I’m already hep to your jive, so I know what’s fly.
Streets ahead.
Younger people of lemmy, what are some nuanced sayings that you would like to have explained to you?
Privacy - Privacy is the state or condition of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion, allowing individuals to control their personal information and maintain boundaries from others. It involves the right to keep one’s personal life, thoughts, and activities confidential, and to decide what information is shared and with whom. Privacy ensures protection from surveillance, interference, and misuse of one’s personal data, supporting autonomy and dignity in personal and professional contexts.
I know y’all had a rough start growing up online, but that word really used to be important to us grey beards who watched all this online stuff unfold over the decades.
Sometimes I wonder if the younger folks realize you don’t have to document your life on the internet.
what’s a lefty-capucinno ?
Oh my God one day I walked out of my room and my high school kid looked at me and said:
“That fit shreds”
And it was the first time I had been honestly perplexed by slang, had absolutely no idea what they were trying to convey. Turns out they liked my clothes that day.
“That fit shreds” = that’s an awesome outfit
Synonyms for Fit: outfit, drip, gear, cloth(es), getup
Synonyms for shreds: killer, swag, gnarly, rad, sick, dank, cool, fire (🔥),
Your drip is fire
Your outfit is cool
Your gear is rad
Your clothes are sick
Your getup is dank
Your cloth is killer
All pretty equivalent statements which you may relate to more based on era of terminology you grew up with.
(This is from my brain dictionary, real life experiences may be different)
Edit: Proper spacing to avoid aneurysm
I’m so sick of everything being a “fit”. OUTFIT. Drip? Ugh.
Oh do I have a song for you. Jason Isbell “Outfit”. His dad’s advice on being a man.
“Don’t call what you’re wearing an outfit, don’t ever say your car is broke…”
Pog/poggers. I’m old but usually up on things as a long-time knight-of-new but this term slipped by me years ago and I never caught its meaning.
I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does “out-of-pocket” mean when describing behavior? I’ve only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.
It seems like it’s roughly synonymous with “crazy” or “rude” or “unexpected”, but I’d love to have it explained better.
Same here the only out of pocket I have ever heard is either when your broke or having to pay for something.
“out of pocket” is what you pay, but may not be the total cost of the item/service. “I only had to pay $50 out of pocket and my insurance covered the rest”
It can also be used in business to mean unavailable. “I have to take my kid to the doctor and will be out of pocket for a couple of hours”
Based?
Don’t know exactly but something similar to a mixture of a brave, true, and cool statement. Think it was first used by right wing chuds but then adopted ironically by terminally online liberals.
You’d say “based” if you agree with the political messaging of something.
(Pls correct me if I’m wrong)
Generally agree, but I think right wing chuds were the second wave usage trying to co-opt the meaning to be opposite of woke.
Why don’t the people of Hex Bear get new jokes? They were worn out already on reddit after the first couple of years.
What is GOAT? Someone here called me that, and I’m not sure if it was good or bad.
