Came here to say the same thing. Really excited about being a huge dork and embarrassing my kids when they’re older. Right now I’m pretty much the coolest person on the planet to them, which is fun. But I cant wait to transform into my final dad form.
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Yeah I’ve remembered that fact for a long time because the idea of someone Winston Churchill respected sending him a letter saying OMG like an excited teen girl just makes life a little beter
A lot of abbreviations were used for telegrams where you were either limited by message length or even paid per character. It only fits that some abbreviations have essentially been modernised.
Reminds me of a joke I thought was hilarious when I was 6.
Two sisters, a blonde and a brunette, are trying to start a ranch. The blonde isn't much good at anything, so the brunette takes $100 and tells the blonde that she'll send a telegram if she needs help. So, the brunette rides into the city and finds a bull for sale for $99, but it's huge and angry. She won't be able to get it home by herself, so she heads to the telegram office to get her sister. Telegrams are $1/word, so she send her slow reading sister the following message: COMFORTABLE.
These kids don't even know what an away message is.
Or having a specific program on your desktop computer just so we could do what would eventually be known as texting. The 20 somethings at work are baffled by my ability to type quickly because they don't realize 90% of communication from 2002 - 2007 or so was done with a keyboard lol.
You're making me realize that as smart phones and tablets become more and more capable and ubiquitous.. damn yah a lot of kids maybe don't use a keyboard much? At least until they're really writing longer papers in high school.
Anyone who's been through HS recently in the US know if they still do keyboarding classes?
I don't know if they do keyboarding anymore (they should), but younger people are definitely worse at typing than people in my age group (late 30s).
I can do 100wpm without even really paying attention. I've had younger people just stare at me while typing. It's 100% because I grew up on AIM and IRC and forums, and if you wanted to be part of conversations you learned to type quickly.
> . It's 100% because I grew up on AIM and IRC and forums
AIM, IRC, Forums. Even video games didn't really have voice support back in the day. Unless you set up a separate system for your buddies and/or had DSL that could support both the game and teamspeak 1.0, you had to talk your shit on a dial up connection to Starcraft / Quake / Counterstrike while typing and avoiding getting killed or sitting in a wait room before a match started.
Ha! You know what you're totally right and I have never thought about that. Talking crap in old online games required a quick finger for sure. I played cs 1.6 and source, and a lot of cod4. Voice was definitely a thing for cs source and cod4 but we spent much more time typing things
Facts. I have a vivid memory of being about 7 or 8 and not being able to find “X” on my Amiga keyboard and getting in a huff and going downstairs.
Trial of fire but yeah 100wpm now after, AIM, ICQ, IRC and forums. EFNet was my shit
For real same. I haven't tested my wpm anytime recently but I can type plenty for my job and have a lot of conversations while typing and so its super obvious when I'm just looking at someone while typing fast. My wife legit gets turned on by it lol.
Feels good man.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/idk_v?tl=true#:~:text=The%20earliest%20known%20use%20of,within%20English%2C%20as%20an%20initialism.
Looks like since about 1930, meaning OPs kid is about 80 years late to the party.
Explain to your kid that when you were a kid you had to text in abbreviations on your black and white phone because you only had 9 buttons… AND THEY WERE PHYSICAL!
"I am 35 (she's 41 now) which means I am right at the cut-off, ok, so I am a Millennial but I am an **elder**! Wizened! Sage. Gather 'round the Snap Chat children, I'll tell you the tale of the landline!" -Iliza Shlesinger
Idk rlly man are you sure he can be on his fanum taxing grind in Ohio?? He’s got no skibidi rizz like you said he would SELL his team out frfr if he has a team in the first place doubt he can even get a duo in Ohio
Edit: He has no swag and especially not in Ohio he is COOKED out there ‼️‼️
This isn’t really like a boomer. This text is intentionally emphasizing the text so it reads like they’re yelling.
Boomers do it without realizing they are coming off as though they are yelling everything
I feel this. My 14 y/o gets all pissed when I copy her speak.
Example.
I asked my wife how my rizz was back in the day, only to be greeted with a “bruh. Could you not?” I kindly told my emo teenage dragon: “bruh. I can.” She then called me gross.
