166: Misusing Slang

Misusing Slang

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Title text: It slowly dawns on us that our parents knew exactly what they were doing.

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Explanation

In the comic, Randall expresses excitement for the time in the future where he can intentionally misuse modern-day slang in order to make nearby teenagers feel uncomfortable. The comic illustrates this using the word "pwned", which means "to be beaten", as in "I pwned that other guy badly at ping pong!"

Many teenagers believe their parents to be not "with the times", but Randall suggests that parents actually do know what the words mean, but are acting otherwise in order to mess with their heads. The title text reinforces this, as every generation has had some form of slang that they used, and it could be possible that this practice has been continued for a good while.

Transcript

The best part of getting older is gonna be intentionally misusing slang around teenagers just to watch them squirm.

Cueball: Oh man, that song is so pwned!

[The adolescent twitches.]

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This comment is so 1337! Goodbye, world! (talk) 16:45, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Thy end is now. Psychoticpotato (talk) 22:50, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

alright gabriel ultrakill --162.158.49.18 12:36, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

man, this comic is so skibidi rizzler core (young millennials and old gen z will be spoilt for choice here) 2607:FB91:8BA0:383:AC39:D317:7F99:5486 23:36, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

I gotta cap, that cringe is a little maxxed. —2600:387:15:3C14:0:0:0:2 19:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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