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[BocoDragon]

I feel your pain, OP. I'm 29 and in college, and I feel very similarly whenever there's some dumb group project we have to do. I had a 3 hour biology lab last semester. I would say, on average, the 3 other members of my group were on their phones looking at facebook/instagram/whatever for at least an hour and a half of it. They would talk about "musicians" like 2chainz and I would just sit and nod politely while doing the bulk of the work.

It's very hard for me to relate to a youth that spent their entire life on the internet.

But dude the Internet came out when you were 9. weren't you on the Internet your whole life, basically?

I'm 28 in college and I am one of those FB, Instagramers but I do work.

 

[Tek]

We gettin buttered....


yeah....kids these days

 

[malingenie]

Don't worry, my man, you are streets ahead of those kids.

 

[Omegasquash]

Also, I'm 33 as well. I have no idea what slang is good or not, but if you stick with the classics you'll be all set.

 

[Moral Panic]

I only understood ratchet when I first heard it because of the context. Just checked now and my interpretation was perfect.

 

[DerZuhälter]

Urban Dictionary is your friend, OP.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ratchet&defid=3515910

Are you freakin kiddin me? There are 66 different definitions of the word.

 

[BocoDragon]

Also, I'm 33 as well. I have no idea what slang is good or not, but if you stick with the classics you'll be all set.

Groovy.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Ratchets are tools used when working on rap cars.

 

[AndyD]

Had to Encarta it.

I laughed at this.

And I am 31 and until this thread had never heard the term ratchet aside from its non slang uses.

 

[Like the hat?]

This thread is straight tungsten.

Edit: I was just being an ass, I didn't realize tungsten actually had multiple urban dictionary definitions.

 

[meijiko]

Huh. I learned something today.

 

[kurisu_1974]

I've been using "jabroni" ever since I heard it in It's Always Sunny...

I also missed the part where bling became swag.

 

[Omegasquash]

Groovy.

Dope.

 

[Lkr]

My teacher couldn't get over the fact yesterday that everyone in our class was born after the end of the Cold War...

 

[lush]

Ratchet is 2 mnstrm ob.

 

[BocoDragon]

Dope.

I actually still say dope. I unironocally use it ironically.

 

[Days like these...]

I always figured 'ratchet' was just 'wretched' misspelled and mispronounced. I hate when people use conversing or conversating instead talking.

 

[Flame Lord]

Never heard of that word and I'm 19.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I just read pop-GAF posts to keep up.

 

[penny_wise]

Ratchet?

 

[Escape Goat]

Shade is the new word I hate. POP Gaf is in love with it though. One of the reasons they annoy me so.

 

[y2dvd]

YOLO

I hate the word with a passion.

 

[MIMIC]

Required viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oBlnb5orJo

My students use "ratchet" all the time (mainly it's the guys referring to the girls). I always laugh (even though I'm not supposed to, lol).

 

[friskykillface]

Huh I'm 24 and I have no idea what Ratchet means, I would have said "yeah those games are funny", thus social outcast B^)

Talk about bus wankers next time op, nobody will know that slang


YOLO and Molly

 

[Vermillion]

Kids don't actually use the word "feels" in public do they? That's just an internet thing, right? Shitty slang is shitty.

We do.

That is, I know people who do.

 

[Vermillion]

Someone use ratchet in a sentence.

You might say "no" to ratchet pussy, however, Juicy J cannot.

OP is so damn ratchet

Just think of it as another word for ghetto really.

.

 

[MIMIC]

You might say "no" to ratchet pussy, however, Juicy J cannot.

LOL

 

[AnathemicOne]

I'm 19 and I've no knowledge of this, wtf?

 

[madmook]

Never heard of this before. Is it supposed to be a play on wretched?

 

[Marty Chinn]

Anyone reading the thread encounter one of those moments where you stare at the word and it just seems odd to you suddenly?

 

[EMT0]

Ratchet will forever be a furry fuzzy from outer space to me.

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

I've been using "jabroni" ever since I heard it in It's Always Sunny...

I also missed the part where bling became swag.

Dwayne Johnson called.... Jabroni was immortalised by The Rock.

Shade is the new word I hate. POP Gaf is in love with it though. One of the reasons they annoy me so.

I cant read Pop-GAF whatsoever. Its a different world in there, every second post has the word Shade in it.

 

[Stabby McSter]

-repeatedly use ludicrous terms such as "YOLO", "swag", "boost", "beaking", "doe", "really", "naw", "actually", "twerk", "coaster", "dagga", etc., to make a valid statement when they speak

Now I guess I need to look up all the bolded.

I use all of these on purpose. :X

 

[Kusagari]

-repeatedly use ludicrous terms such as "YOLO", "swag", "boost", "beaking", "doe", "really", "naw", "actually", "twerk", "coaster", "dagga", etc., to make a valid statement when they speak

Now I guess I need to look up all the bolded.

Beaking?

What in the hell is beaking?

 

[-PXG-]

Real talk

If you're some white dude who lives in the middle of nowhere/ bumble fuck/ the suburbs, chances are, you've never heard this term. Browse the internet, go to a city or da 'hood, and you'll hear all sorts of shit.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

Reminds me of a story the bf told me - he's a gymnastics coach, he told his girls to do 20 pushups, they all reply 'YOLOOOOOOOO' ... "ok, do 50"

*silence*

Apparently the new thing is they say "Yolo x 10"

as in 'yolo, times ten'

WTF

"Shade" has been around forever.

 

[DimmuBurgerKing]

So, "ratchet" is really just a mispronunciation of the word "wretched." Gotcha. Kids are dumb.

 

[kurisu_1974]

Dwayne Johnson called.... Jabroni was immortalised by The Rock.

Got me there, good to know. I'm proud to say I've never watched more than five minutes of American wrestling in my life.

 

[akira28]

wretched. like fugly and completely fucked up.

or ratchet, like her pussy has that kung fu grip.

I've heard both used, but it seems wretched is more popular usage.

don't envy them. There's nothing enviable about too dope or bumpin, or being fly, or radical either. Eventually we disown the slang terms of our youth, and realize how silly they sound when we say them in later years. Just let it be a moment in time, because these things all fade away to nothing. Like tears in the rain. Time...to die (cause I'm so old)

 

[Snarfington]

I'm 18 and I swear I have to look something up or ask about it once a week or more. I feel old and I'm not.

So I've just decided I'm not cool enough

 

[Devolution]

Shade is the new word I hate. POP Gaf is in love with it though. One of the reasons they annoy me so.

It's not new it's been in gay lingo since the 80s. Also POP GAF goes the extra mile and uses it wrong.

 

[Typographenia]

Ratchet is a term now? I don't get it.

 

[Dereck]

Simp

 

[R-User!]

Man this thread is fuckin RATCHET yo!

i not from here is this slang?

 

[MrCunningham]

Fuck. I'm old.

Stop being low-res, you bojo!

 

[Kaladin]

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you.

 

[MattKeil]

So basically this is coming from people who don't know how to pronounce and/or spell "wretched" correctly.

 

[Bleepey]

I met an American girl and her and my friend were in London. She commented on how a girl was ratchet and my friend and I looked at her completely lost. I am 25 and he was 27, she was about 20. I know the feel bro.

 

[Frankenstrat]

As a 20 year old college student, I have no fucking clue what Ratchet means outside of the action or the character.

 

[Timedog]

Just make shit up if that's your wish, wizard. That's what I do.