Notifications
Clear all

Welcome to Crossdresser Heaven, a safe and welcoming place for everyone in the crossdresser community.

Join Crossdresser Heaven today to participate in the forums.

Language!

118 Posts
25 Users
188 Reactions
388 Views
Posts: 804
Lady
Topic starter
(@sashabennett)
Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Joined: 1 year ago

I don't understand any more. It's obviously just another sign of my advancing years but I can barely make sense of what's going on these days. I have noticed loads of posts on trans / CD reddits in the last few weeks where people (usually in their 20's or younger) have put up pictures of themselves with the heading "am I cooked" What do they think they are? a roasting joint..... is being cooked a good thing or a bad thing? I sometimes wonder what happened to the world I once knew, where did it all go wrong? OK grump over. Have a lovely day everyone.

Reply
117 Replies
35 Replies
Ambassador
(@alexina)
Joined: 1 year ago

Illustrious Member     Fife, United Kingdom
Posts: 2206

@sashabennett 

Not just you, Sasha, I now look at the world this way,

Horror

As for grump, my pet response to accusations of grumpiness is, "Wait till you're my age, you'll be grumpy too". 

Yes, it all went wrong on the 27th of July 1996. I know that because I wrote in my diary, "Something has gone wrong with the world today". And it's been going wrong ever since.

Still, we always have CDH, an oasis of sanity 😊. 

Allie x

PS, before you start, I know I might not be the best example of aforesaid sanity but who ya gonna call?

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@alexina Gho..... no, I'm not going to do it 🤣 & at least we have a date now, not that I remember that far back.

Reply
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Joined: 10 months ago

Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Posts: 66

@sashabennett - I'll bet our parents thought the same thing, and their parents before them, for example, there was a time if you were feeling happy, it was quite normal to say "I'm feeling gay". Fast forward and that came to mean something completly different.

I also remember a few years ago when my son was doing his homework, he put his pen down, sighed and said "I'm so gay", when I asked him what he meant, he explained that gay is a way to describe someone that's a bit slow or stupid.

So, if anyone knows of a nice soft wall I can bang my head against, please let me know. But don't if it means joining a queue  🙂

 

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sienna106 It's a VERY long queue. But then I'm British & queuing is our national sport.

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@sashabennett

Posted by: @sashabennett

queuing is our national sport.

A recent trip to Sainsburys proved this without any doubt.  

There was the self-checkout queue….enhanced by all tills being closed.  

Then there was the queue to fix the self-checkout.  

Then there was the queue to show California ID.  

Then there was the frustrated American trans girl waving her hands in the air for help.

Then there was the queue for the parental scolding by the snarky checkout clerk.  Apparently, we hadn’t waited long enough.

Then there was the frustrated British shoppers that abandoned their shopping carts

Meanwhile, our perishables were rapidly losing their will to nourish.  They barely made it home alive.

Misery loves company!  And I DO love your country!

/LK

 

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@ellyd22)
Joined: 2 years ago

Majestic Member     Norfolk, United Kingdom
Posts: 5221

@lizk 

And there was me thinking that this was one of the highlights of your time with me in Norfolk.

Smile Face

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@ellyd22 

It WAS one of the highlights Ellie!  We both laughed about it.  The queue was so absurdly bad that it's become an inside joke! 

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@ellyd22)
Joined: 2 years ago

Majestic Member     Norfolk, United Kingdom
Posts: 5221

@lizk 

I think that checkout lady was the most condescending person I've ever met.

Angry Swear

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@ellyd22 

She was certainly a glaring example of poor customer service.

Now we know to avoid Sainsburys after 7:00 pm.

 

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@lizk It seems it's going to a whole new level these days. I was shocked when I recently went to the pub (as I don't really drink it's been a while) to find people queuing at the bar! I seem to remember it being a bit more of a free for all when I was younger

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@sashabennett 

Oh that's been a thing for decades, Sasha!  In my past life, I spent countless nights in crowded bars and clubs.  Jousting for position and gaining favor with bartenders was a sport! 

/LK

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@lizk Despite being something of a regular at our local watering hole back in the day, I can't say I miss that aspect of it. Waving a big wad of £20 notes usually got someones attention pretty quickly but sometimes they still seemed to suffer from customer blindness!

