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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] Poayjay@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whenever if feel uncool for being old I just remember that I wasn’t cool when I was younger either, so I’ve lost nothing.

[–] livus@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Paradoxically once you get to middle age, the other middle-aged people think you're uncool if you do know slang from younger generations.

It's annoying because I can't help picking it up.

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Congrats you've picked up middle aged slang from 10 years ago.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My dude, welcome to the late 90s.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This whole thing is making me feel streets ahead.

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

dat backflip doe

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Zaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I demand a prize.

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[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I thought “yeet” meant “throw”, but now apparently it means “yes”?

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 months ago
[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait… what? My god I’m so lost on all of this.

[–] don@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you aren’t a teenager, that’s the point.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m a teen and I’m lost too

[–] don@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

When I was a teen, I was lost too. Then I got used to being lost. Now, no matter where I go, there I am.

[–] DudeBro@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

it still means throw but it is also phonetically close to saying "ye" (as in enthusiastically saying yes with a long 'e' but not finishing the word) so people use it as such

[–] XbSuper@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's the opposite of yoink. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s so camp it’s rizz

[–] hglman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Plaza down!

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

It's not that i don't understand it, but seeing a 40 year old guy using tiktok language just feel wrong and creepy.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] DudeBro@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I understand all of these, but now there are even newer ones that I cannot fathom

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

I feel seen.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

When a hoopy frood gets old.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

i guess i was old at 15

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago

Boomer? I barely know 'er

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Omg I love to just fucking bastardize the slang on purpose.

[–] Mordachai_Shedbacon@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

stacking treks with my tribble chaps

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Me and the boys are getting our daily steps in today

?

[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

To relate you need to at least know the slang...

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'm not even 18, HOW AM I OLD?

[–] don@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago
[–] DrPop@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

Glizzy is interesting

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago

This makes me irrationally mad

(It's obv supposed to be spelt gnarly)

[–] antisuck@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 11 months ago

Can we please bring back "groovy" and "radical" / "rad"?

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Where I live, the new thing is that THE YOUTH arbitrarily mix in english with our native language. But I've been doing that for 20 years already.

Still sounds dumb though.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And that's why, as someone with mild chronophobia, I check Rural Dictionary regularly.

[–] code@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Skibidi dub dub

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[–] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have this paranoid delusion that if I don't know the newest slang that I am going to be in a bad\deadly situation that I could have avoided if I had known the slang. So I stay on top of it and use the ones I like the most.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What if the only way to save yourself is to know correctly used historical slang?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Well then if you manage to pull it off that would be grooved, maybe even the wasp’s elbows

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