to think teenage shrieking is a new thing?

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Some 'young people' are having a party - as anticipated the girls/young women have started shrieking like they're in a horror film.

Can some of my peers (I'm 40) tell me whether we were like that at that age? I don't remember shrieking myself. I think I was too busy chuffing away on a fag or snogging.

Thanks, Illage, have splattered my FB page with dear little hearts! Now to take photo of self looking all sultry and gawjus .....

They all do it now. And the hugging. In school they stand there embracing for so long that they are late for lessons. Then say "alright" in an injured tone when you ask them to move. Usually followed by "I hate her/hate this school" in a muttered voice. It's an actual epidemic. Fortunately, most of them are nice underneath!

i'm 38 and no, we didn't shriek. Shrieking was seen as very childish and we wanted to be seen as all mature. 5 year olds squeal and shriek. Not mature people.

so we smoked, talked loudly about Important Things and imagined how very impressed people passing by were.

I suppose teens today are influenced by the adult shriekers they see on tv and around, because shrieking seems to have become very popular. It's a particularly irritating affectation.

50 year old ex shrieker here I come from a long line of shriekers.

"In school they stand there embracing for so long that they are late for lessons".
Am genuinely at this! What an utterly bizarre affectation.

It's not just teenage girls. 30 something mums meeting up with other mums in the coffee shop, they are very pleased to see each other.

And whats with the constant kissing and hugging? Ugh don't like it.

They have to say bye. They won't see them for another 40mins

OMG! My smacking hand would be itching really, really badly.

I think the development of shrieking co-incided with the non-availability of black sobranies.

I was never a shrieked. I blame Friends

I'm 24 and we definitely didn't do this in our little group. We were generally too busy eating our monster munch outside the girls' loos and applying copious amounts of lipgloss. Even when we were at school we had plenty of conversations about the morons who would practically have orgasms over seeing their mate who they'd been separated from since breaktime. Seemed so fake, I only got "alright, pus-mouth?" after returning from a fortnight off with glandular fever.

I don't recall any shrieking on Friends.

I am VERY old, but no shrieking in the 80s.
Was too busy being artistically pain spattered and INTERESTING and moodily swooning at GREAT ART.

DD (18) does Not shriek either, but there is a whole lot of hugging and embracing and hand holding going on. I think that is sweet

Pain AND painT spattered. Interesting typo

Ugh I loath shrieking, I'm 25 and many of them did it when I was at school, I myself was one of the kids far to cool to engage in such behaviour so instead I stood and looked pityingly at them whilst smoking and snogging way too much

My niece and her friends (or BFF for eva'n'always bbe as she calls them) are shriekers, they do the Facebook love ins too, not a day hour goes past without a duck face taken by themselves in a bathroom is posted followed by "OMG ur so HAWT lyl chick!!!!"

Although I have my teen nephew, BIL and a few younger lads on my FB who are forever discussing getting "dench" down the gym because they're "wel reem bruv"....

Oh and I also have a chap on there who openly uses the world "gayls" to describe women he knows....

On second thoughts ...

I'm 27 and new a lot of shriekers and girls who did the big hug and air kiss thing.
Refused to be a part of it.
My friends still know me as the 'unhuggable one'

Although I am getting better when hugs are nessecarily.

Still no shrieking or air kissing though

I'm 27 and new a lot of shriekers and girls who did the big hug and air kiss thing.

hate it, hate it, hate it. Ugh.

Another sullen stater here. I only ever shriek by accident when I am very very angry and forget to breathe. My sentence gets higher and higher pitched, then I have to stop, gulp in air and resume bellowing about two octaves lower.

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Nope never shrieked

DD13 and her friends giggle and "omg" or "what the hell" incessantly but no shrieking , tell me thats not to come ?

Never shrieked, I was far too busy looking cool in my tie dye trousers and Nirvana t shirt. I think there were shriekers at school but I definitely notice it more now. I was having a lovely peaceful coffee in a cafe the other day and a teenage girl came in to ask about a job. Her 3 friends were saying 'omg, you should so give her a job' and 'we'll come here like, every day, and spend loads of dollar'. The middle aged manager looked completely bewildered.

I would have loved to have had that confidence as a teenager.

Im 27 we never shrieked, my mother would never have stood for such common fish wife behaviour.

Girls used to shriek at The Bay City Rollers and Donny Osmond in my day.

The audience were doing it on X Factor last night - does my head in.

@ "duck face taken by themselves in a bathroom"