Our hosts explore some recent additions to the dictionary, showing their ~age~. Catch these hands!
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Our hosts explore some recent additions to the dictionary, showing their ~age~. Catch these hands!
The Merriam Webster list of 690 words.
We’ve gone old school, so email us! toastroastpod@gmail.com
Georgie 0:08
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Toast & Roast. I’m your co host, Georgie and as usual, I am here with Geoff.
Geoff 0:17
Hello. Now that our brains are back online.
Georgie 0:22
Wired.
Geoff 0:24
Wired.
Georgie 0:25
Wired.
Geoff 0:25
Wired it? It? It, does that mean like, don’t people say that they’re wired after—
Georgie 0:32
It means their brains are on.
Geoff 0:34
...drinking coffee or something? Tense with excitement and enthusiasm, or from of rush of adrenaline.
Georgie 0:40
Yeah.
Geoff 0:41
You know, I don’t think that used to be in the dictionary.
Georgie 0:44
Really?
Geoff 0:44
I feel like—
Georgie 0:45
Okay, what about plastered?
Geoff 0:49
Yeah, I don’t think plastered should be in the dictionary.
Georgie 0:53
Wasn’t bootylicious added after, after Beyonce had her hit song, was it?
Geoff 1:01
Ah man. They’ve added so many stupid words to the dictionary. Plastered.
Georgie 1:07
Plastered makes me laugh because you know—
Drunk.
Geoff 1:10
Yeah.
Georgie 1:10
It’s drunk. Yeah. Slang. But the first time I heard it I was like, what are you doing? Papier mache on the wall, like? You are plastesred?
Geoff 1:23
Oh, we added 690 new words to the dictionary for September 2023.
Georgie 1:29
We’re not gonna go through all of those.
Geoff 1:31
Oh rizz? Oh no, they put rizz!
Georgie 1:36
Zhuzh?
Geoff 1:36
Oh my god, zhuzh! Padawan? (laughs)
Georgie 1:36
(laughs) Why did they add NGL?
Geoff 1:45
Why they—tfw?
Georgie 1:47
Okay what are the categories, so we’ve got, slang and informal, the digital world. Let’s look at the categories first and then we can decide—
Geoff 1:54
What? Categories?
Georgie 1:56
The headings.
Geoff 1:58
Generative AI?
Georgie 2:00
No, the digital world, see? So in an analog world they’re categorised into.
Geoff 2:06
Oh my god.
Georgie 2:07
What else is there? Like if you keep scrolling?
Geoff 2:09
Goated?
Georgie 2:09
Yeah, analog world, gaming and—
Geoff 2:12
Gaming and other screens. Cutscene?
Georgie 2:14
NPC.
Geoff 2:15
Nerf? No way Did they put nerf into the dictionary god, oh my god. Reduce the effectiveness of some things.
Georgie 2:22
Just look at the category.
Geoff 2:23
Speedrun.
Georgie 2:24
Culture.
Geoff 2:24
Okay, culture and society online and offline. Thirst trap? OK. Food, how it’s made. Climate and environment, sports and exercise, doing business.
Georgie 2:38
Okay.
Geoff 2:39
Meme stock is not a doing business.
Georgie 2:42
What’s a meme stock?
Geoff 2:44
It a, it’s, apparently it’s the experience of a temporary sudden surge in popularity and price due to coordinated efforts such as viral social media campaign by small investors.
Georgie 2:54
Why does it need to be in the dictionary though?
Geoff 2:55
You know, you know, the doge? Coin?
Georgie 2:57
Yeah, that’s meme stock?
Geoff 2:59
Doge was a meme, was a meme token, I guess.
Georgie 3:03
Yeah.
Geoff 3:04
Oh, GameStop. Gamestop was probably a reason why this became like a thing. A meme stock.
Georgie 3:10
Oh. That whole thing with—
Geoff 3:11
Yeah, everyone just bought GameStop for some reason, can’t remember. The analog world.
Georgie 3:21
Yeah, let’s just start there, because digital is too much for me, man. Like, I know everyone’s listening to this on their vinyl record player.
Geoff 3:28
Cringe.
Georgie 3:28
Listening to this on cassette, listen to this podcast. Can you imagine—
Geoff 3:31
I can’t believe generative AI is like totally a thing.
Georgie 3:35
Why though?
Geoff 3:35
That like, it’s a, is it a phrase? It’s a noun? It’s a noun here, but generative AI? I would think that generative is a word and AI is a noun and then you just go well, like combine them to make generative AI?
Georgie 3:50
It’s a type of AI. Surely.
Geoff 3:52
Yeah. Okay. Anyways, analog. UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon, it’s because you don’t want to use UFO anymore.
Georgie 4:02
Yeah, cuz who says that they’re flying, they’re just, they’re just up there. They may not be flying. Just moving around.
Geoff 4:09
Floating. Nice tenacity...
Georgie 4:14
OK that’s another another bloody word I don’t know how to say. Nic-tenacity, nic-tenacity? Shit.
Geoff 4:19
Does this have a pronounciation? It does. Yes, nyctinasty. Nyctinasty.
Georgie 4:26
What is that? Plant movement?
