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.
Or the dragnet riff… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtKicA7tpK8
Wat’chu talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?
This guy works the trades? Maybe Gen Z is going back to the boomer roots of Tim The Tool Man Taylor.
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.
my manager constantly hummed when talking to people, I have no idea how she never ran out of breath. it was kinda impressive
she got a promotion and moved to a different location recently :(
I like to stim by rolling my rs and changing the pitch when im working outside by myself. it’s fun 😙
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.
If I asked someone a direct question and they buzzed at me I would do one of three things:
- punch them to startle the demon trapped within
- directly ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” because there is visible mental illness I should be aware of
- fire them if I had the ability.
Seriously people act like a fucking adult and not a feral inbred monkey with Tourette’s. Quirkiness is one thing but that’s just fucking rude.
BZZZT this is a goofy answer and you should chill out.
Talks about punching people for minor things and then suggests other people need to “act like a fucking adult.” Cute.
I’d rather work with the Gen Z kids any day over someone like you. They sound fun and quirky. You sound like a dick.
If you punch someone because you don’t like a completely innocuous noise they made you are an asshole
lmao ya but when they retaliate it’s gonna be hilarious hearing someone get their ass beat to the sound of scooby doo barks and buzzing
It was a joke for fucks sake. But answering a question with a fucking game show noise is rude and immature. Quit giving Gen Z a pass for acting like assholes.
Sorry which one of these was supposed to be funny?
punch them to startle the demon trapped within
directly ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” because there is visible mental illness I should be aware of
fire them if I had the ability.
Quit giving Gen Z a pass for acting like assholes.
Maybe you should also stop acting like an asshole.
Like for real, if you’re trying to be funny than by your logic I am entitled to assume you are mentally ill you do realize?
Quit giving Gen Z a pass for acting like assholes.
So it was not a joke.
Wow you sound like someone whose never punched anyone or had employees.
You’d be surprised.
bruh that is not the flex you think it is.
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
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.
What is the origin, if I may know ?
I think it was a League of Legends barbarian. Can’t find it though.
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?
Check the distributor. Might need to advance or retard the timing by a few degrees.
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.
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!
I had a bad habit of making “boredom noises” for years until someone pointed it out and I had to start working on it. Turns out the technical term is “verbal stimming” and it’s definitely tied to either of those.
It wasn’t a bad habit dude, it was just your natural way of regulating your nervous system
I hear that, but I deserve for my nervous system to be regulated, too. Just because clicking a pen calms someone down doesn’t mean they should do it at the expense of everyone else’s focus in an office setting, and the same goes for all stims. Situational awareness isn’t something to discourage
True, accomodations that fit everyone must be made, but they shouldn’t consider a natural reaction to being neurodivergent a “bad habit to quit”.
We all have to wear masks, my guy. It takes a lot of effort to not be “the weird guy” at work.
But does it, in the end, take less effort than constantly fighting yourself?
Life isn’t a choice between easy and hard, it’s mostly a choice between hard now or way harder later.
It becomes less problematic over time. Without learning how to mask or developing coping skills, life will just be harder in the long run. My career would certainly be less successful if I did not develop coping skills. Burnout can be avoided by finding healthy outlets and enforcing personal time to relax and recover.
For me it’s been the opposite, the less I mask the more I actually end up with people and in environments where I am accepted and cherished for the person I am, not who I force myself to be to fit in. Trying to do that nearly killed me.
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.
Gnothi seauton!
I learned who I was. And I would still have been a slob even if I hadn’t.
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.
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.
I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia
So if you don’t think in words and also not in images… How do you think? I’m curious because I can’t imagine thinking without either of those.
The hell if I know. Not a clue. It is my biggest question about them. I do think as I am typing and responding to you and all the other stuff I do but it is just there. I kind of equate it to having a filing cabinet. And in that filing cabinet are tons of folders and I just refer to each one of them even though I don’t see them or know what’s in them. Both aphantasia and anendophasia are relatively new in their research. Some of it I read makes sense a lot does not.
I’ve been peer reviewed, but I’ve never bothered with a diagnosis
I just don’t see the point. I’m already officially neurodivergent, and there’s no treatment options that open to me with an autism diagnosis
If saw a reason, I’d get tested. But I don’t need a label for the sake of a label
Meow.
Also, shouldn’t there be one more year left before the oldest of Gen Z reach 30?
As a 29 yo gen z yes we got 1 more year 😭
As a 30 y/o Millennial, I can confirm this is the case.
As a 30 y/o Gen Z, nyaaa~
UwU sussy baka
As a mid-30s millennial, ow my back
ARF ARF ARF
I watch this daily for motivation.
I also make the same noises every morning.
That seal is a poet of all time.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Ahh… Words that warm my heart, fuck them indeed.
Spez the pedophile that moderated the jailbait subreddit?
That Spez?
That’s it.
Oh well yes then I agree, fuck that pedophile corporate - lapdog piece of shit
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.
Life means experiencing the crushing of your dreams and the death of all hope. I get by on just so many antidepressants.
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)
FRE
SHAVOCA
DOYeah i’m an early millenial and i got in trouble as a kid at a trading card game convention because i was playing the x files card game, which involved asking the other player yes/no questions and the guy demoing the game mistook my no buzzer noise for a yes buzzer noise and lost because of it.
Wtf is a yes buzzer sound?
“Ding ding”? Still not acceptable lol
That’s not a buzzer though
I’d use it instead of duh
That’s definitely a skill issue on their part
I think “ruh roh” is far older than gen Z. I think the first time I ever heard it was a gen X’er. Maybe it just got more popular?
About 6 years ago we were sitting on the beach and a larger wave came in out of nowhere that went say 20-25 feet further up the beach to where we were sitting, I grabbed her and my phone and said ruh-roh as she realized and stood up, didn’t have time to grab the small Bluetooth speaker we had and it got soaked and I grabbed it a few seconds after as the wave retreated. It isn’t a term I say often, but I think it was something I did back in my early twenties when there was the possibility of kids being around. Instead of yelling “oh shit” my 37 year old brain decides to sound like a cartoon dog.
Her: *high chuckle* “Like! Let’s get outta here!”
You: *ihihihihihihi**bongo intensifies as feet continue to make circles in midair*
Zoiks!
I do the occasional “ruh roh”
We allow ourselves the occasional Scooby snack…as a treat.
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
