Aaand, now you're old

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Poayjay@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 2y (14 replies)

Whenever if feel uncool for being old I just remember that I wasn’t cool when I was younger either, so I’ve lost nothing.

livus@kbin.social · 20 pts · 2y (13 replies)

Paradoxically once you get to middle age, the other middle-aged people think you're uncool if you do know slang from younger generations.

It's annoying because I can't help picking it up.

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (12 replies)

That's so lit.

BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 2y (11 replies)

Congrats you've picked up middle aged slang from 10 years ago.

ivanafterall@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y (8 replies)

WHAAZAAAAP!?

BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 2y (6 replies)

My dude, welcome to the late 90s.

ivanafterall@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Mmmm, say that again.

blackluster117@possumpat.io · 4 pts · 2y

Where's the beef?

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Zaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

I demand a prize.

livus@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y

It all comes back around sooner or later.

A few years ago everyone was saying "ouf" a lot, made them sound like my family member who was born in the 1930s.

CarlsIII@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y (8 replies)

I thought “yeet” meant “throw”, but now apparently it means “yes”?

db2@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Totes yeet, yo.

balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 2y

mood.

Pratai@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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don@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

If you aren’t a teenager, that’s the point.

Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I’m a teen and I’m lost too

don@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

When I was a teen, I was lost too. Then I got used to being lost. Now, no matter where I go, there I am.

DudeBro@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

it still means throw but it is also phonetically close to saying "ye" (as in enthusiastically saying yes with a long 'e' but not finishing the word) so people use it as such

XbSuper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

It's the opposite of yoink. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

ReallyKinda@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That’s so camp it’s rizz

hglman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Plaza down!

BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y

It's not that i don't understand it, but seeing a 40 year old guy using tiktok language just feel wrong and creepy.

DahGangalang@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

No cap fr, big yikes fam

DudeBro@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

I understand all of these, but now there are even newer ones that I cannot fathom

Pratai@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2y
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electrogamerman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

i guess i was old at 15

BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y

When a hoopy frood gets old.

SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Omg I love to just fucking bastardize the slang on purpose.

DavidGarcia@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 2y

Boomer? I barely know 'er

768@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

To relate you need to at least know the slang...

Mordachai_Shedbacon@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

stacking treks with my tribble chaps

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

Me and the boys are getting our daily steps in today

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someguy3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Knarly.

DahGangalang@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 2y

This makes me irrationally mad

(It's obv supposed to be spelt gnarly)

DrPop@lemmy.one · 4 pts · 2y

Glizzy is interesting

don@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

So mid.

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I'm not even 18, HOW AM I OLD?

idunnololz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

antisuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Groovy meme, man.

dan@upvote.au · 1 pts · 2y

Can we please bring back "groovy" and "radical" / "rad"?

fosforus@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
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ExfilBravo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I have this paranoid delusion that if I don't know the newest slang that I am going to be in a bad\deadly situation that I could have avoided if I had known the slang. So I stay on top of it and use the ones I like the most.

db2@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What if the only way to save yourself is to know correctly used historical slang?

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Well then if you manage to pull it off that would be grooved, maybe even the wasp’s elbows

code@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Skibidi dub dub

hellfire103@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

And that's why, as someone with mild chronophobia, I check Rural Dictionary regularly.

Pregnenolone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

me fr fr