to detest the phrase 'pop up'

[southeastastra]

we have pop up everythings these days

i wish they would pop off

[harticus]

YANBU
I went to a pop up gallery the other day. It was a tent.

[FoxesRevenge]

I hate the term 'top up' too.

[southeastastra]

at the tent, how much could they show in a tent?

[harticus]

Not a lot. It was a proper tent too not a marquee. Wet and windy hell.

A friend had been banging on to me about this "amazing pop up restaurant" he'd been going to. We walked miles to find it only to discover it was a tarted up burger van with a kiosk attached.

[Mandy2003]

And people who have just popped out to get something!

[revealall]

YANBU. It's a London/big city thing.
You couldn't produce any spontaneous one off here without the whole village knowing (and spreading the news) and then it would it be all the same people attending that would have been in the pub anyway.

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

Pop up penis?

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

It suggests an impermanence that I find appealing.

[BrokenToeOuch]

I don't really understand what the term means
We had a pop up shop in our town before Christmas. From what I could gather, it was just a local business that rented out the unit for a month. I was expecting a tent. It was more like, well, a regular shop.
Instead of calling itself a pop-up shop, it should have been called a temporary shop.
Anyway, it's 'popped' back off now, thankfully, as it was a load of shite.

[pluCaChange]

The particularly topical nature of "pop ups" could be that a temporary arrangement means less commercial commitment, very minimal licensing requirements? and is simply cheaper. Why pay a quarter's rent up front, when you can sell your One Direction calendars or styrofoam popcorn in a shopping centre without taking a shop. Ditto opening a restaurant or gallery.

There are good reasons 2008/9 saw a lot of business closures. And now there's a more flexible attitude to "business", because otherwise, in a lot of cases, tge business might not happen.

[MooncupGoddess]

YANBU. I find the word 'temporary' is quite adequate for these situations.

It's better than 'rock up' though which is teeth-grindingly irritating.

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

Yes pop up beats rock up but I suspect the people who go to pop up do indeed see themselves as rocking up.

[Amethyst24]

I think it's the adjectival phrase "pop-up" you detest, as in "pop-up boutique". Not much wrong with "pop up", as in, "Every now and then some pedant will pop up and piss all over the OP's batteries on AIBU."

[southeastastra]

maybe we should come up with a better term

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

I've got one! A temporium!

[thenightsky]

Love 'temporium'

[LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance]

I get the phrase pop up confused with blow up.

[BrokenToeOuch]

I get the phrase pop up confused with blow up.

Thanks so much for that belly laugh

[pluCaChange]

If a pop up shop is a temporium, would a pop up restaurant be a temporant (short for temporestaurant) or a fry-by-night?

[WilsonFrickett]

oh I'm writing an article on pop-ups, may I steal fry-by-night? Pretty please??????

[NigellasDealer]

I quite like it as it is a new term for a new phenomenon that is part of the zeitgeist.
On the other hand, I have always found 'pop' anything quite annoying.

[NigellasDealer]

fry - pitching?

[pluCaChange]

Wilson, you may.



Shove off, NigellasDealer, and get yer own pitch!

[NigellasDealer]

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

You can have temporium too, Wilson, as long as you credit me.

Just say, "as one very clever woman said...." etc, etc...

Would a pop up hairdressers be a 'hair today, gone tomorrow'?

NB That joke doesn't quite work because there are no pop up hairdressers. But if there were....