There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.
Just remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.
We used to use rorted to mean... well it would be past tense for hitting a bong, "to rort" being the verb. I am in the UK and have no idea where that slang came from.
I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
OMG, helping my kid through home schooling during lockdown and I found out what this word meant.... Made my brain go flumph just trying to pronounce it correctly! ;)
It's definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
It's used in the same context as "bastard", but solely as a term of endearment.
I really dig using "mook" as an insult, playfully or otherwise. It's somewhat normal in my tight circles but I get looks every time I'm in other groups when I drop a "what a mook"
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consciouslyoblivious@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 3y
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
Heh, I use it everyday
"I wish I was happy..."
time_fo_that@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
me_irl
Iamdanno@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 3y
Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.
blacklizardplanet@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.
Belgdore@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
Ditto to frankincense
Case@unilem.org · 2 pts · 3y
I've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.
yiliu@informis.land · 50 pts · 3y
There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y
There's a John Mulaney joke about this
yiliu@informis.land · 4 pts · 3y
Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
Found the podcast...
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
I'm fairly certain it's in "New In Town"
CrunchyBoy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
Massada42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol
Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev · 39 pts · 3y
Disestablishmentarianism.
indigomirage@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 3y
CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.
Silviecat44@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
indigomirage@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 3y
Covfefe
ndr@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
I say this almost daily lol
rikudou@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 3y
How?
ndr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
ndr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
ndr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Do you mean how I pronounce or why I say it? If the latter, just because it sounds funny to me and it kind of became a running gag.
rikudou@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 3y
I meant how do you even pronounce that.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I've always said it like "cawv-fee-fee."
ndr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I pronounce as if it were a Spanish word. lol
paddirn@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 3y
Affordable housing
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
So "affordablehousing" then? đ
Louisoix@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
Looks German
Super_Stone@feddit.de · 9 pts · 3y
We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
kenbw2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Doesn't that mean unfindable?
Konlanx@feddit.de · 12 pts · 3y
You are right. It's a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
kenbw2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Ah gotcha
Louisoix@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
Seems like there's a word for everything in German!
Cliffjumper@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
There is. That word is "alles".
samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it's the English one that's smashing two existing words together.
devious@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 3y
Cowabunga and tubular!
80s were a good time!
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 3y
Gnarly, dude.
Asafum@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 3y
Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Rad!
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y
So I can take back "Porch Monkey"?
https://youtu.be/7qc0akWRBQk
/s
turtlepower@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Bodacious!
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Gnarly!
Encode1307@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 3y
Truthiness
zero@lemm.ee · 25 pts · 3y
As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"
model_tar_gz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Just remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.
Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
More specifically it's because the array isn't empty.
model_tar_gz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Yup youâre more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.
Encode1307@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
Strategery
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
Vituperative. It's such a good word too.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 3y
Oh, that's good. A new one for me!
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Isn't that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.
Also garrolous is a good word.
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Actually I spelled it wrong, it's garrulous. My bad!
JehovasThickness@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
Discombobulate
jet@hackertalks.com · 21 pts · 3y
Information superhighway
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big
truckhighway. It's a series of tubes.jet@hackertalks.com · 1 pts · 3y
Tubelor.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y
Cyberspace!
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 3y
Surplus
everythingsucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
Dag. Not like Snatch âya like dagsâ but like âdag, yoâ.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 17 pts · 3y
Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y
Maybe like embroidered dags?
https://www.outfit4events.com/runtime/cache/images/redesignProductFull/mna-1065x.JPG
everythingsucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. Itâs dag, yo.
EndOfLine@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 3y
Fleek
Thankfully.
EhList@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Let_me_smell_you@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
Skedaddle
Thulcander@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
Let_me_smell_you@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
Chefdano3@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
I use this very regularly.
svncake@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Skadoodle
dudinax@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
Cheese it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
It's the fuzz!
Asafum@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 3y
Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.
rorted - being high
having a pash - intense kissing
Sunstream@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Too right. Someone in my household reminded us that we used to use munted all the time, so we're bringing it back into our vocab, haha
Munted - mutated, fucked up, borken
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
We used to use rorted to mean... well it would be past tense for hitting a bong, "to rort" being the verb. I am in the UK and have no idea where that slang came from.
NotSpez@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 3y
MOIST
dicksinabag@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
strawberrysocial@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I blame How I Met Your Mother
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
The night was moist...
Canopyflyer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Keep your starship out of my backyard.
(JN Chaney book reference)
clucking_sliver@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
Defenestrate. What a word!
RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
ErwinLottemann@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?
bless@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Mack
"Did you mack her?"
So dumb lol
Raptor_007@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Just realized I forgot about this one lol
randomTingler@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
I love you too.
It's not a single word though.
Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Hugs from an internet stranger.
geogle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
ಠ_ŕ˛
BobDole@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Baud
gingernate@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
250k baud or 500k baud?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I write firmware, this is a daily term
rifk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I will always love those old modem tones
son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Crunk
Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y
Schadenfreude
theherk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Pronounced scoodinâ nâfroody in case anybody was wondering.
drphungky@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
This is still my favorite pronunciation video ever. Gets me every time.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
bitchin
wicked
FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Bodacious
Tubular
Take a whiz
Majorly
Fubar91@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Trill
Booyah!
Pimpin
JungleJim@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y
That pimpin' Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck...
Fubar91@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Lol! ^ When you download the wrong episode of Star Trek off limewire O.O
soupspoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 3y
"Pimpmobile" is one of my most-used terms!
TvanBuuren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Haven't played any Splatoon lately?
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 3y
fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)
EzekielJK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Your lungs thank you.
EzekielJK@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
InAbsentia@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.
24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 3y
It's how I describe my job.
Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!
gloves420@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
0xeb@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Splendid
SharkEatingBreakfast@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y
Grody
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
To the max.
FReddit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Sozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.
littlecolt@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
Dodecahedron
efrique@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
heard that one earlier today ...
ErwinLottemann@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
Matt Parker or Steve Mould?
efrique@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Neither, though I do watch a bit of Matt Parker on youtube, so it's a decent guess.
Lammy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
sploosh
banana_meccanica@feddit.it · 7 pts · 3y
yolo
KreekyBonez@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y
you only YOLO once
yoYOLOo
Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
ciggie
Feidhlim@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Yonder
maporita@unilem.org · 6 pts · 3y
As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"
dingus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I'd love it if "groovy" came back
Sea_pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
You're everywhere!!
dingus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Lemmy is only so big I suppose!
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Bibliobibuli
A person who reads too much
mojo@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
cowabunga
confetti_8tVST5@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
GooglyBear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
OMG, helping my kid through home schooling during lockdown and I found out what this word meant.... Made my brain go flumph just trying to pronounce it correctly! ;)
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Sounds right.
FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Spoot!
Ignoramus
Teleconference
Indubitably
GooglyBear@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Is the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!
FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Put some stank on it Daggy!
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y
Guffaw
Saneless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Renob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school
staceybassoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Synergy
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Like a boss.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.
Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Why "licious" instead of "listic?"
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
That darn Autocorrect!
samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
A particularly egregious example, as neither are words!
atticus88th@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Free
Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 3y
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often
GRENADE_MAGNET@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Cahoots
Urbanfox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Bufty.
Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.
foggianism@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.
Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Middle class
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Cluster Fuck
Unfuckulate
I have a passion for the word "fuck" I need to get back to. I love the word "cunt" but thats too volatile so I had to retire that word.
Ass hat
Clown Shoes
Banana Head
Yeah most of my terms are personal attacks on morons I work with.
Cableferret@lemmy.tf · 6 pts · 3y
I use "ass hat" and "clusterfuck" regularly.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
FUBAR is another
I also go Ricky (I'm an American):
Worst case Ontario
What comes around is all around.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
BFE. Bum fuck egypt. A place far away
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 3y
I live there right now, middle of nowhere VA
Also we used to call it East Bum Fuck Egypt :)
dirtySourdough@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.
Alwaysfallingupyup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Gayrod
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 3y
It's GayLord, thankyouverymuch...
RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.
BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Now there's a word a fella could really muckle on to...
samus12345@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Never heard that one, had to look it up.
RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
It's definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
It's used in the same context as "bastard", but solely as a term of endearment.
"What's up, dubba?"
FatTony@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Precipitate
GoodGrief_HowDareYou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I went through a dapper phase at one point...
octoperson@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y
Cyberspace
Deez@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
Obi Wan
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I don't remember owning a droid.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Bumfuzzled
FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I think this word wins.
Kinyutaka@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
The lyrics to Alouette.
Dawkinsisgod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
...to your mother
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Real estate novelist.
Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)
Bianca_0089@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Facetious and Modicum.
I remember them being heavily used everywhere by everyone like a fad, disappeared like a fad. I don't miss them though
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
sphygmomanometer
cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
đ
ganksy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'
PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Assgoblin
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 3 pts · 3y
necrocracy
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y
I was going to say like North Korea?
medvedev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Bingus
ji88aja88a@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Apoplexy
Default_Defect@midwest.social · 3 pts · 3y
floccinaucinihilipilification
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Magnanimous
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Cunnilingus
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Waddup?
SirLukeJon@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
I really dig using "mook" as an insult, playfully or otherwise. It's somewhat normal in my tight circles but I get looks every time I'm in other groups when I drop a "what a mook"
ratboy@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
Bring it back! Fuck the normies!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
It doesn't work so well when you've got someone named Mookie in your poker group
the16bitgamer@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Prolly
SmolderingSauna@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
floral_toxicity@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Jig jog