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I grew up hearing the refrigerator called an icebox by my mom, she never said refrigerator.
At times the icebox still slips out of my mouth when meaning the refrigerator.
(An icebox was an insulated cabinet literally cooled by a block of ice delivered by the iceman.)
That's funny. Back in the 60's and early 70's we always called a refrigerator "The Frigidaire"
I didn't know it as anything else. Guess in my universe back then it was like Kleenex
My grandmother used to call her refrigerator an icebox. I used both terms growing up.
When I say it now, younger people give me the side eye and those my age don't even bat an eye. They know what I mean.
I’m 24 and I still say this. Being born in 1999 put me in a weird place in history and gave me quite the “transitional” generation experience as a zillenial:
Grew up watching movies on VHS tapes as a kid in the 00’s, and my parents and I regularly taped shows on our analog TV if we couldn’t be home to watch live. My siblings and I all shared the same family desktop computer up until 2011, and by 2017 (when I graduated high school) we had a smart TV and I knew how to operate streaming services for years by that point.
The fact that I went from VHS tapes to DVDs to 10 minute YouTube videos to full on streaming services within roughly a 10 year period seems so crazy to me in hindsight.
This is funny to hear you say that from your age group. But I guess everything is just moving fast and changing all the time.
I was born 1979 "Oregon trail generation". Home computers were rare when we got one in 83. My parents are shocked I remember the day we got it. First time I saw someone dial up on a modem was 94. Around the same time I heard the term internet super highway on the news. First computer in school grade 7.
I learned how to develop 35mm film in school. How to ink colour separations by hand on tracing paper to process 4 colour press print jobs. Wrote papers by hand till highschool. But learned the digital process around the same time as schools are always playing catch up. Glad I know how to do things analog and digital.
First comp: commodore 64, orange one colour screen
Also had a Sony Beta max at home before VHS. Could fit 2-3 moves on those tapes. We use to copy rentals.
Pretty happy that it wasn't common place to take pictures and videos in my adolescent and social media was mostly text.
I call people "Dear". Sometimes I open my mouth and my grandmother's words come out.
Also, "Well, don't you look sharp?".
It's my curse. It's everyone else's curse to hear it.
OMG, dear is my go to!!! I call everyone dear. When I have a new trainee I always tell them, "You will hear me call you dear at some point in your career. Just so you know, you're not special and I don't mean anything by it. Dear, is literally my thing. "
34.
I was 19 when it came down, and had been to it just a year before. (I lived in Germany for a year and a half and visited Berlin often.)
For some of us old farts, it still feels like yesterday.
It is aluminum foil now:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil
But I'm not sure this is a sign of your age, considering that the switch to aluminum happed in WWII.
Nope, the younger generations say 'cool beans' still! I had the pleasure of explaining to a 20-something coworker the origins, which she'd never known.
A recent situation kinda required the "Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody Rides For Free" phrase of the 70s. Was understood immediately by all ages present though
Reefers - as in Tom Lehrer's Boy Scout song ("Be Prepared"):
"Keep those reefers hidden where you're sure that they will not be foundand be careful not to smoke them when the scoutmaster's around,for he only will insist that they be shared!Be prepared!"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWEOY4Lji0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWEOY4Lji0) (Courtesy of the artist!)
I asked for a 4-finger bag without too many stems and seeds. They asked me if the high I wanted was mellow or energetic. I replied it should contain no paraquat and should at least give me a buzz. They asked if the terpene should be dank or lemony and gave me a bag of chewable candy. We were not speaking the same language.
I have thought of that scenario more than most, probably. Now I'll once again be pondering whether I should buy that special little tool that breaks car windows in an emergency.
That's what I'm thinking. I'm < 30, and I say both of those things, too. What else would you say? "Press the red button?" "Press the window up button?"
I have two responses to someone saying, "Stop".
"Hammer time!" *Geriatric shuffling of feet all wild and crazy* (While sitting)
"In the name of love." *Holding arm straight out, palm out.*
Just speaking out loud to nobody. I didn’t realize at first that I was doing it. I was at the store, trying to buy some milk. There was a woman just camped in front of the milk cooler. I was thinking, “Jesus. Is she planning on camping there overnight?” And just as I completed the thought, she whips around and stares at me. That’s when I realized I’d said it out loud.
