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I know I'm getting older, because people's conversations sound like this:
Have you seen Schenley, it's streaming in Smoob, but if you don't have Smoob, you can PowerWerk it on Placebu.
We used to do intake through Franangle, but we're switching to PLOOP, but it doesn't have chat, so we are having to add Blamama XD!
In Celebrity News, Bargain Bin Ted, is now engaged to Dierks, just in time for the opening of their bar/sleep monstrosity Smooth Brain.
@RickiTarr remember when you’d recognize at least a few songs on the radio station?
@Codhisattva @RickiTarr what's a radio station? /s
@RickiTarr I don't know if I should feel called out as still slightly young or agree wholeheartedly because I have no idea what's going on half the time these days, either. 
@faithisleaping@anarres.family
I wouldn't worry, you're doing twice as well as me.
Anyway I doubt anybody knows more than that.
Fun watching Word Drift down the decades though.
If in doubt I use weird emojis.
@RickiTarr@beige.party
No, Ricky, I am not switching to ploop.
I am probably older than you, and Mastodon is already too much for me.
@ParadeGrotesque PLOOP is where it's at
@RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Ploop is so 2023. All the cool kids are on Snarf now
@davew @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Which Snarf? Are you on original Snark or the mSnarf fork? There is a correct answer, and an incorrect response will see you banished back to the lowest circle of xPloop.
@log@mastodon.sdf.org @davew@mastodon.online
SHHHHHHHH!
You'll only make them...
Too late, oh good grief key-key is born.
@RickiTarr@beige.party @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
@log @davew @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque
How can you justify using Snarf or mSnarf when the original creator is so problematic? That's why I use GNU/OpenPlarf
@andrewfeeney @log @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Better Snarf ™ than iBarf ®
@davew @andrewfeeney @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Sure, mSnarf was forked because Choopter is a TERF, but how were we supposed to know that Glangoty is actually a Chinese state agent who took over the project to put in a backdoor to collect Taiwanese and Filipino user keys? That was two whole releases ago. And at least the dependencies are still sound.
@log @davew @andrewfeeney @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque I used to use Phnurg. It was damn sick, but then the glipdorf bricked my Alto D40 and mrabek had canceled Phnurg so I was left in the storch.
@log @davew @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque I'm too plooped to snarf, tbh. When do we get pancakes and bacon?
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️ @ParadeGrotesque @RickiTarr see you there.
No, no, no, you go to YOUR bed and I will go to MINE!
Oh, you meant IRC. Never mind me, carry on.
@ParadeGrotesque @RickiTarr LOL yeah i wondered briefly if i should clarify but then i thought nah, it'll be funnier if i don't 
@guidojansen6 @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque now I want to start a server with this name
@RickiTarr The older I get, the more comforting it is to just say, "I don't know who/what that is", and then just walk away without feeling the need to go find out. Saves a LOT of time.
@LeftCoastBec @RickiTarr also "I don't have an opinion on that", along with "so, what's a good enough answer so we can move on". Both fantastic timesavers
@LeftCoastBec @RickiTarr I like "I don't know who/what that is, AND PLEASE DON'T TELL ME". My brain is already full of pointless crap, I don't need any more.
@RickiTarr Something must be off with my brain because this is how conversations have always been for me. I have to work to figure out what the hell people are talking about even in my own dialect/domain.
But on the plus side you never lose touch if you were never in touch to begin with!
@suddjian @RickiTarr I have this, too. Audio processing disorder sometimes results in the funniest interpretations.
@RickiTarr Don’t miss the new Zogork movie adaptation! Starring Brad Melvinrough, from the hit show Bumbling Grades. With all new songs by Thin Ice.
@RickiTarr @StevenSavage ah, I miss Damo over on the Birdshite. A really funny guy and a good egg
@StevenSavage
There's a special version of that in the UK that gushes from TV's 'Royal Correspondents'. 'We are hearing from sources close to Prince Baldy that his brother has sacked Woodentop-in-Tights and will henceforth polish his own silver spoons. Former war hero Prince Hal and his foreign-born wife were approached for comment but are determined to remain silent until negotiations with Oprah are completed'.
@RickiTarr I revel in JOMO...and always have.