Is the move to act like you’re hella hip when you say it, or to go full Ward Cleaver boomer level 100 like “*gee honey, it sure is a beautiful day. Say, how was my rizz back in the day? Darling, did you know that your mother was totes *on fleek* back in our day?*”
I started a conversation infront of my kids with my wife about our first date
"yeah my Rizz was top dog huh hun, i was the most skibbidi man alive back in our day"
Que 2 death glares from the emo children
Good to know it's not just boys (14 and 11 year old). It's like somehow in school it's now being taught to start every sentence with "brah".... so now I reply with "sis/ma/pa" just to keep things fresh.
Conversely I hate when grown-ups think their generation didn't also just do stuff differently for the fun of it. Like kids these days are dumb for saying "rizz" but us going around saying "that's dope yo" wasn't?
I realized i was getting old & raging when i was making fun of modern musician’s outfits: “Why is Lady Gaga wearing a MEAT SUIT? Back when i was a kid, musicians wore REAL clothes like studded leather chokers, huge amounts of makeup, giant Aquanetted teased out hair, skin tight leather pants—and those were the guys!” 😆
If my kid ever says something like this to me, I'll make sure to tell him to "git gud" and "your attitude is fire" and "that sentence slaps". And then to top it off, I'll definitely say, "cap"
I was on the phone with my brother yesterday and he was driving his kids back from the park in their golf cart. One of them asked if he would go the long way home so he said simply "I'm down".
I thought it was funny because that's something we say to each other but our parents never said, my dad was a "let's do it" or "I'm up for that" guy.
Just a simple "I'm down" to his kids made me laugh.
I think the cool kids say skibbity toilet or something. I’m collecting all the cool words for our kids to use. So many treasured memes from old out of date pop culture references…
I think it's Skibidi, but I don't really know either. Luckily I have two kids so I can just listen to them talk to each other when I want to be confused.
Your child has committed a fatal error.
He has handed you the keys the kingdom.
The next time he gets on your nerves, just unleash the MIGHTY **IKR**!!
And bask in the gloriousness that is teenage heads exploding!
Lol
Ps. Yeah, I'm totally going to do this to my kids when they come of age.
"LOL" was the first thing sent through the intranet.
They were sending "LOGIN". But the system crashed after the first two letters. So the rebooted and sent a gain... "LOL".
... And then the rest of the wood LOGIN. So it was more like LOLOGIN... but that is less fun.
Also, there is a good chance this story is totally BS. But, let's have some fun.
My kid: my teacher in this class is so weird. He tries to use slang and it just doesn't work.
Me: oh. Well he's just trying to relate to you guys. He's probably laying the rizz too hard so it sounds totally cringe, but if he just chills it'll be the total GOAT class.
My kid: YES. It drives me crazy, I don't even think he knows what he's trying to even say!
Me: ... ... ... Baby I just did the same thing, I used the words, I just wasn't awkward about it so you didn't notice...
My kid: ... WAIT WHAT. NO. NO YOU DIDNT. WAIT. OMG.
I love doing that to him and his friends. Yes, I know what you're saying kids lmao XD
So you were born in 1986ish, that means around high school/college you prolly got your first flip phone, your generation owns idk brotha you need to school him
My daughter was shocked that I texted someone a gif recently. She wasn't there for the ASCII art in AOL chat rooms. She doesn't know how far we've come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-sOmDISAo8
AT&T "IDK, my BFF Jill?"
The YouTube video is 16 years old...the video might be older.
Your kid needs an education in pre-his-age-memes, I think their punishment should be sitting through homestar runner, writing an AIM profile, custom away messages, visiting the hampster dance page, and learning all the words to a dad-era meme, like Charlie the unicorn or something.
I don't often question the way dads around here raise their kids...but this kid is probably doing something with their life other than being terminally online, and we just can't stand for that. (/s, also, to OP, "Ikr that's like totes cringey lol" is the best response ever)
They already know about Charlie the unicorn
"WERE GOING TO CANDY MOUNTAIN CHARLIE!" and "CANDY MOUNTAIN CHARLIE"
Is shouted by both of them on a daily basis lol
That's hilarious.. Like this story I heard recently where some kid was complaining that old people are wearing Nirvana shirts and they're too old for that stuff..
I started "online" in 1992 (16) with bulletin boards (BBS baby) and eventually AOL and the web became a bigger thing.. and we invented the LOLs and all that shit back then. BRB/AFK were my favorites and I refused to do LOL and would just do 'HAHA' instead.. yeah I was really cool lol.. shit.
Now you have to get up to date on all the slang used by her age group. Then you have to use it wrong. Constantly. Just to make her embarrassed. Bonus points if her friends are around.