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@sashabennett 

I don't miss those days either.  I still occasionally deal with it at crowded dance clubs and music venues.  And yes, some bartenders do suffer from customer blindness.

/LK

Reply
Lady
(@kimdl94)
Joined: 9 months ago

Reputable Member     Blearmill, Texas, United States of America
Posts: 175

@lizk sometimes I think we’re living in an extended Monty Python skit.

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@kimdl94 

Agree!  It felt like we were in a Monty Python skit.  It was perhaps the most British experience I had! 

Angry

Reply
Ambassador
(@jacquelinelarkspur)
Joined: 1 year ago

Famed Member     Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Posts: 1497

@lizk 

For the full British Queue Experience you need someone to push in just ahead of you. The correct response to this heinous act is to tut and mutter obscenities under your breath.

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@jacquelinelarkspur 

I grew up in New York Jacqui.  I don't think I'm capable of the correct response! 

Laugh Cry

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@jacquelinelarkspur Ah, the good ol' British tut! Woe betide anyone on the receiving end of one. I could always tell when my dad was really upset with something when I heard that terrible sound 🤣

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@lizk Was it this one?

 

Hungarian: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Clerk: Sorry?

Hungarian: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Clerk: Uh, no, no, no. This is a tobacconist's.

Hungarian: Ah! I will not buy this *tobacconist's*, it is scratched.

Clerk: No, no, no, no. Tobacco...um...cigarettes (holds up a pack).

Hungarian: Ya! See-gar-ets! Ya! Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.

Laugh Loud

 

In my humble opinion comedy never got any better than this

 

Reply
Managing Ambassador
(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@sashabennett 

Hilarious!  I don't remember seeing that episode.

/LK

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@sashabennett My nipples explode with happiness!

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@rebeccabaxter Goodness! that sounds unpleasant 😳

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@sashabennett It was in the Hungarian/English dictionary sketch, I read the whole transcript, then watched the sketch on YT, took me back in time a bit.

And I got it wrong, it was 'delight' not 'happiness'.

Laugh Loud

Reply
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Joined: 10 months ago

Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Posts: 66

@sashabennett - Queuing and weather moaning, if they were Olympic sports we would win gold every time.

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sienna106 Ah, the weather........(contented sigh) hello my old friend 😀

Reply
Baroness
(@river)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     New Hampshire, United States of America
Posts: 827

@sienna106 One of my best friends is Bi  and sometimes I just blert out OMG thats so Gay !! we eventually had a conversation on that as I never used the word as a derogatory term for people who prefer the company of same sex relationships but more as a term for stupidity or foolishness or something thats just plain wrong.  He agreed with me and said he uses it the same. but I still feel guilty when it just comes out.  and I still say to him "You know what I mean !! " 🙂  Cheers RC

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@river I used to work with an old guy on the railway who got into a serious bluster every time someone used the term gay when it didn't mean happy. We all found it most amusing as he would go red in the face & literally jump up & down bemoaning the death of the English language.  As I am now about the same age as he was then, I think I get where he was coming from. 🤣 Oh dear, what have I turned into.....

Reply
Baroness
(@river)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     New Hampshire, United States of America
Posts: 827

@sashabennett Old Guy lol Yup . seems the older I get the harder it is sometimes to keep my mouth shut !!  Ya open mouth insert Foot !! 🦶 🙂  Cheers RC

Reply
Lady
(@cherylt)
Joined: 7 months ago

Prominent Member     Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Posts: 485

@sashabennett Seems everyone these days must use some slang to sound "cool". Even the news programs have succumbed and talk about "merch". They can't even say a full word anymore. If some new term is more than a month old and everyone is using it then they have to make a new one.

In 50 years they won't be able to read or write a full comprehensive sentence. Archeologists will uncover some written language so different from the current that they will spend decades researching to be able to translate it. 

It's not so different from other generations. They all had their slang, but this is accelerating so fast because of the internet and social media. Or should I have said Int and SoMed??? LOL.

