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to detest people who say ridiculous things like "chillax" ?

91 replies

sparkle1977 · 29/07/2010 11:52

Urgh, just typing it makes me shudder.....

chill out or relax are fine but don't mix them for heavens sakes, trying to be all young and hip.....gag

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TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 29/07/2010 11:52

Only if they rock up to places as well.

ReasonableDoubt · 29/07/2010 11:53

I don't think young, hip people say 'chillax'

edam · 29/07/2010 11:53

ds (7) says it. Must have caught it from school. I think it's quite cute.

Irritating from adults, though.

Jasonthunderpants · 29/07/2010 11:54

sparkle1977

you sound a bit vexed

just chillax

tethersend · 29/07/2010 11:54

Allow it.

ReasonableDoubt · 29/07/2010 11:54

'rock up' is quite old school London. My old cockney uncle will talk about the time he rocked up to the Camden Palais and the Kray twins had nicked his reserved table

wukter · 29/07/2010 11:55

swparkle - you are my target audience I only say it to annoy

ReasonableDoubt · 29/07/2010 11:55

lol!@tethersend.

We've had this conversation before, haven't we?
Sorry - innit, blud?

GetOrfMoiLand · 29/07/2010 11:56

I don't think cool and young trendies say chillax. If I said chillax to dd she would look at me like this

It is the kind of think that desperately uncool middle managers would say.

one thing that kids do say which drives me to drink - 'my bad' when they have made a mistake.

tethersend · 29/07/2010 11:57

Yes YES RD.

Touch, touch.

ReasonableDoubt · 29/07/2010 12:00

'My bad' used to be exclusively American. Weird how I now hear 10 yr old squirts from Wembley saying it on the bus .

I work with young people and like to hear their banter (although some of it is exceedingly, shall we say, raw).

Gigantaur · 29/07/2010 12:00

chillax is not young and hip. it is definitly just middle aged wannabe youngsters that say it.

Things that the yoof say that irritate me till my eyeballs bleed are "blud" "sick" "'llow it" "krunge"

In fact my irritation at the yoof talk is what tells me beyond any reasonable doubt, I am old!

Broderie · 29/07/2010 12:02

cushty

sharbie · 29/07/2010 12:03

just go with it

BaggedandTagged · 29/07/2010 12:04

I LOVE it when you hear prep school kids from Epsom talking like extras from the Wire. It's hilarious.

BananaPudding · 29/07/2010 12:05

The other day my new boss came to tell me he needed a project done. (uncharacteristically for me) I was able to tell him I had already finished it.

He "fist bumped" me and said "Preesh!"

I gave home a very blank look and after a moment said "Er. What?"

"Preesh! I appreciate you! Good job, you know...Preesh."

I don't know where they get these people.my last boss answered everything with "Fo Sho" or "Not Fo Sho". And the phrase had absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity, let I anger the PC brigade.

mayorquimby · 29/07/2010 12:06

these people are beneath contempt. Each and every one of them.
Up there with dickheads who say guesstimate or random. "Whacky" pricks one and all.

muggglewump · 29/07/2010 12:06

I hate it when people say peeps.
What sort of word is that and how hard is to type People?

I've seen 'a peep', referred to recently.
It makes my blood boil.

ReasonableDoubt · 29/07/2010 12:09

Preesh? that is a truly wankeresque thing to say.

sparkle1977 · 29/07/2010 12:09

jasonthunderpants - yes am feeling a teensy bit on the vexed side today as it goes!

oh yes "my bad", thats another truely vile one.

I find people "rocking up to places" mildly amusing because its so silly!!

There are many more just can't recall them right now.

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AlaskaNebraska · 29/07/2010 12:10

op you are amiserable nob

SirBoobAlot · 29/07/2010 12:11

Take a chill pill

Chathappy · 29/07/2010 12:11

Your boss sounds hilarious bananapudding! I'd love it if my boss did that!

The thing that winds me up the most is when there are people who were in my year at school that write like this on their Facebook updates all the time! But they are all about 28 now?? I'm sure there should be a cut off age for all this yoof speak! (or maybe that just shows what kind of school I went to!)

sparkle1977 · 29/07/2010 12:12

oh yes and people (mainly on facebook) calling friends "legends" for doing something mildly amusing ?? Cannot understand all the "he's a total legend" stuff for the life of me.

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tethersend · 29/07/2010 12:13

It's knob. Not nob. Unless you mean a member of the aristocracy; in which case, apologies.

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