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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Television set.

[-] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours 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.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

"People don't have pensions anymore?"

No, Mom, we don't.

[-] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 23 hours ago

Something I once heard my sister say to our grandniece, "I saw the Beatles live."

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

pulling myself up by my bootstraps

[-] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

You kids, get off my lawn!

[-] braydan@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

Boy, I sure love owning a house.

[-] morgan_423@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] vandsjov@feddit.dk 7 points 1 day ago

So not old, cool

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"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.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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 ).

[-] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Lycaon@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days 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

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Say inshallah instead

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

"moderate Republicans"

[-] Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago
[-] marketsnodsbury@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

“Which was the style at the time…”

[-] Yermaw@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

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

[-] RacerX@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

Ouch! I must have slept wrong.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 18 points 2 days ago

“Back in my day”

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

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

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] Tobewrym@discuss.online 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

"Comment ça vas"

i am from Louisiana

[-] newbeni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day 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

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago
[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago

Speak up Sonny.

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

Im trying to keep boston coolers alive.

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

“Do you want to go to the pictures?”

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

My knees hurt.

'Like watching a monkey try to fuck a football'

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

Etc.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

What should I do with my savings today?

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

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

Shaking like a dog shittin’ prune seeds

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

“Nobody died in Tiananmen Square”

this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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