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From Gnarly to Snack: The Evolution of Slang
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What if language could tell the story of our cultural evolution? On Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter, we humorously untangle the complex web of generational slang, tracing its roots back to the 1740s and following its journey through the ages. We explore how slang has served as both a secretive lexicon for specific groups and a marker of generational identity, from the quirky Cockney rhyming slang of old London to the trendy buzzwords of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Reminisce with us about the groovy 70s, where terms like "gnarly" and "buzz off" painted a vibrant picture of the times. Hear our takes on how these words have morphed over the decades, reflecting shifting cultural trends and societal changes. We dive into the rollercoaster history behind phrases like "going postal" and share our personal (and often hilarious) reactions to modern slang gems like "snack," "stan," and "sus." We even tackle the sometimes cringe-worthy attempts of older generations to adopt the lingo of the youth, making for some amusing anecdotes.
Join our deep discussions on language evolution, from the influence of technology on communication to the cultural critique embedded in terms like "yuppie." We also touch on the contentious issue of cancel culture, balancing the scales between accountability and public judgment. Whether it’s decoding the term "phat" or sharing memories of the iconic TV show "Cribs," this episode promises a rich linguistic adventure that’s both educational and entertaining. So, buckle up and let's navigate the fascinating world of generational slang together!
Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades, or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok Links in bio.
Speaker 2:Yo yo, yo yo. What was that?
Speaker 1:this is bd, bd, podcast, slang oh, my god, what don't ever, ever do that again, that I don't know how you're going to introduce this episode, but that is not what I expected at all, dear god, that should not have come out of a white woman. No, it really should not. No expected at all, dear God, that should not have come out of a white woman. No, it really should not, no. So this episode is about slang and we thought we'd go back to our roots on this one and kind of go back to our roots no, when I say our roots, as in when we first started the podcast. Oh, about the generations, the generations.
Speaker 1:The generations, the generations, because I thought about how slang has evolved throughout the generations and the different types of slang that different generations use. Yeah, you know, we've got.
Speaker 2:I'm still laughing about the.
Speaker 1:I know, I know I'm trying not to. Yeah, I've got this kind of like smile on my face where I'm trying not to burst into laughter. But yeah, we thought we'd go from boomers to Gen X to millennials, to Gen Z to Gen Alpha and the types of different slang words that people use and kind of what they mean. Yes, but first of all I thought where does slang come from? How does slang develop?
Speaker 2:I think it comes from laziness.
Speaker 1:Laziness. Do you know what I think? A lot of it is. Go on. I actually think it is a generational thing. Oh, I think it's. Each generation comes up with their own slang to rebel against the previous generation or to separate themselves from the next generation or to separate themselves generation wars.
Speaker 2:I'm in a really weird mood. I felt like there's something in my water today. Yeah, you are in a really odd mood today, um, but there's uh.
Speaker 1:Slang is yeah, there's a lot of slang stuff on tiktok recently about saying how no one can understand what gen alpha is saying oh yeah and I must admit I'm getting a little bit lost myself.
Speaker 2:We're going to start with boomers and work our way down to alpha. Down Across, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I did do a little bit of research to see where slang kind of, where it kind of, first come from, and apparently, according to the wonderful internet Wikipedia, in the 1740s, 1740s 1740 1740s, 1740s that's a long time ago I was going to do an actual maths in my head and then realized maths isn't my strong point so just went long time ago. Um, so apparently in the 1740s slang first crystallizes into a word. I love that word crystallizes.
Speaker 2:Crystallize, that's a really good, really good kind of that warms your cockles exactly how to describe where it crystallizes, you know forms.
Speaker 1:What I'm going to use. That crystallizes into word with a very specific context and a distinctive range of related meanings, emerging as a word chiefly found in reports of the speech of an underclass of thieves and beggars, who often associated with them and shared much of the same vocabulary. So it was kind of like.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was kind of like created to be secretive.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So people didn't know what you were on about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Dungeons and Dragons, reference thieves can't.
Speaker 2:Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, so it's like keeping a language a secret language between groups do you think that's why london wants to differentiate, say self differentiate, itself from like everyone else? Because they use cockney rhyming slang and we don't know what they're all about? Yeah, same sort of thing. Do you think it's just kind of like yeah, we're part of our group and this is our language.
Speaker 1:Yeah it, yeah. Yeah, that's quite cool, that is really cool. I mean, that's how languages start to be honest. Yeah, but yeah, I love Cockney rhyming slang.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do too, I do too.
Speaker 1:Apart from when Dick Van Dyke does it in Mary Poppins, in which case nah mate.
Speaker 2:Nah.
Speaker 1:My oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Tea kettle. She shat on a turtle. Oh, it's just funny. It's just funny Anyway. Sorry, that was like a real conversation stopper. Then apparently, yeah, it really was. Yeah, I thought yeah. How can I come off of this? Yeah, where can I segue from Exactly?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well done, Hannah. Yeah, sorry. So yeah shall. Boomer slang words, boomer slang, let's go so let's see if you've heard some of these.
Speaker 2:Wait, you're not a boomer no let me. Let's reiterate our generations. For listeners that haven't listened to us before and just stumbled across this particular episode, yeah, so I'm generation x you are.
Speaker 1:I was born 1975, so I'm kind of like the starting to get towards the tail end of generation x, because generation x uh kind of ended in 1980. Yeah, it's 1965 to 1980, so I kind of not well, it's just over midway section yeah, I am on the tail, very tail.
Speaker 2:End of millennials yes, it's actually debatable whether I am generation z, but I identify myself as a millennial. You are definitely a millennial. Yeah, I, I have more millennial traits than I have. Gen Z traits.
Speaker 1:I am absolutely stereotypical.
Speaker 2:Generation X oh yeah, you are Generation X, through and through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely 100% stereotypical. Generation X I was a latchkey kid.
Speaker 2:Being on the cusp of two generations I suppose in that sense means that I kind of do understand more of the Generation Z language I'd like to think I do anyway. Generation Alpha is just a different kettle of fish.
Speaker 1:Indeed, indeed, indeed. So I'm going to read some of these boomer slang words out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, if you recognize any of them, let's rock Split.
Speaker 2:I do know split, yeah, let's rock Split. I do know split, yeah, let's split.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's get out of here. Let's get out of here Time to split. I would never use it, but I do know what it means I'll tell you what reading a lot of these, they're very hippie.
Speaker 2:They are very hippie, aren't they? They're very hippie. I did have a little read before we come on the episode. You know prep, prep, but I did actually for this one. Um, and yeah, a lot of them, I was like oh okay, you can see where, where that slang originated? Yeah, definitely, if we, if we can say that I think we can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can, yeah, um dig it. Yeah, man, I dig it yeah, again, dig it just it's a cool cat yeah, like, yeah, cool cat.
