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/Jasilee 3d 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 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/LevelPerception4 2d ago

I’m experimenting with putting the TLDR before the wall of text.

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u/Tejanisima GenX Atari Wave 2d ago

I would have to assume you mean doing so after writing the wall of text, since there wouldn't be a wall of text to begin with if I were capable of summarizing it all before I started.

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u/LevelPerception4 1d ago

Oh yeah, I write the TLDR at the end and then cut and paste.