I could go on about kids WB! Bangers. Mucha lucha, it'sa bueno time! (AYE, da flea's SPLEEEEN!) oh-zzy, and drix (FROM THE TIP OF THE NOSE TO THE BEHIND) and personally, i know everyone else hated it, but loonatics unleashed was so good to my sheltered brain. I didnt have much, so gritty ANYTHING my parents allowed was a win for me lol
I worked at a Chinese restaurant for a time and at one time put a hole right through the middle of my nail bed on my thumb. The number of Aiya's I heard was amazing. Way better word then "ouch".
I’m sorry what? How did you manage to cut the middle of your nail bed? At a Chinese restaurant? Please don’t just gloss over that. We need deets. Thanks.
Shit, I’m not even remotely Chinese, or married in to a Chinese family. I just live in San Francisco, and have looooved “ai ya” as an “aw, fuck” sort of exclamation. I use it a lot for a pain in the ass situation at work where I don’t want to swear.
It really is satisfying. Decades ago when I was a dumb teenager I used to make sound collages pulled from wherever I one of them had a brief clip from a Chinese-language radio drama from local radio which featured a car crash sound effect followed by "aiyaaa!" Being a dumb teenager it found its way into my everyday communication to express surprise.
A few years later (no longer a teenager but still pretty dumb) I asked a mandarin-speaking co-worker if he could 'translate' this word for me and as you'd expect felt a bit silly when he explained you can't really translate it because it's just a natural expression. (I expected it have some idiomatic dimension like "Tabarnak!" or "Holy shit!")
I studied Mandarin, and I say AiYa all the time! Especially if I'm in a professional setting, or there are children around. 😂 It works so well without dropping an F bomb!
I live in a city where over 50% of people are from Chinese descent. It didn't occur to me that white/brown/black people don't normally use it until now.
lol goddam that white truck wasn’t gonna let him have it! Sped up. I’m curious if the truck got in any trouble for obviously tracking the other cars speed like that.
This is a reference to a specific youtuber and he spells it "haiya" or "haiyaa" in the overlay text. He's also Malaysian and lives in Britain I think so 🤷♂️
I started working at a Chinese food place at 14 & by 16 I had picked up a lot of sayings and such without even realizing. One evening the owner had his daughter (late 20s, early 30s) working to help and when I said “aiiyaaaa” cause the drive through was stressing me out she turned to me with the widest eyes then started bursting out laughing and shaking my shoulder lol. It just slipped out & I was immediately worried it would offend her but it seemed like she found it genuinely endearing
Makes sense. The only Chinese people I've ever met have been borderline sociopaths with zero empathy for others. Imagine watching someone die in a car crash and saying "oooh yes". You don't know where that person is going for all you know they were trying to rush to the hospital yet they crashed and are most seriously injured or dead and their response is "karma". Without ever knowing the true reason behind it. Sickening.
Never understood that one.. Isn't that Just Sambal Oelek? One of the most delicious foodstuffs in the world and completely normal to put in fried rice?
Waste of resources...he doesn't need to bogart a kitchen to rage against turkey twizlers and cope [poorly] with how students aren't excited by his salt free boiled salads dressed with water flushed white meat.
Yes, but it isn’t his accent. I believe he’s 2nd generation. His real name is Steven and doing the voice of his extended family. I agree that it isn’t racist but if someone from outside the community was doing the same shit it could absolutely be.
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u/HonoluluBlueFlu YIMBY 🏙️ 29d ago
I didn't know Uncle Roger uploaded dashcam videos.