Now, I like using that as a response instead of ‘that’s great’ or ‘well done’ as the recipient can’t really tell if I’m genuine or taking the piss Example, Mrs B says ‘I’ve done the dishes’ and I say ‘oh, super!’
That's totally top-tastic there mate (Smashie and Nicey ) Anyway, has Joe Biden left the building yet ?
To be fair, “super” started being used by premier class motorcycle riders in interviews, where English was not their first language. What is unacceptable IMO, is using the word when English is your first language. Andy
“Journey” Very common in wanky self-help related reels on Instagram and usually uttered by a girl who pronounces it “jarney", talking about how she overcame a bit of depression but makes it sound as if she survived a shipwreck followed by a shark attack.
Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon Unit must have had similar feelings when they released the song Valley Girl in ‘back in ‘82 But no biggie It's so awesome It's like tubular, y'know Well, I'm not, like, really ugly or anything It's just like I don't know You know me I'm, like, into the, like, the clean stuff Like, Pac-Man And, like, I don't know Like, my mother, like Makes me do the dishes It's, like, so gross Like, all the stuff, like Sticks to the plates And it's like, it's like Somebody else's food, y'know It's like grody, grody to the max I'm sure It's, like, really nauseating Like, barf out Gag me with a spoon! Gross! I am sure! Totally!
“Meteoric”, as in “his rise was meteoric. Meteors don’t rise, they fall. Cretins. “Eye of the storm” (when describing someone at the centre of a very chaotic and stressful situation. As every schoolboy knows, the eye of a storm is calm and still.
