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

[sparkle1977]

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

Gave him. Stupid iPhone predictive text thing. It makes me talk nonsense all the time.

AlaskaNebraska - i am sensing that you are clearly the sort of person who does say all these things.....never mind chicken....

I always laugh when my dh says about one of the lads at a football game he was playing in came up to him after the match and put his fist out to 'fist bump' dh and dh put his hand out for a traditional handshake and dh ended up holding on to the other guys fist and shaking it up and down instead

I use chillax at work. Though only in a deeply ironic way.

never mind chicken?
i dont say chicken?

people who "rock up" also tend to say things like "that's the bad boy" but it makes me laugh

chillax is annoying
does anyone actually really say it though? not sure I've ever heard it used except on radio 1

I will admit to dishing out an "obamma fist bump" in an ironic way.

Chillax is quite a David Brent thing to say, really, isn't it?

The big problem with chilax is that is is a portmanteau word made up from two words that mean the SAME THING. It's like saying you are angry and cross so you are anross.

Surely nobody over the age of 15 says "chillax"?

My manager says 'action that' as in me: would you mind ordering some paperclips? Her: oh yes I'll action that'. She also says I'll cascade that down, if she wants to tell people something and uses far to many abbreviations for everything, some that I think may be made up. It's very irritating.

My SIL does

'It's like saying you are angry and cross so you are anross.'

how about peeved and miffed-piffed
or meeved

think it could catch on? obviously not with young hipsters, they're probably not irritable enough

ah BOLLOCKS WANK to any attempt to add AGE to SPEECH
ill fucking say what i want whatever age i am

I do think some slang is best left to the appropriate generation. I still use slang that I used at school with people that I went to school with, I'll admit. It's common currency - we all know what it means and that we are using it humourously and because we have always done so.

I wouldn't start using the slang kids these days use because I am 33 and it would make me sound like a complete fuckwit.

If I say it know I'm beaing annnoying - someone who needs to calm down has jst been told to calm down in an anoyng manner

god wear what you want
say what you want
suprise people

Or you could use "Rill" which Richard Herring made up to take the piss out of this, using the other bits of the words.

Yuck. YANBU

Nobody would be surprised if I used 14 yr odl slang they would just think: 'twat'

but there is a time and place.
and language changes get over it girlfrien..

i am a teacher and throw it in in a tongue in cheek way to make sure htey are awake.
it makes em larf.

If someone said "chillax" to me I'd prod them in the eye.

True.

The young people I work with know I know what their slang means, and I will use it tongue in cheek occasionally. But come on, I'm not really gonna start talking to a 14 yr old boy in his slang atmy age. I would just sound like a complete, um, was gonna saw 'twit' but i think I will say 'waste gyal', as this seems to be their favourite insult at the moment.

I really have a problem with the word awesome - i hate it, hate it, hate it!

If it is used in the sentance 'Oh my god that is/was so awesome' I tend to go into meltdown!

DH like's to put on his American accent and use that sentence - just to wind me up!

Chillax? You must have been bare prang! Random...