WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
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WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Who Remembers.......90's Slang?
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Ever catch yourself saying “as if” under your breath and wonder where it came from? We dive into the 90s language lab where films, TV, and school corridors forged a shared slang, then test what still lands today. From Clueless and Wayne’s World to Bill & Ted, the Turtles, and The Simpsons, we unpack how quotes, gestures, and tone turned catchphrases into social tools—and why some now only work with a wink.
We swap memories of the phrases that stuck—like the quietly useful “my bad”—and the ones that feel like fancy dress: “bodacious,” “cowabunga,” and “schwing.” Along the way we explore accents and uptalk, the rise of ironic delivery, and the role of performance in making a line hit. Ali G gets his due as a uniquely British catalyst, turning “booyakasha,” “innit,” and “respect” into mainstream currency while satirising the bravado that birthed them. We also face the harsher side of nostalgia, calling out playground insults and throwaway terms that don’t deserve a revival.
What emerges is a warm, candid look at how 90s slang shaped identity, humour, and timing in everyday conversation. Some words endured because they do real work—apologising fast, dismissing neatly, agreeing with style. Others faded because they relied on shared scenes we no longer perform. Join us for a tour of the phrases you loved, the ones you loved to hate, and the muscle memory that keeps them alive in your voice.
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Kicking Off With 90s Slang
SPEAKER_03Hello and welcome to Who Remembers the UK Nostalgia Podcast? And in this week's episode, we are asking Who Remembers Ninety Slang? I remember that. You missed a trick there. You've missed a trick there, big time. And we're going to ask you to do it, but we don't like to uh we don't like to script these. So you could have easily come in there and said wazza was like an opening. But he's missed it, he's missed out. Is it the nineties?
SPEAKER_00Is it would that be nineties or is it?
SPEAKER_03I don't know if it's really noughties that to be fair. What's that? Because it's obviously that's off the Budweiser advert. Um I remember talking to someone and saying that at work who were about 20 years younger than me, and I went, Wazza. And they genuinely looked at me, like I'm not it sounds like a joke, like, but they were like, What? Waza.
SPEAKER_00Do you remember the story Roy Keane were gonna try and say Robby Savage? And he had a phone with that. So he just put a phone down and said no. That's it. Another another one you could have said is hello. And I was totally like, hello.
Accents, Uptalk, And Ironic Tones
SPEAKER_03Is that that's not of clueless, I don't think. We'll talk about clueless later. So this episode, Night is Langliam. So this is what we're gonna talk about is phrases or words that and this might be a shocker of an episode, even by our standards, because I'm not sure. It might be another one of those ones, though. Do you know like with the food one where I just started listing stuff that you can still buy? It might I might be we might be listing things here that things you don't hear anymore. Yeah, this is what I want it to be words that you don't hear anymore, or that aren't said as much. So is that that that's one of them? Hello, that seems very sort of nighties.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know where I've got that from.
SPEAKER_03I sometimes say to my daughters just to wind them up, and I was totally like, hello, but I don't know what I've got that from or that high voice thing that people do now, and obviously it's come from America. That wasn't I don't think that were a thing in the 90s in our school. You wouldn't have people going, and I was like, totally, you know, but you say English people doing it now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it's sort of done like I don't know, it's kind of done with a bit of irony now, innit? Like what a ridiculous sort of way to talk.
SPEAKER_03But but I think we've got yeah, we went through an era where no one talked like that. Then people did genuinely, like a lot of students, like when I were uh in my I don't know, early 30s, they talk about you know, like and I I was like, no way, man. And they talk like that, and then it's now become like a like a taking the piss out of people who talk like that.
SPEAKER_00Well though that thing weren't there that people did where they used to do the like something like positive enunciation or what at the end of sentences, they'd get like yeah, it used to go up like that, and yeah, did that still happen?
SPEAKER_02Do people still talk like that? I've just done it. Literally just done it. Do people still talk like that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think Jamie Carragher does it a lot.