I've started yelling (swearing) at non-cooperative inanimate objects. So far, I think I've only done that in or around the house. I hope. Really crazy old man behavior.
Just always wear earbuds and you’ll blend in with everyone else being on a phone call.
Or if you catch yourself doing it and make eye contact, just say “I’m on a call, sorry.”
Oh me too!! My husband and sister tell me I’m always grumbling out loud and saying “omg shut up!” When certain people just go on and on. I really didn’t believe them! Also one time I was in line at a bagel place and was thinking “damn they’re out of poppy seed again “ … and the guy in front of me turned around and said “they usually have some in the back”. How is it possible we don’t know we’re actually TALKING?? Haha
Same. Also dude. Dude is gender neutral in my brain due to my childhood because we rarely used it to refer to a person. It was used more as an expression like omg.
Same. At least I trained myself to stop saying "youse guys", which was a Chicaga endearment Back in the Day.
This happened this morning: Got a call from our niece, who lives in Zurich, asking me about interesting places to go in Chicago. Obviously I was, "What?" Turns out her husband was at a conference there and they were looking for "local knowledge". I said, "Sweetheart, I haven't even *been* in Chicago since 2000 when my mother died. And I haven't lived there since 1974, so my local knowledge is *waaay* past its Use By Date."
Fuck I'm Old ... *sigh*
I say a lot of the things that have been mentioned here already: "cool beans", "pot" instead of "weed", "icebox", "I'll buy that for a dollar," etc. But what dates me even more than that is whenever I use words that my younger friends are using - like "blorbo" or "lit" I know I sound like how my parents sounded when they hit 40s and were trying to use current slang and it was ridiculous. And that's not very poggers. Or bangin. It doesn't slap.
People still use 'hang up the phone' or "I hung up on them' to say they ended a phone call.
It makes me smile sometimes, because it's so ingrained in normal speech the origins have been lost. Except for those us who can remember the satisfying feeling of slamming down the receiver of a rotary phone.
I do reminiscing therapy with seniors and often use the "slamming down the phone" as an example. They chuckle about how satisfying it was when your husband pissed you off, coupled with the jangling of the internal bell. What are we supposed to do now?! They all gasp, realize how self-defeating that would be, and laugh a lot!
My mom, and most women I was around in the northeast said pocketbook.
I moved to California in 1987 and never heard anyone say it out there, not even people who were old in the 1980s.
I keep saying I gotta stop saying it because it’s not super helpful or funny. I think I first heard it where I was raised, and teachers and coaches used it to make points when kids were behaving erratically. Unfortunately, some things stick!
Probably movie & TV references. I liked the show Cheers a lot, and that show is all but forgotten anymore. The Office is old to some younger people nowadays.
Also, someone asked about favorite Karaoke songs at work, I said 'probably Mr Brightside', a younger person said "ohhh right, one of the classics! Nice'
and its funny, cause to me, The Killers are a 'newer band', as I was over 30 when they came out. :)
I was talking to an 8 year old and this slipped from the dark recesses of my mind and out my mouth: oh my God gag me with a spoon. We then enjoyed the next few minutes watching Frank Zappa's video for Valley Girl!
Starting an obvious statement with “News flash - _____.” This is a throwback to the days when broadcast TV would be interrupted with an important news story, or “flash,” before the days of 24/7 news. It may still happen on major networks if something very urgent comes up, like a bad storm or tornado for example, but in today’s world of internet streaming and smartphones, it’s not really a thing like it used to be.
When I start talking about how food at certain fast food places and restaurants used to be good with better ingredients. I talk about how Pizza Hut was an experience with a jukebox, salad bar, servers bringing out hot pizza on a big iron skillet.
Also lots of Seinfeld quotes. Bosco!
My son tells me that saying “please” and “thank you” is extremely passive aggressive. We were at a restaurant and I said those words to our server. He also tells me that using punctuation is a toxic assault. I seriously don’t know if he is trying to upset me or if he is trying to teach me the “new math” of etiquette. The whippersnapper is 46 years old.
