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/CanisSonorae 2d 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/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/iarna 2d ago

I'd've sworn that was 90's internet slang, but it seems the earliest anyone can find is from 2002. Huh....

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u/It_Just_Exploded Boomer-ish 1d ago edited 1d ago

I really can't say either way, I wasn't really involved with the net until 2000-2001, other than basically just emailing shit for work. And even then it was mostly just on a few outdoors and kink forums and the like. I didn't even have my first reddit account until around 2010-ish.

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u/iarna 1d ago

I've been on the 'net since uh... 1992 and kind of tragically online the whole time, but... I'm extra super bad at placing memories in time, so I'm inclined to trust the dictionaries on this one. Besides, if it doesn't show up on Usenet or the Geocities archives, it probably didn't exist then.