To hate - I was today years old

[clpsmum]

This phrase is everywhere and it's driving me insane.

You were not today years old when you found out 😡 you found out today

Does this annoy anyone else or am I just turning j to the grumpy old woman I was born to be? Are there any other words or phrases drive you insane??

I have read the thread and I am still none the wiser as to what the phrase is supposed to mean. It seems to be a series of unconnected words to my brain.

I’d never heard it before. Is it in common parlance? It’s a bit silly and doesn’t really mean anything.....

YANBU The phrase makes me rage. I feel myself getting hot when I see it and refuse to click on anything that has it as a headline, post title etc

Sentences which should read “because of” something but for some reason miss out the word of. E.g.

I couldn’t visit my mum because covid.

What does that even mean? I don’t get it.

One I despise is “reached out”. She “reached out to me” bleurgh! What? She rang you? Texted you?

I hate "I can't." or "I can't even." in response to tweets etc. You can't WHAT?!

None of these things bother me. More important things to worry about.

I really hate "OMG that was so funny I've spat my coffee all over my keyboard". If that really happened I suggest you seek medical help for your serious lack of self control and histrionics at the mundane

I also hate it OP.

It always seems to go alongside some complete made up crap too, like "I was today years old when I learned that news stands for 'notable events, weather and sport'. No it fucking doesn't you twonk.

@23PissOffAvenueWF

When I read / hear someone saying ‘I was today years old...’ I invariably think - ‘what a thicko, how could you not know that, and why are you broadcasting it to everyone?’

Yes, those threads on here are deeply weird. Even if it’s anonymous, do you really think it’s cute that you were aged 35 before realising that Sinn Féin was not a person or that Africa was not a country?

@TeenMinusTests

I have read the thread and I am still none the wiser as to what the phrase is supposed to mean. It seems to be a series of unconnected words to my brain.

It means that whatever it is didn't happen to you until today.

There's a thread at the moment 'I was today years old when I found out ...'

It doesn't actually make sense but I suppose someone thought it was funny. It might have been mildly amusing the first time it was used but now it's clearly going to be used to death.

And threat titles not just on this, but another forum I am on that are
"Talk to me about ....."
Or
"Blah blah blah discuss"
Why demand of people like that.
If you want to know something ask the damn question like a mature adult should, in a respectful way.

@ChelseaCat

I hate “This”

Or pictures of your husband/child/aunt/rabbit etc with the caption “this one”

@ChelseaCat this made me chuckle just picturing loads of rabbits with ‘this one’ captions now.

I hate it when people put up pictures of their kids and write ‘my world.’ No joke, the people I know who do this most frequently are a pair of fucking deadbeat dads who barely see their kids, let alone make any meaningful effort to contribute to the wellbeing of their ‘world.’

I love this thread. Especially pp asking if something is common parlance

I am clearly extremely old as haven't heard of many of these sayings/phrases/whatever you'd call them.

I secretly snigger whenever my 11 year old uses the word 'sick'.

There seems to be a type of person who gets very excited by new “phrases” and just love to trot them out when they can as it makes them feel part of the gang.

I agree op.

I also hate gifted and when as in "when your oh treats you to breakfast in bed" or "when you finally get an afternoon off" as the caption to a Facebook/Instagram post. Obviously i have no objection to the word when in general. I have a friend who does this every Facebook post though and it drives me mad.

Grumpy.
Language changes and develops.
Even the phrase Grumpy Old Woman is a phrase, thought you by someone that is now used to describe anyone female that is complaining. It’s not literal. But it doesn’t matter!

I can't stand the current the ones I'm seeing on facebook related to children's birthdays:
"And just like that, we have a 5 year old" and "and in the blink of an eye, he's 5"

I’ve never heard of it and I don’t understand what it would look like in a full sentence.

Would it be “I was today years old when I found out that .....”. It doesn’t make sense to me?

I love it it’s just a jokey way of saying ‘today I learned’. It’s poking fun at yourself for not knowing things that you probably should have. Language just evolves, maybe it because I’m younger and typically younger woman in particular use new phrases and words faster than any other section of society, but I’ve seen this phrase for the past five years I reckon. It’s not that new to me

Phrases come and go, and people like to use phrases they have seen others use, it makes them - us - feel part of a club. It’s bonding, innit? Like what I just did there, although that probably dates me.
When I was younger we all spoke and wrote like we were writers for Smash Hits. I’m sure it sounded ridiculous.
I also find some phrases annoying when they are trotted out again and again, especially the more twee ones, but it’s just how things go with language.

Most of the words/'phrases' mentioned here are generally used by much younger people. The word 'thicko' or even just 'thick' reminds me of being in primary school, I always just assume the person using it still thinks it's a cutting insult. See it a lot on MN actually.

@Thehawki

I love it it’s just a jokey way of saying ‘today I learned’. It’s poking fun at yourself for not knowing things that you probably should have. Language just evolves, maybe it because I’m younger and typically younger woman in particular use new phrases and words faster than any other section of society, but I’ve seen this phrase for the past five years I reckon. It’s not that new to me

What do you mean by

“typically younger woman in particular use new phrases and words faster than any other section of society”?

OP, agree, what the fuck does it actually mean?
Such idiotic arrangement of words, an incomplete sentence that is suddenly trendy. How I hate trends as interpreted by the masses as evident by all and sundry wearing clothing completely and utterly unsuitable and unflattering just to be 'on trend'. Arrghhh....

I agree, pisses me off.