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OptimismvsRealism · 2024-10-15T22:06:50+00:00

Please stop Also mooching stop saying that

BrandyandGinger · 16/10/2024 19:38

So, guys, I'm a bit of a hot mess after a busy day at work, but I thought I'd RTFT and touch base with you all. It's a hard no from me to the people who want me to give up mooching. However, I would like to reach out and comfort the people who preferred the way we spoke back in the day. Language evolves, though, and you (and your hubbies) will get used to it.
Now I must go and lean in to getting dinner served. It's a bunged together dinner but I imagine the kids will rock up and eat it anyway.

Bonjovispjs · 16/10/2024 19:28

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/10/2024 15:44

Correction:
tin foil
KD, but...
macaroni and cheese if you've made your own

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I always make my my own macaroni cheese and as it originated in England and I'm English, I am obviously right 😁😜

herecomesautumn · 16/10/2024 18:02

VictoriaEra2 · 16/10/2024 08:37

Grab. Grab a coffee. Grab some noodles. Run in and grab some new shoes. Clearly meant to convey how busy we all are.
Similarly, bung! Just bung it in the microwave, oven, cupboard…

Bung, Chuck, throw.

Busy, busy.

And any presumably intelligent woman referring to "hubby" 🤮🤣

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/10/2024 16:56

ObelixtheGaul · 16/10/2024 16:28

Or one of the Four Tops...

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Please bin, lean into.
Hated it when it was first being used and hate it now.
It's so condescending.

ObelixtheGaul · 16/10/2024 16:28

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 16/10/2024 08:43

Unless you are Gladys Knight or one of her pips...

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Or one of the Four Tops...

SerenityNowSerenityNow · 16/10/2024 16:23

Where I live mooching refers to visiting a few pubs on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. We go for a mooch around the village and have a few drinks.

CellophaneFlower · 16/10/2024 16:08

Sherwil16 · 16/10/2024 15:59

I was thinking about this recently. We ( in Stepney) used to "roll up" to things. I remember first hearing "rock up" when Maxine Peake played the social worker in the drama about the abuse of teenage girls in Rochdale. When did we change or is it an up north expression?

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Was that the one where they were groomed in a kebab shop?

I'm not sure where she'd picked it up from. We're greater london/Essex but I can't recall rolling up. "What time did you roll in?" my dad would often say though 😂

Sherwil16 · 16/10/2024 15:59

CellophaneFlower · 16/10/2024 14:39

My older sister went through a stage of saying "rock up". Everybody rocked up everywhere... nobody ever just turned up anymore. Also made me cringe 😂

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I was thinking about this recently. We ( in Stepney) used to "roll up" to things. I remember first hearing "rock up" when Maxine Peake played the social worker in the drama about the abuse of teenage girls in Rochdale. When did we change or is it an up north expression?

ladymalfoy45 · 16/10/2024 15:59

I love a mooch. Used to be a big store in Hanley called Moochies. Full of ex catalogue/ end of line clothes and stuff. So prototype of TK Maxx .
I get angry when DH says ' do you see what I'm saying' ' or ' do you understand what I'm saying'.

herecomesautumn · 16/10/2024 15:58

JesusOnAYamaha · 15/10/2024 23:12

Mooching is a smug activity undertaken by cunts only.

Along with pootling

Lilifer · 16/10/2024 15:51

Oh and here's another one:

"So...I did a thing..."

Fuck off we don't care about your thing 😠

Andylion · 16/10/2024 15:49

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/10/2024 15:44

Correction:
tin foil
KD, but...
macaroni and cheese if you've made your own

😃🇨🇦

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KD is for the younger generation.

How do they achieve that nuclear shade of orange? (Wait, I don’t want to know. 😧)

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/10/2024 15:44

Andylion · 16/10/2024 13:52

I’m Canadian. I just say “foil”. And for us it’s definitely “macaroni and cheese”. Or even just “Kraft dinner”, regardless of the brand. Otherwise it sounds like you’re describing a kind of cheese.