Geoff 4:28
N, Y, C, T, I, N, A, S, T, Y. Plant movement, such as the closing of a flowers petals or the reorientation of a leaf’s position. See, this is what I expect to come up in the dictionary.
Georgie 4:39
Yeah, this is fascinating.
Geoff 4:41
It’s new, right? Rewild: to return to a more natural or wild state.
Georgie 4:48
Oh, okay. So like if you are like—not if you—but if there was like a wild dog.
Geoff 4:55
Yes, if I were to.
Georgie 4:56
And it became domesticated. Oh.
Geoff 5:00
And then? Wild again?
Georgie 5:03
To increase biodiversity and restore the natural process of the ecosystem.
Geoff 5:09
Reducing, or ceasing human activity. So basically all of COVID was a rewild.
Georgie 5:18
Tiny house, that’s your favourite fucking thing. What the fuck.
Geoff 5:22
Tinyhouses, best. Cratedig, shop for rare vintage obscure recordings especially by searching through crates—
Georgie 5:29
Oh, I’m familiar, I crate dig. I do crate dig quite—
Geoff 5:32
You do?
Georgie 5:33
Yeah I like going crate digging every now and then when I’m at the market or a vintage shop.
Geoff 5:38
What like, grave digging? I mean... crate digging?
Georgie 5:40
Crate dig, well it’s like the actual, so if you like shop like second hand or like vintage shops, sometimes things just in buckets and always all hung up or they’re like in crates and you just, you’re digging around for something that you’re interested in so it’s it’s really like a hunt for something cool that you like. Jorts, understand.
Geoff 6:00
Jorts, shorts made of denim, or jean, jean shorts. Ah, I feel like that’s actually been a word for a long time.
Georgie 6:08
Yeah, but I guess it’s now, quote unquote official.
Geoff 6:12
Jean shorts first known use 1995.
Georgie 6:14
Wow. No fucking way.
Geoff 6:18
“Jorts are back, with labels like Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Amiri—”
Georgie 6:23
I’ve never heard of that.
Geoff 6:26
“Giving jean shorts the seal of approval. Look for this 90s skater staple to get a premium makeover”. Don’t ask me why I use an American voice for all these things.
Georgie 6:35
Feels like it.
Geoff 6:36
It’s by Angela Velasquez.
Georgie 6:38
Angela. Angela.
Geoff 6:41
Angela.
Georgie 6:42
Angela. Yes.
Geoff 6:45
Speedrun, oh I get it.
Georgie 6:48
Yes, speedrunning, boss.
Geoff 6:50
Boss.
Georgie 6:50
Wow. Okay.
Geoff 6:52
Wait, doesn’t that get confusing with the real world word for boss?
Georgie 6:56
Is that why number three, see how it says boss now...
Geoff 6:59
Oh, boss three. There’s three freaking definitions for boss: a person who exercises control or authority. Someone who controls votes in a party organisation? Is that a boss, really? A major major antagonist in a game.
Georgie 7:15
Yeah, and that’s the noun. Hoho.
Geoff 7:19
Rage quit. Cold open. Jumpscare. Log line.
Georgie 7:26
Oh, Instagrammable.
Geoff 7:27
What’s a vanity card?
Georgie 7:29
“Logo of a production company that appears briefly on screen following the credits for television show or movie”. So it’s just like, the opening thing or whatever.
Geoff 7:37
One. Interesting.
Georgie 7:39
Yeah, grammable, like, suitable to be posted on the Instagram, photo sharing service Instagram. Like—
Geoff 7:45
For the gram?
Georgie 7:46
Yeah, I think I think a lot of people are familiar with it. Oh, doomscroll. Doomscroll, to spend—“verb, to spend excessive time online scrolling, see scroll entry number two? through news or other content that makes one feel sad, anxious, angry, et cetera”.
Geoff 8:06
Because when I see these words out in the wild, I need to be able to know the definition of what finsta is.
Georgie 8:15
What’s a finsta?
Geoff 8:15
A secret or incognito account on Instagram pho—on the Instagram. I feel like this is too topical.
Georgie 8:22
It’s very specific.
Geoff 8:23
Instagram could disappear next week.
Georgie 8:25
Yeah, yep yep.
Geoff 8:26
Then you have all these weird as was in the dictionary that are completely out of date?
Georgie 8:32
Yeah.
Geoff 8:32
Instantly. Instagram.
Georgie 8:35
I wonder if there’s any related to Twitter. Haha. Is tweeting in the dictionary?
Geoff 8:39
Yeah, that’s true, hey. Like, I think tweet is in the dictionary.
Georgie 8:43
It’s fucking sad. It’s not that’s not what it is anymore.
Geoff 8:47
Tweet.
Georgie 8:47
I think the word is post now. Boring.
Geoff 8:50
But people still say tweet. It’s hilarious.
Georgie 8:53
I know, people still. Yeah. I’m seeing people still use it. And I’m like, what are you doing? What are you doing over there.
Geoff 9:00
Tweet? Here we go. A chirping note.
Georgie 9:04
Oh, it’s still a word. Obviously, like tweet has always been a word even before Twitter. Yeah, yeah.
