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"I'm not gonna lie"

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Davros · 17/04/2017 11:34

DD (14) says this all the time in the middle of various sentences. Is it the latest teenage vernacular or just DD and her friends or possibly just DD? It gives me the rage (inwardly)Angry. I have commented on it and she's stopped saying it quite so much but that could be because she's on school holidays at the moment. Anyone else's teens say this?

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BackforGood · 17/04/2017 17:23

Not heard it from mine, but maybe it's from a particular show they watch ?

ProudBadMum · 17/04/2017 17:24

Is it like 'swear on mi nans grave'?

Guitargirl · 17/04/2017 17:27

Does she watch a lot of YouTube? It seems to a bit of a favourite phrase amongst YouTubers.

Astro55 · 17/04/2017 17:29

Yeah ya get meeeee??

fruityb · 17/04/2017 17:29

"I swear down"

Gallavich · 17/04/2017 17:30

It's a really annoying teen phrase at the moment. She'll pick up a new one soon enough

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Davros · 17/04/2017 17:32

YouTube! It must be that. It's used in this way "I don't want to go to X, I'm not gonna lie, it's not my sort of thing" or " can you pick me up? I'm not gonna lie, I don't fancy walking" etc etc

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ProudBadMum · 17/04/2017 17:33

I'd pick you up, but I'm not going to lie, I don't want

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blue2014 · 17/04/2017 17:33

We used to say "I swear down" 20+ years ago!

Dozer · 17/04/2017 17:34

A mid 20s work colleague says this. Annoying.

Guitargirl · 17/04/2017 17:37

Try watching 10 mins of zoella and count how many times she says it Grin.

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Davros · 17/04/2017 17:44

It, like, has replaced "like" thank fuck!!

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MackerelOfFact · 17/04/2017 17:46

It reminds me of Nessa in Gavin and Stacey!

Teabagtits · 17/04/2017 17:56

My mum says this all the time and she's mid 60s. Most of the time it doesn't even fit the sentence. She's been saying it for years

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Davros · 17/04/2017 19:29

The welsh character in W1A kept saying "I'm not being funny or anything but ....."

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user838383 · 19/04/2017 09:03

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motherinferior · 19/04/2017 10:13

Oh GOD me too with the rage. THE RAGE.

Rudymentary · 19/04/2017 10:16

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EvilDoctorBallerinaDuck · 19/04/2017 10:17

Mackerel thank you! I knew somebody on TV said it a lot! Easter Grin

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 19/04/2017 10:20

My 16yo says it too, along with "bare" everything - "I've got bare money bruv" - it doesn't annoy me quite as much as "at the end of the day" though which really gets on my nerves.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 19/04/2017 10:28

My 16 year old DD is driving me made with 'send me' all the bloody time. As in: "mum send me a bit of easter egg' - when I'm sitting next to her!!

And adding 'at' to sentences - "Where are my shoes at". Hmm

Kanga1973 · 19/04/2017 12:29

My DD says the word like at least 20 times in one sentence. I know it's annoying but then embarrassing when she was talking to a careers advisor at a prospective college Confused

wetpebbles · 19/04/2017 12:34

My teenager "dabs" at me, it is quite funny though!

Dollyparton3 · 19/04/2017 13:35

Yes, every other sentence. Even funnier on text when it came through as "NGL".

Whatevs

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Davros · 19/04/2017 21:10

Ooh, "NGL", I'll be using that in texts to DD

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