I gotta get a life - I have never heard this. What will Heloise do?

Indeed! The word also reminds me of "a hacking cough," which is a very unpleasant thing.

I never heard of it either. Sigh.

I didn't have a clue either until I saw a show called "Hack My Life". I think it is on TruTV. It's a lot of good ideas and neat tricks to make your life easier. Check it out!

Everything has to have a trendy new word like "whatevs". HA! I have my young nephew(in his twenties) on my facebook and all his friends use silly words like that, half the time I don't even know what they are talking about. I guess "tips and tricks and hints" isn't cool enough. When I hear the word "HACK" I think of computer hacking.

New to me and I hope it stays that way.

My current dislike is the (rather old) use of "guys" for any group.

In our dining room we are served by local high school students and typically we hear "Are you guys read for dessert?" We "guys" are folks in their 80's and 90's and most of us are women.

Another thing that mystifies me is that several of these students have rings in their noses, eyebrows, and who knows where else? Still, I like most of these young people, even the ones with the pink or purple hair. They come from a highly rated high school and are apparently good students.

Ah, well--my age is showing.

Remember back when the Beatles were thought to have such long hair and were just so "out there"? Ha! By today's standard they were extremely well groomed young men in suits and ties! Things definitely change!

I don't care for the use of hack for everything either I think it's very over used and inappropriately used. But it is apparently the new it term.

I think the Garfield comics could give us an actual good example of hacked lol. As in a hairball! Now that is proper terminology.

Guys is better than kid or kiddo. I hate that one. I am not a baby goat or a small child. I'm not a guy, but at least they're human.

Oh, no, I just called someone "kiddo!"

Just take me back to the good old days and leave me there!

I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact the "to gift" is a verb. GIfting something to someone makes my skin crawl and my head hurt. Oh, and like my Canadian spelling, the computer underlines it as an incorrect word.

I don't understand Hack - what was wrong with Tip?

Just like "Google" is a verb these days, blfenton

I agree on taking nouns and turning them into verbs by adding ing as incorrect usage.

I think kiddo has come to replace honey... at work.

The missus uses 'kiddo' whenever she is on the phone with a close friend. It bugs me, but being the nice guy I am, I don't say anything.

Here is my gripe...when you leave a person (say in a store or business), the parting words are, "Have a good one!" One gal I know said that to me and I complained that she is always bossing me around. Even in the doctor's office when I leave, "Have a good one."

I didn't know that a small child wasn't a human. Learn something every day!

Computer hacking is not a negative term. When it started getting used in that day it was essentially getting something to do what it wasn't intended to do. A computer "hack" would enable something not normally available, or using it for something else. People often confuse it with cracking. But that term is going out. So these life "hacks" don't bother me, it's usually something out of the "norm" as some used to say, for instance using a pants hanger to hold a recipe book on a cupboard door.

I always get a laugh from old people who try to be "hip" and adopt phrases from the younger. How many old farts now say "awesome" for everything, trying to sound "young" even though the younger group "of guys" do not say it anymore!

Never bothers me when someone says "have a good one". Sounds like an invitation to me to help myself to something or someone! Some are bothered when someone says "no problem" or something after a "thank you" or "thanks"... another one that bothers me not, they're acknowledging you anyway.

OTOH, I do not like it when people say "google it" when I prefer to "Duck Duck Go" it, or Mamma it, or Dogpile it, or Startpage it or ixquick it. And I don't like people calling a Diet Sprite a "coke", or calling chicken soup "chili", or coleslaw dressing "BBQ sauce"... Some things, I just don't understand. Sounds like schools need to teach more than texting.

Yes, times have changed. Today, giving cash or a check is offensive. You're abusing people if you don't buy a "gift card". Even considering the percentage of uncashed gift cards! If people are offended by my check, they certainly don't have to cash it.