hey i am auditioning replacement words for "awesome"-- suggestions, please

also, i've always hated the word "douchebag". suggest replacement words for that, too, please. thank you very much. thank you.

dogtits

rad, gnar, dope, sweet

DOPE

actually yeah all of those are good

bogus

wicked

jammin, fun, fantastique!

sick, also try using ultra as prefix for other words in this thread e.g. ultrarad

spoobee

i use "rad" lots. can't help myself. i just can't help myself.

bodacious

rather pleasant

not entirely agreeable

"marvellous"/"magnificent"/"splendid"/"capital" (in English accent)

superchouette

"formidable!" (in Fr. accent)

jolly spiffing
top hole
super smashing great

"class"/"tops"/"tasty"/"a'right" (in Northern English accent)

douchebottle

replacement douchebags: "pillock"/"weapon"/"imbecile"/"doofus"/"drongo"/"muppet"/"tit"/"nincompoop"/"prat"

well jackson
bitchin

douchenozzle

"pornofornocacophagomaniacal"

The most stupid advertising slogan I ever saw was on the side of a bottle of Picon, and just said "c'est bon". I can only conclude that there is no French equivelent of Francis Ogilvy.

replacement douchebags: "pillock"/"weapon"/"imbecile"/"doofus"/"drongo"/"muppet"/"tit"/"nincompoop"/"prat"

"muppet"? really??

god help your soul

c'mon, muppets are porno for pyros, you douchefuck

Oilragsian. Or Oilyragsesque.

for me, "weapon" is forever stained by this...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/4312252_1a15d51901.jpg

in this sceptred isle we use "muppet" to describe any sort of lulzy incompetent doucheclitter, you numpty

oh, i knew it had to be some nonsense along those lines

dell on.

of the TMNT slang, tubular seems to be forgotten

yeah i agree, i keep trying to bring it back but it doesnt come to the tongue as easily as 'rad' or 'awesome'

FUCKING awesome

admirationsome
astonishmentsome
esteemsome
regardsome
reverencesome
shocksome
stupefactionsome
venerationsome

crackalackin

top hat

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aalo3iz9OU/SDDahvPd4HI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/DaW1PxSKqQo/s400/jawsome.jpg

bomb
wicked
tight
killer
pimp

^^ none of these are acceptable, fyi

by which I mean I consider the use of each an SB'able offense

sweetsauce

('douchebag' stays)

yeah, what's wrong with douchebag?

Steaksauce (if you want to build your vocabulary from tv shows)

shitestreak

ripping

crucial

doucherocket >>> douchebag

elmo, i am in your camp as far as those abominations go

G00blar, i've said it here before, i think, but the word reminds me too much of andrew dice clay. i blame and curse john stewart for reviving it

heir to the massengill fortune.

"douche-" is a useful prefix -- and "doucherocket" is very, uh, evocative

like, say, douchetard
xp

"Terrific" has been un(der)used since the 70s...

bootytime

heir to the massengill fortune.

exactly.

i'm gonna start doing "douchefuck". i like it.

in germany they used to say "toll" for awesome. like, in the seventies

Boss

Boss sauce

Kolig!

douchesauseeeeee

suggestions for "awesome"

- tippy
- starched
- cosby
- stoatly
- italic
- rawhide

suggestions for "douchebag"

- smear
- jeller
- limbic tranq
- tulle
- ass plankton
- lipface

you should write for the disney channel nabisco

jeller, no.

Oh wow: it's gel-related, and I intentionally spelled it with a J to be clear and to not offend anyone named Geller -- what a bad move

dogtits

― Mr. Que, Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:07 PM (1 hour ago)

that is for "awesome" btw, dont get any other ideas.

i like "rawhide" and jeller and just plain plankton quite a bit. thank you

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews37/fox%20western%20classics/poster%20rawhide.JPG

^--sweetsauce

these fucking plankton at the bar are bumming me out. let's go

sweetsauce!

