[Closed] Not down with the kids - whats the meaning /origin of this gesture?

[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance) ]Dabbing[/url]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance)

Origins
The dab has its origins in the Atlanta hip-hop scene, but there was initially disagreement about who originated the dance.[4] Artists initially mentioned as possible originators include Migos (as in "Look at My Dab"), Skippa Da Flippa, Peewee Longway, Jose Guapo and Rich The Kid.[5] The controversy was cleared up when fellow QC labelmate OG Maco called out Migos for saying they were the creators when it was actually Skippa da Flippa. Though Migos later confirmed Skippa as the originator of the dance, they were unhappy with the way Maco handled the situation.[6]

American rapper Bow Wow attempted to explain the origin of the dab dance, saying it derived from the cannabis dabbers community, which started in about 2012, long before the dance move. He was met with opposition from other rappers who immediately took to Twitter to insult and disprove his claims.[7]

I feel so old

It sounds like a dab or dib - no idea either as to its source or origin but got introduced to one at the "graduation" of the highschool kid I've been mentoring the past couple of years.

It's a dab.

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Dabbing IIRC its called

I suspect its come from drug taking culture but I am not certain Certainly "dabbing" is a method of taking drugs but as usual if you google anything that may have drug references you don't half find a load of codswallop

Thank god for you guys. I'm no longer old and out of touch.

Meanwhile an excited whisper from the back of the class after I'd been introduced in one school...

"He looks like Ed Sheeran!"

I'm happy to assume Ed Sheeran is unfathomably handsome. Don't correct me if I'm wrong.

Whenever I see one of those Gonk / Troll things that kids used to have as exam mascots, i always think add a guitar and a haircut and you'd have Ed Sheeran.

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[edit - and some clothes / I couldn't find a picture of naked Ed Sheeran (I didn't actually search for one)]

Jezza's down wiv da kidz!
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tjagain - Member
Dabbing IIRC its called

I suspect its come from drug taking culture but I am not certain Certainly "dabbing" is a method of taking drugs but as usual if you google anything that may have drug references you don't half find a load of codswallop

Did you refuse to read the 2nd reply to this thread

it wasn't there when I read the thread but it took me a while to type my answer

LOLz - knew before opening the thread it was about dabbing!

It has no meaning anymore - there was a rugby match on the other day and all the kids in the guard of honour were doing variations of the dab as the camera passed them. My lad was calling them idiots 😆

Next on STW: Killer clowns!

Ah yes - Skippa Da Flippa is a member at the club. I shall confirm with him forthwith.

Dabbing is so last month/year. Thankfully they get border of it pretty quickly too. (Father of two girls speaking)

The kids might well get bored of it, but unfortunately middle-aged men will continue to do it in bars and garden parties across the country all summer. Well past it's sell-by-date.

I only do it in a post-modern ironic way to annoy my kids.

Now i have procreated, annoying my kids is the sole reason i exist.

Dabbing is so last month/year.

Yep.

This week, it's all about Fidget Spinners.

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Fidget spinners are so hot right now...confirmed by eleven year old yesterday

My 6 and 8 year old kids had to teach me what dabbing is last month. That was when I realised I was getting old.

Cam Newton in 2015/6 was red hot and got away with this.....

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Before his got his arse handed to him in the Super Bowl and strangely enough don't think he has done it since.

As for meaning ... is it not just an elaborate bow ?

Yep, Dabbing - my 9 year old daughter does it as part of various street dance routines at her dance school.

[i]This week, it's all about Fidget Spinners.[/i]

My kid has loads of em. Boy is such a cliche!

it's been dead for a while. Try not to puke

It's also some footballer's chosen celebration i believe. That's where i think my eldest picked it up from.

He's not into drip plop music. More an Offspring offspring.

[url= https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/is-dabbing-good-or-bad-or-both ]Dabbing means something entirely different to me[/url]

It's also some footballer's chosen celebration i believe. That's where i think my eldest picked it up from.

RevsJnr doing the dab

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I thought dabbing had passed a long time ago like loom bands and Pokémon go, i thought it was JoJo bows and fidget spinners now??

Both of mine dab too regularly in my opinion & both have fidget spinners...they are on fleek 😐

Fidget Spinners - I saw one of them the other day. I'm gonna get Orange to make me one out of some Five pivot bearings to go with all my other STW trappings. Not sure whether fascination implies you've got some sort of attention disorder tho...

Still - probably better than a throwing star / shuriken from a French exchange.

Fidget Spinners.
Just in from the shed where I've been re-fitting bearings after one got lost (they take micro-scooter bearings).

Dabbing:
I trained the mother-in-law to dab as she walked past the playground.
I dab as I cycle past with no hands.

Fidget spinners!

My kids never seem to let them stop spinning.

Now I can ask the apprentice at our place where his fidget spinner is after last week he was being all mysterious about it.

[quote> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance)

Origins
The dab has its origins in the Atlanta hip-hop scene, but there was initially disagreement about who originated the dance.

Yawn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery