Like, okay, this is, you know, scary?

[Guest]

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Women let each other finish sentences before starting their own, men interrupt more.

I disagree. Women often overlap each others' sentences, or finish them for each other, as a sign of them being on the same wavelength and thinking alike and understanding each other.
Men interrupt women more than they interrupt other men, probably because they see conversation as the spreading of facts and not as a way of hanging out, and thus they're more competitive for the word, whereas women shut up when they get interrupted, because they assume that means the other person has something REALLY important to say.

 

[MissBri]

 

[Honey123]

Turns out that RideMeCowgirl may have a bigger influence on the language than we thought.

Ok...maybe 2 glasses of wine isn't enough to read Lit in the evening

 

[zeb1094]

Ok...maybe 2 glasses of wine isn't enough to read Lit in the evening

Yes it is, you can read me anytime you want sweetie.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Oh, not me! If someone I'm close to - like my hubby - interrupts me, I generally get pissed. I think that's incredibly rude. (It's different on the phone, however - harder to judge whether someone is done speaking or just pausing.) On the other hand, hubby and I also finish each other's sentences all the time because we just know each other that well.

And, yes, the Valley Girl-speak is frightening.

The Valley GIRLS are frightening!

Anyone but me get the urge to give them a wedgie whenever you see those thongs sticking up out of the low-cut jeans?

 

[zeb1094]

The Valley GIRLS are frightening!

Anyone but me get the urge to give them a wedgie whenever you see those thongs sticking up out of the low-cut jeans?

It would just give them the thrill they are looking for!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

It would just give them the thrill they are looking for!

Maybe I'd be charged of rape?

 

[zeb1094]

Maybe I'd be charged of rape?

Or they will pay you to do it again if it was good the first time.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Or they will pay you to do it again if it was good the first time.

THAT is scary!

 

[Honey123]

Like, WHATEVER, I am TOTALLY not INTO this VALLEY GIRL bashing...Like, that is totally not it...

 

[Svenskaflicka]

The best way to scare them away is by pointing out to them that their low-cuts make their stomachs... sorry, their "muffin tops" look fat.

 

[TheEarl]

I think they'll have to go and talk to a Liverpudlian, like, if they want to find out, like, who uses the word like the most in a sentence, like. I think they had it first.

I just loved a couple of the phrases from in that article though. Prostitot is something that I see so much and scares the hell out of me. And I'm very certain that 'jumping the sofa' will have to find its way into my own personal lexicon.

The Earl

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I feel like a chicken headed muffin top now.

Thankfully I'm old enough to know that eventually anorexia or glue sniffing will end their pathetic lives and that I could snap them like a twig.


I think I need anger management courses.

 

[imalickin]

I feel like a chicken headed muffin top now.

Thankfully I'm old enough to know that eventually anorexia or glue sniffing will end their pathetic lives and that I could snap them like a twig.


I think I need anger management courses.

or stronger meds!

 

[3113]

I dunno if it's so scary--some of those slang words were pretty creative (like "whale tail"--very apt actually!).

In the end, however, we should all remember that most of these will vanish as quickly as they appeared. Few slang words/terms manage to hang on for longer than a couple of years. "Banana oil," for example, vanished with the roaring twenties while "cool" managed to hang in there for decades and is still viable.

A lot of these will vanish with the styles and the time (like, alas, "whale tail' as soon as that thong look is dead and buried); very few will become stalwards of the vernacular.

 

[rgraham666]

A circumstance for which we can only be thankful. Dig it.

 

[TheEarl]

A circumstance for which we can only be thankful. Dig it.

It's bang out of order to be bringing up old slang.

The Earl

 

[3113]

Groovy

 

[cloudy]

don't be hatin'.

The other day, like when I was talking to my daughter, she was all "They just don't like us."

And I was all "Don't worry about it, they're just, like, jealous."