Clueless And The Rise Of “As If”
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but that's a lot of scouts, like Keith Chegwin said, in Liverpool, if you've got a high voice, it's not even that weird. So, you know, if you've got a bit of a squeaky voice, which is it, which he's got, that's just a norm, innit? In Scousland, to be fair. Yeah, the sort of date. And that's Keith Chegwin saying it. So if you're from take it up, take it up with him. I think three films have a lot to answer for in terms of night is slang, and I think they are clueless, Wayneswold, and Bill and Ted's the bogus journey. Bogus is a brilliant word, actually, that you never hear anybody. Or excellent adventure. Clueless, I saw an article, which is it's based more in America to be fair. 30 phrases that came from clueless, 30. Wow, and obviously the most famous one is as if. That is the first time apparently As if, yeah, as if about these when they're like talking about boys who want date and stuff, and they'd say, like, oh, but you got this as if, but that as if was was just massive, as if, like, yeah, as if yeah, the tone changed a little bit, didn't it?
SPEAKER_00In in sort of rural Sheffield, but yeah, it was like, oh, you're watching games tonight, oh, as if.
SPEAKER_03Do you still say it?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_03I say no way now instead of that. Like, I'll if you say, Oh, you'll never believe what's happened, um this is something I wouldn't believe. Someone's given our podcast a five out of five review. I will I like in the in the 90s and I said, as if now I'll go, no way, and probably end it with Pedro. No way, Pedro.
SPEAKER_00But as if was like as if like is no way you're not just sort of using as if, as if like that's not possible. I suppose yeah, I see where you're going from no way.
SPEAKER_03No way, no way that's happened. And as if what I did find on this that list I saw with uh clueless. Do you know I've I do remember this in hindsight, and it's I don't know why we've not mentioned this before. Do you know what they used to call a hot guy in Clueless? What the hot the like attractive males were called.
SPEAKER_00Um he's like totally a fax. Baldwin. Baldwin.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, honestly. The mic the definition of hot guy coined by Herkling from the pop culture presence of the Baldwin brothers, apparently, who was seen as the epitome of male track attractiveness in the early 90s. So from the actual script, Cher uh talks about Josh, and she says, Okay, okay, he's kind of a Baldwin. Baldwin. That we need to bring that back. I might sort of bring it back back about women. I might just say, Oh, she's a right Baldwin, eh, actually. Bring Baldwin back into it. Another thing of Clueless as well is that I've mentioned this to you privately, and I don't know if this was a thing, but if anyone ever mentions the film Clueless to me, I always think of rolling with the homies.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that he's driving in a car singing or something, huh?
SPEAKER_03She gets knocked out, I think, like one of them, but some or she drinks too much or something. And she goes, Oh my god, are you alright? Are you alright? And to say she's alright, she goes, Rolling with the homies. Homies is another one that you don't really see anymore, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I think I don't know if this is clueless actually, because I I don't think I've probably would have watched it at the time. I think I've seen a lot of it since with with the girls.
SPEAKER_03I've seen clueless, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But is this is this a clueless thing where I sort of really sarcastically you'd say never. Never. Like as if that's a good one. Something's obvious. I don't I don't know if this is tied to clueless or not, but if someone said uh I don't know, it'll be dinner time in 10 minutes. Oh never. Like as if my yeah, obviously. I I don't know. I've looked at this clueless type.
SPEAKER_03I'm looking at this this list now, and it's got 30 of them, and never's not on it. Uh jeeping is, which is having sex in a car. Jeeping. Um yeah, that is a good one though. That what they did invent is whatever when you have with a W uh sort of hand gesture.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, whatever, yeah.
SPEAKER_03That again, I obviously it became I think you hate the song, don't you? Is it Liam Lynch? The you net out of state song, whatever. Do you know why don't you like that? It's a fucking banger of a song.
SPEAKER_00It's absolutely ridiculous. It's like uh I I I don't know, it's like it's not I won't even say it's like a spoof song because that's almost giving it more credibility than it deserves it. It's just ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03It's a brilliant song, a minute and a half of pure fantastic pop music. But yeah, like I say, clueless out of all of them is probably the one that like I say, stuff like whatever and as if they're not really they do they are just how we how you speak, even maybe even now, like I say, it's probably died out a little bit, but that would that would unbelievably um inspirate what's the what's the word influential, not inspirational. But another one that I want to talk about is obviously Wainswold. If I said to you Wainswold, Liam, what are you thinking? What what word or phrase are you thinking?
SPEAKER_00I'm thinking how much I hate the white haired man.
