Question of the Day - Tuesday, May 23

[cassiopea]

Hello everyone!





Today is my birthday





What's an outdated slang that you still use today?


I (happily) still use...
Cool
Cool beans
Bomb
Dude
Groovy
Buddy

And likely many more!

 

[betsygee]

If I go by the way my grandkids roll their eyes at me, practically everything I say is outdated!

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I had to look up what slang is outdated, so that probably means everything I say is outdated. According to this list I found here are the slang terms I use that are outdated: Take a chill pill, Chill out, dude (I frequently say this to my animals), whatever, my bad.

 

[denice]

Happy Birthday

I am 67 so I think all slang that I use is outdated. I did plenty of the eye rolling when I was young so now it is my turn to be the recipient of the eye rolls.

 

[susanm9006]

Happy Birthday. Okey Dokey

 

[strider rose]

cassiopea happy birthday hun


groovy
awesome sauce
far out

 

[NY cat man]

First off, happy birthday!
As someone in his mid-70s, people just look at me funny whenever I use any slang terms, such as geezer, codger, old fogey- you get my drift. I use a lot of terms that are archaic by contemporary standards, but I don't especially care.

 

[Margot Lane]

Well hey! How are you celebrating it?

I’ve inherited so many random ones from my dad I don’t have any of my own. DEFINiTELY

Far freakin out
What’s the skinny
Icebox—- I always say “icebox,” not “refrigerator.”
Plus all his kid camp songs & stories from the 1930s.

Mom was always quoting poetry & Shakespeare, so, that, plus oddities from her favorite comic strips, Pogo and Krazy Kat.

 

[catapault]

Margot Lane I have memories from my childhood, of an actual ice box in my aunt's summer cottage in the first few years that we would spend our summers there. Ice man delivered - was it maybe 3 or possibly just 2 times a week. So it's likely that whatever I say is outdated.

 

[neely]

Bummer as in disappointed
Space Cadet as in scatterbrain or a flake
Grody as in dirty or disgusting

cassiopea

 

[kashmir64]

Since when was "cool" outdated?
My problem is that I play a lot of video games with my friends from Hawaii and Australia, so the slang I pick up is probably not outdated. It's also not family friendly. I try to be really careful when I'm in public.

 

[Mia6]

dude
amazing

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

 

[misty8723]

Margot Lane I have memories from my childhood, of an actual ice box in my aunt's summer cottage in the first few years that we would spend our summers there. Ice man delivered - was it maybe 3 or possibly just 2 times a week. So it's likely that whatever I say is outdated.

When I was a kid my grandfather's had an ice box. i don't know what current slang is, but one thing i had to look up was "ship.' I was seeing it a lot in a FB forum Im in, as in "I ship John and Mary." found out it means a relationship you would like to see.

I guess I use cool, bummer, awesome, who knows what else.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I would guess most slang. Since my kids aren’t in a typical school they don’t bring much home for me to pick up. I’m not complaining about missing the “bruh” or “bae” phases. I don’t know why but those two were especially irritating.

 

[kashmir64]

I would guess most slang. Since my kids aren’t in a typical school they don’t bring much home for me to pick up. I’m not complaining about missing the “bruh” or “bae” phases. I don’t know why but those two were especially irritating.

Don't forget "Bro" every other word.

 

[Jem]

Since when was "cool" outdated?

....and same with, Dude, awesome, bummer, chill and buddy....these are outdated now?!?!?!

I also still use, old timer ones like Fogey and Geezer. I'll assume that MILF and cougar are out of date as well. I still use kerfuffle quite a bit, I just love that word!. Same as the term "playing hooky", goober, shindig, spaz, gnarly, stoked, preppy, aiight, sup....most of these I tend to use when I'm feeling playful in a greeting of a person I'm close to, or in a certain situation, not necessarily in everyday conversation and it also depends on who I'm talking to...

Is calling someone "fancy pants" or any other descriptive word with pants on the end still used??? I do that a lot.
Same with giving a nickname to someone with "McGee" on the end...like Spazzy McGee, Sneezzy McGee, Cutie McGee etc...Is that outdated too???

 

[Tobermory]

Every time I hear “groovy,” I think of “Wild Thing” by the Troggs from the mid-60s. Oh, and my English professor in the early ‘70s who said it all of the time. We used to roll our eyes.