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Don't pretend you didn't become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
164 1 ReplyI don't remember getting any new slang as a kid.
49 2 ReplyYeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
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next day
"So you fags wanna buy our products or what"
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Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that. It’s still too commonly used but nothing like it was back then.
41 0 Replynot 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.
17 0 ReplyWhat's the r-word?
1 0 Reply"retarded"
3 1 ReplyOh. 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
5 0 ReplyIt's a weird one. "Retard" is a technical term, jargon. It became a perjorative term.
Unlike the n-word that was always a pejorative.
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Plus there was a lot of n*rcissist thrown around back then
2 8 ReplyOk now THAT'S a weird one to censor.
7 0 ReplyYeah unless that n is the n-word I don't get the censoring.
2 0 ReplyI censored it because it's a bad word. A slur against people with disabilities.
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fags
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
6 0 ReplySame in Britain. Damn homophobia ruining perfectly good slang!
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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.
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That's because to you it was just normal.
42 2 ReplyWhat 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
18 1 ReplyYes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
10 1 ReplyHe was streets ahead!
3 0 ReplyIdk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
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Don't casually throw "spaz" in there with a load of inoffensive stuff!
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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.
13 1 ReplyI 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?
1 0 ReplyAs someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
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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
8 1 Reply80s had a ton.
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34 1 ReplyI did not, for I was a loser who didn't know slang
12 0 ReplyNo shot fellow cool kid
10 1 ReplyWatching millennials/gen x pick on Gen Z for the same behaviors we all had gets old doesn’t it?
4 1 ReplyAnd the kids playing tag are likely not even gen z but gen alpha. No one can even pick on the right generation.
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Dude practically became a verbal tick
3 1 ReplyFr, no cap
2 1 ReplyTrue dat
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You have a point, but when I was a kid we at least made sure the slang came from black people first. I don't think anything good can come from white kids out there making up words.
4 20 Reply10 0 ReplyLOL who’s that
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what
9 0 ReplyYou forgot the /s right?
7 0 ReplyI kind of figured it was implied but eh. Some things don't land.
3 0 ReplyYeah, well. World is full of racists. Can hardly even make fun of 'em without being mistaken for one, now.
This reminded me of the month 'wigga' was every fucking one's favorite word at my very-nearly-all-white school. Nothing good, indeed.
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Yikes
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