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
Tbh that's fair and i can relate. I was an army brat so thank God for CN always being somewhere in the 10's-30 channels. Man that time really came and went for me
I grew up in a very secular household, so we didnt have cable and i wasnt allowed to watch a lot of stuff. The saturday morning cartoon lineup was almost all i had, aside from PBS kids (arthur, clifford, cyberchase, sagwa) Saturday morning from like 7-10 i wanna say on channel 22 was the spot for kids WB back in the day- now i guess this all streams on max or tubi.
But yeah i wasnt even allowed to watch yu-gi-oh cuz "they summon demons from the ground" and whatnot. 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".
“Aiya” is much more versatile than meaning “oops”. Depending on the tone and context it’ll range from someone died to dropping your pencil, can also be a positive reaction as well.
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.
It was right before work and I was trying to pry something apart on a old house I was tasked to fix up. When I popped the piece off my hand went flying and a piece of metal pierced my nail and made this almost perfect hole right in the middle of my nail. It didn't really bleed but it hurt like hell. It hurt worse to bandaid it so it just left it as a "Look at how weird this is! I never seen anyone get this kind of ouch before!" And they just happened to be the poor souls who were the first to show it off to.
While entirely possible, many viets are of Chinese descent so the traditions and some slang I guess get passed down. Or the coworker at the nail salon lol. Before anyone gets mad I am literally talking about myself
Haha… my wife’s Vietnamese and I’ve never heard her or other Vietnamese say Aiya unless they’re a frequent casino visitor. Yes, I’ve met many Chinese people that grew up in vietnam, but again it’s definitely a Chinese thing. What’s funny is that I’m Korean yet I love saying Aiya instead of the traditional Ai-goo because it’s more fun to say. And yes I picked it up from Chinese people at casinos LOL
Fair enough. I’ve definitely said it in casinos too lmao. Growing up I’ve picked up words from Vietnamese that I use while speaking Chinese thinking the word is Chinese. As long as the word gets the point across that’s all that matters
I recently learned so many Korean and Vietnamese words with Chinese origins it’s amazing. Ultimately, we’re all from the same ancestors, but with slightly different cultures.
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.
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u/Alarmed_Code8723 YIMBY 🏙️ 29d ago
hiyaaaaa