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@cherylt Fortunately we still have the good old BBC news where the word "merch" would be looked down upon with a disdainful sneer. Having said all that, I recently tried to read a manuscript from the 17th (I think) century & even though it was supposedly in English I had a struggle to comprehend it. Given that, it seems your assessment of future archeology will prove to be more accurate than you think.

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@sashabennett I'm afraid the BBC are not infallible, I often hear 'for free' said on there, which is a nonsense since 'free' is not a quantity and should be just 'free' or 'free of charge'.

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@rebeccabaxter It seems you are monitoring it somewhat more closely than I am

Reply
Duchess
(@gracepal)
Joined: 5 months ago

Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
Posts: 1019

@cherylt Cheryl your post reminded me that “cool” never goes out of style. Arguably the first slang word we boomers learned and it’s still being used, still popular and still means the same thing to every generation.😎

Reply
(@christineth)
Joined: 2 years ago

Noble Member     Brussels, Brabant, Belgium
Posts: 747

@sashabennett Some things never change.  Even Mozart’s mum shouted at him to turn that racket down.  Older generations never get younger ones, I guess it was the same for our parents and elders as we grew up.  All we can really do is look on in sympathy for their immature and self centred ways 🙂

Hugs Christine

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804
Posts: 2172
 J J
Lady
(@jjandme)
Famed Member     California, United States of America
Joined: 5 years ago

The older generation will never understand the younger one...and visaversa. Not doubt we had terms and actions our parents never understood, and no doubt our kids will feel the same about their kids. Keep an open mind and let the younger generation develope their own personaities, just like we did.

Reply
2 Replies
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@jjandme Hey, live & let live. I just wish I knew what it all meant.

Reply
(@christineth)
Joined: 2 years ago

Noble Member     Brussels, Brabant, Belgium
Posts: 747

@jjandme exactly JJ.

Reply
Posts: 370
Lady
(@sf)
Prominent Member     SoCal, California, United States of America
Joined: 3 years ago

Wavy Gravy - a burned out Frisco hippie from "the good 'ol days," once said, If you remember the 60's, you weren't there man.  

Gotta stay "hip."

Smile......   Staci...  

Reply
2 Replies
Ambassador
(@alexina)
Joined: 1 year ago

Illustrious Member     Fife, United Kingdom
Posts: 2206

@sf 

Laugh Sideways

 

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sf Wavy Gravy 😆 love it. Sadly "hip" is just another thing on the way out now (along with knees, back, neck  etc)

Reply
Posts: 1171
 Erin
Princess
(@erinb)
Noble Member     Ohio, United States of America
Joined: 5 months ago

Cooked” is a slang way to say “struggling,” “having problems,” “I'm done for,” or are just straight up ready

I struggle with the young generation terms I here some even in text and text back WTF is that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 think a lot had to do the younger generation got lazy sorry but true most don’t want to work or anything just stay home and play on electronics guess they need slang words to be quick 🤷🏻 oooo well is definitely a new world TC 

Reply
6 Replies
Duchess
(@gracepal)
Joined: 5 months ago

Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
Posts: 1019

@erinb Erin, you ARE the young generation for a lot of us “vintage” ladies on here🤣.

I do agree with you on today’s young generation as from what I see, laziness abounds. They’re “cooked” alright.😊

Reply
 Erin
Princess
(@erinb)
Joined: 5 months ago

Noble Member     Ohio, United States of America
Posts: 1171

@gracepal indeed I’m pushing 40 years old still semi young lol 😂 

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@erinb Thanks, that's kind of what I thought but it's good to have it confirmed by someone with their finger on the pulse as it were.

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@erinb I thought 'cooked' meant stoned; or is it 'baked'?

Reply
 Erin
Princess
(@erinb)
Joined: 5 months ago

Noble Member     Ohio, United States of America
Posts: 1171

@rebeccabaxter also means that but today it’s a different world lol

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804
Posts: 4016
Lady
(@harriette)
Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined: 2 years ago

Bookmark the Urban Dictionary.

I knew that the human race started to decline when real dictionaries agreed to add funnily as a real word. It isn't.

Reply
2 Replies
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@harriette Funnily enough, I did not know that. 😆

Reply
Duchess
(@augustvaliant)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Posts: 1524
Posts: 3445
Hostess
(@ab123)
Illustrious Member     Surrey, United Kingdom
Joined: 5 years ago

Oh gosh let me join the queue being of an age where we thought we knew how to speak but listening to the young I am not so sure...I try but hearing these terms..

