I’m already hep to your jive, so I know what’s fly.
Streets ahead.
I’m just picturing June cleaver speaking jive on an airplane now…
Younger people of lemmy, what are some nuanced sayings that you would like to have explained to you?
Privacy - Privacy is the state or condition of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion, allowing individuals to control their personal information and maintain boundaries from others. It involves the right to keep one’s personal life, thoughts, and activities confidential, and to decide what information is shared and with whom. Privacy ensures protection from surveillance, interference, and misuse of one’s personal data, supporting autonomy and dignity in personal and professional contexts.
I know y’all had a rough start growing up online, but that word really used to be important to us grey beards who watched all this online stuff unfold over the decades.
Sometimes I wonder if the younger folks realize you don’t have to document your life on the internet.
Why do old people always follow the same rules of syntax and grammar?
Just kidding I’m old and I want to know why young people mangle english so much.
bcuz its qwiker
Stupidity, laziness, memes, twitter, AAVE
I think it’s probably an attempt to be unique. Our written words have a massive forum of eyes on them that was never achieved before in human history. So we all wanna be unique? Unsure but that’s my guess. That and it’s possible humans inner monologue is being displayed more accurately and with less fear of repercussion.
what’s a lefty-capucinno ?
“Older” needs a reference point, son.
I’m 5 yrs older than a caterpillar that turned into a cocoon. I’ve never seen it again for two decades
Found the nuanced saying.
There was a multi panel comic posted today or yesterday, I think the final panel mentioned skibidi.
Found it. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3caedeba-754f-4af7-8130-bbc45aa77ce1.jpeg
1: Father, you have no respect. You simper over mother without end, and it brings shame upon me.
2: Quite. I may be “skip to the lou, my darling”, but your mother has earned my undying respect. My world goes crazy without her.
3: She’s a gentleman of audacious taste.
4: Double France? Double France.
Fr stands" for real"
Then why in the opening olympic ceremonies do they use it to mean france. I think you need to revise whether you take your sources from dubious online forums vs an entire olympics commitee, hmm
The Olympics committee is corrupt and paid off by big France. I think you might need to reconsider who you trust.
Big France only exists to further the agenda of Little France, and after having watched Little Britain, I think you should reconsider what it means when the “computer says no”
And goat is greatest of all time. Of course since people don’t know they can just stand in for what they feel is right and spread “misinformation”
Is…is this Loss?
Skibidi. I know it’s based on some YouTube things but I don’t get it.
Skibidi comes from Scatman and no one can convince me otherwise.
Skee ba bop ba dop bop, ba bop ba dop bop
Ok, I’m convinced. You’re the Scatman.
I’m the Yes, I’m the Scatman, and if I can do it so can you
Thanks for the hearty chuckle this morning!
yes yes!
It’s part of a lyric from an Arabic song that was featured in some viral Tiktok videos, most notably this one
It became sort of a filler word, but mostly think of it as being synonymous with “cool”
Huh and here I thought it was a reference to the Little Big song of the same name
same here! confused why a 2018 Russian groups pop song became popular in 2024, but i guess that’s the internet 🤷♂️
Does that have anything to do with skibidi toilet or is that an entirely different thing?
I think that is a person or at least something can somewhat let me know?
My son told me that DTF means “Doing the Face Book”, but I sometimes see it being used in other sites that I like to visit that aren’t social media sites. Does the Face Book really carry that much weight on the Internet? What does “Doing the Face Book” really mean exactly?
Pretty sure you’re shitposting, but for any parents who don’t know, it means “down to fuck.”
Well don’t know if he is shitposting but for the longest time I thought Netflix and chill was just inviting someone over and watch a movie. Until the other day someone told me that the expectation is to fuck.
See I would totally be down to just hang and watch a movie with a friend, then GTFO.
I think Netflix is becoming an increasingly hard-sale on it’s own these days.
Very true. It’s upsetting on Netflix or prime to search for a movie and it autocompletes but then they just show you “I know you really want to see X, but how about Y instead”?
come and look at my etchings was a euphemism well after etchings stopped being fashionable, it’ll be the same with netflix and chill.
Come Qbit torrent and vibe (it’s commercial free)
As an ace individual, yeah. Let’s watch a movie, maybe cuddle close. Cuddling is great. But don’t get all slobbery and block my view of Deadpool
It means “down to fuck”, it means your open to sexual activity. Doing the Facebook is a lie hea telling you to avoid the awkward situation
ROFLcopter
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It’s the lolbird
my woflcopter go shwoo shwoo shwoo shwoo
I work in accounting and had a boss (younger than me) who abbreviated Due to/from as DTF and I never figured out if he was trolling us or just had never come across it. If he was trolling he never once broke. I still talk to him but can’t bring myself to ask.
