memes

10334 readers

2220 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

[email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
[email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
[email protected] : Linux themed memes
[email protected] : for those who love comic stories.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

834

fr fr ong (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

261 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

You mean bellbottoms and "cottage core" aren't new & edgy? D'oh.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I always thought the word "ginormous" (a portmanteau of gigantic and enormous) was totally modern, but then I read a book published in 1943 by a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot which had "ginormous" in its glossary section.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X.

OP is just that hip.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Fire" goes back to at least the early 90s, when I was in highschool.