I want to particularly recommend "stoatly," which derives from "it is totally"

P.S. It was only just now that I realized the word that the explosion of "douchebag" replaced, and it was constant 90s use of "tool," wasn't it

explosion of "douchebag"

ewwww...

(Another advantage of "stoatly" is that you can intensify your usage by saying something like "oh man, that movie's stoatly stoatly")

I want to particularly recommend "stoatly," which derives from "it is totally"

P.S. It was only just now that I realized the word that the explosion of "douchebag" replaced, and it was constant 90s use of "tool," wasn't it

wow, i dunno that i've ever heard someone say "stoatly". that could work; though, i have weird associations with it b/c when i was growing up a neighbor's dad was named "stoakely" (sp?) so that freaks me out a bit

i dunno that i ever heard ppl say "tool" that much? i recall more generic invectives along the lines of "jerk", "asshole", etc.

i think of tools and douchebags as totally separate entities.

douchetard is great - combines two vintage 80s insults! ass plankton is good.

more retro-replacements for the retro-awesome:

swell
peachy keen
neato
groovy
bonkers

i think of tools and douchebags as totally separate entities.

I dunno, I think that it evolved back and forth. There were connotations of smarminess, disingenuousness, prickishness in both. Asshole, I see as a more general term, while tools and douchebags are a particular kind of asshole.

For example, the dude in a hoopdie or 70s muscle car that cuts you off in traffic is an asshole. The dude in an SUV, minivan, or vehicle with safety aspects in their marketing is a douchebag/tool.

that's a fair breakdown, kudos, you assfuck.

'assclown', anyone?

Swell!

Asstastic!

'nice' : completely ruined for me since the whole Borat debacle

I don't think of douchebags/tools as necessarily needing to be any kind of asshole (as in actively mean or irritating) -- "tool" especially can be used of any number of people you just want to describe as ... contemptibly lame.

Origins in "not the sharpest tool in the box"?

yeah, people can have reasonably good intentions but take something too seriously and be a tool in my book.

Swell!

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:12 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^
needs a good, solid unironic revive

Origins in "not the sharpest tool in the box"?

― snoball, Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i always assumed it was tool as in, this dude is totally unoriginal, hes just, like, a cog, in the machine, man, like, a tool of, like, the man, man

Felchtard. Schmucktoast.

'Muppet' here in the UK has an accompanying hand gesture.

Really? I live in the UK, and I didn't know!

, i've always hated the word "douchebag".

it's one of my favourite words EVER!

we like to use awesomesauce nowadays. i don't know why i do it cause i don't particularly like it.

dongtastic
tanglicious
well-wrecked
really very

tanglicious? looks great on paper (i mean screen) but to say it?

I don't think of douchebags/tools as necessarily needing to be any kind of asshole (as in actively mean or irritating) -- "tool" especially can be used of any number of people you just want to describe as ... contemptibly lame.

True that, I think it would be more accurate to say that douchebag/tool and asshole have a boolean intersection, but there are plenty of one that aren't the other.

"dongtastic" has a certain ring to it.

(..)'Muppet' here in the UK has an accompanying hand gesture.

― We Need To Talk About Kevin Smith (suzy), Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really? I live in the UK, and I didn't know!

― snoball, Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

ooh burnsauce

inhale it, toastsqueezer

I use "groovy" waaaay too much IRL

i always assumed it was tool as in, this dude is totally unoriginal, hes just, like, a cog, in the machine, man, like, a tool of, like, the man, man

I think you're right.

too much is impossible (xpost)

(xxpost) maybe you're stuck in a rut?

been using 'bitchin' a lot lately

in honor of the movie 'the sandlot'

^ yeah, exactly -- stems from "tool of the man"

I was about to go into the big difference I see in tool vs. d-bag, but the short version would be that on the American version of The Office, Michael Scott is a total tool and Ryan from business school is a total d-bag

ryan is totally a tool!!! he goes to BUSINESS SCHOOL dude!!

a douchebag is somehow complicit in his dbaggery, whereas a tool doesn't know or wilfully affect his status as tool one iota, I thought

going to business school would definitely be on the Foxworthy-esque list of "You might be a tool if ..."

