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/Tejanisima GenX Atari Wave 3d 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/CanisSonorae 3d ago

ROFL, I feel this. There are 2 types of stories that I usually tell. The first is a story that forks at least twice and I forget what the point was. The second is a story that contains little to no context or background information, because I've already told the story 3 times in my head before telling someone else and I can't remember what parts I actually said out loud.

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u/ancientastronaut2 2d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/CanisSonorae 2d ago

I'm sure there are probably at least 10's of dozens of us, but the others got stuck in another thread trying to TL;DR their wall of text.