SPEAKER_03Well, you don't like Garth?
SPEAKER_01Well, you ain't got white hair.
SPEAKER_00I despise him. He's got blonde hair, he's not got white hair. In my head, it's pure white, white as snow, and he's like a like an old man, like playing a young kid, like a horrible old, like a grey old dog, white as snow.
SPEAKER_02Have you seen the same thing? He's not white at all. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_00I just can't stand him. I could never stand him at the time.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_00I kind of thought he was like done to be not cool, but then I sort of I never really watched it, and then I thought, no, actually, I think he's supposed to be cool. He's up, he's an awful man. I'm having a look at now. He hasn't got white hair, he's got blonde hair. Um he would have been one though that like would have been found out as something like later on. Yeah, the darkness behind those miserable old eyes.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, what have you uh what any any phrases from yeah, I take you're not a fan of the film then, Wayne's World.
SPEAKER_00No, I never really got it. Uh and it and it kind of blurred in my head with um the other one you mentioned, Bill and Ted.
SPEAKER_03Bill and Ted, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wayne’s World Phrases That Stuck
SPEAKER_00Um so Wainsworld would be a party on dudes.
SPEAKER_03I think the one that yeah, that that is them, but I think the one that is went into common parlance is not. I think everyone used to say that. Ah, right, yeah, yeah. I think you used to say, like, I don't know, I think the England are gonna win the World Cup this year.
SPEAKER_00Not yeah, I'm sad to say I would have used that as well, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and the other one from that film I think were massive was Swing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, which I I associate more with Big Breakfast that we covered recently. Um think of that as a Wayne's world, but yeah, no, I can't I get it. I don't dis I don't dispute what he's saying, but I go to thought is Big Breakfast for Swing.
SPEAKER_03Swing uh and then on to Bill and Ted, uh Baudacious. I didn't really say Bodacious, I have to say.
SPEAKER_00Um I've never said Baudacious in my life.
SPEAKER_03And uh how would you say bodacious? Like what can you think of a sentence where that I'd like if you just sort of put that into a sentence in a in a work interview, for instance?
SPEAKER_00The only thing I could think of it being used, I think in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Hero Turtles, was it uh something about his Baudacious? I think it was about Michelangelo.
SPEAKER_03Um well, obviously another one from Turtles where you're on it is uh cowabunga. I another thing that I don't think I've ever said out loud other than just now. I can't imagine ever. I mean, so for obviously bodacious means excellent, doesn't it? Like oh it's totally bodac the bodacious, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But I think it's more sort of like a party feel to it, like uh oh, it's bodacious, like it's like a uh this is it's not just that this is great, this is like a a party feel. I I don't know, I don't know whether I'm just implying that that might not be true.
SPEAKER_03Well, I'm just typing kawabunga and kawabunga comes up on the urban diction uh on the on the dictionary. In fact, it's in the dictionary kawabunga, uh used to express uh express delight or satisfaction. But again, apparently this this came out in the 1950s to 60s. Uh and a lot obviously a lot of this is surfer talk, cowabonga.
Bill And Ted, Turtles, And Surfer Talk
SPEAKER_00Well, Michelangelo is supposed to be like quite cool, weren't he? Like in uh you say like a bodacious dude, totally baudacious dudes.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, it's like being in the room with Michelangelo. Um he's he was the orange man, weren't he? Orange turtles numchucks, numb chucks, num chuckers, num chuckers. Yeah, he was um the other one from Bill and Ted, by the way, uh Radical, which then got put shortened to rad. Rad, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Terribly rad. I can't imagine these like in no.
SPEAKER_01This is what I mean. Like these all 90 slang, the totally radical.
SPEAKER_00Imagine saying to someone, what do you have a good time or something? Oh, it's radical.
SPEAKER_03But at the same time, if you read Red Magazines from the time, they'd have no problems with putting in the radical the radical new single from Take That or whatever, or whatever it'd be about, or like the Baudacious. This this single is totally baudacious, dude. Ridiculous, crazy, yeah. I think the one like in England, I don't think it's a film, but I think the guy who and we should do an episode on him to be honest. Uh Egggy's asked us to do an episode on him, is Allie G. I think he absolutely took a um had phrases that came into everyday life.