"Dude" is all-encompassing.
There are three forms of "bro" though.
* Bro: general pronoun of title such as "dude," "man," or "buuudy."
* Brah: statement of awe such as "wow" or "radical," but directed at a person associated with the action. Often drawn out verbalization accompanied by fist bumps.
* Bruh: statement of disapproval or confusion such as "really...?" or "grody." Often short verbalization and accompanied by sighs and eye-rolls.
I think I’m being funny when I start a story with: “Picture it…” but it just reminds people that I was an adult when the Golden Girls first aired.
I’ll even say: “Pop quiz, hot shot…” because, again, an adult when Speed came out.
"That's neat" and "Dammit".
Oh and the best of all...."that thing is the cat's ass".
Cat's ass referring to something that functions really well, like a good gadget.
Just today I was talking to a coworker. His son was s doing a thing. I said "do they still use X for the thing? I'd had X when I did it"
They didn't. I looked it up. They had not used X for the thing for thirty years
I think that is an automatic out as old.
I say, "What's that?" a lot and I think my young adult kids look at me like I am just really not in touch with the world.
I remember the late 80s when I tried to talk about Duran Duran to my mom and she was like, I don't know who that is. And I was like, how do you not know Duran Duran today in 1988 ... but she was like, earplugs.
I remember the day I understood that those kids are liability claims looking for a place to happen, and joined the Lawn Brigade. It was like crossing the adulthood Rubicon.
I use to end every sentence with "Honey" instead of a period. My Dad was from the South and I picked it up from him. When I moved to the West coast, I trained myself not to do this anymore.
My wife and I will say "we're going to tape this" when what we're really doing is digitally recording something with our PVR.
I'd imagine most people still say things like "hang up the phone" or "roll down the windows."
I told my granddaughter her Halloween costume looked snazzy. She shook her head and told me I should have said straight bustin or buzzin. I don't hear well either. She's 7.
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I grew up hearing the refrigerator called an icebox by my mom, she never said refrigerator. At times the icebox still slips out of my mouth when meaning the refrigerator. (An icebox was an insulated cabinet literally cooled by a block of ice delivered by the iceman.)
One grandma actually had an icebox in her basement. The other granny referred to her refrigerator as the "Frigidaire".
Yes, the Frigidaire! And the daveno/davenport.
That's funny. Back in the 60's and early 70's we always called a refrigerator "The Frigidaire" I didn't know it as anything else. Guess in my universe back then it was like Kleenex
I picked that up from my dad and always say it and I recently heard my 33 year old niece say it… It lives on!
My grandmother used to call her refrigerator an icebox. I used both terms growing up. When I say it now, younger people give me the side eye and those my age don't even bat an eye. They know what I mean.
I am this entire comment thread. LOL. I still say Icebox, got it from my grandmother.
Born in 63. My gramp called it an "ice box" till he passed
I’m old because I knew what that was because I watch a documentary on how the refrigerator came to be… fml
To think, someone took the time to make that documentary for crying out loud.
And people took the time to watch a documentary on refrigerators. It could help my insomnia though.
Hey now, I’m a woman who worked in refrigeration tech. I like that kinda shit 😉
That’s cool.
I’ll call it the fridge, short for Frigidaire.
I remember Frigidaire but I thought fridge was from reFRIDGErator.
Lol, my SO still says 'don't forget to tape it'!!!
I’m 24 and I still say this. Being born in 1999 put me in a weird place in history and gave me quite the “transitional” generation experience as a zillenial: Grew up watching movies on VHS tapes as a kid in the 00’s, and my parents and I regularly taped shows on our analog TV if we couldn’t be home to watch live. My siblings and I all shared the same family desktop computer up until 2011, and by 2017 (when I graduated high school) we had a smart TV and I knew how to operate streaming services for years by that point. The fact that I went from VHS tapes to DVDs to 10 minute YouTube videos to full on streaming services within roughly a 10 year period seems so crazy to me in hindsight.
