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 😆

I took my just turned 13 year old DD shopping for a new coat and school backpack this week. Went into JD sports and she asked to leave as she didn't want a black north face coat and backpack like every other fucker at school. She also has short, funky hair. She calls everyone clones. (Not to their face and not to be unkind. She's Autistic so this is just her honest, unfiltered opinion and she cannot fathom why everyone wants to look identical)

The dating thing gets me as well. In my day, once you’d been asked out by someone, and accepted, that was it. You were effectively off limits to anyone else, and if you were seeing someone else, you were two-timing them.

Phones - which are used for anything else, except for their main purpose, ie making phonecalls (except, maybe, in a work capacity).

. In the days when I still gave my son a lift, we would be outside the friends house. He wouldn’t knock on their door or phone them, but message to say we were outside!

The dating thing gets me as well. In my day, once you’d been asked out by someone, and accepted, that was it. You were effectively off limits to anyone else, and if you were seeing someone else, you were two-timing them.

They were easier times. It's just been made too complicated these days from what I read.

Richard Franks - just actually read his bio and apparently he's on (or been on CBeebies so prob not a legit teacher). But it's still funny- Macbeth and Frankenstein are the best ones IMO.

a "pick me" is someone who is try hard in terms of getting people (historically boys but seems to be broader than that now) to like them - it's a "notliketheothergirls" type thing.

She has since learnt what it means and told me but it's different to what you say it is

@LaPalmaLlama and @purpleme12
What does it mean in teen speak?
I've only heard it on Grey's Anatomy 😄

I was discussing this last night at a party. I think I stay quite current chatting to my two DC even though they are 24 and 22. There are definitely regional variations as the discussion and party was multi generational and they were drawing comparisons between London, Manchester and the Home Counties.

The dating thing - one of my two DC is now official with their girlfriend, the other is not with her boyfriend
Dropping 'the' - 'going pub' 'going shops'
Bare
Calm
Spill the tea (filling in all the gossip)
Goat
Skibidi - they don't use this it's more teenage. My son banned kids from saying working at Camp America this summer.

Bare was doing the rounds in 2004-5 when I last taught in the UK.

The ones that get me are the "new" ones the young 'uns think they've invented.
I'm in Australia and "green" as in raw, inexperienced, was youthsplained to me by my DD. I responded with line Scene and Act from Antony and Cleopatra: "my salad days, when I was green in judgement".

The other is banter, which never existed before its latest and very ugly avatar. Apparently.

Wearing sliders (or crocs) with socks, all year round, in all weathers. I simply don't understand this.

In the "youth of my day" (teenager of the 90s), it was all about your trainers, some of which were so valuable that they could be stolen from your feet, as in About A Boy; and if you wanted to be a bit edgy with them, you wore them without socks.