'Sick' - Oh are you ill?

'Innit' - Oh you're in I.T. then

'Salty' - Overdid the salt then.

'Dope' - You shouldn't be doing that stuff, look how gramps  turned out. 

Oojah, peng, bants? No neither do I.....

To me it's like way, no way, like whatever....

 

 

 

 

 

Reply
1 Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@ab123 I am very sure that today's yoof can't speak proper like what we do & Ooh don't get me started on the inappropriate use of the word "like" we will be here all day & I have much to do 😊

Reply
Posts: 162
Duchess
(@lizzy89)
Reputable Member     GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Joined: 5 months ago

I agree I am only in my 30s and sometimes struggle to understand what my more youthful work colleagues are saying sometimes and I do think that too many slang terms are sneaking into accepted language and often wonder what they teach in the way of English in schools today.

Reply
2 Replies
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@lizzy89 Well, I guess language is an ever evolving thing but hopefully they aren't teaching such frippery in the classroom. Then again, who knows what goes on there these days. Now back in my day...... 🤣

Reply
Lady
(@harriette)
Joined: 2 years ago

Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 4016

@lizzy89 And I thought Shakespeare was tough enough to translate.

Reply
Posts: 850
Duchess
(@missylinda)
Noble Member     Ft Worth, Texas, United States of America
Joined: 2 years ago

If you all think you are dated, I’m 77 and use phrases my parents used, like “ cattywhompous , ice box, or headache powders.”  LOL. My middle age children shake their heads and the grandkids think it’s a foreign language.   

Reply
1 Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@missylinda I must admit, even though I have heard "cattywhompous" the meaning of the word is something of a mystery. I never looked it up as I thought it might spoil the magic somehow. It's just splendid as is

Reply
Posts: 1335
(@rebeccabaxter)
    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Joined: 1 year ago

I was going to mention a few but Angela @ab123 has beaten me to it with dope, sick, etc. Although I can add 'wicked', 'brah', 'bruddah', and 'blud' to the list.

If you really want to become VERY perplexed by modern language, I suggest you watch a series, which is in English(?), called 'Supacell', on Netflix. The series is science fiction but based in an urban environment with gangstas and niggas [sic] and other strange, pseudo-familiar words and is really quite good, but you will have to watch it with [English] sub-titles on and even then, you will have some trouble following the language as some of it is barely English at all.

I suppose it's no different to the changes that came about in the Great Vowel Shift of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, people then must have wondered what was happing to their language of the times.

Becca

Reply
2 Replies
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@rebeccabaxter The list could go on & on but I am thinking we should perhaps re-introduce some old ones back into the language. When I first moved into my current house I found a full set of "The Scottish National Dictionary" in a cupboard on the landing. It had some marvellous words in it which I never knew so, inspired by the intermittent "guess the word" round on QI I would like to put forward "Blibberin" which means to slurp soup noisily. Try that one out on the yoof & revel in the bafflement.

Reply
Duchess
(@augustvaliant)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Posts: 1524

@rebeccabaxter the great vowel shift? Was that when the vowels shifted across the pond and founded the colonies?

Reply
Posts: 185
Duchess
(@joannat)
Reputable Member     Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Joined: 4 months ago

I’m married to a former English as a foreign language teacher, who has apoplexy when anyone on television says ‘less’ instead of ‘fewer’, or ‘fed up of’ rather than ‘with’.

What has me throwing a shoe at the screen , is when ‘nuclear’ is pronounced ‘nu-cu-lar’…

Reply
7 Replies
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@joannat I could of expected you to say that. 

Only kidding, I get apoplectic when I hear 'could of', or worse, see it written down.

Reply
Ambassador
(@alexina)
Joined: 1 year ago

Illustrious Member     Fife, United Kingdom
Posts: 2206

@rebeccabaxter 

Snap, Becca. I'll add waiting on, rather than waiting for. As far as I know, one only "waits on" tables...

Reply
Lady
(@harriette)
Joined: 2 years ago

Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 4016

@alexina You also wait on timed events.

