What speaking habits have you picked up from the GB crew?

"Hot garbage" and "Hella" or Jeff's more proper "Hell of" are in rotation.

I'll tell you what I DIDN'T pick up though..."at some point," calling things "weird" (these guys need a new descriptor bad), and "do a thing." These phrases are doo doo.

Ryan and Dan are the two who've probably impacted my actual vernacular the most. Jeff has probably had the largest influence on my disposition.

"That's a cool thing to do" is a really common phrase. Or any form of "doing [descriptor] stuff." Doing cool guy stuff. Spy stuff.

Introduced a friend to a new beer the other day and was asked, "What's in this?"

To which I responded, "I don't know. Beer stuff."

The stupid high pitched way of talking Jeff does sometimes. I'm not sure what else. Probably adding "super" to things.

I do find myself doing the thing James May from Top Gear did as a running joke where he would say "Good news!" or "Great news!" and then follow it up with something completely boring or dull, or even bad (in his case it was talking about the Dacia Sandero, for me it's when stuff goes wrong at work).

It's all pretty normal to me having grown up and currently living in the Bay Area & San Francisco.

Well they will always be "die-ablo" and "sleepy dawgz" to me now.

Hot minute, hot trash, and describing things as dope are just a few of the words woven into conversation by the invisible hands of the Giant Bomb. I'm into it.

I'm British and say hot garbage a lot but it just doesn't have the same power as Jeff due of my accent.

I also I have picked up the way Dan says "yeah!" when something exciting happens which is quite strange.

Hella, Janky, Hot Garbage

Ro-bits and Executable

I've dropped this line at least once lol.

I sometimes use "deep cut" to refer to obscure references.

I say 'janky' way more now.

Ironic rap slang. I know I speak for all of us.

"Hot garbage" and after something doesn't work, saying "Weird!"

i.e "Okay yeah. Ginger beer nacho cheese float. That gonna be way better, right? No, not better? Weird!"

^ have to agree with this too.

Although it can go the other way, there are thing I hear on podcasts that I REFUSE to use - ever. An example is wheelhouse, as in "as an pedantic twat, saying stupid things is right in my wheelhouse." I think I first heard that phrase uttered on 1UP yours by Garnett Lee (otherwise, a nice fellow), and I instantly took a dislike to that turn of phrase . Every time Brad says it, and it is mostly Brad, I cringe.

I've gotten into the bad habit of quoting the Roller Coaster Rampage QL.

"Big Jeffrey says: Drop em!"

Also I say duuuuuuumb a lot and robits.

"Hot garbage" certainly. I also picked up calling stuff "bananas" from Ryan.

Both are actually really great as they provided a perfect replacements for some less than desirable wordage I wanted to phase out of my speaking habits.

"That's the name of my new [insert appropriate genre here] band"

"At some point..." - got this from Jeff.

Something being "on fire" or "actively on fire," as well as previously mentioned "hot garbage" and "bananas"

Also "I don't know guys" when feeling the game or film is not as good as expected, "Maaan" when that game or film ended and left me disappointed. "Meh" from Vinny a long time ago.

Oh yeah, and "Are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop.", which I'm surprised how often I pull out.

Risky life choices.

I've started saying sugar in public alot more, and I don't even have kids.

Considering this website has been my primary source of downtime entertainment and background noise, I've picked up a bit from Jeff, "hot garbage" "on fire" and "totally fucked or busted"

I was around my mother and stubbed my toe and said "sugar" instead of shit...thanks Vinny

And playing a game and coming across a fucked situation I will exclaim "I'm out!" repeatedly until failing

Memes, the DNA of the soul.

The memes, Jack.

A classic Brad 'huh' gets used a lot.

And yup, 'hot garbage' is in constant rotation.

I also unintentionally mimic the way Jeff says something is a complete and utter piece of shit.

Ryan gave me "Janky". That's all though.

Hot garbage is a strong one for me. As someone who lives in the Bay Area, most of their lingo is already knowledge to me.

I miss Ryan's stupid intentional malapropisms.

• Janky
• Hella
• batshit crazy
• "It's preeeeeetty good"
• saying something is "dope" (thanks Austin, haven't said that since I left New Jersey...)
• saying something is "on fire" or "actively on fire"
• calling friends "dawg" similar to what Jeff as US Pipe would say

But seriously though, my vocabulary has improved thanks to listening to those dudes for so many years. They say words that no normal person who wasn't an English major in collage would say out loud. It kinda catches me off guard sometimes and I have to look the word up. I think Brad does that more than anyone else, but I've noticed that Alex is doing it pretty often now as well, same with Austin.

