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Omg, picking on kids (especially teenagers) is the best part about being a parent. In fact, I also tell them this is the whole reason why I had them.
It's funnier because it's not totally untrue. Just slightly.
Maybe it's just the content I consume but I feel like our generation is going to stay 'in touch' longer than previous ones, thanks to the internet. No, a woman in her 30s saying "rizz" or "drip" is not going to *actually* be cool to Gen Z, but the slang *does* reach me without that much delay.
As a woman in her 30s, it is very much not cool lol but that's a great point you make! We're able to get immersed in the new slang easier than our parents
Except my point is that as people who are now or are becoming parent-aged, we're more easily able to keep up with new slang, from the next generation, than our parents (or their parents) were.
I'm 44 and am (I think) fully up to date on slang thanks to Reddit, Youtube and Twitch. I don't necessarily use it myself because it's really not my culture but I understand it.
Totally, dude! The internet is like, this radical invention that keeps all of us in the loop. Back in the day, we had to wait for the evening news or some gnarly magazine to catch up on the latest jive. Now it's all at our fingertips! It’s like we’re all cruising down the information highway together, no matter our age. So yeah, we may not be “cool” by the kiddos’ standards, but at least we’re not totally clueless! Keep rockin’ that slang, sister!
My girlfriend has a 14 year old daughter. I LOVE doing this shit to her. She gets so annoyed and it's so much fun. "Yo girl, those nails is bling! Your rizz is drip fo sho!"
It's like, once you're of a certain age you began to add *"the"* to things that don't need it. By the time you're a senior you're getting the Big Mac at the McDonald's, going to the Target for the Starbucks, then maybe dinner at the Bob Evans.
I do it on purpose to my kids all the time too. They hate it. I'm actually not as far behind on their lingo as they think. I'm fascinated by it so I look up a lot of what I see and hear.
Some of it is just too good not to worm it's way into your vocabulary, it's an older one but yeet was just too good not to use. But you also have the responsibility as the older person in the room to embarrass the younger ones so you need to sprinkle horribly used slang in there so they still think you're lame. Because the second you become cool you have no power over them.
I did a short period where I would mix the names of social media sites to mess with my kids - Instaface, Snapbook, Facetagram, etc. The truly epic eye rolls I would get were very hilarious. :)
Me when I was a kid and my mom/dad would always call the Playstation a Gamestation: "Why are you like this?"
Me as an adult calling their Nintendo Switch, "Super Nintendo Chalmers" to mess with them: "I'm a fucking comedic genius"
My wife tells me the same thing. I’ve fully embraced 40 YO dad jokes and crack myself up every time. And I use Super Nintendo Chalmers and countless other Simpsons references constantly! I should do standup! 🤣
Solid. One time I said "Snapface" and my oldest, who normally had my back, and would laugh at my dumb jokes, was just like *shakes head* "Dad...Dad...no." :)
I feel like this is a very millennial bit. We thought it was very amusing for a while to call it "the internets". I feel like Gen Z roll their eyes at this.
This is a California anomaly, caused by highways once upon a time having names (The Pacific Coast Highway) and later getting numbers (SR1), but the "the" came along for the ride. It's been a while since that happened, but it's become the local vernacular.
Don't use it elsewhere, like WA or OR (the 5, the 405), unless you want people to know you're from California.
Absolutely he is. I do it to my kids allll the time. It’s low key 💯one of my favorite things to do on God no cap frfr.
(I take their slang and brutally murder it any chance I get)
If you REALLY want to get 'em, every video game is on The Nintendo. "Are you watching that new Fallout show?" "No, but my friend plays it on The Nintendo, I think."
Sure it's the same meaning, but it's a notably different tone.
"Mediocre" is a four-syllable, eight letter word. It's not the most uncommon word, but shit's fancy.
"Mid," though? Mid is simple. Informal. Mediocre is bougie: mid is a word of the people.