SPEAKER_00Aller G phrases, definitely, yeah. Yeah, but I again I use them ironically in a sense that yeah, people used to say them to be cool. I say them now because I know them massively. So sometimes if you call, I'll answer and say, I recognise I don't even know if that's definitely his, but I I associate that with allergy. Human are one of it with Saturn.
SPEAKER_03Aye, that's definitely one I sometimes use. Like, so if someone will say, I usually I usually use this like getting sarcastically when someone will say, 'Are we going to local pubs tonight?' Something really boring. Aye, yeah. Do you do the do the hand gesture with it?
SPEAKER_00Like the whip.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, I'm doing it as as I'm doing it, I'm doing it now. Like, you can't not do it. Aye. And um obviously, uh, I never used this obviously in in real life, but Punani, he he sort of brought into the to the modern world.
SPEAKER_00Ride the Punani, was it?
SPEAKER_03Ride the Punani. I don't think I've ever said it. Ride the Punani. In it, were it where is it in it? It is were in it, weren't it? In it.
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, I don't know if was that Fascio at Milk's Club.
SPEAKER_03No, that would that were him. That were him. I'm sure that were him, innit? Like used to say I'm sure his DVD were called in it or his VHS. I had it at the time, massive, obviously. Um West Side is another one from him. West Side, yeah. West Side. And Midjuli is often still talked about. Now, there's a woman at work who I work with who's about 60. And she's called Midjulay. So yeah. She knows she's called Midjuli. I don't know, actually.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if she I think I might know who it is, but I'm not gonna I won't say the surname.
SPEAKER_03No, no, I think it's another one. Uh what he used to say all the time, a bate for ass. Um, like I used to say, Yeah, man, I see an abatti. And yeah, it would just these are like things that I don't know, these were J. Again, no, it can't be 90s, that must be 2000, surely Ali G. Ali G? Oh, I bet you I bet it wasn't, because obviously on the office, on the on the office, he says when he dresses as Ali G, Ali G, Ali Keith.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, no, you're right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so I reckon it's a lot earlier than I thought then. Let's have a look then. Ali G started 81, then isn't he? Yeah, 9. Um, but yeah, have you got any more on your 98?
SPEAKER_00All right, I'm good. So I've got a fact imagine if we were like six watching that.
SPEAKER_03I is here with my main man. Uh incredible, isn't it? Uh have you got any more on your list, Lib? I've got loads by the way, so I but I don't want to like you know keep up keep keep it on.
SPEAKER_00Um so I I'll show you behind the curtain. I typed into AI some night slang. I think that's you put UK as well. So I've got as if uh Dabom came up, so again I'll never something was Dabom, like Dabom meaning excellent, or that that was absolutely I never used that.
SPEAKER_03Is that the same as the English one which I classes like min? Oh it's min.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I suppose it'd be sort of similar, yeah. Um booya, which I it's a bit like buyaka sha, but booyah. Booyaka sha. That's another one we did mention actually from allergy. Yeah, buyaka sha. Boyaka sha. Uh fat something that's cool or attractive, so pH fat, often related to style or appearance. I've never used that. Fly. Um pretty fly for a white guy, bro. Yeah, which is kind of what I associate with. Yeah. Now this is absolutely one. I don't think I would ever say this, or have ever said it, but I know people around me who certainly were saying it, but they follow it up with something else. But the phrase that came up is talk to the hand. I can't imagine you ever saying talk to the hand. But do you remember what people used to say after it?
SPEAKER_03Talk to the hand because the face ain't listening.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because the face ain't listening.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I can't.
SPEAKER_00I mean, for a start, why would that not be yours? Talk to the hand, because the face ain't listening.
Ali G’s Catchphrases Go Mainstream
SPEAKER_03What's the other one that they used to say? Talk oh what the other were there some of the else that rhymed. I don't know that doesn't rhyme, but it was something like talk to the hand because the well used to know. Do you know what I've just thought of one? That's my name and don't wear it out. Ah, yeah, that was good, yeah. That's what I'm thinking of, yeah. Yeah, that's my name, don't wear out my name, don't wear it out.
SPEAKER_00You had to say that with like the smuggiest sort of grin as well, didn't you? Like, that's what don't wear it out.
SPEAKER_03What do you mean? So it's really ridiculous. Sorry, can't be.
