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deputychairman:
@bomberqueen17 in fairness I didn’t go close enough to ask the teenagers exactly what they were smoking, but among people my age in southern England ‘to skin up’ means rolling any kind of marijuana joint, and it had never occurred to me that this term wasn’t universal among English speakers! What do people say where you’re from, everyone?
Had never ever heard anything even remotely related like it before; I actually assumed it was something to do with making out, but then why would anyone’s aesthetic matter?
(full quote for reference: “Look at this amazing wisteria on the way to the supermarket/in the park where teenagers discreetly skin up by the fountain. It must really mess with their Tough Urban Aesthetic but they seem ok with it”)
In my dialect you’d just say “get high” and the marijuana part would be assumed. More specifically, we’d probably say “smoke up”. There are all kinds of hilarious marijuana-specific bits of slang that almost no one uses in seriousness, though; I’m so far out of it I couldn’t begin to tell you whether the kids nowadays use cigarette papers or not, so I don’t know if there’d be any form-factor-related slang in play. Recall, we’re the same age, so my heyday of being “with it” in terms of what teenagers do was somewhere between twenty years ago and never. (I did smoke a tiny bit of weed in my mid-twenties, which makes for a hilarious story at some other juncture, but it’s not worth telling at the moment.)
I’m exceedingly jealous of your wisteria. I hear that sort of thing smells nice, but I wouldn’t know, it doesn’t grow in this climate. I tried just now to get a photo of my lilac bush which is just starting to have buds enough to confirm that it survived the winter, but it’s so gray out I can’t really get my camera to focus through the window, and I’m not venturing into my yard, it snowed two feet and then rained for two weeks so it’s approximating Passchendaele scenery-wise out there. (tw: link is WWI battlefield image search, so, black and white despair; astonishingly similar to my current yard, just with fewer drowned New Zealanders, oh God why did I just read that Wikipedia page, this is no longer cute or funny, let’s have a moment of solemn reflection. Hoo boy that got dark. NOPE.)
I do have snowdrops, though– I thought the driveway pavers dug them all up, but a healthy carpet of them survived, hurrah. Not enough to make up for the drowned Kiwis. God I’m so sorry.
deputychairman:
@bomberqueen17 in fairness I didn’t go close enough to ask the teenagers exactly what they were smoking, but among people my age in southern England ‘to skin up’ means rolling any kind of marijuana joint, and it had never occurred to me that this term wasn’t universal among English speakers! What do people say where you’re from, everyone?
Had never ever heard anything even remotely related like it before; I actually assumed it was something to do with making out, but then why would anyone’s aesthetic matter?
(full quote for reference: “Look at this amazing wisteria on the way to the supermarket/in the park where teenagers discreetly skin up by the fountain. It must really mess with their Tough Urban Aesthetic but they seem ok with it”)
In my dialect you’d just say “get high” and the marijuana part would be assumed. More specifically, we’d probably say “smoke up”. There are all kinds of hilarious marijuana-specific bits of slang that almost no one uses in seriousness, though; I’m so far out of it I couldn’t begin to tell you whether the kids nowadays use cigarette papers or not, so I don’t know if there’d be any form-factor-related slang in play. Recall, we’re the same age, so my heyday of being “with it” in terms of what teenagers do was somewhere between twenty years ago and never. (I did smoke a tiny bit of weed in my mid-twenties, which makes for a hilarious story at some other juncture, but it’s not worth telling at the moment.)
I’m exceedingly jealous of your wisteria. I hear that sort of thing smells nice, but I wouldn’t know, it doesn’t grow in this climate. I tried just now to get a photo of my lilac bush which is just starting to have buds enough to confirm that it survived the winter, but it’s so gray out I can’t really get my camera to focus through the window, and I’m not venturing into my yard, it snowed two feet and then rained for two weeks so it’s approximating Passchendaele scenery-wise out there. (tw: link is WWI battlefield image search, so, black and white despair; astonishingly similar to my current yard, just with fewer drowned New Zealanders, oh God why did I just read that Wikipedia page, this is no longer cute or funny, let’s have a moment of solemn reflection. Hoo boy that got dark. NOPE.)
I do have snowdrops, though– I thought the driveway pavers dug them all up, but a healthy carpet of them survived, hurrah. Not enough to make up for the drowned Kiwis. God I’m so sorry.
