Before
Last night, I was out to dinner at a local veteran's hall. We have people of all ages who visit, from the WWII vets to those who are still serving. I sat at a table with a Vietnam vet and we started chatting.
During the course of our conversation, the Vietnam vet was joking around about being drunk (he had only had one at this point) and sang a version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" that went like "Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink." I started laughing and told him that some of those words probably had different meanings than he realized. He asked what I meant and I told him the word "twink" is slang used to describe a person.
At this point, he whips out his phone and loudly inquires, "Siri, what's a twink?" (I almost had wine up my nose.) After directing him to the Urban Dictionary page, his eyes grew wide as he read the definition. I decided to try to find an image to show him, but quickly discovered that looking up the word "twink" in Google images will just bring up porn scenes if you don't have your safe search on. I told him NOT to do an image search, but of course, he just had to after I warned him not to.
His eyebrows knitted into a mixture of confusion and horror as he slowly lowered his phone to the table. He muttered, "I've been singing that song since 1965." Silently, he went up to the bar to get another drink and sat with a thousand-yard stare for a good long while. This decorated veteran has witnessed the atrocities of war, but seeing young dudes doing some butt stuff was too much for him to handle.
TL;DR: Told a veteran that the word "twink" meant something in modern slang. He ended up looking at gay porn. I think I broke the man.
After
Last night I went out to eat at the local aging room. We got people of all ages to visit, from the beginning of WWII to those who were still on duty. I sat at a table with a veterinarian in Vietnam and we started talking.
During our conversation, the vet in Vietnam joked about being drunk (he only drank one at the time) and sang a version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" that sounded like "Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink." I began to laugh and told him that some of these words seemed to have a different meaning than he thought. He asked me what I meant and told me that the word “twink” is a jargon that works to describe people.
At this point he turned on the phone and asked a lot: "Siri, what's wrong?" (I almost got wine in my nose.) After pointing to a page in the Urban Dictionary, his eyes widened when he read its definition. I decided to try an image search to show that, but I soon discovered that a search for the word “twink” in Google images would only show pornography if you didn’t search safely. I told him NOT to do a photo search, but of course he did it right after I reminded him.
His cheeks wrinkled in a mixture of confusion and horror as he slowly lowered the phone to the table. He grumbled, "I've been singing that song since 1965." Quietly, he went to the bar for another drink and the clever and millennial stared at him for quite a while. The decorated elder was witnessing the brutality of the war, but seeing the young neighbor do that was too wrong for him.
TL; DR: An elder said that the word “boy” means anything in modern slang. He was finally watching gay porn. Looks like I broke up with that man.