Speaker 2:I think of 1950s greases for some reason like this is exactly you know, I mean like that grease and like yeah, I dig it. Like yeah, man, I dig it, let's split yeah, this is like the next one is really funny to me, like right on right on man for me in my head. Right on, man, I dig it. Let's split. We're actually putting on a little bit of an american accent, so maybe it's. It's an americanism a little bit right on I've got in my head.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I've got in my head right now? Like an 80s kind of cop show, yeah, like miami vice type thing yeah and they're gonna go and speak to the street pimp yeah and this is what he's. This is kind of what he's saying he's like right on like yeah, that kind of that kind of thing, gnarly.
Speaker 2:I actually use this to this day.
Speaker 1:I use this.
Speaker 2:But I don't think I use it in the same way. So boomers say this when they think something is scary, challenging or dangerous. Gnarly to me is kind of cool oh, that's so gnarly. But also I'd describe a scab on someone's knee as gnarly as well.
Speaker 1:Is that weird? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's like the term sick. Yeah, man, that's sick yeah, yeah, oh, we'll get on to that later, yeah, but I do say that a lot.
Speaker 2:I do refer, I refer to people as man man, I do refer to hey man, but gnarly is like gnarly. Gnarly reminds me of when skateboarding become a little bit more like mainstream, like oh, that's, that's so gnarly, like like he grinded so well on that, like well, it's like yeah, it's kind of like. No, I didn't mean pole, I don't know why I said pole yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I know what you mean when you say I'm not talking about grinding on a pole. You're talking like a handrail.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about a handrail. I don't know why I said pole. Yeah, let's move on.
Speaker 1:I know what you mean. I know what you mean, but it's kind of gnarly. Is that kind of word that it's kind of respectful?
Speaker 2:yeah, respect man yeah, you know that's gnarly that's gnarly, that's like it's cool yeah, but but boomers used it as a scary, challenging or dangerous. So I guess, like if something's gnarly, it's like me. I don't see, I can't see it in that context anymore no it's positive to me positive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's positive.
Speaker 2:Anyway, buzz off oh, you missed one out, but yeah, oh, yes, chill out chill out man chill out man that's so hippie that really is so 70s hippie, it's like yeah, just chill out, man. You can see someone like monging out after they've had like some weed or something on, like a bean bag with a lava lamp yeah, chill out, man, can't you dig it?
Speaker 1:He's right on, it's time to split.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't get gnarly. Don't get gnarly about it, buzz off. Yeah, buzz off. I don't use ever, ever.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:And when I say chill out just sorry, going back a little bit, let's see. So a little bit I would tell someone to chill out. Like oh, just chill out, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that is, that's different. Yeah, but I wouldn't ever use that, because it's almost like when somebody tells you to calm down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it can have the opposite, infuriate you it can have the opposite effect, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:I could do it as a kind of as a jokey kind of, yeah, that kind.
Speaker 2:I normally use it.
Speaker 1:It's the way you say, it isn't it? If you just go, will you just chill out? If?
Speaker 2:I'm really serious about it. You're going to have to bleep this one. If I'm really serious about it, chill the f*** out. That's how I would do it.
Speaker 1:It's like just chill, chill man, chill man, chill man, Buzz off, buzz off.
Speaker 2:That's a little bit of a one. Groovy, oh, groovy, groovy that's coming back.
Speaker 1:Groovy is coming back. Baby, to say something's groovy is like something, just it's cool. Yeah, do you know what I don't like about the word groovy? What it's too long grooves in the heart. It's too long too long it's two syllables right, you think it's right. You say you look at cool, cool it man.
Speaker 2:That's two syllables.
Speaker 1:Yeah no, Cool, Cool man, it's cool. But if you say that's groovy man, that's a uh uh, uh, cool man, it's more sing-songy.
Speaker 2:That's how the 70s were.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's groovy man. Groovy, peace out, peace out brother, I think ironically. Peace.
Speaker 2:Peace. I'm like peace out.
Speaker 1:Yeah peace.
Speaker 2:And I do the little head nod.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Peace out, yeah Thread, oh yeah threads Never heard of threads.
Speaker 1:These are my cool threads, man.
Speaker 2:Oh, clothing Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got these cool threads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I've never used that in my entire life.
Speaker 1:No Square, don't be such a square.
Speaker 2:Don't be such a square. I often say the phrase be there or be square when I'm inviting people around to my house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I say that ironically.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's an ironic thing. I think it's an ironic thing as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like put your hands in the air, like you just don't care, like what really, yeah. I'm not going to say'll send it to you, as a tiktok, I cannot repeat that word. Don't be such a. And he does the circle, it does the sign of a square, but then says something else something okay, yeah, which is uh which is which is unrepeatable.
Speaker 2:On this podcast I see, I see, yes 18 plus well, 18 plus um, so yeah.
Speaker 1:so if you've ever been called this word, it means you're uncool or boring. Don't be square. Don't be square. Don't be square, fink.
Speaker 2:Never heard of that.
Speaker 1:I've never heard of Fink.
Speaker 2:Being called this means you're a snitch, you're a Fink.
Speaker 1:Snitches get stitches. I've heard of Batfink Fink just think.
Speaker 2:Just think is like think, but pronounced incorrectly Think. No, I don't like think.
Speaker 1:No, I don't like that Boob tube. Boob tube, I know, but look what it says.
Speaker 2:It's hard to believe, but this is actually a slang word for television Boob tube. Is it because people were more overt with their boobs?
Speaker 1:No, no, no. I suppose it's because it used to be made of tubes, didn't it? Because it used to be made of tubes, didn't it? The old televisions?
Speaker 2:Why boob.
Speaker 1:I don't know, does boob mean boob back? Then, I have no idea, I don't know. Far out, far out man, that's so groovy.
Speaker 2:That's so far out.
Speaker 1:It's so hippie, isn't it. So hippie, such like the earlier ones.
Speaker 2:Because the funny thing, yous 70s hippie, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where I go with a lot of these 60s hippie. Lay it on me, lay it on me, man, I've heard of that one.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Lay it on me.
Speaker 2:Tell me what's going on.
Speaker 1:I have used that Lay it on me, lay it on me, come on, lay it on me.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've ever help to give advice yeah, it's not something I'd use, but I am aware of it. Hacked off, hacked off, I'm proper, hacked off, I would. Just I would. I'm only, it's not harsh enough I'm just envisaging, like just limbs hacked off, like I'm hacked off, yeah, like oh, I've got a missing leg, I don't know, I think of amputees for some reason.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is quite harsh yeah, but no, hacked off seems a little bit. It's almost like you know, hacked off, you know I'm hacked. That's almost to me, like you know. You know, it's like leaving kind after kind regards to show people regards yeah just regards full stop, just regards Full stop, I am proper hacked off. Yeah don't lie to me. To me, that is, I would be more lines of that. Really pumps my spuds.
