Something Our Parents Would Say Bat Shit Crazy

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1:00It is a lifestyle. Winning is a choice. The goal of these episodes is to help preserve not only a language, but lessons in life. My name is arrow. Warning. This episode features adult language. I go as far as saying that maybe your grandparents and those before them. Yeah. In their words, I'm acting a little bat shit crazy. Where did that term even come from? It's as old as our great, great, great grandparents, right? No, not really. It's actually pretty modern. It's taking two old fashioned words and making them a stronger phrase. Bat shit is exactly what it says. Crazy is the other which describes kind of any rational or unpredictable behavior. Now, let's team them up. Bat shit crazy. It started showing up in the latter part of the 1950s up to the 1970s. Linquus with all their verbal history say it comes from a shit or shit and just going nuts.

2:04It's meant to be vivid, shocking, a little off the wall. Today, bat shit crazy is used loosely, especially when talking about something like your traffic. Oh my god, it's bat shit crazy out here. It's gone from describing people to laying out what the experience is all about. But but but but but it is on the list to be wiped off our word use map. Yep. Because it goes against the rules of mental health. People have made it a point to get others to stop using it because of the emotional impact and the shock value and it needs to fade from our everyday conversation. Hmm, that's a little bat shit crazy if you ask me. It's something our parents would say. I'm arrow.