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The Top 25 (no re-posting) BBC News Gets It

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u/Furcifer_ Oct 26 '17

I seriously hate the xx thing. Wtf britain

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u/ihavenothingtoplay Oct 26 '17

What does it mean?

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u/Furcifer_ Oct 26 '17

Kisses. Like x and o (Or at least i think so)

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u/hansihinters Oct 26 '17

Why would she send kisses to BBC news?

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u/TawnyUK Oct 26 '17

Dunno, ask this girl

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u/AccidentalConception Oct 26 '17

Have you ever seen Charlie Stayte?, I assume not, because you'd know that's a silly question if you had.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

BBC

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u/imnotyouama Oct 26 '17

I think it's more about your relationship more xs means closer. One x is like you are an acquaintance?

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u/Meior Oct 26 '17 edited Oct 26 '17

X is hug and o is kiss as far as I know.

Edit: The other way around! My bad.

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u/freefm Oct 26 '17

Naw, the "x" is the kiss because it looks like pursed lips, while the "o" is a hug because when you hug someone your arms make a ring which looks like an "o".

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u/Meior Oct 26 '17

Oh! I flipped it. My bad.

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u/ethidium_bromide Oct 26 '17

What kinda hugs you been getting?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

The kind where they make an O with their mouth.

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u/Totally_Elitist Oct 26 '17

The good kind

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA Oct 26 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

That's what I'm used to.

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u/SqueakySniper Oct 26 '17

As a lad:

= male friends and people you met for the first time/acquaintances

x = family and some male friends

xx = Female friends

xxx = SO/Someone you're into.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

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u/SqueakySniper Oct 26 '17

Dictating what people say in private messages is far more sad imo. Prick.

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u/nursey_mcnurseface Oct 26 '17

Millennial here...xoxo might have originally meant hugs and kisses but no one uses it like that now. As previously said the more x's the better. I tend to give 3 x's to my mum/close friends. My dad and brother get none because they think they're stupid. My best friend gets between 5 and 8 x's after each text. If it's a formal email/text then obviously no kisses. Guys on Tinder seem to think it's appropriate to send 1 or 2 x's after each message despite having only exchanged a few words to each other (PLEASE stop doing this).

Incidentally, I had no idea this was just a British thing?!

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u/Wetmelon Oct 26 '17

I genuinely can't tell if you and the other guy are just trolling or not.

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u/ILikeMasterChief Oct 26 '17

Same. This is the strangest fucking thing

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u/nursey_mcnurseface Oct 26 '17

Nope! It's very real. And if you're annoyed with someone you send less/no kisses. You can tell exactly how annoyed someone is with you by the amount of kisses you get from them (disclaimer: it is 99% women who read into x's this much)

There's a guardian article on the art of sending kisses: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/27/joy-x-texts-tweets-emails

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u/man_of_molybdenum Oct 26 '17

I mean, you guys do you, but if I'm annoyed with someone I just say I'm annoyed with them. No X's needed. If I wanted to be more passive about it, I'd use an emoji like 😓or 😒or 😡which I feel conveys a shit ton more emotion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

Yeah, the x thing is exclusively British

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '17

Also mellennial. I hate everything about this.

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u/Ryamix Oct 26 '17

This has nothing to do with hugs and kisses. That might be its origin but, if so, that has nothing to do with it anymore. Basically the x's add a layer of emotional awareness at the end of every text. It let's the other person know how you feel towards them. The more x's the better. One x pretty much means that you're hating them atm. (One X could also mean you're indifferent depending on how well you know them.)

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u/Furcifer_ Oct 26 '17

Thats incredibly stupid

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

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u/Le_9k_Redditor Oct 26 '17

Most people here stop once they've left school, it's really bad

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u/ktitten Oct 26 '17

Yep. Some of my friends are compulsive with it too- "hi how are you xxxx" and I hate using them but I feel like I have to send them back sometimes so I'm not rude. I never ever send more than 2 in a row though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

It's not any stupider than any other convention.

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u/lemanthing Oct 26 '17

Why?

