Teenager Codes

[JimGinPA]

TEENAGER CODES 😳 pay attention to your children's phones

53X = sneaky way to type "sex"
KMS = kill myself
LH6 = let’s have sex
KYS = kill yourself
MOS = mom over the shoulder
POS = parent over shoulder
CD9 = code 9, parents around
GNOC = get naked on camera.
99 = parents are gone
WTTP = want to trade photos?
LMIRL = let’s meet in real life
1174 = meet at a party spot
IWSN = I want sex now
CU46 = see you for sex
FWB = friends with benefits
ADR = what’s your address
MPFB = my personal f*** buddy
PAL= parents are listening
TWD = texting while driving
GYPO = get your pants off

We must pay attention to our children and what they say and most importantly who they say it to!!!

[Renew Deal]

1. GYPO 99 GNOC

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Sigh. Before cell phones, teenagers NEVER had sex!

We didn't smoke them marrywannas, either.

[LanternWaste]

34. Thank goodness you're the only one making that argument.

Thank goodness you're the only one making that particular argument, else I'd fear the entire nation was drunk.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. You know what they say, a FOTD is a FOM!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA


anyway, what do you expect, with all the Susan Sarandon threads?

[Docreed2003]

58. Uh oh...saying her name is like saying Beetlejuice

Pretty soon half DU will be high or drunk from the drinking/smoking game

[Warren DeMontague]

66. ...

[Weekend Warrior]

39. "Before cell phones"

It was more difficult for grown men to get into your home and communicate with your young child.

[Warren DeMontague]

40. If your 'young child' has a cell phone and is communicating in code with people

maybe that's the primary issue to deal with.

This thread is about teenagers, isn't it? Leaving aside the utility of being aware of these codes- which probably change on a week-to-week basis- I just find the perennial hand-waving hysterics by old people a bit humorous, as if the current crop of teenagers are the first ever to discover alcohol, drugs, or sex.

I mean, we never did any of those things.....



did we?

[Beearewhyain]

98. Thank you for saying this

I am no spring chicken but I am often confused by how hysterical folks get about what it's like to be young. While the tools are different the outcomes are quite similar, regardless of decade.

Does anyone remember what it's like to be young? What happens that makes folks completely forget everything that they did previous to the age of 25? I would say it's the result of a "new madness" but might be more accurately be described as the madness of age.

Yes, kids are stupid...that's their job. Our job is to set boundaries and their job is to constantly test those boundaries. If any of us get out alive...win!

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Come the next name change amnesty, I call dibs on "GYPO IWSN"

[Coventina]

32. LOL!

[NightWatcher]

4. Got any codes for buying weed? I sound like an old hippie when I talk about it.

I asked a dude if he knew where I could score a lid and he had no idea what I was talking about.

I miss the days of quarters and eighths, now the kids are all new fangled with talk of grams. Great, now I gotta do math.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Sure: CO WA OR AK NV ... soon, CA - then eventually MA and ME

[Lordquinton]

15. We're working on it!

Fast as we can in our little corner.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. I can't help notice how East Coast pols foot-drag on the whole thing, though.

Hell, Nevada (like Oregon) managed to implement recreational sales early, ahead of the legislative deadline.

California will be right on time.

But Mass. and Maine-- "heavens! We're just going to have to put it off as long as possible"

[Voltaire2]

17. Mass is the worst.

Now they've gone and appointed anti-pot hawks as all 5 members of the regulatory commission. The Democratic Party should own this issue, instead they are alienating people with their obstructionism.

[Lordquinton]

29. Who turns down free money

That's what they're doing.

[eleny]

49. It's been no big deal here in CO after it became legal

Some shitheads wind up in the news for driving high and getting into trouble. But for the most part it's been a boon to the state. Oh, the legislature had to make an appropriations for buying rakes with longer handles. But that was about it.

Wait for it - people will start posting horror stories they scour from the news. I'll have to be all and stuff. But from where I sit it's been natural to see the stores with the green cross.

[Warren DeMontague]

61. I'm in OR, and it's the same situation.

The sky most decidedly has not fallen. No big deal.

[samnsara]

79. same here is Wash state....love walking to the corner pot store..

...is a boon to the economy. We are funding some much needed programs with pot and I am doing my FAIR SHARE to contribute No problems whatsoever and our Gov has invited Sessions to come tour and get himself educated.

