What slang from our generation did you dislike?

Same. I still use dude and I say it to both men and women. That is a word that I just can’t get out of my vocabulary. I called my twin nephews “little dudes” all through their young years, and now that they’re taller than me and in hs, I’ve switched to “What’s up, Big Dudes” and give them a fist bump when I greet them. They’ll go from the “I don’t care face” to face lit up when I do it. Maybe they think I’m a dork (ooo another word folks may find dislikable), but I don’t think so. I think it’s “our thing.”

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waywardviking208@reddit

Cool story dude

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BBallsagna@reddit

I say bro way too much.

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FletchMom@reddit

So does my 13 year old son. I am not only called Mom around here, I’m also “Bro” lol

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Funk_JunkE@reddit

That’s hella cringe dude…..

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waywardviking208@reddit

Dude my bad dude

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waywardviking208@reddit

Whatever dude. Jk

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CharlesUFarley81@reddit

Dude is definitely gender-neutral

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Kellysi83@reddit

Na. “Dude” and “homie” transcend space and time.

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sarahprib56@reddit

They used bro now, I think, in the same exact way we use dude.

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BIGepidural@reddit

Correction they use "bra" (said like "brah") now 🤣

Bro was early GenZ and the late Zs and Alphas changed to bra.

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BIGepidural@reddit

My GenZ says dude and has me saying again after I dropped it for like 20 years 🤣

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

DUDE! But what does mine say? SWEET! But what does mine say?

Dude, where's my car. The Casablanca of our generation. /s

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SFAFROG@reddit

I definitely dude my students all the time.

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Funk_JunkE@reddit

My wife tells me this anytime I call her dude 😂

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Myrtle_Snow_@reddit

lol I say “dude” all the time but usually it’s when I’m trying to be nice in responding to someone being dumb. Stupidity has no sex or gender 😂

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waywardviking208@reddit

That’s deep thoughts my dude

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muff_huffer_@reddit

You can pry dude and man out of my cold dead hands

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waywardviking208@reddit

Damn dude that’s dude-ishly morbid dude!

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Southern-Salary2573@reddit

You can pry dude from me when I’m dead. Until then it stays lol.

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

gif

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Many-Calligrapher914@reddit

Dude! Me too dude! Dude, my wife even got me sticky notes with “DUDE:” above the note lines. Duuuuuuuude. 🤣

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waywardviking208@reddit

I know dude it’s like dudes get mad at dudes for saying dude, but dudes gotta be dudes. Right dude?

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Many-Calligrapher914@reddit

Dude, totally!

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Strong-Bridge-6498@reddit

That izzle swizzle baby talk that Snoop Dogg used to do.

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Strong-Bridge-6498@reddit

Wack slacks.

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Jealous-Situation920@reddit

Pimp. I grew up in the inner cities and pimps are really the scum of the earth.

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zoolilba@reddit

I honestly didn't even know what a pimp was in 9th grade. Ironically I did know what a hooker was from night court.

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DynastyZealot@reddit

Night Court taught us so much. But I did think I'd be going to court in the middle of the night a lot more than I have ...

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bells_and_thistles@reddit

Yeah. Pimps are sex traffickers.

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Browniesmobetta@reddit

Agree let’s not glamorize it

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Slippinjimmyforever@reddit

True. I remember seeing a documentary on hbo. Was it “Pimps up, Ho’s down”?

But I quickly realized “pimp” is not cool. These men are terrible.

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js4873@reddit

I hated HATED this esp when it was upper middle class white boys saying it. Maybe you can argue that many real pimps are themselves victims of bad circumstances but…. for these boys they FOR SURE just said it cuz it gave them permission to be shitty to women in a way that looked “cool”.

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Jealous-Situation920@reddit

Real pimps are no more victims of circumstances than are rapists and child molesters (most are both). All pimps are bullies and all bullies are cowards.

They just make me so mad! 😡

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graveybrains@reddit

Okay, but what if I just really wanted fish tank shoes like that guy in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka?

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NotslowNSX@reddit

I think this guy was okay because for him, pimpin was about dressing fabulous.

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CharismaticAlbino@reddit

Those shoes are fucking legendary!

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BojukaBob@reddit

Child molestors in most cases were victims of molestation as children though. Which is not a defense of child molestors so much as a condemnation of pimps as being even worse.

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BIGepidural@reddit

As a former Sex Worker I completely agree cause I've seen pimps in many capacities and they're pathetic little fuckwits that profit off the work of women while they do nothing to deserve a penny of it.

Fuck them all. 😡

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thetakingtree2@reddit

Pimpin’ ain’t easy

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LordPizzaParty@reddit

Don't forget about "pimps n hoes" themed parties

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

Oh wow. I had completely forgotten about those.

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jpcali7131@reddit

Im ashamed to admit that I dressed as a pimp for Halloween and I did in fact have a “hoe” accompany me to the party. I was in high school and didn’t know the atrocities involved in the illegal sex trade. Also, suburban white kid so cast your shame upon me.

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Loveandafortyfive@reddit

Boats n hoes > Pimps n hoes

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Gorkymalorki@reddit

The mother fucking Catalina Wine Mixer

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Scrabblewiener@reddit

Maybe. To be fair though it is a lot easier to dress like a pimp than a boat, ho’s got it easy all they really need to do is remove some clothing and apply makeup.

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fairlyaveragetrader@reddit

So this one is one of the crazier topics in the comments. If you were more in the in crowd, you grew up learning to basically treat women like Trump so to speak. I remember going to these parties and you were basically encouraged to just grab girls, try to talk them into anything. It's weird because today, well we all know what society is like today. It's just not like that. I wonder if there's anything kids are going through today that's going to be looked at through this level when they're older. Like I had to learn all through my twenties what actually being a decent boyfriend and decent person towards women even was because I grew up one of the popular athletic kids and our entire circle, from the time we were kids, was basically like women are objects to be conquered. The more pussy you can get the better. In fact my first roommate and I had a chalkboard between our rooms and we would put little checks on it for each girl that we got for that week and have weekly competitions

Kids today don't really seem like they're doing anything risky or outlandish anymore. Maybe vaping and being unhealthy?

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Greedy_Sundae_6528@reddit

No theres no excuse

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halversonjw@reddit

In my town it was used more to refer to a player or ladies man, not a literal pimp. Kids are dumb though 😂

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Illustrious-Rain-184@reddit

I love it when Connor O'Malley says it though.

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megan00m@reddit

When i hear "out of pocket" from younger gens I cringe.

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BojukaBob@reddit

I agree. I hated "pimp" being used as a good adjective and was very happy to see it go away.

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bassbeatsbanging@reddit

I worked at a Hollywood Video in the late 90's. It saddened me to no end how often "Pimps Up, Hos Down."

I also worked at a Spencer Gifts too. I feel like no matter where I went for employment the "Pimp trend" followed me.

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sticky_wicket@reddit

Pimps Up Hoes Down was fascinating though tbf, the linguistics at work!

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SailNW@reddit

Hollywood was my first job too! The amount of suburban dads who would slyly rent those soft porn movies when the wife is out of town… My fave was Rub n Tug.

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blues_and_ribs@reddit

But what if it’s just Gator? He just needs some walkin’-around money.

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reficulmi@reddit

Flashbacks to suburban middle school.

You got some new shoes and a Monster BFC? You are PIMPIN!

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ikeif@reddit

This reminds me of the “white rapper” show and some suburban white kid telling rappers that “he was bringing ghetto back” and them asking him “do you know what that even means? We got OUT of the ghetto!”

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MydniteSon@reddit

Gotta keep your pimp-hand strong!

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honeybadger1984@reddit

I tried reading Pimp, written by Iceberg Slim.

Very early one he spoke about domination. That makes psychologically controlling his bitch by beating the shit out of her. He went in to detail. I put the book down because I didn’t need that garbage floating around my head.

Snoop Dogg and the rest glorified that shit. It’s the most horrible degrading shit ever. And shows the brutality and laziness of men who become pimps rather than work a real job. Just scum of the earth.

Something similar is YMH podcast when they kept making fun of Mr. White Folks. Then the host got real for a sec and researched pimping. He concluded these men were scum of the earth and lazy ass fuck acting like that.

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

But it is still a valid response for when someone says they're from Idaho...

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slothbuddy@reddit

100%. "Big Pimpin" "Pimp my ride" -- gross

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

Gotta spend that cheese. Even my black friends didn't know what that meant!

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EntityMatanzas@reddit

Guess he wasn't lying tho. Current events are crazy.

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Entropy907@reddit

Although I do love “Pretty Pimpin’” by Kurt Vile (who is a Xennial born in 1980)

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Ethel_Marie@reddit

I called someone a pimp on Yahoo chat and the person replied that pimps were horrible, a fact that I didn't know due to where I lived.

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thedoogster@reddit

Super obvious that someone misspelled “primp” and said “hey this works”

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PenBeautiful@reddit

Shortly after "my bad" became a thing, people around me started saying "my no." I was NOT going to allow that I happen, so I shut that down every time I heard it.

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babysittertrouble@reddit

My b

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

First heard my bad from a black dude in 94. I thought he said my bat. I was like WTF does that mean. Anyway, it Something black people said first, then it went mainstream. Like most things these days.

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

Same

Heard it first in 1997 from my roommate when I was in the Army and yes , he is black ( from the South) and my black brothers and sisters in my battalion were saying “my bad”

I grew up in California, till this day I have never heard anyone from here (Cali) say “my bad”

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mildchicanery@reddit

From Cali and have been saying "my bad" since the 90s.

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Beautiful-Mousse-118@reddit

Yes everyone still says my bad in LA county, including myself lol.

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

What?? From CA and can confirm my bad is said regularly to this day. What part of CA are you from?

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

L.A.

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WildZero138@reddit

Like most things since like forever.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

When in was growing up in the 80s and early-mid 90s most of our music, style, trends and slang were influenced by white culture LA California. That started changing with rap, hiphop and black culture out of LA and New York starting to appeal to the broader culture in America.

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WildZero138@reddit

Ever since minstrel shows, white culture has been influenced by black Americans. Minstrel shows along with the blues turned into country music. The jazz scene started with black Americans, and all the slang that came along with it. The 1950's saw the rise is rock-'n'-roll, created by black Americans and the slang that came along with it. Even the whole surfing culture originated with Polynesians. I think the 80's surfer slang and valley girl slang may be the only time in our recent history where the slang could maybe be considered to be originated from us fair skinned folks

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Im actually talking more about pop culture in the 80s and 90s, regarding music it was more about punk, new wave, alternative, industrial, house etc... then the 90s grunge. Then id put glam rock in there that came out of LA.