Speaker 2:That really pumps my spuds, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:The skinny.
Speaker 2:The skinny. I am aware of this one, but I've never used it. Like spill the tea.
Speaker 1:Spill the tea, tell me, give me the skinny, give me the 412. Or give me the 412, or was it 412, 410?
Speaker 2:I can't remember it's funny that spill I don't know if spill the tea is coming up later. I forgot to check, but spill the tea is a new slang because it used to be spill the beans spill the beans. Yeah, yeah yeah, but now it's tea. It's changed which yeah morning breakfast brew for some reason.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I can't believe the next one is in there.
Speaker 2:Moo juice.
Speaker 1:Moo juice.
Speaker 2:I have never heard milk being referred to as moo juice.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:But I would probably do that as a laugh at home. Sometimes I'd call it cow juice Just because it's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but moo juice, ironically not something. Catch oh drag.
Speaker 2:Oh, such a drag, such a drag man, such a drag man that is so Grease. Yeah, that is so Grease, you can just imagine what's the lead, not Olivia Newton-John's character who's like the leading lady Rizzo, rizzo. You can imagine her saying it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, such a drag man.
Speaker 2:I don't know if she did.
Speaker 1:See, I'm doing it now. I'm adding man, such a drag man. I'm adding man on the end.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that was a boomer phrase. I use it all the time. Yeah catch some Zs. Gotta go and catch some Zs. Yeah, I have said that it's in my vocab.
Speaker 1:I find that really interesting that you use the term Zs and not Zs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's harder to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah Zs, because Zs is the English Catch some Zs.
Speaker 2:No, catch some Zs, but Z the singular and Z's is the plural. Yeah, is that weird to say, but you know a lot of this is Americanised. Yeah, I think so. I'm thinking of Americans when I hear this American accent Loaded.
Speaker 1:Loaded. We want to be free man to do what we want to do. We want to get loaded.
Speaker 2:I thought loaded was like had a lot of money, like you're loaded.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's lit Well. Back in the 60s, if you were loaded you would be off your nut.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay. So I think, of loaded as having a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, would that be, that would be now. Is that reasonable Loaded would be.
Speaker 2:That would be today's kind of yeah Meaning, I guess. Yeah, cool cat.
Speaker 1:Cool cat.
Speaker 2:He's a cool cat yeah, I have never used that phrase. Nope, I can't even pronounce the next one no grody grody. This term refers something that is extremely gross. Never heard of that never. No, I've never heard of grody fuzz hot fuzz yeah it's my immediate thought caught by the fuzz caught by the fuzz while I was still on a buzz yeah, I have never used the phrase other than to describe the film hot fuzz. I've never called them the fuzz.
Speaker 1:I've never called them. I call them the feds.
Speaker 2:The feds is that you call them the feds a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know what I call. I think I just call them the police.
Speaker 1:I think I'm boring. I think I just call them the police.
Speaker 2:Bummer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bummer.
Speaker 2:Definitely use bummer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, used that one quite often bummer is like oh, such a bummer. Yeah, exactly so, that is like that's disappointing. Yeah, so that's, that's boomers that's 25 25. So do you, so you recognize most of them recognize most of them.
Speaker 2:Some of them I've never heard of, but I wouldn't say I would say a majority of these are not in my vocabulary currently, but I understand them. I just wouldn't say them.
Speaker 1:But do you think boomers, so boomers, this is kind of a teenage thing, isn't it? You can kind of say, like I said, I've got that kind of hippie vibe from them. You've got that kind of 50s Greece, kind of like what were they?
Speaker 2:They were like greasers weren't they Greasers, is the only thing I can think of. I hope that's not a negative thing. I just mean, as in people that are like had their hair greased back.
Speaker 1:That's what I mean. Well, because America had, you know, greasers, we had modern rockers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think of like 1950s greaser diner talk yeah, yeah and I've got in my head, I've got psychedelic hippie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I can see that, though, especially with, like, the far out and the groovy and yeah, it's definitely, I see that too. I mentioned it several times. But but yeah, I do picture mostly 50s, 1950s, greases yeah, so let's go on to your slang then.
Speaker 1:So go on to generation x and I will tell you if I've used any of these slang words. I can tell you now I haven't some of them I have, but we'll go through them take a chill pill.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've ever used that.
Speaker 1:No, I know what it means yeah, exactly, yeah, I again chill pill man I've never.
Speaker 2:I'm just using your logic of putting that at the end of it yeah, it's that same thing of you know chill out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, never really said to someone to chill out. I've never or take a chill pill it's like saying calm down when yeah. I'm quite and this is just a personal thing with me as well I'm quite anti when things rhyme, because I think they sound, you know, like that, Because they sound ridiculous in my mind.
Speaker 2:Like condescending, maybe it does yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just like take a chill pill, like what no? So no, I've never used that.
Speaker 2:Look what's come back. No, so no, I've never used that Look what's come back, gnarly? Gnarly See, how have they?
Speaker 1:used it. Now I have.
Speaker 2:Surfing culture. See, I said skating.
Speaker 1:I have used it in this regard.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I have got to you know and I've said to friends when we've gone surfing the waves look gnarly today.
Speaker 2:They've actually put here. Slang has a habit of flipping bad things into good things and the phrase evolved meaning amazing there you go only used to poke fun at california surfing dudes in film and pop culture there you go. It's exactly what you said earlier yeah, I did, because I said oh, I would say if I was skateboarding and surfing is a very similar it's that same kind of culture, yeah yeah, you'd say, oh, that wave was gnarly, yeah, yeah, that's so cool yeah yeah, I like that head Headbanger.
Speaker 2:What does that mean? I mean I know what Headbanger to me is. Like good music, right, like it's such a banger. That's what I'd say.
Speaker 1:We used to. When we'd go out and we'd listen to things like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, we used to headbang. Okay, so we had long hair. I'm not going to do.
Speaker 2:Oh, it does actually say the phrase shortened over the years to just banger, meaning the song is really good and I use banger. Yeah, oh, that's such a banger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. We used to go out and we would headbang to music and there used to be this big thing. I remember during the 80s they were saying oh, the culture of headbangers.
Speaker 2:People are bashing their brains within their skulls and they're going to get brain damage if they carry on doing it.
Speaker 1:I mean, it must have given you a headache. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Did you just get headaches? Yeah?
Speaker 2:that would hurt, yuppie.
Speaker 1:But it was fun.
Speaker 2:Yuppie.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so in the 80s there was a, a young urban professional. Yeah, there was a thing that went around. Never heard of it. Yeah, a thing that went around in the 80s where and I don't know if it was a stock market thing, because I was quite young, but a lot of young people earn a lot of money overnight very, very quickly- and they were called yuppies. They were called yuppies because they were very young professionals and so it's derogatory. They were, yeah, well, yeah, they were portrayed in the media as being arseholes, essentially.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they were. It was back in the days of the Filofax.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So the Filofax would be your smartphone now, but it would be like a written journal thing, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Have you ever seen American Psycho or read the book American Psycho with Christian Bale?
