Aibu to disown dd if she responds to one more of my questions with "Nah mate".

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Seriously, teach me to speak roadman so I can embarrass my 14 year old dd

Someone down thread was saying how awful it sounded and it used to just be the black oriole.

People!

I dread the day my sweet baby girl comes out with this kind of rubbish.

Of course the phrase was "Sorted"! FFS, even I knew that already...

I've got so sidetracked by things I don't really understand that I've over complicated it :o

Someone down thread was saying how awful it sounded and it used to just be the black people

I think that poster was just saying it originated in the black community.

“We on dis ting!”
Horrified silence the entire way there 😎

Overnight that's hilarious!

A greeting my DD and her friends seems to come up with is "wagwan piff ting, what's yo bbm pin?" Thanks to mn I can decipher the first half but no idea as to the second other than the obvious

bbm is BlackBerry Messenger.

They were asking for the 'handle' so they could find you on social media.

Either that, or you do have a BlackBerry and they wanted the PIN to start using it.

I thought that no one used a blackberry anymore? The yoofs confuse me

😂 me and my sister (we are mothers ourselves) talk like this to eachother and often reply to our parents with "Nah, fam" 🙈

Quite clearly a joke. We don't actually speak like this, but it is most enjoyable to see the look on their faces.

You can download the BBM app on iPhones and Samsung which is what most people use it on

I have loved this thread! It has made me feel so much less irritated when my DS talks in this way. Indeed, I am keen to adopt some of the phrases myself and have been waiting for an opportunity to use 'da feds' all day .

One thing, though - dabbing. Do your DC do this? Mine doesn't but the kids at school (prestigious private school, not that that makes any difference) were doing it at the end of the school play. Isn't it a drug reference, or have I got that wrong?

I don't think it's a drug reference, my 8 year old is forever dabbing. It forms part of his elaborate goal celebration when he scores in football too.

Help! Can someone translate "I'm going for the shank, shank" please. I tried "innit fam" in response and I don't think it made sense. What am I saying, none of it makes sense

Don't get any of this around here (SW London)

Lots of "like" & "literally" used literally like every second like word in a sentence.

"Fetch", "fleek", "totes amaze" bandied about too. "Tragic" was popular too, usually in a derogatory term i.e "mum you look tragic".

Also "basic bitch"...I had to have that explained to me.

I find the London slang brilliant, anything Dizzee Rascal/Stormzy esque. Although "Man Not Hot" just confused me.

sick, legit. These are my 13 year olds words atm.
I find if I start saying them she is embarrassed and finds something else to use.

I love this.

My dc's are too young for all this yet, but DH and I have been semi-ironically using woke, on fleek, fam, famalam etc. for a while. He picks them up from somewhere, tests them on me etc. I've been called homeslice for ages, but I think that's more of an American thing (he's American) - homeskillet etc. By sheer chance I picked up on "on fleek" right when it started, despite my advanced years. Eyebrows are important to me, so it seemed relevant.

Sorted was around when I was a teen in Dublin hundreds of years ago though.

LOVE halal ting. Although we used to live in a Muslim country and often say haram for forbidden, so I suppose it's not much of a leap to halal!

I like the idea of "bear tunes" instead of "bare tunes". Sounds quite like my 6yo's kind of thing.

This thread is hilarious! I'm writing some down to use later. Must also remember to dab next time I pick them up at school. Dabbing is now seriously uncool.

One of mine threatened to leave home when I said 'shut the door, your mam's not hot'. (I was also 'cringe' because I was laughing so much at my own joke)
I've been banned from using emojis in texts because I've got no game.

Off to compose my after school text to my little darlings.

Shank = knife round here.

@NootNoot, Man's not hot is a reference to him wearing a puffa jacket zipped up to the neck in hot climates. At least it is in the song. :o It could also mean 'ee, he's a right ugly bugger, ay 'e?'

Some muppet (who thinks he’s hilarious and often posts his attention seeking videos on line) round here has just released a video of himself prancing around Town in his speedos singing “mans not cold”
Da Yout (my dd) think he’s well sad

This is where "on fleek" comes from apparently: m.youtube.com/watch?v=XrTVMXxop3o

It's like a foreign language!

I feel like grandpa Simpson: "I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. And it'll happen to YOU!"