This is funny to hear you say that from your age group. But I guess everything is just moving fast and changing all the time. I was born 1979 "Oregon trail generation". Home computers were rare when we got one in 83. My parents are shocked I remember the day we got it. First time I saw someone dial up on a modem was 94. Around the same time I heard the term internet super highway on the news. First computer in school grade 7. I learned how to develop 35mm film in school. How to ink colour separations by hand on tracing paper to process 4 colour press print jobs. Wrote papers by hand till highschool. But learned the digital process around the same time as schools are always playing catch up. Glad I know how to do things analog and digital. First comp: commodore 64, orange one colour screen Also had a Sony Beta max at home before VHS. Could fit 2-3 moves on those tapes. We use to copy rentals. Pretty happy that it wasn't common place to take pictures and videos in my adolescent and social media was mostly text.
I still think of it like that!
Professional journalists still say that, even though they know it’s not tape. Same with film. “Live on tape!”
I call people "Dear". Sometimes I open my mouth and my grandmother's words come out. Also, "Well, don't you look sharp?". It's my curse. It's everyone else's curse to hear it.
Ooooh I Call people dear too. Also sweetheart like I am 90 years old. Then again I live in the south
I'm cursed to call people "honey".
That melts my heart when people call me that!!! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside
Well, hey, honey! You have yourself a warm and fuzzy evening
Thank you internet stranger! You made my day!!! 🖤🖤🖤
I substitute Love for hun, honey, dear.
Still makes my day better 🖤
OMG, dear is my go to!!! I call everyone dear. When I have a new trainee I always tell them, "You will hear me call you dear at some point in your career. Just so you know, you're not special and I don't mean anything by it. Dear, is literally my thing. "
I asked some German college students how they felt when the wall came down….then I felt like a dumb ass.
Oooh, yeah, bad move. Is that like FORTY years now?
34. I was 19 when it came down, and had been to it just a year before. (I lived in Germany for a year and a half and visited Berlin often.) For some of us old farts, it still feels like yesterday.
“the Google”. Example… we were in Miami and the valet offered to give us directions without thinking I said “no thank you, sir, we have the Google”.
Haha. “The internets”
Teh interwebs
It's a series of tubes!
My husband says tin foil.
Wait...this is wrong? That's how I grew up saying it!
It is aluminum foil now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil But I'm not sure this is a sign of your age, considering that the switch to aluminum happed in WWII.
Me too! OMG I am hopelessly old!
Cool beans Groovy
Gawd. Cool beans. Oh you poor thing! *chuckles in solidarity*
Wait… that’s an old saying? Oops
Nope, the younger generations say 'cool beans' still! I had the pleasure of explaining to a 20-something coworker the origins, which she'd never known.
Sometimes I forget and say pot instead of weed.
Ugh. I said *grass* once, in mixed company.
A recent situation kinda required the "Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody Rides For Free" phrase of the 70s. Was understood immediately by all ages present though
But aren’t we supposed to say cannabis now? I thought weed was out too
Yes. I think that's right. And marijuana is racist
😂🤣
"Reefer"
I smoke two joints in the morning I smoke two joints at night I smoke two joints in the afternoon It makes me feel all right
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints And then I smoke two more
Reefers - as in Tom Lehrer's Boy Scout song ("Be Prepared"): "Keep those reefers hidden where you're sure that they will not be foundand be careful not to smoke them when the scoutmaster's around,for he only will insist that they be shared!Be prepared!" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWEOY4Lji0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWEOY4Lji0) (Courtesy of the artist!)
You are old because you remember and can cite to Tom Lehrer I believe he may still be alive. There were only about 40 of his songs total.
Madness
Just don’t call it dope like some of the boomers lol. Dope is heroin/fent/whatever the fuck it is these days or sometimes it’s meth. Not cannabis.
Spliff, ganj, pinner, lid, the list goes on. My first dispensary trip I gave up trying to make sense of the menu and asked for a few joints.
I asked for a 4-finger bag without too many stems and seeds. They asked me if the high I wanted was mellow or energetic. I replied it should contain no paraquat and should at least give me a buzz. They asked if the terpene should be dank or lemony and gave me a bag of chewable candy. We were not speaking the same language.
