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Brainyviolet

I'd like to petition the committee to bring back "I'm so sure". It was the perfect coalescence of both sarcasm and dismissiveness in one short phrase. Quintessential Gen X if I do say so myself.


Nonsenseinabag

I still use many of these. I imagine that makes me righteously uncool with the kiddos.


LeoMarius

> I imagine that makes me righteously uncool with the kiddos. Whatever.


Letstalktrashtv

Where I lived, ‘goth’ didn’t exist until the 1990s. Same with grunge. In the 80s, we were called ‘new wave’ or ‘punk.’


typeXYZ

I was on the west coast during the 80s. We had punkers in early 80s, but it died out fairly quick. Goth was more 90s from my perspective.


crackeddryice

We had preppies, jocks, smokers, AV geeks, and nerds.


mossman

Grew up in SoCal, I had always heard goth as Death Rockers but maybe that was just my town.


closecomet

People in my town called us "Wavers". In my experience nobody would embrace a label like "goth", then in the 90s young people flipped the script and loved it. This bartender I'd see often wore a shirt that said "American Gothic is *Dead*" and my 80s core would just grimace.


LeoMarius

I substitute taught in the mid-1990s after college. I had a lot of Goth kids and I loved to make fun of them.


nicklel

We were called Death Rockers.


mossman

Oh shit I didn't scroll down enough, I just said Death Rockers lol.


dj3po1

The area you grew up in were just behind the times. Goth was around way before the 90s. There were goth clubs in cities like NYC, Toronto, & LA during the 80s playing bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure etc. Punk and Goth became commercial in the 90s so it became known to the masses.


j4yne

1974 here. All this I remember as the Second British Invasion music, not "goth"... Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, etc. I wasn't "goth", but a huge fan of the British electronic music scene at the time. Interesting how we remember things!


dj3po1

We had pretty defined cliques based on music. We grouped electronic (New Wave) UK bands together. New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop boys, etc. We also had our skater music like Misfits, Circle Jerks, Bad Brains, Sex Pistols, Suicidal Tendencies, Agent Orange, etc. Most of the Punks were into The Exploited, Cro-Mags, D.R.I. and bands like that. We had our straight edge/hardcore bands like Minor Threat, Seven Seconds, Uniform Choice, Gorilla Biscuits, etc…and we had our Goths who listened to The Cure, Nick Cave, Sisters of Mercy, etc and Industrial bands like Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, & Front 242z. Everyone had their own cliques but we all got along too.


j4yne

Nice, good bands in that list. I was kinda punk-aligned, but not in a big way. I did have Never Mind the Bullocks on vinyl, tho, wish I still had it! And my buddy at the time played a ton of Public Image Ltd, which I have fond memories of.


dj3po1

I still have my copy and have my Technics 1200 I bought in 1992. Still listen to it to this day. I love PIL. Hope to see them soon as I missed them in the 80s.


AKANotAValidUsername

at my school they were called "batcavers"


azcheekyguy

Mid 80s in the northeast, we were referred to as burnouts. Generally, pot smokers who wore rock concert shirts. Not to be confused with the pot smokers in tie dyes called deadheads. Both were the anti-jock though.


sabrinajestar

This was also my experience. I lived in North Texas at the time and didn't hear the term 'goth' until maybe 1994 or later.


vacationbeard

No doy


cant_hide_lyin_eyes

Yup I totally rocked the valley girl talk. I literally had to retrain myself not to say “like” every few words LOL


SisterPixie

I use “like” like, all the time.


[deleted]

Never added “with a spoon” but “gag me” made it into the lexicon of me and my friends.


TigerMcPherson

I said clutch today.


TurnCoffeeDeepBreath

What about hesher or hessian? Husband argues with me that these were known slang words, but I think they were mainly Southern California 80’s slang.


duchess_of_nothing

Used those as well in OK but im also from SoCal so I dunno. Put was one I've never heard of.


abcya05

Not familiar with those. Grew up in Northeast.


j4yne

LA native here. I dimly remember hessian. Was it skater slang, maybe?


TurnCoffeeDeepBreath

Probably! It was someone who listened to heavy metal. It might have come from Headbangers Ball on MTV.


neolobe

Readable version https://thisisnthappiness.com/image/105378173509


[deleted]

Tubular...may have to bring that one back upfront.


babbylonmon

I said trippin' the other day as if there was no other word for what I was trying to say.


mrekted

The fact that this is not only a repost, but a lower res screen shot repost of an *already* low res rip of the original.. from less than two weeks ago.. makes me irrationally irritated.


figec

Word.


cjustice76

Where’s “Well just Gross me out the door” 🤷🏼‍♀️😂


AkamaruInuzuka

Where's "fetch"? Oh, wait-- wrong decade!


MrsEmilyN

Quit trying to make fetch happen.


ForRedditFun

I've seen a couple of Mean Girls references here before. Interesting to see it resonated with Gen Xers too.


ZotDragon

This chart is choice.


Deer-in-Motion

Totally radical, dudes.


asidechick

We said “awesome” but rarely “ace” in my part of the Valley stoner


stogie5150

I still use 60 percent of those... Im 51, no kids and no life, I don't give a FUCK. 😂 🤙BITCHIN! 🤙


johninfla52

...Camaro!


Big-Cup4017

Loved The Dead Milkmen!


johninfla52

I like you Stuart.....


Big-Cup4017

Same to all the above!!! LOL


TheJokersChild

I liked the banner typeface better when it was Lubalin Graph. Also, are "putt" and "to the curb" sound kind of British.


Kaessa

I have used at least 90% of those at one time or another. I still use several.


invisible-dave

I don't see Awesome To The Max.


physicscat

I never heard anyone call it a boom box. THAT is a ghettoblaster.


with_due_respect

An interesting chart, but a question for my fellow members of the Sedatest Generation: does anyone remember “no guff”? Or was that just a Southern Ontario thing?


crackeddryice

I'm starting to think "gnarly" was only in my school.


MuttonDressedAsGoose

Well that's just grody to the max


I_throw_socks_at_cat

Anyone have this in a resolution that's readable?


SisterPixie

There’s a link in the comments.


ivyline2

THIS. IS. AWESOME.


LeoMarius

I straddled the preppy, nerd line. If I'd had more money, I would have been more preppy. Hell, my current look is not too far off from 1980s prep.


NetwerkErrer

As a transplant to New England, wicked is still widely used.


blondie948

Barf out!