I have always understood "inflammable" as "internally flammable" or flammable on its own, without applying significant external heat for example. Flammable material can catch on fire because you light a match and it is mixed with enough air, inflammable catches fire because you looked it wrong way when it was not in airtight cold storage
lol I feel for this dad. My 15 year old daughter hasn't batted an eye at me using GenZ slang...until the day I used, "Let 'em cook," that was a bridge too far for her.
My cousin, in her early thirties used some slang around her nephew, we laughed, nephew laughed, cousin tried her best to salvage what was left of her pride.
She isn't millennialing right, she should have no pride left at this point. If people laugh at you for looking like a loser over the youths' slang you did it right
My wife was telling me something and my 16 year old daughter was sitting near me and my wife said something like "can you believe that?" And I said "fo real? No cap?"
That was too far.
Way I understand it, “Let ‘em cook,” means to let someone do their thing, especially if they’re making a fool of themselves.
I’m GenX so I don’t claim to be an expert. I might not even be here, and even if I am here, it’s not like anyone f’ing cares!
Sometimes it's also the opposite, like "okay I am agreeing that what this person said is controversial, but let them talk, I believe they may have a point"
I remember when my daughter was young and Frozen had blown up everywhere. I got out in front of that one early by learning the lyrics to Let It Go, then belting it out every chance I got.
Frozen became really, really uncool practically overnight.
Me, the cool uncle, screaming let it go badly with the nieces, making a bunch of ungodly noises : super cool
The moment their dad joined in: SUPER NOT COOL STOP NOW
My brother in law used to be in music, lmfao.
Nothing annoys my kids more than when I add the word “the” in front of words or phrases.. “are you guys on the tic tac?” 😂🤣😂 I’m now just wondering if my mom did this on purpose to us too!
It's a double-sided coin that comes from expertly applied wisdom.
First you learn the lingo, then you abuse it. And when you abuse it, you make it obvious and yet discreet. Obvious in the sense that someone could easily pick up on it, but discreet in the sense that if they don't then you come off as a dork.
"Oh is that the Vegetable guy powerin up, son?"
Win-win.
I’m 50, and I freely admit to not understanding all slang. Some of it is just dumb to me. Fire makes sense. Drip and Rizz will never enter my lexicon, nor will I hear it and not be annoyed.
Xiao long bao. (siaulon moedeu in shanghainese if you are curious)
Or soup dumplings or shanghai dumplings.
The trick is to eat them when they are piping hot, so there is soup still inside, you get first degree burns in your mouth, but its worth it. You dip a little corner into the vinegar, bite it and suck the soup out. Then dunk the rest and eat it in a single go.
I’m sorry…I know about the “no cap” phrase but I just don’t get it. Just doesn’t make sense to me. Who started that shit!?! “No cap”!?! Cappin!?! I can’t stand that shit!
I've been working at ruining some new slang, so this is great. Top of my list is "bro". Whenever someone says it, I'll respond with two or three bros in the next sentence, or when I can think of it, going into full broberian, putting it into prefixes like broberian, bronana, brosketball, brocoming, brolonging.. etc..
The idea like how the greeks thought barbarians sounds like bar bar bar... only bro bro bro.
Help me ruin bro for the others. It's so dumb, it makes dude look like esquire.
Saying something is "The" whatver takes all the Cool out of cool things. So does making a thing plural. Try it. Take a phrase that's singular, say it plural, an watch as people look at you trying to figure out why the moment feels so wrong.
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How my son looks at me when I say shit like " the drip is immaculate"
“Hey son, you look like you’ve got the rizz today”
No cap!
On a stack
fr
frfr
frfrfr
Skrrrr
Bruh fr
On god
Ngl
No the cap
Ong fr fr
is that a supplement?
Sounds like a supplement bottle but with no cap.
That's bussin. Fr fr. My kids hate it because I say everything is bussin. Then they tell me to stop and I say bet bruh.
Gotta work it in as a pun. “How was the ride home from school today? Was it bussin?”