Speaker 2:Is that the one where they're in the shower and the knife through the curtain?
Speaker 1:No, no, that's Psycho. That's Norman Bates. No, American Psycho is essentially about yuppies in America in the 80s.
Speaker 2:I've seen Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 1:Same sort of thing. Right, okay, same sort of thing, but American Psycho is much more violent.
Speaker 2:Oh okay.
Speaker 1:Probably why I haven't watched it. Then he's a murderer.
Speaker 2:Oh, you see.
Speaker 1:He's a murderer. I don't know why you weren't Norfolk murder. Who went hot fuzz? I probably went hot fuzz I actually watched that.
Speaker 2:It was Friday night I love that film.
Speaker 1:Such a good film anyway. Anyone like Catching them Swans just the ones, one actually so yeah, so yuppies were yeah. It says they're a young urban professional defining young, ambitious and well educated silly dweller. So it's a city city dweller yeah they were deemed kind of cocaine-addled rich, champagne-drinking suit-wearing dickheads. Fun Essentially Okay, arrogance yeah.
Speaker 2:Arrogant Diss. Yeah, I've heard the term diss.
Speaker 1:I have used this Are you dissing yeah, don't diss it Don't diss it Don't diss it, don't diss it. It's cool man. Don't diss it, I don't think I've ever used it.
Speaker 2:I have. Yeah, uh, tripping, tripping. Yeah, I use that on myself a lot like yeah, if I'm, if I've made a mistake, I'll be like have I just seen this or am I tripping? I always say that, yeah, I say that, yeah, yeah yeah, acting like a fool, being too excited or being too bothered about something, yeah, so I guess, in my sense of using the word i'd'd be, am I being stupid.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Am I tripping, or is that so-and-so?
Speaker 1:But the origins of that is within LSD yeah of course, and drug culture.
Speaker 2:When you go on a drug trip, drugging yeah.
Speaker 1:It's that same kind of you know. Are you tripping Basically? Are you seeing stuff that isn't there? Are you detached from reality? I see, are you detached from reality?
Speaker 2:I'm confused about the next one.
Speaker 1:Rock.
Speaker 2:Rock that rocks man. Oh, okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker 1:That completely rocks he rocks, she rocks, this rocks, they rock.
Speaker 2:To me that's just a genre of music. I don't think I'd ever use that as a describing something to be good.
Speaker 1:That rocks. I don't think I've ever used?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I'd call someone maybe a rock chick yeah, yeah, yeah yeah but I don't think I'd ever be like, yeah, that rocks yeah, that rocks I don't think I'm very I very much use the term cool yeah, that's cool. Yeah, that's cool that's cool.
Speaker 1:That's why. That's why I wouldn't I wouldn't tend to use the word dude, dude, dude. I use dude I use dude all the time dude and man often dudette dudette, dudette. I everyone's dude I find I find um.
Speaker 2:The word dude is gender it is gender neutral, to be fair, but I just sometimes it's like dude and dudettes dude and dudettes.
Speaker 1:Fun to say. Yeah, I just do everyone's dude um everyone's man in my respect as well yeah, like dude, that's amazing. Yeah, like the examples you've given here yeah, I think I think, when I tend to use it, when I use, when I use the word dude, it's almost like an exciting, it's like use man to dude yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah like to see if I was sort of like cool, cool, cool, no doubt, no doubt yeah, exactly, you know, like if I was walking down the street and I saw somebody I hadn't seen for ages a really good friend, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's how I would kind of use it. I think I'd use it the same way as well Going postal, See, I thought that meant crazy Like oh, he's gone postal.
Speaker 1:It is essentially oh, it is Okay, yeah, yeah, oh, okay, the but expressing anger comes from incidents in the 80s and 90s where American postal workers ran a mock and brought out loaded guns and shot randomly at fellow employees.
Speaker 2:Holy shit, I didn't know that was a thing. Wow, what Things come from things that you have no idea. Is that actually a thing? Well, it does kind of postal means like I would think, like headless chicken mode. That's what I.
Speaker 1:So that makes a lot of sense to what I thought it meant the incidents in the 80s and 90s so it's over two decades where american postal workers ran amok and brought out loaded guns and shot I don't want to bring up gun culture, but damn, dude, dude, dude, that is not cool, not gnarly is not cool, not gnarly they really need. That's not gnarly. They need to take a chill pill.
Speaker 2:Or maybe it is gnarly if you're a boomer, but it's not gnarly.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ Moving on Dip, that is just that's such a drag man Chill out. That's so far out that people would do that. Sorry, far out that people would do that Sorry.
Speaker 2:Dip what? Sorry, dip Is it stupid you can't be seen when you come to a slight dip in the road and when you leave someplace, you can't be seen. At that point, you can bounce, dip or leave when you're ready to go. Oh, okay, the word is very versatile. However, it has now been replaced, thanks to the Gen Z crowd, with I'm going to ghost, or let's ghost.
Speaker 1:Does it mean leave?
Speaker 2:essentially, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Ghost means something entirely different to me, but okay, okay, dick, let's go.
Speaker 1:I know what ghosting is yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, dick. No, I've never heard that one Crib.
Speaker 2:Oh, like my house.
Speaker 1:Oh, my crib.
Speaker 2:My crib, my crib. Wasn't there a program on TV?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was called Cribs. Welcome to my crib. People would go around and you saw famous people's houses?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw famous people, which was very cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, fat Never used crib, or maybe I have used crib Like oh, welcome to castle makasa makasa, mikasa sukasa fat.
Speaker 1:Um. Just just to clarify ph at that song is fat man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have never used that. I have never used that. Okay, I have never thick. Oh, okay, is that what I actually? Well, I just read it.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, you put it in there oh yeah, I didn't actually read all this, though, I just copied and pasted um.
Speaker 2:I get it. It's kind of like saying sexy, yeah, I get it. It's like like a wholesome sound. A whole, not wholesome, sorry, a whole rounded sound I never knew phat was an abbreviation of pretty hot and thick yeah, what that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Every day's a learning day every day's a learning day every day's a learning day.
Speaker 2:Every day's a learning day. Every day's a learning day, bogus. I've definitely used bogus. Yeah, that was bogus. Yeah, that was bogus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Psych oh, actually bogus. Come back to bogus. Oh sorry. Originally stems from the early 19th century.
Speaker 2:Oh, from the machine used to make counterfeit coins called a bogus Well yeah, okay, so fake yeah, phony Fake.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah cool.
Speaker 2:Phony.
Speaker 1:Psych.