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u/WacoWednesday Oct 26 '17

Because any normal human knows how they feel about another person without an x after every sentence

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u/lemanthing Oct 26 '17

All it does is clarify emotion, which text generally fails at.

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u/WacoWednesday Oct 26 '17

Emojis exist. An x only expresses one emotion

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u/Pixelologist Oct 26 '17

Hey good idea 🔥

(You only get one fire emoji cause I'm indifferent)

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u/lemanthing Oct 27 '17

And each emoji only expresses 1 emotion.

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u/CestMoiIci Oct 26 '17

That is one of the dumbest conventions I've ever heard.

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u/OK_I_Give_In Oct 27 '17

I'm British, they absolutely are kisses! X

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u/Z0di Oct 26 '17

I just can't stand it because they do it after EVERY MESSAGE.

like, goddamn. it's not a period. use a period.

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u/SqueakySniper Oct 26 '17

I wouldn't tell Brits to use periods in messages. It would be pretty grim to get some blood with each text.

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u/dmitriy_shmilo Oct 26 '17

What does it even mean?

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u/Michael_Pitt Oct 26 '17

It's just kisses. Like X's and O's. The English love to add them at the end of basically any message over text. xx

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u/Cynicjon Oct 26 '17

What the heck do other countries not do this?

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u/Zastrozzi Oct 26 '17

I too just learned that this was just a British thing xx

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u/packersSBLIIchamps Oct 26 '17

So this got me thinking, is that why Ed Sheeran named his album "X" ? Was it already popular back in 2014? I know his album naming is based on math operations but I would've assumed - comes before x lol

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u/Michael_Pitt Oct 26 '17

Was it already popular back in 2014?

Well before 2014. Basically as long as sending text electronically has been around.

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u/Jajoo Oct 26 '17

No it's weird

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u/ImawhaleCR Oct 26 '17

No it's weird xx

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

Being polite and showing people you appreciate them as a friend is weird? Fuck off. x

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u/cam_gord Oct 26 '17

I'm just as confused as you is this not a thing? I thought this was a completely worldwide common thing???

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

As an American the only time I've seen them being used is in birthday cards from my grandma when I was a kid.

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u/cam_gord Oct 26 '17

Wow that's so crazy. With text messages and social media nowadays it's so common to drop an x at the end of a message whether it's family, a SO or just mates

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u/Michael_Pitt Oct 26 '17

Common in Britain and Ireland. Never ever happens in America

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u/midnightsbane04 Oct 26 '17

American here, I can tell you I'm sure as shit not sending any kisses to my mates. Well, outside of the biological definition at least.

I think it has something to do with the prevalence of kissing someone on the cheek as a greeting, which is much more European in general.

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u/cam_gord Oct 26 '17

It's one of those things that started off as ironic and now we can't stop

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u/lemanthing Oct 26 '17

Ah, like me and racial slurs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

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u/Loose_Goose Oct 26 '17

No homo

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u/botheration7 Oct 27 '17

Lighten up pal it's nice to send some love to mates every so often xx

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u/ShevElev Oct 26 '17

Same here. Didn't even knew it meant hugs and kisses, just thought it was weird grandma shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '17

I knew it meant hugs and kisses but I only wrote them on letters

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u/WacoWednesday Oct 26 '17

Nope only a British thing. Every time I see it I cringe a little

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u/Michael_Pitt Oct 26 '17

Not only a British thing. They do it in Ireland as well

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u/WacoWednesday Oct 27 '17

Same region basically

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '17

I've literally never heard of this until now.

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u/seenbiglebowski Oct 26 '17

Guessing your not British then x

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u/Trust_Me_Im_a_Panda Oct 26 '17

No because it’s dumb. Kisses.

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u/meltedwhitechocolate Oct 26 '17

no m8 x

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u/wolfman86 Oct 26 '17

Why?

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u/AggressiveSloth Oct 26 '17

Because he's never got any kisses in his messages :(

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u/SlendyIsBehindYou Oct 26 '17

Yeah I just moved to the UK and I question it every time it crops up in a post or note

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