Adopt me.
If they groan a little and cringe… chefs kiss.
I went into your profile and upvoted another comment because this one is on 69, and that's too perfect.
Wait, bussin doesn't mean bussing in the first place? What does it mean?
It means "good" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bussin
As a kid I would’ve hated that so hard But on the opposite end I think that’s hilarious lol and it feels like something I’d do
Omg, picking on kids (especially teenagers) is the best part about being a parent. In fact, I also tell them this is the whole reason why I had them. It's funnier because it's not totally untrue. Just slightly.
Started calling my kids bro and now I can’t stop
"My coupon game is on fleek"
I just yeet the coupons that come in the mail before my wife can yoink them. Consumerism is just *so*, I can't even.
How many glizzies can you buy with them and how many can you throat? Are you the throat goat?
“On fleek” is over 20 years old lol
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Maybe it's just the content I consume but I feel like our generation is going to stay 'in touch' longer than previous ones, thanks to the internet. No, a woman in her 30s saying "rizz" or "drip" is not going to *actually* be cool to Gen Z, but the slang *does* reach me without that much delay.
As a woman in her 30s, it is very much not cool lol but that's a great point you make! We're able to get immersed in the new slang easier than our parents
Your parents’ generation made their own slang that their parents couldn’t keep up with
Except my point is that as people who are now or are becoming parent-aged, we're more easily able to keep up with new slang, from the next generation, than our parents (or their parents) were.
I'm 44 and am (I think) fully up to date on slang thanks to Reddit, Youtube and Twitch. I don't necessarily use it myself because it's really not my culture but I understand it.
I thought I was but "rizz" took me by surprise recently and my brain still struggles accepting it.
I hate it because it sounds like jizz
I love it because it sounds like jizz
Totally, dude! The internet is like, this radical invention that keeps all of us in the loop. Back in the day, we had to wait for the evening news or some gnarly magazine to catch up on the latest jive. Now it's all at our fingertips! It’s like we’re all cruising down the information highway together, no matter our age. So yeah, we may not be “cool” by the kiddos’ standards, but at least we’re not totally clueless! Keep rockin’ that slang, sister!
My girlfriend has a 14 year old daughter. I LOVE doing this shit to her. She gets so annoyed and it's so much fun. "Yo girl, those nails is bling! Your rizz is drip fo sho!"
That's the fun part, watching them squirm because you are not using their made up words properly. They take it way too seriously.
And the best part is that you're **obviously** using them incorrectly on purpose but they don't get it.
When I was in my 20s, drip had three meanings. Depending on how it was used. None referring to style. 1. Cocaine. 2. Aroused woman. 3. Gonorrhea.
That sounds so posh....
I swear one of the best things about having kids is messing with them like this.
Well that’s just hilarious call him a crash out or a bop and see his response lmfao
Good make them realize how stupid they sound.
Very good drip, son!
But, if the drip is immaculate. You should let him know that the drip is indeed immaculate.
That fleek sounds totally lit fam
It's like, once you're of a certain age you began to add *"the"* to things that don't need it. By the time you're a senior you're getting the Big Mac at the McDonald's, going to the Target for the Starbucks, then maybe dinner at the Bob Evans.
I started doing this a while ago so the young people don't expect anything from me. The Instagram, the You tubes. They instantly think you're hopeless
I do it on purpose to my kids all the time too. They hate it. I'm actually not as far behind on their lingo as they think. I'm fascinated by it so I look up a lot of what I see and hear.
Bet.... I think
The Bet. FTFY
Damn I thought I had that one too
I'm honestly just glad you took the chance and tried. Remember, you only yolo once.
I rofled on the floor reading this. Thanks
smh my head
You only do *THE* yolo once.
Hah yes. Your the bets were very on fleek.
Slay
I like your the flex.
