I'm not sure I want to know the answer, but is anyone able to translate some teen slang for me?

[ThingsIdontwanttoknow]

I just saw that a bloke has posted on DD's Instagram 'jumpers fire my guy'. I've not really been able to work it out but the little I have found has made my heart sink. She's 20, so an adult but has made some very poor decisions in the last year which make me think she can be a bit vulnerable.

Anyone able to translate for me?

If she’s not wearing a jumper (knitted/sweatshirt), is she wearing a jumpsuit/all in one thing?

Omg pretty sure teens would laugh at anyone saying 'fires my guy' and meaning 'turns me on.' Utterly ridiculous. 😂

(15yo dd also says it means 'nice jumper bro?')

It's difficult isn't it, my daughter unfriended me after I told her boyfriend to take off a comment on Facebook - he'd written 'we all know you are a racist'. It's the sort of comment future employers could take seriously, I was worried. He'd also written 'I have lots of sex with you' in her school end of year book. Their relationship didn't last long, thankfully.

@CirqueDeMorgue

Omg pretty sure teens would laugh at anyone saying 'fires my guy' and meaning 'turns me on.' Utterly ridiculous. 😂

"Lights the fire in his ‘guy’"

😂😂😂 no

My 13 year old calls all her friends male/female My Guy.
It just means along the lines of cool jumper dude.

@colouringindoors

Really interesting chat with my dd about this. I'm really not sure her peers use as much innuendo in their comments as mine did at that age. Dd says they can't be bothered/don't have brain space.

Yeah I was thinking the same. I would be highly surprised if this turned out to be anything deeper than complimenting her clothes.

This thread is ridiculous 😅

Please stop saying it means sex or drugs. I can without a single doubt tell you that it doesn't. It's absolutely not that deep and I think you need to take a step back. I get that you're concerned because of your daughter's history but obsessing over her social media is not good for you and will alienate her if you bring it up with her. My mum did this to me at the same age, was always thinking things had secret meanings, making assumptions, worrying herself over nothing etc. I deleted her off all social media as she was winding herself up over nothing and I found it distressing. I recognise now she wasn't well at the time and now wouldn't dream of being so intrusive. Don't drive a wedge between you. Just be easy to talk to, non accusatory or judgemental, and then hopefully if she ever does need you for anything, she'll be confident that you can handle it.

Could it be his jumper? So he's being a little sacrcastic?

Is the jumper an expensive make? That would make sense. E.g. Gucci

It means, 'that jumper is cool, mate' (shuddering to sound so old fashioned 🤣)
It's either a top your DD or someone in the pic is wearing or an in-joke concerning the top.
Please just drop it.

What makes you think that she has two (very different) mental health diagnosis?

I stopped trying to understand anything on my SS’s Instagram. It all sounds suspicious to me since I have zero context for any of it.

After reading all the comments here “You’re jumper is awesome, friend!” Is what I think it means.

Getting old is confusing.

Sorry I just saw realised that you have written off bipolar for borderline personality disorder.

As the mother of a couple twenty somethings. You really need to step back!

It definitely means - that jumper is cool/nice/awesome. Don’t read into it more than that!!!

It’s probably just a typo

My 15yr old also says it means he likes her clothes. It’s a compliment. He and others his age are interested in clothes but they also know complimenting others nice.

Erm, she’s 20. And as far as I can tell he just complimented her clothes. I don’t think there’s any need to overanalyse this. It’s her business anyway, I couldn’t imagine my mum getting involved in my relationship choices when I was 20.

Were there other people in the photo wearing jumpers? Could he have been directing the comment to them instead?

hahahahaha this thread is hilarious. It means nice jumper, mate. Nothing else. No hidden meanings. Fire means cool/nice. lol

This thread is so funny- I’m sorry OP, not because you’re worried- that’s not funny, and you should definitely talk to your daughter.

But not about this. I PROMISE you it is just a guy complimenting your daughter on her top.

Genuinely? They’ll keep the dirty chat for WhatsApp. Nobody’s putting it on insta.

@namechange248

hahahahaha this thread is hilarious. It means nice jumper, mate. Nothing else. No hidden meanings. Fire means cool/nice. lol

Seriously, it's like a competition to see who can make OP panic the most, "hmm, shall I go with sex or drugs 🤔"

Unless she’s in danger from this boy/man I wouldn’t do or say anything. I say this as someone with diagnosed EUPD (similar to BPD). I’m older than your daughter but in my teens and early 20s I did engage in a lot of risky, attention seeking behaviour and if my parents had tried to confront me about it or advise me otherwise, it would only have made me even more determined to go against their wishes (even if I knew they were right). He doesn’t sound a particularly nice guy if he’s refused to date her but is leading her on but frankly, if this is all he’s doing, she needs to learn to manage it herself. Like I said, it’s a different story if she’s actively in danger. But arseholes and chancers will always exist and if she can learn to uphold her own boundaries from experience this will be better in the long run than you attempting to shield her from any adverse circumstances. I can’t speak for your daughter but I know in my case that would only have made ‘bad’ things and people seem more enticing.

You know urban dictionary is a load of made up bollocks, right? It’s become a bit of a running joke that just about any word or phrase would have some kind of ridiculous outlandish meaning attributed to it. I can’t believe people are actually using it as a serious reference site 😂