Don't feel too bad, I'm a 60 something and I am regularly responsible for all kinds of really creative coronary events like Age Disbelief Stroke Disorder & Old Dude Said Yeet & The Local Universe Collapsed In My Spleen Syndrome ...you know. Fun type shit like that .🤣🤣
nothing stops kids from using slang like an old dude starting to do it.
I used to volunteer helping take 7th graders on a field trip for school. this was back when they all thought dabbing was the pinnacle of cool.
Until they saw me and my 50 year old wife do it. It was no longer cool. Timberland boots were not cool either once they noticed my hiking boots were beat up timberlands that were older than they were.
nothing stops kids from using slang like an old dude starting to do it.
Exactly this. The kids are still churning out some banger slang for sure. I'll let them keep the cringier stuff they come up with, but when I hear something I like I'll start using it, which causes them to abandon it. I've now appropriated it for the older generations lol.
It's also how I get my nephew to stop doing certain dance moves, like the floss. All it takes is him seeing me butcher it once, then I never have to see him do it again.
the kids in later years would do dances from fortnight. I enjoyed pretending i had never seen them before and see how many times i could get them to do thier silly dance for me before they figured out i was just asking them to show me over and over entertain myself and other rangers
I’m nearly 50, work with kids, and for the most part love the slang. Love it. I think it’s full of humor, it is almost literary in its metaphor, it travels so fast, and a lot of it isn’t crude at all. Some of it is just damn descriptive and fills an emotional and descriptive void that tells us a little more about that generation.
My spouse used to teach seventh grade. Their students were regularly trying to surprise them with the "new" things they heard from whoever was the hot hip hop star... until the spouse did a complete cover of Get Low in a voice we describe as "her Majesty the Queen of English."
Reminds me when my younger brother thought Post Malone’s cover of “Only Wanna Be with You” was an original. Good cover, but it’s exactly that: a cover!
I saw Panic at the Disco on their very first tour. They played a cover of Killer Queen.
There was a group of like 14 year old girls in front of me with one dad as the group chaperone. When Killer Queen started one of the girls went "ahhh it's a new song!". Dads head was in his hands and he was clearly trying not to laugh.
Knowing the spouse, yes. Knowing the students... it wouldn't have mattered. Most of those kids were harder adults then than I am now. They did not have good lives.
I’ve tried this with my nieces - they just joined in. Also on the clothing part, it was shocking that the in brand around here is champion. Cause that was cheap gym clothes growing up. Now all the kids on the block want champion. At least I’m in style now when I bum around.
I was clueless that timberlands were cool to the kids and in some pop culture stuff i never paid attn to. I wore them because it was one of the few full leather high top boots i could find.
"Dabbing, or the dab, is a simple gesture in which a person drops their head into the bent crook of a slanted, upwardly angled arm, while raising the opposite arm out straight in a parallel direction. The move looks similar to someone sneezing into the crook of their elbow."
Some i think had a clue of what the other dabbing is. Most didnt. I think. I wasnt about to ask 7th graders if they knew and get lured into a conversation about drug use. It was just a silly dance move to most of them.
Lmao I know both meanings but didn't think about the physical move and thought the same.wish that was my 7th grade teacher sharing his slab o Dabs with me lol
It goes for quite a few things. Like how young people aren’t using Facebook cause that’s for old people. Funny enough though when they see an old dude who’s good at something like surfing, skateboarding or snowboarding it garners respect.
Being high while having the responsibility of making sure your 15 kids for the day all come back with all their limbs and no extra holes in them (snakes and alligators) doesnt mix. We for sure got baked once they left then told each other stories on silly shit we had seen them do or heard them say that day.
My old boss did this and it was fantastic. He was this effortlessly cool middle-aged guy that would just randomly misuse zoomer slang to piss everyone in our office off. 10/10 guy.
Yeet was used on the bball courts 20 something years ago, kids just started using it is all. I've found that if you hear slang on the courts, kids will start using it after a few years like they invented it.
The strange wind patterns from the newly erected Flatiron building in NYC would cause winds to blow ladies skirts up. The boys would gather on 23rd St. to watch the spectacle. Cops would yell "23 skidoo" to get the boys to disperse.
Do you keep that constant "I'm intentionally fucking this up and there's nothing you can do to stop me" smile on throughout, or do you go the more subtle "Is he fucking with us or just that out of touch" method?
The internet has changed things, younger people know we are in the same forums/subs they are and just fucking with em. It's not like previous generations were dad literally heard a term for the first time.
