Da often-largely-bu**s**t "you think THAT'S difficult/meager/boring?? You coddled soft-livin' young people of today haven't a bleepin' CLUE about how dull/tough/harsh things USED to be for the common person!" retort given by arrogant elders to try to brush off a whiny-but-often-perfectly reasonable/legitimate request/complaint/excuse proffered by someone "from da newer generation".
Before you go sagely wagging your finger and snorting, "Why, when I was a boy..." anytime a younger person whimpers/protests to you about something, you should first seriously consider whether whatever "way back when" condition that you are referring to was truly fair/wise/healthy, or if it was merely based on the "unenlightened" prejudiced/close-minded/stereotypical thinking, unawareness/disregard for basic health/safety concerns, etc. which was so tragically rampant "back in the good ol' days", such as toxic building-materials, leaded gasoline, racial hatred, disregard for the dangers of radioactivity, lack of tolerance/sympathy/allowances for physically and/or mentally-challenged citizens, etc. Maybe the "young whippersnapper" who is bringing his dissatisfaction to your attention does indeed have a valid point which stems from modern-day knowledge and progressive thinking --- again, just because YOU had to put up with all of that "insipid/hard/agonized-living" crap during your formative years does **not** arbitrarily mean that it was fair or safe or reasonable, and therefore you should not blindly use it as a justifying example of what said youngster should think/tolerate nowadays.
by QuacksO August 4, 2019
Get the Why, when I was a boy...mug. by I want to flyyyy April 24, 2021
Get the When a girl winksmug. by TheMilkConsumer October 17, 2022
Get the me when the:mug. When The Going Gets Goth is a series created by Jacob Hübsch, Matthew Tarbox, Easton Butler, Oleksandr Boyko. The Name of the Series originated from a fake lost media hoax created by Davetoons on Twitter in 2020, and Later taken by Jacob Hübsch for his series he was already developing about a Goth character and made into a real series. When The Going Gets Goth is occasionally shortened in WT3G and has had 3 Lost Pilots which are considered lost media. The show follows Veronika von Goethe, Jayquaries III, Marttholomew, and many more venturing through their un-ordinary life full of magic, demons, and afterlife realms.
by JackinNOLM October 9, 2025
Get the When The Going Gets Gothmug. A sentence mixed with AAVE + Stan Twitter words that make absolutely no sense at all for normal English speakers. Only the most devoted of the Unemployment religion can decipher the gaggery of this sentence.
Originally said by a random Twitter user, it gained more recognition when Ethel Cain read the same sentence posted by someone else on her livestream.
Originally said by a random Twitter user, it gained more recognition when Ethel Cain read the same sentence posted by someone else on her livestream.
"When the chile is tea but the finna is gag, sis i'm dead as a chile
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right" is the full title of Finna Apple's second studio album.
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right" is the full title of Finna Apple's second studio album.
by repufolklore February 28, 2025
Get the When the chile is tea but the finna is gag, sis i'm dead as a chilemug. by When the when is when July 15, 2022
Get the When the when is whenmug. Its used as a place holder when u have a stroke or u just autismed so you have to catch urself again.
U know when u go home and u me when u when me uh do u when u. go home and go toilet and you‘re happy that you go toilet ur toilet.
by 0zuzu0 September 15, 2023
Get the Me when u when me uh do u when u.mug.