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Post by dudleypippen on Jan 6, 2018 15:31:47 GMT
After watching the Becky Higgins Facebook live video from yesterday about the product release I'm left with some burning questions. Primarily, is rad a thing? Is this how the kids are talking these days? I know Ali Edwards uses it some, so I assumed it was a west coast thing but I dunno, maybe I missed the boat. I'm a couple years younger than she is, but I remember sending Valentine's in 2nd grade that said rad on them but I'm pretty sure that was the last time I used the word. Am I just out of touch, geographically isolated from this terminology or is rad the new fetch?
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Post by joblackford on Jan 6, 2018 16:23:31 GMT
All the definitions on Urban Dictionary are 10-15 years old and tending towards west coast, used by old people. I doubt that it's had a sudden resurgence wit young people. The only people I've heard use it were in their 40s and using it in a sort-of ironic way, the way someone might say can "can you dig it?" even though they're not a hippy and never were. It has a nostalgia value. (The warm feeling of the 2nd grade Valentine  ) I do have one card in my shop that says rad (because I bought a paper that said rad) but no one has wanted to buy it so far.  I'm curious about BH's use of this, but not enough to sit through a video. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 6, 2018 16:52:35 GMT
I was in high school back in the 80’s when skateboarding became popular in the midwest and that was a term that the skater dudes used. I’m surprised the urban dictionary definitions are only 15 years old, since it’s been in use for more like 35!
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Post by janskylar on Jan 6, 2018 17:02:15 GMT
I’m surprised the urban dictionary definitions are only 15 years old, since it’s been in use for more like 35! That has to do with the age of the website  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 6, 2018 17:09:57 GMT
I’m surprised the urban dictionary definitions are only 15 years old, since it’s been in use for more like 35! That has to do with the age of the website  While the age of the *posts* are from the early 2000’s, after actually Googling and looking at them several note the word was primarily used in the 70’s and 80’s which supports what I remembered. |
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Post by milocat on Jan 7, 2018 2:54:39 GMT
I graduated in the mid-90s and I would have thought that's when rad would have been popular to use. If DH or I were to use it now it's to be ironic and be dorky in front of our teens "that's totally rad". Yeah man that's totally rad sounds like a stoner thing to say.
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Post by msliz on Jan 7, 2018 3:21:58 GMT
It's definitely not an East Coast thing. I don't believe it ever was.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 7, 2018 4:26:34 GMT
One of the entries in the urban dictionary noted that the saying really took off when it was used by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and word from the preschool boy set is that the Ninja Turtles are making a comeback, LOL. So maybe that would explain it!  |
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Post by anniefb on Jan 7, 2018 4:49:25 GMT
Not something that's said here.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jan 7, 2018 5:15:40 GMT
Inkie Quill uses it. Rad was featured in a few recent lines by companies like Simple Stories and Cocoa Vanilla Studios. To me, it is becoming a word of the hipster millenial.
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Post by Linda on Jan 7, 2018 23:07:10 GMT
DD17 says it's not a term her group uses. DD11 says she knows what it means but no one uses it.
I seem to remember it being a thing back in high school (80s)
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Post by goldenblind221 on Jan 8, 2018 3:43:19 GMT
To me, it is becoming a word of the hipster millenial. On behalf of all hipster millenials, I must say that it is not. |
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Jan 8, 2018 17:32:52 GMT
To me, it is becoming a word of the hipster millenial. On behalf of all hipster millenials, I must say that it is not. Maybe not all, but it is the group where I hear that word used. I am a millenial myself...a hipster, though, I am not. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 19:37:48 GMT
I think of it as a word the older generation is using to sound hip and cool. Btw they're failing miserably at it. It was a thing around 1988 a long with scrunchy socks, neon colored spandex, and hyper color tshirts.
I'm 40 and I used to say rad, when I was 12.
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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Jan 8, 2018 20:15:55 GMT
The 80s are back.
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Post by caspad on Jan 8, 2018 22:14:21 GMT
I always think of it as a west coast word.
Here in the east, I still hear AWESOME from all age groups.
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Post by refugeepea on Jan 9, 2018 6:28:35 GMT
One of the entries in the urban dictionary noted that the saying really took off when it was used by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and word from the preschool boy set is that the Ninja Turtles are making a comeback, LOL. So maybe that would explain it! Not just rad, totally radical! |
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Post by don on Jan 9, 2018 6:54:20 GMT
I have 30 grand kids, I didn't know they talked, they just text. They don't even use the phone. They text back and forth for ½ an hour to complete a 2 minute phone call. And then I can't understand what they texted because evidently they don't teach English in school anymore. I'm 77, I'm entitled to be grumpy. |
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Post by LisaDV on Jan 9, 2018 13:21:52 GMT
I always think of it as a west coast word. Here in the east, I still hear AWESOME from all age groups. I'm in the mid-west, pushing 50, but still use awesome, so I like to see it's all ages, not just out-of-date me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 14:02:49 GMT
Again? They were just "back" about 8 years ago. ARGH. |
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Post by msliz on Jan 9, 2018 14:42:14 GMT
Seriously. It seems as if she's been binge watching Saved by the Bell. Do you suppose Becky is team Zack or team Slater? |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 9, 2018 15:05:01 GMT
I have 30 grand kids, I didn't know they talked, they just text. They don't even use the phone. They text back and forth for ½ an hour to complete a 2 minute phone call. And then I can't understand what they texted because evidently they don't teach English in school anymore. I'm 77, I'm entitled to be grumpy.  Ha ha ha! I agree completely. Here, this one’s just for you:  |
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Post by crystalb on Jan 9, 2018 16:43:36 GMT
Well I am in my 30s and use Rad but only at the BMX track. It is part of that circles "slang" if you will. I also still use awesome as in "awesome sauce" (rarely and for laughs with my kids) or more likely "just *&&^^& awesome". I know I am out of date and I am fine with that |
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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Jan 10, 2018 3:16:02 GMT
I always think of it as a west coast word. Here in the east, I still hear AWESOME from all age groups. It is still totally awesome to say awesome on the west coast. |
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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Jan 10, 2018 3:17:50 GMT
Again? They were just "back" about 8 years ago. ARGH. They NEVER left!!! |
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Post by dudleypippen on Jan 11, 2018 21:03:30 GMT
Seriously. It seems as if she's been binge watching Saved by the Bell. Do you suppose Becky is team Zack or team Slater? Definitely team Zack. |
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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Jan 11, 2018 21:40:36 GMT
Seriously. It seems as if she's been binge watching Saved by the Bell. Do you suppose Becky is team Zack or team Slater? Saved by the Bell was from the 80’s? I always thought it was a 90’s show. |
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Post by don on Jan 11, 2018 23:38:45 GMT
Those years all run together. More so as you age. Do you feel it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 0:10:39 GMT
Perhaps it's an Aussie thing? I'm a mid-30's Aussie and I admit that I use it, more in written form than spoken though. Good heavens, could we be influencing the market from all the way down here? Surely not! A small group of my friends and I started using rad and radical ironically about 10 years or so ago. And I think from there it's just become a part of my vernacular. |
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 12, 2018 4:44:47 GMT
On behalf of all hipster millenials, I must say that it is not. Maybe not all, but it is the group where I hear that word used. I am a millenial myself... a hipster, though, I am not.Don't most hipsters deny that they are hipsters? |
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