OK, this one is REALLY trivial, but AIBU to hate the word "bling"?

[mm22bys]

Title says it all really.

Does anyone else hate this word?

(I know there are more important isses out there, I don't need reminding before I get blasted!)

[MrsMattie]

I don't hate it, but it's overused.

[mummy5bellies]

Doesn't really bother me either way, as long as people don't use it seriously

[snarky]

yep, I hate it too

[2beornot2be]

I don't hate it but I think people don't know what Bling is and use it in the wrong context

[combustiblelemon]

I like the word- it has a lovely sound- but I'm always mildly disappointed that it isn't onomatopoeiac.

[hazeyjane]

It does describe a particular thing very well, I think, but when I have used it (rarely), I realise I must seem very, very old!

The word I really hate is 'minger'

[southeastastra]

i saw a girl in tesco in some of those velour jogging bottoms with 'bling' written on the arse in sequins.

[combustiblelemon]

Surely, questions of taste aside, that would be really prickly to sit on.

[southeastastra]

it would

[OrmIrian]

It is onomatopoeiac isn't it combustible. Of the sound of (old fashioned) cash registers and clinking jewellery.

However I have always thought of it as describing something vaguely distasteful and I think of it as definitely a negative term, which I don't expect it really is. Shows how very old I am.

[combustiblelemon]

Hm, still unconvinced. You buggered your suggestion a bit by using clinking which is satisfyingly onomatopoeiac I'll give you the cash register thing though.

[OrmIrian]

Oh. OK. Glad the cash register suggestion has passed though.

[hecate]

Yes. It's silly. It's not even a word for crying out loud!

I also hate 'resp-kkkk' (Assume it was origionally 'respect', but who knows?) and it's ugly sister "E disresp-kkkk-tdd me, talk to the hand talk to the hand"
and 'Yo', and, well, most of what passes for English spoken by the under 25's these days. I am seriously considering investing in some sort of translation book or device. In all seriousness, I cannot understand a word they say.

[hecate]

apols for typo

[OrmIrian]

Yo.....yo what? Yo-yo?

Just silly.

[combustiblelemon]

Sorry OrmIrian.

[squilly]

Quite like bling. It has a pleasing sound to me.

Hate Jerfaken (ie fake rasta/jamaican speak from white middle class kids!).

why do they do that? Surely no-one could think it was cool? It always just reminds me of Sacha Baron Cohen.

[hecate]

Oh, squilly - that does make me cringe.

I blame american rap artists for everything that is wrong with the world today.

[Turniphead1]

I hate it. But also hate the phrases "Achingly Cool" and "Fashion Maven" that are used a lot on Grazia etc. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[noonki]

ohhh I agree with you squilly that makes my toes curl

[noonki]

is there another word to describe bling though?

[Nbg]

Hectate, you want to try sitting through one of Westwoods shows on Radio 1!
It will have you ripping your ears off.

And yes bling is a stupid word.

[deste]

LOL in a text makes me cringe but I dont mind bling. It does not bother me either way.

[Bringbackmybonnietome]

Bling is a good word.

describes a particular thing for which there is no other word and has a nice sound to it.

What more do you want froma word??

[oldraver]

I was sat open mouthed when a 'friend' asked her 11 year old... "Where's ya bling" just before he went to his Dads

Always though her ex's were jerks but realisedprobably not when the 11year old stated Dad doesn't like him wearing all his chains