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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Heh, I use it everyday

"I wish I was happy..."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.

And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.

Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a John Mulaney joke about this

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot..

"Antidisestablishmentarianism"

(To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Cowabunga and tubular!

80s were a good time!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Gnarly, dude.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I say this almost daily lol

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.

rorted - being high

having a pash - intense kissing

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vituperative. It's such a good word too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, that's good. A new one for me!

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  vituperative
      adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
             remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
             railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.

Also garrolous is a good word.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Cyberspace!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big ~~truck~~ highway. It's a series of tubes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Discombobulate

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.

24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sozzled.

French for drunk.

Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bodacious

Tubular

Take a whiz

Majorly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cluster Fuck

Unfuckulate

I have a passion for the word "fuck" I need to get back to. I love the word "cunt" but thats too volatile so I had to retire that word.

Ass hat

Clown Shoes

Banana Head

Yeah most of my terms are personal attacks on morons I work with.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

bitchin wicked

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Mack

"Did you mack her?"

So dumb lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Flabbergasted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

...to your mother

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