I feel like every time I hear "neat" it's meant semi-sarcastically. Like, okay, I guess that's kind of interesting, but it's not really relevant or I don't know how to continue the conversation.
"So, not that it relates to anything we're talking about, but I'm a world champion in this one very niche thing that you've never heard of."
It’s VERY mild approval. Like a step above OK. I’m acknowledging the existence of the thing and maybe nodding my head or giving a thumbs up, but I’m forgetting it immediately as soon as it leaves my field of view.
When I was in 6th grade all the cool kids had band names in White-Out on their backpacks. I'd only ever listened to my parents' music so I was clueless. One day I went home and put all the bands on my backpack I could remember. First thing the next day, I'm pressed to name a single Korn song and I failed.
The same bully pressed me to name the band that did Teen Spirit and I guessed the Spin Doctors, my mom played them and that was as much "alternative" I knew 😅
Slay and serve are part of the drag/queer community lexicon that were made popular (iirc) in the NY ballroom scene. No one cares when 6th graders use them or if they stop.
If you watch queer media or hang out with The Gays, you’ll hear them all the time. They’re a bit campy, but not cringe.
This is more about the dissemination of these terms into popular lingo. There's an interesting trend of queer scene words getting picked up by the general population, usually starting with the younger generation and spreading out from there.
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I was playing pokemon with my 7 year old nephew and he kept saying "{x pokemon} has sick moves bro", so maybe that time has already come. Although to be fair he also said "These noodles are on god" and then leaned over and whispered "that means really good." So maybe he's not exactly the best arbiter of gen alpha vernacular lol
At that age, kids are absorbing stuff from their parents still because they haven't yet realized that their parents aren't cool.
I wonder if that's what keeps the whole thing at least somewhat coherent. While a generation of teenagers figures out how they will talk, the younger generation absorbs words and phrases from both their immediate seniors as well as their parents' generation, resulting in a base that's still close to where their parents are. Maybe without that, we'd have entire new languages every few generations.
Hmm that might even be the mechanism that causes fashion trends to repeat on a 20-30 year cycle.
No, it’s like a quiz game that works kinda like Jackbox. Questions/answers get shown on the main screen, and everyone answers on their phones. For people that answer correctly, the ones that answer faster get more points.
It’s a fun way to review class material and keep students engaged
It's kind of like Kahoot, but there's a greater variety of games.
The teacher hosts a game with a question set they either found it made, and each student joins on a device. They're givegiven the questions and selecting correct answers earns them something relative to the game.
The most traditional one is the one that was described here, where they are given every question in sequence and are awarded points for the accuracy and speed of their answers, but there is some great variety. There's a tower defense game where correct answers give you the currency to buy and upgrade towers, a "survivors"-like game where a correct answer is required to be given a choice of weapon upgrades and several variants on slot machine-esque games, where correct answers gives them a random bonus ranging across gaining score, multiplying score or stealing score from other players.
I like to use it with the kids whenever I require some rote memorization. Ie, we're reviewing terms we've used or will be using in a unit, or we're refreshing things they're supposed to have learned in previous years.
There's some great single-player options too, if you ever find yourself struggling to deal with rote memorization for any courses you'd take as an adult, too. While it's definitely targeted towards classrooms and kids, the games are imo substantially more engaging ways to memorize things that are in general hard to care about outside of a requirement for some job, diploma or degree.
I'm in my 30s and i just find it funny. It's funny because it's random as heck, just like dragon dream feet or free bird or engineer nope. The reason people dissing it is really just because they don't want to be associated with kids.
The world from Adventure Time. It’s heavily implied to be a post-apocalyptic earth, which is wildly mutated from the present day by an atomic war. IIRC, the stated backstory is that the land of Ooo is what remains after the Great Mushroom War. We see glimpses of the world immediately following the war, and it looks like a Fallout situation, with packs of survivors, radiation exposure, etc… And eventually, it settled into the Land of Ooo.
Everyone mentions the mutagenic bombs, no one mentions the ball of fuck you energy that ate Europe. I like to describe Adventure Time as a potent mixture of Candyland and Gamma World.
Personally, as a certifiable old person (Gen X) I find the word cringe to be cringy. Don't get me started on rizz and skibbidi.
But worst of all, I hate the word umami because it's imprecise (deliciousness is not a flavor) And we already have a word for it in English; savory. It's literally the word they use to define umami, people just like using the Japanese word because it makes them sound smart when a reality it just makes them sound like pretentious tools. As far as I'm concerned it's just millennial slang.
Wake me up when dope and rad re-enter the lexicon.
Far out!
Groovy
Tubular
Gnarly
Righteous
Streets Ahead!
Swell
Dope never left mine.
Seconded.
Dope things gonna dope
I'm sorry to hear that, but yeah, heroin is one hell of a drug ^/s
One of the very few I’ve never tried! Absolutely how I plan to go out, if I learn I’m terminal.
I've been here the whole time.
I also really like rad.
