Woke.

No idea Teetime, but now I'm agog to learn more. Where have you seen it, and in what context?

I have seen it in the newspapers and it seems to mean something connected with being tuned in to the prevailing culture- I think????

Woke is a slang term which means you are "awake" to what is really on around you. People who are sensitive to social situations are "woke". For instance, a man who is very sensitive to feminist issues would be described as being " really woke, man".

I think it means approximately the same as "with it" used to. Sort of "woken up to what is going on".

Of course, the whole point of these ever-changing buzzwords is that by the time most of the population has "cottoned on" the term is out of date, and using it shows that you are definitely "without it", fast asleep, and behind the times.

Well I've never heard it but will definitely be listening out for it now.

I am very awoke!!................or really if I am honest I am more unawoke............off to pendants corner for that one!!!

I am always behind the door when "buzz words" are being banded about.

It IS possible, (believe it or not, milleniums) to be aware of what is going on around you without being bang up-to-date with the latest fashionable way of describing someone who is aware of what is going on.

There are more important things happening than a change in the latest buzzwords. A rose is a rose by any other name.

never heard of it

The look on my teenage GS's face when I slip words such as "woke" into a conversation is well worth the effort of keeping my finger on the pulse!

Oh elegran I SO agree, I am decidedly unwoke, but considered very ‘on the ball’ by my grandkids who even sometimes ask me for advice.

Mind you thirteen year old James remarked the other week after a six mile tramp around the place, we we’re doing a bit of scrumping fir early cherries, that “you have twenty year old legs grandad (I am 67), but mine are eight year old legs”. Hilarious these youngsters.

Just heard about through Facebook and this -
www.facebook.com/bbccomedy/videos/10155552204996778/

My GCs told me at the weekend that they have a neighbour who is an Emo, so they didn’t really get on with him.

After asking Dr Google, apparently it’s a music thingy....... I think, I didn’t like to go back and ask the kiddies.

Love that, TLVgran48

I'm another nhoi brigade but I'm pleased of the opportunity to surprise my offspring should it come up in conversation and I'm savvy for once. Bring it on.

It is nothing to do with fashion. Being 'woke' is a virtue-signalling term for being aware of left wing social issues such as trans gender or LGBT concerns. Whether you are aware or not aware you are in the wrong.

Best stay firmly asleep.

Virtue signalling is in fashion. Joking about it (about the self-admiration of disapproving virtue signallers, not about the issues or the genuine work to resolve them) is a hanging offence.

TLVgran48 and glamamana. So funny. I love the 'behind the door when buzz words are handed out'. I'm so with you behind that door. I'm just about getting used to 'cool', which, I think means good, but I don't say it in case it means something naughty or inappropriate.

TLV So funny! On top of learning a new word to spring on my 22 year to light!!

Tonight

TLVGran I love that clip! Hilarious .

Never heard of 'woke' in this context. Is it another metropolitan thing, beloved of the SE and the media? Loved the clip, TLV. Definitely unwoke, me.

I'm staying asleep too. Don't think I was ever "Woke" and I'm too lazy to start now lol.

Just had to Google it, think I've understood it's meaning but this is one buzz word I shall let pass me by

These buzz words and so on do change so rapidly though.

I know I'm well out of the world of work but a couple of weeks ago DD2 was chatting and said the CEO kept saying "focus" in a meeting and she had to stop herself laughing.

What's so funny about "focus" said I. Apparently in her last job they used it as ( off cause you're stupid) and it sets her off laughing now whenever she hears it. Ah how things change.

Reminds of the 'Bollocks Bingo' we used to play in management meetings counting how much meaningless jargon was used.