To quit work and never return due to my ignorance???

[beccy11]

So embarrassed a work colleague posted on Line thanking her significant other for the single Pringle. I naively thought he'd eaten all bar one Pringle and assumed it was a 'joke' so clicked the laughing face- only to have the teenager (who was clearly reading over my shoulder) announce disgustedly that I shouldn't be pleased that she'd been dumped!!
Work colleague is not exceptionally young (closer to 40 than 30) and until this post nothing vaguely in this vein
Quickly deleted laughing face but now considering options for Monday
Will also attempt to educate myself on random statuses and meanings as I'm clearly inept!
Please tell me at least one other person over 30 wouldn't have got this

You're overthinking this! You've unclicked and can say you must have caught it on your phone. I doubt I'd have got it either (32) tbh.

Nope, wouldn't have had a clue what it meant.

I still don't understand? A Pringle means you've been dumped?

Feeling better- thanks
I've never heard of it but apparently the tag line is
Single Pringle ready to mingle.
Not sure on meaning but teenager assures me it's a genuine teenager phrase.

Im 25 and wouldnt know what it meant either (i hate social media though and avoid like the plague)

I would not have known what it meant. I am 51.

Never heard that one before

What was the exact phrase, it doesn't make sense to me? She thanked the guy who dumped her and referred to herself as a single pringle?

I've heard the phrase but not used like that - never to do with being dumped. I don't get it!

Wouldn't have had a clue either.

22 would know what it means 😂 wouldn't be a big deal though

@AbsentmindedWoman she's been dumped , she's trying to say a sarcastic 'thanks' because a Pringle is someone who's single and now looking .

Never heard that. If it's brought up just say what happened and you've never heard it and thought it was about a crisp.

@BeatriceBeaudelaire the OP says this woman "posted on Line thanking her significant other for the single Pringle" - so it's not really clear to me, no. She was thanking her ex for making her a single pringle? Um okay.

I get it was some sarcastic remark about being dumped, it just sounds confused to my ear and doesn't make a lot of sense.

Aw, if they ever do notice, just tell them that you accidentally tapped it trying to swipe your page or something. Happens to me all the time. I actually sent a message to somebody when I accidentally tapped a heart or a like on something I really would never have done. I just explained it was a complete accident on my phone. They laughed and said no bother, they'd never known about it anyway.

Never heard of it, if they are going to be that obscure they cannot get offended

I've never heard of it either at 36. Will ask the teenager when he rises from his pit tomorrow if it's used here

I wouldn't have got it, mid-30s. Trendy yoof speak annoys me enough when it's fine by actual yoof can't believe I just wrote that. What's wrong with posting 'X broke up with me, would like support', or actually talking to close friends instead of plastering it on SM

When you see her just say what you thought rather than saying you accidentally smiley faced it. To do the haha face is to click the button and scroll across to the face so it's hard to do accidentally. I'd just tell her you'd no idea it meant shed been dumped and truly thought it was about pringles.

I've got a friend on Fbook who continually refers to herself as a single Pringle. If anyone asks her if she is with anyone, "no no I'm a sad little single Pringle" is the answer.

She goes on dates weekly, selfies the dates, sticks them on Fbook and three days later come the memes about heartbreak, let down, feeling sad etc etc. And the dates are a different blokes.

I'd just say you clicked like by accident if she asks, otherwise I wouldn't mention it. If she's into sharing that much on Fbook, no doubt she will fill you in on Monday!

"Single Pringle" is one of those phrases that makes me want to barf up everything I've ever eaten. I would judge anyone who used it and not in a good way.

I would just have thought someone was being stingy with crisps but am old and don't do iphones

Never heard of this daft expression. Also Pringle is a branch of knitwear old ladies used to wear years ago. Don't know if it's still going. I'd just tell the truth and had no idea the phrase meant she had been dumped.

Never heard this one. It sounds absolutely pathetic tbh.

If the colleague in question is heading for forty then she should know better than using youth-speak. Nobody laughs hardest at oldsters using this stuff than the youth they are emulating. I didn't know what it meant either, but I consider myself lucky having young people in my life who guide me away from using such youth-speak. I've heard what my kids say about my friends 'trying' to hard. It ain't pretty. Don't worry. It couldn't have been that big a deal to be posting it on Facebook!

Never heard of it. It's easy to accidentally click like on your phone on Facebook and if you unclicked it fairly quickly I doubt she even noticed. Also some people click like to just acknowledge the post rather than actually 'like' it. You are massively overthinking this.