But ya, if we're talking influences and who influenced what, That's a whole nother conversation...

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leffertsave@reddit

I knew some white people who tried to inflect to the pronoun to “your bad”, but I thought that sounded terrible.

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BaldEagleRising17@reddit

My white 78 year old MIL who is actually an awesome person dropped “bling” yesterday….

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Bling! The ultimate Xennial black to white carryover.

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Django_Unstained@reddit

Death of bling-bling

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cheeker_sutherland@reddit

Sort of on this note. I can’t stand “no worries.” Especially if a waiter says it after I ask for something. Yeah dude, I wasn’t worried.

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CheeezBlue@reddit

Mate you will not like Australia then , no worries is part of the dialect

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

Yeah, no worries is pretty ingrained in CA, too. It's said in response to someone apologizing for something that was no big deal. Like shit sorry I spilled water all over you. No worries, it's just water. I don't get why that's grating.

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cheeker_sutherland@reddit

If it’s in an Australian accent I don’t care. Another one I don’t like in America is “cheers” when you get off the phone or end any convo.

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Ashayla@reddit

Well, too bad, I say cheers all the time.

But then again I'm a bartender, so it sort of comes with the territory, even if said territory is in America.

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Old-Explanation9430@reddit

I cannot stand this saying and I'm happy to know I'm not alone.

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taita2004@reddit

I'm genuinely curious because I've never heard it used...what is "my no" supposed to mean??

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PenBeautiful@reddit

It makes even less sense than "my bad." Like if you're saying no to a dog.

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black_flag_4ever@reddit

I also hate my bad.

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

My bad is actually a very old phrase going back the Latin mea culpa basically means the same thing.

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black_flag_4ever@reddit

Comparing Latin to English doesn’t quite work because of how the languages are structured. Mea culpa is the equivalent of “I’m to blame” or “it’s my fault.” English doesn’t have the same level of conjugation as Latin or Spanish so a phrase like “my bad” sounds as stupid as “me hungry.”

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OnoALT@reddit

You don’t deserve the downvotes

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

Was, my fault and my bad are nothing alike /s. You ate lead paint didn’t you?

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Hiciao@reddit

I HATE my bad. It just sounds grammatically awful to me.

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spinquelle@reddit

My bad is so bad! It sounds like something a child says, not an adult.

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CaptinEmergency@reddit

Hated it since I first heard it in middle school. I said it a while back after spilling something.. Is this how dementia starts?

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StaceyPfan@reddit

And it's still around!

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Black-xxx@reddit

Hahaha yikes!! What is that!!??

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Kelvin_Inman@reddit

I didn’t mind it till it creeped into all contexts…like a boss or teacher would say “my bad”…and I’d think, “that’s just makes you sound unprofessional”.

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FAHQRudy@reddit

My understanding of “my bad” was from SoCal volleyball owning up to their fault during a volley because it was a quick phrase that kept the game moving.

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worriedsick1984@reddit

Couldn't you have stopped, "my b" as well. 🤣

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bronzemat@reddit

You did a fine act for our generation!

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mediumokra@reddit

Thank you for your service

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No_Buffalo2833@reddit

I have 50-year-old cousins who still say NOT! We are not close.

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Julie_Anne_@reddit

We're close... NOT!

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babysittertrouble@reddit

lol was going to say this

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Least-Back-2666@reddit

Shyeah.. and monkeys might fly out of my butt!

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0mni0wl@reddit

SCHAAWINNGGG!

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rememblem@reddit

You're so close... NOT!

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Revolutionary_Gas551@reddit

My Mom taught HS for years, and she still says it. It drives me up the wall every single time! 🤣

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Ashayla@reddit

This suit is NOT black!

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Worth-Ad4164@reddit

I generally reply to this with, "Party on, (their name)."

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heykidzimacomputer@reddit

The n word that starts with a w and doesn't end with a hard r probably didn't age well.

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babysittertrouble@reddit

I’m embarrassingly said this to a black coworker on my early 20s about someone else we work with and after I said it I was like oh wow I probably shouldn’t be saying this to anyone let alone a black coworker.

He was cool about it but it made me rethink that work a lot

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jaymzx0@reddit

Pretty common as an insult from adults in my white trash neighborhood growing up.

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NotslowNSX@reddit

Yeah and they weren't usually wearing wigs, so I don't get it.

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littlejerryseinfeld_@reddit

lol I don’t even know what you’re trying to say. I wasn’t cool though so probably not one I experienced.

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Greymeade@reddit

If you replace the “n” in the “n word” (the one that’s used as a slur for black people) with a “w,” the resulting word was used as a slang term to refer to a white person who in some way was felt to embody the characteristics of a black person.

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littlejerryseinfeld_@reddit

Ohhh lol. Gotchya. I don’t know why that didn’t click before. I did heard that one way back around the early 2000’s-ish maybe but not very often.

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Key-Shift5076@reddit

..me too, I’m lost.

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sarahprib56@reddit

I'm so embarrassed for my classmates that really embraced this trend and even somehow pretended they were bloods or crips or something. There were two girls who rode my bus and I still wonder what happened to them. Did they go back to being suburban white girls? I suppose it's possible that there were bloods and or crips in central MA in the mid 90s, but I kind of doubt it.

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n33dwat3r@reddit

Listened to a podcast about a white lady who was also a teen in CT in the mid 90s who wanted to be in a gang and would talk like this.

So, the podcast is called Mormon and the Methhead and as you can guess she did not go back to being a suburban white lady right away and took a detour through drug addiction and evangelical Christianity.

So yeah if you were wondering I think she explains it pretty well. It's quite entertaining but that podcast has a lot of Netflix references and now I'm falling behind because I have to watch some show to proceed.

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Ok_Connection2874@reddit

Kids used to throw that around a lot in my town (EMass suburbanite), and it bothered me just how ok everyone seemed to be with that scene, the slang word, all of it.

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sarahprib56@reddit

Latch key kids, I guess. Maybe their parents didn't get it. Idk. It is extremely weird looking back. It would be cultural appropriation and they would be mercilessly teased online now.

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Ok_Connection2874@reddit

I didn’t know the term “cultural appropriation” in the 1990s, but I knew how it dressed and acted. Dave Chappelle’s “Trading Spouses” skit seemed to have a solution for those white kids though haha

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FAHQRudy@reddit

North Middlesex Mafia.

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Ok_Connection2874@reddit

‘Rica Nation

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anuncommontruth@reddit

I can't believe how accepted that was. Even by my black friends.

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TheJRKoff@reddit

Always. Hard R on that one too...

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LanguageNo495@reddit

You mean wigger? That’s not the n word.

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Smurfblossom@reddit

The original and any variation just sound so ignorant to me.

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clarkh@reddit

"Yeah I completely agree with you… except I completely don't."

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MyNameIsNot_Molly@reddit

Sadly, our generation used "gay" as a general prerogative for anything bad. As a teenager , I wasn't nearly as informed or progressive as I am now, but even then it bothered me.

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dudly825@reddit

I can’t believe we played a game called “smear the queer” at recess, frequently. just didn't understand. glad that is gone.

Also glad we moved on from "gay" as a common prerogative.

i'm also embarrassed that "faggot" was used as a general insult as well.

Progress has been made on tgis front.

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Semi_Lovato@reddit

As a dude from the South, I can't agree with you more. Funny how many of us had to move away before we came out. We were taught since early elementary school that being gay was inherently bad

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sarahprib56@reddit

I have had a really hard time not saying the r word. I grew up In MA. There was even an SNL skit with characters that said retahded.

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bootsnfish@reddit

I said it once infront of a friend that had a brother who was developmentally challenged. He didn't say anything but I felt low and I think that was it for me.

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EmilySpin@reddit

Also grew up in central MA and I loathe the part of my brain that will occasionally serve up “wicked retahded” when something is especially stupid—which to be clear I would never EVER say out loud, and will tell other people not to use it if they say it.

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copyrighther@reddit

Oh man, I cringe when I think of all the homophobic slurs that were used in everyday conversation, not to mention the R-word.

People love to idealize the 90s but good god, it was such a racist, homophobic, and ableist time. And not like micro-aggressions, either. Like straight up, in your face aggression, especially for those of us that grew up in small towns.

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

Hate to break it to you. Kids are just as aggressive and mean today. But I am glad homophobic and racial slurs are no longer used.

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NotslowNSX@reddit

Yeah, it's nice that kids have become more subtle and indirect with their belittling now. They can get a kid to off themselves from a few tweets and never use an offensive word, Progress.

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

Yeah, but we didn't know. It was just a word. It had no association to sexual preference. I honestly remember thinking it meant the dictionary definition of gay. So if something was too happy or corny it was gay. I don't say it now though.

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principled_principal@reddit

I think you mean “pejorative” rather than “prerogative” but I feel you anyways.

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MyNameIsNot_Molly@reddit

Thanks for catching that. Fixed!

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eyesorecozza@reddit

Came here to say this one. Unfortunately in less progressive parts of the country, it's still being used. Surprised me that is it as I thought we'd learnt to stop using the word as an insult.

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Hiciao@reddit

This hasn't gone away. I'm a teacher and I still hear it every so often. I immediately shut it down with 1) we don't use how people are as an insult and 2) it's really none of your business either way. This usually gets the kids to think about it because honestly a lot of kids just say what they hear until it becomes their own habit. Making them think about what they're actually saying often helps.

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DodgeDozer@reddit

I agree and was never a fan of using that word in that way. However, by me it was used to describe a level of aggressively naive and dorky lameness that I wish had a more appropriate, perhaps even professional, term. “Lame” just doesn’t have the sheer heft for what needs to be conveyed in this context.

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RelevantFilm2110@reddit

Which years? As an older millennial, that didn't happen so much, but I heard it from just out of hug school undergrads when I was in graduate school in the mid 00s. People roughly my age would have said sucks (which was really beat to death).

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blove135@reddit

NOT. Remember people would say some outlandish thing and then just add NOT to the end of it thinking it was hilarious. "I really love doing my homework...... NOT!" It was sarcasm with an added word at the end of it and I hated it. I think it may have been Saturday Night Live that did something that really made it take off? Maybe something David Spade did?

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After_Preference_885@reddit

Wayne and Garth

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

I’ll add “schwing” for consideration here. And “exqueeze me.” But I will die on the hill that, “I’m gonna be Frank.” “Okay, can I still be Garth?” is absolute genius.