(That one doesn’t work with the -o unfortunately)
I feel like every time I hear "neat" it's meant semi-sarcastically. Like, okay, I guess that's kind of interesting, but it's not really relevant or I don't know how to continue the conversation.
"So, not that it relates to anything we're talking about, but I'm a world champion in this one very niche thing that you've never heard of."
"...neat."
It’s VERY mild approval. Like a step above OK. I’m acknowledging the existence of the thing and maybe nodding my head or giving a thumbs up, but I’m forgetting it immediately as soon as it leaves my field of view.
That’s how I use it most of the time. That and “nifty”
I am, much to my wife's dismay.
k lol
Awesome! It’s totally radical and all the PHAT people know how to be hip. You better be there or be square dig it?
I just started saying rad recently. I'm almost 40 though so... yeah.
Been doing it for years myself, currently advocating for “def”
Will anyone pick it up? No. Do I care? Nah.
What about "Mint"
It's a plant in the genus Mentha, typically aromatic. But that's not important right now.
Surely you can't be serious?
Don't call me Shirley.
I say dope and rad all the time.
When I was in 6th grade I was fucking cringe, little fucks these days acting like they ain't.
When I was in 6th grade all the cool kids had band names in White-Out on their backpacks. I'd only ever listened to my parents' music so I was clueless. One day I went home and put all the bands on my backpack I could remember. First thing the next day, I'm pressed to name a single Korn song and I failed.
6th grade was hell.
Memory unlocked
At leas toys had some idea of what was going on. There’s kids today who think Nirvana is a clothing brand
Even worse? Even most who knew Nirvana was a band forgot that Teen Spirit was an actual deodorant marketed towards teens
that's Billabong
Excuse me but are you me?
Are you KOЯN?
Bro that was my biggest fear 😅
The same bully pressed me to name the band that did Teen Spirit and I guessed the Spin Doctors, my mom played them and that was as much "alternative" I knew 😅
Dark days bro.
Ya, they cringe AF
Slay and serve are part of the drag/queer community lexicon that were made popular (iirc) in the NY ballroom scene. No one cares when 6th graders use them or if they stop.
If you watch queer media or hang out with The Gays, you’ll hear them all the time. They’re a bit campy, but not cringe.
Only because 11 year olds aren't familiar with serving cunt yet
*american 11 year olds
Might explain why I didn’t know “serve”
Thanks :)
This is more about the dissemination of these terms into popular lingo. There's an interesting trend of queer scene words getting picked up by the general population, usually starting with the younger generation and spreading out from there.
But the most important part of the best meme ever is ROFL
No gif?
Edit: was easier to find than I had anticipated.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Roflcopter.gif
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I'm pretty sure you're right.
I try to fill it in where I can, I may have come off more dismissive than I meant and should've elaborated.
My roflcopter goes soisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoi
it's called a skippy
I’ve been a helicopter pilot for like 55 years.
That's a deep cut Mr Segal.
Gonna have to look this one up. It went over my head.
my roflcopter goes SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOISOISOISOISOISOI
Someday cringe will be cringe, and sick will be sick again.
I was playing pokemon with my 7 year old nephew and he kept saying "{x pokemon} has sick moves bro", so maybe that time has already come. Although to be fair he also said "These noodles are on god" and then leaned over and whispered "that means really good." So maybe he's not exactly the best arbiter of gen alpha vernacular lol
At that age, kids are absorbing stuff from their parents still because they haven't yet realized that their parents aren't cool.
I wonder if that's what keeps the whole thing at least somewhat coherent. While a generation of teenagers figures out how they will talk, the younger generation absorbs words and phrases from both their immediate seniors as well as their parents' generation, resulting in a base that's still close to where their parents are. Maybe without that, we'd have entire new languages every few generations.
Hmm that might even be the mechanism that causes fashion trends to repeat on a 20-30 year cycle.
Sick
Dank
Radical
That is so slay
Slay and Serve are very much alive in drag communities.
They've been around before and will stay around after. Pop culture was just borrowing it.
I weep, for my children will know not the joys of Roflcopter
We should really chisel all of our memes in granite and stand them up in a field so that future generations may know our genius.
I've never heard of roflcopter but I rofled so hard reading that it woke my toddler up
Damn, my grade 7 class is cringe af. Kid keeps naming himself "skibidisigma" every time we play Blooket.
TIL
Quizlet Kids?
Seems more like Kahoot
The "wait a minute, whoo arre you" kid?
No, it’s like a quiz game that works kinda like Jackbox. Questions/answers get shown on the main screen, and everyone answers on their phones. For people that answer correctly, the ones that answer faster get more points.
It’s a fun way to review class material and keep students engaged
But does it use AI?
It's kind of like Kahoot, but there's a greater variety of games.
The teacher hosts a game with a question set they either found it made, and each student joins on a device. They're givegiven the questions and selecting correct answers earns them something relative to the game.