@RickiTarr I mean I overheard this snippet of a conversation between two supermarket staff today and I’d rather have not understood it:
“… so it was actually a massive wax buildup, here, I have a photo to show you…”
@RickiTarr working with 20 & 30y/os helps me stay on top of the Schenley and Bargain Bin Ted gossip.
@RickiTarr Don't worry, just be very demure and very mindful and you'll be fine.
@RickiTarr
Well, speaking as a young person you oldies all sound like:
Why does no one dance the Charleston any more?
The movies just haven't been the same since they brought in the Talkies.
Going up chimneys never did me any harm, in fact, it bred character.
@raymierussell @RickiTarr As a teenager I worked at the local movie theater and, of course, everybody would comment on the price of tickets. Usually it was harmless and we didn't even respond.
One day two ladies in at least their 60s came. One said to the other "I remember when movies cost a nickle"
Completely straight-faced my coworker said "Well ma'am, they're in color now"
@raymierussell @RickiTarr Speaking as an older than dirt person:
Why the hell do they even sell AM radios any more?
Why haven't we updated Reagan's assault weapons ban?
Why are we still arguing over women's rights?
@RickiTarr 
I’ve heard this same conversation.
@RickiTarr whoa, whoa, did you become a gossip writer all of a sudden?!
Oh, it's a *joke*. Haha, I'm not old; I knew that all those terms were made up! 
@RickiTarr Yep.
It's a common feeling. Reminds me of this tweet from a few years ago. At least now we can look up the slang. I feel bad for those who were the olds in the pre-internet days, just left in the dark. Actually, I guess I was one of the olds back then too. But not so old that I had kids or friends with kids old enough at the time to hear the slang so was just blissfully ignorant.
@RickiTarr GET OFF MY LAWN.
@rothko @RickiTarr
I laugh especially hard at that because we had two young boys that lived on opposite sides of us that were the same age and hung out together.
They would take a shortcut across our lawn.
My wife and I didn't care, but our teen aged daughters would complain for hours afterwards.
@RickiTarr Blamama XD is good tho.
As a "greybeard" software developer who's paid to stay current on technology, I can't tell you how hard I want to roll my eyes at breathless product announcements like:
"It's Farbigast but written in Smoogle!"
Please, for the love of all that's holy tell me what.it.does and why in Buddha's name I should care that you've now built it with/for Smoogle. I beg you.
#FBPE @PixelJones @RickiTarr Don't worry, just ignore it for a few years and it'll go away.
Or... it'll turn out that every AI resume screener will expect Smoogle skills b/c Silicon Valley has decided it is the new hotness.
I swear sometimes Tech Bros are as faddish as characters from The Devil Wears Prada, alternatively cooing over or gagging at meaningless differences in tech "fashions" but taking themselves very seriously.
@PixelJones @RickiTarr Yeah, that's all part of "screeners", whether automated or human, whether at the agency or in the HR department, apparently existing for the sole purpose of disrupting any chance of useful communication between the candidate and the hiring manager.
(Having seen it from both sides.)
Fellow grey beard software guy.
So much this.
What's even "better" is when you go to the website to figure out what it does, and still can't tell, as their "solutions" just reads like yet more MadLibs (remember those?) with further made up words and acronyms.
ZefroMax! The leader in frobnosticating your frammistan - for maximum profit!
@pseudonym @RickiTarr
Totally! Breathless buzzword bingo isn't a substitute for substance. Empty calories.
Oh, here's another greybeard pet peeve: Yet another "simple, minimalist" framework. Sure, it can generate an AI-connected to do list w/ voice-recognition in a single command-line but requires you first install 14 packages & edit 3 config files & interpret 20 pages of jargon on 5 websites to get to "simple."
To quote Princess Bride, "I don't think that word means what you think it does."
I always want to be like the "Bobs" in Office Space.
What exactly is it you'd say you do here?
@RickiTarr You'll either die a #goat or love long enough to become a #brat
@cjust@infosec.exchange @RickiTarr@beige.party they would flip a grunt - california, amirite?
@RickiTarr BONTO! misses you, Ricki 
Should have gone with Fyrplace. Fireplayce sucks.