SPEAKER_00They do some of the LG ones as well, actually. But where uh Denise says to Anthony Um, keep that out, keep that short, or you'll get them blacked. Like points to the nose, mouth, and eyes. I thought I thought that's great for it. Again, I don't even know if you used it, but I really like it.
SPEAKER_03It'd be amazing if you use that in everyday life, to be fair. Keep that, otherwise they'll end up black. Um chillax.
SPEAKER_00Chillax I probably said that, but again, more recently as like a throwback. I don't think in the in the the 90s or early 2000s I would have said uh probably just gonna chillax. Netflix and chills become like a euphemism for sex.
SPEAKER_03Uh it's probably like what? Well, obviously when Netflix came out, but um that that seems to have been around seven or eight years ago, is it? Yeah, that seems to have been around you're going back for some Netflix and chills. Absolutely thinks of these things, haven't they? Like Chillax does make sense though.
SPEAKER_00Like that because I mean who do you think of if I say is there a person you know that that because I think of someone straight away when I think of chillax?
SPEAKER_03Someone who we know personally, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Chillax, you might not have sort of seen the most chillaxing of the guys.
SPEAKER_03Oh Matthew Furnace, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he he's a relaxing guy though, isn't he? Like he's one of those guys who he'll be four hours late to meet up and stuff because he's just been chillaxing, and he in the HUD.
SPEAKER_00Sometimes, like he'd sort of say, Oh, I'm gonna go back and get my tea. Um, I'll come back for a game of pool in an hour. So I'd phone him in like two hours and say, Where are you? And he'd say, Well, I've just not had my tea yet. So, what you been doing? I just been chilling, dude. It's been chilling. Chilling, dude, chilling.
SPEAKER_01Could you get away with chillaxing now? Is that is that something?
SPEAKER_00I think you could say chillax. I I I wouldn't. I suppose this is the the sort of thing for me is if somebody said it now, would it make you would it jar you a bit and think, God, that's a throwback? Depends who said I don't think chillax would. I I think if somebody said chillax, I would think, yeah, fair enough. I kind of get it.
SPEAKER_03What about like if it were a footballer's interview? Um I don't know nowadays, Arike Ari K be mad saying it. I was gonna go home with chillax.
SPEAKER_00Uh like would you after the game we like to go back, and sometimes some of the boys like to chillax.
SPEAKER_03I can imagine sort of Bellingham saying chillax, like without sort of, yeah, I'm just gonna go on and chillax now with my homies. He's never gonna say that, is he?
SPEAKER_00No, imagine that two but I think it's we must make time for them to chillax.
SPEAKER_03Like maddest person to say that in the England squad. Like, I'm gonna go home and chillax with my homies. I think maybe Harry Maguire.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, maybe Henderson or somebody very strange. It might be K.
SPEAKER_03It might be K. Southgate would have been amazing. Listen up, what does he say on that?
SPEAKER_00Listen up, yeah. This is big boy Southgate.
SPEAKER_03Daddy Gareth, innit? Yeah, Daddy Gareth. Yeah, fucking brilliant.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, sorry. I'm gonna go and chillax. Um, last couple I've got on this list. So, Word, I associate that more as word up if you say our word up. Yeah, word.
SPEAKER_03No, I think word, word I yeah, that's another one that I say these days fairly sarcastically. Like I sometimes answer phone two or whatever, and I say word.
The Big List: From “Da Bomb” To “My Bad”
SPEAKER_00I I think this is the most common use, probably of all the ones on the list, shortly followed by the the the least ever said, I think. But yeah, I think this is absolutely in common parlance these days. My bad. My bad, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I remember when Jonathan Ross and uh Russell Brand did that phone call to Andrew Sachs's daughter, do you know when they um well they're just laughing at her for sleeping with Russell Brand. Mad that actually we should probably do an episode on that.
SPEAKER_00Um Manuel's daughter, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_03Manuel's daughter, yeah. Um and he apologised, Jonathan Ross, by saying, as the kids would say, My bad. And like the kids would say, My bad, my bad. Yeah, my bad. People, yeah, that is genuinely something that that has lasted like the test of time, my bad, to be fair.
