I am so out of touch with the modern world it's embarrassing.

[Ihopeyourcakeisshit]

A couple of weeks ago I read something about a celebrity who had 'slid into somebody's DMs, I didn't think much of it, didn't read the article and moved on.
A few days later I saw a similarly titled article and thought Crikey what is it with people borrowing other people's boots.
Saw it again and decided to read it as I couldn't fathom why boot snaffling was such a thing.
Obviously I now realise I am a complete berk who needs to get down with all this modern stuff.

It's definitely direct messages and not boots. It means directly messaging someone that you don't know either at all or you know them but not well enough to be messaging them. You are sliding in because you shouldn't really be there.

What about 'shipping'? My teenagers are always shipping people. People at school, people from different TV programmes.

Yes, you might ship the people that you stan.

Oh dear... now I feel really old. I still say ‘cool’ and ‘wicked’. Does that make me really ‘sad’? Or is that passé too?!

I love these threads. I slip random phrases into my conversations with DH and DD and it really shakes them up. They have no idea I’m getting them off MN

Well I've heard it all now.

Had to sell my DMs after DC1 as they ruined my hips...

So fecking confused right now. All I know is I've realised I miss wearing doc martens (missing entire point of thread)

I recently found out about the existence, and meaning of, strange flex

Also had a proper falling out with a colleague years ago, in Nokia age texting, as she believed that lol stood for 'lots of love' and I argued 'laugh out loud' we had a full on row about it!

Also get greeted with "what's Gucci mum?"

Are there indirect messages? Is that tweeting or putting it on someone’s wall?

The other day a junior person I work with described something as "extra". Fortunately I knew what he meant

I recently stopped a 'young man' to tell him his shoe laces were untied. He looked at me like a loon and said they were meant to be worn that way. I thought I was being helpful. Serve him right when he trips over and breaks his neck though.

On a separate but related note, does anyone know how to make DMs comfy to wear? I've had a new pair three years now and they shred my feet to a bleeding mess every time I wear them. Have covered them in special DM balm. No difference. How do I break them in, please?

@dellacucina please tell me!

Hebe Mumsnet - I break my DM’s by whacking the heel and toes with a rubber covered hammer over and over to soften leather. I learnt it from another mumsnetter avd it works.

I believe the army way is to wee in your boots and leave them to, erm, marinate. I cannot stress enough that I have not tried this myself...

My 13 year old DD described a guy as a 'road man' the other day; I thought he worked on the roads!
I still do not know what it means cos every time it gets mentioned she nearly wets her knickers laughing.

Basically, OTT

There seems to be a whole new language evolving in the last year or so. I feel old.

dellacucina Thank you.

A roadman is a youth that spends a lot of time hanging around the streets. Selling drugs on bikes rather than going to school or college. A modern day beauty school,drop out.

Ploppy Good tip - thank you. Spudlet I might try the hammer first if that's ok?

I thought I was fairly up to date until I read this thread

@bluntness100

Ha no

Hahaha 😂. I know what this means but the first time I heard someone say it, it was a YouTuber, I thought they meant sliding on some mud in a pair of doc martens . I'm clearly not the only one who thought this.

I can confirm the peeing to wear boots in, and weirdly, it's better to get a bloke to do it - Women's wee is too acidic apparently (yup, I have worn many a pair of stinky boots courtesy of my Male friends).

Tonight I learned what "talking with" someone means (showing interest before becoming an item), the difference between going with (casual) and going out with (exclusive)....now I've just got to work out 'turnt'