Geoff 9:10
Yeah. A post made on Twitter online. See, they could just delete it. I suppose.
Georgie 9:14
Yeah.
Geoff 9:15
Could just say nope. It’s not relevant anymore. To be fair, though, let’s say you did see the word tweet and you tried to look it up.
Georgie 9:24
Yeah.
Geoff 9:24
And it within the context that of your reading, it was referring to a tweet on Twitter. And then you’d have to go find out what Twitter meant. You would find out that Twitter is now X.
Georgie 9:36
Surely this has happened before with like something else that’s now obsolete. Like—
Geoff 9:42
Myspace? Is MySpace still, does MySpace have a word?
Georgie 9:48
MySpace top 5. Yeah. Is there a word?
Geoff 9:50
Yeah. Imagine that. Imagine “top five” being in the dictionary and not being a thing anymore.
Georgie 9:57
I’m trying to think of a better example.
Geoff 9:59
Top 40.
Georgie 10:00
Top 40 is usually chart music.
Geoff 10:02
Yeah. There must be. Yeah, there must be something like Live Journal.
Georgie 10:06
Oh my god throwback yeah, LiveJournal.
Geoff 10:10
Yeah, chef’s kiss.
Georgie 10:12
Oh, wow. Okay.
Geoff 10:15
Quiet quit, see that one I kind of accept.
Georgie 10:18
I’ve never heard of that.
Geoff 10:18
Prosocial. Really? Yeah. Do the minimum? That’s because you always quiet quit, right? Do the minimum amount required for a job?
Georgie 10:27
No I mean... (laughs) No, I do—
Geoff 10:32
I’ve been asked this question actually, it’s sort of like, so we’re talking about you know, how to get promoted at work.
Georgie 10:38
Okay.
Geoff 10:40
And you have people who do side projects and upskill outside of work getting promoted.
Georgie 10:48
Okay yep.
Geoff 10:48
And you have other people who don’t do this.
Georgie 10:53
Yep. So what do you...
Geoff 10:55
Add... Yeah, so they see the other thing and you kind of look at it and you think, hey, it seems like a requirement to work outside the hours to in order to get promoted?
Georgie 11:10
What about work life balance? What if I care about my life balance? So, I’m not doing a minimum amount of work required. It’s, I’m doing exactly what is required of me. Thank you very much.
Geoff 11:25
Yeah. And should you get promoted for doing exactly what’s required of you? Probably.
Georgie 11:29
Well, it depends on how you look at it. Like promoted to, to what? Oh yeah I saw. I saw an Instagram video where she said we need to learn how to like, like, pronounce these words properly. CEO, she said “diva, diva”. And then one was like, “we’re like family”. And she said, “this one, this one’s pronounced toxic. There’s also an alternate pronunciation: run”. And there was one—
Geoff 11:58
Yes.
Georgie 11:58
Yeah, there was another similar one related to what we’re talking about. But yeah.
Geoff 12:03
for those who don’t know, actually. (laughs) It’s our famous phrase.
Georgie 12:08
My friend only totally calls out.
Geoff 12:12
For those who don’t know. I don’t know how how, like prolific the the phrase “We’re like family” is.
Georgie 12:21
Yeah, I... Yeah, go on. Yeah.
Geoff 12:23
I don’t think it’s outside of startups. And I feel like startups have, like, use this phrase, purely because I don’t know, because all the founders got together one day and decided to create this thing. And then it was it’s kind of like, they, they were like family, I think they always shares, it was all share based. It wasn’t like anyone was being paid to do most of the work. And that’s generally what you do to your family.
Georgie 12:50
(laughs)
Geoff 12:51
But, but yeah, these these days, whenever someone says, “We’re like family”, it’s almost like, we want you to do more for free.
Georgie 13:03
It sounds really controlling when they use that exact language. So I haven’t heard it anywhere I’ve worked. I think when I started working at my current company, they didn’t say “we’re like family” because that phrase in itself sounds actually sounds toxic. It’s like “one of us, ne ne ne” and I think they all said that, like they just tried to show that we care about you as people which is actually entirely different. It’s not like there’s expectations made by saying, “we’re family” which means you got to behave a certain way. It was more like “we care about you, like you’re, you know, a close friend or like family”.
Geoff 13:39
Here’s a little bit more of a articulated article. “Forces a sense of loyalty”, yeah I found that whenever I hear the phrase where like family is generally every everyone will take things you do personally, like quitting the job, is taken personally.
Georgie 13:58
Yeah, that is so toxic.
Geoff 14:01
And then they just make you feel bad for leaving your job which you should never feel bad for. Erosion of work life balance. Yes. Hey, we’re like family. Why? Why don’t you answer calls at three in the morning? Because you—if a family member calls you at three in the morning most likely you’ll pick up the phone.
Georgie 14:21
Hang on a minute, nah, mom, don’t do that to me.
Geoff 14:24
Yeah.
Georgie 14:24
Nah, maybe if it was an emergency, but like, but then.
Geoff 14:28
Yeah. Inability to say no. Saying no to family is tough. Implies nepotism.
