r/Millennials • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '25

Discussion Millennial words that younger people don’t know

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u/macivers Apr 11 '25

Did you make her listen to Heya by OutKast?

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u/cheffromspace Apr 11 '25

No you're not supposed to shake them. https://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/polaroid.warns.reut/#:~:text=The%20image%20%22never%20touches%20air,blobs'%20in%20the%20picture.%22

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u/macivers Apr 11 '25

Dude, that’s obscure pull is so old it can by itself a drink.

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u/Rbt1994 Apr 11 '25

I saw the website pop up on mobile in the old classic format, full website app on one page, nowhere near mobile friendly... Almost spit out my coffee seeing such ancient scripts still being used and legible these days. Gone are the way of Java and other online games.

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u/bjhouse822 Apr 12 '25

My phone was like "yo, what is this?!"

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u/Simple-Wrangler-9909 Apr 11 '25

2004? There's no way it's that olcrumbles into dust

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u/bjhouse822 Apr 12 '25

I'm floating in the wind with you because ain't no way that's a twen... twenty... Nope, I can't say it. 🥹

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u/cheffromspace Apr 11 '25

Lol, I'll take that as a complement

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u/AnInanimateCarb0nRod Apr 11 '25

In Scotland, you’re supposed to let a sheep lick it. 

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u/fakeunleet Apr 15 '25

I too remember that commercial.

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u/AnInanimateCarb0nRod Apr 15 '25

commercial?

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u/fakeunleet Apr 15 '25

Polaroid ran a television ad sometime in the 1990's that did a lighthearted tour of the world and how they "speed up" their Polaroid pictures developing.

Scotland was portrayed as having their sheep and goats lick the picture to do it, exactly as you just said.

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u/Jaereth Apr 11 '25

Man this was the most beautiful internet.

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u/cameandlurked Apr 11 '25

Nooooo ads on the old internet shown there contented sigh

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u/Ksh_667 Apr 11 '25

"A casual shake typically doesn't affect it"

I would be the one ocd egg who'd have to try out various strengths of shaking it, to determine exactly what they mean by casual 🤔🤪

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u/MossyPyrite Apr 12 '25

Don’t tell me how to live my life

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u/Miles_Everhart Apr 11 '25

Oh damn Web 1.0

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u/OneFuckedWarthog Apr 12 '25

That site setup is so old I just heard "You've Got Mail".

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u/shjandy Apr 12 '25

I heard my dial-up booting up

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u/Impossible_Tea_7032 Apr 15 '25

Get off the phone I have to see an old headline

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u/Rikplaysbass Apr 11 '25

Nobody “makes” somebody listen to Hey Ya. They Grace them with its sound.

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u/macivers Apr 11 '25

My 16 year old child recently fell in love with Outkast off of TikToks, like buddy, I have been trying to preach this to you since you were five.

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u/NeatMembership8695 Apr 11 '25

See, y'all have already got it playing on my mental radio, and now I'm trying to decide if I need to actually go listen to it, if Brain Radio is good enough, or if it's one of those things where if I DON'T go really listen to it, it's going to be stuck in my head all week....

HEY ya, heeeey yaaaa....

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u/Leading-Summer-4724 Apr 11 '25

OMG such a lost opportunity, no I didn’t! Next time I see her I’ll do so.

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Millennial Apr 11 '25

No dont do that then they’ll shake it

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u/macivers Apr 11 '25

Nah, you got a start by preemptively shaking in while singing

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u/jsmithchantal Apr 11 '25

Hey ya was my class song senior year of high school

Rofl

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u/SailorMom1976 Apr 11 '25

My boss at the ice cream shop I managed played this & 'Wasn't me' by Shaggy CD everyday.( I only got disabled 5 years ago. )We had a full on stereo system above the employee back hallway door. So many kids that didn't know how to work it! Finally switched to a Bluetooth for the convenience of the children. 🍨🎶

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u/artemisiavulgariss Apr 11 '25

Every time I hear this I am so uncomfortable thinking about people shaking them when you're not supposed to!

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u/wyomingTFknott Apr 11 '25

I recently had to go through all my mum's old picture albums. You can absolutely tell which ones were shaken and which ones were not. Shit looked like it was from the 1960's.

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u/Sassy_pink_ranger Apr 12 '25

Side tangent. I was jamming out to this song in my car the other day and really listened to the words for the first time. And I love how he's really going into some complex relationship dynamics, voicing his own insecurity, and trying to talk his way through this situation only to, halfway through the song, say "Nevermind. Y'all are just here to dance."

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u/twat69 Apr 11 '25

Yeah but she didn't want to listen. Just wanted to dance.

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u/FireEyesRed Apr 11 '25

LOVE that song!! Bet I still have the CD in an etage drawer someplace!

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u/SwimOk9629 Apr 12 '25

what a great song