LostInAnomie
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Sat Aug-29-09 04:38 PM
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Can people stop using the word "sick" to describe cool/bad ass things? |
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Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 04:39 PM by LostInAnomie
I know TV writers think it's "cool" slang, but it just sounds so fucking douchey when anyone says it.
Maybe I get too easily annoyed though.
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Sat Aug-29-09 04:41 PM
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1. I'm the same way with 'the shit' |
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Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 04:42 PM by Richardo
It's also annoying and douchey. I remember someone on some reality show introducing his own mother as 'the shit'. Christ. I don't know what that poor woman must have thought, except "My son is the douche."
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Sat Aug-29-09 07:36 PM
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If people find it douchy, I'd probably do it even more.
Here is a fun phrase that isn't used enough
"Awesome. Awesome to the max"
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"major coolness"
I could go all night.
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Sun Aug-30-09 01:36 AM
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Sat Aug-29-09 07:55 PM
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3. What is the origin of "sick"? |
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Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 07:58 PM by mix
I first heard it in the SoCal punk scene in the 1980s, as in sick boy, sick girl...my completely speculative theory is that is short for classic...any insight?
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Sat Aug-29-09 09:52 PM
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10. Probably the same origin as "wicked" to mean "awesome". |
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Using negative terms as intensifiers.
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mix
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Sat Aug-29-09 09:55 PM
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11. That's plausible, I've thought that might be another explication... |
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...I remember also hearing people say when I was growing up, "That's bad...", as in good...
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Sat Aug-29-09 10:38 PM
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15. It came out of the North Shore Mountain Bike scene in 1990 n/t |
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Sat Aug-29-09 10:43 PM
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16. That is a rather cryptic explanation. nt |
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Sat Aug-29-09 11:36 PM
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18. It's an expression reserved for very steep, rocky single track descents |
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Edited on Sat Aug-29-09 11:44 PM by Monk06
old style mountain biking, slow, steep and treacherous.
Unless you went over your bars in which case it became very fast, rocky and painful. Another favorite expression was doing a, "Sky Ground, Sky Ground" which involve multiple 360 flips followed by your bike doing the same thing.
The bike usually hit you when stopped tumbling. That happened twice to me on the same trick. I have the chain ring marks on my old ETTO to prove it.
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Sat Aug-29-09 08:03 PM
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5. Did you learn nothing in grade school? |
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6. I can't even get them to stop voting Republican. nt |
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Sat Aug-29-09 08:23 PM
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If I want to use that word, I will.
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Sat Aug-29-09 09:50 PM
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9. DUDE, the term now days is UBER!!! |
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Sat Aug-29-09 10:22 PM
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I'll never understand that one.
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Sat Aug-29-09 11:27 PM
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17. That one is strange. nt |
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Sat Aug-29-09 10:33 PM
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I'm glad I'm an old hippie and say stuff like "groovy", or "wasted".
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Sat Aug-29-09 11:39 PM
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19. This is a phat idea, yo... (nt) |
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Sun Aug-30-09 01:37 AM
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21. We should go back to "the kind"... |
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...or "the kind kind" if it's really the shit.
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