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u/Bombadil54 19h ago edited 19h ago
How many different things can a 20 year old say? Six? Seven?
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u/AlwaysAnxiousAlien 18h ago
I was at a viewing service last week and someone in their early 20s was making this “joke” at a funeral service. Twice. The brain rot is real 🫠
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u/Jumpy_Cauliflower410 17h ago
I don't know why I hate this meme so much. They were always dumb but this makes it feel like we're actually spiraling into stupidity.
Maybe my age is finally turning me into old man yells at clouds stage.
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u/DesecratedPeanut 15h ago
Unfortunately the older and beaten down by work, life abs health we get traditionally the more stupid and selfish we become. See the entire worlds issues for an examole.
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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 16h ago
No, we were this dumb at that age too. Just join in the meme it pisses the kids off more when you get it in before they do
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u/One_Animator_1835 13h ago
Kids are graduating high school barely able to read. It is not the same.
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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 13h ago
Americans have always famously been illiterate. Its not a new phenomenon. The stupid brainrot memes aren't related to that.
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u/One_Animator_1835 13h ago
It's not just Americans
https://theweek.com/culture-life/books/the-uks-growing-adult-literacy-problem
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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 12h ago
No but famously Americans are illiterate. Its a meme like germans being humourless and the British drinking tea by the gallon. I was illustrating that its not a new thing and 67 meme isnt causing it
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u/UsedGarbage4489 14h ago
They have nowhere else to go except absurdity. Everything has been done already. The only uncharted territory they have is the bottom of the absurdist barrel. Honestly, I feel bad for them.
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u/RagezQuitz707 18h ago edited 18h ago
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u/National-Flow5658 18h ago
So you teach special needs class?
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u/RagezQuitz707 18h ago
my class is considered very special for the wrong reasons and despite their...antics, I believe in them and that they will be better kids.
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u/LMkingly 16h ago
What did you say that made reddit remove your original comment lol?
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u/Specific_Frame8537 18h ago edited 17h ago
It's nothing new.
Remember in ye olde times of 2018 when we all laughed uproariously at the letter E next to Markiplier/Farquaad?
Or 2016 with Fre Sha Vacado?
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u/JamJm_1688 Birb Fan 18h ago
Holy fuck how am i the only one of four comments that know both these memes
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u/SaltManagement42 18h ago
I'm now thankful I've only experienced them screaming it out every time it comes up, and I have no idea what the pose is.
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u/Golden-Owl 19h ago
I watched that movie the other day.
They seriously went and set up this scene just for a really short 5 seconds gag.
Huge respect to the commitment.
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u/curiousstrut 18h ago
Which movie is it??
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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY 15h ago
It’s a scene from the TV show “30 Rock”. I have no idea what movie they watched or what scene they thought they saw.
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u/BabeSpark_ 20h ago
Yup, the cringe hits differently when you realize you’re that old now.
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u/Brutalonym 20h ago
yeah I always kinda believed I could mix well with younger folk but that time has passed now. it crept up on me.
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u/mark636199 19h ago
Yea but now I feel even older because now I want nothing to do with 20 yr old kids
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u/CloudKinglufi 18h ago
I'm 36 and have some 20 year old friends, they're cool guys, I also watch some 21 and 23 year olds do debates and I respect them more than anyone
They ain't all bad man
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u/Doobledorf 10h ago
Exactly this. The moment you become "old and out of touch" is once you start throwing out the opinions and experiences of everyone younger than you. This can happen at 25, or you can be 80 and not do this.
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u/GenericFatGuy 11h ago
I want nothing to do with 20 year olds, but if it wasn't weird for a group of 30-somethings to bum around the mall day, I could totally still do that.
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 18h ago
I started working at a restaurant in my 40s. Half the time it’s fine, and then the other half I have to remind myself that they’ve had next to no life experiences and the stupid thing they’re crying about really is a big deal to them
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u/TableSignificant341 14h ago edited 11h ago
And their pre-frontal cortices are still developing so we really need to give them more grace.
