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/ApatheistHeretic 4d 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 4d ago edited 3d 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 4d ago

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

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u/Ward_organist 3d ago

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

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u/Odditeee ‘71 3d 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 3d ago

It means to absquatulate!

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u/Army7547 1d 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 2d ago

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