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[–] MagicShel 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm already hep to your jive, so I know what's fly.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Streets ahead.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Younger people of lemmy, what are some nuanced sayings that you would like to have explained to you?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Older" needs a reference point, son.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Olympics committee is corrupt and paid off by big France. I think you might need to reconsider who you trust.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Skibidi. I know it's based on some YouTube things but I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Skibidi comes from Scatman and no one can convince me otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Skee ba bop ba dop bop, ba bop ba dop bop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ok, I'm convinced. You're the Scatman.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh and here I thought it was a reference to the Little Big song of the same name

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Does that have anything to do with skibidi toilet or is that an entirely different thing?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure you’re shitposting, but for any parents who don’t know, it means β€œdown to fuck.”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

See I would totally be down to just hang and watch a movie with a friend, then GTFO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think Netflix is becoming an increasingly hard-sale on it's own these days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

come and look at my etchings was a euphemism well after etchings stopped being fashionable, it'll be the same with netflix and chill.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"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 (πŸ”₯),

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Same here the only out of pocket I have ever heard is either when your broke or having to pay for something.

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

Pog/poggers. I’m old but usually up on things as a long-time knight-of-new but this term slipped by me years ago and I never caught its meaning.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Twitch is a popular live stream platform, on it users can post emotes which have names. One of the oldest and most popular emotes is pogchamp, it used to be the face of a streamer who made the expression after winning a game of pog but he got banned for some controversial statements (typical right wing covid denial, jan6th apologia) and the emote was replaced with a lizard making a similar face. This has slowly bled into the mainstream just as the word pog or poggers.

The facial expression sums up it's meaning, but it's basically one of shocked happiness, you would use it if a streamer does something rare/lucky/skillful. Luke sky-walker turning off his targeting computer but still destroying the deathstar is poggers. Getting an A on a multiple choice test despite guessing every answer is poggers.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up β€œpog” or β€œpogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture

The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to β€œsick” or β€œdope”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I always thought pog was the thing in the 90's where you would have to flip them and whatever flipped you got to keep.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That's true, but I believe in this case it's a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym "Play Of [the] Game".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Generally agree, but I think right wing chuds were the second wave usage trying to co-opt the meaning to be opposite of woke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I've often seen "based" as a shorthand for "based in reality" or "true"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (8 children)

"Ohio"

What does it mean? Yknow other than a place in the US that had some scary chemical leaks some time ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Does anyone actually want to be in Ohio? If something is Ohio, it's that vague uncomfortable ugly failure feeling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Basically New Jersey

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