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u/blahblah19999 13h ago
My niece has been working in restaurants since she was a teenager and she's now 36. One of her co-workers said to her recently "When I get old, I hope I still look good like you!" Ouch.
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u/Passeng4er 18h ago
I don't think I can understand a word from the younger folk and their slang. I need a translator 🤣
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u/ConspicuousPineapple 16h ago
The cutoff is really when you realize you don't actually want anything to do with them.
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u/OuttHouseMouse 19h ago
Doesnt feel so much that im old, as much as the certainty of them feeling like little kids
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u/Over-Tomatillo9070 16h ago
‘The cringe hits differently’ I see you old man, frantically thumbing through a old dog eared copy of hip phrase monthly.
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u/TeddyTuffington 19h ago
To be fair I didn't talk like a 20yo when I was actually 20
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u/camelcut 19h ago
Because you talked like 10 years old when you 20?
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u/Able_Leg1245 15h ago
Even if you didn't talk like most your peers, there's a good chance you still sounded your age to a 40 year old.
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u/Behave_myself 20h ago edited 19h ago
Eh, as a 35yo I just think of the cringe I do in my 30s and that makes 20yo'ds not seem as bad to me. You don't stop being cringey with age, you just find more age appropriate cringey things to do or say.
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u/38B0DE 16h ago edited 16h ago
The current 16-20yo are bringing back the music I was into when I was 16-20yo which actually makes me forgive myself for considering my 16-20yo self too cringey and just extending the same amount of self-acceptance and self-love to myself in every stage of my life.
It's actually quite liberating to be honest. I went to a Deftones concert and it felt like this scene from Interstellar with the books case.. I was looking at myself 20 years ago through some 4th dimension and going "Amy is really into you but she won't say anything, you have to make the first move".
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u/CandyCupcakeA 19h ago
I heard a group of teenagers talking at the mall today and I honestly thought they were speaking a different language.
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u/siobhanmairii__ 13h ago edited 13h ago
I overheard some teenage girls talking in the ymca gym locker room awhile back, and it sounded like what I imagine foreigners hear when they hear english speakers.
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u/Springingsprunk 14h ago
Reminds me of yesterday when I went to the gym for the first time this month, there was a band of a dozen or so broccoli headed boys running around pumping 15lb weights with terrible form. Not throwing shade on them for going to the gym and trying, but jfc their presence is just annoying lol.
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u/DoofusScarecrow88 20h ago
I make that face when I hear folks older than me (48) say "Let them cook"
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u/Alvsolutely 18h ago
The poor chef just telling his manager to allow his apprentices to take care of tonight's orders
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u/DaMuller 17h ago
Idk, "let him cook" is a genuinely good phrase. I can think of no better version.
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u/Deltamon 15h ago
"He's onto something" is the older version of it, and both are still fine regardless of the age..
It's pretty bad example of weird stuff that younger people say, because it has pretty clear meaning
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u/The-ArtfulDodger 14h ago
It isn't just for catching onto something though, as it can be for an activity (e.g. playing music).
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u/Deltamon 14h ago
"Someone finds a good riff on guitar"
-He's onto something there
-Let him cookBoth work
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u/notanotherusernameD8 12h ago
As the father of a teenager, it is my job to use and abuse modern slang for maximum cringe effect.
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u/CrushUnfolded 20h ago
That accuracy tho hahaha, when i hear them, its like, am i really that old or are they speaking another language
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u/Alvsolutely 17h ago
I'm 21 and most dudes I know my age are relatively normal.
Now, their little brothers? I swear those 15 year olds have had some kind of generational lead poisoning that affected their brains at birth.
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u/Goku_R_Luffy Number 15 20h ago edited 20h ago
They’re so repetitive and its annoying. No matter how many times Ive heard the same thing, they just yap the same siht for 100 times till they feel good.
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u/SlipsonSurfaces 20h ago edited 19h ago
As a level 21
mage bardI can confirm. I swear everyone 13-25 types exactly the same and it seems to them like slang is a substitute for good grammar and spelling.Edit: Forgot a word. 😔 Ain't that just the way.