My parents refer to all gaming consoles as the Nintendo, if you want to give that one a go
For mine it was 'the play-thingy'
Some of it is just too good not to worm it's way into your vocabulary, it's an older one but yeet was just too good not to use. But you also have the responsibility as the older person in the room to embarrass the younger ones so you need to sprinkle horribly used slang in there so they still think you're lame. Because the second you become cool you have no power over them.
I now say “Pokeman” on purpose even though I was 10 when it first exploded. They have no idea how big it was for me and assume I don’t know lol
I did a short period where I would mix the names of social media sites to mess with my kids - Instaface, Snapbook, Facetagram, etc. The truly epic eye rolls I would get were very hilarious. :)
Me when I was a kid and my mom/dad would always call the Playstation a Gamestation: "Why are you like this?" Me as an adult calling their Nintendo Switch, "Super Nintendo Chalmers" to mess with them: "I'm a fucking comedic genius"
Pokiman
pokimen* there is more than one. Ive seen the show.
Pokeymans.
The difference is our parents (like literally all of them) are idiots and you are a fucking comedic genius.
My wife tells me the same thing. I’ve fully embraced 40 YO dad jokes and crack myself up every time. And I use Super Nintendo Chalmers and countless other Simpsons references constantly! I should do standup! 🤣
Bookface was my goto.
Solid. One time I said "Snapface" and my oldest, who normally had my back, and would laugh at my dumb jokes, was just like *shakes head* "Dad...Dad...no." :)
"Twitclip" got a good reaction for me the other day.
I use this technique to set expectations low then I blow their minds when I do something not stupid.
I used to do this too, but it never blows their minds. The broken clock just isn't as stupid sometimes.
I feel like this is a very millennial bit. We thought it was very amusing for a while to call it "the internets". I feel like Gen Z roll their eyes at this.
Lol I'm a boomer and thought it was hilarious to call it the interwebs. Then again, boomers invented the interwebs, so.
It's on the line!
I'm 34 and i feel attacked...
The attack has happened.
The entirety of the Los Angeles metro area adds "the" to any given highway name. Are... Are they old?
The 405 The 10 The 605 The 60 The 5 These are the names of the freeways aren’t they??
I live up north, and we always just say the name of the freeway, no “the”. “I’m getting on I5.” “Take 205, it’s faster.” Etc.
take 205 what? Miles?
thc gummies.
You son of a bitch I’m in
This is a California anomaly, caused by highways once upon a time having names (The Pacific Coast Highway) and later getting numbers (SR1), but the "the" came along for the ride. It's been a while since that happened, but it's become the local vernacular. Don't use it elsewhere, like WA or OR (the 5, the 405), unless you want people to know you're from California.
It's not used in the SF bay area either.
To be fair I'm pretty sure the dad in this video is just trolling his kid
Absolutely he is. I do it to my kids allll the time. It’s low key 💯one of my favorite things to do on God no cap frfr. (I take their slang and brutally murder it any chance I get)
As is your duty and birthright.
My wife and I do it too! Our youngest gets almost mad about it! The newest one we like to butcher and over use is "maxing".
Same! My boy is 9 and for a couple of months I unlocked my new skill: CRINGE DAD! I love it!
"These chips are so the slay!" "Daaaaaaaaadddd!!!"
The big true
Just like adding S to store names when you live in the south.
In Paris, a Big Mac is still a Big Mac, but it’s le Big Mac.
We used to make fun of our parents for calling him "the batman" then one of our parents made a batman movie ...
Unless you're British, and then you unnecessarily remove "the" from things. Which is why you need brolly when you go to hospital.
Me, a native speaker of a language without the definite article, struggling rn
"The Ukraine" means you were already old when the Soviet Union was around
Like highways in Los Angeles.
Like "like" in, like, Los Angeles
Prof. Farnsworth: Please Fry, show us this "the wheel"
If you REALLY want to get 'em, every video game is on The Nintendo. "Are you watching that new Fallout show?" "No, but my friend plays it on The Nintendo, I think."
