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Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

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OptimismvsRealism · 15/10/2024 23:06

Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

OP posts:
HelenInHeels · 16/10/2024 07:49

Thedownsideisup · 16/10/2024 07:19

"Spendy" annoys me and doesn't seem to be dying away, either.

I've only ever read that one on Mumsnet. Never in real life. Just say expensive fgs!

SerenityNowSerenityNow · 16/10/2024 07:48

Wasn't mooching originally a regional term? I'd never heard anyone say it until I moved to the NW 15 years ago and everyone said it!!

Summerflames · 16/10/2024 07:48

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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It's definitely macaroni and cheese. I'm making that tonight for tea. I hate "mac and cheese" with a passion

HelenInHeels · 16/10/2024 07:46

Boredforlife · 16/10/2024 07:44

Turnt
and hubby gives me the rage 😖😠

Turnt? What on earth does that mean?

Boredforlife · 16/10/2024 07:44

Turnt
and hubby gives me the rage 😖😠

LostOnTheWayToManderley · 16/10/2024 07:42

GretchenWienersHair · 16/10/2024 03:41

These threads just remind me how intolerant people are to cultural differences. Yes, language is culture and different cultures will use the English language in different ways. Culture spreads, others pick up on it. Language is fluid. Deal with it.

It’s not like people are submitting their literature essays with: “Dickens was giving big big energy when Scrooge changed his ways; he was a vibe. It had been a minute since he’d felt joy,” I really don’t see the issue.

There’s a guy on Instagram doing Shakespeare in yoof speak, so give it time… I would post a link but that would be a cruel and unusual punishment 😆

Nellodee · 16/10/2024 07:35

This is giving HOTTOGO core and I’m locking it in.

Zapx · 16/10/2024 07:30

Combattingthemoaners · 16/10/2024 02:43

I’ve never heard anyone say it’s been a minute but it sounds annoying!! Whilst we are on this topic allow me a sleep deprived rant.

“It’s giving…” usually followed by something to do with “vibes”. Fuck off.

Hubby or Hubster 🤢

People missing out the I’m and to the. Eg. “going gym” 🤬

Instead of replying with a laughing emoji or haha saying “I can’t”. Can’t what?? Also fuck off.

Any Americanisms I.e. cops, trash, aluminium foil (it’s fucking tin foil), movies, elevator, candy. I could honestly commit GBH whenever someone uses one of those words.

I feel better now, thank you.

😂 They are right about aluminium foil though. “Tin” foil hasn’t been made of tin for the last 70 years or so…

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/10/2024 07:29

Roystonv · 16/10/2024 07:26

Regarding pottering, I created the word mettering for when our lurcher was being a pain. Pottering and messing combined! By the way why does my kindle not know the word pottering??

Because it's, puttering, not pottering.
😝

Roystonv · 16/10/2024 07:26

Regarding pottering, I created the word mettering for when our lurcher was being a pain. Pottering and messing combined! By the way why does my kindle not know the word pottering??

DustyAmuseAlien · 16/10/2024 07:26

Never heard "it's been a minute" as a phrase.

I prefer moonching to mooching so I am immune to that criticism.

Policing other people's language is weird. It's allowed for there to be a word for casual wandering without a set destination or timescale. It's a different activity to walking. Yabu to have an issue with the word.

Newoldnameplease · 16/10/2024 07:21

I can live with hearing/reading most of these.

I do find it irritating when someone responds to something and it is referred to as 'clapping back'.

(Name) claps back at the haters saying she shops at Aldi - when all she has done is said 'I don't'.

Bonjovispjs · 16/10/2024 07:20

Combattingthemoaners · 16/10/2024 02:43

I’ve never heard anyone say it’s been a minute but it sounds annoying!! Whilst we are on this topic allow me a sleep deprived rant.

“It’s giving…” usually followed by something to do with “vibes”. Fuck off.

Hubby or Hubster 🤢

People missing out the I’m and to the. Eg. “going gym” 🤬

Instead of replying with a laughing emoji or haha saying “I can’t”. Can’t what?? Also fuck off.

Any Americanisms I.e. cops, trash, aluminium foil (it’s fucking tin foil), movies, elevator, candy. I could honestly commit GBH whenever someone uses one of those words.

I feel better now, thank you.

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

Isthiscorrect · 16/10/2024 07:20

I hate when someone writes a paragraph they seem to think is difficult or unusual and then adds discuss.
It makes me very cross.

Thedownsideisup · 16/10/2024 07:19

"Spendy" annoys me and doesn't seem to be dying away, either.

nolifeleft · 16/10/2024 07:19

I I’m obviously live in a cave, as I have no idea what most of you are going on about.

FFSWherearemyglasses · 16/10/2024 07:18

Please can someone give examples of this “it’s a minute” irk?
I have never seen, have no clue what it is or its context….
Once explained, I’m happy to be riled by it 😬🤣

OhshutupSimonyounobhead · 16/10/2024 07:16

OBSESSED - everybody is obsessed with things these days (or maybe I just follow too many wanky people on IG).

ShinyPrettyThings87 · 16/10/2024 07:14

Grown ass adults calling others grown ass adults 🤢

Just glad 'k' seems to have died out, as a perfectly acceptable reply.

Mumtobabyhavoc · 16/10/2024 07:07

EffortlesslyInelegant · 16/10/2024 06:46

I've never seen 'it's been a minute'. It doesn't even make sense to me Grin

Can someone give an example of how it might be used and in what context? Oh and what the user is actually trying to say?

Means a long time.
I haven't seen you in ages!
Yeah, it's been a minute, hasn't it.

taybert · 16/10/2024 07:07

My granny used to go for a mooch around the shops, that was ages ago and she was really old. Have the young people decided to use it now?

LetsDancetheDance · 16/10/2024 07:04

"Give your head a wobble". Only ever seen on mumsnet, oddly enough.

Pusheen467 · 16/10/2024 06:58

Summerflames · 16/10/2024 06:52

Never heard can I lock your brains.

Only ever can I pick your brains.

Oops 😂 Sounds less disgusting tbf though.

DustyLee123 · 16/10/2024 06:55

Oh I love a mooch 👍

Notjustabrunette · 16/10/2024 06:54

the term ‘mooching’ was used in an excellent way in the film ‘Dead man’s shoes’. Can’t get rid of it based on that scene.

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