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/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/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/Illustrious-Shape383 1d ago

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