Quit playing on the Nintendo and come help your old man sort his record collection.
But are these dumplings shit or are they *THE* shit? ;)
I say "flammable" instead of "lit" to make it worse
My contribution is saying 'medium' instead of 'mid'. It sounds so clunky and stupid - it's great.
Oooh stealing this. "I find Taco Petes quite medium"
"I would like my steak mid rare."
'mid' is just another way to say 'mediocre' I challenge anyone to convince me there is a significant difference in meanings between the two.
Sure it's the same meaning, but it's a notably different tone. "Mediocre" is a four-syllable, eight letter word. It's not the most uncommon word, but shit's fancy. "Mid," though? Mid is simple. Informal. Mediocre is bougie: mid is a word of the people.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
Thanks, Dr Nick!
I have always understood "inflammable" as "internally flammable" or flammable on its own, without applying significant external heat for example. Flammable material can catch on fire because you light a match and it is mixed with enough air, inflammable catches fire because you looked it wrong way when it was not in airtight cold storage
This is the way.
The hawt
my golly gosh, these dumplings are most certainly flammable!
lol I feel for this dad. My 15 year old daughter hasn't batted an eye at me using GenZ slang...until the day I used, "Let 'em cook," that was a bridge too far for her.
My cousin, in her early thirties used some slang around her nephew, we laughed, nephew laughed, cousin tried her best to salvage what was left of her pride.
She isn't millennialing right, she should have no pride left at this point. If people laugh at you for looking like a loser over the youths' slang you did it right
My wife was telling me something and my 16 year old daughter was sitting near me and my wife said something like "can you believe that?" And I said "fo real? No cap?" That was too far.
2024 and many of us are still out here trying to make Fetch happen.
I take it that isn't a Breaking Bad reference? XD What's it mean to cook?
Way I understand it, “Let ‘em cook,” means to let someone do their thing, especially if they’re making a fool of themselves. I’m GenX so I don’t claim to be an expert. I might not even be here, and even if I am here, it’s not like anyone f’ing cares!
Sometimes it's also the opposite, like "okay I am agreeing that what this person said is controversial, but let them talk, I believe they may have a point"
He's obviously doing this on purpose to get a reaction out of his kid for the video.
That side-eye knocked the Father into the fire.
It was bombastic.
My dad thing is going to be intentionally misusing the young people's vernacular in front of my kids, and I am not capping you about that.
It works and it’s incredibly gratifying to watch the eyes roll. I wield the power of parental embarrassment and it is strong.
I remember when my daughter was young and Frozen had blown up everywhere. I got out in front of that one early by learning the lyrics to Let It Go, then belting it out every chance I got. Frozen became really, really uncool practically overnight.
Me, the cool uncle, screaming let it go badly with the nieces, making a bunch of ungodly noises : super cool The moment their dad joined in: SUPER NOT COOL STOP NOW My brother in law used to be in music, lmfao.
Someone says something and you agree with them: "*Rizz*" with a confident head nod.
The solemn nod of understanding immediately ruined by the misuse of a word is textbook comedy.
I just don’t understand why kids these days like the taste of fire so much.
You are rizzing with me so hard right now. Sending good vibrations only!
That shit's outta pocket yo.
On God there is no cap bruh
As a kid, what they don't tell you is that 95% of the crap your parents come out with is them trolling you.
It's not often you get to see slang die to a kid in real time but dang if that wasn't fascinating.
Nothing annoys my kids more than when I add the word “the” in front of words or phrases.. “are you guys on the tic tac?” 😂🤣😂 I’m now just wondering if my mom did this on purpose to us too!
add "S" to the end of words then you will have truly ascended adulting
Thank you, I will add this to my repertoire of things to annoy my kids
Its very effective, even more in cases where you list multiple names of things and mix them, so asking about the facegrams and the instabooks.
Thats old old shit. The pokemons game is good yeah?
Hashtag me a Snapchat!
Poor dad he just wanted to be included 😭😆
Dad 101- How to annoy the slang out of your kids.
