taiyang,

I still say cool beans.

z500,
@z500@lemmy.world avatar

That phrase is just objectively cool beans, though

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Same. I can’t stop. Pls help.

southsamurai,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

No, no, that doesn’t count. That’s a classic bit of slang, not some trendy wave.

taiyang,

It was when the Jumanji cartoon was a thing! I’m just old.

Peaty,

Cool beans comes from the 1960s or earlier.

taiyang,

They brought it back briefly in the 90s, though!

Peaty,

They did and I thought it was new back then but I was wrong.

It’s like “bet” in that I thought that was also newer when it came back until I watched Eddie Murphy hosting SNL for the first time and he used it in the monologue.

rbos,
@rbos@lemmy.ca avatar

Streets ahead, brah. The Brahm Meister.

RizzRustbolt,

Awesome possum.

CurlyMoustache,
@CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world avatar

Is this like the weird “criss cross apple sauce”?

Mordachai_Shedbacon,

and radical rice!

bastian_5,

I wish I had less self consciousness so my vocabulary consisted of more than fifteen words.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

I add words to my online vocabulary first, and when I’m comfortable slipping shit like bet and yeet and based into my comments I start slipping them into my real vocab

Zaphod,

frfr ong no cap bro

captainlezbian,

Anyway don’t start conversations with your wife with “ay girl”

peopleproblems,

ah yeah, I remember when my son was born, the resident told his mother her eyebrows were fleek

don’t say it to people about to undergo surgery, whatever the phrase is

bravesilvernest,

ope

tuxtey,

Now you must learn the Midwest goodbye and make us proud

PlantDadManGuy,

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

slaps thighsWELP

big_slap,

oh mylanta

southsamurai,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Just yeet that shit

johnthedoe,

Are we still saying on fleek?

ZoopZeZoop,

The kids aren’t. I can’t speak on behalf of all 30+ yo people.

veroxii,

No cap

BowtiesAreCool,

ijbol

Gabu,

What’s a rizz?

Peaty,

Charisma

BigT54,

The fuck is rizz?

Enzy,

Not jizz, for sure.

Peaty,

Charisma

getoffthedrugsdude,

My man

_stranger_,

Rizz is exactly the kind of slang our screaming twenties was missing.

The 1920’s was top of the slang game.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Charisma, particularly (but not necessarily) with regard to the opposite sex

As usual, the best dictionary has an entry on it! It isn’t exactly the same as my definition, but I’m not some prescriptivist who’s gonna say it’s wrong

SlopppyEngineer,

How the modern world feels like

lefaucet,

It’s the bees knees, no doubt, word, hella true, brosef, bet!

mo_lave,

based

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

I loved the Pogo comic strip (old shit from the '50s and one of the main influences on Bill Waterson for Calvin and Hobbes) growing up and it gave me the habit of using non-words like “momenterribly”. I know it makes people think I’m a moron and I don’t care.

It also gave me the habit of saying “Friday the 13th fall on a Tuesday this month”. Same effect and same apathy on my part.

Dagwood222,

If you remember Pogo, look up political novelist Ross Thomas. He was a Washington based reporter for most of the 1950s and started writing fiction in the 1960s. ‘The Fools In Town Are On Our Side’ is about an attempt to clean up a corrupt Southern city by making it so rotten that even the pimps will vote for reform.

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