Things You Never Heard in the 80s

Is it plugged in? Have you tried rebooting?

Has Donald Trump agreed on the outcome of Russia's war with Europe yet?

Do I need to use condoms?

1983 and in

“The LGBTQ community”

I'm installing a charger for my car in the garage.

"Tik-Tok is exploding..."

I'm taking a Greyhound to Vermont for an abortion.

My preferred pronouns are...

Is this too much hairspray?

We acknowledge that this school is built on land stolen from the Algonquin.

Did you never misplace the cordless, OP?

“afro-latina, transgender wordsmith, historical materialist, educator, and woodworker…”

Open Borders

Living in the Washington, DC metro area in the 80s and 90s I never heard anyone refer to it as “The DMV” like they do now.

Have you read Barbra’s book yet? It’s 1,000 pages.

R10 Indeed we do, but we ain't giving it back.

No matter what Ella thinks.

Let's take a selfie!

Did you see that guy's butt on tv last night?

I don't need to record it -- I can just stream it later.

I'm buying a new hybrid.

The wi-fi is down.

GenZ

It’s literally iconic

Dual-factor authentication

Boris

Her penis

His vagina

R25 Moose and Squirrel were always sought out by Bordis and Natasha.

Photos of Kim Kardashian’s surgically stuffed ass broke the internet!

Sending thoughts and prayers for the 48th active shooter situation this year...

"I'm queer"

1994 was a great year.

Roseanne seems like a very stable individual.

"pregnant people"

She’s an influencer.

No thanks, I've had enough coke.

DEI

Diversity

Equity

Inclusion

It also burst through Marilyn Monroe's iconic Happy Birthday dress, R29.

I’m on prep.

“I’m speaking my truth.”

"I'm an INFLUENCER."

R41, see R35.

Owe

Emm

Gee

My bush is too big; it hides my cock. I need to trim it. Or even shave it entirely!

Doggos Kiddos Littles Showrunner

Op is a fail. I had a cordless landline phone that I would occasionally and temporarily misplace. I had a phone in my bedroom and that was something I would have said aloud.

Virtue signalling.

“These are my children: Dakota, Madison , Cheyenne, and Sage.”

R44- That is ESPECIALLY something no one said/contemplated in the 1970's.

Bicycle Lanes ( In Europe yes but not in the USA)

California had bicycle lanes in the '60s.

r45, the term "kiddos" is really old. older than me

We've been using future things, but this also works for past things.

"I just put a down payment on a new Stanley Steamer."

"Lillian's son just got drafted!"

"Steak for dinner? I don't think I have enough rationing coupons."

Get woke, go broke

Vocal fry.

Ozempic face

Redpilled

"Can you move out of the way so we can film this TikTok dance"?

People talking about a gay male outbreak of monkeypox that is being transmitted thru sexual exposure. And hardly anyone being surprised once again.

"A Vente Skinny Pumpkin Spice Latte with extra whip, please"

Is his OnlyFans worth subscribing to ?

Taylor Swift is yet again dominating the charts with her 596th album

"Put on your mask. COVID is getting bad again."

Multiple genders

Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince, and George Michael were icons who are all greatly missed.

The name Elon Musk

"This famous social media influencer has made millions off TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc. and has gotten endorsements."

LOL

He got a better NIL at OSU so he entered the portal. He will be a 9th year senior next season.

"Hawk tuah."

"Reality television"

"A.I."

"Order one off Amazon"

Pot is legal!

Never heard "cis," other than as the first syllable of "sister" or (especially) "sissy."

Asking Siri to answer a question.

Asking Alexa to do anything

Climate Change (it was Global Warning for years)

Netflix, Max, Hulu, Peacock, Prime Video, Tubi, Paramount+, etc.

Streaming/Binge watching

Podcast

Spotify

Apple Music

Apple vs. Android

Buy THC products over the internet

“You had to get your poppers from FRANCE?”

"Do you know who would make a great president? A former TV host who is a racist bigot, a sexual predator, was convicted of 34 felonies, wants to fuck his own daughter, hates the disabled, and is a wannabe dictator."

