to think my colleague should not have told not to say this??

[sweeterthanhoney]

So we were talking about relationships at work and I said - I can't believe I've been with my partner for 5 years, that shit cray"

My colleague gave me this look and said don't ever say that again and then laughed.

Aibu to think I can say what I want.

I know this is AIBU, but this thread makes for unpleasant reading :(

I know I am being naive here, but what is so bad about "that shit cray"? What does it mean?

Which song? And he did not invent the phrase, i'll wait ....

Yes unpleasant reading that a woman over the age of 19 felt the need to use the phrase shit cray!

Al it means is 'that shit is crazy cray is slang for crazy. It is not a derogatory phrase just one that SOME teens use

N*ggas in Paris its on the watch the throne album.

So did he invent it or is that the only song you know

I hadn't heard the phrase being used until that album was released.

"Al it means is 'that shit is crazy cray is slang for crazy. It is not a derogatory phrase just one that SOME teens use"

So why all the vitriol aimed at the OP? It just sounds childish, not rude.

Wow, I thought that cray was a typo. I I can't imagine anyone saying "that shit cray" out loud without looking like a knob tbh.

I had never heard of the phrase either until that song was released.

I've never heard that expression used either.

Sorry, but it just doesn't make you sound great.

Apparently kayne west gained inspiration for the lyric "that shit cray" from the song Lose my mind by young jeezy.

OP are you the Matthew Horne headmaster character from Bad Education?

You are aren't you?

OP, please tell us you're Geordie. Lie if you have to. It would make my day.

Moomin! Yes! Ha! That's who it reminded me of :)
Yoyo...that's the one.
fancies a choccy biscuit now
I think I may just be too old for all this...

It doesn't mean crazy! Have you even heard the song?

A quick google will tell you what it mean zerofucksgiven.com/2011/11/02/the-real-meaning-of-that-shit-cray/

OP YANBU to think you can say what you want.

YABU to think your colleague cannot say what she wants though.

Seems a bit double standards to complain that she shouldn't be saying things.

Can i just ask WHO has actually heard Kanye West say 'that shit cray' or are we assuming he speaks like this because he is a rapper, black or american?

So, now someone's pointed out which of his songs it was in, are you going to explain what point you were trying to make?

There are times, when I read posts like the OP's, that I think I must be living in a parallel universe!

Do you not see the irony in your post OP?
You are objecting to what your colleague said, with the words "Aibu to think I can say what I want". Surely if you can say what you want, she can say what she wants?

But I agree with her sentiment, you shouldn't say it because it makes you sound like a twonk.

Peazlypops's link has really tickled me for some reason.
I think I'm a bit hysterical...

owl I think the point hakuna was trying to make was that perhaps we were being racist, stereotypical, sexist etc etc.

Why she thought we would all use kayne west as an example when there are plenty other black American male rappers we could choose if that were really the case!

Hysterical = a bit frenzied, not Hysterical = cray.

Ah this thread had cheered me up!