Teenage slang - what are they saying at the moment?

[tamburlaine]

what are the funniest/most annoying/most incomprehensible bits of slang your teens are using at the moment?
I'm writing a piece about teenage boys set in the west country, and my experience of teenage boys is based entirely in hackney where everyone tries to talk like a yardie 'n ting you get me.
So I'd be very grateful for any non hackney mums of teenage boys giving me a list of current slang. Cheers.

teenage dd but not sure its a "general" thing but to her and her mates everything is "random"

Living in Liverpool it's quite hard to understand any of the words the teenagers use... it's like a high pitched super speedy language from the planet 'Aarraay' and I just get left confused ! Lol

"WHATEVER"
"DO I LOOK BOTHERED"

oh yes "Whatever" and dd also uses "fine" alot but not in a nice way . Eg:

Me: "Ellie, please can you get off your bed and tidy your room? I sent you up half an hour ago to do it"

E: "Fine"

said in a huffy way

With my DD2 (just ex-teenage), jampots, "random" has become a noun meaning an unintroduced person, as in "I'm not going to sit next to some random!"

How old should these boys be, tamburlaine? I have a 12-yr-old and a 16-yr-old (and live in rural Lancs) - could ask them for you.

They are supposed to be coming up for 16.
Thanks to all the contributions so far.
Oh yeh, they are very chavvy, my boys, I am sure not like any of yours - so any slang heard on buses trains etc also welcome!
grand.

oops just revealed my alter ego. I am tamburlaine. And vesuvius. And another one that I use most of the time......
what an air of mystery.

"innit" seems popular

I once heard "me fadder give me bad licks, mon" from a boy who looked like Harry Potter on top of a number 271 bus. Know what you mean about all north Londoners wanting to sounds "dangerous"

PMSL Suzy

do they still say cool?

Don't know if it's 'in' this year, but certainly end of last year the teens in my church choir were saying

"Talk to the hand coz the face 'aint listening"

I still say cool does that make me sad? Is 'sad' not used anymore too?

God I'm only 18!

Whatever, yeah right and innit are popular with DD1 at the moment along with later - as in tidy my room LATER and do my homework LATER

According to ds (5) a girl in his class recently said, "Talk to de hand, cos de face ain't listenin'" -- to the teacher.

My 14yr old brother says "proper" before everything...
I was proper bored etc.......
He lives in a small town in the Midlands

suzy..hilarious!
JanH,love the adjectives morphing into nouns..
Although not the proud owner of teenagers,I love telling snotty adolescent girls of my acquaintance that they/their hair/clothes and so on are 'groovy' just to enjoy the looks of ill disguised horror and disgust on their faces.

Last week I (still can't believe I did this)asked my neighbour's daughter 'What are young people listening to these days?'

Lead me to pasture quick!!!

Just asked DS2 (who looked a bit panicky, not quite sure what I'm after, might he get into trouble...!) and after some thought he came up with "mint" to describe something really cool, like a flash car or something.

DS1 still slaving over hot AS History paper, will ask him when he gets home, he usually makes more sense than his brother.

Do we not say "hey groovy cat, that's cool, maaan" any more?

my brother (18) says something good is 'dark' and sometihng really really good is 'dad'. something rubbish is 'mince'

oh but he is a londoner

I live in teh west country and couldnt tell you...although they do say 'to' as in 'where are my keys to' although more dialect than slang.

DS1 has come up with a couple - not sure how much use to you (or if used in west country) -

When something's really good they say "that's top!" (or maybe "well good" but I assume using "well" instead of "very" is quite universal)(I hate it!)

Instead of "sht!" apparently they say "shthouse!" to add emphasis, but house has to be said as a cross between "oose" and "ewse".

face of concern i think not
thats what my wee sisters say all the time (there 13 and 14)