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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)
oddtail:
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--- Quote from: oddtail on 22 Aug 2017, 01:56 ---Bubbles, Bubbles... you're doing it wrong. You should use hilariously outdated slang (like from the nineties, or the eighties). Then you will be so uncool it will loop back around and be cool again.
Or you could use slang from, like, the sixties, and then you can sound cool unironically, because it's so old it no longer registers as "outdated" anymore. Or preferrably, use the terminology from the Victorian era.
EDIT: more seriously though, I do empathize with Bubbles. I think I'm officially an adult, because recently, I started thinking more and more along the lines of "wow, you sound really stupid" when I see people younger than me talk on the Internet. I need a house with a lawn in front, so I can yell at the kids to get off it.
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So, something like 'spiffy'?
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I'm partial to "groovy", myself, but I don't know if it qualifies, because it's had resurgences (I "blame" Bruce Campbell).
And from newer ones, "rad" and "excellent". And that's *not* because I grew up in the nineties. By the time I first heard those terms (read: started consuming American popculture in the original English), it was probably already mid-to-late 2000s. I just think the words, especially the latter, are cute.
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 Aug 2017, 19:54 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 21 Aug 2017, 12:21 ---I suppose it's worth mentioning that six years ago, in my supplement to Jeph's rules for the forum, I wrote:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 20 Sep 2011, 10:19 ---Oh, and Internet memes or image macros? Passé. There is nothing exciting or new about any of them, and they just make people sigh when they see them.
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Over the years other matters have exercised the mods much more than this. But it's probably fair to say that they've been approaching the level at which I would want to complain, although I admit that there are forums that see them used far more (and which I consequently dislike). Perhaps this is the moment to ask people not to use them unless they are sure they are good enough and original enough to pass muster. They say a picture is worth a thousand words - that can be so, but in this context they are often worth none at all.
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(Regular user)Seconded(/)
(Mod)Seconded(/)
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Fine! Be like that ...
... See if I care ...
... mumbleallgonnaendintearsgrumble ...
... IN! TEARS! You hear? ...
... spoilsportingspoilsport ...
... Don't think I'll comOUCH! ...
... who left that here? ...
Akima:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Aug 2017, 01:50 ---not knowing the context often means that The Urban Dictionary is of little help.
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Especially since almost everything in UD seems to have at least one definition that is either drug-related, or a sex-act.
UD defines "hot take" as "An opinion based on simplistic moralizing rather than actual thought", which is not what I would call Bubbles's advice to Winslow.
shanejayell:
:-D That was cute.
Like BUbbles, I literally cannot sound cool. It just does not happen...
War Sparrow:
I have long ago decided that Kids These DaysTM speak a language on the internet that is unfamiliar to me, and I will never understand. ('Spill the tea'? in my day, we called it gossip!")
I am comforted in knowing that 200 years ago, and even before, the Kids were speaking a dialect entirely incomprehensible to their elders.
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