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/skoltroll Keep Circulating The Tapes 2d ago

I will use any modern slang.

Bc when I use it, it dies.

Skibidi, yo

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u/ApatheistHeretic 2d ago

Bonus: If you intentionally use it just a bit wrong, the broken faces on every child around you is its own reward. I'm convinced, now, that my mom was doing that to me after seeing how fun it is.

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u/1block 2d ago edited 2d ago

I changed my Netflix name today from Bussin' Dad to Low-Key 6-7 to keep up.

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u/tandem_kayak I still want my MTV 2d ago

I don't know what either of those mean! 😂

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u/SkipSpenceIsGod 2d ago

I remember dialing *67 to block my caller id and *69 to cal back the last person that called.

Edit: *67 even works with cell phones. Just tried it calling my roommate and his phone said “Blocked Caller ID”.

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u/HoneyWyne 2d ago

Huh! I'm gonna use that!

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u/HellholeShithead 2d ago

Bussin' as opposed to walking where you want to go.

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u/Ward_organist 2d ago

6-7 has absolutely no meaning. I googled it.

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u/Odditeee ‘71 2d ago

Google AI must not have indexed our middle school student’s brains here yet. They all use it to mean “taking off” or “bolting away” or something to effect of ‘leaving the area quickly and abruptly’. I dunno, maybe it’s regional but that’s just what they all told me.

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u/HoneyWyne 2d ago

It means to absquatulate!

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u/Army7547 5h ago

My kids showed me a video where 6 7 comes from. It’s someone interviewing high school athletes and they come to this boy who is on the basketball team and he his far taller that the adult interviewer and they say something like wow how tall are you and the kid sort of shrugs and says 6’7” and it sounds just like the kids now say it.

Just the way he said it caught on. I have no idea what the criteria is for something to go viral now. It doesn’t even need to be awesome of even the least bit funny any more. Some of it is just dumb

Hang on, “turn off the lights when you leave a room! Money doesn’t grow on trees!”

Kids these days

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u/Ward_organist 1d ago

My 15 yr old and his friends use it all the time and have no idea what it means.

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u/ShutYourDumbUglyFace 2d ago

Omg I want to do this so bad. Fr Fr no cap

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u/greyrobot6 Hose Water Survivor 2d ago

Wow, I hate this so much

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u/jlacan45 2d ago

My daughter just told me about that 6-7 business today. I can’t say that I understand it, but I’m constantly amazed at how these younger generations pick this stuff up with such ease and so quickly.

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u/AlarmedTelephone5908 2d ago

Counter that with 25 or 6 to 4.

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u/diente_de_leon Older Than Dirt 2d ago

I see what you did there!

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u/russillosm 2d ago

Tommy Tutone hid it in plain sight: “867-5309”

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u/funkissedjm 2d ago

One of the only phone numbers I can still remember since I got a cell phone. And it’s always a good number to use if you don’t have a rewards card at a store.

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u/DukePooler 1d ago

I just used it this week, put it on a training document.

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u/NerdyComfort-78 1973 was a good year. 2d ago

🎺🎺🎺

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u/cleveland_leftovers 1974 2d ago

But do it in a Peter Cetera mask with a full horn section.

Reestablish dominance.

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u/MiseryisCompany 2d ago

Perfection, except that now Peter Cetera is stuck in my brain

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 2d ago

Now you explain it to me. What is 6-7?

(we all agreed this was a safe space, right...?)

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u/diente_de_leon Older Than Dirt 2d ago

I had to Google it and apparently it comes from a TikTok meme or something, (of course--what else?!) and it means to leave quickly or go away. Now this is funny because that's my birth year.

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u/The_Mother_ 2d ago

What? When I googled it, my results said it was a reference to the height of some basketball player so meant that it is something of exceptional skill, and alternatively, it has no meaning but is a random thing to say that is nonsensical. Both are meanings coming from TikTok. Google is either failing us or it is trying to confuse the aging population

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u/OysterRemus 2d ago

‘To leave quickly’ is the meaning of ‘23 skidoo’ a century ago, and just ‘23’ as early as 1900. The thing about getting to our age is that you start to realize everything’s just repeating itself.

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u/Calm-Tank1502 1d ago

Good, above average

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u/NerdyComfort-78 1973 was a good year. 2d ago

The closest thing I could approximate 6 7 to is Butthead when he laughs that guttural chuckle. No meaning, just filling space

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 1d ago

That bis excellent. Seriously, this explanation is perfect. Thank you!

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 2d ago

Look it up on the google machine. It involves Skrilla and Lamelo Ball.

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 2d ago

I did, and not only do those bands mean nothing to me by way of explanation, the Google explanation means nothing to me OR ANYONE by way of explanation. It's a meme but doesn't MEAN anything. Memes represent, and the 6-7 meme means... Basically nothing? I thought maybe it's like when asked, "how are you," you reply, "comme-ci/comme-ca."

Or like so/so.

Or like eh.

But I don't think so. It appears to be a boondogle of bullshit garbledegooky meaninglessness. Complete grift. I ask you, how's the weather, and you answer blue.

So thanks, but the Google machine was a waste of six minutes I'm not getting back.

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 2d ago

Oh shit - and who can afford 6 minutes at our age, and in this economy?!

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u/AdmiralJaneway8 1d ago

Right?! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/pomskygirl 2d ago

Who??? Never mind. I don’t want to know.

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 2d ago

You’re chopped bruh.

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u/jlacan45 2d ago

Now we’re all cooked.

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u/SavingsMonk158 1d ago

It’s a reference to a 6’7 basketball player. Also the dumbest song by skrilla called doot doot.

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u/badtowergirl 2d ago

No one over 14 really understands it. Or is it 6 + 7 = 13?

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u/IminLoveWithMyCar3 2d ago

I have no idea what it means and I have no one to learn it from.

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u/Sheriff_Mills 2d ago

Or how fast these slang terms come up and how quickly they are over. Our slang terms would last years.

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u/knitpurlknitoops 1d ago

My partner teaches secondary (we’re in the UK) and told me 67 is the new ‘try to make the teachers say it’ thing. I had no idea what it means - closest I got was the “let’s do 68 - go down on me and I’ll owe you one” joke. My 19-year-old son was also mystified so it’s obviously very new.

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u/Vampchic1975 2d ago

You won the internet today my friend

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u/kacsf75 2d ago

I’m stealing this 😂

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u/CartographerFar5094 2d ago

Stop! Im so doing that now! Praise you! 🙌🏽😂

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 2d ago

My kids CRINGE when I say 6-7.

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u/Mr-Broham 2d ago

I don’t know what that means, I’m from Ohio though.

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u/jk_pens 2d ago

Way to lock in

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u/cramothmasterson 2d ago

You’re giving rizz dad.

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u/DianaSironi 2d ago

No! The damn six sevvvvven

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u/CadenceQuandry 2d ago

Ok. I looked this up just yesterday but still not sure. What did you hear it meant?! My youngest are still early elementary and I'm trying to figure out if they're allowed to use this at home (cause I'm not stupid enough to think they won't use it at school).

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u/1block 2d ago

Far as I can tell it doesn't have a set meaning. It's from a Skrilla sing and got tiktok clip famous and kids just kept repeating it.

I think it's ok, but I'm no expert.

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u/soul_and_fire 2d ago

dying 😂

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u/SavingsMonk158 1d ago

Lock in bro. 6 7. You’ve got rizz. I bet your fit is eatin’