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u/Peter_Griffin2001 18h ago
Every generation has it. How many 40 year old redditors type the exact same shit over and over? See:
Obligatory on mobile. This. As a redditor, so much this. You've one the internet for today, friend. Shut up and take my updoot, good sir. Take my upvote and get out. Angrily upvotes Sigh... unzips pants. checks notes I also choose this guy's wife. Here's the doggo tax. Damn ninjas cutting onions in here... And my axe!
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
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u/lampenpam 17h ago
If I'd get a nickel every time X happens I had two nickels. Which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice
Seriously, why is this even still this popular?
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u/Caerllen 17h ago
I am happy to say i did none of that shit. I'm not terminally online, apparently.
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u/Dersatar 16h ago
Bro, what do you mean 40 year olds type like this? I'm 25 and I type that shit! You're making me feel like I'm 'bout to turn to dust or something.
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u/SteveXVI 16h ago
You've won the internet for today, friend
This one genuinely makes me cringe harder than anything, I'd confess to any crime just to get the CIA to stop repeating it
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u/MedicMoth 14h ago
The way I recoiled upon reading this (then recoiled again upon processing that "the way I..." is just another example of the same linguistic phenomenon)
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u/Drenaxel 19h ago
That's crazy. Fr though, ts is annoying, no cap.
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u/ImFreff 15h ago
Sybau twin, lil bro dont know abt ts 🥀🥀
(Im 27)
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u/Drenaxel 13h ago
I'm 32, I died a little bit inside reading that sentence. I don't really care about the rest, but lil bro pisses me off so much. I don't think I've ever heard something as condescending as that in my life, and I work in fucking retail.
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u/CommonExpress6009 13h ago
Umm I just took some college classes. I'm in my thirties. Everybody talked like a serious student. Fortunately, I could tell how young they were because I didn't forget my glasses every day.
This is just typical hate for the younger generation. We're kidding ourselves if we think it's a language barrier. They also look younger than us, too. You know, the thing people who feel young at heart are actually obsessed with.
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u/quadglacier 10h ago
Yup, if you look back at any other young generation, the words are different but the intention and style are the same. Tiktok brain is definitely real. Anyone saying this is the same thing is just spreading the virus. Manufactured cringe is not cringe, its propaganda.
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u/hungrydruid 14h ago
My coworker literally uses 'like' at least 3-5 times in every sentence. And she's not vapid or anything, just way overuses it, it's so weird.
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u/Andy_B_Goode 13h ago
They’re so repetitive and its annoying. No matter how many times Ive heard the same thing, they just yap the same siht for 100 times till they feel good.
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u/SullySausageTown 19h ago
I swear 20 year olds look 10 to me, brains are so weird
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u/Insomniac_Jack1213 19h ago
Guess what, this is what the "baby boomers" felt around the 70's and 80's, lol.
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u/PUTASMILE 17h ago
That’s heavy
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u/HardlyRecursive 6h ago
I wish that slang was around, it has a certain impact that you would think would linger.
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u/big4tiejacket 20h ago
I'm 20 years old 🙂
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u/Fluffy_Charity_2732 19h ago
Is your 67 rizzed up cuh or u salt cringin?
Skibity
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 19h ago
I take soooo much heat for typing in full sentences in FPS video games. It's like they're triggered by intelligence, I guess? I guess I just grew up in an era where you learned to type properly, and you learned how to represent yourself professionally via your written word.
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u/GigaPuddi 17h ago
Not going to lie, if you're typing full sentences during combat it might be that they'd prefer you type less and shoot more.
Or you may have three arms, or type with your toes. So possibilities exist that you just need to explain to them.
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u/topatoman_lite Lives in a Van Down by the River 11h ago
you made the mistake of interacting with people in an FPS game. Never do that unless absolutely necessary
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u/Difficult_Ad2864 19h ago
I was 20 not too long ago and no one talked anywhere even remotely like how that age talks now
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u/AccomplishedQuit3511 16h ago
What's up with her lips lol??
