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The Real King Gordon to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 3 days ago

What is something only old people say?

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What is something only old people say?

The Real King Gordon to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 3 days ago
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  • @MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk
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    2•14 hours ago

    “Are you ready to rock?”

  • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    3•1 day ago

    Television set.

  • @Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml
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    5•1 day ago

    “Nobody wants to work any more” or “kids aren’t disciplined anymore”, and “millenials…something something something” to refer to any generation younger than them.

  • @klemptor@startrek.website
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    8•2 days ago

    “People don’t have pensions anymore?”

    No, Mom, we don’t.

  • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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    7•2 days ago

    In my day.

  • @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7•2 days ago

    Let me just talk for a while, you’ll get some

  • @Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml
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    4•2 days ago

    Something I once heard my sister say to our grandniece, “I saw the Beatles live.”

  • @braydan@lemmy.world
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    47•3 days ago

    Boy, I sure love owning a house.

    • morgan423
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      6•3 days ago

      Hey, I’m heading into my late 40s and I haven’t been able to say that yet lol

      • @vandsjov@feddit.dk
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        7•3 days ago

        So not old, cool

  • @pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    10•3 days ago

    pulling myself up by my bootstraps

  • @timmytbt@sh.itjust.works
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    9•3 days ago

    You kids, get off my lawn!

  • @ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee
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    30•3 days ago

    “Kids these days don’t want to work.”

  • Lycaon
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    21•3 days ago

    After living with my grandma for so long I started saying “god willing” and people keep telling me it makes me sound old lol

    • Xavienth
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      5•2 days ago

      Say inshallah instead

  • @considine@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    “Knee high to a grasshopper” (short)

    “Beyond the pale” (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)

    “Dance maven”

    “I’ll just do that in my copious free time…” (sarcastically, because you are too busy)

    “Copacetic” (it’s all good)

    “Heavy” (meaning important, grave)

    I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.

    • @WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml
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      6•3 days ago

      If the question is things “only” old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media.

      “Heavy” (meaning important, grave)

      For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.

      • That Weird Vegan
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        3•2 days ago

        Heavy? Is there something wrong with the earths gravity??

      • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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        1•2 days ago

        40 year old movies are not really a major influence on slang & pop culture…

        • @WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml
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          1•2 days ago

          Lmao, k

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      2•2 days ago

      The only time I have ever heard the word copacetic and only reason I know it exists is because of a song that probably only dinosaurs and hipsters listen to anymore: Bound For The Floor.

      Other than that, I’ve never heard it used in any context. So I’mma agree that it’s definitely an old person word ( or a pretentious “I’m BeTtEr ThAn YoU” kinda word ).

    • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      4•3 days ago

      I’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium

  • @marketsnodsbury@lemm.ee
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    18•3 days ago

    “Which was the style at the time…”

    • @Yermaw@lemm.ee
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      14•3 days ago

      I keep saying that to my boy, but even the reference goes over his head it’s so old.

  • @Anissem@lemmy.ml
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    16•3 days ago

    Ouch! I must have slept wrong.

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