Do You Know What "Bumping Ears" Means? (Sporcle)

The site I used to play the quizzes is here: sporcle.com
As a 100 year old man, nobody is more qualified than me to try to suss out some 1920s slang. Now listen, don't be a supermurgatroid, capisce? This video is the bee's knees, so if you're not all that and a bag of potato chips, just keep on trucking.

[@TiBen3]

"Which one is ill be seeing you, ill be seenya...ABYSSINIA???"

[@TheSniper9752]

The dude who wrote this quiz must love his Ethiopian history.

[@Ghostneedle1]

Da finki?

[@Eclipse8502]

NL: “A laser is a real thing man” For some reason that cracked me up for a minute

[@IAmDrWalrus]

Apparently, a lot of people were drunk in the 20s

[@mrfahrenheit1327]

My name is Otto, and I love to get blotto.

[@Shines.22]

Err Mr Streamer, excuse me but as you've hit 845k subscribers what is the milestone? Hmm let me check... 830k - Planet Zoo (short series) 835k - League of Legends (one-off) 840k - Alien Isolation (short series) 845k - Playstation VR (one-off) 850k - Ranking every Isaac item All jokes aside, loving the variety and thanks for this amazing stuff. p.s. Canada did not win the war of 1812.

[@imVidzzz]

League of legends was recorded today iirc, and he has said the only reason the Alien series hasn't happened was because he originally thought the game was much shorter, so he is looking for a suitable, 4-8 hour long horror game to replace it

[@Aether_GM]

*chrome dome* lmao Please don't ban me

[@birdieboogie9543]

NL, you said ABYSSINIA out loud and it still didn't click..

[@aturchomicz821]

Ok now someone make a 2000s and 2010s Slang List for him to fail at cause hes a 30 year old Boomer lionNice

[@cybrzero7558]

I feel like twitch streaming would keep him up to date

[@aturchomicz821]

@@cybrzero7558 lionDoubtIt

[@NeoBoneGirl]

@@cybrzero7558 Nah when he’s streaming you can tell he’s even more boomer than he lets on

[@jenm1]

It's funny because Kate is like 1/2 his age

[@aturchomicz821]

@@jenm1 Shes 18? WutFace

[@Jack-mg8jp]

I see this man’s chrome dome is full of knowledge

[@Lunyaaaa]

If Chrome Dome doesn't become the new term for Ryab/enelle/egg father we have failed.

[@RyuuRider]

Ggggnooomed in 2021 I can't believe it

[@thememelord6510]

Egg's*

[@OfficialBrownieGER]

oh damned, did I just witness someone getting gnomed ????

[@MrRevillo]

His chorme dome is infact a bean machine!

[@gulpin3429]

8:05 love how he casually avoids saying swigger. Funniest shit I’ve ever seen

[@thomasfairchild5538]

Wait a sec.... He's a *CHROME* *DOME* ???

[@hiltibrant1976]

A toaster? Frakk, unless he's a skin job.

[@bryanquick3349]

my dude, they called shredder that in the '80s TMNT, everyone knows this one

[@teratoma.]

20s - cool af slang 30s - even cooler slang 40s - 🌽🌽🌽

[@aturchomicz821]

lmao

[@CastafioreOnYoutube]

Your pfp is bringing up bad memories...

[@aturchomicz821]

@@CastafioreOnKZbin I thought you ment me wich also would have made sense lol

[@noah-tl1gv]

@@CastafioreOnKZbin whats it a reference to?

[@acksawblack]

All the cool people died lol

[@ripxdoc]

petition to bring back come on snake, let's rattle

[@Opsonyn]

Be the change you want to see in the world. Get out there and start those fights.

[@Slash-XVI]

instructions unclear: started a dance battle

[@BradTheAmerican]

I'm still trying to make *fetch* happen

[@gabe1ist]

"I'm in this job because I can discern meaning from letters" this man is becoming too powerful

[@RipJaws1]

No Doy: Foreign, incomprehensible No Duh: "That's obvious"

[@evandymon]

"The 80s were crazy man, an actor for president and no means yes?!" - NL

[@Cassxowary]

Could have seen it coming then too, he would talk about politics

[@mityakiselev]

> "no means yes" CANCELLED PepeHands

[@dweebbandit6793]

NL really knows his onions.

