"You Only Live Once." Hmmm. Kay hadn't heard of it, but she's not quite a teenager yet.
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What is YOLO? Only teenagers know for sure – The Boston Globe
YOLO: Right now, it’s a teen slang craze so hot that the kids themselves are fighting about it. Yet if you're over 25, you’ve probably never even heard the word.
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It might be from a rap song by Drake, I think "Motto" is the song.
In my experience, it’s nothing more than the battlecry preceding any act of abject stupidity undertaking but a true pants-on-head idiot.
To be fair to today’s callow generation, I seem to recall a long-lived and successful set of beer commercials that started with, “You only go around once in life, so you better grab for all the gusto you can,” or something to that effect. Nothing new under the sun.
…and my phone’s autocorrect is in full bollox-up mode tonight.
Yes, as the article notes:
'It shot to fame earlier this year thanks to the rapper Drake, whose song “The Motto” has the hook, “You only live once, that’s the motto…YOLO, and we ’bout it every day, every day, every day.” After a video for the song was released in February, the buzzword spread quickly among the high school and college-age set by word of mouth, not just in person but through the turbocharged vehicle of social media.'
Of course, we know that You Only Live Twice.
I'm 45 and I've heard it enough to be sick of it myself. The only way you couldn't have been exposed to it is to have not known any young people at all.
The other term, one that I find way more annoying than YOLO, is SWAG (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/swag). To me, that's the free crap you pick up at conventions, but apparently the kids are using it as a shorthand for swagger. Apparently, according to some, swag is all you need instead of things like intelligence and education. Fortunately there's been something of a backlash against this idea among many youth with some amusing image macros coming from it
That's right, I'm down with the kids. I'm hep. I'm happening.
@Les – Are those young folks, in fact, showing the swag upon your lawn, despite your repeated requests that they remove themselves?
I only know about it from perusing FailBlog. Even then, I had to google it.