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NotslowNSX@reddit

It was genius for the vaudeville act that invented it. Not sure who it was, but that's a very old joke, Abott and Costello did a bit like that, Groucho Marx, it was a famous line from Airplane the movie "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

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ArchitectVandelay@reddit

Yeah it’s just a play on words of course. But the Garthness of his reply just kills me haha he’s so confused.

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NotslowNSX@reddit

Yeah, I loved that when I was a kid. Not a big Spade or Meyers fan, but that movie was there best work. I really liked Lesley Nelson's serious delivery in airplane too.

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blove135@reddit

Oh right! How could I forget that. That's what kicked it off.

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jane7seven@reddit

Makes me think of Borat learning how to tell American jokes. 1:45

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

Ugh, I still see people using it today and I’m like “could you just…not?”

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pregnantandsober@reddit

My mom still uses it, she thinks she's funny. I try to ignore her when she says it.

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Aggressive-Green4592@reddit

I'm just joshing you.

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Prudent-Acadia4@reddit

Josh Allen?

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Aggressive-Green4592@reddit

I don't know or remember honestly, just remember disliking this phrase.

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TheJRKoff@reddit

Does "booyah" count?

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windmillninja@reddit

And it's methed out cousin "booyahkashah"

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Prudent-Acadia4@reddit

Had a boss say this and I can’t stand it

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bratikzs@reddit

gif

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darkgothamite@reddit

I can't drop the vocab used by the Ninja Turtles or teen titans Cyborg, it's acceptable in certain media for me

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randomsnowflake@reddit

lol I’m guiltily of this one 🤡

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HazelMableMyrtleMaud@reddit

I'd erased this one from memory, nooo!

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slothbuddy@reddit

I remember when "sick" first started getting used and I hated it. It made no sense and sounded like someone trying to force it into existence. I use it frequently now

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Prudent-Acadia4@reddit

I still use sick, nasty and sick nasty

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NotslowNSX@reddit

This is definitely a top three for me. I was not down with the sickness.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

I remember 'sick' early to mid 80s

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Yeah, I remember skaters using it in the '80s as well. Then, it went away, and mysteriously came back sometime in the late '00s.

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Biguitarnerd@reddit

When skaters used it, it was sort of an exclamation that a trick was fucking crazy and awesome at the same time. We used it when someone did a backflip from a half pipe to a vert ramp. Very dangerous and also awesome and it was sort of an exclamation of you’re sick in the head and that was awesome.

When it got brought into to mainstream it lost that context and I hated it. I guess a lot of phrases that start in one community and then get adopted probably lose context though.

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

Yes. Exactly. it was the same gnarly. It was used in surfing and skating. A challenging trick or wave. Then suburban teens started saying it about everything, hillbillies started saying it about their jacked up trucks with balls hanging. And so RIP...

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

It's definitely a word I've always used. I think it probably came back when social media hit.

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

Oh no, don't say sick. It's really bad to hear an adult use it. It's in that in-between stage where no one says it and it's not old enough to use again. Go back to cool. That's fucking cool never sounds bad or even rad is retro cool now. Dope is semi okay for millennials. I don't know know Gen A says. They have made up language for slang.

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LegitimateEmu3745@reddit

I changed “NOT!” To “guess I’ll just go bleep myself” 😂

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

“The sky is green…guess I’ll go fuck myself!”

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MrGreen17@reddit

The part on Borat where the terrible comedian explains not to him is pretty funny though.

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

The only time I say “not” anymore is in a Borat voice. 😂

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Kellysi83@reddit

💯💯💯💯💯. This was so peak!

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

Lmao I still say sick…but, I’ve always spelled it “sic”, thanks to 90s Slipknot. 😅

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0mni0wl@reddit

Sick... I feel that way about DEAD 💀 nowadays. Took me forever to figure out that people meant that they thought something was funny. I'm over here like, death is no laughing matter, are you sick or something?

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Drslappybags@reddit

My kid has started to use sick.

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LordPizzaParty@reddit

Funny, I use "sick" all the time now too. Started just in the last few years. Before that I think I used "nice" for the same purpose but started to feel weird saying that.

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FletchMom@reddit

When people said “the bomb” and “the bomb.com” I hate that. It really grinds my gears.

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Prudent-Acadia4@reddit

I say it to my kids to get them to roll their eyes at me 😂

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ButtercupsUncle@reddit

Fire is the new bomb and I'm such of it already

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LoveMeSomeSand@reddit

One of my 60 year old coworkers uses that phrase often. Like, daily. 😆

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NotslowNSX@reddit

I didn't like that one either, so I would say things were bomby to this that used it all the time. Drove them nuts and they would eyeroll. Best feeling ever.

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TheJessicator@reddit

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Yeah_Mr_Jesus@reddit

Aw I liked that one lol. Also I had a friend that, if something was really good would say thebomb.gov. Also also, we had another friend from England and we made him say thebomb.co.uk.

Stupid, but it made us laugh

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turtle613@reddit

I’m 39 and I use da bomb alllll the time but mostly in text because I think it’s funny.

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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

That's not very cash money of you

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greysonhackett@reddit

Or, to add a little fuel, the "bomb-diggity." My wife uses this term. I love her despite her use of this awful, awful phrase.

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randomsnowflake@reddit

I had to scroll way too far to find this one.

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Sk8rToon@reddit

So glad that felt weird to me & I never got in the habit of it. One classmate on mine had a hell of a time flying home for the holidays after 9/11 when using slang.

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hail_to_the_beef@reddit

“Fetch”… as in “hey Gretchen, that’s so fetch”

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ReasonableRevenue678@reddit

Talk to the hand

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rangeghost@reddit

I can't even read this without my head hearing it in a Southern Suburban Karen voice.

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strikeunder@reddit

Talk to the hayand ✋

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LatinBotPointTwo@reddit

I hear Arnold.

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Southern-Salary2573@reddit

Cuz the face ain’t listening…

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AmbientGravitas@reddit

“Talk to the Hand” by the Honeyz: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tbqFzAcdGCjG741KhHgRU

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Flux_My_Capacitor@reddit

“Cuz the wrist is pissed”…..?

No? Must have been a local thing? lol

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nitsua_saxet@reddit

I had a local thing too…

“Cuz yo mama’s a man”

I shared that once like everyone grew up with it and got stares back.

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

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flex674@reddit

Three snaps in a z

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Kelvin_Inman@reddit

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AshDawgBucket@reddit

Because the ears are no longer listening

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msb96b@reddit

Talk to the left, cuz you ain’t right.

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inkuspinkus@reddit

Cuz the face don't give a damn

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chargoggagog@reddit

Leave a message with the face!

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Ann_Amalie@reddit

Cause the mind don’t understand!

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54sharks40@reddit

Anything Pauly Shore said

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therealpopkiller@reddit

I re-watched the son-in-law at Thanksgiving last year and it is the most unbearable thing I’ve seen in a long time.

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TransportationOk657@reddit

The actress that played the mother was 46 when that movie came out. Just let that soak in a little bit! 🤯

But I agree. That movie does not hold up well. Even worse is Biodome. I tried watching it recently and had to turn it off about halfway through because it was so stupid.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

Cindy Pickett! Not only was she mom to Carla Gugino in Son in Law, but also Ferris Bueller, which was a full 7 years earlier

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cerialthriller@reddit

Cmon son in law is the second best Pauly shore movie. Carla Gugino, Tiffani Amber Theissen

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therealpopkiller@reddit

That’s like saying tiger is the second best animal to be eaten by, after shark

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FCRavens@reddit

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuudy

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slothbuddy@reddit

The weeesulll?

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djhankb@reddit

No weezing juice!

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drdidg@reddit

Encino man is a classic

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littlejerryseinfeld_@reddit

Weasel wear 👕

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CheapToe@reddit

Bud-dy.

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drewcandraw@reddit

Rustle up some grindage?

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cerialthriller@reddit

Mind your own business cruster

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Smurfblossom@reddit

Home skillet just always sounded really dumb. I was not sad when people stopped saying it.

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Dry-Imagination7793@reddit

The first time I ever heard that was in the movie “Juno” and I was so confused lol

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ShadowAnimus81@reddit

This was it for me too. Also, "home slice."

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graveybrains@reddit

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

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graveybrains@reddit

https://i.redd.it/agy999ijipud1.gif

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JeremyJaLa@reddit

Home slice/home cheese still kinda make me laugh

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siiilenttbob@reddit

Home ...CHEESE???

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kayesskayen@reddit

I'm literally crying I'm laughing so hard 😂

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52nd_and_Broadway@reddit

I only ever used home slice ironically. If someone did something stupid, “Good job, home slice” because I thought it was a stupid term at the time.

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jblittle254@reddit

I call my son home slice, but definitely in a goofy, dad joke type of way. It wasn't a term I used at all when I was younger.

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Beespray9_8_9@reddit

Oh…… people stopped… noted.

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whitneymak@reddit

Ikr? I'm over here like...

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Beespray9_8_9@reddit

You good home skillet

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whitneymak@reddit

Thanks home slice.

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0mni0wl@reddit

Home skillet ... IKR?! Like, do you have an away from home skillet too?

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Rendakor@reddit

I've never heard this one, though I have heard home slice.

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nemonimity@reddit

I loved home skillet and home slice but I am admittedly a giant dork and was not at all cool. Lol

In living color was great for picking up new cringy slang like this too. As a young nerdy white kid, the late 80's early/mid 90s we're a smorgasbord of poor word choices and fashion

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StaceyPfan@reddit

The only time I ever heard that was in Juno.

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HamOnTheCob@reddit

The shit that caught on from Rob Schneider’s recurring office guy skit on SNL.

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EcstaticEvening8683@reddit

“Doggo”

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Next362@reddit

I'm just happy 'Bet' is making a comeback. who'da thunk it. I always hated "dude" but that isn't specific to the era, but in my area and group of friends it was pretty insulting to talk about 'dude' cause you didn't know or care to know dude's name, just some dude, fuckem. Also side note, I love that my son who's 8 says 'Broski' without me having to introduce him to that now I am working on expanding his brocabulary with Brovenor/Brov and Bru being far better than just saying "bro" which is boring AF.

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pseudosleep@reddit

Eat your heart out

None of your beeswax

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Krymestone@reddit

“Sike!”

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

It's how I could tell who the morons were... I'd ask them to spell it. But I loathed the misspelling.

