• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “He’s resting. Probably pining for the fjords.”

    “He’s not pining, E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! E’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed him to the perch, he’d be pushing up daisies! It’s metabolic processes are now ‘istory! E’s off the twig! E’s kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!”

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    As an old fart, I like saying some of the brainrot to Gen Alphas that I know so that it makes them cringe hard. Sometimes in context, sometimes out of context depending on my mood.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Semi related, but my mum likes to pretend she doesn’t know what ‘Netflix and chill’ means. She keeps saying it to people. One time I said mum please google that phrase. She said she’s well aware of the meaning and just likes to see people’s reactions.

      • ArtieShaw@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        Oh no. I feel that. Back when ipods were a thing, I liked to call it my husband’s “tiny radio.” Particularly on planes, with lots of captive listeners.

        But I was mainly torturing him.

        It’s OK - he does similar shit to me. 30 years and counting…

      • GetOffMyLan@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Real life trolling is much more fun!

        You can turn an entire party against you by insisting jaws is a documentary.

  • SandmanXC@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I love that they keep coming up with dumb slang cause there’s only so much mileage you can get out of the dumb slang you had growing up.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    People who “make” a lot of memes are the internet equivalent of that really obnoxious kid in middle school in the 90s who couldn’t go a full five minutes without quoting the Simpsons/South Park/SpongeBob.

    On a side note, what’s the show(s) that obnoxious middle schoolers quote nowadays? Can’t imagine it’s still those 3

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    But I grew up only 1 degree removed from nerds incessantly quoting Monty Python at each other, so obviously that’s the sweet spot and everything past that is bad and wrong