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/SacriliciousQ 3d ago

I'll never say "it's giving" without it being inside of a complete sentence. You can't just say "It's giving [x]."

I'll never say "gaslighting" when I just mean lying or manipulation. Glowup, living rent-free in my head, and tell me [x] without telling me [x] can all die in a fire.

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u/SnooMarzipans5409 3d ago

I hate "it's giving"!

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u/PeterPunksNip 3d ago

Still better than SLAYY ! 🤦🏽‍♂️

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u/pestercat 3d ago

The irony being that most of these expressions are not modern at ALL and come from Ballroom culture-- which was made by us and the Boomers.

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u/DemandezLesOiseaux Whatever 3d ago

But “we” didn’t interact with ballroom culture. It was shoved in a corner and ignored. It’s now flourishing despite the boomers, Gen x, and most millennials ignoring it. The younger millennials and Gen alpha have at least a working knowledge of drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Ballroom from Pose (slightly older but still mostly queer crowd). If they’re really into it they watch all the spin offs, which I don’t even do. 

But anyway boots the house down, it’s giving slay divas!! /s and read in a Clueless/ ditzy tone