Georgie 14:38
Mhmm yep.
Geoff 14:39
You only have this job because we’re family and also a mafia. When you don’t want to be part of a mafia maybe. six benefits of creating a generally supportive—yeah, I think there are times when it’s like “we treat you as humans” is the way they kind of phrase it but yeah, definitely. Oh, it’s so yeah, quiet quitting, I think has kind of it’s kind of like the complete inverse of the “we’re family”. You know? So we’re really taking a 180.
Georgie 15:13
Yeah.
Geoff 15:15
But I don’t think quiet quitting is—
Georgie 15:17
I’ve never heard anyone say that.
Geoff 15:19
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s good or bad. Really.
Georgie 15:22
Some people say, oh, you checked out, like, but that’s usually when you’re, when you’ve already resigned, and you’re just...
Geoff 15:29
Yeah. So I think quiet quitting might imply that you were doing more than your job required you to do in the first place, and therefore, you reducing your time spent.
Georgie 15:46
That’s when you realise you need like life balance. And you’re like, I’m—
Geoff 15:50
Yeah.
Georgie 15:51
I’m—yeah. I do not owe my entire life to this job. So.
Geoff 15:54
Yeah. And the thing is, everyone should be doing the minimum amount of work required for your job. Like, we have a we have a phrase at work, actually, the one of our values is, take 100% responsibility.
Georgie 16:14
Yeah.
Geoff 16:14
For your work. Because there is always a tendency to actually take more responsibility than there is necessary.
Georgie 16:22
So you’re encouraged to take exactly like—
Geoff 16:24
Yes.
Georgie 16:25
The right amount of responsibility that’s required. Nothing more, nothing less.
Geoff 16:29
Exactly, exactly. But when it’s phrased, and when you read it as “take 100% responsibility”, like—
Georgie 16:35
It’s serious?
Geoff 16:36
That sounds bad. That sounds like weird...ly specific.
Georgie 16:40
It’s kind of like you’re in control to those. So...
Geoff 16:44
Yeah. Yeah. In any case, I think quiet quitting is a bit of a strange phrase. Because, I mean.
Georgie 16:50
Because it says quitting, it’s got the word quit in it. And it’s like, but you may not actually be thinking about quitting.
Geoff 16:59
Yeah, like you said, checked out is like closer to the words quiet quit. And that means you are doing less than the minimum amount of wor required.
Georgie 17:09
Because you’re gonna leave anyway or whatever.
Geoff 17:12
Yeah. Interestingly enough, I don’t see the word parasocial. Is that already in there?
Georgie 17:21
Isn’t that already a word?
Geoff 17:25
No?
Georgie 17:25
Woah, hang on—
Geoff 17:27
This one.
Georgie 17:28
Serious?
Geoff 17:30
Yes.
Georgie 17:30
What’s the diff, why don’t you define, is it on Urban Dictionary?
Geoff 17:33
What would pro, why pro social and not parasocial? Intended to help or benefit another person or group? Yeah, parasocial is a bit of a difficult one.
Georgie 17:44
Maybe someone, there are some good definitions on Urban Dictionary. Eshay. Sorry.
Geoff 17:52
Urban Dictionary. Dictionary. Cambridge, parasocial. Okay. Cambridge dictionary, not the Merriam Webster. Whatever website.
Georgie 18:00
Yeah.
Geoff 18:00
Involving or relating to a connection between a person and someone they do not know personally, for example, a famous person or character in a book. Yes.
Georgie 18:09
So we have like probably a lot of parasocial relationships with people that we follow online.
Geoff 18:15
Yeah, but I mean, it really means, it really, it’s really like, closer to—
Georgie 18:21
Deep?
Geoff 18:21
The, it’s deeper, it’s deeper. You truly believe that they are like—
Georgie 18:29
Important in your life. And you’re like why?
Geoff 18:34
Acts as the incentive to seek out like minded people. She has many virtual admirers that have a parasocial.
Georgie 18:39
So I saw a comedian last week, and he said, you know, sometimes people just think they owe you something. He’s like, Instagram famous. His name is tedsthetics. Goes by Teddy is like, he said, he said it wasn’t his real name. But anyway, anyway, yeah. He’s from he’s from Melbourne. And he says, he really tries to reply to his DMs on Instagram when he has time. And he was saying, oh, like, I shit you not. He said, I walked out of his, he had a vasectomy, walked out of the operation. And someone was just like, “you did not reply to my message. You didn’t say anything”. He was like, I’m so sorry, bro. Like, you know, like, I’ve just been like, busy or whatever, like, what’s your user I’ll like, look it up, he was like, it’s too late. He’s like, “You didn’t reply to me when I needed you most”. And he’s like, I don’t know this guy.
Geoff 19:30
Super weird.
Georgie 19:31
He made a joke of how when he looked up, the guy just walked off. He looked up to find the message he sent him. And it was him trying like, asking him to post. Have you seen my missing bird? And he was like—
Geoff 19:45
Oh.
Georgie 19:46
What are you gonna do? He’s like, What do you like? It’s a bird. It’s like what you gonna do? Oh, I just saw him in the sky. Like it’s funny how people will just think that you owe them something and if you have like a large following or whatever. So I say that is parasocial behaviour.
