As a millennial, describing something as fire, or mids, that was us. Y’all youngings are appropriating old people culture. That’s how we described weed in the 2000s.
Edit: also when kids were saying ‘ratchet’, that was a direct descendent of Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ken Keasy used that name to be a homonym for “rat shit.” Next time you hear so e drop ‘ratchet,’ ask them what it means. They won’t even know.
It’s weird how old slang crops up like that. Ratchet was like, the 60s.
Edit2: I predict “kind” will get taken in, like “KB” or “kind bud” to mean “dope”. Like “you those shoes are kind, fam”.
I also predict that “beasters” might make it’s way in, but “beast” already meaning “dominate” might trip it up, because “beasters” were weed that was grown rushed with phosphates in the soil in indoor hydroponic labs, and that shit had lower THC content than most mids, looked better, but smelled off. Dead giveaway was hollow stems. Idk. Calling beats by dre headphones “beasters” would be a fitting insult to their products.
Fleek died the moment someone managed to get that fire started. Good riddance.
“Yo” is another one that the Zoomers love. I haven’t heard so much usage of that word since the mid 90s. And “bruh” is just another form of “bro”/“brah”.
Another good example is when twerking made a comeback a few years ago, despite not being a thing since 2000s hip hip.
there was a book (Terry Pratchett?) I read as a young adult that had a character called Yoless because it was the 90s and he didn’t ever say “yo” and everyone thought that was notable, weird and hysterical
Yeah, we called it brick weed cause they were packaged to save space not the product… and we generally didn’t fuck with it because it wasn’t even green by the time it was up in New england
I bought a batch of that shit once that had been dyed green - you could tell because most of the green pigment ended up concentrated at the end of the fat stems. Nastiest shit ever, I’m probably lucky to be alive.
We used to call Mexican brick weed regs, or reggie, which I guess was slang for regular. Though I’m not sure why we called it that because it was much easier to find “fire” weed…which we called krypto or crippie. I think that was a south Florida thing though.
Ah, I’m in a border state, so brick weed was super easy to get. I had a buddy that would stuff a quart zip lock full for $40.
I personally find all of the high quality weed to be too strong. I don’t smoke enough to have a high tolerance, so even one hit can be too much. I wish shops would sell lower thc stuff, although I’ve had good success with D8
I’ve had Indiana ditch weed. There’s basically no THC in it at all. But it’s useful to sell to other high school kids who aren’t aware of that and then think they’re high when they smoke it.
I had never heard that slang for weed before in my life and I was meeting up with an old friend about 10 years ago who was going to get weed for me and he said, “I can get mids.” And I said, “I don’t do pills, man. I’m just interested in weed.” I thought he said “meds.”
I hear mid and I think oh shit, cheaper for more that isn’t overpriced shiny crystal smelly shit but still almost smokes the same.
Kinda like every movie, song, and game ever describes as mid lol.
I swear people can’t just enjoy popcorn shit anymore which is all anything mid is. Sometimes I don’t want to watch the best movie ever. Sometimes I just want to watch stupid lighthearted comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sometimes I just want another stock standard Meteoidvania or Harvest Moon clone.
When you quit chasing new highs constantly, even the old highs work well. And I don’t even smoke lol.
I take it as average rather than great, which while it does have a less than stellar implication, doesn’t seem like it is inherently bad. Moreso a “meets expectations” with a hint of “there are better options available”
I thought it was an AAVE corruption of “wretched”. Nurse Ratched was certainly that, but it didn’t derive from the character’s name. Urban Louisiana slang, more like.
Is teaching AAVE a thing anymore or did they decide it was racist? I can’t keep up. I know for a while there was an argument that teaching AAVE at schools was designed to entrench a kind of linguistic class ghetto, but then you also had the liberal “hecking valid” argument, and I’m not sure what the current party line is.
Nurse Ratchet has nothing to do with African American Vernacular English, or “ebonics”.
Just gonna add that bringing AAVE and education into the conversation (which has nothing to do with ebonics or education whatsoever) makes you come off a bit like a possible race baiting dog whistler. It’s an amazingly easy thing to avoid, so I’ve tagged you with a cute lil nickname to keep track.
I’d argue they’d know what it means but wouldn’t know the origin. Words evolve. I just learned this etymology now but I’ve always known what it meant implicitly when said. Tbh I assumed it was more local/rural slang when I was younger because I mainly heard it from other kids, not in media, etc.
I guess what I mean is if you asked them with regard to the etymology… Ratchet is a word. It has a meaning highly disparate from “shitty.” Like, it’s a tool. A noun. It does things.
So kids using this word against its actual meaning, ask them why and they won’t understand.
Like if I asked you why you were using the word ratchet (say yesterday), which is a tool that helps turn bolts, in place of the word “shitty” and you’d be all 🤷♂️🤷♂️
As a millennial, describing something as fire, or mids, that was us. Y’all youngings are appropriating old people culture. That’s how we described weed in the 2000s.
Edit: also when kids were saying ‘ratchet’, that was a direct descendent of Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ken Keasy used that name to be a homonym for “rat shit.” Next time you hear so e drop ‘ratchet,’ ask them what it means. They won’t even know.
