Yo dawg, that would be like totally tubular unless the geezers spaz out like lamo rents gettin all agro after gettin to tha crib and finding all da homies having a jammy jam in the hizzie. Ya feel me, cuz?
"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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EndOfLine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
don@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Word up, homie.
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Misspelled “lame-o” is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m 40 and I understand most of that, yup it’s old person speak.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
C’mon Gen Z. You can’t have “tubular”. That’s clearly an 80s term, and thus belongs to the millenials. Same thing with “crib” and the 90s.
“Cuz” was early 2000s. I don’t know who that one falls to. All I know is I was about 18 before I heard it. So, basically on my last legs as far as being able to claim slang to my generation.
Geezers isn’t even my generation, or Gen X. It’s either the Boomers, The Greatest Generation, or The Silent Generation. Really pulling slang out by the roots on that one. What’s next? Are we going to take a trip to the Piggly Wiggly?
Marketsnodsbury@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“Cuz” was early 2000s
It’s been around a lot longer than that.
My dearest cuz,/ I pray you school yourself – MACBETH, IV ii
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Greatest generation is dead dude. Ok maybe a few are around but like, they’re 100+
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
REDE
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Safe.
Down with the rave police !
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m never gonna stop calling people “dawg”
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Totally tubular, dude! That’s like, the raddest thing ever, and I’m stoked to be part of it. It’s got that gnarly vibe that makes you wanna bust a move and just hang loose. You’re on point, and it’s all that and a bag of chips. Keep it up, ‘cause you’re totally on the money!
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
kieron115@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
One of these days I need to go and read through the Calvin and Hobbes collection I bought for my bookshelf when it was on a steep discount. I remember reading them all the time as a kid.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A relatable situation; when my kid can read a little better I mean to very enthusiastically introduce them to it.
Though honestly they might enjoy the beautiful artwork without bothering to read. Or it might encourage them to practice. Hmm.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“cooking” in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, “now you’re cooking!” Or the less common “now you’re cooking with gas!”
I think it’s just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Language is freaking fascinating.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nurse! I vibe coded in my pants again
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Gyatt so Ohio, on god.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Cooking is not new slang. That shit goes back decades.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup
Phrase what’s cooking? “what’s up, what’s going on” is attested by 1942. To cook with gas “do well, act or think correctly” is 1930s jive talk.
The expression “NOW YOU’RE COOKING WITH GAS” has bobbed up again — this time as a front page streamer on the Roper Ranger, and as the banner line in the current advertising series of the Nashville (Tenn.) Gas and Heating Company, cleverly tying gas cooking to local food products and restaurants. “Now you’re cooking with gas” literally took the gas industry by the ears around December 1939 — Remember? — when it flashed forth in brilliant repartee from the radio programs of the Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, Bob Hope and sundry others. [American Gas Association Monthly, vol. xxiii, 1941
expr@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Based has been around forever, it’s not some new slang.
jve@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
forever
Maybe like 10 years? That seem about right?
Some searching seems to suggest that “Lil B” started the words come back around 2010
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.
j_elgato@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
That would be rad…
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Totally gnarly
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
NOT.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Grouse!
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Foshizzle
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Forsooth.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not as rad as the Commodore 16 Starter Pack !
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One might even say “tubular”.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My 34 year-old brother says “rats!” when something bad happens. He learned from our grandpa.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I make it a point to adopt some of my grandpa’s lingo. Funnily enough my 18-20 year old students can smell 30yo slang from a mile away and will point out it ages me, but they’ve never said anything about the random 50s teenage slang I incorporate.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oooh, I like that, I’m terrified of rats, so that would be a great replacement, for the usual word, when around kids, too.
darkmarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Rizz = Charisma
Based = Cool; Awesome; Good.
Cooked = Fucked (as in up, not sexually).
Cooking = Doing something (usually good, but does not necessarily have to be).
Sincerely,
A 40 year old Millennial.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
‘cooking’ specifically implies either creativity or efficacy (or both, some novel solution that results in success)
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Based also sorta meant woke for a bit before woke
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Based is like ‘unpopular, but I agree.’
pelya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I consider ‘based’ an opposite of ‘sour’ or ‘acidic’. That is, being alkaline and having high pH is considered socially desirable. Mixing based and sour personalities will naturally produce salt, that is, dried tears.
Cooking is a term for any time-consuming chemical reaction, which happens to include food preparation.
I have no chemistry-related explanation for rizz. Something to do with sparks?
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yep me too, I bet as it's young people it's mainly texted and in txt spk
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
txt spk
Ahh, the first Kid Pidgin.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m cooking spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yes, I’m old.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Who has a problem with spaghetti?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GenZ HATES spaghettis because their not WOKE like “bucatini” or “far fale”
dil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
they already are in black communities, teens see tiktok comments and go wow new slang, a lot of this shit isnt new tho, like bop wasnt new but everyone acted like it was a new tiktok word, neither was thot on twitter or many others, rizz isnt new, its been around, cooking and based? not new at all
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’m old and “cooking” was old when I was young.
rem26_art@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
in the nursing home talking about how I rizzed up the nurses (i didn't)
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
They are already getting there. Hearing forty year olds say it means kids are now stopping saying it.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I haven’t heard swag in a long while and so I’m not sure how many of these words will actually be used enough later on.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Gag me with a spoon
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Nah, these expressions will just fall out of use. You think this is the first time people came up with funny fad expressions?
Sorry, but you ain’t all dat and a bag of potato chips. Fo shizzle.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000’s you’ve never heard of but what everyone in my generation would’ve been constantly using.
Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren’t.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll be ambling through nursing home hallways in a threadbare robe on the way to the ol’ skibidi while some orderlies with multicolor levitating hair make modem noises at each other.
That’ll just be the microplastic poisoning setting in though.
solidsnake@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Based is already old though
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They already are.
Source: I’m old and I can use all those words correctly.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
And their grandkids will ask “based on what?”
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Gnarly, tubular, radical, extreme to the max!!!
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
bet
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
By that time language may be unrecognizable by those of you still around
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No cap
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the nursing homes will be full of Arya, Daenarys, and Khaleesi. Boys movie names tend to be pretty underwhelming. Maybe a bunch of “Wades” from Deadpool.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
idkmybffjill
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even old people will just stop using them, like “groovy”.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude, that’s totes bogus. Get outta here with that whackness. /s
WALLACE@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Thankfully nobody says things like “epic fail” anymore
pilferjinx@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
At least epic and fail are actual words.
grabonex@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I still do 👋
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Xant speak for anywhere but where I’ve lived, but I’ve heard groovy on the US west coast pretty recently, though not regularly. There was a niche little clique of geeks out in east Texas that’d say it pretty regularly some years ago though. Hippie activist/tabletop enthusiast type vibe, that group. Good people. Groovy, even.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I feel like not hearing people use “groovy” is more because things aren’t feeling very groovy lately.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That mighta been me
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Groovy is acceptable, but only in the way Ash from the Evil Dead uses it.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well I think it’s nifty.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Cool” has had greater longevity than i expected.
CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Psssh, next you’ll tell me people aren’t saying “hail to the king, baby”?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Marvy fab yo