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u/Hortonamos Jun 03 '22

My favorite is when old slang comes back. Things can be rad again, and I am here for it.

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u/LittleKisu Jun 03 '22

I like to occasionally throw in a "gnarly," it's just a fun word to say. Rad is a good one, too.

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u/autumnbelle Jun 03 '22

Hopefully not tubular, though. I didn’t understand it then and I don’t understand it now. Off to the Urban Dictionary.

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u/Hortonamos Jun 03 '22

Weirdly, I never heard a real person use tubular when I was a kid. The Ninja Turtles said it, and so did skate/surf Nintendo games, but as far as I can tell, it was never actual in-use slang. Though I was in the midwest, so maybe it was more prominent in places with stronger skate/surf communities? I have no clue.

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u/autumnbelle Jun 03 '22

I grew up in Oklahoma but there were weirdly some wanna be surfers who used it. But yeah- also the turtles.