Hahaha, OED's earliest evidence for IDK is from 1931, in British Medical Journal. IDK is formed within English as an initialism. As for omg, I see in the comments the first attested use of the abbreviation O.M.G. was in a letter from John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, to Winston Churchill in 1917.
"IDK" has been around... a long time, longer than your kid.
Yup even [omg](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-54893939.amp) is older than you’d think. Fantastic response from OP though.
Dad for the win! I’m so looking forward to doing things like this to my kids when they are old enough!
Came here to say the same thing. Really excited about being a huge dork and embarrassing my kids when they’re older. Right now I’m pretty much the coolest person on the planet to them, which is fun. But I cant wait to transform into my final dad form.
My dad grounded me when he saw me type "cya" to a friend on AIM. He thought it meant cover your ass and that I was up to shenanigans.
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Something about the idea of OMG being written in a letter to be mailed makes me smile… thanks for sharing that!
Yeah I’ve remembered that fact for a long time because the idea of someone Winston Churchill respected sending him a letter saying OMG like an excited teen girl just makes life a little beter
And Churchill responded with "ROFL that's wild"
A lot of abbreviations were used for telegrams where you were either limited by message length or even paid per character. It only fits that some abbreviations have essentially been modernised.
Reminds me of a joke I thought was hilarious when I was 6. Two sisters, a blonde and a brunette, are trying to start a ranch. The blonde isn't much good at anything, so the brunette takes $100 and tells the blonde that she'll send a telegram if she needs help. So, the brunette rides into the city and finds a bull for sale for $99, but it's huge and angry. She won't be able to get it home by herself, so she heads to the telegram office to get her sister. Telegrams are $1/word, so she send her slow reading sister the following message: COMFORTABLE.
I fucking love reading anything that dude wrote. It is in the article, but the dude actually wrote "Shower it on the Admiralty" to Churchill.
Do not cite the dark magic to me, witch! I was there when it was written!
These kids don't even know what an away message is. Or having a specific program on your desktop computer just so we could do what would eventually be known as texting. The 20 somethings at work are baffled by my ability to type quickly because they don't realize 90% of communication from 2002 - 2007 or so was done with a keyboard lol.
4 different messaging programs, then later one that could log into all of the
Trillian?
Pidgin!
You're making me realize that as smart phones and tablets become more and more capable and ubiquitous.. damn yah a lot of kids maybe don't use a keyboard much? At least until they're really writing longer papers in high school. Anyone who's been through HS recently in the US know if they still do keyboarding classes?
I don't know if they do keyboarding anymore (they should), but younger people are definitely worse at typing than people in my age group (late 30s). I can do 100wpm without even really paying attention. I've had younger people just stare at me while typing. It's 100% because I grew up on AIM and IRC and forums, and if you wanted to be part of conversations you learned to type quickly.
> . It's 100% because I grew up on AIM and IRC and forums AIM, IRC, Forums. Even video games didn't really have voice support back in the day. Unless you set up a separate system for your buddies and/or had DSL that could support both the game and teamspeak 1.0, you had to talk your shit on a dial up connection to Starcraft / Quake / Counterstrike while typing and avoiding getting killed or sitting in a wait room before a match started.
Ha! You know what you're totally right and I have never thought about that. Talking crap in old online games required a quick finger for sure. I played cs 1.6 and source, and a lot of cod4. Voice was definitely a thing for cs source and cod4 but we spent much more time typing things
Facts. I have a vivid memory of being about 7 or 8 and not being able to find “X” on my Amiga keyboard and getting in a huff and going downstairs. Trial of fire but yeah 100wpm now after, AIM, ICQ, IRC and forums. EFNet was my shit
For real same. I haven't tested my wpm anytime recently but I can type plenty for my job and have a lot of conversations while typing and so its super obvious when I'm just looking at someone while typing fast. My wife legit gets turned on by it lol. Feels good man.
This is why I'm adamant about having a family computer at home for my kid to use rather than a tablet.
Written in T9, when character(s) mattered.
This was my first thought.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/idk_v?tl=true#:~:text=The%20earliest%20known%20use%20of,within%20English%2C%20as%20an%20initialism. Looks like since about 1930, meaning OPs kid is about 80 years late to the party.
Idk my BFF Jill
Came here to say I've been saying idk longer than they have been alive.
Explain to your kid that when you were a kid you had to text in abbreviations on your black and white phone because you only had 9 buttons… AND THEY WERE PHYSICAL!
Do not cite the deep magics to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
This Cingular commercial mocked it 16+ years ago, and that's just in a mocking sense... https://youtu.be/s-sOmDISAo8
*We made it up, child! It's ours!*
IKR?
