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How fucking stupid.
“You’re presumably over the age of 15.”
My son is 16 and said the same thing I did.
Tell your son that I'm 42, and think his generations slang lingo is stupid.
Then tell him I think my generations slang lingo in the 90s was stupid.
Tell him we had "all that and a bag of chips", which meant something, someone, or some situation was the best.
Tell him we also had "salty", which was an emotion of frustration or disgruntlement over recent events which had not gone your way.
Then tell him if he's ever getting intimate with a girl, after the sex is over you would have "poo poo slutty splash time". Tell him that one is too dirty for a dad to talk about with his son. He'll have to google it, and ask his friends parents.
I mean......it's no more hard to believe than "skibidi toilet".
You ok there?
I thought we were going to share relatable nostalgia around "42" but no, we did not.
"Grandpa says 'hi,' son."
You don't have children, do you?
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15 is old for this. I saw a kid in the store doing the gesture, and I said "Hey, that's that 6-7 thing, right?" and he looked at me with this almost evil smile, while his mother and older sister looked slightly exasperated. The older sister was only about 12, and even she was fed up with it. You have to be under 10 for this trend.
The whole point is that it means nothing, and adults hate it, so they keep doing it because it torments grownups. It's even been banned in a lot of classrooms.