A time-proven antidote to aging is incorporating more youthful slang into your vocabulary. And before you clapback at me, I've been trying it myself and it's pretty bussin' bruh. I'm dripping all over the place now!
Well, that's stuck in my head now. Time to go find the Metallica cover, if they haven't scrubbed it from the Internet.
I'm an older guy - over 60 - and I absolutely love using slang that was popular before I was born. At work, I liberally say things like "swell," "keen," and "golly." I've been doing it for years; when I started, everyone knew what I was doing (most laughed), but now there are a lot of folks who are young enough that they just assume it's slang I grew up with, which makes me laugh.
And just to clarify, it is my understanding that "pretty bussin' bruh" is quite different than "pretty bussy, bruh". Correct?
Man if I had more fucking ambition or energy, you're absolutely right and I could be so rich right now but again, I'm lazy and full of depression... but if somebody runs with this idea, can I be on the team? I need a win in my life.
Was watching Point Break again the other day and the desire to speak like a 90s surfer dude is kinda overwhelming, compadre.
What is HMU? The only thing that sounds right if I rack my brain, is "holler me up", but idk I'm mentally old and can't keep up with "hip" culture.
I mean, holler also means contact me so it could be that, it would just sound a little silly. Not like holla at ya boi
Absolutely, I’m just relaying what I’ve heard in case the commenter wants to talk with some youths in their vernacular. I don’t want them to be all “holler me up my fellow kids!”
It's got too much punctuation though. That's not a dig either, it really does have too much for what they're trying for.
That was my first thought but then I realized that if I, a 30-something year old old person, understand every word of it, it's gotta be a lil sus.
If someone blew up the toilet or smtg sus, hmu. tbh we high-key tryna glow-up this campground frfr. can't stop won't stop til this place straight up slays ong. need ur help fam. thx
If that's accurate then I got old way faster than I thought I would. At least I can take solace in the fact that I'm probably on the younger end of Lemmy users.
I have reached the age where I find gags like this - and the massive cringe effect they inflict on young folks - fucking hilarious.
i'm comfortable with my fate. who ever really needed hair on their head anyway?
You and me both. They went a little too hard in the middle, but the beginning and end were decent.
I wonder what they'll do if someone actually texts them using that language. Do they have a teenager on staff for the express purpose of translating it?
I took this text and made ChatGPT translate it to 2008 teenager lingo:
Yo, what’s good? If you peep anything sketchy or straight-up wack, like a jacked-up toilet or whatever, hit me up at -number- ASAP. For real though, we’re low-key hustlin’ to make this campground poppin’. We ain’t stoppin’ till this spot’s lit AF and everyone’s vibin’ with it. We’re counting on you, fam. Much love, thanks!
That’s hella accurate
Translated for gen alpha:
level 5 gyatt rizz livvy dunne rizzing up baby gronk ice spice wat da dawg doin skibidi toilet in real life only in ohio we go jim zyzz creatine alpha sigma cuh dey board
Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.
Edit: Ignore this. I replied to the wrong comment. Told you I don’t got a clue.
Are you saying that Gen alpha knows who zyzz is? As a millennial that makes me so happy. We're all gonna make it brah.
Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.
I replied to the right comment this time. Finally got a clue.
And standing there texting to report the cringe, after the first time, would be so fucking cringe.
A principal I worked for one time asked me to write up a student survey. It annoyed me, so I wrote up the entire thing in that type of cringy try hard lingo. It backfired as she loved it and the students took it. The students in my class looked at me when they gave it to the school and said,"WTF sin_free?" I said sorry, they asked why, I explained the situation, they laughed and we moved on.
Sure, moved on. An entire school has a memory of you being cringe. Every drinking party with new friends will start with "lmao remember when sin_free tried to be funny"
What's up? Hit me up at -number- if you see anything that is suspect or distinctly uncomfortable or unimpressive, like (I don't know...) a toilet that got badly messed up or something. To be honest, we are openly and boldly trying to improve the attractiveness of this campground. We are determined to keep at it until this place is obviously desirable and impressive. We need your help, friends. Thank you.
Y'all, I'm an Xennial nerd who likes listening to academic podcasts, NPR, and (as frequently featured on NPR) liberal middle-aged white men singing country-blues-rock. I collect fountain pens and watch college football. I am deeply, deeply uncool. I understood every single word of the teen sign. (though, okay, I learned a couple of them several months ago listening to NPR, LOL).
Does that mean I'm cooler than I think, or the sign is less cool than it thinks?
Same here. 30s around the corner, but to my knowledge of passed youth I might have had considered a sign using my people’s lingo quite… Disdain.
Well it's been a few months but off the top of my head, on fleek. I haven't heard that one in years.
I just meant about which NPR piece was cringe, LOL. That's half the brand at this point, at least on weekends.
nah need more skibidi edge rizz mog livvy dunne sigma jelq munt baby gronk alpha gyattmaxxing ohio fanum tax caseoh mew goon
Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.
mossy liked "Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing..."
Apple users get the option to "react" to messages, adding things like 💜 or 👍 to the message. Since it's not natively supported by other messaging apps, those users get a message that looks like mine instead of an emoji.
It also fucks with the quality of videos to the point where they are unwatchable if you have an android
It's weird seeing English become unreadable from the other side. It's like going back to ye olde Englishe but forward in time.
The Simpsons "it will happen to youuuuu" gag still holds true. You'll never be cool forever. What's cool will change.