Things of today's youth that you don't understand

[NorthernLiner]

What in the name of feck is skibidi?

What's with the 'V' peace (?) signs across your face in EVERY photo?

Why is calling something 'sick' a good thing?!

Please enlighten me oh wise ones of MN.
I'm sure we weren't such an enigma to our parents 😆

Oh yes, this! My son is infuriating.

Whet about “sagging”, where the boys have their pants showing at the top of their trousers? My son wears shorts under his school trousers because apparently boys pull each others trousers down. 🙄

Andrew Tate. Watch that one

Oh and crocs...DD and her best friend went to a party recently in lovely dresses, but with white pulled up Nike socks over their black tights and bloody crocs! 🙄

Also having expensive phones but being unwilling to answer them - call any of the DC they dont answer, but then Snapchat after to see what I want! If they do answer then it's always on speaker phone...I'm on a roll now 🤣🤣

any chance of a simple summary of the meaning? i cba watching videos

Ah yes, fidget spinners. There was a term when every bloody child simply had to have one. Strangely they could all cope again when they stopped being fashionable.

Skibidi Ohio Rizz - cool, bad, charismatic.
Apparently.
😳

A semi colon tattoo can celebrate moving on from feeling suicidal - symbolising a break in one’s life but not a full stop, moving onto the next clause instead.

And the gaming stuff! The other players are all either newbs, kids or hackers. Constant complaints about 'spam jumping' and 'spraying' in fortnight 😒

My parents didn't understand me
I don't understand our teens
If they have they won't understand theirs

It's just youth, trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in.

If they say something and my spidersense asks "what's is that?"
I get "you don't want to know mum"
"I have the internet I shall Google"
"No don't please don't google it"
"Explain then"

Which they do. It's very entertaining.

My child is 11
She comes back saying skibidi and 'apickme'
I've no idea what it means but what makes me laugh is neither does she
She says the words but doesn't know what they mean 😂

That's interesting, because I've always thought the period where they are seeing each other but aren't yet exclusive, so free to see others as well, isn't particularly respectful.

My DD13 says skibidi. I just thought she’d made it up, I didn’t realise it was a thing

My DD wanted one of these bags (knock-off version) for Christmas! And yes she wears the white socks with tights.

The missing out of words drives me crazy! It’s like they have regressed to toddlers still learning to talk. ‘I’m going park, I’m going bus station, I’m going retail park.’ I don’t allow them to go anywhere until they’ve managed to tell me using a complete sentence.

@TheaBrandt , I asked the same thing about short and curly hair. When my DD18 was at school all the girls seemed to be clones of each other with long straightened her. In uniform they all looked the same!

I don't understand "the talking stage" of a relationship. No one asks each other out without going through this stage and it baffles me.

What's "ohio"?

For some reason, there became an internet thing making the US state of Ohio a place of weird paranormal oddities. Strange pictures and edited videos became 'Meanwhile in Ohio...' or 'Only in Ohio', and from there it kinda became shorthand for weird/strange/unexplainable.

It's like an odd combination of Florida Man (strange news stories coming from Florida because of how their laws around the reporting of arrests) and the backrooms (paranormal urban legend that got turned into video games).

I have had more than one odd and amusing conversation with kids & young adults when they hear I'm from Ohio, and they go on about how they've 'seen Ohio online...'. Sometimes I play along about escaping from Ohio.

@waltzingparrot As long as it's understand and works both ways I think it's fine.

Oh, young people nowadays, eh?

Isn't this just the American-style 'dating' that people of my generation read about in Sweet Valley High - going out on dates with different people and then deciding to 'go steady' if you properly clicked? I actually see nothing wrong with that - there's a clear understanding that you're free to see who you like until you mutually decide otherwise. Better than all the 'two timing' childishness of my youth in the UK.

What does Sigma mean...?

Only heard of this recently so maybe you were waayyy ahead of the rest of us?

It's fascinating.

In Little Women, Amy is desperate to have pickled limes because that's the fashion at school.

Look at a 1950s school documentary and ALL the girls will have short curly hair.

And orcas have suddenly started wearing dead salmon on their heads again.

Fashion is weird. It's all about fitting in regardless of how bonkers the actual fashion is. Did your kids rip holes in their school jumpers to put their thumbs through? Was a thing a while back.

And there's always a way of speaking that sets you apart and part of a group, and can have serious consequences; from being out of date, to being dead. The Bible has a bit about shibboleths, which in itself has a fascinating history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shibboleths

But it's always been this way. Thieves' cant, polari, jazz - words never stop being coined and used in new ways.

I love it. And the reason you don't get it is you're not supposed to. And that's fine.

There's another current thread in which the saying 'Once in a blue moon' is used, and I'm astounded by people who are arguing the toss about what it means.

Great quote.