Speaker 2:Yeah, psych someone out. Yeah, Psych someone up.
Speaker 1:I have used that I have. You know, don't psych me out. Or you know, as long as I psych them out, don't mess with their head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I've only ever heard that, I think in sports terms.
Speaker 1:Like oh out, yeah, yeah, yeah, not as in like a yeah, as in a competition type of thing not, rather than messing with somebody's head to do them actual damage?
Speaker 2:yeah, no, I I can understand in a sports concept.
Speaker 1:Yeah, home slice I've never heard of this I've heard of home slice.
Speaker 2:It's like that's like your bro, your homie, your home slice I've never heard the term home.
Speaker 1:oh, I've heard homeboy. Homey, that's one of your ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know I've never.
Speaker 2:Homey homeboy, home slice yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean out of all of that. I mean, it's quite interesting to think that there was 25 boomer slang words. And how many Generation X are there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, not many. Not many 15. 15. Are there any you want to add that you think of Cool Cool, cool Cool. I think that's a generational thing. I think it's still being used.
Speaker 1:It's multi-generational.
Speaker 2:Cool does remind me. If we can speak about the word cool just for a second. Cool to me is when someone is talking to a younger person and trying to get on their level.
Speaker 1:See, this is where. I think a lot of slang words come from as well, because if I was to use some, I think if a boomer came up to me and started saying you know when I was surfing Like they're trying to get on your slang Like came up to me and I would say, by the side of the water with a surfboard in my hand, and then you had kind of like you know me now is it might come up to me going them waves look gnarly man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll be like what the leave? Yeah, yeah, it's like that word that's used to get down to someone else's yeah, generation, but it doesn't translate and it's. That's what cool is to me, yeah, of your generation coming and saying although I still use the word cool when another generation above me is saying that I feel like they're just trying to get onto my level, which is a nice thing to do, but that's what it reminds me of.
Speaker 1:But you kind of squint your eyes and look at them and just like stop, but I, I'm so.
Speaker 2:I would never say anything, but that's what I'm thinking in my head. Yeah, but I find it.
Speaker 1:I do find it interesting that there actually isn't that many that my generation use.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 1:Slang words. We've got a lot in I think I think we're too cool Slang. You're too cool, I think I think my generation was too cool for slang. We didn't. We didn't need slang. Yeah, we didn't need slang. Yeah, because we did a lot of our communication through body language. Yeah, it would be a look.
Speaker 2:I guess A knowing look Millennials and Generation Z and also Alpha are. That's when phones and technology came in.
Speaker 1:See, this is where I think a lot of the slang comes from as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, text speak and things like that as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and again, like with LOL, because LOL used to be Lots of love Lots of love, and then it transpired into laugh out loud. Yeah, lol, lol, lol, yeah. So it's kind of that whole idea of slang.
Speaker 2:It does not come up.
Speaker 1:Okay, not come up. Okay, it's fine. It's fine. Okay, should we go with my generation? Yeah, so this is the millennials. There's quite a few on here.
Speaker 2:Maybe I should do the opposite with you and see if you know.
Speaker 1:Now we're changing the tides yeah, yeah, yeah, this is which ones you know this is now more your kind of. We're slipping into your my, my realm your realm woke, you've probably heard. This is woke society.
Speaker 2:um, in your job as well, I guess woke is kind of the thing. Yeah, being awake, waking up generations to problems that happen in society, but I think your generation might use it derogatory.
Speaker 1:Now do you know what? For us, I kind of I think woke is like one of those words like gnarly, where it started off as a positive thing, yeah, and it's becoming negative, it's becoming negative.
Speaker 2:I had a candle once. Right, I know this is going to sound really random. I realise this is so random. I had a candle from a relative and the flavour of it was woke and I was like, okay, but it smelled really good. Woke smelled great, but yeah, it's just really random, like it was just called woke it's like paints, isn't it, when paint colors seldom seen I hope random is in here.
Speaker 1:I use that a lot we used to use random yeah, I haven't seen it yet we used to use random as a uh, as a kind of that's so random, that's so random yeah, that's so random.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, yeah, so woke. Uh, obviously you know that adulting god I use this.
Speaker 1:You use this all the time. I hear this from you constantly. Yeah, because sometimes I feel like I need an adultier adult yeah well, I don't feel adult enough well, I, I even do it at work. Yeah, so you know, if something goes wrong at work which is out of the need an adult, which is out of the realms of my expertise, I'll go through and I'll go. Can someone get an adult on the phone, or an adult on the phone please?
Speaker 2:yeah you know and even in my position I still use that term as in you know, as like, as though yeah I think as well in our generation and I've said this in in previous podcasts is that your 20s are a really weird time. You feel like a child, but some of your friends are having babies, so they're adulting, yeah, and some of your friends are moving out, so they're adulting. And some of your friends are getting married, so they're adulting. And sometimes you feel a little bit left behind.
Speaker 1:I don't know which is weird? Even me and your mum don't feel like adults.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1:I think and your mum don't feel like adults yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of adults don't feel like adults. We're not adults. Is there an adulty adult in this room? Yeah, yeah, can someone call them the adult please? I think we started cancel culture. Oh dear god, cancelled someone. Getting cancelled just means that they've done something, potentially 10 years ago.
Speaker 1:I find this, I find cancel culture. So it's, don't get me wrong. I think people should answer for their mistakes.
Speaker 2:Mistakes yes.
Speaker 1:But the whole idea of this cancelling someone. How can you cancel someone?
Speaker 2:I think people make mistakes and when we're young particularly, of course we make mistakes. Always agree with with this woke society is that it's a like, particularly like tv programs, and they go back and now they've taken stuff out of tv programs and things. And the most ridiculous one that I can think of is I understand that blackface is not good. I understand that that absolutely would not fly this day are you talking about scrubs?
Speaker 2:no, no, I, no, no, I'm talking about Gilmore Girls. They took a scene out of Gilmore Girls where they had mud face masks on.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That's not blackface. They were having a spa day. There was no blackface mention in that scene. There was nothing to do with making fun of black people, nothing at all. They just had face masks on. And I just think what Like that's not no face masks on? And I just think what like that's not? No, no, no, I don't understand, because there was no, you know, there wasn't even a joke.
Speaker 2:Now, scrubs is slightly different, because jd did blackface and whiteface, I guess yeah and then the joke is that jd is left in the room with black people, only with blackface, and they make a joke about it being bad yeah which kind of makes sense, because that's what the joke is, that yeah that the joke is what they want to cancel, so why not keep it?
Speaker 1:in it's really crazy yeah, the whole, the whole idea of cancel culture, like creating this mob of people to sell somebody that they they can't do, they can't exist, make a living, yeah, yeah because, yeah, everyone makes mistakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we all make mistakes and we all say things, especially in our youth, that we're like. There's lots of things I regret saying even now and I think about it now and I think, gosh, I just didn't understand I should not have said that I shouldn't have said that at the time and but that's the whole point.
