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.
50 0 ReplyThere's a John Mulaney joke about this
7 0 ReplyHuh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
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As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
3 0 ReplyAs a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol
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Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.
50 0 ReplyBro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.
12 2 ReplyDitto to frankincense
5 0 ReplyI've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.
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Disestablishmentarianism.
41 2 ReplyI 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.)
22 0 ReplyPneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.
8 1 Reply
Covfefe
40 2 ReplyI say this almost daily lol
10 1 ReplyHow?
2 0 Reply
Affordable housing
43 5 ReplySo "affordablehousing" then? 😂
8 1 ReplyLooks German
11 0 Reply
Cowabunga and tubular!
80s were a good time!
34 0 ReplyGnarly, dude.
9 0 ReplyEvery time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol
8 0 ReplyRad!
8 1 ReplyI say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
7 0 Reply
Bodacious!
5 0 ReplyGnarly!
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Truthiness
29 0 ReplyAs a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"
25 0 ReplyJust remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.
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Strategery
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Vituperative. It's such a good word too.
22 0 ReplyOh, 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}]
20 0 ReplyIsn'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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Discombobulate
22 0 ReplyInformation superhighway
21 0 ReplyCyberspace!
8 0 ReplyThe Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big
truckhighway. It's a series of tubes.8 0 ReplyTubelor.
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Surplus
20 0 ReplyDag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.
19 0 ReplyWell that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.
17 0 ReplyMaybe like embroidered dags?
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2 0 ReplyNope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.
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Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
19 0 ReplySkedaddle
19 0 ReplyI shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
4 0 ReplyUnderfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
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I use this very regularly.
3 0 ReplySkadoodle
1 0 ReplyCheese it
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Fleek
Thankfully.
19 0 ReplyI left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.
rorted - being high
having a pash - intense kissing
18 1 ReplyToo right. Someone in my household reminded us that we used to use munted all the time, so we're bringing it back into our vocab, haha
Munted - mutated, fucked up, borken
6 0 ReplyWe used to use rorted to mean... well it would be past tense for hitting a bong, "to rort" being the verb. I am in the UK and have no idea where that slang came from.
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MOIST
16 0 ReplyLol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
8 0 ReplyI blame How I Met Your Mother
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The night was moist...
6 1 ReplyKeep your starship out of my backyard.
(JN Chaney book reference)
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Defenestrate. What a word!
16 1 ReplyHave you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
10 0 ReplyWait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?
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I love you too.
It's not a single word though.13 0 ReplyHugs from an internet stranger.
3 0 Replyಠ_ಠ
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Baud
13 0 Reply250k baud or 500k baud?
5 0 ReplyI write firmware, this is a daily term
4 0 ReplyI too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
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I will always love those old modem tones
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Mack
"Did you mack her?"
So dumb lol
14 1 ReplyJust realized I forgot about this one lol
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Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)
12 0 ReplySchadenfreude
12 0 ReplyPronounced scoodin’ n’froody in case anybody was wondering.
7 1 ReplyThis is still my favorite pronunciation video ever. Gets me every time.
4 0 Reply
Crunk
12 0 Replybitchin
wicked11 0 ReplyBodacious
Tubular
Take a whiz
Majorly
11 0 ReplyTrill
Booyah!
Pimpin
12 1 ReplyThat pimpin' Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck...
7 0 ReplyLol! ^ When you download the wrong episode of Star Trek off limewire O.O
6 0 Reply
Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill
1 0 ReplyHaven't played any Splatoon lately?
1 0 Reply"Pimpmobile" is one of my most-used terms!
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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?
10 0 ReplyIt's how I describe my job.
Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!
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fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)
10 0 ReplyI've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
4 0 ReplyYour lungs thank you.
2 0 ReplyI've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
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saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age
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Splendid
9 0 ReplySozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.
8 0 ReplyGrody
8 0 ReplyTo the max.
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Dodecahedron
9 1 Replyheard that one earlier today ...
2 0 ReplyMatt Parker or Steve Mould?
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yolo
7 0 Replyyou only YOLO once
yoYOLOo
7 0 Reply
Flabbergasted.
8 1 Replyciggie
7 0 Replysploosh
7 0 ReplyYonder
7 1 ReplyRenob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school
6 0 ReplyBibliobibuli
A person who reads too much
6 0 ReplyAs someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"
6 0 ReplyI'd love it if "groovy" came back
4 0 ReplyYou're everywhere!!
2 0 Reply
Synergy
6 0 ReplyLike a boss.
4 1 Reply
cowabunga
6 0 ReplySpoot!
Ignoramus
Teleconference
Indubitably
6 0 ReplyIs the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!
6 0 ReplyPut some stank on it Daggy!
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Guffaw
6 0 ReplyBufty.
Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.
5 0 ReplyCluster 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.
5 0 ReplyI use "ass hat" and "clusterfuck" regularly.
6 0 ReplyFUBAR is another
I also go Ricky (I'm an American):
Worst case Ontario
What comes around is all around.
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I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.
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Cahoots
5 0 ReplyPneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often
6 1 ReplyFree
6 1 ReplyMiddle class
5 0 ReplyDociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.
Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.
7 2 ReplyWhy "licious" instead of "listic?"
3 0 ReplyThat darn Autocorrect!
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Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.
5 0 ReplyPrecipitate
4 0 ReplyCyberspace
4 0 ReplyI went through a dapper phase at one point...
4 0 ReplyGayrod
5 1 ReplyIt's GayLord, thankyouverymuch...
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Real estate novelist.
Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)
4 0 Reply4 0 ReplyI think this word wins.
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Obi Wan
5 1 ReplyI don't remember owning a droid.
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sphygmomanometer
4 0 Reply...to your mother
4 0 ReplyThe lyrics to Alouette.
4 0 ReplyDubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.
4 0 ReplyNow there's a word a fella could really muckle on to...
2 0 ReplyNever heard that one, had to look it up.
2 0 ReplyIt's definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
It's used in the same context as "bastard", but solely as a term of endearment.
"What's up, dubba?"
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💀
4 0 ReplyFacetious and Modicum.
I remember them being heavily used everywhere by everyone like a fad, disappeared like a fad. I don't miss them though
4 0 ReplyAssgoblin
3 0 ReplyMagnanimous
3 0 ReplyBingus
3 0 ReplyApoplexy
3 0 ReplyThat girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'
3 0 Replyfloccinaucinihilipilification
4 1 Reply4 1 ReplyI was going to say like North Korea?
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Waddup?
2 0 ReplyCunnilingus
2 0 ReplyI really dig using "mook" as an insult, playfully or otherwise. It's somewhat normal in my tight circles but I get looks every time I'm in other groups when I drop a "what a mook"
3 1 ReplyBring it back! Fuck the normies!
2 1 ReplyIt doesn't work so well when you've got someone named Mookie in your poker group
2 1 Reply
Prolly
2 0 ReplyJig jog
1 1 Reply