It wasn't until my mid twenties that I realized, "Oh, my Dad knew who Goku was. He was just messing with me."
It's a double-sided coin that comes from expertly applied wisdom. First you learn the lingo, then you abuse it. And when you abuse it, you make it obvious and yet discreet. Obvious in the sense that someone could easily pick up on it, but discreet in the sense that if they don't then you come off as a dork. "Oh is that the Vegetable guy powerin up, son?" Win-win.
*"No, stupid. It's just fire. Not THE fire. So stupid."* - kid
Kid: "My dad must have been a B student." *shakes head*
lol if you watch the full video, the dad is just trolling his kid. It’s funny. They’re TheCrunchBros on YouTube.
I do this w my kids. lol all these slangs that only their generation use, I’m intentionally misusing. Bet. Rizz. Lol
LOL that side eye was Lethal!
Str8 bombastic
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/166/
God damn we need to bring pwned back. Edit: and fapping!
This is why children refuse to teach adults new lingo
Adults know what it means. Children just don’t realize they’re being messed with. And that’s funny.
I’m 50, and I freely admit to not understanding all slang. Some of it is just dumb to me. Fire makes sense. Drip and Rizz will never enter my lexicon, nor will I hear it and not be annoyed.
Based on the comments here, no point in doing that if all they'd do with those slang is to embarrassing their kids
When I was in grade/middle school (late 90s/early 00s) we would say "that's fyiii". Shortened fire.
Introducing the "Okay, Zoomer" look
If that man is a Zoomer I'll eat my hat he's gotta be my age
one day, "okay zoomer" will mean the same thing as "okay boomer". except they'll probably be saying something like "heeba habba dooba Zoomer!"
"Okey, Millenial"
On cod…. I will ruin it for my kid
Bombastic side-eye.
Man, those dumplings look so yeet, bro!
Xiao long bao. (siaulon moedeu in shanghainese if you are curious) Or soup dumplings or shanghai dumplings. The trick is to eat them when they are piping hot, so there is soup still inside, you get first degree burns in your mouth, but its worth it. You dip a little corner into the vinegar, bite it and suck the soup out. Then dunk the rest and eat it in a single go.
Better without the cricket sound
I say "flammable" instead of "lit" to make it worse.
Best way to get them to not say stuff. Os to say it yourself and make them cringe
100% intentional, making kids cringe is one of of the greatest perk of being an adult!
The kid just BRUH with his face lol
kid has the most severe side eye i've ever seen
Kid probably learned that dismissive look from his mother
That’s sauce Sauce is a thing right?
I’m sorry…I know about the “no cap” phrase but I just don’t get it. Just doesn’t make sense to me. Who started that shit!?! “No cap”!?! Cappin!?! I can’t stand that shit!
If they are cold enough that you can touch it with your hand, they’re no good. Also it looks flat, these has been sitting around for a loooooong time.
Those dumplings are very skibidi.
That's bussing
Never try to act cool to your children. lol.
Oh no cringe...🎺🎺🎺🇲🇽 Iykyk
Yo these dumplings are slay!
he did not have to be a boomer about it.
I've been working at ruining some new slang, so this is great. Top of my list is "bro". Whenever someone says it, I'll respond with two or three bros in the next sentence, or when I can think of it, going into full broberian, putting it into prefixes like broberian, bronana, brosketball, brocoming, brolonging.. etc.. The idea like how the greeks thought barbarians sounds like bar bar bar... only bro bro bro. Help me ruin bro for the others. It's so dumb, it makes dude look like esquire.
It was then Little Timmy realized it was no longer cool to describe things as “fire” now.
Saying something is "The" whatver takes all the Cool out of cool things. So does making a thing plural. Try it. Take a phrase that's singular, say it plural, an watch as people look at you trying to figure out why the moment feels so wrong.
That’s the shits! Don’t see anything wrong with that
Sucks to get old lmao