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arrow-up1835arrow-down1imagefr fr ongstartrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square246fedilink
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·11 months 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-up32·11 months agoIt’s amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
minus-squarelittleblue✨@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoYou mean bellbottoms and “cottage core” aren’t new & edgy? D’oh.
minus-squareBillyTheSkidMark@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months 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-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoThat’s fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X. OP is just that hip.
minus-squarelittleblue✨@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-211 months 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.
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.