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Druidicflow@reddit

Isn’t it “psych”, though?

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MrAndrewJ@reddit

This was mine. The word is "psych," as in psych-out. It is a psychological trick played on a target -- probably you.

Any other spelling leaves me quietly seething at the person who wrote it.

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Carrie_D_Watermelon@reddit

Yikes take a chill pill dude

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leffertsave@reddit

I was almost 30 before someone told me it wasn’t “sike”. I never saw it written down!

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No-Independence548@reddit

Yes! It was our "psych!" first! And it made sense, because it was a mind-trick. "Sike" is not a real word!

I taught middle school and this drove me nuts.

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cmgww@reddit

Kids still do this. My sons are all in elementary school and “psych!” is still a thing….as is “jinx double jinx you owe me a Coke” or some variant

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Def a GenX thing

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Particular-Guava1647@reddit

The Bomb and Bling

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ClimbingAimlessly@reddit

Bling bling 🤣

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i_nobes_what_i_nobes@reddit

“No homo”

That one always bothered me. Especially when my guy friends would say it while showing each other love or care.

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exedore6@reddit

I never enjoyed that one, though I appreciate being able to say 'no hobo' when discussing my love of beans and trains.

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i_nobes_what_i_nobes@reddit

One, no hobo is great! And really only for trains. & beans indeed

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Mermaid28@reddit

Thoughts on it being replaced with "no diddy" with today's generation?

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i_nobes_what_i_nobes@reddit

Eeewww is that a thing? Yikes.

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bandpractice@reddit

Da bomb Cool beans

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ThingsOfThatNaychah@reddit

"You go, [noun]!"

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Grand-basis@reddit

Not sure if its a generation thing but I hate it when people say 'take a chill pill' absolutely detest that use of word's.

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ThingsOfThatNaychah@reddit

My dad was a high school principal. Once, when a student told him to take a chill pill, he responded with a deadpan "I don't take drugs."

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Grand-basis@reddit

Haha! What an incredible straight-faced response! I'd like to go for a pint with your Dad.

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pixelpheasant@reddit

"words". It's plural.

... the apostrophe on plural s drives me battier than any of the terrible slang here, or even, skibbidi toilet (I'm certain I butchered the spelling on "skippity").

😬🙃

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Grand-basis@reddit

Well spotted! I'm writgn (deliberate) this whilst under extreme pressure in work. Little things like this piss me off too. I must apologise, sorry.

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pixelpheasant@reddit

I couldn't help myself, here, on a vent about language hang-ups, lol.

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Grand-basis@reddit

That's okay & and it's fully appreciated. The proper usage of language should be adhered to, especially nowadays with new word's being added to the English dictionary such as lol...ha ha!

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pixelpheasant@reddit

Hahahaha

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Grand-basis@reddit

🤭😂😂

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terrapinone@reddit

It’s a nice way of saying chill the fuck out. ;)

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Grand-basis@reddit

I'm aware of that but it still grinds my gears.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Def an X'er saying.

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terrapinone@reddit

Xennials just say chill. Same concept.

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Grand-basis@reddit

Okay...sorry, hope I didn't offend you?

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

The fact that you think that that would have offended a GenXer definitely shows the difference between our generational split lol

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Grand-basis@reddit

I have no idea what you are on about, I was being sarcastic but take it as you wish 'lmfao'

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Bro, when someone sarcastically says 'I hope I didn't offend you.' Then somebody responds sarcastically, it would take a lot more than that to offend me lol. Smh

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Grand-basis@reddit

Sorry bro I hope you lol 4eva

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

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Grand-basis@reddit

Grow up man, you sound like a teenager.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Dude. Take a chill-pill!

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BIGepidural@reddit

NGL i loved this little interaction between you guys 🤣

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Lol me too. ☺️👍

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Grand-basis@reddit

I didn't, it made me 'hangry'...which is a term I also detest 🤬

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Grand-basis@reddit

Hahaha! Well said doood!

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

Yeah. Surfer culture was big on that too, I think.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Chill bro was how we spoke. Take a chill pill was an early 80s valley girl thing

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

That's right. I had put down Valley Girl but changed it to surfer. I guess that's one good thing about getting older, I'm starting to to forget the valley girls. Well, until the Frank Zappa song comes on. LOL! Growing up near the valley was rough.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Lol. That's awesome!! I remember when Valley Girl came out and everyone started talking like them.

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New-Purchase1818@reddit

The one that always made me cringe was “chillax.” 🤢

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Grand-basis@reddit

Oh yeah! I forgot about that phrase, to be honest I deleted it from my brain & made it not exist. I'm with you, when people say it & have that smug, self appreciative look on their 'holier than though' (which is also really cringe worthy) face. I bow my head in shame on what us humans have become.

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Earthworm_Ed@reddit

As an obese lad, phat was a tough one, because were they talking about me or were they expressing admiration of something. Very confusing time for sure

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BoomersArentFrom1980@reddit

Anyone remember mad? As in "that shit's mad good." One summer everyone was using it. Next summer I think it was gone again. Wasn't a fan.

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darkgothamite@reddit

I used "mad stupid" recently out of frustration and my sister went "oh you mad mad" - both of us burst out laughing. And now your comment got me once more lol

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

I think it got replaced by Wicked. That's wicked sweet!

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BoomersArentFrom1980@reddit

I distinctly remember it replacing wicked. In fact, I think one of the mad folk mocked me for still using wicked.

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

You're probably right. I don't think I had enough coffee this morning as I even got chill pill wrong earlier. I think I still use them both. Like "He's got mad skills yo!" and "That's wicked sweet!" I'm usually let to the pop culture party anyways, being a nerd growing up, so I very well could have heard them in reverse order too.

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Midnight_Marshmallo@reddit

I have a 46yo cousin who still says "mad," in damn near every sentence. But I'm still over here saying "dude" and "awesome" all the time, so who am I to judge? 🤣

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

I literally don’t even know what to say besides those two words. 😭😂

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

I use rad a lot. It came back big in the roller derby/skating communities of the 00s-10s.

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BalkiBartokomoose86@reddit

Same. I say those two words far too often.

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st_malachy@reddit

Ditto

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

Also slang I’ve never liked. 😂

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PhysicsInteresting77@reddit

I remember when dude was taking off I was horrified by it. And somehow it ended up in my own vocabulary so much I can’t even find a word to replace it. Like dude, what the hell!?

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LanguageNo495@reddit

Current dislike: adding “over here” in describing what you’re doing. It doesn’t add any information and is just annoying.

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

I still using it, but very ironically.

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PutNameHere123@reddit

I still know people who say it lol

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SparkDBowles@reddit

That’s a NY thing.

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toooldforthisshittt@reddit

I definitely heard it a lot in hip-hop and movies, probably Kids and Half baked.

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denim_skirt@reddit

Dated a boy from Long Island briefly in 1994 and I remember him explaining it to me using the phrase "yo, there's mad trains out here tonight." I barely remember anything but somehow that phrase stuck lol

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HolyBovineJr@reddit

I read that in Tracy Morgan’s voice.

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addiepie2@reddit

That’s mad dumb

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addiepie2@reddit

Or wicked dumb

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darkgothamite@reddit

Admittedly petty but I can't with alot of the slang that describes gfs/bfs and relationships like boo / bae. Side piece, fuckboy, etc

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Notchersfireroad@reddit

Hella. Took my friends not from NorCal 2 years to beat it out of me when I left NorCal. My NorCal friends still say it and it's like nails on a chalkboard. I understand why they were so militant on me about it

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Slow_Ad3662@reddit

I never said this when it was cool, so I'm trying to bring it back all on my own!

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MoonlitBlossoms@reddit

Ugh! I hate hella! Hella this, hella that.. I’m also from NorCal, it was everywhere!

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Substantial_Leg6852@reddit

I moved to NorCal from Eastern Canada and 'hella' is now part of my vocabulary.

I was surprised to hear someone from British Columbia say it one day. I guess it moved up the West Coast?

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Outlaw11bINF@reddit

Same and for a while of I talked to someone back home it would take a few days for me to purge hella from my vocabulary

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Kellysi83@reddit

This is really funny

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burf@reddit

Hey man that’s hella beans

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sandglider@reddit

The last mayor of Oakland's campaign slogan was "Libby Schaaf, it's hella time." It's still everywhere in the Bay Area and it hurts to hear it

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ActualAdvice@reddit

STOP SAYING HELLA CARTMAN!

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addiepie2@reddit

U can never get me to stop saying Hella … I say it to this day ! 🥴

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Grundle95@reddit

I have always hated hella (or its milder but somehow worse variant “hecka”) even before moving to the Bay Area. Time here has not made me like it any more.

However due to being an Achewood fan since the late aughts, I will allow myself to use “hell of”.

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Bella_LaGhostly@reddit

I'm from Seattle & we also say "hella". 😆

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jason544770@reddit

It's making a comeback!! All the kids are saying it now

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Funk_JunkE@reddit

I don’t get the hate for “hella”, of course I am from the east bay though……

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No-Salt4637@reddit

That one never made not to where I lived in the Mid Atlantic. I was surprised when I found out South Park didn’t invent it.

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Remarkable-Path-6216@reddit

It took me a while to deprogram my vocabulary from hella when I moved from Nor Cal to So Cal. And I agree, it just sounds weird now!

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OrganicAverage1@reddit

Same. Left San Francisco for nyc in 1998 and was teased mercilessly until I stopped saying “hella”

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chrisischemical@reddit

From LA. Most of my family live up in the East Bay of the Bay Area. I can't stand "hella."

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Notchersfireroad@reddit

How many people from the Bay does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Hella.

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chrisischemical@reddit

Were you around the Bay Area when "sucka free" or "sucka free SF" became a thing?" I like the Bay Area, but I felt like the people from the Bay were just trying too hard. Maybe it's just me and my SoCal cultural bias? Lol

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Rodeoqueenyyc@reddit

It’s the ultimate NorCal slang though! And in middle school, the junior version was “hecka” lolol.

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BrockLV@reddit

I'm from the West Coast and my best friend in middle school moved out west from New York City and "hella" would drive him crazy. He was like "hella what? Hella....copter?"

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TheDevil-YouKnow@reddit

Tight. Fucking hated tight. Heard it when I was like, 7, one of my idiot friends saw some car & said that it was tight.

How TF can a car be anything but tight? It's metal, plastic, all form fitting. If the car is loose then the car is in a fucking scrap yard. Damned the entire word for me, from then on.

