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arrow-up1734arrow-down1imagefr fr ongstartrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square233fedilink
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·1 year agoI had this conversation with one of my kids recently: Her: “This thing is gas!” Me: “Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?” Her: " What are you yapping about? They don’t know what ‘gas’ means!" Me: "You wanna bet? Ain’t you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s a gas…?’ Her: “Bruh…” Me: “Don’t shoot the messenger.”
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·1 year agoIt’s amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
minus-squarelittleblue✨@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoYou mean bellbottoms and “cottage core” aren’t new & edgy? D’oh.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoIn the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it’s usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.
minus-squareBillyTheSkidMark@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoMe looking at this meme nearing 40…“pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers”. Then again I didn’t grow up in USA and we had different “hip” words.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X. OP is just that hip.
minus-squarelittleblue✨@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year ago“Fire” goes back to at least the early 90s, when I was in highschool.
I had this conversation with one of my kids recently:
Her: “This thing is gas!”
Me: “Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?”
Her: " What are you yapping about? They don’t know what ‘gas’ means!"
Me: "You wanna bet? Ain’t you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s a gas…?’
Her: “Bruh…”
Me: “Don’t shoot the messenger.”
It’s amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
You mean bellbottoms and “cottage core” aren’t new & edgy? D’oh.
In the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it’s usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.
Me looking at this meme nearing 40…“pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers”.
Then again I didn’t grow up in USA and we had different “hip” words.
That’s fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X.
OP is just that hip.
“Fire” goes back to at least the early 90s, when I was in highschool.