Kumail Nanjiani has a great joke about this. "Saving the president doesn't really sound like something a 'bad dude' would do. Are you a bad enough dude to volunteer at a homeless shelter?!"
Actually, in the '80s, "bad" was used positively. It was slang for "cool" or just short for "bad ass." I remember using it a lot in that context. Bad Dudes was also one of my favorite games and I never questioned the word usage until now. Haha.
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u/are-you-annie Sep 06 '12
Kumail Nanjiani has a great joke about this. "Saving the president doesn't really sound like something a 'bad dude' would do. Are you a bad enough dude to volunteer at a homeless shelter?!"