The only time tight made sense is when Tuco Salamanca railed off 3 of them after he snorted a fat bump of pure meth. THAT situation, tight applied.

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G1rvo@reddit

Winner winner chicken dinner 🤬

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Coakis@reddit

I'm going to go out and say that I think the phrase predates GenX, but maybe gained more popularity in our time.

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rickmccombs@reddit

I don't think I heard that until I started watching EEVblog on YouTube. Bob's your uncle.

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G1rvo@reddit

I realised I hated it officially when Tyrone said it on coronation St.

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Myrtle_Snow_@reddit

“All that” and even worse “all that and a bag of chips” so dumb.

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Bright_Lynx_7662@reddit

My eleven year old thinks the expression is “all that and a bag of shit.” I have not corrected her.

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Coakis@reddit

Mans raising one of the good ones. Keep on with that.

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New-Purchase1818@reddit

She fixed it!

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xscumfucx@reddit

Happy Cake Day!

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Zestyclose_Week_1885@reddit

That's a good kid you got

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IAmAWretchedSinner@reddit

Enhances it, really.

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sweetnsassy924@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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AlilAwesome81@reddit

Thats the only way it should be said

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Myrtle_Snow_@reddit

That’s a dramatic improvement on the real phrase 😂

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cmgww@reddit

Awesome sauce. And cool beans

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PrfctlyImprfct79@reddit

I was coming on here to say cool beans. I’ve always hated that saying.

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Twarkz@reddit

I still say cool beans lol

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SilverSnapDragon@reddit

I still catch myself saying “awesome sauce” and I don’t know why.

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JesusChristDisagrees@reddit

Fuck cool beans

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Beliliou74@reddit

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cmgww@reddit

That was the only time it was funny

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NotslowNSX@reddit

This guy made me permanently stop laughing. Say something unfunny 40 times in a row, it become funny. No it's 40 times less funny.

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Swimming-Food-9024@reddit

literally the only acceptable instance…

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NotslowNSX@reddit

You just won!

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fingerblastfarva@reddit

That would be a weird sensation.

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jaymzx0@reddit

Something like what it's like to chew 5 Gum, I imagine.

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OnoALT@reddit

Great ref

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burf@reddit

You can pry cool beans from my cold dead hands

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arcanebrain@reddit

Supercool beans

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Julie_Anne_@reddit

Samies

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Choice_Student4910@reddit

Amazeballs

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

I am guilty of using this. I’ve hung onto a lot of 20-30 something slang from the last 15 years.

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PadKrapowKhaiDao@reddit

Gah. These two plus “rocks my socks” make me want to punch someone.

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Tooch10@reddit

Cool beans is the only one that really grates on me today, because at this point it's like 50 year olds using it. Fortunately I don't hear it often

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OnoALT@reddit

Sounds crescent fresh to me

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Tooch10@reddit

I don't recall ever hearing that

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Grundle95@reddit

It sucked back when those 50 year olds were 20somethings and it still sucks today

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Rhianna83@reddit

Cool beans never sounded cool. That is top 3 for me.

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toooldforthisshittt@reddit

I don't claim those. I wish everyone had their year listed for reference.

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MadcatFK1017@reddit

Kewl beens

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Food_gasser@reddit

Oh no! I still say cool beans. What should I say instead?

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nugsy_mcb@reddit

Kewl beanz

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CreamyHampers@reddit

Say what you want to say. Don't let other people take away your joy.

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Ok_Celery_7615@reddit

Folks in my office still say cool beans and it drives me nuts

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Webhead24-7@reddit

HATED cool beans.

Only time I head awesome sauce was this girl I was dating would call my swimmers awesome sauce. At the time, it was pretty hot. She loved it lol.

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asoftflash@reddit

Both of these are the worst and I judge people so hard when they use them.

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comb0bulator@reddit

I still say both of these regularly.

Cool beans I picked up from my aunt who still says it. It was a very popular thing when she was in high school in the 70s/80s era.

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UnwillingHummingbird@reddit

I had never heard "cool beans" until I had a youngish teacher my senior year of high school who said it all the time. I didn't even realize it was actual slang, I just thought it was some weird thing he made up.

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

I still use both of them. Shit.

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jinsaku@reddit

Fuck. I still say both of these.

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lo0OO0ol@reddit

Kewl

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Whatchab@reddit

Like beans with sunglasses on?

LOL IYKYK

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SlackerDS5@reddit

Yeah, and people still use it and it’s like nails on a chalkboard.

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wayoverpaid@reddit

That one never bothered me, but I can see that it bothered a lot of people, so for your sake I'm glad it didn't stick.

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Sandwich_Barbie@reddit

Perfection. Came here looking for cool beans.

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Nugatorysurplusage@reddit

Goddamned.

Perfect answer.

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cheeker_sutherland@reddit

Nailed it. I couldn’t/can’t stand these ones.

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Carrie_D_Watermelon@reddit

Just the casual referring of women as "bitches"

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shoesontoes@reddit

Doy

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randomsnowflake@reddit

It’s been immortalized in Emperors New Groove.

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Carrie_D_Watermelon@reddit

And Community 😅

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

I blame Helga. 😭😂 But, I stopped, because my mom started saying it. lmfao

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hideNseekKatt@reddit

I haven't thought of this word for SO long. My best friend growing up said doy all the time.

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seanymphcalypso@reddit

Love Dutch! And Ed O’Neill saying doy is the only permissible way to say it 😁

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awfulgrace@reddit

Only one in this post I’ve never heard of. What does it mean?

It makes me think of a stand up pouch.

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FAHQRudy@reddit

It’s a synonym for “No duh.”

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Furballprotector@reddit

Oh I forgotten about that one lol

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VioletVenable@reddit

Complete with the hand gesture.

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Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit

https://i.redd.it/dbrqooitejud1.gif

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Extreme-King@reddit

Awesome-sauce

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seuce@reddit

“Ghetto.” I grew up in a very white and racist rural place, and when I went to college, I learned that other people said something was “ghetto” - where I grew up, you just said it was “black.” My naive 18yo self was like, oh that’s so much better and less racist!

Yeah, no. Got that figured out soon.

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exedore6@reddit

When replacing ghetto as I learned it, I got to discover the word ersatz, which is often the meaning I was rewatching for.

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RelevantFilm2110@reddit

Yeah, I always hated that. Unfortunately, a lot of the slang people don't like in this post are simply then-current AAVE slang examples that went more mainstream.

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Southern-Salary2573@reddit

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botmanmd@reddit

I loved that. The commercials, that is. Like any commercial that caught on, it wore out its welcome pretty quickly once everyone was doing it.

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Southern-Salary2573@reddit

The frogs were funny for the first commercial. Every adolescent boy screaming it down your face with their tongue out…wildly obnoxious.

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AnarKitty-Esq@reddit

What was dope retarded. But I loved the weird al song

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JDeedee21@reddit

All the boys in my high school said “my bad” over everything they did . It was so toxic it was like an excuse to be an asshole . I don’t think I ever heard a girl say it .

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hereticjones@reddit

Tight, and it's inbred nehpew-son, "Toight."

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NotslowNSX@reddit

The people that used tight, used it a lot, like they had such a short vocabulary it became the filter word for the other few hundred missing words.

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godjustice@reddit

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This is the scene I think of when I hear the word tight now.

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

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godjustice@reddit

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Whenever I hear tight now. This scene is all I think of.

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alwaysoffended88@reddit

“Cool beans” I always hated when someone said that. It’s so cringe…

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izakozaviruhxa@reddit

"NOT!"

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Lancerevo012@reddit

The alternative to sick = ill. No thanks.

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MCpoopcicle@reddit

Beastie Boys would disagree.

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dirtbird_h@reddit

It’s okay they have a license

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Ash12783@reddit

Cool beans

Boo-Yah

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MethuselahsGrandpa@reddit

Don’t scroll too far into this thread or you will likely start to feel personally attacked

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FocusedIntention@reddit

I’m already too far down the thread and memory lane.

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namtok_muu@reddit

This thread has honestly left us nothing. Can we not slang anymore?

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MethuselahsGrandpa@reddit

Seriously. I think the only ones left are “cool” and “awesome”.

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

Doy!

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NoManufacturer328@reddit

gag me with a spoon

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arcanebrain@reddit

I only think of "Heathers" when I hear this one

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arcanebrain@reddit

Lookin through this thread as someone who enjoys talkin like a complete goofball, realizing I still say a lot of these *

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ZealousidealGroup608@reddit

“you're tripping” or “I'm tripping”

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pak9rabid@reddit

kewl

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jane7seven@reddit

My friend still types it this way in her texts and it makes me smile

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Mav3r1ck77@reddit

The everything was " Gay". Not our finest slang.

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ElleAnn42@reddit

Duh. It was generally used in a really disrespectful way.

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Link-Glittering@reddit

Bitches for women.

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Divided_Ranger@reddit

Oh snap we gotta dip yo

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Divided_Ranger@reddit

Oh snap!

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Spurlock14@reddit

I thought Phat was pretty stupid.

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phatmaniac57@reddit

Oh, errrm, ok.

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VelocityGrrl39@reddit

Nah, you’re cool.

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phatmaniac57@reddit

Phew

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OnoALT@reddit

Just take it

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

I had a friend who would say, "dat's not phat at all" when something would go wrong.

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Even_Evidence2087@reddit

Talk to the hand

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MoxNix6@reddit

I love "Money for Nothing" but there is a line I just hate.

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Danny_ODevin@reddit

Chillax. "Chill" and "relax" mean the same thing, so people are just trying too hard with a cringy blend of the two.

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ActivelyLostInTarget@reddit

And everyone who said chillax also was compelled to say ginormous.

Terrible

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xscumfucx@reddit

I have been called out.

I care not + I shall continue to chillax on my ginormous couch!

The couch isn't really that big... I just can't think of anything else I have that would be considered "ginormous" that I could chillax upon. I have a lot of bones. I guess maybe I could make a ginormous pile of bones upon which I could chillax. I don't have that much motivation, though.

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CoastalKid_84@reddit

Baby up in this bitch.

Just. Gross

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cmajka8@reddit

Psyche!

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Parisian_Nightsuit@reddit

I really hated around 2001 or so when extra “iz” was incorporated into both existing and made up words. Shiznit, biznitch/biznatch, for rizzle, etc. Glad that didn’t stick around.