If they have a sense of humor that would laugh at this concept. They fucking know.
I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does “out-of-pocket” mean when describing behavior? I’ve only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.
It seems like it’s roughly synonymous with “crazy” or “rude” or “unexpected”, but I’d love to have it explained better.
That’s pretty much it. It’s when somebody’s behaviour is out of line.
Use it as an adjective: e.g. “You are/that is out of pocket”
In finance, out-of-pocket is synonymous with cash on hand, liquid assets. Means you can pay now without needing to incur a debt.
In business, out-of-pocket is usually synonymous with out-of-office, like AFK Away-From-Keyboard. Often shorter term than being fully on vacation. “I’ll be OOP after 2pm for a doctor’s appt.”
I have recently heard out-of-pocket used among youngsters or the terminally-online to mean rude or crazy, like you said. “Beyond the standards of normalcy”.
Same here the only out of pocket I have ever heard is either when your broke or having to pay for something.
“out of pocket” is what you pay, but may not be the total cost of the item/service. “I only had to pay $50 out of pocket and my insurance covered the rest”
It can also be used in business to mean unavailable. “I have to take my kid to the doctor and will be out of pocket for a couple of hours”
Oh my God one day I walked out of my room and my high school kid looked at me and said:
“That fit shreds”
And it was the first time I had been honestly perplexed by slang, had absolutely no idea what they were trying to convey. Turns out they liked my clothes that day.
TIL I hang out with just enough youngins to read this and be like “they like your outfit.” It’s gotta be the early 20s kids at work that I’ve caught onto what they’re saying lol.
“That fit shreds” = that’s an awesome outfit
Synonyms for Fit: outfit, drip, gear, cloth(es), getup
Synonyms for shreds: killer, swag, gnarly, rad, sick, dank, cool, fire (🔥),
Your drip is fire
Your outfit is cool
Your gear is rad
Your clothes are sick
Your getup is dank
Your cloth is killer
All pretty equivalent statements which you may relate to more based on era of terminology you grew up with.
(This is from my brain dictionary, real life experiences may be different)
Edit: Proper spacing to avoid aneurysm
I’m so sick of everything being a “fit”. OUTFIT. Drip? Ugh.
Oh do I have a song for you. Jason Isbell “Outfit”. His dad’s advice on being a man.
“Don’t call what you’re wearing an outfit, don’t ever say your car is broke…”
Based?
Don’t know exactly but something similar to a mixture of a brave, true, and cool statement. Think it was first used by right wing chuds but then adopted ironically by terminally online liberals.
You’d say “based” if you agree with the political messaging of something.
(Pls correct me if I’m wrong)
Generally agree, but I think right wing chuds were the second wave usage trying to co-opt the meaning to be opposite of woke.
I’ve often seen “based” as a shorthand for “based in reality” or “true”
It’s just signalling for members of the clique. Totally fetch.
“Ohio”
What does it mean? Yknow other than a place in the US that had some scary chemical leaks some time ago.
Ohio as a state is a liminal space full of cornfields and a feeling of wasted potential. A disproportionate number of American astronauts come from Ohio, proving that the primary thing on the minds of Ohioans is getting as far away from Ohio as possible no matter the cost.
If something is Ohio it’s a place or a situation that you don’t want to be in. It’s a dead end with a feeling of vague discomfort.
Thanks, that’s the most explanatory answer I got
Basically New Jersey
Does anyone actually want to be in Ohio? If something is Ohio, it’s that vague uncomfortable ugly failure feeling.
Something interesting finally happened in Ohio, but it was expected to happen in Florida (due to the appearance of Florida Man)
I think it means boring.
Ohio has a LOT of people in it for no real reason, if you look at the population for states the top 3 all have something that’s unique… then there’s Ohio. There’s nothing going on from Ohio it’s just kinda… there. So naturally it became a meme
What I’m getting out of all these replies is that Ohio is to the United States as Acre is to Brazil.
… I wonder if every country has a place like this. Some god-forsaken part of the country that has nothing at all going for it and so people like to clown on it (for Acre the joke we do is “it doesn’t actually exist” and/or “it’s home to all sorts of cryptids and bizarre creatures”)
Well in Germany people joke that Bielefeld doesn’t exist, so there’s that. I feel like there’s a lot of different themed places that exist in many countries though, like “the incest place” (Alabama in the US, Saarland in Germany)
Why don’t the people of Hex Bear get new jokes? They were worn out already on reddit after the first couple of years.
What is GOAT? Someone here called me that, and I’m not sure if it was good or bad.
Being “the goat” or “goated” is good. No clue as to the etymology though.
I finally was brave enough to Google, and it means Greatest Of All Time.
