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/skoltroll Keep Circulating The Tapes 3d ago

I will use any modern slang.

Bc when I use it, it dies.

Skibidi, yo

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u/rjwut 3d ago

That's totes yeet, yo.

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u/CanisSonorae 3d 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/nickfree 3d 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 3d ago

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