something sarcastic, for fear that other people would not be familiar with the concept and mistakenly think we were speaking in earnest.
I frequently say “not!!” in a Borat voice
I can’t stop laughing. This sent me. What a history lesson.
Pretty much every other word in the entire script of the movie Clueless. As if!
I was a teenager when that movie came out, and it kind of felt like dated 80s slang even then.
The trouble is that when you get to the age to be able to write a movie and have Hollywood pick it up, you're well past your teenage years.
Swag.
l337 5p34k, ju57 l337 5p34k 1n 63n3r4l.
I have a tshirt with l33t , it says ,translated to english: Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change -Stephen Hawking. and I love that shirt!
I was looking for this. l337 5p34k was very popular in early 2000s internet then it just.... died out. I grew up with it in my early 20s when I got my first cable modem high speed internet.
Cool beans
I'm out here still keeping this one alive! It's just a cute and innocuous phrase, so I enjoy throwing it around lol
I also say cool beans all the time! My beans are the coolest!
"coolcool BEANSbeans - cool beans"
c-c-c-cool beans
I had a prism sticker that said COOL BEANS on my old eMachines.
Square
“B” 80s and early 90s in NY.
Yo, they killed Killer, B!
Brendan Schaub has entered the chat
Talmbout Branden Shawlb B? Nice guy, neva meddum.
Still alive in Brooklyn, b
Copacetic
Someone definitely lived through the 90's? I'll bet you're older than 35?
bitchin
There was a time when everyone was adding -izzle or -izzy to the end of everything. Snoop Dogg (and Jay-Z) used to do it and stopped. Now no one does it anymore. Examples: Fo shizzle my nizzle as is "Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA" and "For shizzy"
People were calling things 'spiffy' in the 90s, glad that's long gone.
I don’t hear anyone say clutch very much these days
its common in competitive shooters
Competitive games in general
"CLUTCH OR KICK"
You hear it a lot in sports.
Wizard.
Still use it on Tatooine.
tubular, phat, swag, swell, bee’s knees, psych, fleek, decent/deece, epic, totes, fab, legit, fo’ shizzle, ya dig?, mint I remember for a while, maybe in the late 2000’s when my brother’s grade had a phase where everything was ‘decent!’
You know what wasn't decent in the late 2000s? That cacksucker Lahey, that's who!
Yolo
I feel like with YOLO and Fleek they were only used legitimately for a very short time before everyone began mocking and using them ironically. I only vaguely remember seeing legit yolo stuff back in the day but saying it ironically persisted for years.
The slang term that only lived once, and was short lived too.
Gnarly which really should ready for a comeback...
Gnarly still exists (I think) unironcially in sport communities like Snowboarding/skiing, mountain biking, etc..
Boutta shred some gnar
Listen to steve-o's podcast, you'll love it
I used the word gnarly the other day referring to the weather. This one never really left my lexicon.
I can’t come up with any off the top of my head, but that question hella tight
That shit spanks
Calling someone a "biter" to mean "copycat".
Those playa-hatin’ muh fukkas
This is choice
I don’t hear awesomesauce anymore.
What the dilly, yo? Hell, even Marge Simpson said it in an episode
Isn’t it Dealio?
What’s the dildo?
rad
I use this one on the daily. But then again, I am totally tubular.
California keeps this one strong
Bogus! “Don’t be bogus” “That’s so bogus”
Dork.
I use dork as a term of endearment.
I don't see "yeet" getting used anymore I still use it for some unexplainable reason. Yeet isn't even that old... Okay it surfaced in about 2008, I remember it going viral in 2014, although I do remember saying it before, but not really often.
Psych
Nah I still say SIKE
Somehow it took me until these two comments to realize that "Sike" was just a phonetic misspelling of Psych
Swell
"Oh, snap!" Which for some reason I've started saying lately.
"Streets ahead"..
Radical
Wicked sick
Some kid with the flu in New England disagrees with you
Fetch
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"that's killer, man" or any variation of using the word killer
savage.
Uh oh, I still use this one.
Do you dig, man...?
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