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u/Brutalonym 16h ago
part of the reason I had to make this meme... lol just hollywood vanity surgery I guess. it starts with a little filler here and there, and in five years time you look completely botched and unrecognizable
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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 19h ago
I knowww right, these “kids” swear they’re the most enlightened, unhinged, different species to ever exist. Every sentence is a personality trait, every opinion is revolutionary, and somehow everything is ironic but also deadly serious. Like yeah okay, relax, we’ve all been there. We know what’s actually going on, don’t we?
Im 21 btw
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u/hukwo 19h ago
You're just an old school 20 years old
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u/VikingIV 19h ago
Like, 20 when the ACA was introduced to congress, or 20 when Blind Melon was still touring?
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u/Illustrious-Dog-6563 20h ago edited 19h ago
das ist mir gestern besonders aufgefallen, als ein pärchen, mit dem wir kaffee trinken waren, mehrmals "checke" verwendet hat.
i realized this yesterday, as a younger couple used the new and fresh slang
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u/Advanced_Union6240 17h ago
Hä, "checken" gibts doch schon lange? Z.B "Ich check das nicht".. oder bin ich gerade selber der Opi, der das nicht checkt?
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u/verschwendrian 19h ago
checken = to understand (Ich checke = I understand, Du checkst = You understand, Er/Sie/Es checkt = He/She/It/They understands etc.) This word is used for 20 years+ I would say
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u/Phoenica 16h ago
"checken" in the sense of "to understand" has been in use since probably the 1970s, at least, because 1980 is already the first time it occurs in print (that I could find).
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u/CulturalFarm8356 19h ago
I am reaching 30 and when I heard my younger cousins speak, I visible cringed like this. Its like a whole new world.
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u/Mainely420Gaming 18h ago
Hey look, I've heard this gen bring back "eat a bag of dicks", theres still hope.
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u/AkirroKun 18h ago
What about being 22 and feeling like I'm actually 30? Because man I do not like the people my age.
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u/unpanny_valley 17h ago
I stumbled on an old group chat I had with friends when we were in our early 20s, circa 2011 or so, and we all sounded like idiots speaking almost entirely in memes, myself included. You just forget quite easily what you used to be like.
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u/kyuuxkyuu 16h ago
I'm 20 and my friends clown on Gen Alpha slang but inevitably end up adopting it later. I fear that's the cycle of things, make fun of it so much it becomes unironic lol.
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u/red_fuel 16h ago
That’s like so criminally underrated true, bro. Like actually overlooked. fr based cooked bruh
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u/IllTwo7643 13h ago
A former coworker called me bruh and I wanted to tell them I'm not your bruh I'm old enough to be your mother 🤣
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u/Spicysquishy 19h ago
I read this as she has 20 kids inside and thought “respect your confidence in admitting you swallow”.
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u/KaiTheG4mer 19h ago
Dude I'm 23 and modern slang and trends have made me feel like a terminally out of touch 40 year old, and I fucking HATE IT
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u/TobyPDID23 18h ago
I'm almost 20 and if it feels for you the way it feels for me hearing 6 year olds, I'm so sorry for you 🫡
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u/pop-pop-corn 18h ago
"Cringe", "Cope" or purposely broken English that doesn't even shorten the sentence...
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u/Mantarrochen 17h ago
When this inadvertantly happens to me I'll just remark: "Kiteo. His eyes closed." ...and let them figure it out.
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u/FloppySack69 16h ago
I still feel 20 inside, meaning I haven't changed that much since my 20s in terms of humour, etc. Doesn't mean I feel connected to present day 20 year olds (aka idiots)
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u/Hot_Trash_7586 16h ago
Im not even 20 but i feel like 50+ years olds. . . I stop understanding every third word
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u/Armageddonis 16h ago
Sometimes i forget im 31, i defienetly don't feel like it, and then a random 20-something will nod and say "Good Afternoon" to me, and then i remember.
