The expression "sick".

darkdubh

When did this idiotic expression come into fashion?I just noticed it in the last 6months or so and always youngish males who use it to describe something in a positive sense ie:that goal was sick.It's seriously headwrecking.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

darkdubh wrote: »

When did this idiotic expression come into fashion?I just noticed it in the last 6months or so and always youngish males who use it to describe something in a positive sense ie:that goal was sick.It's seriously headwrecking.

What an uber-sick post! woohahh sick!

KingOfFairview

Yeah it's annoying. Mainly used by American frat boy wannabes

Sir Osis of Liver.

I rather vomit.

HansHolzel

'Wicked sick' will lose its essence

the purple tin

Vito Corleone wrote: »

It's rarely if ever used, have heard it on a few TV shows but that's about it.

It is sneaking in here too unfortunately. Very confusing, why can't people make up new words instead of twisting the meanings of old ones.

old_aussie

Fully Sic bro.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fully%20Sic

Washington Irving

I don't think I've ever heard it in person, and I hope it stays that way.

Renegade Mechanic

"Sick" free down here too!

darkdubh

Vito Corleone wrote: »

It's rarely if ever used, have heard it on a few TV shows but that's about it.

There's a fella at work in his early 20's uses it quite a bit.Also see (Irish) fellas saying it on Facebook.I woulden't mind so much but its so meaningless and arbitrary.You might as well say I saw a movie last night and it stank so great.

Martyn1989

darkdubh wrote: »

It's seriously headwrecking.

Seriously? Are you being literal?

SilverScreen

Kids have been using that expression for a number of years now and yes it does get annoying sometimes when it's over-used. It originally started as an American thing but now seems to have spread.

Matt_Trakker

I reckon it's about 15-20 years old by now.
Old surfer term.

MJ23

Not as bad as "my bad". My nephew said it recently and I think I died a little inside.

mike65

Americans are ignorant ****ers and the sheeple who adopt their ways more so. Do the Math. Did people die on 11/9 for this?

darkdubh

SilverScreen wrote: »

Kids have been using that expression for a number of years now and yes it does get annoying sometimes when it's over-used. It originally started as an American thing but now seems to have spread.

Woulden't you know it?

Colash

The saying "epic" , seriously annoys me. I see it used alot on facebook to describe nights out . As in what an epic night !!!

Gran Hermano

Thread makes me feel poorly.

languagenerd

I remember my brother and his friends using "sick" like that about ten years ago, didn't know it was back in fashion now. In "Tony Hawk's Underground", the hardest level you could play in was "Sick Mode" (Beginner - Intermediate -Advanced - Sick) and that came out in 2003.

Think it was mostly American surfer and skater slang that made its way here through forums, TV and video games.

Czarcasm

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

I reckon it's about 15-20 years old by now.
Old surfer term.

I remember about 20 years ago too the MTV generation presenters tried to make the word "PHAT" to try and take the stigma out of the word "fat"?

Yeah, that never caught on either thank fcuk :pac:

anncoates

The phrase is definitely not very MINT.

FACT.

snubbleste

awesome

wp_rathead

Sick < Blowin' Chunks

.jacksparrow.

Random.

KingOfFairview

The suffix "-age".

Irish Guitarist

I first saw it in an issue of Guitar World magazine about twelve years ago. Someone wrote a letter to the magazine about how some band that were popular at the time had a 'sick' guitarist. In the letters page of another issue someone talked about 'face melting' guitar solos.

I don't read that magazine anymore.

syklops

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

I reckon it's about 15-20 years old by now.
Old surfer term.

I was going to say old skater term, but yeah, 15-20 years old at least.

MJ23 wrote: »

Not as bad as "my bad". My nephew said it recently and I think I died a little inside.

Oh the ironing!

Seedy Arling

All the cool dudes in poker say it.

'What a sick hand!' :rolleyes:

Talib Fiasco

I don't really see what's wrong with it. It's more than less the exact same thing as class, unreal, deadly and even mint.... It's far more tolerable than the f*cktards who say 'amaaaaaayzing' after anything. It actually is a pretty decent adjective when you think about it.

Zebra3

darkdubh wrote: »

When did this idiotic expression come into fashion?I just noticed it in the last 6months or so and always youngish males who use it to describe something in a positive sense ie:that goal was sick.It's seriously headwrecking.

