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The Irish Sun
02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
From cuffing season to orbiting and yassify, the A to (Generation) Z of modern dating terms – how many do you know?
SHAKESPEARE said that 'the course of true love never did run smooth' – and that was before online dating. Finding your perfect match has its challenges, and Gen Z boasts an ever-evolving glossary of terms to describe their romantic lives. Advertisement To help you keep up, read our A-Z of modern dating lingo and know your DINKs from your kittenfishers. A – Affordating : Low-cost dates, like a picnic in the park or a romantic stroll, if you can't afford fancy flowers and expensive meals. B – Benching : Keeping a potential partner on the back burner while you pursue others. C – Cuffing season : Spanning from October to just after Valentine's Day, this is the time it's deemed best to commit to a relationship. Advertisement READ MORE ON GEN Z D – DINK : Both working and you've got no kids? Lucky you — you're a DINK. The acronym stands for 'dual income, no kids'. E – Ethical non-monogamy : It's not cheating if you talk about it first — or so say believers in this dating style, where couples agree to have other partners. F – FLR: A 'female led relationship' sees traditional gender roles flipped. Women make the majority of the decisions or earn the most money. It should hardly be worthy of comment in 2025! G – Green flag: The opposite of red flag, this term is used by Gen Z for positive qualities in a romantic partner, such as being a good listener, sharing interests or getting on with your friends. Advertisement Most read in The Sun H – Hard launch : Not just for celebs, this is where one or both partners confirm the relationship on social media with pics or a status change. I – Ick : The things i've learned as a gen-z traveller J – Jekylling : When someone shows you their 'best self' at first, but later reveals a much darker or toxic side. Named after alter-egos Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. K – Kittenfishing : If catfishing is creating a completely fake online ID, then kittenfishing is its less extreme cousin. It involves, for example, using old photos or exaggerating qualities. Advertisement L – Love bombing : Showering a potential partner with excessive affection and gifts early in a relationship. M – Micro-cheating : Any blurred-line interactions which could be seen as cheating, such as private messaging someone of the opposite sex without your partner knowing or even liking their Insta snaps. N – Negging : Using insulting or negative comments about someone. O – Orbiting : Being ghosted means never hearing from someone again — but an 'orbiter' is an ex who lurks, watching your social media. Advertisement P – Pocketing : When a date avoids introducing you to friends and family or posting about you on social media, keeping you 'in their pocket'. Q – Quiet quitting : The act of emotionally disengaging from a relationship without actually ending it. R – Rizz : Shorthand for the word charisma, rizz is the ability to charm and attract someone using confidence, style or good chat. S – Ship : To ship two people means you're rooting for them to be together. Advertisement T – Talking stage : The period before a couple commit to a relationship, but do have some level of romantic or sexual involvement — which, confusingly, often goes beyond just talking. U – Undercover dating: Otherwise known as sneaking around, this is when you keep a relationship secret as you get to know each other. V – Vibe check : Basically a first date, and a chance to check if you click. W – Win: A successful move in dating or flirting, like scoring a kiss. Advertisement X – Xennial dating : The outdated practices of Gen X and millennials. If you prefer face-to-face to WhatsApp and have never used Hinge, this term may well apply to you. Y – Yassify : To make yourself look good to impress. Z – Zombieing : When someone who ghosted you suddenly reaches out, it's like they are back from the dead — hence, zombieing. 1 Gen Z boasts an ever-evolving glossary of terms to describe their romantic lives Advertisement
The Guardian
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
My petty gripe: we need nature, not Nickelback – please put on your headphones
I love music. I think there's nothing better than immersing myself in a really powerful song. But I don't expect the rest of the general public wants to listen to whatever my earworm of the day is. That is why God invented headphones. For some reason, though, I assume a subset of the population weren't informed of this miracle invention. These are the people who insist on playing music aloud through their phones – or worse, through a handheld speaker – in public places. I will admit that I experience the occasional touch of misophonia. But there's nothing more guaranteed to set off the Hyde to my Dr Jekyll than nonconsensual amplified audio. Why do people do this? Is it just rudeness? I'd blame the fact that iPhones no longer come with supplied headphones except that there has always been someone, proverbial or literal boombox on shoulder, who thinks the rest of the world desperately needs their specific favourite banger, right now. Of course, it's not just music. An increasingly common culprit is the doomscroller who seems oblivious to the fact that everyone else on that peak-hour train can hear the first three seconds of every TikTok they swipe past, too. It's as tedious and rage-inducing as watching someone else channel-surf. So let me make this clear: we don't want to hear it. Not on the train. Not in the street. Not in the office. Not in the park. And it should go without saying (but clearly it doesn't): absolutely not at the beach or in the forest. Do you have no sense of shame? These are spaces for contemplation and quiet retreat, not Nickelback. I'm willing to accept, though I don't pretend to understand, that for some people the noise in their head is so unbearable it must be drowned out by Mambo No 5. I just don't think it should be inflicted on the rest of us. There's a reason nonconsensual music is considered a form of hostile architecture. Are you trying to torture people? No? Then put your headphones on.
Reuters
25-02-2025
- Reuters
In retired French surgeon's child rape trial, son says father was like 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'
VANNES, France, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The son of a retired French surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients told a court on Tuesday that Joel Le Scouarnec was a good father - but that the crimes he is accused of are unforgivable. Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, faces charges of aggravated rape and sexual assault against 299 victims, most of them children at the time. "It's like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," his elder son told the court in the second day of the trial, in reference to the 19th-century gothic horror novella about an outwardly respectable man who commits shocking crimes. "I can't hate him because I have nothing to criticize him about as a father. But I can't forgive him for what he may have done." Joel Le Scouarnec is not accused of abuse against his own children, but he was already convicted in a separate case in 2020 of the rape and sexual assault of four children, including two of his nieces. In what is considered France's worst case of pedocriminality to go to trial, Joel Le Scouarnec's alleged abuse of patients spanned 25 years, from 1989 to 2014. As his trial opened on Monday, Joel Le Scouarnec acknowledged that he had "committed despicable acts" and that the harm he had caused was "beyond repair". In a family already shaken by the abuse allegations, Joel Le Scouarnec's elder son told the court on Tuesday that his late paternal grandfather had repeatedly abused and raped him. "I was nine, ten years old," he told the court in the second day of trial. "It happened dozens of times." Earlier in the day, Joel Le Scouarnec's younger son, aged 38, told the court: "For us, it seemed completely crazy that someone could act like that towards so many people." "You tell yourself: it can't be, it can't be." After the younger son - who says he has not been in touch with his father since the allegations against him became public - testified in the second day of the trial, Joel Le Scouarnec told him tearfully in court: "Maybe we'll never see each other again, but I wanted to tell you I love you and I'm sorry." Both sons said they had overall had a rather happy, privileged childhood and that their father had not abused them. "I had a happy childhood," the younger son said. "I have very good memories of my father, I think that's also why I haven't been in touch with him since 2017, because deep down I want to keep that image of him."
