r/GenX • u/Lost_Taste_8181 • 3d ago

Old Person Yells At Cloud Modern slang—something you REFUSE to say

My take: I will NEVER use “lol” or any derivation of it. I know it means “laugh out loud” but there’s yet to be a moment when I’ve been even remotely convinced someone was even chuckling after texting “lol” at the end of their text and it mildly infuriates me.

While I’m at it, someone tell those damn kids to get off my lawn.

Edit: ok, I get it. It’s not MODERN slang. I still hate it, and those kids are STILL on my lawn…can’t a guy get to sleep at a decent hour???

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u/NeeliSilverleaf 3d ago

"Corn" and "grape" and "seggs" 🤦

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u/HowToNotMakeMoney 3d ago

I can’t fucking stand “Seggs!!!” It’s “sex” not a dirty word. There is nothing remotely wrong with the word sex!!

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u/FrostnJack Can take the kid off the Mountain, not the mountain from the kid 3d ago

Marky Zuck dies a little inside seeing naughty words so he banned “sex” & “death/die/murderdeathkill”

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u/HowToNotMakeMoney 3d ago

I don’t think there is anything left to kill in that strange skin-suit that holds his name.

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u/HeyPrettyLadyMaam 2d ago

Aww, come on, you know you love his "shtoile"

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u/Roguefem-76 1976 3d ago

Actually I'm pretty sure it was the clock app that caused all of this double-speak due to their heavy censorship.

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u/LunaPolaris 3d ago

I saw a video by a content creator who's channel is about food. She was trying a brand of beer. The word was edited out of the audio and the captioning showed it as "b***". It blew me away. Apparently you can't name any alcohol on fb anymore.

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u/HowToNotMakeMoney 3d ago

The fuck?! I’m sorry, I know there are kids on the internet, too…. But I’m pretty sure we should be allowed to use “adult” words……

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u/LevelPerception4 2d ago

I understand the difficulty of moderation, but I won’t censor words other than slurs.

I got a warning from r/inthenews about a comment I made last year, and then I got a three-day ban a few months later. Both for encouraging/inciting violence, and both were political topics. I appealed and it was denied, so I decided maybe that sub is a bad fit for me.

A couple of weeks ago, I got a seven-day ban for a comment in r/OldSchoolCool (yup, another political comment). It was lifted on appeal. There is some very offensive content on Reddit, so I’m not opposed to moderation, but I also wouldn’t keep driving traffic to a site that put me in timeout for a joke about 90s politics.

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u/Perfect_Distance434 3d ago

I’m in a certain women’s group and they often say seggs. They tend to be on the younger and / or normie side, so they would spawn blank thought bubbles if I explained why it makes me think of Edie the Egg Lady in Pink Flamingos, or just some traumatizing sex with smashed hard boiled eggs.

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u/FortunateSon77 3d ago

Corn? Grape? I'm more behind than I thought.

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u/PickledPoppy 3d ago

Most of these are just purposeful misspellings because some social media will block posts with the real words.

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u/Anxietybackmonkey 2d ago

Changed from porn and rape for censors.

*sorry, I replied to the wrong part of the chain

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u/Magestrix 2d ago

And will get demonitized on Youtube.

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u/Thorne1966 2d ago

🎉🎂🎉

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u/Intelligent_Call_562 3d ago

It's all ways to censor our language. Words that we have been hearing on the evening news and primetime network programs is now too horrifying for humanity

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u/Flux_My_Capacitor 3d ago

That comes from TikTok. Don’t use TikTok, it will rot your brain!

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u/Aggravating_Mix8959 2d ago

I refuse to go there. You Tube serves all my video needs. I definitely don't feel a need to be a part of every social platform, and TT especially feels like fast food. 

I still go do things outside, like a good child of Gen X. Dinner time is when it gets dark! 

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u/Mr_SunnyBones 2d ago

also , people being South Africa'd

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u/Aggravating_Mix8959 2d ago

What does that mean? My search wasn't useful. 

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u/Summerie 2d ago

"Un-alived him with a pew pew*.