UH, UH, UH, UH, UH

@gvalo: Now, I have no idea why I remember this, but Jeff called Nights Into Dreams Ba-Dumb, and after looking it up on Youtube, it came from the 10-02-12 Bombcast.

Noooooooo.

It was off-putting enough when I realized that he'd spread this to the other members of the Bombcast. If you're saying it's spreading in the world at-large...man if I hear someone say this in real life I'll probably explode. IMO it's worse than "like".

Also, to add to the thread, I definitely do use "hot trash/garbage" just like almost everyone else in this thread apparently does! Also, things like "That's DUMB", "Yay!" (in an unusually enthusiastic manner like Jeff sometimes does), and "What? What? What?"

I find that a lot of my speaking mannerisms have come from Jeff more than any of the other duders.

@mrmathias: that was it! You're the best

Edit: weird that it was 3 years ago today too haha

• Dude
• Rad

@gvalo: Wow, I totally didn't realize that until you pointed it out, and I was the one who typed out the date.

Janky & hot garbage are the classics.

@quantris: Do you feel like it's getting to where you can't escape it anymore?

I'm pretty sure that It's Always Sunny and Giant Bomb idioms have entirely replaced my original vocabulary by this point. I'm not ashamed.

Jank. Hot garbage. DDDDUUUUMMB.

Most of the things I've picked up come from Jeff:

'Janky'

'Huh'

'In a lot of ways'

'Get up on him' (and)

'Give him the business'

'I mean... what?' (after saying something self-incriminating)

And I like to say pairs of one syllable words the way Jeff says 'Big Bo', but never when anyone can hear me. Also, I've recently noticed that Austin's 'hot minute' has started to spread around the GB East office.

Besides the obvious ones, I didn't realize I picked up on Drew's occasional habit of saying 'my' like 'muh' until someone snickered after I said it recently.

See: 'Did you get into a fight in your bathroom?' 'With muh butt?'

Don't Stop for Nuthin'

Patrick used to make a noise sounded like a deep throat ed "ulp" when encountering something he didn't expect, I catch myself doing that sometimes now.

AAAH stop it!
Actually that one isn't *so* bad, since "getting" and "where" do work together. Dan just happens to use "to where" as a general purpose preposition (and sometimes a conjunction like "but" or an interjection like "umm"), and it totally drives me up the wall whenever I notice it. And from what I've seen, when he writes he has a decent flow free of such weird constructions. So that's extra annoying.

I've picked up "that's the cool thing to do" from Dan. The affectionate use of "dumb" from Ryan. The sarcastic "great" that Jeff does a lot.

I never used Janky as much as I do now thanks to Giant Bomb.

"Hot garbage; "[name]-ass"; "ostensibly"; and other, sometimes more nuanced influences. I think I might have said "hella" out loud at some points in my life. Most recently I think I've been occasionally saying "real talk" because of Austin.

EDIT: Reading through other posts is making me realize other influences I wasn't thinking of like "throw dark" - so who knows just how much GB has shaped my English vernacular. Apparently a lot. At the time I started listening to the guys, I was about to enter an international school, and would, for the first time in my life, spend whole school years speaking in English. I think I based a lot of my speech from what I heard from Giant Bomb.

I catch myself doing stupid Dan eyebrow stuff when I'm drunk and playing video games. They've helped me accept dope as a part of my vocabulary. I still refuse to say bangers.

Referring to bad things as "Hot garbage".

"Broke-ass shit."

General over use of the word "dumb" in several different contexts.

"Shit, man you throw dark."

"Ostensibly" aka: The Patrick Klepek Special.

Saying "Hell of" instead of "hella" because saying "hella" is hell of dumb.

"Man, that was a deep cut."

"That's some (blank)-ass (blank), right there!" Example: "That's some platforming-ass platforming right there!"

"Hey, you guys!"

Referring to things as "Super"

Referring to someone as Young as a title. Like how Brad refered to Dan as Young Ryckert that one time.

"FUCK THIS SHIT, I'M OUT"

I also do the "That's the name of my new [dumb music genre] band" thing constantly, but I've kind of always made that joke. GB has just forced me to think of better dumb genres.