The twink went to a chem sex weekend and after came down with sexually transmitted monkey pox, syphilis of the eye, and sexually transmitted ring worm.

You're a white valedictorian at a middle class public high school? Kiss the Ivy League dream goodbye.

Sex is a spectrum. I’m not a man or a woman. I’m nonbinary.

Princess TnT? What a hag!

"Just download it"

"Send it to my Google account"

"Zoom meeting"

"Can we just cuddle rather that Fuck"

"send me the link"

“My mom just got a new tattoo!”

(Tangential to R83, although my friends daughter did make this argument, but didn't do it) "But mom, you had snakebites, and dad has 00 gauges! I should be able to split my tongue!"

Emmy Winner Susan Lucci!

"Can you believe the First Lady showed off her tits and pussy in those soft core lesbian porn photos she posed for a few years ago ?"

What’s a wine cooler?

Duck lips

I’m working remote this week.

“Sorry, no cash accepted.”

About a treatment for AIDS

I've got a dick and balls but I am a real woman and if you don't agree and don't allow me in women's bathrooms and locker rooms I'll beat the shit out of you and people will cheer me for standing up for trans rights.

Auto-Tune.

School shooter

"I miss when gas was only $2.89 a gallon."

Can we have less shoulder padding?

Trigger alert

And the Oscar goes to Glenn Close

[Quote] Things You Never Heard in the 80s

[Quote] I'll start:

[Quote] "I can't find my phone."

Wanna bet?

Fran Lebowitz explains how the good gay guys all died and the dregs were left. Dataloung is a perfect example.

“Hey, Good Lookin’! We’ll be back to pick you up later!”

They never came back and I was never good lookin’

She of course thinks that her success was due to that dead generation R100. But I think she was one of the second tier who rose to the top. And politically, the conoisseurship generation were useless, and Roy Cohn was right to make fun of them.

"WOW! What a beautiful hard cock on the President's son. So glad someone leaked his nude selfies. And the President's brother is sexy as fuck in his nude selfies, too. What a beautiful boner on an older guy. I'd do the both of these men. "

“I don’t watch the Bill Cosby Show. He’s a BAD man!”

I love neutral colours.

Proceed to the route how? This fucking GPS bitch

Bruce Jenner is now a woman named Caitlyn.

Paper or plastic?

My dog is a rescue.

R107 I briefly worked for a guy who was tangential to the 'scene' in LA back in the 80s (his wife would namedrop shamelessly, Debbie (Harry) was SO claustrophobic, I could barely get her to go into this club I owned", "I sold my LA house to Stevie Nicks", etc.) But apparently Bruce Jenner was toying with his sexuality, taking hormones, cross dressing. This would've been later 80s, but I was actually surprised to learn that.

To actually add to the thread:

My LabraDoodle and NewfyPoo are going to have puppies! DM me for details, if interested in a puppy they're only 2000.00!

"Did you go to the LGBTQ+ meeting on campus last night ?"

WOW!! At Northwestern University (in the 80's), we had a Gay& Lesbian alliance.

What's a tranny! God, drags queens were sooo funny.

Ok. As usual, let's begin our meeting with a land acknowledgement!

safe space

metrosexual

"paper or plastic" was a thing in the 80s in my bobo world.

[quote]Bruce Jenner was toying with his sexuality, taking hormones, cross dressing. This would've been later 80s, but I was actually surprised to learn that.

A lot of people figured something was up earlier in 1980 when he starred in “Can’t Stop the Music”

Do you think Steve Guttenburg and Bruce Jenner fucked?

I was chatting online this morning and someone pissed me off !

R31, people said queer back then. Remember Queer Nation?

R92 probably beats up trans people

Got one of those new Commodore 64 computers. It can do a spreadsheet!

Sex positive.

Sex worker.

cancel culture

Another mall is closing! There's only one left nearby and aside from Verizon, Apple Store and AT&T, no other stores are open.

Something bad is happening to someone? Let's record a video so we can go viral instead of helping them.

OMG!

LOL!

WTF?

JFC!

