Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"?

WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This gets more and more true with everyday. I understand less and less of the world around me.

  I wonder how Gen Z wojld react to something being reffered to as “all that and a bag of chips”.

  And none of this shrinkflation crap. The bag of chips used to be huge!

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I recently had someone explain to me what “And that’s where I came in” meant.

    I expect to explain to people why we say “roll down the window”, or what the save icon is, lol

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What? Roll down your window is self explainitary. You put your hand on the window crank…and…huh. I guess I haven’t seen one of those in years…

      Ok, but the save icon, that’s because of the floppy disc. You just put your floppy into…the…huh. I guess no one uses floppys anymore…

      …wait, am I old???

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “To make it more modern, we could make the save icon a CD!”

        What’s a CD? Oh, wait, that looks like…do you mean a Blu-Ray? Nobody uses Blu-Rays anymore.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gen Z was born into a fully matured internet. They will just look up any old phrases and immediately learn anything they want.

    “Siri, the hell did i just hear?”

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  youtu.be/UeS-Xb5u4-U

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I too am disturbed by the noted decline in Austin Powers references among high school students.

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