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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

"Yes I remember vine"

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Boy, I sure love owning a house.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm heading into my late 40s and I haven't been able to say that yet lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

So not old, cool

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

"Kids these days don't want to work."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

After living with my grandma for so long I started saying "god willing" and people keep telling me it makes me sound old lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

“Back in my day”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“Which was the style at the time…”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I keep saying that to my boy, but even the reference goes over his head it's so old.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Ouch! I must have slept wrong.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm not THAT old, but ..."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

"moderate Republicans"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

You kids, get off my lawn!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in my 20s and have for years had a stash of these...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Tight timeline, but I guess you could be a grandparent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

pulling myself up by my bootstraps

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

"People don't have pensions anymore?"

No, Mom, we don't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Whatever you think is an old person. Im trying to figure out if i say these things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Speak up Sonny.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Comment ça vas"

i am from Louisiana

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you say that out loud? I wonder if I've heard it, just never knew how it was spelt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am not sure how to write the -ent sound with english pronunciation, but here is my best attempt

"kôm-mâ sâ vâ" with the ^ signifying the soft vowel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I couldn't remember the song title Pink Pony Club and called it Hoke Pokey Unicorn the other day.... so that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

"Knee high to a grasshopper" (short)

"Beyond the pale" (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)

"Dance maven"

"I'll just do that in my copious free time..." (sarcastically, because you are too busy)

"Copacetic" (it's all good)

"Heavy" (meaning important, grave)

I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You just don't get it, you keep it copacetic..

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

If the question is things "only" old people say, you have to exclude phrases old people say that were repopularized through media.

"Heavy" (meaning important, grave)

For example this is a really quotable line from Back to the Future, so kids would pick it up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Heavy? Is there something wrong with the earths gravity??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The strange thing here is that Marty McFly is using the slang "heavy" and Doc Brown doesn't understand it. Yet the use of heavy to mean "profound, serious" started in Jazz in 1937. So Doc would have grown up with the word, and by the 80's I wonder if it was really all that popular anymore. McFly is using 50's slang in the '50s but the guy from the '50s doesn't get the slang. Maybe because he's not hip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

40 year old movies are not really a major influence on slang & pop culture...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've started saying "beyond the pale" and "copacetic" after playing Disco Elysium

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only time I have ever heard the word copacetic and only reason I know it exists is because of a song that probably only dinosaurs and hipsters listen to anymore: Bound For The Floor.

Other than that, I've never heard it used in any context. So I'mma agree that it's definitely an old person word ( or a pretentious "I'm BeTtEr ThAn YoU" kinda word ).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Copacetic has an interesting history. I heard about it in a video I can't currently find, but this article gives some history: wordorigins.org

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Let me just talk for a while, you'll get some

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

“Nobody wants to work any more” or “kids aren’t disciplined anymore”, and “millenials…something something something” to refer to any generation younger than them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

My knees hurt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

My dad called rootbeer floats “boston coolers” and called BigBoy’s restaurants “Manners”

Im trying to keep boston coolers alive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Shaking like a dog shittin’ prune seeds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

What should I do with my savings today?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

'Like watching a monkey try to fuck a football'

'About as useful as a wooden dick on a sawhorse'

Etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The other day someone told me "bamboozle" is something only old people say

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

“Do you want to go to the pictures?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Television set.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Are you ready to rock?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

“Nobody died in Tiananmen Square”