Speaker 1:It's the whole point of disagreeing with somebody. But disagreeing with somebody well, and kind of fortunately, it's opening up that healthy discussion rather than just this cancelling somebody and unfortunately millennials grew up in a time where everything has been documented, because we're on social media and everything.
Speaker 2:You could look back at something that I said on social media, like ages and ages ago, if you wanted to, and bring it up to light. And oh, this podcast is now cancelled because I said something at some point in my life on social media which you can yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:The thing is like, you know, when you get like facebook, memories pop up, yeah, and you'd like something from 10 years ago and I'll be. Oh god, did I really say that. Cringe, yeah, did I really say that?
Speaker 2:yeah, I, I don't, I don't agree with it, but yeah, it's something that my, yeah, my generation brought in keep it 100. Never said that in my life. I don't know why this is on the list um the hundred moji. I know I've used the 100 moji for like 100 I use it for 100. Yeah, yeah, yeah but I've never said the phrase keep it 100 no, no, I love you, love you 3000.
Speaker 1:Oh no, don't, don't, I'm gonna cry. Love you 3000.
Speaker 2:Oh no, don't, Don't. I'm going to cry Love you 3000. Aesthetic not something that I particularly use in the slang sense, but I would say something is aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say, that is aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 2:But aesthetic is more used as slang to say like if you've got a really pretty phone case, oh, that's aesthetic. I wouldn't say that. Unfortunately, I think that falls into another yeah potentially the next generation more than this one in my personal opinion, but um, yeah, I wouldn't call it something as aesthetic no thirst trap I've heard of this.
Speaker 1:I've never used it, but I have heard of it yeah, so I I use this.
Speaker 2:If there's something particularly, I'll use the term spicy that was probably in here as slang at some point. But if you say something spicy is something sexy, I would say that you see on, you see on social media and like, oh well, that's a thirst trap, like you could see the first clip of someone doing something slightly, slightly risque, shall we? Say and you'd say that's a thirst trap yeah, I get clickbait is another thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get worried about some videos you know, like, if I put up of me, because you know, just, you know, I just know how just, yeah, gorgeous I am. Of course I just I just worry about being classed as a thirst trap as a thirst trap, you know, or uh, or spicy the feels.
Speaker 2:Right in the feels. I'm moving on. I use this a lot.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right in the feels yeah, you do use this a lot, I do yeah like love you, 3000 right in the feels I know yeah meaning that you get an over over overwhelming sense of feelings yeah
Speaker 2:yes, right in the feels there. Oh, that got me. That got me right in the feels is a phrase I have uttered many a time. Swole it's, funnily enough, something that doesn't come up in my life, because I'm not very muscular. I would never say someone is swole. I have had people of my generation say it, but it's not a word that I personally would use. I'd be like cool, you've been working out would probably be what I'd say, but I would never call someone swole. I'm sorry, I just find it really silly. Swole just seems like a little bit too inappropriate for some reason. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I guess Good job, but I just don't use it. Oh my gosh. So the next word is something that is a bit of a bugbear of mine, but it's like literally, literally genuinely is another one, but it might not be literally yeah and I think that's what annoys me when someone says it, but they don't actually mean literally yeah oh yeah, and genuinely is another one they confuse it with generally, and that annoys me.
Speaker 1:Oh, do you know something that I noticed that your generation has done and it's not in here? What have we done? And you started doing it when you were younger, and I've noticed now that everyone does it on purpose, by accident.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mess this up once in my my life and for some reason, you just bring it up constantly. I'm um, yeah, but no. I've heard other people say it. Now it. It's a difficult phrasing in english in my opinion, but I did only make a mistake once, and now I get it right yeah, but you know, I did it on purpose by accident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. But now people say I did it by purpose on accident on accident, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I know it annoys you, but I think that's just one of those grammar faux pas. Yeah, that's just got confused over the years. Yeah, yeah, I made the mistake once Once and you bring it up every time. I'm like once. Young people make mistakes, you know Okay.
Speaker 1:Sorry, young people make mistakes, you know okay sorry, bay bay, this makes me cringe salt bay so it just makes me cringe.
Speaker 2:Um, do I use this word? No, but I would use it to describe salt bay, because salt bay is called salt bay, but I wouldn't say it's a noun rather than a verb I did ironically start calling my husband babe when we first got together, because I hated it, but now, unfortunately, it has stuck. So, I do call him babe, yeah, Especially if I'm calling for him in the house like babe.
Speaker 1:That's how you do it.
Speaker 2:But I hated oh, babes, such like an Essex thing, babes, yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
Speaker 1:Your mother says that I sound like Ozzy in the house.
Speaker 2:Jared yeah, not a fan of that. Your mother says that I sound like Ozzy in the house. Jared yeah, basic.
Speaker 1:Sorry your mum, oh, dear Lord.
Speaker 2:Basic.
Speaker 1:Basic, it's so basic.
Speaker 2:So basic.
Speaker 1:Why is it like Mean Girls?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's got that real Mean Girls kind of vibe.
Speaker 2:It's a basic bitch yeah. It's got a real Mean Girls vibe to it yeah basic, yeah, girls, yeah basic. Yeah, it's not something I use, but I am aware of it. It's a bit of a humble brag. I've never heard humble brag is kind of like is this actually a? Thing. Yeah, humble brag is very similar and I'm surprised it's not on here. Actually, like flex, like right, it's a bit like oh, it's kind of like shameless plug right humble brag.
Speaker 1:Very similar gotcha.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very similar vein I probably have used it, but I don't think I've used it right recently. Okay, it's gone out of fashion.
Speaker 1:That one, yeah, by felicia, never heard of this oh, I've heard by felicia I don't, I think yep, I don't know by felicia yeah, yeah, I see that a lot Diminishing someone Appears in memes, gifs and hashtags.
Speaker 2:Based on a character named Felicia in the movie Friday by yeah. Felicia often appears in memes. Yeah, I don't know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've heard it in gifs and memes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, completely odd to me. Slay, Slay girlfriend.
Speaker 1:Slay again, not a word that I would use unless I'm using it slightly ironically.
Speaker 2:Like that outfit slays, maybe if I was trying to fit in with my my peers, oh, my god I might say slay, but uh, have you actually said it I? Don't know.
Speaker 1:Please tell me you haven't. I don't think I please tell me you haven't. I can no longer think. I Please tell me you haven't. I can no longer. You can no longer be my daughter if you've used the word slay.
Speaker 2:It's. I don't think I use it in the traditional sense.
Speaker 1:I will have to write you out the will.
Speaker 2:I think I've only, I think I've only ever said it ironically.
Speaker 1:Dear God, not even ironically.