"I need to put beard oil in my beard so I look pretty"

"Very demure, very mindful, very cutesy"

"Some ladies I know are selling pictures of their tits and asses on OnlyFans to make a little extra money."

“Go fuck yourself you nazi asshole”

Often said today and a lot on the DL. But back before anonymous on the Internet if you said that in real time to someone they just might knock you on your ass.

The Internet has made many a lot braver and more mouthy than they are in real life

R132- Keyboard Warriors

Calling an actress an ACTOR

R108- Actually paper or plastic was something you DID start to hear at supermarkets by the late 1980’s.

Words like "Impactful"

R14- Also they never referred to Macaroni and Cheese as MAC and Cheese.

"Why is there only 1 cashier in the whole store? I don't want to use self-checkout! Are they going to pay me an employee salary if I have to scan my own groceries?"

R138, your first sentence was definitely heard often in the 80s.

Non-binary, outside of a math class.

[quote]Calling an actress an ACTOR

I remember a couple of years ago, I and my coworker at the time were discussing a movie, and I said the person starring was a 'great actress'. My coworker, a militant lesbian in her 60s, shot me a look and said, 'The correct word is actor. We don't say 'actress' any more. That's a sexist remark.' in front of a few others.

I turned back to her, and I said, 'When liberal Hollywood and liberal Broadway stop categorizing women into 'Best Actress', 'Lead Actress', and 'Best Supporting Actress' at their annual Awards show, I will stop referring to women as actresses. Until then, I won't. Those women gladly accept their awards and being called an actress, and don't see it as sexist.'

That shut her up.

Tony Danza is so talented.

To R141, great fucking answer-I agree with that!!

R143 Thank you. After that, she turned and walked away holding her rainbow coffee mug, and didn't come near me for weeks. Meanwhile, one of my coworkers who was standing across from me winked and gave me the thumbs up - he got it. Actually, they all did (there were about five of us).

I have to say, she was a smart woman and I enjoyed her company in small doses. But she thought she was appointed in the department to 'teach everyone' and bring them up to speed to what is correct and incorrect to say in the 2020s, especially when it came to women and LGBTQ+. Most people kind of backed away from her, not wanting to engage when they were 'corrected' (as far as I'm concerned, most times no correction was necessary). I knew my day was coming - it just so happened to be THAT conversation on that day, and I was ready. She wasn't expecting a rebuttal.

Delusional.

Deluded.

The most over-used, most incorrectly used words in today's DL forum.

The increasingly widely used "delulu" is the worst

"Bring some of that girl boss energy"

“Trolling…” unless you were a fisherman.

[quote]"I can't find my phone."

False. Everyone had cordless phones in the 80s, and they were frequently misplaced.

math is racist

R143 - I was working a post-performance Q&A about 25 years ago when Judith Ivey chided an audience member for using the word actress. With a mildly condescending tone, she informed everyone that "We" don't use that term anymore. Otherwise, Ivey was likeable.

R151 Thanks for sharing. Thankfully, Hollywood and Broadway never paid attention to her.

Hollywood and Broadway also don’t really take true competition into account either, R152, otherwise actors would be competing for best by being judged on performing the same roles.

I am a sadsack

"I follow a rescue panther and her Rottweiler best friend in deepest Siberia and a scone and interior decoration expert in Edinburgh named Nicolas Fairford"

[quote]False. Everyone had cordless phones in the 80s, and they were frequently misplaced

Yes, inside the house or yard, maybe. However, “I left my phone at the restaurant” was never heard in the 80s.

"You can't smoke in here."

R156 - I've had a cellphone since 1983 or 1984. Those were the days. $600 a month phone bill, and that was in 1980's money.

R158:

They're gonna love this on Datalounge!

"What is the Internet?"

The election was stolen

You might have been able to rent a VHS of the movie Gaslight (1944) but it wasn't something you'd accuse people of doing.

I have sufficient.

Stans

I’m going to the wedding of my friend Paul who is marrying his boyfriend, Barry.

Baby mama

R167, I heard baby mama used quite a bit in the 1980s.

Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis

After Grandview USA you heard that a lot R169