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  • Youngsters and their expressions/expletives of appreciation
  • IHN
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    Speaking to an 11yr old last night, it would seem that ‘Epic!’ is the current mot just for anything worthy of appreciation.

    This sent me back to my teenage days, when anything good was ‘Mega!’ or ‘Wicked!’

    Of course, the highest accolade that could and can be bestowed upon anything is:

    ‘Skill!’

    I’m going to start using it again.

    “Thanks Robert, that Business Design Report you did is skill!”

    🙂

    wwaswas
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    Hench – strong and muscly. “Build like a henchman”

    We used skill when I was 14 and that was more than 30 years ago 🙂

    umop3pisdn
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    geoffj
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    This thread is doss!

    IHN
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    As in the bird seed?

    binners
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    Rad to the power of sick?

    IHN
    Full Member

    It’s sik Binners.

    You iz so not down wiv da kidz like wot I iz. I iz so street man.

    Junkyard
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    Radical

    Do kiwis still say choice? I always quite liked that

    philconsequence
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    ‘touch’ appears around here a lot, i.e “that was a right touch’

    IHN
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    ‘touch’ appears around here a lot, i.e “that was a right touch’

    Do you work in a Catholic school? 🙂

    khani
    Free Member

    Rad to the power of sick?

    Get wiv it grandad..
    S’raassss mon, bumbo clat….

    boblo
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    *wanders off a little confused and befuddled*

    Peyote
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    ‘Sweet’ and ‘Ace’ were around when I was a kid, think ‘Sweet’ may have made a comeback, but ‘Ace’ is still reserved for elite pilots I think.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    *wanders off a little confused and befuddled*

    do you only talk to children attending Eton – my 15 year old would never say that 😉

    sc-xc
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    Hench.

    khani
    Free Member

    [pats boblo on head] patpatpat…
    TEA??
    I SAID DO YOU WANT A CUP OF TEA???
    Sillyoldgit….

    verses
    Full Member

    Upon hearing the term “Skill” I feel compelled to reply with the phrase “African bum disease” although I can’t seem to remember why…

    headfirst
    Free Member

    Currently hearing ‘ments!’ a lot from my 15 year old, which I mistook for ‘immense’ at first, but actually it’s short for ‘mental!’
    This can be upgraded to ‘totes ments!’ using the same methodology as and when required. Which seems to be very often.

    scuzz
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    Upon hearing the term “Skill” I feel compelled to reply with the phrase “African bum disease”

    This. Every time, this.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    lol at verses

    memory going but just enough left to lead to confusion 🙂

    I remember the response – no idea why it was appropriate, either.

    deadlydarcy
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    “touch” has been around years, no?

    We had some strange ones growing up in Ireland. If something was “rapid”, that was very good indeed.

    A good looking girl or bloke was a “fine ting”.

    thegreatape
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    This can be upgraded to ‘totes ments!’ using the same methodology as and when required. Which seems to be very often.

    I can cope with just about any of the tripe that leaves my children’s mouths, but the moment anybody in this house utters ‘totes’ I’ll strangle them.

    [/STW Grrrrr]

    boblo
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    Ace was the word when I was at school, rapidly followed by the compulsory ‘A Crummy Effort?’ retort. We were so sharp dontchaknow…..

    Lifer
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    thegreatape – Member

    This can be upgraded to ‘totes ments!’ using the same methodology as and when required. Which seems to be very often.

    I can cope with just about any of the tripe that leaves my children’s mouths, but the moment anybody in this house utters ‘totes’ I’ll strangle them.

    Totes Amaze Balls
    Totes Amaze Bags

    Peyote
    Free Member

    but the moment anybody in this house utters ‘totes’ I’ll strangle them.

    I like their slipper socks.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    lots of discussion of ‘skill’ found on Google, this one’s quite good;

    Question: Have you got skill?

    Answer: Yes

    Response: errrrrrrrrrrr skill is an ‘African Bum Disease!’

    In the late Eighties, on the school playgrounds of my youth, this was a common enough encounter. As well as making filling out the ‘skills’ section of job applications a humiliating experience this phrase laid the groundwork for my generation’s attitude towards achievement, an attitude that would see us binge-drink our way through as much of our potential as possible in the late nineties.

    http://mgfgtg.blog.co.uk/2009/04/07/african-bum-disease-5904065/

    thegreatape
    Free Member

    Ok, just a glare if it’s a footwear reference. But otherwise the threat stands.

    Lifer
    Free Member

    Captain Wickard

    onewheelgood
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    around here, ‘dank’ has become an expression of approval. Weird.

    rogerthecat
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    Hmmm, a little field testing underway, I recommended a consultant into an organisation to help with their forward planning and received this text today:

    “Morning. ***** board meeting yesterday went really well. Exhausted today. Interesting bunch of characters. Thanks for the introduction.”

    I replied;

    “I hear it was rad to the power of sik!”

    So far, radio silence. 😀

    verses
    Full Member

    Glad I brought it up… 😕

    CaptainFlashheart
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    “I hear it was rad to the power of sik!”

    So far, radio silence.

    I used a phrase about a ring, a fence and a mythical one horned horse in a meeting the other day! 🙂

    wwaswas
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    I used a phrase about a ring, a fence and a mythical one horned horse in a meeting the other day!

    jumping the shark with the buzz-word bingo there.

    yunki
    Free Member

    hench, potent and pungent last time I walked amongst the youf dem

    thegreatape
    Free Member

    It’s all codes with 11 yr olds anyway. For example,

    “Would you and your friends like a drink’.

    is evidently some sort of horrendous faux pas that causes near fatal embarassment. 😕

    MartynS
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    decent…

    hot beans seems to be popular to…

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    blame radio 1

    **** muppet on there by the name of mills doesnt seem to be able to utter a single complete sentence in english.

    love to cut words short as per above.

    i know some adults guilty of this and times and i just correct them till – really winds me up. “such and such off of aberdeen” or “totes amaizing” or even worse – talking in text …. its one thing to type text ,which i dont get in todays world of keyboard phones and unlimited messages ….. when i grew up we did text speak to get all we needed to convey into 1 10pence text message and because nokia text input was a nightmare

    and calm down. ……

    dh
    Free Member

    “the damage”.

    e.g. “That bottle of buckfast billy was the damage”.

    DezB
    Free Member

    Are you cool?

    Ha, You’re a constipated overweight old lady!

    So my boy told me yesterday..

    ska-49
    Free Member

    Lush!
    Lau that – Dont allow that
    Sik brea
    Bang tidy

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