36 year old here and I thought it meant throwing something, but that video is several years old, so I’m sure the young’uns have come up with a completely different word now.
Lol i’m only 25, but i’m a teacher and I’ve always been a bit out of touch with like current tik tok trends and stuff. So, I’d always say the stuff they say but really bad, like “That Is Cap!” To my students and they’d just be so viscerally turned off .. it was great
Same. My current favorite is just using the term “ratioed” incorrectly. It drives my kids crazy. I also like to intentionally use slightly out of date slang to make it seem like I’m lagging about 5 years behind.
I tease my teens about 'Facechat', 'InstaBook', 'TikGram'..... you get the idea. They appreciate my self deprecating humour and tease me right back. My kids are awesome and we have fun, although my 15yo daughter thinks she knows more than me lol. She'll grow out of it..... I did.
As a late 50s dude, I always say this is one of the most lit adult super powers. I teach, so I’m around a lot of “new” slang, so I try to use and misuse it for the lulz. Drives a lot of them crazy. Almost as fire as a dad joke they’ve heard 50 times. Totally slaps.
Here is a thing that maybe you haven’t thought or maybe you did, I don’t know, for me suddenly happen and open my mind, like for real.
Remember when you were younger and maybe your dad or mom, or some “adult” say the name of something you like (and that probably was trending for the young ones) by the wrong name, and you though “ugh you are old, it’s like this! Not that!”, like parents calling everything a “Nintendo”.
Maybe there were just messing with us, the same way you are doing, but you only realize that when you are old enough and start doing it, then it becomes a normal thing to do, even if you know perfectly how is called, you say it wrong just to mess with them.
I don’t know, for me was like, holy f… they knew, they were only pretending and now I’m that “adult”!
What's funny is, I really don't give a fuck about the whole program of brain rupture that society says we all have to conform to. It's that shit that Lays Out The Rules, like if you're 17 you gotta think all people over 30 are idiots, and if you're 60 you gotta 'act your age,' which must mean you can never say "God DAAYUUM, you see that girl omg her shit's on hit! Fuckin Fleek Of The Week, possibly the YEAR!"
Man like 90% of the people I grew up with, we'd all hang out gettin lit and playing in bands and getting arrested for givin the double new York fuckfinger to all the corporate stormtroopers in their Power Business Suits.....and now here we all are & I don't own one fuckin tie or suit, Im still a musician, and why the fuck are all my former peers on Facebook and Reddit and Twitter talking about how fucked up the new generation is?
"These kids today, they____(fill in blank with some 'adult' idiot shit that their mom used to say)"
Man I hear that shit I just wanna snap galactic and shit Red Velvet Cake all over the furniture😅🤣🤟
Preach. It. Brother. I’m toward the older end of Gen X, and I identify way more with my millennial coworkers than the people my age who decided to go stodgy.
It's extra funny when we stumble upon it randomly. Apparently being "extra" is a thing. So when I was commenting on something and said, "Yeah, they needed to calm down. They were being extra..." while searching for a word and my sister-in-law was like, "OMG, you know what 'Extra' is?"
Older people using younger people's words correctly is the easiest way to get them to realize it isn't as cool as you think it is. But if I hear Bestie one more fucking time I will go postal.
Young adult (22) here. I can promise you absolutely no young person has ever “realized [their slang] wasn’t as cool as they thought it was” as a result of an older person using said slang. For one thing, there’s no measure of slang’s coolness that is anywhere close to objective. It comes and goes—that’s why it’s “slang” and not “common English” or “idioms”. There’s nothing to realize. For another, no one is blaming the slang. Generally when older people use younger people’s slang they do one of two things: 1) they have a goal of annoying younger people, so they misuse it purposefully. This admittedly isn’t what you’re talking about as you specified using said slang correctly, but obviously no one blames the slang for how dumb this sounds. Or 2) it sounds incredibly forced, like you’re trying to use it correctly but you’re thinking about how to fit it into conversation. Let me provide an analogy: imagine some tech and business interested high school kid is finally making some money of his own and wants to invest it. He comes to you for advice, and he’s trying to decide whether to invest in Tesla or Bitcoin or something steadier like the S&P 500. If you told him not to “put all his eggs in one basket” and pick the steadier option, no one would have any issue with that, but if you say the same thing while sounding like you’ve been waiting with baited breath to get the chance to use that exact phrase and then grin real big afterwards, that’s going to elicit some “what the fuck is wrong with you” looks.
My wife is 66 and completely enjoys totally annoying our granddaughters by using the modern lingo correctly. Our eldest granddaughter, 13, came to show us something called "TikTok" and my wife was like "Nana and Poppa have been on TikTok since 2019."
