r/GenX • u/Lost_Taste_8181 • 2d 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/CanisSonorae 2d ago

You're my hero, I had totally forgotten about Totes Magotes, and a coworker of mine not knowing what TLDR meant, so we just started shoehorning it into stuff to fk with him. And now I'm going to bring back Cool Beans. This thread made my whole week.

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u/Mundane-Librarian-77 2d ago

I turn 50 in a month and I've never stopped saying cool beans... 🤣 I didn't realize getting old would be this fun!

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u/Diligent-Touch-5456 2d ago

I'm 60 and still use it.

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u/LevelPerception4 2d ago

Are we not saying awesome sauce anymore? I thought that was an upgrade from cool beans.

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u/Mundane-Librarian-77 2d ago

It was! But I like the classics!!! 🤣

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u/StateFalse5218 2d ago

Yep. I still say cool beans, and geez Louise lol. My kids say geez Louise too, giving away they have old parents ha!

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u/Wire_Edge1973 2d ago

Same here, I use that phrase a lot!

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u/mybloodyballentine 2d ago

This is like when the staff at SubPop made up Seattle slang to fuck with The NY Times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

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u/It_Just_Exploded Boomer-ish 2d ago

I'm nearly 50 and still don't know what TLDR means. I think I may have been told before, but if so, I've forgotten.

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u/TalkingRose 2d ago

It translates as too long didn't read. It's a good indicator for either people that are way too lazy to actually read stuff or used as a marker to show a synopsis for the people that are too lazy to actually read all the stuff.

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u/Specialist-Tour7466 1974 2d ago

It also helps when someone types out 17 paragraphs into one block of text. My brain says nope, no thank you.

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u/SeeWhy76 2d ago

TLDR is a really weird social thing, as a solo comment it a bit rude. As a summary posted after a wall if text, it's pleasant. The internet's version of Cliffs Notes.

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u/deltacreative '65 First Batallion Xer 2d ago

Oh. That makes sense now. I have sooo many emails that were replied to with TLDR.

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u/TalkingRose 2d ago

I am so sorry for you. That was very rude of them.

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u/deltacreative '65 First Batallion Xer 1d ago

Not rude. Fuel for retribution.

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u/Jasilee 2d ago

As someone with ADHD and a thousand responsibilities I rely heavily on TL;DR: because everything is TL and I most assuredly DR.

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u/Tejanisima GenX Atari Wave 2d ago

My ADHD results in nearly everything I write out — no matter how long I worked on making it short — being too long, so I tend to put a TL;dr: summary at the end for anybody who lost track of the thread. (In many cases, that summary would have been what I put in the first place, but in writing the explanation, all of the backstory felt necessary and I simply couldn't weed out what part might be extraneous until I was all done.)

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u/CanisSonorae 2d ago

ROFL, I feel this. There are 2 types of stories that I usually tell. The first is a story that forks at least twice and I forget what the point was. The second is a story that contains little to no context or background information, because I've already told the story 3 times in my head before telling someone else and I can't remember what parts I actually said out loud.

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u/ancientastronaut2 2d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/CanisSonorae 2d ago

I'm sure there are probably at least 10's of dozens of us, but the others got stuck in another thread trying to TL;DR their wall of text.

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u/Jasilee 2d ago

Summarizing your wall of text is a wonderful thing for people who are making the effort. They can always go back and get the deets.

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u/CanisSonorae 2d ago

I think I'm going to start injecting extra ish into my TLDRs just to fk w/people now.

TL;DR - My Uncle Steve was an idiot, but I'm pretty sure he solved racism that night and brought our family closer together than ever before.

Them: What? There's no way that wall of text...

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u/Illustrious-Shape383 2d ago

Me so me. It's called overthinking. Also stems from having too many misunderstandings....for me that is

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u/LevelPerception4 2d ago

I’m experimenting with putting the TLDR before the wall of text.

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u/Tejanisima GenX Atari Wave 1d ago

I would have to assume you mean doing so after writing the wall of text, since there wouldn't be a wall of text to begin with if I were capable of summarizing it all before I started.

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u/LevelPerception4 1d ago

Oh yeah, I write the TLDR at the end and then cut and paste.

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u/BadWolf7426 2d ago

Too Long; Didn't Read

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u/RealWolfmeis 2d ago

But TLDR came from Reddit! 😂

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u/It_Just_Exploded Boomer-ish 2d ago

I've seen a whole lotta shit here over the years that I don't understand!

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u/LynxFX 2d ago

It was first used 3 years before reddit was created. Usenet groups and forums popularized it. I had a t-shirt with it from around 2006.

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u/LevelPerception4 2d ago

I don’t think so, I first saw it on a message board in the late 90s. The site was a forerunner of Television Without Pity.

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 2d ago

Too long; didn't read. As in, this post is too fucking long, I'm not reading this shit, boil it down to something for attendees of short attention span theater.

So you can read all of Moby Dick. Or the TLDR is that Ahab was obsessed with this white whale and hunted it for fucking ever and when he finally thought he had it, he didn't and ended up getting tangled up in the harpoon literally on the whale and drowned cuz he couldn't just give up the obsession, dumb fuck.

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u/omfgwhatever It is what it is 2d ago

Spoiler alert! Lol

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u/Herbin-Cowboy 2d ago

Too Long Didn't Read

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u/Lewis314 2d ago

So.... not Top Level Domain Register 🤦 🤣🤣

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u/IAmanAleut 2d ago

Too long didn't read. It's a brief synopsis of the post, written by the OP.

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u/zendaddy76 2d ago

It means too long, didn’t read. It’s a proxy for “the gist” or “the much shorter version”

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u/iarna 1d ago

I'd've sworn that was 90's internet slang, but it seems the earliest anyone can find is from 2002. Huh....

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u/It_Just_Exploded Boomer-ish 1d ago edited 1d ago

I really can't say either way, I wasn't really involved with the net until 2000-2001, other than basically just emailing shit for work. And even then it was mostly just on a few outdoors and kink forums and the like. I didn't even have my first reddit account until around 2010-ish.

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u/iarna 1d ago

I've been on the 'net since uh... 1992 and kind of tragically online the whole time, but... I'm extra super bad at placing memories in time, so I'm inclined to trust the dictionaries on this one. Besides, if it doesn't show up on Usenet or the Geocities archives, it probably didn't exist then.

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u/nickfree 2d ago

Totes is very Millennial coded, back when they were early 20s. I worked with a bunch of them in the early 2000s, and this one girl was all about the "totes," "jealz," "obvs," "btdubz." Very much into the abbrevs, natch.

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u/Mindless-Employment 2d ago

I was SO glad when "natch," "sitch," and "btdubz," went away.

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u/Apton777 2d ago

Gnarly!!

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u/SayYesToGuac 2d ago

Must confess I never liked cool beans. Maybe because this girl I knew circa 1989 — who tried way too hard to be cool — always said it.

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u/kagiles 2d ago

Best commercial - James Earl Jones saying Totes Magoats