[@funworldtonight]

Tell it to Sweeney

[@TooKorky]

Theres some good stuff going on in that chrome dome of his

[@thefinalbistro991]

Don’t give him too much credit he’s using his cheaters

[@cam2307]

@@funworldtonight I'm imagining this conversation taking place in the streets of old New York. "Aye! NL really knows his onions!" "Ahhhhh, tell it to Sweeney!" "Put a sock in it, Mrs. Grundy. Go back to yer noodle juice"

[@wisnoskij]

"Jelly Beans are Flappers Boyfriends" But what are Flappers Boyfriends?

[@RexOedipus.]

Jelly beans

[@Anon.G]

Flappers are those girls that used to dance and wear feathers

[@cartoonhanks1708]

Basically the liberal arts majors of today, the girls that have a lot of tattoos and piercings and suck a lot of dick. Except the 1920s edition, so short skirts (to the knee) they smoked (something viewed as a man's thing) had casual sex. And was not "lady like".

[@Northernlion]

farmer's mums

[@jenm1]

A feminist movement in the 20s caused "flappers" to emerge in women. Hence, multiple boyfriendw

[@freedomkid999]

Waiving 'thank you' to the delivery guy.... had to be the most Canadian thing you have done

[@Northernlion]

it was a polite way to say "go away"

[@Cassxowary]

Waving* (:

[@MassShrooms]

@@Cassxowary You're friendly, Neighborhood, grammar nazi. i hope my reply doesnt' make you loose you're mind? Im not aware with how I right- Have fun. (:

[@JB-xl2jc]

@@Northernlion Is this an example of 2020s slang? Wave means "Go away"?

[@toastertwink2537]

this chrome dome really knows his onions

[@Charsept]

Pretty crazy how some of these terms have stayed around into modern times. After 100 years, is it even slang anymore? Or just part of the lexicon?

[@aturchomicz821]

yeah wtf kids of the 60s, how did they do that??

[@joshuadu2308]

Language changes in weird ways: did you know that egregious used to mean good but now it means bad?

[@Bendanna93]

@@joshuadu2308 aweful was really good, changed to awful which is the polar opposite.

[@joshuadu2308]

@@Bendanna93 terrific is an interesting one, where it used to describe actual terror: the Hindenburg disaster was described as such by a commentator at the time.

[@jenm1]

@@joshuadu2308 my theory is that with media desensitization, we needed more and more stimulus and more hyperbolic language for normal speech

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

"pegchamp in chat" its the emote for dudes who like to get railed by their girlfriends or girls or whatever who like to get railed by their girlfriends i suppose

[@BradTheAmerican]

yes this is now canon

[@MemeSnack]

8:05 LMAO he didnt even risk it.

[@Shnarfbird]

this signifies a great sickness in our society

[@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg]

Seriously. Western culture has become a laughing stock.

[@treyebillups8602]

@@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg Do you say that every time someone says something you don't like?

[@protogon]

@@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg that's cringe bro

[@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg]

@@protogon you're cringe

[@benejeneb]

Sporcle with NL?! PEGGERZ!!

[@RealmRabbit]

22:02 Really, the actual definition of a scrub is is a guy that can't get no love from women, they often are seen hangin' out the passenger side of their best friend's ride and tryin' to holla at them.

[@LovelyLori193]

This Sporacle content has left me pogging until the cows come home

[@QWlN]

sporacle of ages

[@jona3684]

Native english speakers, 328m? That can't be right? US, Canada, England, Ireland... ??

[@Mr1machine1]

Pretty sure that's only the population of US so the actual number is way higher

[@sillygazelle210no8]

I think a lot of them speak English as a second language

[@klingenschmidt9261]

Some countries have sections that have English as the first language and a different language as the first somewhere else

[@mynaamee]

"Lasers are real" Egg, 2021

[@Yuggy]

'Can you pick the dead languages?' 'No.'

[@a2rhombus2]

"Bench racing" is a fantastic term and it should absolutely come back

[@Wertsir]

"There's no stop signs in latin". Rome, after building the European road system and literally inventing Road Signs: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@unholybun239]

"Yeah give me 3 cadillacs or I'll use my Chicago typewriter to put you in a Chicago overcoat."

[@dudemeister1846]

NL Hand and Brain Slay the Spire w Levy Also great vid, love the wacky content

[@darkghastful]

Armored heifer literally just made my week that is THE BEST description of anything I’ve ever heard.

[@mityakiselev]

"I bet you fill out crossword puzzles in pen" wait, you're not supposed to?

[@LimitTheInsane]

The look on his face when he looks at the word swigger

[@relatedreality]

27 years of life and I just now learned crunk meant crazy drunk. I just thought it was a word we said to get hype

[@Universum]

NL's face at Swigger is sending me

[@pyropoyo]

Wait so when Big Band turns into a rocket ship and flies off and says "I gotta see a man about a dog!", he's saying he's gonna go buy some whiskey? I've learned things today.

