this kid is hard!!!

[Earendil]

It seems that words have different connotations or meanings according to where you live.

I don't know that I would ever use the phrase, "I'm hard" to anyone. Don't really remember hearing the word used that way growing up either.

Another one that ti found is rubber bands, here in New England the word elastics is used.

When it came to Coke often used it interchangeably for Pepsi. Just whatever the restaurant carried.

Funny you should mention that. When I go into a place to order a drink, I always order a "sprite-7up-whatever"
If I ever order a specific drink they never have it, it's always "would this be ok instead?"

Yeah, sorry for the off topicness (I'm sure that's a word...someplace...) of the recent posts. But I don't think in this particular case we are distracting from anyone wanting to discuss the original subject. If I'm wrong please slap me around and tell me to go away

so how for that think hard means tough, did we ever find out where they are from and how old they are? Or did they vanish? It would be interesting to know...

Tyler
Earendil

 

[rainman::|:|]

Funny you should mention that. When I go into a place to order a drink, I always order a "sprite-7up-whatever"
If I ever order a specific drink they never have it, it's always "would this be ok instead?"

Interesting... I too order drinks like this, mine is "coke-pepsi-whatever". They used to just substitute if they didn't have coke or pepsi, but now they argue about it. My favorite was, this asian guy that worked at the mcdonalds-on-a-bridge in chicago (or wherever) would say "pepsi is fine" whenever you ordered a coke, and just went right on talking. Way to be assertive

paul

 

[OnlyShawn]

funny...i registered completely to reply to this thread.

i'm from the south of the states...well, sort of. geographically, you can't get much more south, but culturally, we're quite northern.

florida, if you hadn't guessed. and, 'hard' made total sense to me...i completely knew what y'all were talking about. i think that it's more of a hip-hop/rap culture thing.....but, i would definately agree that it's a shortened form of hardcore, if i had to guess its etymology. but, if you listen to rap at all (which is obvious that that is not the case...i would be willing to guess that in genearal, mac buyers would listen to noticably lower percentages than the average public of rap), this would be a quite common word....i found it quite striking that it was so foreign to y'all.

and....down here, freaking everything is coke (i grew up up north, in new york/pennsylvania, so it took a bit of getting used to...that along with a 'crick' now being a 'creek'...strange)....you say "i want a coke" and the response is "what kind?"

and...that is SO funny that someone would call a chick from minnesota a 'belle'. absolutely hilarious. but, then, isn't that how it worked in 'love actually'? don't y'all think that all the hot girls are in the midwest? hilarious.

 

[OnlyShawn]

ooo...but, i did have a newcastle tonight, so....taht should make me cool to y'all across the pond, no?

 

[Optogirl]

In short travels around the US, I've found that Soda is a more acceptable word for it. In my travels outside the US they don't use either

The word 'Pop' is certainly used in Northern England for a "soft-drink"

 

[bella]

I looked at it as hard = hard core, tough, giving it his all

 

[jamdr]

'hard' made total sense to me...i completely knew what y'all were talking about. i think that it's more of a hip-hop/rap culture thing.....

Heh, heh. Yeah, this thread is funny. I agree with this guy--if you have any exposure to rap culture, you'd know what this word meant. I'm from norcal and hear it all the time. As for it coming from hardcore, who knows? I think the definition of hard by itself means pretty much the same thing it does in this context.