The most traditional one is the one that was described here, where they are given every question in sequence and are awarded points for the accuracy and speed of their answers, but there is some great variety. There's a tower defense game where correct answers give you the currency to buy and upgrade towers, a "survivors"-like game where a correct answer is required to be given a choice of weapon upgrades and several variants on slot machine-esque games, where correct answers gives them a random bonus ranging across gaining score, multiplying score or stealing score from other players.
I like to use it with the kids whenever I require some rote memorization. Ie, we're reviewing terms we've used or will be using in a unit, or we're refreshing things they're supposed to have learned in previous years.
There's some great single-player options too, if you ever find yourself struggling to deal with rote memorization for any courses you'd take as an adult, too. While it's definitely targeted towards classrooms and kids, the games are imo substantially more engaging ways to memorize things that are in general hard to care about outside of a requirement for some job, diploma or degree.
That's Kazoo. Kahoots is a Mexican coffee liqueur.
based
Rizz was always cringe.
I think "rizzler" is pretty funny when used ironically
Dear Batman,
It's the Rizzler.....
So close
Skibidi is literally after a toilet meme, slay is old AF and I've never heard of serve.
What is skibidy
Please, hold on to this reality as long as you can.
Bad
Please don't watch (Piped mirror)
I don't care what anyone says, I'm 38 and the skibidi toilet saga is epic. I'm waiting on part 74 right now.
Sure, the first 20-ish shorts are repetitive and kinda annoying, but DaFuq!?Boom! evolved some crazy lore after that.
Like all epic things, it's the fans who drive it into the ground.
Yeah, to be honest, I've never met another skibidi toilet fan offline.
I watched it and I still don't understand. Is this like the Yatta of the new generation?
I'm in my 30s and i just find it funny. It's funny because it's random as heck, just like dragon dream feet or free bird or engineer nope. The reason people dissing it is really just because they don't want to be associated with kids.
It's hilarious! As dumb as it sounds, the series is a good example of show don't tell world building.
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An old woman on the slopes perhaps? Kewl.
I fuck up on the regular, should I be concerned about my karma scores in regards to exclaiming "ah, fuck" or classics such as "good job fuckknuckle"?
Shit I gotta use that!...fuckknuckle!
We're back to "crud" and "shucks" now boomer
Oh crud!
Oh good. Always thought rizz was stupid because it sounds too close to jizz.
Short for chajizzma
And now I know what rizz is short for! Never knew.
I'm cool, no one can tell me otherwise.
I picked up shizzle for rizzle from Tiny Tina and works as a rated G version of the shit meaning either the genuine article or the diggity dank.
"shizzle for rizzle" is snoop dogg slang from the 90's
my nizzle
I still speak as if I'm from Ooo, so...
Algebraic!
mathematical!
Ooo?
The world from Adventure Time. It’s heavily implied to be a post-apocalyptic earth, which is wildly mutated from the present day by an atomic war. IIRC, the stated backstory is that the land of Ooo is what remains after the Great Mushroom War. We see glimpses of the world immediately following the war, and it looks like a Fallout situation, with packs of survivors, radiation exposure, etc… And eventually, it settled into the Land of Ooo.
Don't forget the frozen businessmen who almost ruined the world again.
Everyone mentions the mutagenic bombs, no one mentions the ball of fuck you energy that ate Europe. I like to describe Adventure Time as a potent mixture of Candyland and Gamma World.
Its the world that Adventure Time takes place in.
Ohhh
Ooo*
Many many years in the future, long after the great mushroom war, that is what they will call the Earth.
(Adventure Time)
I read LMAO is reversed if something is extremely funny and I was confused af for a minute
OAML!
Orgasmic Atomic Major Laughter
Octopus-Accelerated Machine Learning
Ostrogothic Advanced Marxism-Leninism
I'm sorry, I'm on the fence. I'm all onboard calling "rizz" and "skibidi" cringe, but I'm never going to stop slaying or serving.
Especially the phrase slay queen.
I don't slay queens, I serve them
Hell yeah, I'll be cool again when that gen grows up
Ok but now I want to know what their new words are.
I will never stop saying "shiver me timbers"
And I, "Damn the torpedoes!"
It's all tubular.
As a kid from the 80s-era San Fernando Valley, I have legit cred to say that.
I've only ever used them ironically, so I can confirm I'm a linguical mastermind
Whoa, this is heavy!
There's that word again! Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravity in the past?
You mean mavity?
That's tight
Everything is when you’re phat
6th graders are not arbiters of slang. 15-24 year olds are.
What about "What's crackin?"
Knowm sayin?
Personally, as a certifiable old person (Gen X) I find the word cringe to be cringy. Don't get me started on rizz and skibbidi.
But worst of all, I hate the word umami because it's imprecise (deliciousness is not a flavor) And we already have a word for it in English; savory. It's literally the word they use to define umami, people just like using the Japanese word because it makes them sound smart when a reality it just makes them sound like pretentious tools. As far as I'm concerned it's just millennial slang.