AIBU to think teenagers loudly saying (or writing on Facebook) that they pulled or got off with someone last night

[pignatelli]

should really say they just kissed them, because this is what these phrases actually mean now (apparently) and this will avoid horribly embarrassing misunderstandings. Esp if they are 14. Do teenagers you know use these phrases?

They both mean snogging etc so I don't see the problem.. was the same in my day and I'm 31. My niece is 15 and tells me this hasn't changed.

OMG pippity - bag off! I haven't heard that for years

OP - I think 'pull' has changed recently to mean more of a shag-based situation, but 'get off with' is just snogging.

Wilson

Both phrases have always meant 'kissed' where I come from and I'm 42

Tapped off, got off with, pulled, make out.... usually has always meant kissing upwards... but I have known people to say it when they actually mean shag.

For me its always meant kissing, but I've always asked EXACTLY what is meant when its been offered. "Will you get off with me?", "What exactly will that entail?" - meh I was 14, I liked to be specific.

Both mean snogging to me (I'm 26).

Pull can just mean getting interest, being chatted up, with nothing actually happening. Or it can mean a snog, or a shag, depending on the age group or the person using it probably! Getting off usually just means a snog.

I'm 30 and pulling someone or getting off with someone has always meant snogging. 'Tugging someone off' now that's a different kettle of fish!

'Getting off with' = snogging and 'pulling' = shagging for me (I'm 23)

YABU

If what they think it means is what all their friends think it means... then what's the problem?

And yeah, pulled = snogged.

I like aldiwhore's request for specifics.

Getting off/ pulling always just meant snogging to me, until I lived in Australia for a while where 'pulling' means shagging apparently.

I would think that a large percentage of them are lying....

Agree. In most cases it probably means "X glanced in my direction in Maths yesterday"

Pulled to me always just meant you found someone interested in you, swapped numbers, maybe snogged.

Got off with just meant snogging.

London here. Got off with = snogged. Pulled = someone of the opposite sex interested, could be just someone chatting you up at the bar, could exchanging numbers, could be snogging, could be shagging.

Are you really asking if YABU to want teenagers to use slang you understand? Unless you are one of course, in which case you clearly need to get out more.

In Dublin in my day it was called shifting. It may still be for all I know, shall I make Facebook friends with some Irish teens and find out?

Katiepoes

Exactly. The OP is bonkers as conkers if she thinks that teenagers shouldn't use slang that means something different to what she thinks it should mean, and extra unreasonable because she is the only one to think that it means that.

pignatelli I have a feeling that you thought your friends at school/university/etc were getting about a lot more than they really were if you think that "getting off with" someone means having sex

@ saying the OP is "bonkers as conkers"

In my day that meant having a 3-some with identical twins and then going for a burger!

and before facebook they sat at the bottom of the stairs using the phone at your expense telling each and every friend in turn for HOURS
plus ca change

get off with = snog
pull = attracting someone

Have you never heard someone say "I think you've pulled"? Where I come from that means someone fancies you.

I hoped that was what it meant to everyone as I said it to my 7 month old DS the other day when a baby girl was reaching out for him and cooing at him!

I'm amazed that kids still say they got off with someone, I would have thought that was as old fashioned as going to a disco instead of a nightclub nowadays.