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Topic Started: Nov 25 2009, 11:25 AM (332 Views)
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Words that I thought had gone for good seem to have made a comeback with the youth of this area. Very awful non PC words like Mong and Spas. :( I actually got really upset at my eldest when he came out with one of that words.

Another thing (which I don't really understand) is when the kids see something cool they say, "Own" or "Ownage". Much overused in photo albums on Bebo!!

Another one is when one kid says to another, "What you doing this weekend?" And the child replies, "Your mother, ha ha ha" They have absolutely no idea what they are on about!!

My two have this bizarre thing, that I know some others do, and that is saying, "Shotgun" if they want to be first at something.

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Nov 26 2009, 11:56 AM
Words that I thought had gone for good seem to have made a comeback with the youth of this area. Very awful non PC words like Mong and Spas. :( I actually got really upset at my eldest when he came out with one of that words.

I sometimes wonder if children actually understand what those words mean and that they relate to a specific medical condition which is now known as something else - something which they are familiar with.
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Well my two certainly didn't realise that these words used to be used to describe conditions.

We have a friend who has a daughter with Downs, and my lads were horrified when I pointed this out to them.
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Nov 26 2009, 01:58 PM
Well my two certainly didn't realise that these words used to be used to describe conditions.

We have a friend who has a daughter with Downs, and my lads were horrified when I pointed this out to them.
The change in use of language can be a minefield :( I worked with a foreign student who was so polite but came out with a right mouthful of swear words. I queried it and was informed a lecturer used that language in lectures. Poor lad was shocked rigid when I told him that if his mother heard him she would smack him - that was the poliest way to tell him. I asked the lecturer later if he was teaching BSc Profanity!
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Folk that say up when it's down and down when it's up

finishing sentences with an' that or ken

Who started this again was it you Aston ? You've a lot to answer for

och there must be hunners more.
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Nov 26 2009, 08:42 PM


Who started this again was it you Aston ? You've a lot to answer for

:twist :twist :twist :twist :twist
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I still stand by my Up!!!! :P
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Nov 26 2009, 08:48 PM
I still stand by my Up!!!! :P
Doesn't it depend if you are going north or south or up hill or down hill - but then it all gets confused when you are going down hill but going north :A Okay this is all getting a bit confused :D
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I'm sure we've had this before and rc finally gave in to it . She's now annoying her sugardaddy A_rgu3 stoatnuT

You are quite correct curiosity UP is North and DOWN is South . Anything going from the South pole is UP and from the North Pole is SOUTH So there you are Ross-shire lass :P
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OH , one word that i hate ..it drives me mad ..proberly because i have NO idea what it means ...
Metrosexual ..What is that about , oh he is so metrosexual ? . Thats my pet hate word ..

Another is the word "Root in the UK its ok , as in i "root" for Man Utd , or Liverpool say as an exsample...But here it means something totally different , and i hate that word to discribe it ;) ...

I'll be back to this thread again , mark my word .Just got to think of the others that drive me mad .

Edited by conor2, Nov 28 2009, 05:24 AM.
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Nov 28 2009, 05:24 AM
OH , one word that i hate ..it drives me mad ..proberly because i have NO idea what it means ...
Metrosexual ..What is that about , oh he is so metrosexual ? . Thats my pet hate word ..
I just googled it and it means something like a hetrosexual male with good income in a post industrial culture who dresses like a homosexual. We just call 'em bankers here rofl rofl rofl
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Nov 28 2009, 05:24 AM
OH , one word that i hate ..it drives me mad ..proberly because i have NO idea what it means ...
Metrosexual ..What is that about , oh he is so metrosexual ? . Thats my pet hate word ..


I've never heard that one Mal . Wht does it mean ? :unsure

Thanks spud
Edited by Laird willie h, Nov 28 2009, 11:03 AM.
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Wasn't David Beckham supposed to epitomise the 'metrosexual' type?

In other words, clean, tidy, fashionable, fastidious, urban and straight?

Think the word itself has dropped back out of fashion, if it was ever in.
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