SPEAKER_00I just think that's that's perfectly normal conversation. If if like if we were late doing this because I couldn't get Zoom to work and I said, Oh, I've been signing in using wrong email address, I'd say, sorry, my bad. And I think that's fine.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but if you if you said, Oh my god, mate, this is gonna the if when we finish, you say that that that podcast was totally bodacious.
SPEAKER_00Listen, man, word. I was trying to chillax. If you're not happy, talk to the hand.
SPEAKER_03Talk to the hand, because I thought that were bodacious.
SPEAKER_00It's the last one I've got on my list, which obviously I kind of get it because I I remember seeing it live, probably the first time it was broadcast in the UK, but you bought Simpson saying, Eat my shorts. Eat my shorts and don't have a cow. I like anyone's ever said either of those.
SPEAKER_03Eat my shorts. What about no problemo? That's soft uh Simpsons, isn't it? Yeah, I think that's I would accept that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, if I said someone like I don't know, do you you do not know what you're doing?
SPEAKER_03Would you say don't have a cow to somebody? I know Brent says it on office, but would you honestly say I can't?
SPEAKER_00No, I I don't I don't quite know what it means. Well see eat my shorts is basically talked to the hand, innit? Eat my shorts, yeah. It's like I care that little about what you're saying, you might as well be eat eating my shorts. Yeah, eat my shorts.
SPEAKER_03Is that a is this a 90s one? I don't know if this were classed as a good thing or a bad thing, really. Beatch.
SPEAKER_00Beatch. That's another sort of alley G type thing, innit? I don't know.
SPEAKER_03This is not nice, and this is very sexist, but this is the 90s, so you know, it were very loaded in FHF. Different times it was acceptable in the 90s, but people used to say, um, oh yeah, I'm gonna go to the club tonight and chat with some beatchas and stuff like that, and that was like just a normal thing that people said. Not me for many reasons, but yeah, beatchers.
SPEAKER_00We're mixed in different circles. I uh we're mixed in very to be fair, round about that time we I could probably think of a person that we know saying it as well, so yeah, but I probably probably do. He would have said it in a ridiculously like non-American way as well.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, we're gonna get some beachers. Um your mama's so fat were um another thing, weren't it, back in the 90s. Remember that? Your mum was so fat that she I don't know what films that that's of or a comedian or something. I think you can still find them, can't you? I don't know if that's still a Naughty Professor, maybe was that oh maybe, yeah. Your mumma's so it didn't say this, but your mum's I remember your mumma's so fat that when she walks down the stairs, I think it was the start of EastEnders.
SPEAKER_00I think of the uh don't there's a bit in the Sopranos where they're doing it about Ginny Sack, isn't there? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's which even now that's 20 years ago, innit? So I see that's recent, but it isn't.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Another one that I've just thought of. Well, I've I had it written down, but I forgot about I've I've got rid of it, is Big Wow. That was massive, big wow at school.
SPEAKER_00Big wow, yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But people just go, Oh, big wow man, like do you know what I mean? Say something like that, they do it in like an American accent for some reason. So you'd say something like, I don't know, um, oh yeah, uh I got I got two goals yesterday in my in my football team. Oh, big wow man, do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, to me that's a bit like Never, where you had to sort of say it really over the top. Like big wow.
SPEAKER_03Big wow. I used to know uh one of my former managers at Weber used to say big wow, and it proper threw me. This were about 15 years ago. What in your appraisal?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I've got a virtual this year. Uh big wow, it proves in my target sort of big wow man.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she used to say big wow man, man, at the end of everyone as well, big wow man. Like she used to say it, and she were about I don't know, probably about our age actually, or yeah, but our age now. And I used to think that's a mad thing for you to be saying, like as a manager, big wow man. You can't say that as a manager in any profession. No, but uh another one, uh yeah, two things that uh reminded me, like what have come from music or girl power, which I don't remember anyone.
SPEAKER_00Obviously, I never said girl power, but yeah, I mean I know obviously not of the phrase, and and the media would use it a lot. I can't think of people using it in conversation. And mad for it, which is obviously William Gallagher's. No, he's mad for it.
