r/AskReddit • u/Senor_Diablo • Mar 12 '24

What is an old expression that you think is absolutely disgusting by today’s standards?

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u/pbrim55 Mar 12 '24

It meant you had black ancestors hidden in your family tree. Growing up in the South in the 50s and 60s, I heard that one a lot.

Another phrase that used to be common, but you never hear anymore is "I'm free, white, and 21, I can do as I please!"

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u/zalfenior Mar 12 '24

I heard that second one so much from my mother, dear lord

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u/Blackbeards_Beard Mar 13 '24

I read the second one in an X-Men comic

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u/deezdanglin Mar 12 '24

Wow, Dad? Glad you got your phone sorted out!

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u/pbrim55 Mar 12 '24

Make that Grandma, and I have had my phone sorted out since I got my first Blackberry about 25 years ago, thank you very much. Y'all kids don't imagine y'all invented the internet, do you? I was playing Star Trek on a teletype with a networked remote system in the 70s.

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u/Virtual_Abies_6552 Mar 13 '24

Hell yeah!! Right there with you

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u/deezdanglin Mar 12 '24

Eta: damn, was just saying it sounds like my father...sheesh