Why am I hearing "Ride or Die" in everything lately?

[JanMichael]

Is it just me or doesn't that sound exceptionally stupid?

I should have added something. It's on the radio in ads. The two teachers in Georgia that got busted for screwing their students were ride or die friends. What the hell?

I would imagine it had something to do with the motorcycle but I hear it revolving around other issues too. Even for motorcycles it sounds stupid. You'd rather die? You'd rather die than ride a motorcycle? F****** stupid.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Just Like: 100%, Let's Go, I'm here for it.

Been a Minute, etc. etc.

They’ve all become tiresome.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

2. Is there a new Fast & Furious movie coming out?

Pop culture tends to stimulate buzzwords/phrases, and that was a line used in those films if I recall. There are upwards of a dozen of them now, though if you've seen one....

[Aristus]

3. I had heard the term, but had never used it until I got back in touch with an old Army buddy.

We were tankers together in Germany in the early '90's. He called me his 'ride or die battle buddy'. With tanks, at least, one can understand the sentiment ride or die. Why carry your weapon when your weapon can carry you?

[Niagara]

4. Ride or Die

I noticed that it became a thing to say with certain YouTubers. Unfortunately the one YouTuber that I was watching had an abundance of discrepancies and had a drama of a life unfolding so I just stopped following and watching their channel.



Ride or Die means follow someone unconditionally, loyalty or commitment to someone else.



I watched the 1943 movie The Outlaw and the term "hooking up" was a line in that movie. It's a term that people still use today.


Also, I was watching The Waltons and the character Jason Walton mentioned that he didn't share his good news with the family because he didn't want to "steal John Boy's thunder". The Waltons was filmed in the 70's. I don't hear much today unless it comes out of my mouth and I'm definitely not a trend setter.


Sometimes expressions were already used at some point and if enough people repeat the expression years later, it becomes a thing.

[soldierant]

5. "Stealing" someone's "thunder" comes from an actual incident - I believe it was in the eighteenth century,

but it might have been the seventeenth, when a technical at one theater developed a machine which mimicked actual thunder better than anything that was being used at the time - and a tech at a rival theater stole the idea - and the inventor went to see a show at the thief's theater and stood up in the middle of the play and anounved, "By God, he's stolen my thinder!" And, yes, it's just about died out, which is a pity, because there really isn't a good alternative.

[Niagara]

6. That's awesome that it dates back that far!

I'm going to start squeezing that expression into conversations more often.

[XanaDUer2]

7. I never got lock and load

Nt

[Aristus]

8. Military terminology.

Locking an ammunition magazine into the magazine well of one's rifle, and loading the chamber with a round. The 'keep your rifle on safe until ready to fire' goes without saying; but it actually needs to be said regularly.

[XanaDUer2]

9. Ah thnx

[Aristus]

10. Of course.