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cmajka8@reddit

Ah, you must love the joke “why does Snoop Dogg need an umbrella?”….“Fo drizzle my nizzle”

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RealisticSorbet@reddit

fo shizzle

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beaverhole69@reddit

This post has a stench of boomer, I thought xennials didn’t care about anything.

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Xdaz1019@reddit

Phat

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ItsSillySeason@reddit

Wazzzuuuup?!

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thisbitbytes@reddit

I still use a few of these, fight me.

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CookieTX2022@reddit

Me too. Honestly didn’t realize “my bad” was slang lol. I also say cool beans more often than I should admit. The only time I find it noticeable is if used in a work or professional setting.

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BIGepidural@reddit

Same 🤣

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epidemicsaints@reddit

brain fart

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FeralRubberDuckie@reddit

But I get them more frequently now that I’m middle aged!

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miloby4@reddit

Never letting that one go, and “cool beans.”

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UnwillingHummingbird@reddit

I remember a brief period of time when everything was "off the hook". Right after graduating from high school I got a job at 7 11 and I had to attend a training session, and there was an annoying woman there for whom absolutely everything was "off the hook". She literally shoehorned it into every sentence she said. After that session was over, I never wanted to hear nor say that phrase ever again. I had reached my quota.

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howaboutwow@reddit

Of the chain is much better

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No-Routine-3328@reddit

Cool beans.

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photophunk@reddit

Using the word "gay" instead of stupid.

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Ok-Bookkeeper-3149@reddit

Cindy Crawford was phat.

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proudmaryjane@reddit

Cool beans always made me cringe

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Stormy261@reddit

Yo!

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Hiciao@reddit

Does LOL count? I know it's typing slang not talking slang but I hate it and wish it would die. I can't help but read it as loll not l-o-l which sounds so dumb to me. I will never ever use it. If I actually laugh out loud, I will explicitly say so.

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BeesKnee117@reddit

OH MY GOODNESS- am so so happy to see am not the only one.

YES!!! Good grief, “lol” even “lmao” need to die & be permanently wiped away from everyone’s thumbs.

Irks me to no end, looks cheap & 🤮

Thank you for mentioning this

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Hiciao@reddit

Glad someone else agrees! It's so lazy. Like, I know you're not actually laughing out loud at this.

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rialucia@reddit

Calling things “gay”. For example, “This math homework is gay.”

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Feline_Fine3@reddit

Da bomb

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Zakernet@reddit

It's all good. No it's not.

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Inosethatguy@reddit

Lmao these responses

I still use almost all of them, in a sarcastic manner, love this sub so much 😂

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OnoALT@reddit

It’s all of them. All slang is stupid. At least calling something “cool” references Miles Davis.

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FatGuyFitness82@reddit

“Dawg”

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NeuroPlastick@reddit

Referring to weed as "pot".

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Embarrassed-Pepper-5@reddit

My bad

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greysonhackett@reddit

Like, I use it a lot, but like, it can be, like, overdone, too. So, like, maybe, don't, like, use it so much, like, ya know?

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pamminy_wassle@reddit

Sike. It just means you were more than likely being a douche.

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BeesKnee117@reddit

I will actually be a douche… it’s “psych”

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DabbledInPacificm@reddit

I always thought calling stuff “retarded” was pretty lame.

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IceManYurt@reddit

'woot'

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RealisticSorbet@reddit

on the same line, "1337". Most people I know never said it seriously, but god help me how many people in AOL chatrooms had it in their usernames. that or the straight edge X's

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MelancholyDaisy@reddit

That’s w00T, actually. Started at the peak of the internet age.

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DrMcJedi@reddit

w3wt

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IceManYurt@reddit

Yeet that shit outta here

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pixelpheasant@reddit

\/\/00+ \/\/00+

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LittleWhiteBoots@reddit

I wish I could upvote this more than once

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

Wooty Woot! I say that when I scored a Bag o Crap on Woot dot com, back before amazon bought them.

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Haunting_Play5345@reddit

“Aight” I think that’s how it’s spelled.. oh my, I remember freshman year and I’d ask the guys how they were and they’d answer “aight”. Ugh..as a teenager I thought it wa so annoying hahah!! ….at least we don’t have brain rot “skibidi toilet” as slang!

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Marmar79@reddit

Yo guy still

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BreakfastBeerz@reddit

"Alrighty then"

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Ashayla@reddit

Blame Ace Ventura for sure

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BreakfastBeerz@reddit

The saying almost made me hate the movie despite it being a great movie.

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One_Consequence_4754@reddit

People saying everything was “Random”…I hated that crap.

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Illuminated_Lava316@reddit

I’m still alive, so the winner is “cringe”.

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somethingsoddhere@reddit

I hated cool beans

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bronzemat@reddit

I never said cool beans as part of my slang. Not many did, and I am 45.

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somethingsoddhere@reddit

It was all regional before the internet.

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skankhunt_191@reddit

I have some friends who still say this. I say “Luke warm legumes” instead.

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No-Championship-8677@reddit

Oh no … I still say cool beans a lot 😭

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Hiciao@reddit

I don't know if I say it, but I still like it. You keep doing you.

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Smurfblossom@reddit

Me too! Or its even cooler shorthand....... beans

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burf@reddit

I love the image of someone looking sincerely into their friend’s eyes and just saying “beans.” Maybe with a little head nod.

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HazelMableMyrtleMaud@reddit

My friends and I did this too! BEANS. 🫘

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No-Championship-8677@reddit

😂😂😂 I think I got back into saying it because my husband says it so I’m going to put all the blame on him

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Late-External3249@reddit

Same!

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TheFinalGirl84@reddit

Same. I never used it, but knew a few people who over used it.

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cerialthriller@reddit

I never heard anyone say “cool beans” seriously though it was always in a mocking tone

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WittsandGrit@reddit

Thats boomer slang

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StaceyPfan@reddit

More Xer

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WittsandGrit@reddit

Its boomer slang that got re introduced to our generation via Full House.

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redberyl@reddit

None because our slang was da bomb

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surrealpolitik@reddit

Chillax was pretty bad

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jessupjj@reddit

Cool/sucks. These are my main lexical categories for positive and negative. I /entirely/ blame Beavis and Butthead

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SanShadam@reddit

I remember a time in the late 1900s when a lot of us were pretty flagrant with certain homophobic slurs, I absolutely cringe and die inside when I think about how pervasive it was. Those words never truly lived in my heart and I've since grown to become what I hope will be judged to be an active ally, but man do I hate that particular commonplace part of 90s vernacular that I participated in.

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Bjorn_Blackmane@reddit

For real. People used that way too much

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badmrbones@reddit

"Fly girls." I cringe thinking of high school seniors preying upon "Freshmen Fly Girls."

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Key-Shift5076@reddit

Dope.

..it just SOUNDS stupid.

also Dopey was one of Snow White’s dwarves.

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Admirable_Teach5546@reddit

When kids go “like like like” a million times in a simple sentence !

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Funk_JunkE@reddit

Know what I’m saying…..

Some guys say this after every single damn sentence lol.

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blue_groove@reddit

Nomsayin

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aDuckk@reddit

Gnome sane

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sarahprib56@reddit

There is a specific episode of South Park where butters says this a lot. I think he is also a pimp. Might be from that exact time period.

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Echterspieler@reddit

Whazzaaaaaap. I hate that lol also I think this was more a Gen x thing but " bite me" it sounds so cringe when people say it today

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jeff_sharon@reddit

That beer commercial.

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fleurgirl123@reddit

I heard this post

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

LOL! It was in "My Boy" with Adam Sandler. Still made me laugh.

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RumpleDumple@reddit

"you get a hard one for that", said while using the palm of your hand to friction burn the back of someone's neck.

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DocBrutus@reddit

“Thats gay”

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Malicious_blu3@reddit

The bomb. Confused the hell out of me and didn’t make sense. It felt like a style thing that we’d look back on and cringe, like ‘groovy’.

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scrotanimus@reddit

Player.

I don’t know why. I think it stems from credit card slingers in college trying to lure me over, “hey player. Come sign up for a credit card!”

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Slowmaha@reddit

As if

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The_Best_Smart@reddit

“Adulting”

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StaceyPfan@reddit

That seems to be a Millennial thing

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ParsnipWonderful7070@reddit

What is it you imagine the “ennials” in “Xennials” stands for?

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BIGepidural@reddit

I take bratty little fuckwits for 500 Alex

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ParsnipWonderful7070@reddit

$500 Daily Double-

This is a direct way to tell someone to leave you alone, often emphasized with a vulgar gesture.

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BIGepidural@reddit

Lame...

Better luck next time

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ParsnipWonderful7070@reddit

Sorry, that’s incorrect

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jaymzx0@reddit

Seems to have taken off around 2013.

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ImaginaryMastadon@reddit

Yep, that is a newer development

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Few_Improvement_6357@reddit

Lol. I love it, and I think the Millennials did a great service in describing the drudgery of being an adult in a simple and easily understandable way.

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OrganicAverage1@reddit

Omg I hate it too! I thought I was the only one.

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Reenerp@reddit

This is a new word, not slang from our generation

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oldmacbookforever@reddit

THAT'S GAY

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MyKidsArentOnReddit@reddit

I liked it all.

NOT!

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Constant-Bridge3690@reddit

I don't know what is worse--an old person today using old slang or trying to use new slang? Was the party "off the chain", "lit", or "a lot of fun"?

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ewing666@reddit

peace out, esp as a verb, always irritated me

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Truck_Stop_Sushi@reddit

Anything ending with “apalooza” taken from Lollapalooza.

“It’s about to be beerapalooza up in here.”

Also, “up in here”

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randomsnowflake@reddit

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kjfkalsdfafjaklf@reddit

"the shit" so stupid and unnecessary

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Ontheglass76@reddit

“Ok, George” or “Whoa Nellie”, these came from extreme different parts of the country (FL and PA) but I always winced hearing them and never knew where they came from

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SonuvaGunderson@reddit

Dag.

My wife claims this was never slang but dag yo, it was fr, no cap. On god.

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lookatthecrow@reddit

This was very much a thing in 90s Baltimore.

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Son_of_Atreus@reddit

I always hated ‘sick’ as a complimentary term. It’s just so dumb.

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soswanky@reddit

Peeps. Ugh.

And phat. Despise it.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

Off topic here but where did you”banger” come from? Is that a UK thing? I have only seen that recently on Reddit that this song is “banger.”

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nofateeric@reddit

Started in skateboarding and BMX video parts. Pros put their craziest clip at the end of a video part called "the banger". It meant the best of what you had filmed at the time. "I still need to film my banger" or "that one's definitely the banger".