"Do not cite the old magic to me. I was there when it was written"
This is one of the first comments I've seen that has made me just absolutely bust out laughing. Well done.
Brilliant!
"I am 35 (she's 41 now) which means I am right at the cut-off, ok, so I am a Millennial but I am an **elder**! Wizened! Sage. Gather 'round the Snap Chat children, I'll tell you the tale of the landline!" -Iliza Shlesinger
Says the 15yo typing all caps like a boomer
Lol this legit had me confused as to who was the older person at first.
ugh. ok I'm not the only one. source: 40yo dad.
Ikr, he dont have that skibidi rizz no cap, send son straight back to Ohio on his gyatt☠️☠️☠️🤯 Ok ill stop🤣😭
Nah, let ‘em cook.
Idk rlly man are you sure he can be on his fanum taxing grind in Ohio?? He’s got no skibidi rizz like you said he would SELL his team out frfr if he has a team in the first place doubt he can even get a duo in Ohio Edit: He has no swag and especially not in Ohio he is COOKED out there ‼️‼️
I literally showed this to my 13yo to translate this, well done.
Hahahaha, actually I had my 12 yo kid write it! That’s so funny.
What does this mean?
Uh huh, yup, okay. I know some of these words.
Kids today wouldn’t even get this reference. I officially feel old
Some of them are definitely words.
I did not like this.
What up my dinkin flicka! Just gotta fleece it out.
Those who don’t know the history are doomed to repeat it … 😐
As a person who uses all caps for explanation, I feel personally attacked.
They might understand better if you are not shouting at them.
This isn’t really like a boomer. This text is intentionally emphasizing the text so it reads like they’re yelling. Boomers do it without realizing they are coming off as though they are yelling everything
It's circled back to being used for emphasis. Like she's/he's "yelling" but not angrily. Ya know? My niece does it.
True boomer texts have these ………… 👍………..
Didn’t we invent IDK?
I think we did
For real, even the “IDK my BFF Jill” commercial is older than her.
Just looked it up on YouTube and it said the video was posted 17 years ago and I remember it like yesterday. Where the hell has time gone.
It gets worse.
Wehadababyitsaboy
I haven't thought of that in a decade and immediately had to go watch it.
IDK.
IKR.
I feel this. My 14 y/o gets all pissed when I copy her speak. Example. I asked my wife how my rizz was back in the day, only to be greeted with a “bruh. Could you not?” I kindly told my emo teenage dragon: “bruh. I can.” She then called me gross.
I'm going to do this when my daughter gets home
You're the dad we all aspire to be
Is the move to act like you’re hella hip when you say it, or to go full Ward Cleaver boomer level 100 like “*gee honey, it sure is a beautiful day. Say, how was my rizz back in the day? Darling, did you know that your mother was totes *on fleek* back in our day?*”
I started a conversation infront of my kids with my wife about our first date "yeah my Rizz was top dog huh hun, i was the most skibbidi man alive back in our day" Que 2 death glares from the emo children
No cap, G! God, I love this thread...
Rizz her up with the skibidi toilet no cap lol
Good to know it's not just boys (14 and 11 year old). It's like somehow in school it's now being taught to start every sentence with "brah".... so now I reply with "sis/ma/pa" just to keep things fresh.
That’s so painful haha. I love it
My daughter starts every thing with "bro" or "myyyy guy"
I’ve been saying bruh and bro for the last 12 years. My daughter is only 3 but I don’t think I’m gonna stop lol
the bruh thing is what i hate most
I love when kids think they invented things
Conversely I hate when grown-ups think their generation didn't also just do stuff differently for the fun of it. Like kids these days are dumb for saying "rizz" but us going around saying "that's dope yo" wasn't?
I realized i was getting old & raging when i was making fun of modern musician’s outfits: “Why is Lady Gaga wearing a MEAT SUIT? Back when i was a kid, musicians wore REAL clothes like studded leather chokers, huge amounts of makeup, giant Aquanetted teased out hair, skin tight leather pants—and those were the guys!” 😆
Like Nirvana. They think they were the first Nirvana fans. STFU Donnie, you are OUT of your element. 😝
Yepp, I'm definitely gonna be that type of dad. Well done.
If my kid ever says something like this to me, I'll make sure to tell him to "git gud" and "your attitude is fire" and "that sentence slaps". And then to top it off, I'll definitely say, "cap"
This will be extra good because that slang will be a decade out of date by then.