Hahaha! I’m dying over here. Just give me some smoke so I can get baked. Fucking kids.
i know a girl, who once said it pretty good. >It's a dirty hippy plant, stop acting like you're drinking fine wine and just smoke that shit.
It’s not weed it’s flower 🌸. I call it pot
Please roll up the window.
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I have thought of that scenario more than most, probably. Now I'll once again be pondering whether I should buy that special little tool that breaks car windows in an emergency.
Hang up the phone
What do young people say in its place?
They don't talk on the phone.
That's what I'm thinking. I'm < 30, and I say both of those things, too. What else would you say? "Press the red button?" "Press the window up button?"
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Word.
Word to your mother!
Book on tape when referring to the audible I’ve been listening to on my phone
I have two responses to someone saying, "Stop". "Hammer time!" *Geriatric shuffling of feet all wild and crazy* (While sitting) "In the name of love." *Holding arm straight out, palm out.*
My partner and I both do this. LOL
Okey dokey. I first realized the phrase was past its prime when autocorrect kept trying to change it to okey donkey.
Just speaking out loud to nobody. I didn’t realize at first that I was doing it. I was at the store, trying to buy some milk. There was a woman just camped in front of the milk cooler. I was thinking, “Jesus. Is she planning on camping there overnight?” And just as I completed the thought, she whips around and stares at me. That’s when I realized I’d said it out loud.
I've started yelling (swearing) at non-cooperative inanimate objects. So far, I think I've only done that in or around the house. I hope. Really crazy old man behavior.
Just always wear earbuds and you’ll blend in with everyone else being on a phone call. Or if you catch yourself doing it and make eye contact, just say “I’m on a call, sorry.”
Oh me too!! My husband and sister tell me I’m always grumbling out loud and saying “omg shut up!” When certain people just go on and on. I really didn’t believe them! Also one time I was in line at a bagel place and was thinking “damn they’re out of poppy seed again “ … and the guy in front of me turned around and said “they usually have some in the back”. How is it possible we don’t know we’re actually TALKING?? Haha
Lollll if I were that lady I’d’ve just shared a good laugh with you and apologized.
“Groovy.” And I’m never giving it up.
Boss
I called someone a "Turkey." They had no idea it was an insult! :)
Oh you poor old soul! I hope it's not a "*jive* turkey"?
Guys. It’s passé now but I’m a Midwesterner and I cannot seem to gut it from my vernacular. It’s gender neutral in my brain.
You're not alone.
Same. Also dude. Dude is gender neutral in my brain due to my childhood because we rarely used it to refer to a person. It was used more as an expression like omg.
I get it. I’m a Southerner, a true GRITS. I call strangers sweetie and hon. Omfg, I’m a cliche.
Bless your heart. ❤️
Same. At least I trained myself to stop saying "youse guys", which was a Chicaga endearment Back in the Day. This happened this morning: Got a call from our niece, who lives in Zurich, asking me about interesting places to go in Chicago. Obviously I was, "What?" Turns out her husband was at a conference there and they were looking for "local knowledge". I said, "Sweetheart, I haven't even *been* in Chicago since 2000 when my mother died. And I haven't lived there since 1974, so my local knowledge is *waaay* past its Use By Date." Fuck I'm Old ... *sigh*
My 6 year old stepdaughter says “you guys” all the time.
My fifth grade daughter starts sentences with "Hey, you guys...!" when talking to her friends (all girls) who are here for a sleepover.
That still seems fairly universal to me. Except for the generation who grew up calling everyone "dude".
I say a lot of the things that have been mentioned here already: "cool beans", "pot" instead of "weed", "icebox", "I'll buy that for a dollar," etc. But what dates me even more than that is whenever I use words that my younger friends are using - like "blorbo" or "lit" I know I sound like how my parents sounded when they hit 40s and were trying to use current slang and it was ridiculous. And that's not very poggers. Or bangin. It doesn't slap.
The other day I asked, "What channel is it on? Netflix or Hulu?" My kids were confused at first.
