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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] Poayjay 65 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dude, welcome to the late 90s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This whole thing is making me feel streets ahead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

dat backflip doe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Zaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I demand a prize.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s so camp it’s rizz

[–] hglman 4 points 1 year ago

Plaza down!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] electrogamerman 8 points 1 year ago

i guess i was old at 15

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When a hoopy frood gets old.

[–] SendMePhotos 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Boomer? I barely know 'er

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

stacking treks with my tribble chaps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me and the boys are getting our daily steps in today

?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] RIP_Cheems 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This makes me irrationally mad

(It's obv supposed to be spelt gnarly)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Glizzy is interesting

[–] idunnololz 3 points 1 year ago
[–] antisuck 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] code 2 points 1 year ago

Skibidi dub dub

[–] ExfilBravo 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Pregnenolone 1 points 1 year ago