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@joannat I keep a rolled up pair of socks handy for that, it doesn't damage the screen so much. Also it gives one plenty of exercise constantly having to retrieve them from across the room as I'm up & down like a couple of kangaroo's in the mating season.🙂

Reply
Duchess
(@joannat)
Joined: 4 months ago

Reputable Member     Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Posts: 185
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335
Duchess
(@augustvaliant)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Posts: 1524

@joannat my wife is an English teacher. Use fewer if it can be counted. If it can't be counted, use less.

Reply
Posts: 1742
Duchess
(@alison-anderson)
Noble Member     Middlesex county, New Jersey, United States of America
Joined: 6 years ago

Don't be such a square, get hip. Be cool. Let's go to the gay bar and watch the drag show. It's rad to watch language change.

Ok, I may be pushing things, but we redefine words all the time. Some of these stick, some don't (remember Far out!). If they hang around long enough, they make it to the OED.

Then there are words which refer to new inventions or new technolgy. We now use text as a verb, and added words like sexting, spam, phishing, and smishing. The technology is so fast that regular postal service has now been dubbed snail mail.

Language isn't static, it changes all the time.

Reply
3 Replies
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@alison-anderson It most certainly does, some of which I can follow, some just seems a bit weird. For instance, smishing? W.T.F. L.O.L. Oh no, I appear to have become affected by accronymism........

Reply
Duchess
(@alison-anderson)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Middlesex county, New Jersey, United States of America
Posts: 1742

@sashabennett Smishing is a portmanteau of SMS (short message service, or what we commonly call texting) and phishing. It's click bait (possibly for malware) using text messages.

Reply
Duchess
(@augustvaliant)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Posts: 1524

@alison-anderson your use of rad is quite gnarly

Reply
Posts: 1019
Duchess
(@gracepal)
Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
Joined: 5 months ago

Two of mine lately are: Starting every sentence with so. “So….this is my new dress.” Totally unnecessary.

And the current worst is this newish trend in pronunciations of certain words with a “t” in them but dropping the “t” or making it silent for no reason.

”We’re going away to the moun-ains this weekend!”

”It’s cold out - I’ll get my mi-ens.”

OMG….🤯

 

Reply
4 Replies
Duchess
(@alison-anderson)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Middlesex county, New Jersey, United States of America
Posts: 1742

@gracepal If you're talking about spoken language, I've got a question. Jeet? (Did you eat?)

Reply
Duchess
(@gracepal)
Joined: 5 months ago

Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
Posts: 1019

@alison-anderson I did, I jate 😜

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@gracepal The inappropriate use of "So" & "Like" boil my fish every time.

Reply
Duchess
(@gracepal)
Joined: 5 months ago

Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
Posts: 1019

@sashabennett I might have to steal “boils my fish every time”, that cracked me up Sasha!

Reply
Posts: 1497
Ambassador
(@jacquelinelarkspur)
Famed Member     Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Joined: 1 year ago

Slang is one thing, but dont get me started on apostrophe's.

😉

Reply
1 Reply
Duchess
(@augustvaliant)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Posts: 1524

@jacquelinelarkspur don't get you started in apostrophe's what?

 
Reply
Posts: 66
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Joined: 10 months ago

A few more 60/70s slang terms for the collection....

1 | Freak flag
2 | Hang loose
3 | Fuzz
4 | Far out
5 | Bummer
6 | Foxy
7 | Gimme some skin
8 | What's your bag?
9 | Sweet bippy
10 | Can you dig it?
11 | Old lady/chick
12 | Lay it on me
13 | Bogart
14 | It's a gas
15 | Grass
16 | Heavy
17 | Bread
18 | Split

The best slang came from the Victorian era here's three examples....

Whooperups – a term used to describe a group of terrible singers.

Nanty Narking – means that you're having a good time.

Church Bell – used to describe a woman who doesn’t shut up.

