Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that. It’s still too commonly used but nothing like it was back then.
We had a couple weeks calling people “F.A.G.s’ and “M.A.G.s” for 'female ass grabber” and “male ass grabber”. As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol
I don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
Companies 12 hours after June ends
“PRIIIIIDE 🏳️🌈”
next day
“So you fags wanna buy our products or what”
Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that. It’s still too commonly used but nothing like it was back then.
not to mention the casual use of the hard R. even Linus from LTT admitted to have dropped his fair share of hard Rs back then.
What’s the r-word?
“retarded”
Oh. I know it’s not a nice word but didn’t think it was bad enough to include on the same level as the n-word. Times do change I guess
It’s a weird one. “Retard” is a technical term, jargon. It became a perjorative term.
Unlike the n-word that was always a pejorative.
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Plus there was a lot of n*rcissist thrown around back then
Ok now THAT’S a weird one to censor.
Yeah unless that n is the n-word I don’t get the censoring.
I censored it because it’s a bad word. A slur against people with disabilities.
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
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We had a couple weeks calling people “F.A.G.s’ and “M.A.G.s” for 'female ass grabber” and “male ass grabber”. As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.
That’s because to you it was just normal.
What I remember from the 90/00s: sinch, hella, coolio, jam (going), spaz, poser, chillax, bitchin, burn, noob, booyah, aight, duh, phat, sup, stoked, jiggy, harsh, buzz kill
There’s a shitton more, but that’s what I got off the top of my head
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
He was streets ahead!
Idk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
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You were learning slang along with everything else. At that age, it doesn’t stand out against everything else the same way it does when you’re older.
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol
80s had a ton.