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The Real King Gordon to [email protected] • 1 month ago

What is something only old people say?

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What is something only old people say?

The Real King Gordon to [email protected] • 1 month ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    18•1 month ago

    Boy, I sure love owning a house.

    • morgan423
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      5•1 month ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    10•1 month ago

    Ouch! I must have slept wrong.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    8•1 month ago

    “I’m not THAT old, but …”

  • @[email protected]
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    7•1 month ago

    “moderate Republicans”

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•1 month ago

      I’ve started saying “beyond the pale” and “copacetic” after playing Disco Elysium

    • @[email protected]
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      3•1 month 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•20 days ago

      You just don’t get it, you keep it copacetic…

  • @[email protected]
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    6•1 month ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    5•1 month 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]
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    5•1 month ago

    In my day.

  • @[email protected]
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    “Here, have a Werther’s.”

  • @[email protected]
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    4•1 month ago

    Shaking like a dog shittin’ prune seeds

  • @[email protected]
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    3•1 month ago

    ‘Like watching a monkey try to fuck a football’

    ‘About as useful as a wooden dick on a sawhorse’

    Etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    3•1 month ago

    My knees hurt.

  • The Real King GordonOP
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    2•1 month ago

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

    Im trying to keep boston coolers alive.

  • @[email protected]
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    2•1 month ago

    Television set.

  • @[email protected]
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    2•20 days ago

    “Yes I remember vine”

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