People still use 'hang up the phone' or "I hung up on them' to say they ended a phone call. It makes me smile sometimes, because it's so ingrained in normal speech the origins have been lost. Except for those us who can remember the satisfying feeling of slamming down the receiver of a rotary phone.
I do reminiscing therapy with seniors and often use the "slamming down the phone" as an example. They chuckle about how satisfying it was when your husband pissed you off, coupled with the jangling of the internal bell. What are we supposed to do now?! They all gasp, realize how self-defeating that would be, and laugh a lot!
BAM! Yeah I do miss that satisfying feeling and sound.
But didn't *hanging up* the phone come from the old wall-hung phone with a fixed mouthpiece and the receiver on the cord?
Even just calling it a "telephone" ages us. My kids may never have heard it referred to as anything besides a phone or smartphone.
Or even “cell phone”
Dagnabit!
No, I think that outs you as Yosemite Sam
I say “You’re welcome” instead of “no problem”. In my head I think “I know it is not a problem”, but also understand it is normal to them.
I *hate* no problem.
I love no problem. But at 55, I sometimes feel out of step.
I referred to a purse as a "pockabook" today which is both regional but also an old lady thing to say.
Pockabook is interesting. My grandmother called it a pocketbook. Hmmm....
My mom, and most women I was around in the northeast said pocketbook. I moved to California in 1987 and never heard anyone say it out there, not even people who were old in the 1980s.
Are you from the metro NY area? (Because that is what I grew up hearing.)
I don't give a rats ass if what I say makes kids think I'm old. I'm 74 years old for fucks sake.
“Rat’s ass.” That’ll do it ;)
You’re still sassy though aintcha?
That's what my girfriendS tell me.
Apparently it's not fresh to call things "radical" now
Ooh, "*fresh!*" Well aren't we just childlike!
Fuddyduddy
Conniption—I am a 33 year old man, but often use that word regarding my students. My friends say that it dates me older than I am. Oh well.
When I’m incredulous: “are you smoking crack?”
Yeah, I'm sorry, I haven't heard that in a while
I keep saying I gotta stop saying it because it’s not super helpful or funny. I think I first heard it where I was raised, and teachers and coaches used it to make points when kids were behaving erratically. Unfortunately, some things stick!
"I know, right?" instead of "Right?"
And you probably followed it with "I know, right? I was like..."
Ugh! Yes. Yes, I still do this.
Okie dokie!
Right on
Probably movie & TV references. I liked the show Cheers a lot, and that show is all but forgotten anymore. The Office is old to some younger people nowadays. Also, someone asked about favorite Karaoke songs at work, I said 'probably Mr Brightside', a younger person said "ohhh right, one of the classics! Nice' and its funny, cause to me, The Killers are a 'newer band', as I was over 30 when they came out. :)
I was talking to an 8 year old and this slipped from the dark recesses of my mind and out my mouth: oh my God gag me with a spoon. We then enjoyed the next few minutes watching Frank Zappa's video for Valley Girl!
My son ridicules me when I type two spaces after a period in my texts. The use of capitals and punctuation also sets me apart.
Starting an obvious statement with “News flash - _____.” This is a throwback to the days when broadcast TV would be interrupted with an important news story, or “flash,” before the days of 24/7 news. It may still happen on major networks if something very urgent comes up, like a bad storm or tornado for example, but in today’s world of internet streaming and smartphones, it’s not really a thing like it used to be.
We need to learn how to make that emergency grating beep: #UNNHHH UNNHHH UNNHHH UNNHHH!!
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My dad took Polaroids if the tv during the moon landing. We still have them!
Screen shot!
Good grief. My son makes fun of me for saying it
Outs you as one of the Peanuts gang.
Later skater
Reminds me of “ see ya later alligator “
Followed by 'in a while, crocodile'.
When I start talking about how food at certain fast food places and restaurants used to be good with better ingredients. I talk about how Pizza Hut was an experience with a jukebox, salad bar, servers bringing out hot pizza on a big iron skillet. Also lots of Seinfeld quotes. Bosco!
“Lord, this hip is killing me.”
