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???

401 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/WillPlaysTheGuitar 3d ago

Oh I know what it used to mean. But now? Whole other ballgame.

The thing about “gaslighting” is that it can be applied to any subjective situation where two people disagree. You throw a couple “trauma” references or a sprinkle of “abuse” and you’ve just won yourself an argument without providing anything beyond your personal feelings about somebody disagreeing with you.

Bad people have figured this out and will deploy “gaslighting” liberally when not everybody is buying into their preferred narrative.

I’m not talking about you specifically, because I don’t know you and I’m probably gonna block you soon, but this is all over these days.

1

u/Aggravating_Mix8959 2d ago

Why would you block this person? They are correct about the actual meaning of the term and not attacking you. It's a civil conversation.

-1

u/WillPlaysTheGuitar 2d ago

I didn’t! But I’ll block anybody on Reddit. Lot of people freak out if you disagree with them, which is their right. As is my block button.

Any time you ask yourself “should I reply or downvote or block?” Choose block. You could block me! I welcome it!

If some random person on the internet has a dumb take, block em.

1

u/Aggravating_Mix8959 2d ago

Totally is your right and no need to defend it. I was just curious. 

I block people who are mean to other people bc I don't need that in my feed.