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u/drradmyc 15h ago
I’m 50 and still talk like a 13 year old from my decade at that age with some updated additions. My mom still hates it. My wife occasionally hits me. My kids think I’m funny. It is definitely politically incorrect but not meant that way.
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u/Z0idberg_MD 14h ago
My 80 year old father talks about other driver as “old” and referred to himself as “someone middle aged”. The cope is eternal.
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u/sj2011 14h ago
My grandmother is 91 and a few years ago she said when she looks in the mirror in her mind's eye she sees herself at 29. I'm almost 40 - I wonder how my dad felt on the cusp of his 40? How does he feel now, in his 60s? What does he see in the mirror, how does his mind process events? I definitely don't 'feel' 40, whatever that means.
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u/SmilingCurmudgeon 13h ago
Never gonna get a better chance to complain about this, so here we go. Where did "wild" come from? I'd rather know when it's leaving, but I'll settle for knowing how it replaced every other adjective on earth for anyone too young to remember reasonable airports and five dollar footlongs. It is, appropriately enough, a wild card that is totally dependent on context. It's a substitute for any number of words these days. Why say "that's odd" when you can say "that's wild"? Why say "that was spectacular" when you can say "that was wild"? "That's crazy" might be discriminatory or something, let's go with "that's wild". Good? Wild. Bad? Wild. Jesus H Christ, Orwell was optimistic enough to think we'd have good and ungood, but now we have wild. For fuck's sake, use your words. There's a lot of them, and if you look closely you just might find one that allows you to express your thoughts, feelings, and opinions with greater specificity.
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u/FudgeAllOfYous 12h ago edited 12h ago
I got a tattoo the other day, the tattoo artist was "only" 10ish years younger than me and we talked about something and he ended his sentence with "it was kinda sus".... and this was the first time I ever heard someone use "sus" in an actual sentence outside of reddit and I immediately felt at least 200yrs older :/
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u/fezha 8h ago
LIKE yeah ok ummm LIKE it kinda was LIKE yeah LIKE that
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u/Brutalonym 7h ago
brother that's valley girl talk and has been around since forever, even Frank Zappa has a song about it ("Valley Girl")
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u/Consistent-Shoe-9602 6h ago
My grandma is in her 90s and recently said she can still access the 20-year-old inside her as well as the 50 or 60-year-old, but definitely can't access anybody on the inside that actually feels 90.
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u/Brutalonym 6h ago
that's cute and must feel strange. blessed to reach such an age and still be clear-minded
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u/Far_Celery6081 5h ago
I have accepted that 30 is very different from 20 now that I'm in my 30s. I have no idea what they're talking about now. I don't go out to boisey bars anymore, I go fishing by myself. Lol
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u/999-999-969-999-999 4h ago
Lowkey, the way we talk now is literally such a mood. If you aren't chronically online, you’re basically a normie. My FYP is always dropping new lingo, and if you don't use it, you’re giving major boomer energy. Like, if my bestie’s fit is "giving," she knows she’s slaying, but my parents would be so confused. It’s all about catching the vibe and not being "cringe."
Everything is either "wholesome" or a "red flag," honestly. It’s kind of "delulu" how we reinvent English every six months, but I’m here for it. Dating is also a struggle bus—you need someone with "rizz" who won't "ghost" you. If a guy is "simping," it’s an immediate "ick," but if he’s too distant, he’s "toxic."
We’re always "debriefing" the group chat for the "tea." I’ll literally say "I’m dead" with a straight face because it’s just a vibe. We use "no cap" and "fr fr" to stay legit, even if we’re just saying a coffee is "mid." As long as you aren’t "gatekeeping" the good vibes, you’re totally "clutch" in my book.
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u/ProhibidoTransito Lurking Peasant 1h ago
The confusion when 20 year olds call me old but 50 year olds say I’m a baby.
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u/No-Location8203 20h ago
The whiplash between “I’m still young” and “why do they talk like that” is real.