Speaker 2:No, I think yeah, yeah, shipping. Now, shipping is for anyone that doesn't know what shipping is. Shipping is when you-.
Speaker 1:I've suddenly become an expert now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like. Yeah, I feel like I'm the voice of our generation. This is my wheelhouse.
Speaker 2:This is my thing, shipping is kind of was brought where the first time oh God, I'm starting this so badly, I can't speak today. Shipping for me started when I was on a social media platform called Tumblr, and shipping is when it's kind of a shortened version or lengthened version, I guess, of relationship, and the idea is that when you ship two people together that could be in fiction or in real life it's called shipping. So basically, it's kind of like setting two people up or or believing two people should be together. So yeah, so like like davey just said, in supernatural, dean and castiel, they're not. They're not together in the show because for whatever reason I don't know they could be. They absolutely should be, I think, in my opinion, I think they'd be a great couple they're a great couple, but yeah, shipping.
Speaker 1:That's why your eyes widened then.
Speaker 2:A lot of people ship Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy together as well. That's another ship, and there's things that then, like authors or writers of shows, will actually do so they, their the culture, is so strong sometimes that they will ship the characters together, for that shipping. First time I ever heard of that was on a site called tumblr. I don't know if tumblr is still going, I think it is, but yeah, good site, good blogging site. Yeah, I would totally agree.
Speaker 1:That's our generation yeah, so that's millennials, that is millennials, millennials done yeah right generation z z god, here we go oh, dear lord, here we go, yeah the first one chugi chugi.
Speaker 2:It means something uncool or outdated never heard of it no chugi.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, generation z that's new to me fomo I have heard of fomo yeah, I fear of missing out.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that was generation X. I think that was my generation. But, FOMO yeah, fear of missing out, Got bad FOMO.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely said that for sure.
Speaker 2:Big mad, big mad, little mad. A phrase that means something has triggered you. You're extremely mad about it.
Speaker 1:See triggered. Actually, these are in alphabetical order. Huh, triggered, triggered will be on there.
Speaker 2:Triggered came from originally psychology and it came from CBT therapies. It did indeed Cognitive behavioral therapy, and trigger was used in that context as something that would set off a certain Response. Response, yeah, which could be anything from a panic attack to sweating, to anything yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it triggers a response. Triggers a response. Cause and effect the response could be anything. This happens, this is the response.
Speaker 2:But it has become mainstream media to use, triggered and also quite derogatory as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's almost like a oh that triggers me, oh that's triggered. And it's like, uh, that triggers me or that's triggered. And now some people now it's going on the other way is like, oh, you're so triggered by this. Yeah, yeah, is that your week? It's even with that you can see the evolution of language yeah, you can see it, can't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, but it originally started as a psychological term for anyone that was interested in that big mad. Anyway, sorry, we were going on, bougie I use this all the time. I love bougie, something's like it's a little bit more posh than you used to. Yeah, oh, that's a bit bougie, something's like it's a little bit more posh than you used to. Yeah. Oh that's a bit bougie, Like I'd go for afternoon tea and I'd go, I'd look at the plates and everything and I'd be like, oh, this is so bougie.
Speaker 1:So you use that? Yeah, is that something you would use Too, right? Is it a Gen Z term?
Speaker 2:It is a Gen Z term.
Speaker 1:It is a Gen, so you're trying to be down with the kids.
Speaker 2:I am down with the kids, down with the kids. Cap no cap. Never heard of this before.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Cap means a lie. It's often used by people to call others out for being dishonest.
Speaker 1:Oh, is this a cap? I said no, no cap, I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see how it can be used, but lie and cap same word, but okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, point of it beat your face. Well, applying makeup, especially heavy makeup, involves using a blended mini of products like concealer, foundation. Yeah, term was most commonly used in social media 2015 and gained traction as fashion bloggers began using it on instagram. Beat your face beat your face I've heard of beat your meat, but Beat your face obviously has a completely different meaning to it. Fam, fam, fam-a-lam. Our chat is called Fam-a-lam.
Speaker 1:Our chat is called Fam-a-lam, but not fam.
Speaker 2:Fam, I wouldn't say is Generation Z, I would say it's more, more millennial. More millennial actually yeah.
Speaker 1:And that came from, say I think FAM is more kind of American influence into London and then fed from London outwards, because when I heard I remember a few, it must be 20 years ago now, yeah. And I heard a group of Wyndham High kids that were in your year, who I'd known, you know, seen around before, with quite Norfolk accents, telling, calling other people, fam, and it just sounded so odd, so odd uh, catch these hands, a phrase used to let someone know you want to fight them.
Speaker 1:Never in my life have I heard that ah see, no, I've heard throw hands, throw hands, yeah, not catch these hands high key, low key, definitely, like I'm high key, obsessed with this. I'm low key. Obsessed with this. I've heard of it, never used it.
Speaker 2:I have, yeah, karen, of course.
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Karen is someone that is a stereotype of. Can I talk?
Speaker 1:to the manager Get me the manager.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can I talk to the manager please?
Speaker 1:I did see something the other day. It's saying if we have to use the term karen as somebody who's that obnoxious type, angry, entitled person, then they should use the name steve for someone who's wholesome oh, steve is a wholesome, wholesome. Yes, steve so you've got karen's on one and steve on the steve on the other side, and there was, and there was a picture of all these different cool Steves Like Steve Carell and all that. As wholesome people.
Speaker 2:Wholesome people. I love that for you Makes me want to grip the person's neck and throttle them.
Speaker 1:It just sounds. That's a bit extreme, I know, but it sounds I love that for you.
Speaker 2:It's like it's so Patronising, patronising, and I want to yeah, not a fan, not a fan. Mood, big mood, yeah, big mood.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? Big mood?
Speaker 2:It's hard to.
Speaker 1:Has generally said it online in a reference Like relatable oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you now Same with goals Squad goals.
Speaker 2:Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1:I know A couple of things make me cringe. I mean you say that a lot. You say, oh, we're going out with the squad and I must admit, my heckles go up a little bit the squad.
Speaker 2:I often refer to them as the squad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is me, this is me.
Speaker 2:Someone extremely attractive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Never active. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never used that term before. Yeah, snack to me should be older like 90s. I don't know like I can imagine clueless era would be like.
Speaker 1:Oh he's such a snack. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:I think that I've heard this said quite a lot as I've walked past people right yeah stan a term, a term that is words for stalker and fan it's originated from the Eminem song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can see that, but I'm surprised that's in Gen Z.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they just took it from there. Yeah, they love Eminem, don't they? Yeah Sus.
Speaker 1:I've used the word sus before. If something is sus, that's proper, sus, that's a bit sus. That's proper sus. Yeah, that's proper sus. That's a bit sus, that's proper sus yeah, that's the end of Generation. Triggered. Wasn't on there Triggered wasn't on there? Trigger wasn't on there.