I would argue that tools are more complicit in their toolishness than douchebags are in theirs.

Max, Ryan also goes to New York, grows designery stubble, becomes a cokehead, hangs out in d-baggy lounges picking up chicks, gets into accounting fraud, is thoroughly weaselly and smarmy, etc.!

tools can have designery stubble and be cokeheads.

the problem here is that in my douchebag/tool venn diagram theres like a 80-90% overlap where u seem to believe, falsely i might add, in a clear & eaily-discernable distinction

I've never seen this show, so I'm only speaking categorically.

I'd say douchebags have an "on" mode and an "off" mode which they affect depending on company/circumstances, whereas tools are tools in all walks of life...anyone can BE a douchebag, but only some of us are tools

There's probably a really good zing waiting to be made there

I thought "tool" was just a variation on "dick."

"A man might refer to his tool, or rod, or johnson."

or percy

Basically I think d-bag gets thrown at guys who are making semi-plausible efforts to be totally cool, and think they're cool, but are actually thoroughly contemptible and seem smug and oily about their whole cool-guy thing. Whereas "tool" gets thrown at guys who are just exasperatingly typical -- sometimes earnest types, sometimes meathead types, sometimes tool-of-the-man types, but way more dumb and lame and square.

Which is making me think this difference I feel between hearing lots of "tool" in the 90s and lots of "douchebag" in the 00s might actually be indicative of a cultural shift, and a different emphasis on coolness now? Or else just me getting older and moving from the midwest (which is maybe more of a tool setting) to the coast (which is maybe more of a d-bag setting).

There's probably a really good zing waiting to be made there

Perhaps it involves a question about your "off" mode?

I am going to have to watch more episodes of Tool Academy to sort this out

Which is making me think this difference I feel between hearing lots of "tool" in the 90s and lots of "douchebag" in the 00s might actually be indicative of a cultural shift, and a different emphasis on coolness now?

though the "smug and oily about their whole cool-guy thing" guys would have been called tools back in the 90s. I'm with you about the cultural shift, though. I think Max's 80-90% overlap is accurate, and I'd posit the difference boils down to cultural shift.

I am going to have to watch more episodes of Tool Academy to sort this out

Wasn't the fake tv show in Home Improvement called "Tool Talk"?

wonder what the tool-dbag-retard overlap is

^^ please make and post graphs and charts.

TOOL TIME

i shall instead provide an audio-visual demonstration:

MEGA!

i agree w/ nabs about tool. in the 90s it was used to describe lamers, but lamers are like easier targets now, so there's the more discriminating douchebag for ryan-types.

, now.

Muppet hand gesture learned from Ed c. 2001: cup hands together as if hinge-attached at wrists, open and shut attendant hemispheres; it will make noise if enough force is used. No, I don't know where he learned it or who made it up first.

cosby
yes

italic
lol

i shall instead provide an audio-visual demonstration

What exactly is this demonstrating?

the exact point where all 3 collide

It's hard judging for me, as I don't know the context of the protest or the footage, apart from it being some sort of NYU protest. But it was funny that the narrator criticized the "other side" for drinking corporate water, while proudly identifying the brand names of his Apple products (e.g. macbook vs. laptop).

bodacious

(spoken wistfully, with a hint of sultry passion) "exquisite"

I'm partial to "delightful" myself

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/hist100.96/elc/grungehoax.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/aweshorrormovieke6.gif

i like nifty

http://thebottlecapman.com/images/Unused%20Soda%20Cork2/Nifty%20Appleberry.jpg

for emphasis you can say, "pretty nifty." or "super nifty," i guess, though that seems like overkill. usually just nifty works fine.

oh and for "douchebag," i recommend "jackass." with or without the johnny knoxville association, it works either way.

Dude-ical (dudical?) - a compound of "dude" & "radical"

'lethal' is quite big in norn iron. occasionally 'lethal days'. tends to be used in a quite ironic way refernecing scally chat

i could see myself using "lethal" but really it's gotta be time for MEGA to make a comeback.