Geoff 20:03
100%. It’s, somehow well, to a degree, the people made you famous.
Georgie 20:12
Yeah. Depends on how you look at it, but yeah.
Geoff 20:14
Yeah. It depends how you look at it.
Georgie 20:15
But you made all the content yourself. So I mean.
Geoff 20:18
Then yeah, that’s right. It’s sort of like, the fans believe that they have a right to comment and because they made you famous.
Georgie 20:30
Yeah.
Geoff 20:32
And oh, who was it? There was actually a celebrity who just straight up said, I don’t give a shit. I don’t care. Yeah, do we?
Georgie 20:39
I think we mentioned this. I’m trying to remember who it was though.
Geoff 20:42
Oh man. In any case, there are some celebrities like that. And who knows if cancel culture actually works, you know? Hey, is cancel culture in the in the dictionary? Cancel.
Georgie 20:54
Let’s find out.
Geoff 20:56
Cancel culture?
Georgie 20:57
Is it?
Geoff 20:58
Oh, no, it’s here. “The practice or tendency of engaging in mass cancelling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure”. A lot of comedians are on like, cancel culture being like, either. Do they agree with? No, they they, they—oh, cancel culture has killed comedy or something like?
Georgie 21:22
Yeah, because people can take a joke like a bit too seriously. Or take offence? Yeah.
Geoff 21:27
Yeah, just a joke. Stagiaire. I didn’t know this was not in the dictionary. Oh my god.
Georgie 21:39
“An unpaid intern working in a professional kitchen as part of their training to become a chef”.
Geoff 21:44
Yeah, but I didn’t know. This was not on the dictionary yet.
Georgie 21:44
I hadn’t heard the word.
Geoff 21:44
Borrowed. Yeah, it’s a borrowed word. Okay.
Georgie 21:44
Stolen.
Geoff 21:44
1978. In use since 1978. Time traveller. Smashburger. Yeah.
Georgie 21:44
“A hamburger patty that is pressed thin onto a heated pan or griddle at the start of cooking”. Wait, how else do you make them?
Geoff 22:15
Not pressed thin, you can just have a round patty, you can place on—
Georgie 22:20
Oh but if you squish it like really thin.
Geoff 22:21
And you squoosh, squish it like—
Georgie 22:24
I like how you said squoosh, squoosh is not a word everybody. Squoosh.
Geoff 22:27
Like a couple of millimetres.
Georgie 22:29
Yeah. Okay.
Geoff 22:30
Maybe almost a couple of millimetres rather than centimetres.
Georgie 22:34
Interesting.
Geoff 22:35
Yeah. Carbon capture and storage, and what, carbon capture and storage is a noun.
Georgie 22:43
That’s a huge ass noun.
Geoff 22:47
You know those games where you like, you can’t can’t say nouns. Oh, what are they?
Georgie 22:52
Oh.
Geoff 22:53
Like those word, those type word type games.
Georgie 22:55
Yeah.
Geoff 22:56
They’re like no, no nouns. Carbon capture and storage does not sound like a noun I’d have to avoid. Forever chemical.
Georgie 23:05
Oh, is that like a, yeah, “a toxic substance and especially a synthetic chemical that persistently accumulates in the environment not used technically”. Yeah, obviously, because if you’re writing funny thesis, like that sounds really...
Geoff 23:20
“I have discovered a new forever chemical”.
Georgie 23:24
Nurdle?
Geoff 23:26
“A plastic pellet that is usually less than 0.2 inches 0.5 centimetres in diameter or length that is raw material from which plastic products are manufactured. It’s a common pollutant of global waters and beaches. Not used technically”.
Georgie 23:41
Is that like those little, wait hang on, less than point five centi—yeah, you know like there’s tiny little micro plastics, is that what they mean?
Geoff 23:51
Is it these, the speckle thing?
Georgie 23:53
Yeah, is it those things?
Geoff 23:56
No, that’s the thing that’s in the Apple Watch, right? Band?
Georgie 24:00
What’s the thing that’s in the Apple Watch?
Geoff 24:00
Apple Watch band? They...
Georgie 24:11
Silicone, what?
Geoff 24:14
They did this plastic speckle.
Georgie 24:20
Oh no that was just made from recycled, yeah, like in the pattern you mean?
Geoff 24:25
Yeah.
Georgie 24:26
It’s just because like when they manufactured it they used recycled content. So gives this irregular effect. But I think there’s some skincare products that I remember back in the day having these tiny little beads in them, I don’t know what the fuck the purpose was. Tiny, even tinier than those, and maybe the it’s just like a collective word for like those things, nurdle? Yeah.
Geoff 24:51
What do you, what do you use nurdle thing for?
Georgie 24:53
Could it be for packaging like packaging? I don’t know. But this is fucked because the turtles will eat them—
Geoff 24:58
Did they say?
Georgie 24:58
I don’t know maybe there’s an article about it.
Geoff 25:02
Every nurdle is created to be melted down and tension product used by humans, tiny pellets nicknamed nurdles are the most prevalent plastic trash found in coastal waters.