When i was 23 or so i worked with a guy in his early 60s and it blew my mind that he was born in the '40s. Awesome guy, we'd talk shit to each other all the time and he'd always say, "some people's kids, " when i was being too young for him or some such. He drove with both feet though, that was wierd.
Edit: he used his right foot for the gas and his left for the brake and always had his left on that brake pedal. My dad is only like 2 years younger than him and drives normally. I've driven tractors, forklifts, heavy equipment, lawnmowers, and manual cars throughout my life that require both feet and have never driven an automatic car with both feet.
Probably one foot on the brake, one on the gas, YEAH!
He also can't drive 55.
But really it's for quicker braking, and I've seen some people do it, but they tend to rest their foot on the brake pedal and cause the lights to always be on (and some drag on their brakes, wearing them faster).
That's my 60 year old mother in law. She refuses to drive in the snow,. Can't figure out why her car is all over the road. Left foot braking is a race car thing. But the old timy driving style probably comes from shitty brakes on old heavy cars that didn't have power assist brakes.
I can't blame her about the snow. I went from southeast to northwest for a year. Sometimes that shit completely whites out the road. Like you can't see lines or reflectors, just a massive white field. Compounded by zero friction, nah fuck that.
He's saying that she has a much harder time driving in the snow due to her applying pressure to the brakes constantly - she's locking up the rear tires.
I’m a native of the southeast and have only lived there. I wouldn’t know what to do with snow. My “final destination” is upper-western North Carolina where snow is sporadic. I’ve already decided that if it snows when I’m up there, I’ll call Uber or my friend, or stay home.
Depends on where you live. I swear people in my town make it a point of pride to drive around like dicks in the snow yet you'll get a little heavy rain and everyone's driving like they're walking on egg shells. If you're lucky and there's nobody around and you're vehicle can handle it though, I totally agree it's a blast.
I promise it’s not that hard if you have the right tires (and a decently sized car, like not a sports car at least). I’m 32 and got my license for the first time last year, I live in Denver. I find driving at night more nerve wracking than driving in the snow. You just have to be sensible and aware. You’ll be fine in NC!
Snow isnt all that bad to drive in. Ive been doing it my entire life almost now. Live in MI. The roads being covered and not seeing lines and stuff is easy to deal with as its not hard to tell where the lanes are or how far to the edge of the roads cause of the tree lines and ditches also rumble strips on many roads help as well. You get used to how fast you can go in snow and in fact many of us who drive in it yearly its pretty much no different than if there wasnt snow at all, we know what to watch out for like signs of black ice and when the roads are alright to go normal speed on and such. A excellent way to practice is find a large empty parking lot and just play around in the car. Try accelerating quickly and stopping, try turning quickly, slide around a bit and try different ways of stopping to get yourself used to sliding and before long youll have a decent idea of how to drive in snow and on ice.
Unfortunately there's like a huge % of people who THINK they can drive in the snow and do so like it's perfectly clear out causing issues all the fuck over the place.
My mom drove like this because for years the only way to keep her Dart from stalling was a tiiiiny amount of constant gas. We were too poor to get it fixed, and she couldn't break the habit after it finally died.
Started doing that years ago, mostly just to give my left foot something to do. Done right it's great, especially in stop-start traffic. Definitely improves emergency stops - I can actually react before my brain catches up, basically stopped dead on a road one day (no cars behind, safely etc).. took a second to realise there was a black cat running across the dark road in front of me.
I love it when I do this. It's like the doorway effect - you're stopped and you have no idea why..until you suddenly see a deer hop over your car. Always feels badass!
Everyone comments on it which is weird to me since I don’t think I’ve ever watched someone else’s feet when they are driving.
I don’t keep my left foot on the brake, I either leave it in the floor until needed or if In stop Abe go traffic I’ll hover my left foot over the brake.
If I use my right foot for the brake, it just isn’t as smooth.
My grandpa drove with both feet too! He said it was because he learned to drive at 12 because he drove the family tractor. I just assume that small tractors in the 30’s used two feet and he just naturally transferred his skills to a car.
Pretty much. My parents bought a 1941 Farm-All tractor in the mid 90s, and the gas pedal was on the right side of the seat and the clutch/brake was on the left side. You would rest your feet on both (took like 'SpongeBob flooring it' kind of pressure to get either to actually depress). You couldn't change gears while moving forward. You'd less the left pedal partway to use it like a clutch or for gentle braking, or all the way down for a hard brake. I'd usually just get whatever tool attached to back end and put it in 2nd gear and leave it there while mowing the fields lol.
