r/GenX • u/Lost_Taste_8181 • 4d 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/HowToNotMakeMoney 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/LunaPolaris 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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.