What are some words or phrases we no longer use today (or shouldn’t)

Like “roll down the window” in the car or “hang up” the phone?

“So, you wanted a confederate flag painted on the roof of your car?”

Dial the phone.

Although MLK, Jr himself occasionally used it, I’d say negro is long gone from our lingua.

When referring to your cars transmission NEVER call it the “tranny”

I still sometimes say I “tape” songs or “film” videos. I guess those are inaccurate and passé now.

Can’t say colored person, but you can say person of color.

All sorts of derogatory terms are rarely said by the majority of the population anymore, I don’t even think I need to list them.

Edit: actually, I will bother to list sitting Indian style, because I heard a local Ohio newscaster use it the other day on TV. Maybe a lot of people don’t know that is frowned upon?

“Let’s hook up” means something very different today.

A couple of years ago, my brother-in-law and I exchanged a silent giggle at a family dinner when my mom asked him to toss the salad. I don’t know if she caught wise, but she’s told me since that she’s resorted to looking up phrases on Urban Dictionary before using them.

Another time, my cousin and I were talking about apple pies and recipes, and I used “ate Grandma’s pie” in a sentence. I think the denial in the room was strong enough to stuff that one way down.

“VHS” tape is one that you don’t hear very often. Yes, you can still buy them but they are few & far between. Plus you have to look hard to find a player to buy even on Amazon

Retarded should be eliminated.

Calling UK/Irish Travellers and Romany “Gypsies” is frowned upon now (and I would hazard to say heavy cliches that go along with it aren’t so common – I was watching an episode of Midsommar Murders that featured a fortune teller called ‘Romany Rose’

It’s also far less appropriate in my home of Australia to use the term Aborigines than it was 20 or so years ago – it’s Aboriginal (I believe the change came about because the noun form had a few icky connotations that were quite easily remedied by changing it

Cutting a rug

We’re not allowed to use the phrase “open kimono” at work anymore. Kind of lewd anyway.

(NSFW) I am wondering if the Screen Actors Guilds S.A.G. used to be Film Actors Guild?

In 00’s a political party was called the Canadian Reform Alliance party C.R.A.P.

I would like for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to not say “um”, so much to the press.

^^^ er, ah, er, ah they wished that of err ah the Kennedy’s too!

The Aids weight reduction plan.

“Are you trying to gyp me?” Or “I got gypped”.

“Jimmies on ice cream.”

“The paddy wagon.”

All have a racist origin.

“So, you wanted a confederate flag painted on the roof of your car?”

Am I missing something? Is that something people actually used to say?? Or are you making it up to make a point? (which I get)

Dukes of Hazzard

^^ Ahhh ok…never watched that effin’ redneck show.

Don’t try to ‘jew’ me down on the price.

The word hobnob is not used all that often

I’m told you’re not supposed to comment on people’s weight (“Did you lose weight? You look great.”)

^^ replaced by “Did you take a pill to lose weight?”

Any qualifying statement in a “compliment” is just kind of rude, anyway.

Where I live losing weight about half the time is because someone was or is sick

Trump for President.

@Forever_Free replaced by “Did you use Ozempic to lose weight?” ;D

btw I’ve used it for 3 months and found out today that my Hgb A1c is down from 6.8 to 5.5 and I’ve lost 25 lbs! No I didn’t give the answer just so I could say this; thought of it after.

“Indian giver.”

Another racist one.

Eskimo… should be inuit.

“Inuit Pie” just doesn’t give the same visual. ;P

@smudges A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.

Give it a generation or two, and Inuit Pie would work eventually.

I was thinking about this question today and thinking of how, when I was little and a teenager, and young adult, it was accepted and common to hear Polish jokes, Italian jokes, jokes about black people, sex jokes, jokes about whores and bimbos, jokes about all sorts of people, and this was in the workplace, too. People would email and fax jokes around, and you could buy books in the store with jokes like that, too. Now, it would never be tolerated anywhere, especially in the workplace.

“Get your cotton pickin hands off of…” was commonly used when I was growing up. Now it is not used due to the implicit racism in the phrase.

@jca2: It is amazing to consider how broadly insensitive we were not that many years ago.

This might be a local thing, but if you were with a group of people sharing something (a pizza for example), and you were overlooked (didn’t get a slice), you might say, “What?! Am I black or something?”

I cringe at how horrible we were.

“That’s mighty white of you!”

“I can do what I want, I’m free, white, and 21!”

There was a brief period of time when people would say, “What part of… don’t you understand?”, which would be filled in with a fairly simple word.

Of course, all the blatantly homophobic phrases to say someone wasn’t cool or masculine enough:

“You’re so gay.”
“What’re you a faggot.”

Then, I was thinking about all of the old Warner Bros. cartoons. So much racism.

How about all the Blond and Polish jokes about people being stupid?

Blond/Pollack orders a pizza. Cashier asks, “Would you like that cut into 8 or 10 slices?” Blond/Pollack says, “Better make it 8. I’m not that hungry.”

So horrible.

Ok, it’s un-pc, but my favorite blond joke is-

Q: Why are blond jokes so short?

A: So brunettes can remember them.

I feel I can tell it – I’m blond.