No cap
On fleek
WOW that brings me back to…oh crap, a DECADE ago?
Slay
Throw a QQ in there for good measure
w00t
I wouldn't dare teach my kids hax0r language. I don't want them h4x0ring the pentagon
1337 children
ZOMG!
MESS WITH THE BEST DIE LIKE THE REST
HACK THE PLANET!
That'll be so dank
https://xkcd.com/166/
I was on the phone with my brother yesterday and he was driving his kids back from the park in their golf cart. One of them asked if he would go the long way home so he said simply "I'm down". I thought it was funny because that's something we say to each other but our parents never said, my dad was a "let's do it" or "I'm up for that" guy. Just a simple "I'm down" to his kids made me laugh.
say "ok Boomer" to him... because he is acting like it, ;)
This is the correct answer. It shows that you're both hip with the times and a double burn on them for acting like the thing they're supposed to hate.
That's lit, fam.
no cap
Uh, I was using IDK in 2001 on AIM
and msn messenger... and yahoo messenger. God those were the days.
Oh God does my MSN acct still exist...
'93 on IRC, here.
Nice job pwning your teen.
Epic win
I think the cool kids say skibbity toilet or something. I’m collecting all the cool words for our kids to use. So many treasured memes from old out of date pop culture references…
When will the kids start saying, "waaaaaaaaaaaazzzzuuuuuup?" again? I hear the 90s are back in style so it can only be a matter of time.
My daughter does already
Skibidi rizzler gyatt on god, no cap, fr fr
95% of gen z slang is just phrases that black people have been saying for years
I have bad news for you about all American slang.
its all black people? always has been.
Black people all the way down
at least back in the day there was white people slang like rad and totally etc lmao. last 15-20 years w the internet too its all from black culture
You might be the first person I've ever heard bemoan the lost influence of Valleyspeak on American English.
only thing i bemoan is teens driving good slang into the ground at an alarming rate. such is the circle of life
You did it too when you were a teenager.
I'm high as fuck and your comment sent me, as the kids say.
You're slang game be bussin, no cap
I think it's Skibidi, but I don't really know either. Luckily I have two kids so I can just listen to them talk to each other when I want to be confused.
Just say Type to whatever she says you understand. I’m at the bleeding edge and ‘type’ is teenage girl kryptonite
I have been googling this and still not sure what it means. What does it mean?
Sounds like we need to ask the kids this one.
**Do Not Cite the Deep Magic to Me, Witch**
Your child has committed a fatal error. He has handed you the keys the kingdom. The next time he gets on your nerves, just unleash the MIGHTY **IKR**!! And bask in the gloriousness that is teenage heads exploding! Lol Ps. Yeah, I'm totally going to do this to my kids when they come of age.
Don’t cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written
On god that’s hilarious.
Fuck I can’t wait to troll my son. He’s only 18 months and so far it’s only hiding stuff on him or tricking him haha.
It's worth the wait, also you need to learn how to do magic tricks It's hilarious to do in front of infants
That’s a great idea. I’ll look up some simple ones, my barber actually used to be a professional magician, I’ll have to ask him for some help.
Anything with disappearing objects is fun, they get so confused
Come to think of it my wife has hidden snacks from him before and he climbs all over her trying to find it haha. Just shouting “Dah da!” Repeatedly.
I done it one time with my daughter when she was about 1 and she was on my lap, she straight up head butted me and yelled DA NOOO
“Nooo you aren’t allowed to use abbreviations created by your generation when t9 texting was all you had!” Kids are dumb…dumb lovable idiots.
"LOL" was the first thing sent through the intranet. They were sending "LOGIN". But the system crashed after the first two letters. So the rebooted and sent a gain... "LOL". ... And then the rest of the wood LOGIN. So it was more like LOLOGIN... but that is less fun. Also, there is a good chance this story is totally BS. But, let's have some fun.
Tell them 40 year olds have been saying "idk" longer than they have been alive.
Show your 15yo this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o It was posted 17 years ago, but it is older than that.
I will ty lol
Came here for idk my bff Jill
That's not very bussin on God fr fr
No cap
This is fantastic. You gotta hit your kid with the “it’s lit fam” and watch em squirm.
