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What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use? (piefed.social)

submitted 5 months ago by parsizzle@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago

it's a free country!

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Retard.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Eh, I use it for very stupid people. Obviously devoid of ableist intent.

I feel as though the context matters with this. For the genuinely evil and criminally unintelligent I would use the clinical "Mentally retarded".

"Retard" and music (low volume) on buses are the controversial hills I'm willing to die on.

[–] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Pick better hills.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago

"Everyone's always asking me: 'What are you doing, retard?', but nobody ever asks 'How are you doing, retard?'"

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

All that and a bag of chips

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Syke. Or psych. Early 90's kid slang, had a definition akin to just kidding or fooled you but more mean spirited. Said to mark the previous statement as intended purely to mess with the listener's mind or psych them out. Similar in spirit to ending a sarcastically spoken sentence with "NOT!" though distinct.

"Yeah man, you can drive my car. Psych! You're not touching my ride."

The more I type about it, the less "psych" looks like a valid English word.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Information superhighway

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 0 points 5 months ago

We were so full of hope.