VWC: reliving the vernacula of the '90s
You remember those terms we used to bandy around, that now come up in 80s and 90s movies and just sound oh sooo last millenium? 'radical', 'hip', 'groovie', 'dude', 'cool bananas', 'grouse'....
What are you using now? I find when a friend starts using certain words, I start using them to, and I'm sure, passing them on again to my friends in turn.
At the moment I'm frequently using 'dude', occasionally unearthing 'grouse', while 'cool', 'awesome', 'excellent' have taken up permanent residency in my everyday lexicon.
Other friends are using 'whack' (yes, Sean, i'm talking about you), and 'man' (mainly Shoni, but I'm sure others are as well). I'm sure there are much more out there turns of phrase, let's collect and discuss them all. Who can come up with the worst and whackiest?
Beck, no doubt you remember the cringeworthy days of 'it's all good' (*shudder*).
What are you using now? I find when a friend starts using certain words, I start using them to, and I'm sure, passing them on again to my friends in turn.
At the moment I'm frequently using 'dude', occasionally unearthing 'grouse', while 'cool', 'awesome', 'excellent' have taken up permanent residency in my everyday lexicon.
Other friends are using 'whack' (yes, Sean, i'm talking about you), and 'man' (mainly Shoni, but I'm sure others are as well). I'm sure there are much more out there turns of phrase, let's collect and discuss them all. Who can come up with the worst and whackiest?
Beck, no doubt you remember the cringeworthy days of 'it's all good' (*shudder*).
posted by Hooch at Sunday, November 13, 2005
5 Comments:
My friends and I had some TERRIBLE slang in about year 9. This included:
Berm - a word that could be used as a substitution for many nouns. As in "you dumb berm!" "bit'a berms for you last night (a bit of pashing for you last night)!"
S'off/K'off/'off (the "off" part of each world pronounced "arf") - piss off/fuck off/just generally go away.
Bit good! - your general term for anything good/awesome/groovy/gnarly/etc.
Ya mum - used as an annoying response to just about any question.
"How are you today?" "Ya mum"
"Can I borrow your pen?" "Ya mum can borrow my pen!"
"Do we have a maths test tomorrow?" "Ya mum!"
Flat Tyre - the term for when someone walks behind you, and times stepping on the back of your shoe so that it comes off when you lift your foot
Pit stop - if you have to stop and fix your shoe because of a flat tyre
Hold ya books! - yelled out by an annoying boy who would come up behind you and knock your books out of your hands. I was very prone to "hold ya books" attacks, because of my combined uncoordinatedness and nerdiness.
We had a 'Ya Mum'epidemic at our school also. most by a particularly anoying little repulsive half rat half troll humanoid thing.
......but its all good. hehe
Will.
Sorry, something completely random and off the topic to the blog, but its very important news and i couldn't be bothered calling u hooch, but if u haven't heard, they cancelled arrested development halfway thru the current runnning 3rd season. they're not going to make anymore.
*Please feel free to delete this comment as its got nothing to do with the topic.*
you can guess who it is
being able to guess who it is....hmm.......Dave? or maybe Beck?...Andrew? James? Sean?.......well, if it's not one of the above ppl then i don't know......a clue please?
oh, it was Andrew..............cool of you to post. yes you are welcome to post about anything, you don't have to stick to the topic.
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