DL
Short for down low.
Never really hear it anymore.
Also
The bomb.
No one says that anymore.
And
Phat.
To refer to a thick gorgeous woman.
Phat.
That has morphed into thicc.
My parents considered it to be their greatest achievement that their kids say “cool” instead of “geil” (hot or sometimes horny).
The macdonians always used to say “Sick fish” and it meant “Really good”.
Dag, pash, mole, cobber, drongo.
Rarely hear any of them these days.
I didn’t learn until an embarrassingly late age that you shouldn’t say “jewed them down” or “I got gypped” when discussing prices, etc. Once it dawned on me what I was saying, I felt pretty mortified, but I grew up hearing them as normal words. It was just a thing you say.
Same with me. Didn’t even think of where it came from.
Fo sho, mostly because growing up made me realize I’m never really sho of anything no mo.
XD is pretty rare as an emoticon now.
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The ableist slur
[CW]
spastic
used to be very common where I live, but I haven’t heard anyone use it in years.
Limey detected. That’s a Bri’ish thing.
It’s used in the US.
Perhaps you would enjoy this article about the American brand of Spazz wheelchairs, which were poorly received in the UK. They’re still being sold under that name.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/oct/17/shopping.health
“Spastic” and even “spaz” is used in the US but isn’t considered an ablest slur here. My understanding is the British used it as a slur for cerebral palsy or parkinson’s disease patients, where in the US it simply means an uncoordinated jerky motion and/or clumsiness. Let’s not mince words, the United States of America is perfectly capable of generating slurs; but this one isn’t ours.
There’s no way to interpret it as anything other than an ableist slur. It simply isn’t a cause célèbre to complain about in the US.
The closest it came to being used as a slur in the US is to accuse someone of clumsiness. We never called people suffering from nervous system diseases “spastics.” Don’t put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.
Plenty of people aren’t aware that gyp comes from gypsy, but that doesn’t change the origin or meaning of the term.
“Spaz” as in to “spaz out” has always meant crazy or some variation on that where I grew up, though I haven’t heard it in ages. I suppose it is ableist, and I suppose we always meant it that way, I just never thought of a person with a disability when I said it. The flip side of that is, by so casually likening someone to a differently abled person in a prejudicial way, one demeans the differently abled person, even if they weren’t the target of the ire or the ridicule.
So we were definitely in the wrong for using it.
There was a British charity, The Spastic Society. They became fairly high profile in the early 80s being involved in children’s magazine shows for fund raising. Often children with conditions would be featured. The intent was that featuring them would make the condition more relatable, but kids saw them more freaks to be mocked.
It resulted in “spastic” / “spaz” becoming school playground taunts to the extent that the charity changed it’s name to avoid the term.
You’re a LEG-END. Legend pronounced leg end.
Most of the stuff that was said back when I was in school were slurs. Like nearly every spoken sentence contained at least one slur.
Fake and gay
This exchange reminds me of the last boondocks episode.
bae is the one that was really everywhere and then just fell off a cliff.
Boo.
I was so glad when that one got left behind.
“Roflmao” :(
Also: cool beans
Cool beans is in regular rotation. My daughter has also banned me from taking her to school.
Awe, i still use cool beans all the time.
Same. Sometimes ironically, sometimes actually.
bbm me
Tripendicular Be there or be square