Georgie 25:14
Yeah cos they just get easily washed away and like they’re just fucking tiny. But yeah I don’t really, I don’t really know specifically where they’re from but I guess plastic, bad for the environment. Beast mode.
Geoff 25:24
Let’s moved on to more funny things. Beast mode!
Georgie 25:28
Love that. I have used that.
Geoff 25:30
Kiss and cry.
Georgie 25:35
What?
Geoff 25:35
An area adjacent to a skating rink where figure skaters wait for their marks immediately after performing in competition.
Georgie 25:43
Oh wow, did they need that though?
Geoff 25:45
Don’t know. Last mile, final stage a distance must be covered. Yeah. Girlboss?
Georgie 25:52
I don’t like that. Like why why genderised it.
Geoff 25:57
Why, yeah why? That’s a good question.
Georgie 26:00
Like why.
Geoff 26:00
Well we have boss up here, remember, as an antagonist.
Georgie 26:07
Yeah. Many...
Geoff 26:09
A rizzed goating boss.
Georgie 26:10
Oh let’s go the slang one, the slang ones were funny, so we can—
Geoff 26:13
Not gonna lie, NGL.
Georgie 26:15
Yeah.
Geoff 26:15
We’re gonna zhuzh, this Padawan doggo.
Georgie 26:22
Zhuzh. I hate zhuzh. I hate it. At least I know how to spell it now, far out.
Geoff 26:27
We’re gonna simp, we’re gonna simp, this—
Georgie 26:30
Wait, yeah wait what seems “to show excessive diversion to or longing for someone or something”. Why though? Is it like simp, sympathetic or something? Is that where it comes from? Gotta find out.
Geoff 26:43
Oh maybe. But the maybe sympathetic is probably a good one.
Georgie 26:49
Simpleton.
Geoff 26:50
The idea that the, it’s, simpleton? Yeah, sim—
Georgie 26:53
First use 1903?! Get fucked.
Geoff 26:57
Really? 1903 no way. The meaning defined—
Georgie 27:00
Oh wait, explained as a blend of simp and pimp or, what does it say? Sissy and pimp. OK.
Geoff 27:06
Sissy and pimp. Yeah, because a lot of a lot of simps are characterised as people who give a lot of money to their parasocial relationships.
Georgie 27:17
Like a lot of energy and like money—
Geoff 27:19
Money.
Georgie 27:20
Specifically money, okay.
Geoff 27:22
Specifically money. That’s what the pimp entry one here is, or truncation is sympathetic and, which is people who who will defend to no end, their bias. Why is bias not here? You’re gonna—
Georgie 27:38
Bias is already a word mate.
Geoff 27:40
Bias. Yeah. But people use it differently these days. Like their, their bias is their bias really, someone they bias for? I don’t know if that’s even a sentence.
Georgie 27:50
Okay.
Geoff 27:51
But yeah. Yeah, it’s like you, you get a, when you have someone with a large following, which has a large para, which have a lot of people who have parasocial relationships. You’ll have simps in there.
Georgie 28:03
Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Wow. We’re coming full circle.
Geoff 28:07
Yeah. It’s like this whole section is designed to be—
Georgie 28:10
Yeah, bussin’. (laughs)
Geoff 28:14
Bussin’ simps, yo. Extremely good. Excellent. Especially tasty. It’s yeah, it’s usually used negatively. People are like, or people are like, proud to be the, be a simp sometimes.
Georgie 28:28
Maybe it’s like owning the term. Like if you are a simp, and everyone makes fun of you for being a simp, then you’re just like, fuck it, I’m a simp.
Geoff 28:34
Yeah, yeah, I’m totally simping.
Georgie 28:38
Do we have any simps onn this pod? Listening to the pod?
Geoff 28:41
Please don’t simp us, it’s not healthy. But yeah, it’s quite an interesting phenomenon. This whole parasocial simping.
Georgie 28:53
It’s too weird..
Geoff 28:55
It is quite weird.
Georgie 28:56
I think it might actually be prevalent in younger people. Maybe. Now that I’m thinking about it. Or maybe obsessive anyone of any age who just happens to be very obsessive.
Geoff 29:07
Maybe it’s COVID, we can blame COVID for trapping everybody inside and having only the Internet to have relationships with.
Georgie 29:20
Mid. Mid it is so funny, I hear people use it, it’s great.
Geoff 29:23
It’s just, “this is just so mid” is actually really good.
Georgie 29:28
But then you’re saying, when you say something is “so mid”, you’re saying it’s “so, so-so”, so meh.
Geoff 29:34
Yeah.
Georgie 29:35
So nothing, so in the middle.
Geoff 29:37
Like the most mid, like the most most mid something can be. It’s so—
Georgie 29:43
The epitome of the middle.
Geoff 29:47
NGL this is so mid. Yeah but there are, there’s definitely some slang which I don’t use ever. Totes.
Georgie 30:03
Totes. Totes mcgoats.
Geoff 30:05
I really, really hated totes—
Georgie 30:07
You hate that one?
Geoff 30:07
Because it clashed with the the actual word tote. You like already had a noun for this.
