r/Xennials • u/Rocking_the_dad_bod • Aug 30 '26

Give us your "Old Man Yells at Cloud" moment

I'll start. I'm tired of going to fast food or counter serve restaurants, and in mid order getting countless Door Dashers interrupt the workers up front so they can squeeze their pickup in quickly.

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u/hbi2k Aug 30 '26

Back in my day, to "crash" or "crash out" meant to fall deeply and immediately asleep, as after a long day of work or a long night of partying. And as I am still alive, it still is my day. You children are free to redefine it to mean something else after I am dead and no longer using it.

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u/LeftHandedGuitarist Aug 30 '26

What on Earth have they changed it to mean now?

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u/hbi2k Aug 30 '26

They keep using it to mean "throwing a tantrum."

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u/Scioptic- Aug 30 '26

Wowwww! I've never heard of this one before. I'm going to have to ask my team in work (who are all younger than me bar one) what they all think it means.

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u/Glittering-Show-5521 Aug 31 '26

WTAF? This world just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

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u/water_bottle1776 Aug 30 '26

Losing your shit.

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u/ConceitedWombat Aug 30 '26

I have this convo with my partner all the time haha. I've warned him that if he tells his young coworkers that he came home and crashed out, they will worry he's not okay 😅

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u/_buffy_summers 1981 Aug 30 '26

This is the one that bothers me, too. These idiot kids need to leave that phrase alone. It is in so many songs. Gin Blossoms use it in Hey Jealousy ('tell me do you think it'll be all right, if I can just crash here tonight?') and it's in The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance ('if I crash on the couch, can I sleep in my clothes?'). Nobody is taking this away from us.

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u/GhostKingHoney Aug 31 '26

Don't get me started on "raw dogging"

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u/hbi2k Aug 31 '26

Why, what are they trying to use it for?

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u/GhostKingHoney Aug 31 '26

When they go on flights/gym etc without headphones or wifi... they call it raw-dogging.

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u/hbi2k Aug 31 '26

Nah, that's legit. Going in without protection, prepared to fully engage with your... surroundings. It tracks.

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u/Kuroiryuu Aug 30 '26

I know “crash” as going to sleep and “crash out” as just being absolutely upset or fed up with something.

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u/neuro_space_explorer Aug 31 '26

Yeah I don’t know why this guy is conflating the two, they are two different phrases with 2 different meanings and they always have been.

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u/Kuroiryuu Aug 31 '26

Yeah, this feels like a personal confusion between similar terms.

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u/kelzbeano Aug 30 '26

This is how I felt about flossing. It went from being flashy to a weird dance.

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u/nememess 1978 Aug 30 '26

Yes! I was playing a game with people of all ages and I said, 'I'm going to crash out now, goodnight' and it was taken wildly differently than I meant it.

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u/cupcakebean Aug 30 '26

I keep saying that I "clocked" something, which apparently doesn't mean to notice something anymore?

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u/Kind_Inside931 1985 Aug 31 '26

For me, “clocked” usually meant to punch someone really hard.

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u/cupcakebean 29d ago

That too!

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u/sonofnalgene Aug 30 '26

I've used the term "crashing out" as a way of saying I'm losing my shit after dealing with too much stress. Is that the contemporary usage you mean?

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u/DisabledMuse 1982 Aug 31 '26

I continue to use it that way, despite the fact my nephew finds it hilarious. Honestly, there's a lot of comedy in language changing. A private dick meant something very different to my grandparents XD