to be 100% certain that I am right and DD is wrong about being "on a sesh"?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

She (17) is equally certain that the phrase for going on the piss is "We are at a sesh".

Apparently its because I am old (45!) and it has changed, I think its because she has misheard/misunderstood.

She wont accept what you say because "They are all old too!" but I just want some validation for myself :o

PS before anyone says it, she is almost 18, yes she does drink when at her friends parties and I am ok with that.

It's on a sesh

I'm 36 if you care to know

At the piss

Not on my watch, matey

Oh heck no, I’m an absolute piss artist; just an old fashioned one, that’s all!
You know, just a few years ago before ladette culture crept in, admitting that your goal was alcohol induced oblivion was not the done thing, even if everyone knew you did it every weekend anyway! 😀

On the sesh!
17 year olds don’t get to tell pub licensees the correct terminology for drinking, get her told!!

I'd use on the lash, had/turned into a bit of a sesh, I wouldn't say on or at a sesh. Also worked out many moons ago any non in the past tense can be used to mean drunk. - Johnny was absolutely shedded/wellied/hamstered last night... Any native/slang speaker of English will know what your mean instantly

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17 year olds don’t get to tell pub licensees the correct terminology for drinking

Almost word for word what I said! I was told I was being patronising

I had an American boyfriend once proudly tell me that he was taking a piss. Ummm, I think you mean the piss, love.

Definitely on the sesh by the way. Or seshing. There’s even a website named for it. www.onthesesh.com (Not sure how to do links and it won’t let me preview so apologies if that doesn’t work)

It’s short for session isn’t it? So it was a session or you had a bit of a session.

I'm 23 and have to agree with her that it has changed but it could be regional also. I would be more inclined to say at a sesh than on a sesh, mainly cause I'd go to a sesh so makes sense to say I'm at one.
Sort of like saying at pres/prinks.

Went out for a sesh.
Having a sesh.
On the lash.

BUT - staying in with one's romantic dalliance and having a "thoroughly good session" is completely different.

I don’t even think it refers to alcohol. So I think you both misunderstood.

Having a sesh.
Tying one on.

A sesh is not a place, you cannot be at it, IMO. Unless it's not a drinking sesh. If it's something else then I expect you can be "at it" but if it's drinking then no.
A sesh is something you are doing or having - but you can be on a sesh the same way you can be on a bender, on the piss, on the lash etc.

But then these days the yoof/trendsetters/whatever seem to delight in turning meanings upside down, so she's probably right for a very short time period. Then it will go back to being what it was originally and her youth will be dated by her phraseology in a few years' time!

Having a sesh = slow long drinking with mates or oneself

Getting lashed = sole intention to get drunk quickly and majorly with end result of vomiting everywhere. Uncouth and never me ( riggghhhhttt)

Going out on the piss = getting drunk ( slow and steady or quickly ) but not to the state of oblivion. See “lashed” for that.

Getting wasted= like getting lashed

( disclaimer old 39 year northern uni girl)

Never used it in that tense... sw and mid thirties

Goinng on the piss
Going out on the lash
Going out out
Going down the pub
Going uptown

On the piss
Out on the lash
Out out
Down the pub
Up town

Been on the piss
Been out
Got lashed
Got pissed
Etc
Etc

The more I say the word sesh in my head the stupider it sounds.... and for some reason makes me think of taking drugs or having s gang bang... maybe I am old

If you really have to say sesh then yes "on" would be correct. Grammar hasn't changed has it? If she is so sure she heard it correctly then perhaps the people she knows are also saying it wrong, wouldn't surprise me.

On a sesh is boozing and hitting it hard
At a sesh is attending a music session.

Most people I know use "having a sesh" to describe more than a bit of drinking. It almost always implies they'll be getting on it and usually includes some recreational drug use. Probably says more about the people I know to be honest

Wtf is a sesh?? I'm 57 and have never heard of this.

A sesh is a drugs party. So you can be on it or at it. Or if you stay all night, you can become a sesh gremlin.

At a sesh sounds like you're attending something. On a sesh sounds like you're doing something.

So both work.

I don't go out with the intention of getting drunk, so don't do either. But I do "go out for a beer".

I drink very little and never do the going out to get drunk thing, but it's definitely 'on'. In analogy to 'on the lash', 'on the piss' etc. Cf. also terms related to habitual drinking, like 'on the bottle'.

'At' a sesh makes it sound too organised.

Whatever the corect terminology it's still a thing.

Many beers in supermatkets are labelled " Session Beer".

In Australia a sesh is smoking pot if you said you were having a sesh to me I'd think you were stoned.