What is something only old people say?
What is something only old people say?
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"Are you ready to rock?"
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Television set.
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“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.
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"People don't have pensions anymore?"
No, Mom, we don't.
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In my day.
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Let me just talk for a while, you'll get some
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Something I once heard my sister say to our grandniece, "I saw the Beatles live."
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Boy, I sure love owning a house.
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Hey, I'm heading into my late 40s and I haven't been able to say that yet lol
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So not old, cool
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pulling myself up by my bootstraps
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"Kids these days don't want to work."
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You kids, get off my lawn!
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After living with my grandma for so long I started saying "god willing" and people keep telling me it makes me sound old lol
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Say inshallah instead
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“Which was the style at the time…”
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I keep saying that to my boy, but even the reference goes over his head it's so old.
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Ouch! I must have slept wrong.
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"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.
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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.
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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 ).
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I've started saying "beyond the pale" and "copacetic" after playing Disco Elysium
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“Back in my day”
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"moderate Republicans"
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"I'm not THAT old, but ..."
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I couldn't remember the song title Pink Pony Club and called it Hoke Pokey Unicorn the other day.... so that
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Dad gum
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"Here, have a Werthers."
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I'm in my 20s and have for years had a stash of these...
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Tight timeline, but I guess you could be a grandparent.
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"Comment ça vas"
i am from Louisiana
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How do you say that out loud? I wonder if I've heard it, just never knew how it was spelt.
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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
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Define "Old People"
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Whatever you think is an old person. Im trying to figure out if i say these things.
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Speak up Sonny.
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My dad called rootbeer floats “boston coolers” and called BigBoy’s restaurants “Manners”
Im trying to keep boston coolers alive.
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“Do you want to go to the pictures?”
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My knees hurt.
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'Like watching a monkey try to fuck a football'
'About as useful as a wooden dick on a sawhorse'
Etc.
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What should I do with my savings today?
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Shaking like a dog shittin’ prune seeds
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The other day someone told me "bamboozle" is something only old people say
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“Nobody died in Tiananmen Square”
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