[@Cassxowary]

That was a covert way of saying it, like using a slang for “I gotta see someone about something” because they had to be sneaky during the prohibition

[@justinlariviere]

Ryan lookin hella splifficated today

[@nicknolte878]

the stop sign quiz was bullshit, in german HALT means stop but our stop signs literally say stop on them anyways

[@Gorm169]

That's because we switched to the English word as part of an international standard. They used to say HALT long ago. Supposedly a few still do for some reason.

[@nicknolte878]

@@Gorm169 wow TIL ive never seen those ever

[@ripxdoc]

i did not realise just how long some of this slang has been around

[@IamBIGuUS]

NL going through the dog vocalizations had me crying

[@chris86simon]

Same dude. Fucking middle of the night trying not wake everyone up.

[@jonahi1304]

how can people get onomatopoeias so wrong

[@cyberking100000]

As a danish guy, hearing him say "A killer diller" made my day.

[@tomasgunnartomasson1900]

Goddamn you made me burst out laughing. Venlig hilsen from an Icelander.

[@AlmostThere972]

NL do be forgetting about Polish in like every quiz 🤣

[@Flare3924]

Someone get Apollo on that barking quiz.

[@stolenbyfairiesmorrigan5085]

As a Czech person, Ryan's overestimation of our importance makes me happy.

[@ZeroSleap]

I like how "jelly beans" a cryptic phrase is "explained" by another crypitc phrase "Flappers' boyfriends"

[@Fieshs]

"There's no stop signs in Latin!" cracked me up

[@jonhale4438]

Can someone make a "Dark Souls Boss or Old Time Slang" quiz?

[@snooks5607]

34:04 English as official language in 54 countries was surprising would've thought there be more than 328M native speakers then

[@SapkaliAkif]

34:38 The pronunciation for "Dur" is like the English "Doom" with a shorter "oo" part and an "r" at the end.

[@isweartofuckinggod]

"This sign is in spanish when you're not looking." Completely caught me off guard lmaooo

[@TheKookyMonsta]

How is he completely clueless about the meaning of "No doy" in the 70s but has no problem with "No duh" in the 80s

[@lunedocs2228]

The amusement park ride with a pole dancing horse made me start choking

[@Its_Luuk]

As a Dutch person I'm pretty sure we use the word STOP on our STOP signs.

[@bulldog7758]

Good Guy NL waving to the delivery person. I bet he even tips the gas jockey for filling up his hot rod too.

[@MagmaWolfG]

I have never seen a Dutch stop sign that said HALT, they are always just STOP

[@cccant26]

He's the smartest man in twitch 😮

[@PrettierNPastel]

This video got me peggin off

[@jakeXIII]

Idk why out of all these peggers gets me everytime lmao the Chicago overcoat is also very funny but peg, It will come back to you. Great stuff as always

[@iwaschosenforthis]

Smoked weed for longer than i can remember, not once have i heard it referred to as "muggles" lol

[@arkurianstormblade4109]

Peggers!

[@assiaisindegyara4905]

25:28 can we just stop for a sec and talk about whats happening in the sign.

[@Malcador-TWOM]

When NL was doing the 1950s one, i honest to god thought he said "a shiner is a black guy" I think i gave myself a charlie horse just from sitting up too fast

[@Brenosakaguti]

Local Chrome Dome Streamer Forgets he's not on Geoguessr, India Exists

[@pandamonium1930]

13:43 this man literally took 20 seconds to explain that he isnt a real man.

[@codypappa1667]

The chrome dome with no reaction was great. But NL missing Armored Heifer was sad because thats exactly his kind of word play

[@etopowertwon]

I'm surprised our chrome dome doesn't know what "dope" means. "Policie Ceske Republiky": Romanian. I died here.

[@TheRealScience86]

I feel like "obviously" is a better answer for "no doy" than "yes". Also, I'm pretty sure it's spelled "No Doi"

[@TheOverArchiver]

I knew “Bake biscuits” from having watched _The Vast of Night_ on Amazon Prime. Also as someone born in the aughts, I’m surprised how many of these phrases I knew well.

[@darylbas8216]

When he picked laser over phaser I nearly dropped the mouthfull of half eaten burger I had in my mouth all over my plate. When he said, word for word, what I shouted out after he realized that laser is a real thing... well, lets just say that, in my opinion, NL owes me some fries.

