"My Bad"

[TurkeyBurgerThing]

What? That's not recognisable grammar! Shut up.

Aaaargh.

Lol not heard that said in a while actually, but don't bother me but then don't love it either so ....

It sounds infantile.

But it's been around since God was a lad. How are people only just hearing it?

I quite like 'Qu'est-ce que sup?' at the moment.

I dislike the increasingly popular use of the continuous present tense instead of simple present

I'm not lovin' it.

I actually find it rather amusing but only if it's used for an extreme example of wrong doing.

For example, crashing your car, rolling it into a ditch, crawling out of it barely alive only to watch it explode and burn to a pile of ashes followed by one saying "Oops, my bad".

A post office clerk said this to me the other day, I said "your what?"

knowing full well what he'd said, but it irritates me, I thought he would correct himself to "i mean, my mistake, sorry"

but he just repeated "my bad", - didn't even look up, cunt.

Actually it's not an "Americanism", it's Ebonics. It's a term that was coined by the Afro-American culture.

my teenagers have been using it for about two years. I must admit when they started saying it i thought they were saying "am I bad!" but in a mumbly typical teenagerish way. My old.

""My bad" has been around for ages."

True, and I have hated it since the first time it was seen/heard.

"I heard 'my bad' in the Simpsons last night..."

Yet another good reason to detest the phrase!

As for 'text speak' my sister, a retired head, uses some abbreviations. I never do (and am somewhat younger than her).

Indeed, just recently got myself a nice cheap touchscreen phone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard (T-Mobile Vibe for anyone interested, about 30 quid in Asda, probably easy enough to get unlocked for other networks) so my use of texts on Virgin Mobile is now far easier without having to press any key 2, 3 or even 4 (letter S) times.

What on earth does "epic fail" mean? When would one use it?

the one that really makes me vomit lava is

"attagirl"

or "attaboy"

what the FUCK is that?

Im embarrassingly 'un street' for a 31 year old. Luckily I teach young people who find this amusing, so I ask them what it all means. I did find it odd when in an exam earlier this year when a teenager who hadn't brought a pen to an exam (?) thanked the invigilator with the saying 'safety gate'. now even i have heard of 'safe' but 'safety gate'? That one is beyond me and a definate LOL, my bad epic fail moment!

DH said the word "ZOMG" last night - he's lucky he's not under the patio.

Your bad is saying my bad.

This thread drew me to it like a moth to a flame.

cumbria - I've mostly seen it on FailBlog

A "fail" is usually a mistake I suppose, but not always - sometimes just a totally dumb thing someone has done on purpose. And an "epic fail" is mistake or stupidity of epic proportions.

HTH

cumbria - compare "went wrong" with "went very wrong". Epic Fail would (I assume) refer to latter.

rolandweary - attaboy is (I think) something derived from "That's the boy" as in first in team, or more simply "well done".

Horrid, I know, but similar to "oh gosh" or "gor blimey" - adulterated from something else ("Oh God", or "God blind me")

Oh and amongst my son and his friends "parent fail" is quite a common version.... I think it's the verbal equivalent of rolling their eyes heavenward at things we do

FYI

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.de/url?q=vimeo.com/2108952&sa=U&ei=8bs5TZmRH8LvsgaipO3zBg&ved=0CBUQtwIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNG6xUjdfwWHyn19dzp0MMnt5vTzrw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fail

I like fail and epic fail.

'My bad' and 'Oh my days' make me want to vomit. Stupid, stupid, senseless c**p.

Oooh my girls say 'my bad'. Absolutely LOATHE it!