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.

I didn't shriek. I only have boys so no shrieking here, whinging and moaning I do have.

DS1 is 13 his female counterparts on FB are terrifying. The duck faces, the pouting and hearting each other makes me feel nauseous.

I'm 28 and we did it and still do after some pinot

Perhaps I could start shrieking now to make up for it?

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

Nagoo I am still in mourning

I was as teenage Goth- we never shrieked or hugged. And the only way we acknowledged each other was a muttered 'cha...'- short for 'Wotcha'.

They do overdramatic hugging as well.

When you see a group of girls meet up you can tell which ones absolutely fecking hate each other by how overenthusiastic their hugging and shrieking is.

I'm in my forties. We didn't shriek, we were too busy being morose and serious whilst dressing in somber black.
Shrieking would have been too lighthearted cos we were misunderstood by the whole world.

We didn't shriek, we smiled sardonically and blew smoke rings. I was born in the seventies.

We neva eva shrieked. Instead in our school we perfected a kind of blank stare you gave to the world from behind the bleached bits of your Madonna fringe. Whilst delivering the stare you did an imperceptible flick from subjects head to toe. wordless but deadly. people vapourised in its ferocity.
Tippex was the source of great art on the front of journals and school bags.
Moody, arsey silence, my daughter seems to have improved on my own format. Hats off to her

I´m nearly 50.

Wasn´t a shrieker, but some girls were.

Daughter also not a shrieker-but always hugs a friend on meeting & departing.

I´m a hugger now-live abroad so don´t see friends all that often.

My older sibling is a shrieker when we meet.

I remember first encountering teenage shrieking when visiting this country as a teen in the 70s. I thought it was a peculiarly British thing, but was probably wrong on that count. In retrospect I reckon we shrieked too, but had less high pitched voices, British sopranos just did it so much better.

Shrieking on friends was by raxhaels friends. Phoebe and Monica mocked them.

I'm in my 50s and didn't shriek. Nor did my friends - although we might have shrieked at David Cassidy or Th Bay City Rollers are someone mentioned upstream!

I hear a lot of shrieking in school now though - I do the death stare. Can't abide the pitch of it.
I usually stand outside my classroom door at lesson changeover, with a glare that would curdle milk, to pre-empt the shrieky hug fests of girls who haven't seen each other since registration