Retard.

Phat

Information superhighway

Page me

I still use most of the hella tight slang I grew up with

Radical. Tubular. Bodacious. Gnarly. Basically anything a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would have said.

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Coolness

bae is the one that was really everywhere and then just fell off a cliff.

Hard as in tough and cool.

Maybe by you… Unfortunately.

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.

Tripendicular
Be there or be square

it's a free country!

Right!? Completely changes when you find out you're gay.

Fake and gay

'mad', as in 'very'

Phat and cattywhumpus.

Phat fell out of fashion and cattywhumpus isn't a thing where I live now

“Roflmao” :(

Also: cool beans

rad and radical

All that and a bag of chips

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Killer

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

Grody.

I still call things grody, but it's apparently twee and shit to say now.

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.

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

We were so full of hope.

Now it's just a series of tubes

Huh.

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

Awe, i still use cool beans all the time.

Mint

"Bread and butter", said to your partner when they're about to split a pole while you're walking.

"The buffalo is off the nickel", similar to "the cheese has slid off his cracker", or, alternatively, depending on usage, a way of saying bullshit.

Both of these phrases were said by William Shatner in a Twilight Zone episode, and I've never, ever heard any of anyone using them.

It's more like four tubes and then a whole bunch of tiny little hose pipes.

Eh, I use it for very stupid people. Obviously devoid of ableist intent.

I feel as though the context matters with this. For the genuinely evil and criminally unintelligent I would use the clinical "Mentally retarded".

"Retard" and music (low volume) on buses are the controversial hills I'm willing to die on.

rad. as in a conjunction of radical, which is also a slang term no longer in use.

people look at me real weird when tell them the cool thing they just told me is ‘rad’

This exchange reminds me of the last boondocks episode.

dang. i shoulda scrolled first.

Same. Sometimes ironically, sometimes actually.

Boo.

I was so glad when that one got left behind.

Sorry, you won't bait me in being banned.

"Tubular" is from surfer lingo right? It makes a lot of sense when you realize they're comparing whatever cool thing you're talking about to a wave like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1mXQaSA3-rE

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.

cattywhumpus

Square rig sailors have a whole lexicon of unique terms of art and slang not used outside of that niche and I always thought this was one of those, I’ve only heard other tallship sailors say it. TIL

Limey detected. That's a Bri'ish thing.

Back in the 70s we used to say "fuckin-A" as a kind of agreement

“Bray” as in “I’m gonna bray you after school”. It just doesn’t come up ever anymore.