[crazycatlady]

63. NJ might very well get it soon

Wait till Christie is out of office.

[Warren DeMontague]

65. Yeah, that's one of fifty bajillion good reasons to put a Democrat in there, isn't it.

Good riddance to Christie.

[panader0]

6. Three fingers...

every Friday night in high school.

[jberryhill]

7. pay attention

Watch the whole video and burn it into your memory:

1/4 oz is 7 grams.

[SonofDonald]

27. Yes, in Washington we just walk in the door

Show your drivers license and choose from a list of strains in whatever size you want.

Pay cash, lock it in your trunk, go home and enjoy!.

[samnsara]

78. dime bags..lids...omg..

...its legal land where I live and I wanted a qtr oz to bake with and they had it in grams and I am going OK what the Hell. How many friggen grams are in a qtr oz? I just asked Siri...even the kids behind the counter couldn't help me.

[JimGinPA]

10. Yeah, Cause Teenagers Never Make Bad Decisions When Left Alone

My kids are grown with young children, so none of this really applies to me personally. My niece (who has a son starting college) posted it on my FB feed & asked me to share it.

But thanks for your concern about my parenting skills.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. I hear that college students sometimes have the sex

[RKP5637]

30. LOL!!! As one of my friends used to say, do what feels good! LOL, yep, fun! n/t

[RKP5637]

9. I wanna be a teenager again!!! n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. This is hilarious.

[True Dough]

81. Someone's gotta DeCode DeMontague!

I think I have figured out the second abbreviation, like a mofo!

[Skittles]

14. what do they use for "piece of shit" ?

[ProfessorGAC]

22. POS

It's all about context, Skittles!

[jmowreader]

91. A picture of Donald Trump

[Voltaire2]

18. Spying on your kids teaches them what?

[JimGinPA]

19. Paying Attention Isn't The Same As "Spying"

[Voltaire2]

24. Snooping their text messages is spying.

[JimGinPA]

26. What Age Do You Think Kids Should Be Unrestricted?

13?
16?
When they go to college, get married or move out?

When they get a smart phone?
When they get a job & pay for their own phone?


It's much easier to criticize something than to offer solutions.

[Voltaire2]

41. When my kids got computers and phones

they were not "unrestricted", but I did not spy on their phone and computer use. I was way more concerned about drunk driving than porn or sexting. None of my kids peers died from those last two activities, several managed to get killed in cars.
These days I'd add opiate abuse to real concerns, but my approach to parenting involved trust openness honesty and tolerance, not spying.

[nolabels]

100. When you don't trust your kids they won't trust you

It's like looking in a mirror

[Voltaire2]

105. indeed that was the way I looked at it.

[LanternWaste]

35. Other than youth or simple inexperience, what leads you to believe that?

Other than youth or simple inexperience, what leads you to believe that?

Is a baby monitor spying as well? If not, what is the specific and relevant difference?

[Voltaire2]

42. A baby monitor is the same as prying into

Your kid private messages to friends?

Analogize falsely much?

[eleny]

50. What I want to know is if you should bring your kids to the Olive Garden after they lit up?

These are serious times.

[Drahthaardogs]

21. It's my house. I let them live there. I don't NEED

Their permission to open a drawer or enter a room. It is not spying. Reading their diary is spying.

[Voltaire2]

25. So is reading their phones.

[Drahthaardogs]

31. Not if I pay for it

.

[Voltaire2]

43. I tried to not be the dictator of my castle.

I thought that there were better ways to raise kids.

[Drahthaardogs]

74. Maybe. It's a balance.

I never want my kids too comfortable. I WANT them to worry a little "what if Mom or Dad finds out?".

Their brains are not yet developed enough. It's why we don't let them drink, drive, or vote until they are old enough to rationalize better.

They are not getting the run of the house.

[ProgressiveValue]

44. You are pretty darn adamant about this.

I hope you aren't one of those who respond to school shootings by scolding the parents for not knowing what their kids are up to, since you find knowing what they are up to to be an invasion of privacy.

"You should have been a better parent!!!"

"You should stop spying on your kids!!!"

[Lordquinton]

28. Actually you don't let them live there

They are your children, you are obligated to provide food, and shelter to them, and treat them well, not abusing them. Snooping on them crosses a line and opens them up to dangerous behaviour down the road.