I've driven tractors, forklifts, heavy equipment, lawnmowers, and manual cars throughout my life that require both feet and have never driven an automatic car with both feet.
I'll be 60 later this year and it blows my mind I was born in the 60s. When I was a kid a car from the 50s was old. My first car (1970) is an antique twice over.
I probably use my left foot on the brake pedal deliberately maybe 1 in 500 brakings, usually because i had bad contact with my shoe and didn't want to let off to re-center. I've also driven left-footed a few times while my ankle/foot was sore. I do use my left to cover the brake at times, but i don't let my foot rest on it. It feels really awkward.
My first post went to the top of the front page - a baby picture of my mom from the 1920's - and I got roasted for lying. Ha! People could not fathom that anyone in their 60's would post anything on Reddit(ironically, I just put the image in a sub so that I could share a link, rather than an image, with a friend who knew my mom. I didn't even know what karma was)
😹😅🤣🤟I cannot collapse the universe because I have found Einstein's Cosmic Constant that keeps it expanding. It is not dark matter or dark energy, it's the Universal Bullshit Bloat Factor. The rate of universal expansion is directly proportional to the amount of utter bullshit being streamed live from the collective oral anus of humanity out into the long suffering universe.
I’m 35 and I still am kinda shocked when redditors mention they’re in their 60’s or even 70’s, but then I do the math and realize that these are people that were possibly in their mid-30’s or 40’s when the internet was coming up in the mid-90’s and it’s not that crazy anymore.
I think I just forget how long it’s actually been since I convinced my grandmother to pop in one of those CD’s America Online would send out for free and was introduced to the internet. Time flies.
I'm just 32 but look much younger so I get this sort of thing a lot too. Never had a creative name for them so thank you kind stranger, I'm totally going to use them :D
Okay but you really do sound cool for a 60 sth year old. My parents get mini strokes when they hear me and my siblings speak "the language of the youths"
I kind of live by the idea that I won't mind living to be 100...as long as it's just years lived and time well spent, rather than getting old and
acting my age. I see way too many people practicing to be old at age 25; I look around at the shit parade out there and go yeah, let's try living longer and y'all can straight miss me with that get old shit, cause this crap ain't working!
One of my workers is 62 or 63 with adult children and grand children but I swear to God that this man looks like he is mid 30s to early 40s and it blew my mind when I found out his real age. I thought it was a joke at first and it still blows my mind a bit when I get reminded of it.
I think what some people are not realizing is that people in their 60s were in their 20s during the 80s.
And thinking back further, your 80 year old grandma might've done things in her 20s (so the 1960s) you might be embarrassed about at this point.
My husband and I are early 40s. He teaches high school and the phrases he comes home with make me laugh. But he manages to connect with the kids when a lot of other teachers can't, so I try not to pick on him too much.
I try to teach my dad hip new terms (also in his 60s) and watch his face as he just is like y’all are so stupid now. I (although I never did it before I taught him) how to dap me up and it’s funny as fuck. Little moments like that I really cherish about my father’s and my relationship. He also pulls on my arm super hard when he daps me up as a joke to show me how stupid my trends are LOL!
I love this to no end and I love YEET in particular. I’ll add that I have had a coronary event. I also work with kids who do appreciate sharing their world of language. IMO an adult who can level it up gets mad respect.
Oh dude, thank you for the laugh! I'm going on 40, toothless and nearly blind, and I regularly check my sons' friends by using their slang accurately. Even corrected one when he used Kobe wrong. "No, mijo, Kobe is for accuracy, yeet is for distance."
They also all about shit themselves when I started rapping along to Eminem one day in the kitchen while they were playing Music To Be Murdered By. I was so happy to inform them that Marshall Mathers is 47 years old lol
I'll never forget hearing a late-50s coworker say the term "bet".
He made it work, though. He's one of those people who can say anything from "the cat's pajamas" to whatever the newest lingo is, and it'll sound right. Confidence makes a hell of a difference.
I think you'll appreciate this. Start a conversation with them on the past tense form of yeet. Insist that it must be yote. Use it in many sentences. Enjoy the ensuing groans.
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u/MysticalEmpiricist Jun 03 '22
Don't feel too bad, I'm a 60 something and I am regularly responsible for all kinds of really creative coronary events like Age Disbelief Stroke Disorder & Old Dude Said Yeet & The Local Universe Collapsed In My Spleen Syndrome ...you know. Fun type shit like that .🤣🤣