General Chat

In most decades there have been words for "rather spiffing" or "beezer".

Ace, star, lush, wicked, sick.

Probably what we say rather ages us. I used to hate it when everything good was "star" (about 1968?). Any others you remember?

Luv u all btw <3 <3

Oh how I hated "groovy" and the worst was "you bet your sweet bippy"

If nobody remembers that last one then I'm even older than I thought I was.

As I am the one who objected to the "chillax" ......... and got RR'd for it


let me explain why I objected .............


according to wiktionary, there are THREE meanings to chillax, all considered slang ............

(intransitive, slang) To relax; to be laid back.

Let's watch a movie with Maria and chillax tonight.


(intransitive, slang) To calm down.

Chillax dude, or they are going to know you are tripping.


(intransitive, slang) To behave.

Oi, chillax sunshine, or there's gonna be trouble!



I objected, in particular, to the THIRD meaning .................... being told to behave

especially in the contexts it was being used

ie, the poster causing some sort of upset, then telling others to chillax.



by the way .............. I know enough slang to know that the word "tripping" in the second example means having taken drugs.




To me, using today's slang is an attempt to show the junior generation how "hip" you are ....................... it's like dressing in clothes 40 years too young for you.


......... or as they used to say ..................... mutton dressing as lamb



But you now have my reason fro objecting to the word chillax


I presume I was RR'd for both objecting, and by saying I would report anyone who used it toward me again.

I have been subtly chastised by another member for that ........

.......... interestingly that member did not claim responsibility for the RR

Haven't heard the word chillax before this thread. However, with TV programs coming to us from all parts of the world, I've no doubt we will soon hear it and it will take on here just as is has taken on in other places.

I personally, don't feel the need to use special words to emphasise what I am saying, using formal English as I was taught at school. I am never asked to explain what I mean and I feel that I get a lot of respect for not using 'new' words. Yes, I am elderly, but I have maintained that same attitude all my life and received the same respect when I was younger, as I do now. I really don't think age has anything to do with it.

Its only a made up word.

Chill---relax,====chill-lax.......

what the urban dictionary put to its uses now wasnt there when it was first used in 1999,,,,,,so been round over a decade.

and possibly not all are aware of the uses it has today in the urban slang.