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Correction:
tin foil
KD, but...
macaroni and cheese if you've made your own

😃🇨🇦

Lilifer · 16/10/2024 14:59

@CellophaneFlower what do we do???!!
Every time anyone says anything she "hard agrees" with it / its taking every ounce of self control that I have to not say anything but I think its going to explode out of me eventually cos I thought after a year or two it would stop .. but no 🙈

CellophaneFlower · 16/10/2024 14:39

Lilifer · 16/10/2024 14:33

Oh god I'm on a WhatsApp group with my two sisters and one of them is always saying "Hard Agree" and it makes me cringe to my very core but I can't say it to her cos she thinks it's a hip thing to say and will be really upset if I say it's just not cool at all

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My older sister went through a stage of saying "rock up". Everybody rocked up everywhere... nobody ever just turned up anymore. Also made me cringe 😂

Lilifer · 16/10/2024 14:33

Bigcat25 · 16/10/2024 03:11

Hard agree, op.

Oh god I'm on a WhatsApp group with my two sisters and one of them is always saying "Hard Agree" and it makes me cringe to my very core but I can't say it to her cos she thinks it's a hip thing to say and will be really upset if I say it's just not cool at all

TragicMuse · 16/10/2024 14:27

'Bimble' can get in the bin. Having a bimble, going on a bimble.

No.

Absolutely not.

CellophaneFlower · 16/10/2024 14:26

Bonjovispjs · 16/10/2024 13:58

Ha ha, I used to live in Canada, I remember those Kraft dinners, really can't call those macaroni cheese or macaroni and cheese 😆 The name is still macaroni cheese though, it's a hill I'm willing to die on 😁

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Agreed! Same as cauliflower cheese!

PressedOnion · 16/10/2024 14:11

If someone's heading to the Annoying Phrase Recycling Centre can I please add the following to the pile in your boot:

'Can I get' used instead of 'Please can I have'
'Hot take'
'A red lip'
'Skibbidi toilet'
'Sigma'

Thanks, I owe you one.

Bonjovispjs · 16/10/2024 13:58

Andylion · 16/10/2024 13:52

I’m Canadian. I just say “foil”. And for us it’s definitely “macaroni and cheese”. Or even just “Kraft dinner”, regardless of the brand. Otherwise it sounds like you’re describing a kind of cheese.

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Ha ha, I used to live in Canada, I remember those Kraft dinners, really can't call those macaroni cheese or macaroni and cheese 😆 The name is still macaroni cheese though, it's a hill I'm willing to die on 😁

Andylion · 16/10/2024 13:57

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 16/10/2024 08:19

Pootle vs mooch; the new MN class wars???!

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Pootle and Mooch. If I ever have two cats, that’s what I’m naming them.

Andylion · 16/10/2024 13:52

Bonjovispjs · 16/10/2024 07:20

I've always said aluminium foil 😬 but I can't stand macaroni AND cheese, it's macaroni cheese 😤

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I’m Canadian. I just say “foil”. And for us it’s definitely “macaroni and cheese”. Or even just “Kraft dinner”, regardless of the brand. Otherwise it sounds like you’re describing a kind of cheese.

DalRiata · 16/10/2024 13:27

RobinStrike · 16/10/2024 10:45

I hate newsreaders and politicians who say crate for create and nucular for nuclear. Drives me mad! Nick Clegg was forever saying crate and I notice Keir Starmer saying it now. Sophie Raworth and numerous other presenters do the same.

I know someone who started saying crate instead of create after finishing her degree at Cambridge. I think she must be under the illusion that it sounds posh.
It makes her sound like she has a speech impediment.

DalRiata · 16/10/2024 13:24

Tomatina · 16/10/2024 11:57

I hate 'hot mess', it makes me feel sick. I get a mental image of something disgusting on the pavement.

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I can't stand it either. As with many of the sayings mentioned here, I can roll my eyes indulgently at a teenage cousin or niece on Instagram saying it. But when it is grown women (or men).. I feel so embarrassed for them. Surely they should have acquired a more considered and mature style of expressing themselves by now.

EvvyLannis · 16/10/2024 12:40

Someone does something ‘on the regular’. Hate it.