Now we sail the high seas.

Phat.

That has morphed into thicc.

Because it started in grade school, and grade school kids were not aware of the word "psych." So they spelt it how it sounded. Sike or syke, they're both equally incorrect, but the point is the kids who used them were using them correctly.

The only thing remotely weird about it was when they learned the word "psych" and thought they meant two different things (like they don't believe "psyching someone out" is a thing, like it does not click for them).

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").

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...

ITT is a bunch of slang words that are still in use.

"Spaz" as in to "spaz out" has always meant crazy or some variation on that where I grew up, though I haven't heard it in ages. I suppose it is ableist, and I suppose we always meant it that way, I just never thought of a person with a disability when I said it. The flip side of that is, by so casually likening someone to a differently abled person in a prejudicial way, one demeans the differently abled person, even if they weren't the target of the ire or the ridicule.

So we were definitely in the wrong for using it.

Going back to real young, no one calls their ass a “heinie” anymore.

Bread. Yes, the word bread. It was quite popular in northern India. We use to call stupid people bread. Like, "Tu bread hai kya?" (Are you bread?)

This was alternative to the word "chutiya", which is a curse word, that we could use in front of teachers and elders.

Some guy decided to make it their identity and ruined it for the rest of us

To add to the confusion:
For 2 weeks/year I help out the local ballet studio with stage crew. We have this big white backdrop curtain, and colorful lights are pointed directly at the curtain to make dramatic and moody changes to the background during certain dances. When I heard the name of these, I assumed it was the "psyche curtain" and "psyche lights" because that's how it is pronounced.

Turns out the box is marked "Cyc." I have to assume that the people that sold the curtain are way less amateur than I am, so I would like to add this third potential spelling.

I had always assumed it was humorously mis-spelling the word. Like people who would spell it "kool".

"Psyche" is a different word to "psych" in English. "Psyche" is a noun, pronounced "sye-kee"; "psych" is a colloquial/casual verb, pronounced "syke".

Cyc is short for cyclorama. A way of lighting a backdrop which kind of wraps around a stage, that wrap around effect which lead to the name.

You're a LEG-END. Legend pronounced leg end.

No it's definitely around in the South. You have a real hootenanny and things might get away from ya faster than a greased pig so things go all cattywhumpus.

Cowabunga it is, then!

Dope

Beefed it / Biffed it

Wow, interesting explanation. It makes a lot of sense

Dope isn’t a thing anymore? My heart sank a little…

🍍

It's alive as long as dope motherfuckers like you and me keep using it.

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

There's a few term of that kind of age which were like that. Medical terms or just plain English words that became labelled "derogatory" because of how they were used. I always felt it showed how poor the vocabulary of some people was. If they only knew the derogatory meaning they'd get offended by it's use in all situations even if the meaning was innocent.

There was a British charity, The Spastic Society. They became fairly high profile in the early 80s being involved in children's magazine shows for fund raising. Often children with conditions would be featured. The intent was that featuring them would make the condition more relatable, but kids saw them more freaks to be mocked.

It resulted in "spastic" / "spaz" becoming school playground taunts to the extent that the charity changed it's name to avoid the term.

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

I dunno I still kinda love it. In part I think it might sound a little dumb now thanks to how big money has turned the primary web interaction into "Schlorping at the Centralized World Trough."

But web surfing is still a thing with the Indie Web, and it can still be an apt description because you can catch and ride "waves" of various networked pages and find really neat stuff. There was a sense of exploration to it, the whimsy that you could get carried really far from where you started and potentially have a lot of fun along the way.

I still like to surf the web. Cowabunga. :)

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

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

It only works when you say it with that TV California surfer accent too though, like

Shyeah, duuude, it's like tohtally tubular! 😎

pivotal comma

This is in common use in my area with slightly modified context. To "house" something is to envelop and incorporate it, almost always in reference to food. Threatening to house someone would be weird and vaguely sexual, "bro fuckin housed those crispitos" is a normal thing to hear

Interesting, I haven't heard it since the 90s. Do you pronounce it with an s or z? We said s, even though the normal verb form (eg "the governor housed 10000 homeless people with the latest bill") is said with a z for me.

I still say 'biffed it' sometimes.

Ex: "You fucking biffed it hard on that last jump there, bud."

Gnarly is back thanks to Katseye

"Wicked Nipper Keen"

Say you and your significant other are out walking, and your significant other is about to walk around a pole, allowing the pole to come between you.

That's called splitting a pole and it is considered bad luck as a portent of something coming between you in your relationship.

Bread and butter is just the older way of saying don't split the pole.

Have you seen a superhighway? It's still accurate.

Au contraire.

I knew a kid in high-school with the last name Haney. You can bet your whole ass we all called him Hiney all four years.

POWER. UP.

Bummer man. That's... (hits joint) that's a bummer

Semi-related, I've always liked the Weezer lyric "Somebody's Heinie is crowding my icebox".

It's a great vague double-entendre, IMO.

bbm me

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.

fuckin' a

I hear both but say z

Dude, don't try to psych me out! You and I both know it's:

🎶I know you know that I′m not telling the truth,

I know you know they just don't have any proof.

Embrace the deception, learn how to bend

Your worst inhibitions tend to psych you out in the end🎶

How are you doing retard?

OMG, I haven't thought about one of those since I stopped taking ballet. Learned all those French spellings, never thought about how to spell the "Cyc" curtain/scrim, only that we were to stay well clear of it because it was super expensive and can't be repaired. (Expensive bc huge seamless fabric stretched on a curved frame, and any repair would ruin the seamless illusion.)