Talk to the hand was likely one of the most annoying teenagerisms ever devised and promulgated. That made me want to just deck every kid who pulled it.
Well... Wikipedia says it came from hip-hop music in the 90s. But since I am white as rice and lived in the sticks, it took a couple decades to be widespread enough to ever hear it I guess. 🤷♂️
IMO, that mindset pretty much died the day the towers fell. There was and has been a little "it's the 21st century" or "it's " but they're generally not marked by as much optimism (or subversion of the same) as it was in the '90s.
In the phrase "it's the 90s" the connotation was optimistic, things are improving, et cetera. In "it's the 21st century" or "it's 202x" the idea is normally about how tech has or should have improved, in my experience. Like, the 90s phrase could be used for just about anything, "it's the 90s, Jimmy, everyone's cool with the gays!" Or whatever else. It was optimism and hope and a belief that things were improving. Now it's just "it's 2025, why the fuck doesn't my debit card work?" Or "in the year of our Lord 2021, why does no one believe the scientists?"
83 Comments
azimir@lemmy.ml · 79 pts · 281d
Psych!
Not
Wuzzzzap?
Radical, dude
Cowabunga
Catch you on the flip side
The Information Superhighway
Bud. Wise. Er.
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
fuck, I still say catch you on the flip side, but mostly cuz I think it's a badass line from the movie The Boondock Saints
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 281d
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 281d
Cool beans.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 281d
If I start saying this again, I'm blaming you!
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 281d
That’s fair, I’m sorry. lol.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 281d
🤣
djvinniev77@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 281d
Cool beans
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 281d
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
smh@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 281d
I never stopped.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 281d
Oh shit, I'm still saying that.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 280d
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 281d
As if.
Whatever
No way!
Way!
Righteous
(Anything from Austin Powers or Adam Sandler)
Mean people suck
DUDE.
robador51@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 281d
SWEET
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 281d
What does mine say?!
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 281d
And then?
djvinniev77@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 281d
DUDE! What does mine say?
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 18 pts · 281d
Talk to the hand! Cause the face ain't listening.
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 281d
Phat!
You’ve got mail!
I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman.
That’s gay.
1-800-C-O-L-L-E-C-T
Dial 10-10-2-Twenty
WWW dot…(they soon dropped the www part)
HeadyBroccoli@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 281d
Dubba dubba dubba dot
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 280d
That's hella gay.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 281d
I thought it was 1 800 CALL ATT (for AT&T collect calls).
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 1 pts · 280d
I believe 1-800-COLLECT was for MCI.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 27 pts · 281d
Bitchin'! (originally older but it started to be revived in the 90s)
Gag me with a spoon!
What-ever!
Talk to the hand!
Cowabunga!
Wasssaaaaaaaaaaaaap?!
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
That's early-80s, Valley Girlspeak.
My mom? She's like a total space cadet.
She makes me do the dishes aaand clean the catbox...?!!
Gross! Barf out! Like I'm sure...! ...totally...!
azimir@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 280d
Talk to the hand was likely one of the most annoying teenagerisms ever devised and promulgated. That made me want to just deck every kid who pulled it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 280d
"Okay, Boomer."
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 281d
All that and a bag of chips
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 280d
Yeah.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 281d
Off the chain
Off the hook
Not
mercano@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 281d
It’s da bomb
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 281d
dot com
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 281d
Did I do that?
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 280d
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 281d
Eat my shorts.
trk@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 281d
eat pant
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 281d
Don't have a cow, man.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 281d
I mention these because nobody wants to admit they said/heard them, but they did and it happened.
chunes@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 281d
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 281d
"No homo" is from the 2010s, not the 90s.
otp@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 281d
Hah, I guess it lasted a long time. Pretty sure people in my school were saying it at least a decade prior
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 281d
Well... Wikipedia says it came from hip-hop music in the 90s. But since I am white as rice and lived in the sticks, it took a couple decades to be widespread enough to ever hear it I guess. 🤷♂️
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 281d
I distinctly remember it in 99
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 281d
"Let's Get Dangerous!" - DW
PokerChips@programming.dev · 17 pts · 281d
You down with o p p?
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 281d
yeah you know me
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 281d
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
Oh my God, Becky look at her butt.
It's morphin' time!
DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 281d
What's your damage?
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 280d
Don't have a cow, man!
individual@toast.ooo · 16 pts · 281d
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 281d
Just so you know, I'm all that and a bag of chips.
Hathaway@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 280d
Allow me to add, “mint”.
individual@toast.ooo · 1 pts · 280d
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 14 pts · 281d
I think it may have been very early 00s but the wazzzzzuuuuuuuup thing.
Also the old Taco Bell mascot and "yo quiero Taco Bell "
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 280d
Yo quiero, taco bell! Is how I mentally hear the dog.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 12 pts · 281d
I can’t remember if “Aw snap!” Is nineties or noughties…
Davel23@fedia.io · 3 pts · 281d
I first heard it in the early '80s.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 9 pts · 281d
It's / This is the '90s [then a statement about how things are better / different / more enlightened]
chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 281d
That's so true. I think it would have kept being said in the following decades if people knew what to call them.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 6 pts · 281d
IMO, that mindset pretty much died the day the towers fell. There was and has been a little "it's the 21st century" or "it's " but they're generally not marked by as much optimism (or subversion of the same) as it was in the '90s.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 281d
In the phrase "it's the 90s" the connotation was optimistic, things are improving, et cetera. In "it's the 21st century" or "it's 202x" the idea is normally about how tech has or should have improved, in my experience. Like, the 90s phrase could be used for just about anything, "it's the 90s, Jimmy, everyone's cool with the gays!" Or whatever else. It was optimism and hope and a belief that things were improving. Now it's just "it's 2025, why the fuck doesn't my debit card work?" Or "in the year of our Lord 2021, why does no one believe the scientists?"
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 281d
Lllllike a glove
Awwww here it goes
Joke answer:
I only remember there being one catchphrase show
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 6 pts · 280d
I scrolled for a while looking but didn't see, "Not the momma!".
chunes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
I'm the baby. Gotta love me!
over_clox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 281d
Well shit fire and fuck me running!
From the game Redneck Rampage, 1998.
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 280d
I feel like this might be from something else because I have a friend who said this, but she doesn't play video games.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
Get off my lawn!
😂
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 281d
Peace
Filthy
ill
Dope(good)
To the max
--
Primus sucks
TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
Psych!
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 281d
Cool story, Bro.
metallic_substance@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 281d
This came around way after the 90s
PokerChips@programming.dev · 0 pts · 281d
HODL
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 281d
going postal
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 281d
"Bin da wer noch?" From the german dub of THE DINOS
LOLseas@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 280d
I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!
Pork chop sandwiches!
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 280d
The Juggernaut video was 2005, and the Fenslerfilms clips were around 2003. So neither of those are '90s
LOLseas@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 280d
Well hot damn. Belay my last.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 280d
Ima computer.
LOLseas@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 280d
I dunno much about computers- other than- other than the one we got at my house-
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
Body message!
LOLseas@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
Ehhhhhhhhh- what the Hell??
Policeshootout@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 280d
I remember everyone saying "suck it" all the time haha. And then later just doing the gesture.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Whoa!
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 281d
Ermahgerd gersbumps!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 281d
Even a golden trombone needs a spit valve.