SPEAKER_03That's he's not a scouser, is it? Mad for it. He's mad for it, yeah. Mad for it, mate. Mad for it. That was massive in obviously due to the uh yeah, when Liam Gallagher with the thing. Just by the way, I've just thought of another one, which I don't think this were a big thing at all. But do you remember Home Alarm when he says uh Kevin, you're such a disease?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03That's something that yeah, you're such a disease. I don't think that were ever like a big one, but um in terms of uh insults, this is one that I thought of immediately. What if I said if you're at school and I'm lying to you, what would you say?
SPEAKER_01Um you slap your chin as I'm like, mmm, chinny chin chin, stick your chin out, chin hill. All that sort of stuff. Like what what where did that come from?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I d I don't know, chinny chin chin, is like obviously the big bad wolf, innit? And the three little pigs, but not by the hair.
SPEAKER_03Not on the hairs of my chinny chin chin, chin a chin a yeah, pig chinny.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, I would like if someone was lying, people would like to stick the chin out, wouldn't it? Say chin i yeah, chinny hill.
SPEAKER_03Chinny hill. Chinny hill. I'm doing it now. Can't say it should stop doing it. Uh I don't know if this is a sort of thing. Uh I'm I'm wearing glasses as it stands, so I'm allowed to say this. Specky four eyes, is that a sort of thing?
SPEAKER_00I don't know, it's quite common. People wear glasses now with uh with eyes eyes. Yeah, there's no shame these days, is there?
SPEAKER_03No shame, is there now? Like I mean, like I say, modern woke world. Woke world, it's like a cool thing. But now obviously geek chic and all that, but yeah, when we were growing up, I don't I don't say it were like uh you weren't a social outcast or anything like that, but you you would have got called I think now that's probably changed to Harry Potter or something like that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I think they've become like quite fashionable, aren't they? And I say people wear glasses without um sort of optic lenses in just plain glass because they like the look. So I think that's completely gone.
SPEAKER_03Another insult, uh which is horrible I hate this as a word, horrible word there's minga.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I definitely knew of people saying that. Minga.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, horrible, horrible, horrible word. Um what about uh Dick Splash? Is that still a thing or Dick Wad?
SPEAKER_00Dick Wad, I've heard. I don't know about Dick Splash, I don't know what it is. No, I don't even know.
SPEAKER_03Use your imagination, I have a thing. Dick's Dick Wad on Dick Splash. I always remember my dad as well, by the way. Uh I think that used to happen. Is I suppose this this must happen now, you can tell me. If someone had caught up on him when I was really young and they'd like be driving too fast, they'd say, Oh, look at him, he thinks he's Nigel Mansell or Damon Hill or whoever it'd be.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I it tends to be just uh pure expletives for me, I think.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there's less humour when I'm academic, I don't even know who's number one in the world now.
SPEAKER_00Um I mean you'd probably say Lewis Hamilton, wouldn't you? But I don't think he's Lewis Hamilton.
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SPEAKER_03Thinks he's Lewis Hamilton. What people used to say to me actually is you remember remember me the song Um Remember Me and the one who dreaded That bit other side of Ginger and that bit where there goes ging ging ging ging. Some people used to sing that to me.
SPEAKER_00Something where something someone or something or it might even be me called you Pure Red or something.
SPEAKER_03Like there's some Oh you called me Red McKenzo for some reason, didn't you? I don't know, I don't know what I don't know who Mackenzo is. I'm sure you did.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I remember Mackenzo. Yeah, that was it, I think. Red Mackenzo.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, why did you call Reducan?
SPEAKER_00If anyone knows what that means, because I I don't and I used to use that quite a lot.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you I think everyone do your phone is Red McKenzie. Red Mackenzie, yeah. I have no idea what that means. Do you know when you leave school and people sign your jumper and stuff?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Someone wants to put an arrow to to try to my head and put warning intense heat. Absolutely amazing.
SPEAKER_00Again, you can't we're laughing retrospectively. You can't laugh at these things these days, obviously. You can't laugh at these things now. I can't I'm trying to I'm trying to think of any others. I can't the only thing I'm thinking of that's a lot earlier than this was do you remember when everyone used to say everything was mega?
SPEAKER_03Mega, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00That one's don't think that's a thing anymore.
SPEAKER_03Absolutely mega.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's that's the last one I've got to bring to this. I think that's completely gone mega. I think you would say cool now.
SPEAKER_03Totally finished. Right, thank you very much, Liam. And see you next time.
SPEAKER_00Talk to the hand, bro.
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