I think this leaked its way into mainstream society lexicon from there.

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CountingCastles@reddit

Banger in my social group used to mean overly aggressive males fueled by cheap beer and testosterone and usually in big trucks with balls hanging off the hitch and an assortment of stickers in the back window including Punisher, a confederate flag, Monster or Rockstar, and of course a pissing Calvin

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LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit

UK here. I feel like "banger" has been used to refer to good songs for a very long time, but I can't say when it started.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

Cool thanks

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2278AD@reddit

A banger in the UK is a sausage so prolly not

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MashedPotatoesDick@reddit

You go girl.

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Basic-Pair8908@reddit

I hate the term spagbol its smegging spagetti bolonaise

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No_Introduction2103@reddit

Clutch

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Alchemical-Audio@reddit

All that and a bag of chips…

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wb247@reddit

Slapping "-gate" on the end of any scandal.

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xTugboatWilliex@reddit

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findmenowca@reddit

All that and a bag of chips!

Like someone was a brown bag lunch!! 🤣

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Elegant_Development3@reddit

Are you master of your domain? Hated that stupid maturation joke.

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StNic54@reddit

“Late” instead of “Later”

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BoysenberryFluffy671@reddit

Wasn't "late" something from the next generation?

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

I do like "Peace Out"

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Krazylegz1485@reddit

I have a similar sentiment towards the now popular "hype" instead of "hyped". I don't fucking get it.

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whatthepinche@reddit

I'd ask this aswell...was "Joshin" a nationwide thing as well?!

For example, if you're joking around with someone and at the end would say "just joshin ya bro"

I don't think it lasted very long, and when I say it to people even close to my age, they look at me funny 😄

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PerpetuallyListening@reddit

It was in Minnesota for a while...it's making a comeback.

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After_Match_5165@reddit

I grew up one of maybe 30 white kids in a school of over 600, so when we temporarily moved to a predominantly white city, anytime I heard a suburban kid try to act tough using vernacular that originated in black communities, it would leave such a bad taste in my mouth. And it was 1994-97, so you know they felt pretty comfortable saying alllllll the words.

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nevadapirate@reddit

Pretty much all the Valley Girl slang.

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Slippery-Pete76@reddit

Word!

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LordMindParadox@reddit

To ya motha!

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WildZero138@reddit

This one actually makes sense though.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

I remember picking up on 'word' from the black kids at my grade school in the early 80s.

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

The bomb dot com

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SilverParty@reddit

Your ass is grass (sometimes the phrase “and I'm going to mow it” was added at the end)

Like what does this mean?

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Famous-Somewhere-@reddit

I wasn’t the most progressive teenager - so I’m not trying to be holier than thou - but even back then I hated how y’all kept using “gay” to mean “bad”. It felt like a continuous passive-aggressive attack on gay people.

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Nuttyshrink@reddit

I’m an old gay guy, and hearing that shit used to really piss me the fuck off.

But it was certainly preferable to getting physically assaulted for being gay.

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botmanmd@reddit

It took me forever to process what was wrong with it. I was always “I’m just saying it to mock my friends. I’d never say that to insult an actual person.”

It took hearing a Black man challenge a racist who was saying that ‘the n- word’ should be accessible for white people to use because “it’s not even associated with Black people anymore. It could be a White person. Anyone can be a “n-____. It just means someone who is ignorant.” The Black man said “What you’re saying is that anyone who is acting ignorant is acting like a Black person.” The light kind of clicked.

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Crunchthemoles@reddit

Conversely, people using ya’ll who are not from the South.

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NathanielJamesAdams@reddit

Hell no, I'm a Yankee transplant, but I totally rock y'all. The plural you is really useful for clarity.

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PhysicsInteresting77@reddit

In Ireland we use ‘ye’ and ‘yous’ for the plural you. I don’t know how people talk without one. I’d totally use y’all if I lived in America.

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sarahprib56@reddit

The rest of us say you guys. They might not be conscious of it, but they do. When I took Latin in college we even used it in the charts. I guess we could go back to thou.

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PhysicsInteresting77@reddit

Yeah you’re right. Hadn’t thought of that.

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NathanielJamesAdams@reddit

With out a plural you, there are occasional confused moments involving lots of hand gestures. "Not you (pointing), you (making circles)".

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Reenerp@reddit

My favorite use of y'all is all y'all. Icing on the cake is alla y'all 🥰

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Reenerp@reddit

Youse is used in the US. I've mostly heard it in the northeastern US. Parts of Pennsylvania have their own version. Yinz

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sarahprib56@reddit

I can't see myself ever using it. I'll stick with you guys and know in my heart it's not gendered. Like dude.

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Famous-Somewhere-@reddit

Eh, I’m from the south but that’s just gatekeeping. If anything y’all’s time has come. It’s gender neutral (unlike ‘you guys’) and it’s tense isn’t confusing (like ‘you’). It’s the perfect plural for the 21st Century.

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Reenerp@reddit

Y'all means all 💙

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Grease2310@reddit

Proud southern y’all enthusiast here and I agree. If anything I love that it’s spread so far that now we don’t seem uneducated saying it. Now, if only we could teach the world what the difference between iced tea and sweet tea is.

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StaceyPfan@reddit

Midwest y'all user

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badmammajamma521@reddit

Yeah even in the 90’s if I did use it I would always say, that’s gay and not in the good way. Like I know I didn’t want to be hating on gay people I just didn’t know what other word to use? Dumb I know. Then I found lame and never looked back. lol

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

In a similar vein, "retarded." I cringe every time I hear it and "gay" on a movie or show from back then.

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VioletVenable@reddit

And “ghetto.” (I used all three way too much. 🫤)

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No-Independence548@reddit

Same, it's so embarrassing. :(

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Coyotesamigo@reddit

When I was in college I’d get a tub of fresh salsa and an avocado and mash the latter into the former. I called it “ghetto guac.” Embarrassing to recall.

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HideYourWifeAndKids@reddit

Xers grew up saying this from as early as I can remember, 1978?

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mediumokra@reddit

I still say I feel gay to refer to feeling happy.

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Grease2310@reddit

Fred and Barney weren’t banging each other when they were having a gay ol’ time so I think you’re OK to use it that way being that it was the original meaning of the word. I think the main thing to shy away from is using it as a derogatory term.

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Real-Championship331@reddit

I had to have an argument with another 40 something friend over this within the last two years. I asked him nicely to please stop saying it in my presence - was not prepared for the amount of defensive pushback.

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heykidzimacomputer@reddit

My former manager who was in his early 50's would loudly say "That's gay" when something went wrong at a corporation that loves to rainbow wash itself every pride month and day. It wasn't worth addressing or reporting to HR because he had the department heads support who also heard it and did nothing, but I was glad when he finally left the company.

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Pale_You_6610@reddit

Kudos! 😠😡🤬

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Funk_JunkE@reddit

Remember kudos bars? I’m hungry

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PerpetuallyListening@reddit

Yes! I think of them whenever I hear that word.

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asoftflash@reddit

Hate this one so much.

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pak9rabid@reddit

Kudos Elaine for a job…done.

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q120@reddit

I don't mind kudos but I hate it when people think a singular instance of kudos is "kudo"

Like "I got a kudo from him". It's kudos even if a singular instance

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Guardian_Bravo@reddit

Down and phat. Though to be fair, I never actually heard anyone say it in real life.

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Nuttyshrink@reddit

I hated “phat”. I was a raver in the mid-to-late 90’s and everyone in “the scene” 🤮 said it. I always wanted to kick people when they said it.

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Responsible_Boot6303@reddit

That’s dope!

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jesusmansuperpowers@reddit

Phat.

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AxeMasterGee@reddit

Gi-normous bugged me.

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taylortherebel@reddit

"Shut the front door."

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Sk8rToon@reddit

Cheese & crackers! (Instead of Jesus Christ)

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Amnagrike@reddit

I combine it with STFU and say "Shut the fuck door" for a lil inner giggle.

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jimmick20@reddit

Like. As in "Like, what are you doing today?"

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AverageHeathen@reddit

Wazzaaaaap 🤪

Grody

Chode

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

"That's dope."

Okay Jessica. You are wearing an Elmo backpack and skater shoes that are way too big and you don't even skate. You don't get to go around saying "dope" with your stink ass Flaming Hot Cheeto breath.

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Aromatic-Source-2646@reddit

Dank. Matt: "I got some dank weed!" Me: let's smoke that dank weed after school "

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Pfunk4444@reddit

I cringe when someone says “chillaxing”

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ilikemycoffeealatte@reddit

Yeah "chillax" was my immediate response

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Dees_A_Bird_@reddit

Cool beans. I don’t know why but I’ve always hated it

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FuzzyOne5244@reddit

Dope!! Nope…

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TTIGRAASlime@reddit

This was more of a gen-x thing but do any of you remember when people said "talk to the hand"?

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Visual-Zucchini-5544@reddit

Square’s. All different versions of it

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

It’s the bomb. I f’ing hated that

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bigthemat@reddit

Hella. Or worse the kids that didn’t swear and would say hecka

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MsTruCrime@reddit

Where I’m from, Hecka is reserved for edgy Mormons.

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bigthemat@reddit

Where do you think I first heard it? Lol

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Coyotesamigo@reddit

Hella is sacred. They will never take hella from me. Northern Californians unite!

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LordPizzaParty@reddit

I'm not from Northern California but I've been saying it for about the last 10 years. It's a useful word! And perfectly cromulent.

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hereticjones@reddit

I picked up hella from my wife, San Mateo represent, and now it's just part of our lexicon.

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Baconoid_@reddit

Heckin' is such an improvement

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WolverineFun6472@reddit

Everyone said this when I went to school in SF. I never heard it before;

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Reenerp@reddit

I think hecka is cute lol

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knittin@reddit

Shitshow/Shitstorm. The latter always conjured up visions of diarrhea hurricanes for me.

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WeOddAbabyEatsAboi@reddit

Northern Baltimore Co, MD;

“That’s BEAT, yo.” or “That shit’s BEAT.”

“Bang ‘em, bang em in his face!”

“I’m gonna smoke a fugg.”

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

Fleek.

I mean, fetch already existed.

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Kellysi83@reddit

Yeah, but fleek is like 2010s. This is not a thing from our youth at all.

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

Okay, boomer.

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Kellysi83@reddit

Ironically you’d say “okay, boomer,” another slang phrase not from our generation. See your way to the Gen Z sub.