When you teach them that they don't need to give permission to have their belongings searched they have that with them the rest of their lives.

[Drahthaardogs]

33. Letting the think that they can do illegal or illicit things in my home

Opens them up to more. My house. My rules. It's a benevolent Dictatorship, but a Dictatorship it is.


I am preparing the for life. Don't keep stuff you don't want other people knowing about in places you don't own.

[Lordquinton]

88. So you are teaching them that they don't have privacy?

That they don't have personal space when you are around? You are teaching them to accept abusive situations. You should be teaching them about personal privacy, that it's not ok for anyone to invade it.

You are also teaching them to not trust you, and to hide things better. You are teaching them to be better liers.

[Drahthaardogs]

96. Oh spare me.

You are funny. Where do you work at?

Ever been in the military?

[Lordquinton]

103. You enlist in the military

Anyone can have a child, the only requirements are a functioning reproductive system. They also take fully grown and independent adults, and do things that are abusive, with consent.

Your raising children, not soldiers, if you can't see the difference, I can't help you.

[ProgressiveValue]

60. Snooping isn't abusing.

So, actually (since you want to use that annoying term):

The basics are shelter, food and clothes. And the clothes don't have to be what they approve of either. That is a good way to have a non-violent punishment always ready to correct bad behavior. One set of clothes they want to wear to school, and an out of style, "poor" set they don't want anything to do with.

Snooping to know what they are up to isn't abuse. Anyone who thinks so loses the right to complain about "why didn't those parents have better control over their kids and know what was going on", when the complainer finds all forms of punishment and snooping to be abusive.

And while we are on the subject, actually, they aren't entitled to a phone either. That is a privilege.

[Drahthaardogs]

75. Absolutely!

If they want to be on their own they can file paperwork for emancipation.

[Lordquinton]

90. This thread has been enlightening

Thanks for sharing examples of how not to be a parent.

[Drahthaardogs]

95. Drama much?

Seriously?

[Lordquinton]

102. Very enlightening

It's a serious subject, and it's being brushed off by the people who should be paying the most attention.

[Lordquinton]

89. You know I didn't say it was

I tossed it in as an example of what parents can't do, not pointing fingers, but the more I read the more it seems like the shoe fits...

[Orrex]

20. We were warned!

[WoonTars]

23. Pretty soon they'll be listening to that devil music called 'rock and roll'...

...and start talking back to us!!!

Heavens to betsy what ever can we do????!!!!

[forgotmylogin]

54. Then the next step...

They'll be cruising the strip near the malt shop in their jalopies and riding in the rumble seat to the sock hops!

[melman]

38. You know what this means?

New codes. The fact that you know these means they're all obsolete.

[JoeStuckInOH]

45. How is "DTF" or "FWB" not on this list??

[forgotmylogin]

55. Perhaps because we know those acronyms?

It's square to do what your parents did! Ew!

Plus, Jersey Shore made DTF known to pretty much anyone.

[cwydro]

46. We never had cell phones.

But my life as a teenager was tennis, hiking, cruising around in my silly yellow Vega, listening to Carole King, walking my dog and enjoying my family.

Sounds kinda sad that teens are all about sex now. Yuck.

[liquid diamond]

52. Thank social media, smart phones and shitty parenting.

[Warren DeMontague]

72. no one was having sex when you were a teenager? That's funny.

Like my generation? I remember how we were all supposed to be "Just saying no"

Eh, sorry... hate to burst ye olde bubble, but the only thing we just said no to, was that Nancy Reagan bullshit.

[liquid diamond]

73. I never said they weren't.

Social media and smart phones have made things much worse for teenagers. There was no sexting in my generation. There was no 24 hour cyber-bullying. There were no hookup apps. Funny shit, huh?

[Warren DeMontague]

76. What there was, tho, was no shortage of horrified oldsters CERTAIN that things were vastly different

for "these kids today".

The more things change, eh?

[Warren DeMontague]

71. I didn't have a cell phone, so I had to physically drive over to my girlfriend's house

toss a rock at her window, she would physically sneak out, we would go to a forest preserve or something, and THEN we would have sex.

It was far more wholesome!

[Kali]

84. were you one of my boyfriends?

[Warren DeMontague]

87. probably.

I was the one driving the beater that was covered with Grateful Dead and left-wing bumper stickers.

