come on guys.. hip? trendy? Groovy? That reminds me of the sad guy in Only Fools and horses, he was only in one episode, the one where delboy enters a painting of rodneys into a competition and then it turns out rodney wins but its a teen holiday, so rodney has to pretend hes 14 and the sad guy says "you are now part of the groovy gang!"
I have never once used the word hip! I use awesome, fab, wicked and koolbeans, (the last one is strictly a teen word lol)
Seriously guys, if you want to impress the young ones with your "cool" rep, dont go overboard with the sayings, my teacher Mr Lewis did just the other day, he started rapping. We were not impressed!
A seh, wiza'd preng ;-)
Ahh but then again, 'my' dad (who's almost 72) also made up a rap, which was both clever and hysterically funny!
My kids who're 20 and 16, were so genuinely impressed, they filmed it on their phones and couldn't wait to show all their mates!
I suppose it come's down to whether its done with humour or 'really trying' to be cool!
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Hate the word trendy too. Can’t help think that if something/someone refers to themselves as trendy, it tends to mean the opposite.
Interestingly, apart from the use of the word “mates”, I’d say that Jamie’s suggestion was pretty good, and would appeal to a wide age group.
Trouble with any sort of slang is it’s going to date pretty quickly, and then look/sound, well, awful.
ah but your pops might have beeen good, mr lewis rapped history, i can still remember some of it
if you wanna do good in history
heres a little rhyme ready one two three!
revise, dont sit around being a bore
get your brain working its not a chore
go on the web and look up stuff
look in your book its not tough!
stalin he was a russian leader
very clever but quite a bleeder
hitler he was very bad
he made churchill very mad
Thats all i can remember as well some awful beatboxing. (it really makes you cringe)
As I dimly remember it, as a youngster all of my mates were trying too hard to be "grown-up". Smoking, drinking and having sex all being high on the agenda of some, behaving like a responsible adult for a few others. It looks to me like the agenda is the same today. I see them trying to imitate their adult role models.
I would not try and invade the young world, but rather present dance as a bridge to adult childish fun. The kids I know still use the word "fun".
Trendy used to feature on ceroc advertising. May still do?
Very toe curling.
Puts me in mind of a bloke dancing with lots of facial hair, in a striped wooly jumper and flared crimpoline trousers.
Any one remember crimpoline?
Ceroc has made it onto Urban Dictionary - Urban Dictionary: ceroc
Quite an apt description as well?
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