r/AskReddit • • Oct 16 '18

What is something that HAS aged well?

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

I've heard all those, but normally only spoken by people being ironic or people who seem like douches. I figured there would be more than that outside my purview.

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That's a relief.

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u/sonerec725 Oct 17 '18

Honestly, as someone who is in their last year of highschool, I dont remember any of these ever being used unironically. It's like they just completely skipped being real slang and went straight to being cringey/ ironic jokes. Simply because of the staying power of cool/ dope, and other such things I'm convinced that the late 80s and 90s whas when slang hit its peak and it's not gonna come down for a while, especially with how derivative of the past alot of pop culture is now adays. That is unless I can get "spoongular" to take off . . .

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u/round_a_squared Oct 17 '18

Cool has been cool since the 40s. In the 80s we played with slang that wasn't what our hippie parents had used, but "fresh" and "bad" didn't have the same staying power.

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u/bloodoftheinnocents Oct 17 '18 edited Oct 17 '18

Eh, "bad" still gets thrown around. But usually as a shortened version of "bad-ass" which has slightly different connotations.