The kids on TikTok are still obsessing over outdated terms that make you sound old. Here's another one: If you step away from your computer and type "BRB" . . . you're ancient.
Young people claim they never really use it, and maybe there's a good reason . . . because they're NEVER away from their devices.
@GaryPoole how about terms that predate computers, like HHOK?
@GaryPoole
What does it make me if I say, "See you later, alligator?" ๐ค ๐
Young people can kiss my ass. ๐
We may be "old" but we were here first. We suffered through dial-up internet. We earned our BRB badges. Plus, we never made up ridiculous challenges that can hurt/kill people.
Old? Okay. Wiser? Definitely. Worthy? Absofuckinglutely. And, we had amazing teen years with no cell, no computer, no soc med. Youngins have no idea what they're missing.
@JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole ๐ฏ
Apologies for being completely pedantic, but in the words of T.S. Eliot: โYouth is cruel and has no remorse and smiles at situations which it cannot see.โ
This boomer will compare my protest arrest record with any youngun who thinks talking shit on SM means something.
I was elected precinct delegate in Detroit suburb at 21. And smuggled draftees into Canada in my trunk with my baby in his car seat.
Bring it on.
@LnzyHou @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole I have received 3 texts asking me to run for a local position as a Democrat, yeah no way.
@LnzyHou @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole Hell No! I didn't even look at it closely to see who's asking or why they think I'm "the man" or a Democrat.
@MidnightRider @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole
What have you got to lose?
@LnzyHou @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole Let's see: My wealth, my free time, my anonymity, the peace of mind of subterfuge living in a state where churches need off duty officers to direct traffic. You think I want to have them as an audience and say one left of center utterance? I'm serous when I say it might cost me my life and for what? I'm sure the pay is less than I made in the 90's.
@LnzyHou @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole
GโMorning ๐โ๏ธ
@j0n @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole
Hey โ๏ธ Jon
I tell anyone who suggests that I'm "old" that all that means is that I've survived shit they can't even imagine.
@mcfate @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole
I feel this and I felt it when I was 20 lol
@mcfate @JoyfullyDazed @GaryPoole not all of the time, of course, but definitely in some areas of life
I'm such an #oldfart I didn't know what BRB meant. ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ
@GaryPoole They're kids, we are lame and they are never going to age and be us. You clock tockers run along and play, I'll enjoy being out of the employment slipstream.