It’s weird how old slang crops up like that. Ratchet was like, the 60s.
Edit2: I predict “kind” will get taken in, like “KB” or “kind bud” to mean “dope”. Like “you those shoes are kind, fam”.
I also predict that “beasters” might make it’s way in, but “beast” already meaning “dominate” might trip it up, because “beasters” were weed that was grown rushed with phosphates in the soil in indoor hydroponic labs, and that shit had lower THC content than most mids, looked better, but smelled off. Dead giveaway was hollow stems. Idk. Calling beats by dre headphones “beasters” would be a fitting insult to their products.
Fleek died the moment someone managed to get that fire started. Good riddance.
“Yo” is another one that the Zoomers love. I haven’t heard so much usage of that word since the mid 90s. And “bruh” is just another form of “bro”/“brah”.
Another good example is when twerking made a comeback a few years ago, despite not being a thing since 2000s hip hip.
there was a book (Terry Pratchett?) I read as a young adult that had a character called Yoless because it was the 90s and he didn’t ever say “yo” and everyone thought that was notable, weird and hysterical
Or the Harlem Shake, like that wasn’t already a thing.
Breh was around in like 2010, bruh really isn’t that much different.
Others dislike the word “Mid” because it’s youth slang
I dislike the word “Mid” because it’s often used to imply that average is bad
But mids (weed) are the worst.
I see you haven’t had Mexican ditch weed, although I did always like quantity over quality.
Yeah, we called it brick weed cause they were packaged to save space not the product… and we generally didn’t fuck with it because it wasn’t even green by the time it was up in New england
I bought a batch of that shit once that had been dyed green - you could tell because most of the green pigment ended up concentrated at the end of the fat stems. Nastiest shit ever, I’m probably lucky to be alive.
We used to call Mexican brick weed regs, or reggie, which I guess was slang for regular. Though I’m not sure why we called it that because it was much easier to find “fire” weed…which we called krypto or crippie. I think that was a south Florida thing though.
Ah, I’m in a border state, so brick weed was super easy to get. I had a buddy that would stuff a quart zip lock full for $40.
I personally find all of the high quality weed to be too strong. I don’t smoke enough to have a high tolerance, so even one hit can be too much. I wish shops would sell lower thc stuff, although I’ve had good success with D8
I’ve had Indiana ditch weed. There’s basically no THC in it at all. But it’s useful to sell to other high school kids who aren’t aware of that and then think they’re high when they smoke it.
schwag
That’s how you insult someone’s mids.
I had never heard that slang for weed before in my life and I was meeting up with an old friend about 10 years ago who was going to get weed for me and he said, “I can get mids.” And I said, “I don’t do pills, man. I’m just interested in weed.” I thought he said “meds.”
I hear mid and I think oh shit, cheaper for more that isn’t overpriced shiny crystal smelly shit but still almost smokes the same.
Kinda like every movie, song, and game ever describes as mid lol.
I swear people can’t just enjoy popcorn shit anymore which is all anything mid is. Sometimes I don’t want to watch the best movie ever. Sometimes I just want to watch stupid lighthearted comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sometimes I just want another stock standard Meteoidvania or Harvest Moon clone.
When you quit chasing new highs constantly, even the old highs work well. And I don’t even smoke lol.
I take it as average rather than great, which while it does have a less than stellar implication, doesn’t seem like it is inherently bad. Moreso a “meets expectations” with a hint of “there are better options available”
Aladeen fam
Her name is Ratched, not Ratchet.
I thought it was an AAVE corruption of “wretched”. Nurse Ratched was certainly that, but it didn’t derive from the character’s name. Urban Louisiana slang, more like.
Is teaching AAVE a thing anymore or did they decide it was racist? I can’t keep up. I know for a while there was an argument that teaching AAVE at schools was designed to entrench a kind of linguistic class ghetto, but then you also had the liberal “hecking valid” argument, and I’m not sure what the current party line is.
Nurse Ratchet has nothing to do with African American Vernacular English, or “ebonics”.
Just gonna add that bringing AAVE and education into the conversation (which has nothing to do with ebonics or education whatsoever) makes you come off a bit like a possible race baiting dog whistler. It’s an amazingly easy thing to avoid, so I’ve tagged you with a cute lil nickname to keep track.
Alright mate, I’ll just tag you as “cunt” in that case 👍
Right back atcha, fucknut.
I’m not the person accusing people of thought crimes for being class-conscious, I swear to God I’m so fed up of the internet.
I like the cut of your jib, sir.
I’d argue they’d know what it means but wouldn’t know the origin. Words evolve. I just learned this etymology now but I’ve always known what it meant implicitly when said. Tbh I assumed it was more local/rural slang when I was younger because I mainly heard it from other kids, not in media, etc.
I guess what I mean is if you asked them with regard to the etymology… Ratchet is a word. It has a meaning highly disparate from “shitty.” Like, it’s a tool. A noun. It does things.
So kids using this word against its actual meaning, ask them why and they won’t understand.
Like if I asked you why you were using the word ratchet (say yesterday), which is a tool that helps turn bolts, in place of the word “shitty” and you’d be all 🤷♂️🤷♂️