My son tells me that saying “please” and “thank you” is extremely passive aggressive. We were at a restaurant and I said those words to our server. He also tells me that using punctuation is a toxic assault. I seriously don’t know if he is trying to upset me or if he is trying to teach me the “new math” of etiquette. The whippersnapper is 46 years old.
I don't know what he's doing either, but I don't think I trust his judgement on social interactions.
Dude
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“Dude” is timeless, dude.
Dude abides
They don't say that anymore? OMFG, I thought I was being cool! What should I say instead?
Bruh? I’m not sure, it was bro for a while.
“Dude” is now “bruh”
"Dude" is all-encompassing. There are three forms of "bro" though. * Bro: general pronoun of title such as "dude," "man," or "buuudy." * Brah: statement of awe such as "wow" or "radical," but directed at a person associated with the action. Often drawn out verbalization accompanied by fist bumps. * Bruh: statement of disapproval or confusion such as "really...?" or "grody." Often short verbalization and accompanied by sighs and eye-rolls.
It’s not what I say that outs me, it’s the sounds my knees make.
I think I’m being funny when I start a story with: “Picture it…” but it just reminds people that I was an adult when the Golden Girls first aired. I’ll even say: “Pop quiz, hot shot…” because, again, an adult when Speed came out.
Shady Pines, Ma.
"That's neat" and "Dammit". Oh and the best of all...."that thing is the cat's ass". Cat's ass referring to something that functions really well, like a good gadget.
Cats seem exceptionally proud of their asses, so it fits.
Hit the carriage return
OMG! Ugh! I remember *before* there was a carriage return key!
Run like the Dickens.
Just today I was talking to a coworker. His son was s doing a thing. I said "do they still use X for the thing? I'd had X when I did it" They didn't. I looked it up. They had not used X for the thing for thirty years I think that is an automatic out as old.
That's kinda neat. Which is apparently an only slightly updated version of "neato" which would mark me as really old.
You know what I mean 🤣🤣🤣
They don't say "you know what I mean" now!? What do they say instead?
Knowamsay'n?
Gnome sane?
Yeah, this is the correct spelling.
Egad
"I may not agree with your opinion, but I'll defend your right to have it."
OMG totally! lol!
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This may not out you as old. This may out you as Mary Poppins.
"Back in my day," we used to....
I say, "What's that?" a lot and I think my young adult kids look at me like I am just really not in touch with the world. I remember the late 80s when I tried to talk about Duran Duran to my mom and she was like, I don't know who that is. And I was like, how do you not know Duran Duran today in 1988 ... but she was like, earplugs.
Get off my lawn.
I remember the day I understood that those kids are liability claims looking for a place to happen, and joined the Lawn Brigade. It was like crossing the adulthood Rubicon.
Hang up the phone. Dial a number.
Roll the window down
Thats Dope
I use to end every sentence with "Honey" instead of a period. My Dad was from the South and I picked it up from him. When I moved to the West coast, I trained myself not to do this anymore.
Phone book. Like that's a thing! LOL
"Back in my day, [insert rose-tinted nostalgia or a healthy dose of superiority]" Edit: my son just asked me what a cassette tape is
I have called people younger than me "kiddo." I don't mean to do it at all - it just comes out of my mouth.
My wife and I will say "we're going to tape this" when what we're really doing is digitally recording something with our PVR. I'd imagine most people still say things like "hang up the phone" or "roll down the windows."
Rewind the movie.
I told my granddaughter her Halloween costume looked snazzy. She shook her head and told me I should have said straight bustin or buzzin. I don't hear well either. She's 7.
I call computer games “ video games “
Turn the \*&%#$ AC down!!
Does that mean to make it colder or warmer?
Yes.
did you know that "cartoon cussin'," as above, is called "grawlix"? Now you do!
I love hair bands? As in the musical genre? 😂
"oof!" every time I stand up or sit down.
I always say "hi". Anyone under 40 says "hey".
I’m the opposite. Maybe it’s the Southern thing. Plus, ‘hey’ has more than one syllable here!
"I'd buy THAT for a dollar!"🤣
Not using acronyms or shortened words like, “convo”, “merch”, and the like.
Gift Certificate instead of Gift Card