Netflix and chill -AIBU to think someone should have told me!

[TheoriginalLEM]

I've been using this phrase to my dd!!

using it to clients to describe what i might do on my day off

No one thought to take me aside??

It's a hideous phrase.

So what are you supposed to say if you genuinely want to watch Netflix and relax?

I'd never heard it until slumped in front of the TV and First Dates was on. A young man used it and his date was then which caused him to be then when she told him what it means.

Glad I saw that and find out what it means before I ever thought of using it.

at using it with clients.

Oh god me too. I keep telling everyone I'm netflixing I meant I'm watching Netflix!!!

Well I'm 60 and I know what it means!

(Not that I ever get to do it)

i KNEW this, it came up elsewhere recently waves to all the BMs

I do have teens but I don't know how I knew it, I don't even have bloody netflix, out internet is so shite. It seemed very obvious that it so wasn't slumping on the sofa and binge watching OITNB

and i am 50 in my very very late 40s

I have never heard this and also had to google. And i'm sure I've used that term before when describing what me and the dc have planned for a rainy Sunday

lol, never knew either.

Top tip - don't use a 'cool' modern phrase or slang until you've found out what it means!

I mean, it's kinda cringey innit. Middle-aged folk suddenly trying to talk like tweens. I've heard "Oh, look at that, that's rather fleek isn't it?" and it's prime awkward silence time...

Senator Ted Cruz sent out an invite to his constituents/party donors inviting them to Netflix and Chill with him, so LEM as embarrassed as you are right now at least you aren't an elected government official !!!!

Oh but were they using modern slang?

I thought they were just saying what they were going to do. How were they to know it had become a euphemism for something else?

For instance tonight I am going to Indieflix and zone out!

well indeed -dragon butter is NOT a chille paste

probably best not to google that one!!

Oh gosh!!! I'm sure your clients thought it was funny mistake rather than thinking you were giving them the lo-down on your love life!!

We picked ds up who came out excited for star wars themed treats days, told dp he was getting a wookie cookie. Dp dissolves into laughter and later tells me it is slang for ungroomed lady parts , urban dictionary confirms it is. I wouldn't know half the things on urban dictionary...

At 52 I have been educated again. 😄.

As that's cute!

As a student at agricultural college I announced I needed to go and feed the pony. And I meant it literally, he was a short horse. Took me a while to work out why it was so entertaining. That and dogging, had to have both explained to me.

I once said i was teabagging with a class of year 9s. Met with sniggers. I meant making scrolls look old...

Is it immature that I found it very amusing the post count for this thread was 69 when I read the title?...

I had to explain this to my Mum, no idea where she picked it up from but was happily going on about looking forward to "netflix and chill" on her day off it's like explaining that LOL does not mean lots of love
Next she wants to know what non-binary and genderqueer is all about...

Yanbu
I never realised until I was watching First Dates one night and a bloke did it and his date told him what it meant.
I'd no idea

A very loud obnoxious prick in my very open plan office asked what this meant the other day.
Wetting ourselves doesn't cover it!

I am under 30 (just) and was late catching on to this. I told someone I was going to Netflix and chill by myself

My mum insists on calling an area of her living room, where she keeps precious things, her "glory hole"

When she first said it, I choked and said "MOTHER!!!!" When I explained what it is* she was most indignant and now insists on using the term, pointedly, to show that my generation are filthy minded and her version of the word is correct.

*Glory hole - a hole in a door or toilet cubicle where a gentleman can stick his man-parts and receive oral pleasure from a stranger on the other side.

Thank you for sharing OP. Brilliant