I’ve been hearing this a lot more within the last ~14 months.

I really try not to say this out loud. Im mostly successful. Its deeply imprinted.

I hate how that word became pejorative, because it was used correctly. By the way, it's still used in plumbing. Retard is a verb which means to slow, e.g. retard the flow. When you call a person who is developmentally disabled that, yes it's rude, but it means their mental process is slow. The word was being used accurately. It's just not nice to say.

I don't think "window licker" was ever accurate, but for some reason it's slightly more socially acceptable to say (or imply, e.g. "I will say this for him, his windows are always clean").

"Everyone's always asking me: 'What are you doing, retard?', but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'"

That was very common when I was growing up. Unfortunately, it has been replaced with variations of autistic, though "anti-woke" people will use both.

hella

i picked this one up from living in california for 15 years and it keeps tripping up the people i talk to everywhere else i've lived since then.

i don't even notice that i do it until someone points it out to me. lol

I feel like hella was the west coast version of wicked.

I called something “the bomb” the other day and my mind did a record scratch, like, did I actually say that unironically??

I dig your vibe, dog.

Huh.

We were so full of hope.

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

And the act of traveling on said highway was...surfing. For some reason. The 90's were stupid, and I'm from there.

Now it's just a series of tubes

18 year old daughter just uttered "gnarly" tonight during a horror movie.

We were shocked!

Cowabunga it is, then!

God its hard to remember but yes all of those were said completely seriously, not a drip of sarcasm or tongue in cheek. Now it's hard thinking that anyone would say tubular without being completely ironic

I love surfer slang because it's rooted in a verbose comprehension of the English language. The hyperbole of it brings me joy lol.

Of course it is. Go rewatch a few episodes of "Psych!" to cure yourself of doubt.

We spelled it "sike". No clue why.

PJ & Duncan earned exclusive rights to that term in perpetuity with their seminal classic “Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble”

https://youtu.be/XdDPHB4BUYc

The more I type about it, the less "psych" looks like a valid English word.

..because the word is 'psyche': "I psyched him out."

I think it's Greek origin, and it's like "psychology".

I once had a coworker who said she was all that and a bucket of chicken. Black lady, too. I would not repeat it... to her. I've since picked it up. "All that and a b_____ of ch_____" is the new saying, and anything that starts with a B that makes sense with something that starts with ch- fits. I haven't actually heard any others, but I noticed that pattern was maintained across the two.

..."All that and a board of cheese"? Maybe...

Grody to the max.

Fake and gay

Same with me. Didn't even think of where it came from.

Lord help us. Hopefully we can hear it again!

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.

I still use it....

Are you surprised at my tears, sir...?

fuckin' a

It was pretty common when I was in high school in the 90s. But for some reason the kids I knew insisted it was fuck-a-nay.

Still use it, unironically, along with things like "righteous."

I like taking what I like from various ways of speaking, until mine is my own. Don't let anyone take that away from you. :p

I seem to recall hearing Brennan Lee Mulligan saying it quite a bit in Dimension 20 and it made me giggle.

Seriously? as far as i was aware that's a perfectly normal thing to say?