Maybe they said "slick".

syklops

This thread is wicked.

Tar.Aldarion

6 month wtf? it's been said here for a decade at least.

Czarcasm

TheComeUp wrote: »

I don't really see what's wrong with it. It's more than less the exact same thing as class, unreal, deadly and even mint.... It's far more tolerable than the f*cktards who say 'amaaaaaayzing' after anything. It actually is a pretty decent adjective when you think about it.

Here's one that'll set your eyeball twitching - "amazeballs". Guy I know and thank christ I don't have much to do with him, but fcuking EVERYTHING to him is fcuking "amazeballs".

Also - "I weep for humanity". Humanity doesn't give a fcuk.

And finally - Atheists that make a point of saying "Thank Zod" or similar. Fcuk off, I get it already, you're an atheist, big fcuking swing.

omahaid

I think sick is totes amazeballs. I feel totes awks for you OP

Ruudi_Mentari

A particularly malevolent riff; that shreds

that's the only context I've ever used it and only one person truly stirred it in me anyhow.

hardCopy

Infinitely better than adding .com to word or using abbreviations inappropriately.

Totes morto for anyone who says "fear.com"

Talib Fiasco

Czarcasm wrote: »

Here's one that'll set your eyeball twitching - "amazeballs". Guy I know and thank christ I don't have much to do with him, but fcuking EVERYTHING to him is fcuking "amazeballs".

I was going to mention that too but I honestly couldn't bring myself together to type such f*ckerry. That one drives me mad too.... I remember I asked someone what does amazeballs mean and he just said it's just a cool way of saying amazing. Could have smacked him silly.

I get constant stick for it, but mint is my most commonly used superlative. Sure it sounds completely norrie but thank f*ck only Cork people say it.

KingOfFairview

Lets invent a new one. I propose '****tic'. Omg Don, that new lmfao song is totally ****tic

Lightbulb Sun

Heard someone say he was "hashtag buzzin" today.

KingOfFairview

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

Heard someone say he was "hashtag buzzin" today.

Meaning ****ing what???

Talib Fiasco

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Meaning ****ing what???

Well buzzin means pumped, excited, looking forward to and hashtag is associated with twitter....clearly the guy in question is a modern lingual hero.

darkdubh

TheComeUp wrote: »

I don't really see what's wrong with it. It's more than less the exact same thing as class, unreal, deadly and even mint.... It's far more tolerable than the f*cktards who say 'amaaaaaayzing' after anything. It actually is a pretty decent adjective when you think about it.

No.It's not.

Talib Fiasco

darkdubh wrote: »

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No.It's not.

It's all opinion I guess. Granted it does sound americanised, it can be fitting in context. Someone mentioned poker, in a light hearted way but it does fit in well with poker funnily enough. Is often associated with a bad beat or just bad luck where one players hands are so sick that he's blowing the rest out of it. Sick as in good and as in sickening to watch from a competitors point of view. The same can be applied to a lot of other contexts. I agree saying a goal is 'sick' is probably the wrong word but I don't see how it could annoy or irritate someone when it's meaning is pretty relevant. And it's not like sick is annoying word on it's own, compared to amazing it's pretty sound.

Ruudi_Mentari

Sìck is too much a middle class sk8trboy term, remember those 'punks'

Deadly. Silent; but deadly. Deadly totes amazeballs

frozenfrozen

I think you all hear people taking the piss out of satirical mainstream characters they've created as a personal joke between them and the person they're speaking with when you hear people say "hashtag" out loud. Nobody actually says that seriously. proper. sick. smh m8

Czarcasm

Czarcasm wrote: »

And finally - Atheists that make a point of saying "Thank Zod" or similar.

What sort of a cnut says "Thank Zod"???

I've never experienced that one, luckily

Derpington95

I say "sick" :pac:



*Hides*

April O Neill

darkdubh wrote: »

When did this idiotic expression come into fashion?I just noticed it in the last 6months or so and always youngish males who use it to describe something in a positive sense ie:that goal was sick.It's seriously headwrecking.

It's slang. It's not really any more stupid than any other slang. Everyone uses slang words, including yourself.