Some of that isn’t limited to gen Z. I’ve had older coworkers make buzzer noises for correct/wrong (like those on a gameshow)
Assuming the Scooby doo one is stuff like “ruh roh”, that specific trend might be recent, but people have been doing silly voices for a while
Although a lot of it could be tiktok trends (or vines for the millenials)
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I am almost 70. I have meowed, mooed and other sounds all my life. Recently I have found out that I have ADHD and some Autism as well. I am getting assessed.
Congrats on discovering your membership to the Cool Kids’ Club! :D We’re glad to have you.
Meow!
It’s kind of a running joke in my family that I’m on the spectrum.
I mentioned getting an assessment to my wife, and she made what I felt was a pretty strong argument against it. Essentially that at 56 years old it wouldn’t change anything, and it would be time, effort, and money spent with no gain.
I’m wondering what you are expecting to achieve with your assessment.
Also, meow.
Know thyself.
Getting an ADHD diagnosis opens you up for medical help. Getting an autism diagnosis can to in some places. In some states you’ll get state sponsored healthcare. Depending on your needs of course.
I agree with this, and by all means healthcare should be provided if that is what you need. However, there’s a bunch to be said that if you’ve developed a bunch of coping mechanisms that fix or address certain aspects, that getting medicated could completely fuck up your flow of what you used to do and now need to learn new ways to deal with things with medication. But knowledge is power, but I don’t always agree that if you’ve lived 50 years unmedicated, and then getting medicated is always the answer but it absolutely should be available.
Yeah, it’s never a “have to”, or even a should. What I found is I’ve gotten older, is that my coping mechanisms didn’t hold up over time. Medication was right for me. That’s not going to be everyone though.
Gnothi seauton!
I learned who I was. And I would still have been a slob even if I hadn’t.
Being the child of silent generation parents and way older siblings I was just the weird kid. Always being told there was something wrong with me but never did anything about it. Once I got older I was just called quirky and uncle nutsy by my nieces and nephews. I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia only 3-4 years ago and reading all the younger folks stuff on reddit and here I figured maybe that is why I was the way I was. Asked my wife and doctor and they said well yes of course you are on the spectrum.
It’s the sound of their dreams being crushed in the dream crushing machine. Millenials and Gen Xers used to make similar noises back when they still had dreams.
Karma police, arrest this man! He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge, he’s like a detuned radio…
(Yes I’m aware the original is by Radiohead. I like his cover better.)
detuned radio
How do you get the horsepower back out of the radio?
Hoy do you get the horses to power your radio?
Now that’s classified. The cold war? It was crucial information in that conflict. Getting them in is relatively simple once you understand the dynamics of it. But we tried for a decade and never could successfully reverse the process. Some say they can still hear the neighs over the old AM frequencies.
Check the distributor. Might need to advance or retard the timing by a few degrees.
Zoinks!
I do the occasional “ruh roh”
It still gets me that one of the last transmissions of the SS El Faro (ship) before it sank, was “ruh roh” Scooby do impression
I keep my GenZs collared and in a closet. They do grunt, but it seems normal adult reactions to what is being done to them. Are you specifically referring to non sexual noises in the GenZs that you own?
No he was strictly talking about the sexual noises.
I need to change industries
Meow.
Also, shouldn’t there be one more year left before the oldest of Gen Z reach 30?
As a 30 y/o Millennial, I can confirm this is the case.
As a 30 y/o Gen Z, nyaaa~
As a mid-30s millennial, ow my back
UwU sussy baka
ARF ARF ARF
As a 29 yo gen z yes we got 1 more year 😭
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Ahh… Words that warm my heart, fuck them indeed.
A colleague regularly goes “grrr” and for quite some time I didn’t know that had an origin other than comic books. He’s 34 and - yes - officially autistic.
My Xennial boss is by far the biggest vocal stimmer in our office.
Curious to know if they also claim that “we didn’t have that stuff when I was a kid,” and attempt to defend casual usage of the r-slur?
Absolutely not, just a big flamboyant goof and they know it.
That actually makes me happy.
The only vocalizations that can be heard from my desk; “Are you fucking kidding me?”
I think you’re speaking for many of us. Typing is my job, for all intents. And sometimes, as I tend to do, I rush. And I’ll make a typo. I’ll backspace it up, and then I’ll make the same fucking typo. And so when I do it a third time, you’ll get some variation of “Are you fucking kidding me,” whether it’s me to my computer or just to myself.
My new college hire is full of energy and makes quirky sounds and I think it’s great. I miss having that.
She also is really good about leaving at 5, which is something the rest of us need to be better about. We had someone in another department point out to me and my boss that she always leaves before we do, and we explained that she’s the one doing things right and not us.
What sheltered world did this guy come up in? The list of sounds we used in daily life or quotes from entertainment as Gen X was endless. Everything from “Ruh roh Raggie” to the “arr arrr arrr” from Tim Allen’s character or various Beavis and Butthead references were never too far away. “Book 'em, Danno” an even older reference comes to mind.
(However, in professional settings this should be avoided. Standard chatter with familiar people in the office you can get away with it)
Dude needs to grow up and remember to be young.
