To not understand the whole "6 7" thing and to feel uneasy about it

[winterwonder1]

Could anyone explain it please? I feel about 100 and I'm a bit worried it's something my kids shouldn't know about - or maybe I should?

This has been going on for months so it's sure to die soon.

I'm old and I still find it hard not to say "The answer to life, the universe and everything" any time someone says 42 (Which happens to be the product of 6 and 7).

As a maths teacher it is driving me crazy - everytime I say the number 6 someone will say 6 7.

My year 9s found it really 'cringe' when I did it which means I do it more! My year 12s were even doing it in my lesson this afternoon.

I get the unease as when you don't know where things come from you are never quite sure if they are being rude, it means something dodgy and you need to put a stop to it. I tend to ask the students at school to explain it!

Also in Wales. My year 3 (eng med school) asked, when I told them to keep it for something they said at playtimes, whether they could say it if they said it in Welsh.

They also don't really know where it comes from and in fact end up saying 'six se-ven' then 'eight ni-ne', 'ten ele-ven' in the same voice with the same hand actions.

It's only reached our school in this academic year. So I'm guessing we're stuck with it a while longer. It took ages for skibidi and sigma to peter out.

It’s nothing. It’s just a way of winding teachers and parents up.

Don't worry it's just nonsense. I have the pleasure of teaching maths lessons to children of the "brain rot" age and God forbid any calculation has 6 7 in it 🙄

My DS and his friends went through a "get to the choppers" phase around Y3, spoken like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Except DS had no clue who Arnie was, had never seen the film it came from and wasn't completely sure what a chopper was.

These things appear out the blue, become very annoying, then get replaced by something else.

Yes, I think that was why I was worried!

Definitely doesn’t refer to anyone’s willy, at least in this context 😁.

It was a saying by the gamer Ninja who used it to refer to a haircut, a low taper fade, as being really popular. It turned into a meme.

Happily now run its course.

Banning these things just makes them want to do it more. Just start saying it yourself- when adults use kid slang, it's so deeply cringe that it goes out of fashion pretty quickly. According to my teen ds, the 6 7 thing is already pretty much dead. I told my year 9 class that today- they are well behind the curve

Bombardino Crocodilo is driving me insane and don’t get me started on chimpanzini bananini.

Yep it's driving me up the wall along with Italian brainrot and the overplayed kpop demonhunters 😑

But in a way I like the fact that this stuff connects children globally.