[taught_me_patience]

47. If you know these codes, they are at least a year out of date n/t

[Hortensis]

48. Very different from my years, some respects not so much. Sex and dodging parents.

Back then, though, kids had respite from viciousness. The nasties went home to their families, and groups were mostly out of touch for long hours. Good idea for today.

[CountAllVotes]

51. Pimp

Some teenager told me that the shirt I was wearing was "pimp". Had not a clue what he meant so I asked him. Pimp = cool I was informed. News to me!

[LeftInTX]

57. 15 years ago, my daughter was in a chat and called herself, "PimpingCutie"

I almost DIED......She was 12 years old.

[SeattleVet]

53. As opposed to the Senior Citizen Codes?

[LeftInTX]

59. Oh my!! Tears rolling down my face!!!

Friend with Beta Blockers
ROFL-CGU

[Warren DeMontague]

67. Bring Your Own Teeth

....

[Voltaire2]

69. ISMP

their ought to be an emoticon for I Shit My Pants

[Kali]

85. !

[TygrBright]

56. If I'm Gonna Get Your Town Outta The Serious Trouble It's In...

"You are not aware of the caliber of disaster..."

amusedly,

Bright

[JI7]

62. Teens are having less sex these days since they spend more time alone

And on their phones.

[Warren DeMontague]

64. That's great! I mean.... it's awful! I mean it's great!

I'm torn between hand-wringing and relief! Help!

[JI7]

68. There are many sides to it. They are more safe physicslly

Just because they are home mostly.

But mentally it's hurting them since they spend too much time seeing what others are doing and feel left out.

And those most likely to post about their life are those who have more and go on more vacations and things. So it's misleading since they feel they are the only ones left out.

In thE old days kids would need to get together in person more so they spend more time together doing things than watching what others are doing.

[The Genealogist]

77. Reading this discussion makes me glad I have no kids!

I honestly have no idea how I would be able to function with a 2010s-era teenage kid. So many more forms of trouble for them to get into now! I'm honestly glad that the internet wasn't really a thing when I was a teenager, it seems bullying is a much harder thing to endure. When I was a teenager, the bullying pretty much stopped once you got to your door after school. Nowadays, it is a 24/7 thing. Add to that pedophiles trying to lure them, easy access sex, and who knows what else.

I was afraid of my own shadow when I was a teenager when it came to mischief, mostly because I knew I'd get a long grounding from my stepmother for even minor missteps. We had a 15 minute limit on the phone, which was a landline. Kids today would scream abuse! My how times have changed.

[dewsgirl]

80. I have 2 sons 14 and 19, I feel like I should know more of

these than I do. Also after looking at that list, I feel like kind of a prude, I was the complete opposite of that when I was that age. My God it's almost all sex! GYPO too funny!

[BamaRefugee]

82. My parents had sons who turned 20,18, 16, and 14 in the seminal year of 1969

THANK GOD we didn't have cell phone so that NOT ONE OF US ever got in trouble!

Oh wait, that's not right, now I remember my Mom's ultimate ruling: if you were going out, you had to leave bail money on her dresser, or don't even think about coming home again

[Iggo]

99. My mom had a "Deadbolt at 10" policy.

I had a key to the bottom lock, but no key to the deadbolt.

So I was home at 10 or I didn't get in.

[BamaRefugee]

104. hahaha perfect!

[Initech]

83. How is FML not on the list?

FML = fuck my life!

[Kali]

86. agree with comments about list being outdated

they are younger and faster than you. and that is actually a good thing for the species. most of us did things our parents didn't know about. it's called growing up. don't snoop. on your kids or your spouse. trust goes further than snooping.

if they break the trust they will have to earn it back, but not giving it to begin with will fuck them up more than you think.

[RKP5637]

101. Agree! We all did these things, most of us, communication just wasn't as easy. Parents IMO

do need to school their kids about being safe!

[MLAA]

92. Boy this thread has a bunch of old farts (including me).....

Life is quite different than when we were kids...lots of threats on internet/social media ....I would say the point is to share to protect young kids safety from predators via social media.....

[JimGinPA]

93. My Niece Is A Middle School Teacher

She told us her students informed her that "Facebook is for ooooooooold people", so I guess it's safe to share.

[MLAA]

94. 😉

[Iggo]

97. Talk to your kids.

Jeez.