Lethal being the Norn Irn counterpart of DEADLY?

i think deadly is big round belfast, lethal is more derry i think considering it s the only place in n.ireland ive really spent any time (18 years)

Please keep using mega, rad, tubular, crucial so I can pretend it's 1989 and I can be excited about what will be on the tapes of this month's ZX Spectrum magazines and if I'll see a coin-op of Toobin' or Crude Dudes to lose a few 10ps in soon.

Have heard "deadly" a lot from Belfast people and can't recall hearing "lethal" more than once or twice, but then I'm not a native and it sounds like the people I know are a decade older too. "oh that's deadly, that's just class... that's word, so it is"

I like the early 90s UK rave idiom: safe, sound, sorted, nice one, wicked. But I say ace, or even aces, a lot. In the US, does cool not just mean awesome? Or does it still have some reserved, rarefied connotation?

I HATE douchebag. What a horrible word. No-one says it over here, though, do they? Fucking prick or smarmy cunt. Or just git? I like git, for some reason. Tosser?

it's hard to use 'douchebag' irl without feeling a bit self-conscious. it's a bit of a 'guardian guide wanker' thing to say, as in http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/13/douchebags-of-the-year

however, saying 'd-bag' is hilarious imo.

this shit is fucking royal

champion

i have a lot of friends who just say 'bag

Man I cringe hearing bowdlerized "d-bag" when DOUCHEBAG is just so completely phonetically satisfying.

At slivered Venn intersection of retard, douchebag and tool: "Boehner" (BAY-ner)

'bag' as in 'you old bag' is already an actual insult in the uk

xpost

champion

Is this instead of "awesome" or "douchebag"?

"cool" in french still has the classical american meaning, i.e. easygoing, unruffled

xpost
http://www.sausagenet.com/i/p/654-0.jpg
"We are the douchebags"

balls...
http://www.sausagenet.com/i/p/654-0.jpg

Is this instead of "awesome" or "douchebag"?
The former. "Champ" is for the latter.

stfu champ

LOL 'deadly' makes sense as a Belfastism; first person I heard use it was Andy Cairns (who also schooled me on what a 'spide' was).

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x18/mdizzle04/barneystinson-1-1.jpg

LEGENDARY

I can't really handle "nifty" because "nift" is Amharic for snot

so is that the ancient base of 'sniff'?

Totally different language groups, but apparently English sniff/snivel run back to something like "snofl" meaning mucus, so ... maybe there's some way-ancient (onomatopoeia?) "SNF" base that's informing them all?

*snort*

In the US, does cool not just mean awesome?

Funny, I was listening to a This American Life podcast this morning and was slightly taken aback at someone's old-fashioned use of the word "awesome," as in "the extent of the financial crisis is truly awesome."

Howabout 'stellar'?

I feel like people still use that sense a lot, J! Although I guess it's often in a somewhat religious context. (Cf Obama's "we worship an awesome god" line.)

"God is awesome" was a fairly common bumpersticker at one point ...

i hate the word ace being used as awesome

i never heard cherry or diesel being used but they wouldn't sound right either

super-non-disappointing

jaw-slack-inspiring

drop-to-knees-able

bowel-delighting

"lovely"

I actually spoke to a press officer for a news story this week who was clarifying for me that a man who died when he was struck by a loose lorry wheel was on foot and at the end I said "that's lovely, fantastic, thanks for your help", exposing how desensitised I am.

nous-ful

(Cf Obama's "we worship an awesome god" line.)

I think you're right that "awesome God" is still used frequently, but it's not as jarring, since the speaker presumably finds God to be both awe-inspiring and, well, cool. I don't think anyone is willing to claim that the financial crisis is a pretty sweet sitch we're in.

gurnworthy

terrifying

I can't really handle "nifty" because "nift" is Amharic for snot

great, now i have to pretend i don't know that. don't ruin words for me!