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

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Kellysi83@reddit

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Natural_Ad_1717@reddit

The other day, I was telling my wife we need to bring fetch back

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slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit (OP)

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Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit

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Fortunatious@reddit

Pussy. Because they’re way tougher than balls.

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lookatthisface@reddit

“My peeps”

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FAHQRudy@reddit

Hella

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Kellysi83@reddit

It’s all cheddar. Just awful.

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busa89@reddit

Home skillet or home slice haha.

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LiminaLGuLL@reddit

I hated all of them tbh, can't of a slang that I like.

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albertkoholic@reddit

It hated when every guy was referring to every other guy as “bro” or even worse “brah”. I’m so glad that’s gone

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Parisian_Nightsuit@reddit

Yeah but now I hear “bruh” a lot, which just hits my ear wrong. Like the word just kinda falls out of the mouth of whoever is saying it. Made even worse with the new Eminem song where it’s part of the chorus. I hate “bruh” so much.

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BIGepidural@reddit

Its not gone 😂 little Zs and alphas are all about the Brah thing right now 🤣

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jreashville@reddit

The bomb meaning something good. That really confused me when my friend referred to an album we both liked as “the bomb” and I was like “I thought you liked it”. Lol.

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No_Stay4471@reddit

People saying “the bomb dot com” made me irrationally angry.

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

I say that ironically now

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denim_skirt@reddit

A friend said I recently and I was like 'holy shit what the fuck' and she was like 'I'm leaning into middle age' lol

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neanderthalman@reddit

Pretty sure it was used ironically back then too.

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

I tried to register that domain.

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RelevantFilm2110@reddit

That reminds of the very dated thing where people would make a statement in the form of a URL. The precursor of stating something # (whatever the statement is).

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bigthemat@reddit

I would add to that, like, “the bomb dot com slash super cool fun time slash all that and a bag of chips dot html”

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5hallowbutdeep@reddit

Better than "This shit is Fire" lol.

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wayoverpaid@reddit

And now I have the DDR song in my head.

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replicantcase@reddit

What's better than, "the bomb?" Ebola! "Girl, your shoes are ebola!"

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sfxer001@reddit

People who said pimp and rape all the time. Daniel Tosh idiots.

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Kellysi83@reddit

Scamming 🤦‍♀️. So cringe.

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aksnowraven@reddit

Like,

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BIGepidural@reddit

Like ya know whatever

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After_Preference_885@reddit

As a woman who graduated from a high school with "valley" in it's name, I like totally still say it like a lot, like way to much and it's super not awesome

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therobotscott@reddit

I hate most slang, but still use about 20% of the words like "cool" or "sweet" or occasionally I use slang flatly to kinda mock it.

I do remember when I got to hate slang and that was when that stupid song No Scrubs came out. It'spretty lame when you make up some slang and have to explain its meaning in the chorus to the world. At least I could inherently understand "tubular" as a 4 year old. Also around that same time I started hearing some kids use "Barney" to mean "Crazy". Obviously that didn't take.

My point is: don't force slang.

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BIGepidural@reddit

when that stupid song No Scrubs came out.

You mean that song that pissed off men so much that they made a counter song called "No Pigeons" in retaliation 🤣

That was fkn awesome 😂

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TrustAffectionate966@reddit

"Hella" and "hecka." Ugh. Just. No.

💀

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GMane2G@reddit

As long as no one says “tight” tight is tight

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TigerMcPherson@reddit

Cool beans, killing it, the bomb, pull the trigger...

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SmallRocks@reddit

The word “nut” always made me feel gross.

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Geekboxing@reddit

Well, "gay" was pretty bad, in the way I recall a lot of kids using it at the time, unfortunately.

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BigdongarlitsDaddy@reddit

Streets ahead.

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pixelpheasant@reddit

Psych & pimpin

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nefe375@reddit

“Oh, SNAP!” As in, “good come back”, "good point”, but I freely admit I still say this on occasion in the presence of other Xennenials.

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BIGepidural@reddit

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JusticeSaintClaire@reddit

Ok you guys this one week in 1994 my friend randomly started calling hot guys “diesel” and I still don’t know if it was particular to her or Westchester county NY but it was so upsetting

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LittleWhiteBoots@reddit

Calling people “dog”

Saying something is the Bomb.com

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nofateeric@reddit

Grody and weenis. Shut up.

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JusticeSaintClaire@reddit

I came here for Grody!

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alkaline2k2@reddit

We were way too comfortable saying gay in place of lame. I grew up in the exburbs where there was absolutely no gay representation in our lives or on tv. Gay people were like an urban legend that might exist in the cities, but there was confirmation.

I remember when I came out my very well meaning friends had a lot of trouble adjusting from using gay as a pejorative. It was definitely a journey of realization that should have been a lot more obvious to us as smart, well meaning people.

I’m so glad that representation has come as far as it has.

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Dependent_Bill8632@reddit

NOT!!!!

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NaggerGuy@reddit

I stopped at Man, Cool, and Dude

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Rich-Abbreviations25@reddit

Using “stupid” to mean “extremely.” My ex uses the phrase “stupid simple” and I just haaate it

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LeadingEquivalent148@reddit

“Snaps” I think it was a good thing, like kudos or some shit, but confused and still confuses me.

(And what about the new one “that slaps” like wtf )

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Hyche862@reddit

I think this one was more with the younger crowd but I also hate it

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Shigglyboo@reddit

I never like “fine” for attractive. But for the most part I thought our slang was pretty cool. I can remember reading Disney adventures “slang patrol” that my friends younger siblings had. That’s where I first saw “all that and a bag of chips”. Nobody says that seriously do they? And 24/7. That one stuck.

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PrestigiousMention@reddit

calling tank tops "wige beaters"

like seriously what the fuck

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WhatRilesYouUpHarlem@reddit

Wazzuuuuupppp!!! And "That's what She said!"

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Ordinary_Awareness71@reddit

It did seem to be the D-Bags who were using "Girl, you're PHAT. Pretty Hot and Tempting!" Of course, they also got laid more than I did, so maybe they were on to something? Although Chris Tucker did it well in some movie.

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hemroidclown6969@reddit

Cool beans

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whatthepinche@reddit

"Cool beans"

I always hated that F'ing phrase!! LMFAO 😂

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swinging-in-the-rain@reddit

JK

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santoslhalperjr@reddit

Boo-ya!

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teachingclasshero@reddit

When something was "retarded". It makes me cringe whenever I hear it. Most of us are guilty of saying it... myself included.

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HermioneMarch@reddit

That’s gay.

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ezmoney98@reddit

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

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darthrio@reddit

You’re so money and you don’t even know it

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rangeghost@reddit

Was "whack" ever anything other than an experiment in making white guys sound like pathetic posers?

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j_dick@reddit

Plur

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biloxibluess@reddit

Psyche and Not

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corpsie666@reddit

"cringe"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

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5hallowbutdeep@reddit

Raise the Roof. beyond stupid imho

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seeyouinthecar79@reddit

Good on ya 🤢

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EntityMatanzas@reddit

Phat!!

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draculawater@reddit

In middle school I knew a guy who took “cool beans” and started saying “rule beans”. As in “that rules beans”. Come to think of it, saying something rules was kind of embarrassing too.

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Coyote_Roadrunna@reddit

When snarky gatekeepers called kids "poseurs" for wearing apparel of a popular sports team or band.

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Coakis@reddit

Does YOLO count?

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MrGreen17@reddit

I think that’s probably more millennial but i hate it so much

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instant-ramen-n00dle@reddit

Hella

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Silent_Syren@reddit

I love slang. I like watching the origin and how things change over time. That being said, I loathe when people say, "Thrown under the bus."

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Myrtle_Snow_@reddit

Can I ask why the dislike for that term? I use it sometimes, and I think it’s perfect for certain situations but I’m intrigued.

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Silent_Syren@reddit

What bus? Why a bus and not a car? Why are people getting thrown? There are so many other ways to say that someone betrayed you without involving vehicular manslaughter.

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Myrtle_Snow_@reddit

Valid criticisms. Thanks for explaining. I definitely have my words and phrases that I can’t stand so I get it.

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Reality TV drove this into the ground. I don't need to hear it ever again. They would say this 5 or 6 times on every episode of Project Runway.

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Silent_Syren@reddit

Rock of Love used it all the time. Which was ironic because Bret stayed on the bus during the show. So there was a literal bus.

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Legitimate-Produce-1@reddit

Idk if this is a Mid-Atlantic thing, but "who dat was?"

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blkdeath@reddit

Peeps

It was stupid then and it’s stupid now, especially since it’s late 30-early 40 something white women saying it

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SinnU2s@reddit

That’s tight.

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ImaginaryMastadon@reddit

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

God damn I hated this one! Glad it disappeared kind of quickly.

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cheeker_sutherland@reddit

Nah, tight is still good.

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Pard22@reddit

Not

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Furballprotector@reddit

The shit. The shit should never be a good thing

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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

Dis Hey don’t dis me!

Rip Hey don’t rip on me

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Royal-Pen3516@reddit

Phat. Always was so ridiculous

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bjgrem01@reddit

Bossa Nova.

... uh...

Chevy Nova?

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Ok_Egg_471@reddit

Talk to the hand. It drove me nuts!!

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MsCatMeow@reddit

Hella. It makes me cringe every time I hear it.

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Corvus-333@reddit

Dawg…just fucking nope

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Ethel_Marie@reddit

"S/he's gonna hit that!"

"I'd hit that!"

I legit thought guys were punching girls and I was concerned. Then there was that terrible online McDonald's ad about "hitting" a double cheeseburger that quickly disappeared after people started laughing at it and pointing out that's not the way to use the slang.

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No-Analysis2815@reddit

“Da bomb”

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b00ty_water@reddit

Fucking titties

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Money_Magnet24@reddit

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fallendukie@reddit

I always hated "not!" Like first time ok it is what it is a lityle silly but not Nything too much. Three weeks later just awful.

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ethan__l2@reddit

Pretty much any "cool guy" slang or lingo that was used for the sole purpose of demonstrating how cool you were. I couldn't believe my friends started acting like that around age 17 when just a couple years earlier we we're scoffing at how phony and ridiculous it was when people behaved that way.🤷

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Remarkable-Path-6216@reddit

Cool beans and NOT!

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datura_slurpy@reddit

Dawg -- to mean friend

"Straight" -- straight up, straight pimping, I'm straight

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