[@KevinAccetta]

Sucks there's no 2000-2020s slang quiz lol. Would've been nice to catch up with all those

[@calebjohnson3537]

hes bald to keep his einstein brain cool from over heating

[@rodion1056]

Armored Heifer is my favorite Dark Souls boss

[@EMBPercussion]

dude, I got 100% on the one you called "impossible"

[@rifaiiixiii]

Look at this Chrome Dome

[@fyr3st0rm65]

NL: "This one's impossible" Also NL: "Makes a lot of sense."

[@Nesetera]

36:18 The Stop sign in Portuguese isn't Parar, it's Pare.

[@aryanellis6597]

smooth how he didn't say swigger once lmao

[@lycos94]

we definitely use ''STOP' on stopsigns in the netherlands, idk where that halt came from

[@jamesericson1239]

100 year old boomer achieves linguistic acuity never before seen. (Colorized)(Sporcle)

[@comrade_snarky]

Amazing to see a smart person not know what "doodad" means.

[@timturner7609]

I'm disappointed the 50s didn't have "tool" or "short"

[@calypso4882]

Always remember schnook from the end of Goodfellas. Thought NL would get that one.

[@tetryst]

I can't hear it without hearing the episode of seinfeld where they keep calling each other schnooky

[@pixelpastiche]

3:13 But when it comes to Joshlish the man needs a few more years before the PHD

[@Matkatamiba]

oh hey lol

[@pixelpastiche]

@@Matkatamiba oh yo! Talk about needle in the haystack! I liked your vid on modding btw.

[@pixelpastiche]

@@Matkatamiba also I’m gonna try streaming again sometime, making the videos before/after work is too frustrating.

[@Matkatamiba]

@@pixelpastiche Lol I dunno how you talk at the camera and just spout words so well. I guess it's NL's training. It felt so odd for me to do a recording lol.

[@pixelpastiche]

@@Matkatamiba It sounded absolutely fine. Legit I grew up on NPR ad the have been listening to NL for basically 10 years so I cannot doubt the influence.

[@jotunn30]

man since the quarantine started i miss going out with friends and getting splifficated

[@DrEcho]

If "catch-22" is as broadly described here as possible, then I think colloquially many of us (including me) use it incorrectly all the time It's not just any situation with equally underirable options for recourse ("between a rock and a hard place") It's not just a situation where efforts to remedy it would create problems of their own ("dammed if you do, dammed if you don't") But it seems to be a situation with **no** options to remedy because the situation itself took away the solution(s). Like accidentally deleting the system32 folder from your PC thus making it impossible to use your computer to restore the directory. Or like someone breaking in and stealing the money you were saving up for a home protection system. Or running out of gas on the way to the gas station.

[@JB-xl2jc]

Wait... native English speakers 328 million? I find that hard to believe honestly, the US has 320 million pop, Canada has tens of millions more, UK is like 60 mil, NZ, Australia, etc... Ghana...

[@TheComfyGeek]

Being "pegged" brings a whole lot of misunderstandings.

[@PBthesquirrel]

I use "you go girl" with friends of mine who aren't girls. Let's say I see my guy friend wearing nicely tailored jeans, "Girl-uh, you work it in those jeans!" I've never had a non-woman friend of mine complain. Of course, if someone is ever uncomfortable with it, I am more than willing to not to that to/around them. It's good to treat people kindly:)

[@Spyro5500]

Love the video description

[@RoachDogg_JR]

Nobody asked, but the Russian sign says "Birzhevaya Ploschad'", or Market Square. In other words I'm at level 2 in Russian on Duolingo.

[@Cassxowary]

Sign literally says czech republic in the middle NL: romanian? Dude... And romanian is one of my native languages so that is also why I find this funny 😂 Have a nice safe day!(:

[@isac901]

swedish is not a dialect

[@derfliegendetempler]

I mean no stop sign actually is written in any other language besides stuff like arabic. Like 90% of countries use the german signs for stuff and even they just use the english stop and not stopp. It really bewildered me that that quiz was built like it was...

[@digitalunity]

"Is that new york city?" Bruh... The city is the island and a small triangle above it. if that's NYC, where do you think Manhattan or New York harbor are?

[@MrBeastmania]

That phrase game was bussin, respectfully no kizzy. Sheeeesh

[@Biosquid239]

I found it kinda funny that NL knows Tagalog is a thing but has no idea what it looks like It uses the English Alphabet but is missing a few letters, "f" and "h" and "z", there might be more but thats off the top of my head

[@disciplesalmon6507]

Don't stop making these. You're amazing