Speaker 2:It should have been.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's Generation Z yeah.
Speaker 1:So we do have. We can finish off with Generation Alpha, generation Alpha, generation Alpha. Shall we rattle through these? We'll rattle through them. Rattle through these.
Speaker 2:Check out her. Drip Refers to someone's style or outfit.
Speaker 1:Never heard of that.
Speaker 2:Very similar to Threads.
Speaker 1:Threads Back in the boomers yeah.
Speaker 2:No cap, no lie Again. That's come up again. That was yeah in the Generation Z. No cap Bet.
Speaker 1:Want to go to the park later. Bet, oh, like, okay, or sure, yeah, sure, yes, you bet.
Speaker 2:You betcha, you betcha. That's where that's come from, isn't it?
Speaker 1:That's where that's come from? Definitely.
Speaker 2:They've got sus in theirs as well. Yeah, vibe check.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've heard it said what's the vibe? I used to say what's the vibe in there.
Speaker 2:Good vibes only.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the atmosphere like?
Speaker 2:Flex, I know flex.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Showing off.
Speaker 1:What a flex, yeah, showing off.
Speaker 2:Definitely Fam again. Fam is coming up, Glow up, yeah, when someone is well less attractive, which is a horrible thing to say actually, I can't think of, I think.
Speaker 1:Sandy from Grease.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've.
Speaker 1:They've had a makeover.
Speaker 2:I want to say like They've done well for themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they've done well for themselves.
Speaker 2:They've done better for themselves, they've matured, or there's even a show on Netflix, isn't there?
Speaker 1:called Glow Up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, simp, I've heard this term, but I don't really understand it. A term for someone who does too much for someone.
Speaker 1:No, it's not. I think it's some Simp refers to someone that's like a doormat. Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, yeah, a term for someone who does too much for someone they like, often with little reciprocation.
Speaker 1:Sorry, yeah, example underneath he bought her all that stuff. What a simp. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Doormat, basically Mood.
Speaker 1:Again, we've talked about mood and that alpha I did hear the other day. Was it skibbity? What was that skibbity? Bat, bat bowl, I don't know. I don't know what skibbity is, I don't know, but apparently that's a, that's a gen alpha saying yeah, so slang, slang. So it's quite interesting that there are. You know, over the generations there are some that are very similar, but also change change very different yeah, the one I thought was going to be on there was Scran.
Speaker 2:I've only ever heard that recently, and that just means food.
Speaker 1:That's a military thing. That's a military thing, scran yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it just refers to like takeaway food, like shit food, or whether it just means like Scran any food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just Scran some food it just come out of the nowhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the yeah, nowhere yeah riz like charisma yeah, he's got the riz no no no, I just don't understand that one no yeah so, but you do use.
Speaker 1:You could say from reading some of those, you do use a lot of those slang words bougie is one I say all the time yeah, that's so, bougie I tend not to.
Speaker 2:I do you know I don't say many of the millennial ones.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'm just trying to be cool, I'm trying to be hip and down with the kids, hip, hip and down with the kids. Yeah, see, even hip.
Speaker 1:Hip yeah.
Speaker 2:Hip was a slang word for cool.
Speaker 1:And now.
Speaker 2:I use it as like old trying to be young.
Speaker 1:I just had that song come into my head it's hip to be square. I just had that song come into my head it's hip to be square.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:No, no, you've never heard that.
Speaker 2:Hip to be square, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Huey Lewis and the News.
Speaker 2:Be there or be square. I know Huey Lewis and the News done a parallel for the curious thing.
Speaker 1:Back to the feature. In fact Huey Lewis and the News is referenced in American Psycho that I was saying earlier about the yuppies.
Speaker 2:Full circle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've got to watch American Psycho. It is a brilliant film.
Speaker 2:It's quite violent, though I'm not into violence.
Speaker 1:Can I skip the violence? From a psychological perspective, it's very good you could skip the violence. You could skip the violence. Yeah, yeah, yeah, john Wick, that shit, john Wick that shit. Yeah, got to skip that. I've seen the first one. Yeah, exactly, no, no, no, yeah, cool. So that's slang words. Let's wrap it up. I wonder if any of our listeners have heard of many of them, if they've got any that we haven't said.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Send some in.
Speaker 2:I bet there's a lot of Generation Alpha ones that they're like. I don't know what this means.
Speaker 1:I don't know what you know, ping us some videos of some generation alpha slang words and let's see if we can figure out what they mean what's your favourite one that we come across so far? My favourite one yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go with gnarly, just because of how, how it's changed over time. Yeah, I like gnarly, plus I use it.
Speaker 1:I like gnarly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll go with yali gnarly yeah, I'll go with yali yali, yali, you can't choose my one okay, what what's done, the legwork for you all right, okay, I reckon you should, you should do dude, dude, I just like.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I just like? Well, say I like, I don't like it. I just find the going postal story absolutely mind-blowing. That's, that's proper done me, done you in. That's done me in. Yeah, that has proper done me. As like I've got to go and check to see if this is actually a thing and how many occurrences are you tricked in right now? Bro, that's maybe bro sam dude dude, where's my car?
Speaker 1:oh, what was it, man? Dude man, no, what was it? What were you on about when they had tattoos on the back and they're spinning around? What does my back say, dude?
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought you were talking about Austin Powers with the twins.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, that's so racist.
Speaker 2:I know I can't say that on rare now, absolutely not. See, that's one of them. Cancelled culture things that you can't now. You can't now yeah well not acceptable, then that's probably not even right wording either, but it was. It just wasn't thought out properly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it wasn't thought of then. Again, ramifications of people's actions and words were not thought through at the time.
Speaker 2:And now council. Culture is a. Thing. People are more worried about what they need or what they can and can't say, which is, I guess, we do on this podcast as well.
Speaker 1:I literally just said oh, I can't really repeat that on air. I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have to be so careful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do, it's all good, but no. We navigate. Well, we can do it?
Speaker 1:I think we do yes.
Speaker 2:Other than when I get really, really mad about mean people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they're going. I mean, it's not my, I am. I'm going to be doing some research this afternoon and find out exactly what went wrong. I mean, was there something in the water in post offices? I mean what?
Speaker 2:It's all that stamp licking, it's the gunk on the stamp.
Speaker 1:Was there some kind of weird kind of solvent that they were using in envelopes that was going through the machine? This needs further research.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So join us again for another episode on going postal, because apparently there's going to be an episode.
Speaker 1:I'm going to write a whole episode on this.
Speaker 2:How much research is going to go into this? No, if you enjoyed this episode, please check out our other episodes. If you haven't done so, and if you've been with us from the beginning howdy, howdy and what I hope you enjoyed this one and join us next time for the next one every Thursday every Thursday every Thursday. Check us out on Instagram. Bye Outro Music.