Please note that I'm NOT old enough to have been around to have used those from the Victorian era, although some mornings I feel I might have been.:-)

Reply
13 Replies
Lady
(@harriette)
Joined: 2 years ago

Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 4016

Posted by: @sienna106

Please note that I'm NOT old enough to have been around to have used those from the Victorian era

Ah, shucks. I had a few questions for you. 😋

 

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@sienna106 Oh dear, one of those defintions could apply here on CDH:

From Urbandictionary.com

Freak flag

A characteristic, mannerism, or appearance of a person, either subtle or overt, which implies unique, eccentric, creative, adventurous or unconventional thinking.
Reply
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Joined: 10 months ago

Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Posts: 66

@rebeccabaxter -

As far as I'm aware, the term 'Freak flag' first appeared in a 1967 Jimi Hendrix song called 'If 6 was 9'. Other lyrics in the song such as“I got my own world to live through” suggest that it's a song about being yourself and not wanting to be like anyone else, either hippie or – as he puts it – a white collared conservative, and if by doing so he's thought of as a freak, then “I'm gonna wave my freak flag high”. In other words be proud of who you are, and don't be afraid to celebrate it. As the last lines in the song go....

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to”.

Couldn't have said it better myself 🙂

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sienna106 Heavy Bread Split? I think I had one of those for lunch. Followed by a Sweet Bippy for desert. As you can tell, I have no idea what I'm talking about. 🤣

Reply
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Joined: 10 months ago

Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Posts: 66

@sashabennett - Followed by a psychedelic yawn perhaps Very Sick

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sienna106 That'll be "Yessongs" Sorry any Yes fans out there but they just never did it for me

Reply
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Joined: 10 months ago

Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Posts: 66

@sashabennett - I've got Yessongs, but there was only one band for me, and that's Camel.

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sienna106 Now you are talking. I once spent a happy summer learning to play the keyboard parts of "In the Land of Grey & Pink" Great album.

Reply
Baroness
(@sienna106)
Joined: 10 months ago

Estimable Member     Manchester, GreaterManchester, United Kingdom
Posts: 66

@sashabennett - In the land of grey and pink
                         Where only boy-scouts stop to think

I know it, one teeny problem though, it was by Caravan not Camel, although Dave Sinclair did take over on keyboards when Peter Bardens left Camel.

 

 

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@sienna106 Ah, you are right, I really should engage the brain & put my glasses on when I read stuff 🤓 I read the "Ca" put 2 & 2 together & got 7 LOL

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335

@sashabennett I had many of their albums, including the massive triple tome 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' and really liked it at the time. A modern revisiting of the album (plus others by Yes) on YouTube left me somewhat cold though. I suppose--like my early dislike of cheese changing to being rather fond of it--tastes change as one ages. I still like some stuff from the seventies though: Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind and some others. Wishbone Ash went much the same way as Yes in later years. 

I liked Marillion when Fish was the singer and song-writer but went off them when he left (I think I might have said this on another thread some months ago).

Reply
Lady
(@sashabennett)
Joined: 1 year ago

Noble Member     Wick, Caithness, United Kingdom
Posts: 804

@rebeccabaxter Hawkwind, still going strong (at least Mr Brock is anyway) I saw them in Brum a couple of years ago & they did Chepstow castle last year which I missed, unfortunately. I've also always been partial to a bit of Barclay James Harvest in my more mellow moments. As for cheese, I feel another Python moment coming on. Shut that bloody Bazuki up!

Reply
(@rebeccabaxter)
Joined: 1 year ago

    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posts: 1335
Posts: 2172
 J J
Lady
(@jjandme)
Famed Member     California, United States of America
Joined: 5 years ago

Which just goes to show that the "new" generation is going to make up new words, or reapply them, just like every generatiin does. There is no point in getting panties in a twist about it, inless one does want to be percieved as a grumpy old lady.

As for just plain wrong use of language, "I could careless" is the one that does get my panties in a twist.

Reply
1 Reply
Duchess
(@augustvaliant)
Joined: 6 years ago

Noble Member     Long Island, New York, United States of America
Posts: 1524

@jjandme my wife gets irritated when people say "it's the least I could do". They could have done nothing, which would be less.

Reply
Page 1 / 2

©[current-year] Crossdresser Heaven | Privacy Terms of Use | Link to usContact Vanessa | Advertise with Crossdresser Heaven

 
[kleo_social_icons]
Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from Crossdresser Heaven.

You have Successfully Subscribed!