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Cool Grandpa 😎😎😎 (reddthat.com)
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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The slang term "cool" - 80 years and still going strong!

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it one of the most enduring of these kinds of popular slangs?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The most enduring ones are probably considered formal English now.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

“Okay”

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think so - can't think of a longer-lived one off the top of my head, not counting words that used to be considered slag but became official words. "Cool" has always been too cool to not be considered slang!

[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

😎 is pronounced as [bad to the bone riff]

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what the other grandpa is under. Besides grandma, that is.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

6 feet of dirt.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

Hot Grandpa

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“Grandpa, It’s no longer cool to say ‘those little yellow guys’”

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I don't have my glasses on how he get them smile face on there like that? Kid next door show me once but it was on my old phone. Lost that one cause they said it got worms so stop buying them apple phones and got the smart types.

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I love that they are ACTUALLY in their phone as “cool grandpa” lol

edit: i can’t type

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 9 points 11 months ago

Well of course they are, they would be lying to their cool grandpa otherwise.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well yeah, if cool grandpa asked “am I still in your phone as cool grandpa” and then they said “of course” and it wasn’t true, cool grandpa would teleport there and give them an ass whoopin’ for lying

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago

He is pretty cool

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

So wholesome

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Getting cooler all the time

[–] Jajcus@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what is wrong with the other grandpa

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Racist grandpa. When he talks about little yellow guys he's not referring to emojis

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"You were in 'Nam?"

"Oh don't misunderstand, he wasn't in the war. He was just there last week on a business trip."

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Shush

[–] neurogenesis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

😭😭😭😭

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You’re in my phone as “Sad Grandpa”

[–] homesnatch@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

That's better than "touchy grandpa"