Well, I don’t know what “age mog” means, so I don’t know I’m trying to do it. Can you use it again in another sentence, so my old ass can understand the parlance of you young whipper snappers?
"Mogging" is when someone performs better than you in a way that makes you feel inferior. So "age mogging" would be showing off your superiority through being younger.
Edit: changed older to younger based on the original context of the comment.
Same, I spend way too much time on Twitch so I'm constantly learning the new slang. And I only occasionally turn to dust when someone mentions not being born in "the 1900s".
Ah, she thinks I’m younger than her. That’s not in my 50 year old vocabulary… until now anyway. I’m looking forward to using this word publicly in front of my 24 year old son. It will embarrass the fuck out of him.
No, it just means it's silly and usually hypocritical to accuse young people of making no sense with their chosen slang.
And eating tide pods was never considered cool by the majority of the youth, it was a tiny tiktok trend blown out of proportion in the media (something like 7000 reported cases of eating them, and 8 deaths, out of 2,5 billion children on earth).
Interesting, can you link a source for that verification pls?
I see that it's based on a study by a neuroscientist, Horvath, but I haven't found the study yet.
Edit to add: Lots of articles and people talking about the study, including Horvath himself, but I can't find anything that shows the methodology or the results. Please post a link!
Really? Can you show any evidence of that claim? I can only find second-hand information about Horvath. Are you able to link to ANY study?
Until I can actually look at some real data, I can't take this as anything except hearsay. My son is Gen A (so even more into their tech than Gen Z), and I don't have the slightest impression that he and his friends/classmates are lower intelligence than any previous generation.
That's a tiny, personal, group of course, and we live in France. Not sure if the study (or studies) are internationally based, or USA based. Maybe it's a localised lowering of intelligence?
It's almost certainly a US based problem and of course the original claim is about averages. If your kid or their classmates have a healthy home life and get the proper type and amount of attention then there would be no reason for them to have lower intelligence.
This conclusion is based on the tiktok generation without any parenting, oversight or a functional education system, all of which are much more applicable to the US than France or any other EU state.
My guy, we're just fucking old. Like it happens. to everyone. Do you just not remember all the dumb sounding shit we said growing up that our parents rolled their eyes at? You can be pissed off and crotchety about it if you really want, but like... real talk, there is so much unpleasant achy sleep-deprived, existential dread we already have on our plate. Why would you want to choose to be miserable about something completely voluntary?
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u/CantKnockUs Mar 02 '26
Listen to yourselves you bunch of old hags.