Dafling minor finds it annoying when the usual suspects among her classmates start it.
I don't think anyone knows what it means - it's just a thing to be in on that adults aren't.
Hasn't this been discussed already , either somewhere here in Heaven or All Saints?
Yes, though I forget which thread.
Short version: It comes from the rap song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, released in February of this year. Part of the point is that it has no set meaning (even in the song), but can mean whatever someone using it wants it to mean in a given context, leaving outsiders (adults) bewildered.
According to an article in The Atlantic newsletter the phrase reached its peak around Halloween and is expected to disappear around New Years. Something else is bound to replace it, of course.
One of the adult leaders of my church youth group when I was a teenager would always try really hard to be “down with the kids”. We all thought it was hilarious. We then invented a phrase (can’t remember what it was now) that was utterly meaningless just to see how long it would be before he started saying it.
The "yoof" might be surprised that us oldies* are quite familiar with the expression "all at sixes and sevens", and that it was used by someone as (probably) uncool as Gilbert & Sullivan (from HMS Pinafore):
Fair moon, to thee I sing,
Bright regent of the heavens
Say, why is everything
Either at sixes or at sevens?
Say, why is everything
Either at sixes or at sevens?
* Oh dear - I've just identified myself as an oldie ...
….but comes from the ?15th century rivalry between the Merchant Taylors and another livery company for precedence. It was decided they should alternate between 6 and 7. I think they still do.
Or so I was told when I was a Livery Company person (not one of the Great Twelve, a modern one).
One of the adult leaders of my church youth group when I was a teenager would always try really hard to be “down with the kids”. We all thought it was hilarious. We then invented a phrase (can’t remember what it was now) that was utterly meaningless just to see how long it would be before he started saying it.
Yes, isn't all this just exactly what every younger generation has done - invent their own private catch phrases just to be different and confuse the oldies? And bless 'em, they always think they are the first to do this!
….but comes from the ?15th century rivalry between the Merchant Taylors and another livery company for precedence. It was decided they should alternate between 6 and 7. I think they still do.
Or so I was told when I was a Livery Company person (not one of the Great Twelve, a modern one).
Our almost two-year-old toddler grandson is 3ft 4 in. Rule of thumb is a boy will be twice as tall as he is when he is 2 years old. I think I will give him a basketball for his second birthday. Can't start too young.
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I don't think anyone knows what it means - it's just a thing to be in on that adults aren't.
Short version: It comes from the rap song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, released in February of this year. Part of the point is that it has no set meaning (even in the song), but can mean whatever someone using it wants it to mean in a given context, leaving outsiders (adults) bewildered.
"I visit the Ship every day " 😊
One of the adult leaders of my church youth group when I was a teenager would always try really hard to be “down with the kids”. We all thought it was hilarious. We then invented a phrase (can’t remember what it was now) that was utterly meaningless just to see how long it would be before he started saying it.
* Oh dear - I've just identified myself as an oldie ...
Or so I was told when I was a Livery Company person (not one of the Great Twelve, a modern one).
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Yes, isn't all this just exactly what every younger generation has done - invent their own private catch phrases just to be different and confuse the oldies? And bless 'em, they always think they are the first to do this!
Or perhaps not...
Chaucer used the phrase a century earlier.
adult: Wow, that's tall.
kid: ********
Our almost two-year-old toddler grandson is 3ft 4 in. Rule of thumb is a boy will be twice as tall as he is when he is 2 years old. I think I will give him a basketball for his second birthday. Can't start too young.
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