Acapolco Gold this Chick, Bird gave me, made me Freak Out and Flower Power

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Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 22 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Do one the other way like

Flower power … bloommaxxing

It’s not my bag … Ohio

Out of sight … POG

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d

Huh. The only one whose meaning is obvious to me is the fake one.

I would have thought Ohio was more negative. Gen Z doesn’t remember the cuyahoga river catching fire more than a dozen times. Apparently you can even eat the fish from it now (determined between trump terms, so it might even be true)!

inari@piefed.zip · 22 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Funny how many of these became mainstream and stuck around

Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Which means Gen-z slang will be the norm for a century as well.

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 3d

That's lit, fam fr ong

RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 3d (1 reply)

How to talk to your grandparent, the boomer

AnotherWastedHuman@retrolemmy.com · 10 pts · 3d

The few that remain which actually remember what flower power was all about.

Axeman666@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d

I like how it has "Bringing me down" = "Taking off a high" but then also has "Taking off a high" at the bottom.

schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 3d

groovy

knacht1@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d

Far out.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2d

Oooooh. So gold is the same as money!

Very useful.

wylinka@szmer.info · 5 pts · 3d

Isn't some of this taken from AAVE? Like "crib".

twitchingbits@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d

up your nose with a rubber hose

it it don't fit, sit on it

AnotherWastedHuman@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 3d

Post title should be in the brandnewsentence community.

calliope@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 3d

Hold on, if you’re going to make it multiple choice you gotta do all of the nicknames for weed too.

(The) Grass, Pot, Mary Jane, Acapulco Gold this Chick, Bird gave me made me Freak Out and Flower Power

RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 3d

Solid

Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d

Bummer, man. Keep on truckin!

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I wasn't ready to sip this tea

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 3d

guess I'm mid

cRazi_man@europe.pub · 1 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I need one of these to figure out Gen Z lingo.

Alph4d0g@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d

I’ll start with one

Bro: a person of any gender directly addressing another person of any gender