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Haha, I grew up on the California coast and surfed a lot in my youth. The only slang from that era I still use is "bitchen" and I say it as an anachronism, like "groovy".
Sometimes I say "bitchen camero" in reference to a car I like. That's from a song that stuck in my memory. Comes from a punk garage band in the early 90's; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxKt_Wc0m1g
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How do you feel about "hella?" I find it hilarious how some people in the southern cities absolutely hate it for some reason. But I was born in the Bay Area and grew up in the Central Valley. Felt like we got all the slang from the whole state. I also always latched onto that stereotypical surfer brah stuff. Everyone made fun of it, but I thought it was the coolest. Even the "get pitted, bro, so pitted" guy sounds super cool to me lol
Never used that slang. That "brah" slang came from Hawaiian surf culture. The first time I heard it used commonly was when I went there to surf in the early eighties. Never picked that up, always sounded weird to me. There was other Hawaiian slang I didn't like because the local surfers at the time were not nice people. They didn't like the "howlie" surfers and would take any opportunity to terrorize them. They would say "you like beef?" or "you give me stink eye?" in a hostile tone. I mean back then California surfers could be territorial and you'd just avoid the few places where you might get hassled, but they had nothing on the Hawaiian locals, meanest on the planet. It's weird because the Hawaiians were generally welcoming and nice, but the surfers, forget it. Probably not like that now, but I don't know, haven't surfed there since.