The Surfer for the win.
There was once a time when surfers had a corner on the “cool slang” market. Words and phrases like “Cowabunga” or “totally tubular” were staples in every rad kid’s vocabulary. Surfers maybe taking for granted our linguistic monopoly. Alas, we were caught flatfooted by the fast-moving internet culture and now are buried underneath a pile of TikTok inspired “skibidies” and “alphas” and “sigmas,” “auras” and “bibiddybobbdies.”
Decidedly not surf.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Nicolas Cage is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Yes, per reports, a new bit of surf slang is trending all thanks to Guarding Tess star from his highly-anticipated new film The Surfer.
And you have certainly been salivating over the Lorcan Finnegan directed film first introduced a year-ish ago and described thusly:
When a man returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the U.S., he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates he is brought to the edge of his sanity and his identity is thrown into question.
A grumpy local dream.
Well, it premiered at Cannes to much acclaim and, again, our first bit of slang in decades. Metro UK describes the genesis of the idiom wherein Cage’s character is starving, kills a rat, takes a bite then…
After being interrupted he pockets the rat to use later, which comes during a fight when he truly snaps – resulting in his character pulling the rat from his pocket and shoving it into his opponent’s mouth.
‘Eat the rat!’, he exclaims wildly – and thus another iconic Cageism is born, joining his collection of iconic quotes.
Indeed, the star himself seems aware of how fans may catch onto this one, as he whipped the audience at Cannes up into a frenzy by roaring ‘Mangez le rat!’ (his newest meme-worthy line, translated) during the film’s six-minute standing ovation.
Eat the rat, my bro.
Skibidi.
As someone attmepting a keto diet, I’m eating the fat, bro.
Cage’s “Vampires Kiss” was on last night – sounds like he playing a similar role as a surfer!!
Will be a nutcase epic then
Shittest movie he’s been a part of I think .
could have been better…Fuck the rat!
Fuck, Chas is just slipping more day after day. Inertia is probably better than this site at this point. And I’m willing to bet that the writers there surf better than Chas.
As somebody who actually worked in the industry for a number of years, I can tell you that almost everybody I dealt with – sales reps, team managers, owners – almost all of them were at least half way competent on a board.
This website(aside from the comment community) is in the trash heap at this point.
I think your expectations are a tad misplaced.
Best go to the newsagent then and buy the latest surf Mag…
the wsl stuff is good but everything else…is like this
Haitians have been saying this for years, although it is actually pronounced “Eat The Cat”.
pet rats taste better….I think cat is about the Cat ladies who don’t bear children,,,obviously another great philosophy on …food?
then you have Kamala as “Brat”, to her woman beater husband:
“Dougie, get down there and………Eat The Brat“
I thought she was a cat lady, according to JD…???
Oh and now her husbands a woman beater…..hmmm source was the same as those who claimed FEMA was only helping immigrants and there’s no $’s because….the Dems changed the weather…..now you have death threats aaginst FEMA and weather scientists….seem reasonable?
it’s always about pussy cats
The story about Doug Emhoff slapping his GF was broke in the Daily Mail, when three of the woman’s friends who were called by the woman on the night of the battery, reported the incident to The Daily Mail.
The woman is a high powered N.Y. liberal democrat.
If it didn’t actually happen, wouldn’t she come out and say “it didn’t happen”?
All have said they are afraid of reprisals…….and that’s why their names are not disclosed.
compare that to a convicted felon of rape?
why you hating on Clinton?
haha…I think if ya start a moral defense of Trumpy , one must consider trumpy’s record to now…….fuck it isn’t pretty when you looks at barely a moral fiber in his body except for money and power/fame….it’s really stunning to see how far gone the cult is!!
fortunately we don’t elect our presidents based on morality, or we wouldn’t have had any presidents for the past 100 years.
I’m not defending Trumps morals, but when it comes to corruption and lack of morals, Trump is an amateur compared to the DC establishment.
One huge difference between Trump and Biden, Obama, Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, and many more is Trump has not been a lifelong politician grifting the American Taxpayer for his entire life like the rest of them.
Washington DC is a cult of pure evil. It is the most immoral, corrupt, debased and depraved city on the planet.
The debauchery of Hollywood pales in comparison.
I want to see Trump get elected to expose the entire machine.
The left had a VP that wears eye liner last election and now the right does this election. They are always playing catch up.
But surf fans want to know what does all this have to do with Emily Ratajkowski , and could there be another story here? May require further investigation…
Cage is a freakin Legend…
nothing more to say.
But will his performance hold up to his past work with Panos Cosmatos in Mandy?
“Lick my bumhole”
Xox
Eat the rat? Meh. Bit cheesy…
Back at a certain less mature stage in my life, a certain skateboarding crew’s catchphrase for a summer was “Get yer rat oot”. It had a multiplicity of meanings, some of which are likely unsuited for the gentle family audience we have here on Teh Grit.
I coincidently found that Ikea was selling plush rat toys at the time so bought a couple to chuck around the skatepark to the universal amusement and grand acclaim of none but myself.
ah Rat-atouille was catch cry for us when it came out!!
Tres Bon!
Cage himself has some skibidi ohio rizz, and so does ‘eat the rat’
Cage as Worshipful Master. Interesting vision.
I ran into Nick late-night at the Wave in Waikiki once, he was completely hammered but friendly
“Slapped a rat.”Charlie, to his wife, when explaining why he was almost arrested.
(Rat)-Word Salad.