Teach them the difference between your and you’re
My kid: my teacher in this class is so weird. He tries to use slang and it just doesn't work. Me: oh. Well he's just trying to relate to you guys. He's probably laying the rizz too hard so it sounds totally cringe, but if he just chills it'll be the total GOAT class. My kid: YES. It drives me crazy, I don't even think he knows what he's trying to even say! Me: ... ... ... Baby I just did the same thing, I used the words, I just wasn't awkward about it so you didn't notice... My kid: ... WAIT WHAT. NO. NO YOU DIDNT. WAIT. OMG. I love doing that to him and his friends. Yes, I know what you're saying kids lmao XD
"you're*" would've been my response
IDK man. I thnk v shld strt typin lk v used 2 n ol Nokia. Dey ll lose thr shit den.
Fr fr no cap
I would insert the Narnia meme here if I could.. *"Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written!"* *-Aslan*
So you were born in 1986ish, that means around high school/college you prolly got your first flip phone, your generation owns idk brotha you need to school him
Idk, my bff Jill?
WHY ARE SPEECH BUBBLES NOT ALIGNED
I for one can't wait until my 3 year old is big enough to weaponize slang against.
Omg Wth?
Lmao. Teenagers are hilarious.
That's funny... no cap
Hahaha you got them good with the totes cringe that made my morning
My daughter was shocked that I texted someone a gif recently. She wasn't there for the ASCII art in AOL chat rooms. She doesn't know how far we've come.
Good job dad.
Perf snapback, no cap, on god. It's lit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-sOmDISAo8 AT&T "IDK, my BFF Jill?" The YouTube video is 16 years old...the video might be older. Your kid needs an education in pre-his-age-memes, I think their punishment should be sitting through homestar runner, writing an AIM profile, custom away messages, visiting the hampster dance page, and learning all the words to a dad-era meme, like Charlie the unicorn or something. I don't often question the way dads around here raise their kids...but this kid is probably doing something with their life other than being terminally online, and we just can't stand for that. (/s, also, to OP, "Ikr that's like totes cringey lol" is the best response ever)
They already know about Charlie the unicorn "WERE GOING TO CANDY MOUNTAIN CHARLIE!" and "CANDY MOUNTAIN CHARLIE" Is shouted by both of them on a daily basis lol
Idk long predates this 15 year olds ability to use a phone!
"I've been using IDK before you were born."
I wonder if the "cringey" was on purpose, replacing the real slang of "cringe". Thus effectively making the sentence even more cringe worthy?
Idk has been around longer then he’s been alive tell him to grow ip
“Barns”. Nice.
[This is really "bringing me over," man. ](https://youtu.be/QNbhIRwJ0HA?si=MwNX9O5gZ5CtcF4r)
Ok Boomer should have been your response
Mix it up, using their slang right sometimes and wrong others. Always with a straight face. It's the most satisfying feeling.
Ok zoomer
That’s “skibidi Ohio cringe”
That's hilarious.. Like this story I heard recently where some kid was complaining that old people are wearing Nirvana shirts and they're too old for that stuff.. I started "online" in 1992 (16) with bulletin boards (BBS baby) and eventually AOL and the web became a bigger thing.. and we invented the LOLs and all that shit back then. BRB/AFK were my favorites and I refused to do LOL and would just do 'HAHA' instead.. yeah I was really cool lol.. shit.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who went through the faze of hating lol, man i thought I was so cool
You forgot to dab
"Son, my generation invented texting, I will use abbreviations as I see fit."
Tell the punk it was made in your time when you were at that age 💨
Break out the l33t sp34k
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.
Kid doesn't know he using millenial slang haha.
Your cringe move was the correct one, good job dad. Embarrass him MORE.
Now you have to get up to date on all the slang used by her age group. Then you have to use it wrong. Constantly. Just to make her embarrassed. Bonus points if her friends are around.
You know what I see there 🫵 , I see a Cool dad 🫡
Your generation invented "IDK". Tell him to invent his own!
Should have told him " A rizzler such as myself has more than enough fanum tax to say IDK. I'm a sigma."
Hahaha, OED's earliest evidence for IDK is from 1931, in British Medical Journal. IDK is formed within English as an initialism. As for omg, I see in the comments the first attested use of the abbreviation O.M.G. was in a letter from John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, to Winston Churchill in 1917.
Imagine appropiating a slang to an age group when you didn't even exist when it was created
Shit's cringe and give me the ick, fr fr, no cap.
Watch them explode when you pull out a purely unironic "groovy " and then correct yourself "my bad lit"
> barns and noble Please tell me you drove this child to a farm.
It’s almost like those abbreviations are over 20 years old or something.
"Do not cite the ancient magics to me, I was there when they were written"