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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Okay, but where is schway? I know it is technically older than 90s, but Batman Beyond has cemented that word in my vocab. Even though I barely ever get a chance to use it.
I personally am not a fan of a lot of modern 2020s slang but chud is one I do get behind.
Whack
My cat is cooler than yours
Goyim? Like... Not a Jewish person?
Excuse me, but where is “cool beans?”
Ikr? So lame!
NGL I like "-maxxing" because of how versatile it is.
"Whatever" is hardly slang, however.
Whatevs
You should be slangmaxxing
MaxxMAXXING
It's what TJ does
I think an even older generation would ut their slang in the strong soyjack section and would put yours in the stupid soyjack section.
How skibidi of you
I still say "groovy", "hella", and "dank".
Bodacious!
Tubular
Righteous
Cowabunga!
Phat
Golly!
23-skiddoo, kid
Wicked
Gnarly
boomer moment
Goyim is like WW1 slang. Smh genz can't do anything right smh
tfw when you're getting old and crabby
Foid and Goyim aren't normal slang, they're slurs used by fascist weirdos. -maxxing is only used by non-fascist weirdos in ironic contexts.
This post has a remarkably low amount of diggity.
Wait, wait, I'm still confused. Is diggity a good thing or not? Should I be aiming for an overwelming surplus of it, and if I should, is it really surplus, or should I be trying to expunge it from my life entirely?
You only want in the correct amount. Not enough diggity is almost as bad as too much diggity. So by diggity extension, an overwhelming amount of diggity is indeed too much diggity and thus not diggity at all.
Diggity diggity.
Don't forget the diggity serving temperature. Diggity must be hot.
Isn't Goyim Yiddish?
I confess I only know that one from Weird Al's pop-punk hit "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi"
I would see that as a badge of honour.
A lot of modern slang started on right wing sections of 4Chan and is full of Jewish words intentionally used as code to make fun of them. EtymologyNerd on YouTube has talked about the right leaning origin of slang some
Fun fact. /pol/ was created the day after Epstein met moot and gave him a ride home. Q anon appeared there a couple years later with pizza gate.
Epstein was one of those elitist jews that called non jews goyim like muggles or some shit. Amazing how much worse 4chan is than every other chan. I never thought I would miss 8chan
So the Yiddish word means someone who isn't Jewish. How is it used in those spaces?
So incels that think they're clever got ya
I unironically used "epic" today
Word!
I’m not really fond of signaling disrespect like this. I like to encourage respect.
Education time.
Dashiell Hammett was a WW1 veteran who fought the Army for the right to join up to fight Hitler. After the war he was sent to jail for refusing to name names when the government wanted to know who was in the Communist Party.
After working as a real life detective, Hammett turned to writing crime fiction. In one of his stories he used authentic crook slang. 'The rag lay' was stealing laundry off of clothes lines. It was the kind of thing only the lowest miscreants would do. His editor censored 'the rag lay' because it sounded dirty to him. Hammett didn't raise a fuss, but in his next story he had his hero call a cheap crook a 'gunsel' and a 'punk.'
'Gunsel' and 'punk' were both slang for men who offered sex for protection in prison.