The Picard ManeuverMake it stop.
FozzyOsbourneDon’t pretend you didn’t become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
PloppI don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.
That’s because to you it was just normal.
Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol
Track_ShovelYeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that.
not to mention the casual use of the hard R. even Linus from LTT admitted to have dropped his fair share of hard Rs back then.
ddittyYeah my friends and I unfortunately used it when we were in grade school and it was so commonplace. Then I didn’t use it for probably the last 17+ years, but now it seems like it’s making somewhat of a resurgence? I’m hearing it more often again which is totally inappropriate
Plus there was a lot of n*rcissist thrown around back then
Ok now THAT’S a weird one to censor.
Yeah unless that n is the n-word I don’t get the censoring.
I censored it because it’s a bad word. A slur against people with disabilities.
What’s the r-word?
“retarded”
Oh. I know it’s not a nice word but didn’t think it was bad enough to include on the same level as the n-word. Times do change I guess
It’s a weird one. “Retard” is a technical term, jargon. It became a perjorative term.
Unlike the n-word that was always a pejorative.
Companies 12 hours after June ends
“PRIIIIIDE 🏳️🌈”
next day
“So you fags wanna buy our products or what”
We had a couple weeks calling people “F.A.G.s’ and “M.A.G.s” for 'female ass grabber” and “male ass grabber”. As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.
danfags
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
Same in Britain. Damn homophobia ruining perfectly good slang!
What I remember from the 90/00s: sinch, hella, coolio, jam (going), spaz, poser, chillax, bitchin, burn, noob, booyah, aight, duh, phat, sup, stoked, jiggy, harsh, buzz kill
There’s a shitton more, but that’s what I got off the top of my head
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
He was streets ahead!
wavebeamIdk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
Don’t casually throw “spaz” in there with a load of inoffensive stuff!
You were learning slang along with everything else. At that age, it doesn’t stand out against everything else the same way it does when you’re older.
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
80s had a ton.