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I never ever imagined that in the year 2025.....

People would be using the word 'vibes'. I'm equally incredulous as if they were using the word 'snazzy', lol, anyone old enough to remember that one?

So anyway have I found any fellow 'vibes' haters?

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I've used snazzy my entire life.

Reply 2

Original post by PinkMobilePhone
I've used snazzy my entire life.

I think this kind of proves OP's point lol

Reply 3

Yeah I dislike a lot of these shortened words, really. No issue with 'snazzy', as such.
Original post by black tea
I think this kind of proves OP's point lol

I am aware I'm a dinosaur

Reply 5

Current annoyances include :
Students not doing enough work who ask me 'Am I cooked'
Anyone 'reaching out' (cloying Americanism)
Athletes who 'medal' or 'podium' (these are nouns, not verbs)

Reply 6

Emotionally available, got my **** together, doing the inner work. Dating intentionally. All from online dating eurgh.
Original post by McGinger
Current annoyances include :
Students not doing enough work who ask me 'Am I cooked'
Anyone 'reaching out' (cloying Americanism)
Athletes who 'medal' or 'podium' (these are nouns, not verbs)

My 17 year old is driving me mad with the "cooked" thing.

Reply 8

Original post by PinkMobilePhone
My 17 year old is driving me mad with the "cooked" thing.

I thought cooked was northern irish? Maybe it started there.....
Original post by EuropeanIAm
I thought cooked was northern irish? Maybe it started there.....

No idea. All I know is he's been saying it for days now and doing my head in.
We're in Yorkshire.
He's either picked it up online, or from work.

Reply 10

They seem to use 'I'm cooked' as a way of deflecting blame - and just giving up.
That somehow its not their fault, 'its the system'. and beyond their control, and therefore its poor-little-me.
When actually it because they are a lazy little a..e, haven't done the work, and think that I, or 'someone else' can make-it-all-better and dig them out of a position that is entirely of their own making.

Reply 11

Original post by McGinger
Current annoyances include :
Students not doing enough work who ask me 'Am I cooked'
Anyone 'reaching out' (cloying Americanism)
Athletes who 'medal' or 'podium' (these are nouns, not verbs)

I second all of these.

Reply 12

Original post by gjd800
I second all of these.

Also ....
'Holibobs' when uttered by anyone over the age of 6.
'Fur baby'. Ffs, grow-up.

Reply 13

And probably the most offensive - for a very wide variety of reasons :
"I'm going to nail this idea to a cross and see who follows"
Original post by EuropeanIAm
People would be using the word 'vibes'. I'm equally incredulous as if they were using the word 'snazzy', lol, anyone old enough to remember that one?
So anyway have I found any fellow 'vibes' haters?

this post is bad vibes :lol:
I use snazzy too, rare occasion though
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Original post by EuropeanIAm
I thought cooked was northern irish? Maybe it started there.....

it started on tiktok - people will rather make a tiktok and post it with the caption ("Chat - am I cooked") than actually do their assignment

Its funny watching students crash-out
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Reply 16

Original post by halfharry
it started on tiktok - people will rather make a tiktok and post it with the caption ("Chat - am I cooked") than actually do their assignment
Its funny watching students crash-out

It might've been popularised by Tik Tok recently, but it has certainly been around all my life, and indeed, longer: the OED has it as Australian origin, almost 200 years ago.

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Reply 17

'Cooked' also has associations with drug-taking - so it has that frisson of slightly risky, grown-up land that teenagers crave.
These phrases (I see it everywhere online including TSR):
“Slay 💅🏾✨💋”
“You/they/she/he:
1. ATE
2. ATE and left no crumbs
3. ATE this up ✨”

Not sure why I dislike these terms (despite having probably used them without realising) but I don’t like the aesthetic behind the term. Maybe I’ll ironically start using the term more like I’ve seen other people from my demographic (female) do.

Then others in general:
Not sure. I probably have other phrases.
I guess Skibidi Rizz is bad 🤷🏾*♀️. At least the other terms make sense to me but GYATT and Skibidi Rizz do not.
Original post by Talkative Toad
These phrases (I see it everywhere online including TSR):
“Slay 💅🏾✨💋”
“You/they/she/he:
1. ATE
2. ATE and left no crumbs
3. ATE this up ✨”
Not sure why I dislike these terms (despite having probably used them without realising) but I don’t like the aesthetic behind the term. Maybe I’ll ironically start using the term more like I’ve seen other people from my demographic (female) do.
Then others in general:
Not sure. I probably have other phrases.
I guess Skibidi Rizz is bad 🤷🏾*♀️. At least the other terms make sense to me but GYATT and Skibidi Rizz do not.

Read this on the bus and laughed out loud 😭😭

Very proud to say "skibidi rizz" and "gyatt" are not gen Z and are in fact gen alpha and not gen z, we're not that far gone..
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