Georgie 30:11
You alreay had a plural for like, handbag.
Geoff 30:16
You alreay had a plural for this bag and you want to shorten the word “totally”?
Georgie 30:19
Yeah totes. (laughs)
Geoff 30:24
It’s such a mid slang.
Georgie 30:28
Is it slang though? Yeah, I guess so. Trying to think of if I have a favourite slang—oh you know what? OK I don’t I don’t love this but I’ve it’s grown on me, carked it.
Geoff 30:40
Oh, carked it.
Georgie 30:42
Australian slang for “shit’s broken” basically. Is what, can you look that up?
Geoff 30:49
Carked it? Carked? Carked? I have one but I can’t really think about what it is. Oh, cacked it. Cackin’ it.
Georgie 31:00
Oh yeah you’ve used that, I’ve heard you say it before.
Geoff 31:00
Just cacked it. Carked it and cacked it. That’s what we got. Sanger, dunny, bogan—
Georgie 31:12
That’s Australian...
Geoff 31:13
Oh by the way, okay, for those who don’t know, a sanger is a hot dog. I think.
Georgie 31:19
No, it’s not, it’s a rudimentary hot dog. It’s a sausage on a white piece of square bread.
Geoff 31:25
Is it really? Is it really a specific...?
Georgie 31:28
Also I think it’s speled S, A, N, G, A as well as S, A, N, G, E, R. Sanga.
Geoff 31:35
Sanga. Oh Here you go. Yes, sanga, snag, drongo. Which is, they’re all just...
Georgie 31:46
Wait no, sanga is the sandwich, snag is for the actual like, sausage.
Geoff 31:49
Snag in a sanger is a whole, is the whole experience. Dunny is a toilet. A bogan is—
Georgie 31:56
A redneck I think is the most... accurate probably.
Geoff 32:00
Yeah, like most ocker bogan Australian. Dacks, is that just pulling someone’s pants down? Yeah, it’s panting someone. Strides? I honestly don’t know what a stride is. I mean other than stride.
Georgie 32:14
Pantaloons, with plenty of, so like loose pants.
Geoff 32:17
Oh loose pants.
Georgie 32:19
Sweatpants?
Geoff 32:21
Spit the dummy.
Georgie 32:22
I’ve never used that. Like what does that actually... does that mean you fucked up?
Geoff 32:28
Rhyming slang, three expressions, spit the dummy. Yeah...
Georgie 32:34
Does that mean you like...
Geoff 32:35
Spit the dummy, you fucked up. Maybe.
Georgie 32:37
You did it wrong?
Geoff 32:38
Spit the dummy, fare in the corner—
Georgie 32:42
Oh to overreact...
Geoff 32:44
To overreact to a situation in anger.
Georgie 32:49
Oh literally.
Geoff 32:49
So basically you’re Karen.
Georgie 32:52
Is Karen in the dictionary?
Geoff 32:54
Shoot through like a Bondi tram.
Georgie 32:56
Oh I’ve heard that one before. I think Nick’s grandma actually mentioned it. I don’t know where or how it came about. I don’t know if they used to be fast or slow. Bondi tram.
Geoff 33:09
Karen, a member of a group of people’s Eastern southern Myanmar...
Georgie 33:15
Oh my god?
Geoff 33:15
A group of languages spoke by Karen peoples...
Georgie 33:17
Oh really? This is not the slang version, nope.
Geoff 33:21
Yeah, sparky.
Georgie 33:23
It’s an electrician.
Geoff 33:23
A spark plug I think? Electric, electrician. Yeah. Electrician. A drongo?
Georgie 33:29
What’s a drongo?
Geoff 33:29
No idea.
Georgie 33:31
Very un-Australian.
Geoff 33:35
Oh. Drongo. Sanga, snag, drongo?
Georgie 33:38
No, I think that’s—
Geoff 33:39
Maybe that’s irrelevant?
Georgie 33:40
No. That’s not what it means. It’s... yeah.
Geoff 33:46
Australia sland, idiot or stupid fellow. I’ve never heard anyone call me a drongo.
Georgie 33:50
It’s because you are a drongo.
Geoff 33:53
Thunder box?
Georgie 33:53
Is that like an electric box?
Geoff 33:54
Oh my god. Is that a fart? Your fart?
Georgie 34:01
Really?
Geoff 34:01
Is it... thunder box. You can pick... thunderbox toilets.
Georgie 34:02
A dunny?
Geoff 34:02
A wooden commode. It’s an outhouse, an
Georgie 34:07
Outback toilet, like an...
Geoff 34:09
Outhouse. Yeah. Gum sucker?
Georgie 34:12
Is that a hickey? No. Is it? I don’t know.
Geoff 34:18
Gum sucker. Uh, cabbage, gum suckers.
Georgie 34:25
Well actually, is it a candy?
Geoff 34:28
Sweet gum. Oh, maybe it’s actually gum from wattle. Yeah, like a gum tree. Like actually gum sucker.
Georgie 34:34
Mozzie.
Geoff 34:35
Mozzie is a mosquito. Furphy?
Georgie 34:40
Is that a drink?
Geoff 34:41
Yeah.
Georgie 34:41
Is that a beer?
Geoff 34:43
Mandarin? Pineapple?
Georgie 34:45
Have a gander.
Geoff 34:46
Oh, have a gander? Just have a look around. Look around. A rat bag?
Georgie 34:52
That’s just like, like an idiot, like a douche bag?
Geoff 34:55
Isn’t someone who like, like rats on you? Like tells on you?
Georgie 35:00
Maybe?
Geoff 35:02
A snitch.
Georgie 35:03
I need to know what—
Geoff 35:03
Cheese and kisses.
Georgie 35:04
What’s a dead horse as well?
Geoff 35:06
A dead horse? Noah’s Ark, why are we using Noah’s Ark as a...
Georgie 35:11
We need, I need to find out Noah’s Ark, like what is the...
Geoff 35:15
Dead horse.
Georgie 35:18
Oh steak’s a bit dry?
Geoff 35:20
The steak’s a bit dry. Oh like it’s as dry as a dead horse.
Georgie 35:23
Okay it’s just a way of saying like...
Geoff 35:27
Tomato sauce, example. Pass the dead horse, the steak’s a bit dry.
Georgie 35:33
I don’t get that.
Geoff 35:33
Oh my god someone used the word dead horse for tomato sauce, that’s a bit weird.
Georgie 35:38
Is it because it rhymes?
Geoff 35:40
Dead horse, tomato sauce? Yeah. No drama, nuggets, Noah’s ark, shark. Oh it’s just rhymes “bloody nice set coming your way mate, Noah’s Ark”. “Shit where? Kidding me”. Can’t do Australian accents.
Georgie 36:02
That is so weird.
Geoff 36:02
Yeah cheese and kisses.
Georgie 36:06
What’s cheese and kisses?
Geoff 36:06
We just looked through this, Australianslang.com.au.
Georgie 36:13
Cab sav, yes, yes I know that one.
Geoff 36:14
Cack yourself, here you go, to laugh yourself silly. Captain Cook, look.
Georgie 36:19
Cark it, to die.
Geoff 36:19
What is up with these rhyming things? Cheese..
Georgie 36:24
Chuck a sickie.
Geoff 36:24
Chuck a sickie. Yeah. To...
Georgie 36:27
Take a sick day when you’re not actually sick.
Geoff 36:28
Sick day when you’re not sick. There’s no cheese and kisses here. Cheese, cat, cat bearing ship, as busy as a cat piss...
Georgie 36:38
Chippies.
Geoff 36:40
Cheese and kisses. Idioms.
Georgie 36:49
Oh, wife? Oh Mrs.
Geoff 36:52
Wife. Mrs. Cheese and kisses, Mrs. Holy crap.
Georgie 36:56
Okay. That’s...
Geoff 36:57
What’s up with this rhyming stuff?
Georgie 36:58
I don’t know, I actually don’t understand. Maybe it’s more of an older generation thing.
Geoff 37:03
We’re not very Australian. We’re not very bogan, Not bogan enough. Ciggie, you know, which is a cigarette.
Georgie 37:13
Cossie. Swimming costume. Oh that one always like weirded me out.
Geoff 37:17
Yeah, that one was weird.
Georgie 37:20
There’s some like sexual ones there.
Geoff 37:21
Crack on to. Make sexual advances. Gotta crack on to somebody. I don’t think I’ve actually heard anyone say that. Like, crack on to, crack on work? Like?
Georgie 37:32
I don’t know, but the one above it, ridiclous. (laughs)
Geoff 37:35
Crack a fat.
Georgie 37:36
Crack a fat, achieve an erection? I’ve never of it.
Geoff 37:40
Ah, crikey. Um, what’s not surprising is the end of this episode. (laughs) So don’t forget to cack it. And chunder—to vomit—and feel chuffed about it?
Georgie 37:59
Is chuffed, I didn’t realise, I say that, ah man I didn’t realise it was that Australian.
Geoff 38:02
Supercharged.
Georgie 38:07
I’m so chuffed.
Geoff 38:07
Yeah, I used to really hate learning, like using all this Australian slang. But now I’d say, it’s just not. It’s impossible.
Georgie 38:15
You don’t have to use it.
Geoff 38:18
I mean, it happens. That’s the that’s the problem. So new, you can contact us at toastroastpod@gmail.com. It’s really weird not having a social media. We’re not social people.
Georgie 38:35
But I wouldn’t say parasocial.
Geoff 38:38
No.
Georgie 38:38
Yeah.
Geoff 38:38
Of course not.
Georgie 38:39
You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to your podcasts and the big sanger.
Geoff 38:48
Big sang. It’s also known as the political sausage or whatever—
Georgie 38:53
Oh the democratic sausage, yeah.
Geoff 38:55
The democratic sausage. Yeah.
Georgie 38:57
We explained this in a previous episode because when there’s like voting and stuff, it’s usually at like a school hall and some community organisation sets up a barbecue and it’s just a thing. Buy, buy sausages on bread.
Geoff 39:13
Yeah, and new episodes every Monday. So...
Georgie 39:16
See you next week.
Geoff 39:18
Bye.