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Bubble bath

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Annabella92 · 04/12/2024 16:54

Aibu to think this phrase has vanished in recent years? I can't tell how long... maybe 20+

I'm sure I used to hear people say it, I heard it recently and it just sounded so odd.

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purpleme12 · 04/12/2024 19:45

NewName24 · 04/12/2024 19:39

I've never said "I've had / am going to have a bubble bath".

I'd say "I'm off for a bath" or "I've just got out the bath". The fact it has bubbles in it is just the default assumption about my bath. Like the fact the water is hot.

So there isn't any "anymore" about it, as it never was, for me.

But when the bottle is running low, I'd write 'bubble bath' on the shopping list.

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Exactly

NewName24 · 04/12/2024 19:39

Annabella92 · 04/12/2024 17:35

I don't mean as in the bottle of soap itself, I mean like having a bubble bath. Nobody says they're having or had a bubble bath anymore

I've never said "I've had / am going to have a bubble bath".

I'd say "I'm off for a bath" or "I've just got out the bath". The fact it has bubbles in it is just the default assumption about my bath. Like the fact the water is hot.

So there isn't any "anymore" about it, as it never was, for me.

But when the bottle is running low, I'd write 'bubble bath' on the shopping list.

KimberleyClark · 04/12/2024 19:32

I remember bubble baths being advertised in Jackie magazine. Three Wishes, Birds Foam Featherbath.

avocadotofu · 04/12/2024 19:00

OtterOnAPlane · 04/12/2024 17:03

I put my kids in a bubble bath (a bath full of bubbles), made with bubble bath (the stuff in a bottle) regularly.

Ditto!

mamajong · 04/12/2024 18:57

LigamentBandy · 04/12/2024 17:57

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And called me a "wally"
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Bless you 😂

MrTwatchester · 04/12/2024 18:51

Not out of favour in this house.

big mouth bath GIF
teatoast8 · 04/12/2024 18:44

I had a bubblebath last night

edwinbear · 04/12/2024 18:40

Lifestooshort71 · 04/12/2024 17:46

I have a bubble bath most nights - I usually use Matey bubbles as they are the most bubbly (you know, in a pirate bottle for children?) and don't leave the bath all slimy like bath oils do.

15y old DS insists on Matey bubble bath too as he says the same re best bubbles. It’s on offer in Superdrug at the moment if you need topping up 😁

petermaddog · 04/12/2024 18:40

stopped them when i was about4 utis/kidney infections bladder ones too
doc knew it was

coffeesaveslives · 04/12/2024 18:39

Ooh, I love a bubble bath. Had one today after work actually.

KnopkaPixie · 04/12/2024 18:37

KnopkaPixie · 04/12/2024 18:21

Oh, you've brought back a lovely memory. As a child I used to have a bubbly soak in the avocado coloured bath with a spider plant in a homemade macramé hanging basket dangling above me.
The cat used to sit on the corner of the tub and bat the bubbles with her paw until one day she fell in and deep flesh wounds ensued in the panic.

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Of course, sometimes back in the 80's the whole family gathered together in three or four seperate tubs for bubble baths, in our own private indoor water park to drink champagne and ask Simon to book Tahiti via Concorde.

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KnopkaPixie · 04/12/2024 18:21

Katyfour · 04/12/2024 18:01

When I grew up in the 80s, it was an everyday phrase. But we had no shower. Showers are probably responsible for the loss of the phrase.

Oh, you've brought back a lovely memory. As a child I used to have a bubbly soak in the avocado coloured bath with a spider plant in a homemade macramé hanging basket dangling above me.
The cat used to sit on the corner of the tub and bat the bubbles with her paw until one day she fell in and deep flesh wounds ensued in the panic.

hazelnutvanillalatte · 04/12/2024 18:11

My toddler loves having a 'babbaff'

Katyfour · 04/12/2024 18:01

When I grew up in the 80s, it was an everyday phrase. But we had no shower. Showers are probably responsible for the loss of the phrase.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 04/12/2024 18:00

Not very bubbly and not accurate...

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 04/12/2024 17:59

I have one weekly. I think because it's now very bubbly if you have hard water. Perhaps people complained it was very accurate.

LigamentBandy · 04/12/2024 17:57

mamajong · 04/12/2024 17:53

Did you mean to scroll by a thread you're not interested in an accidentally comment/make yourself look like a bit of a wally? 🤭

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I was interested as to what it was ....
Oh no some random on the Internet, emoji laughed at me...
And called me a "wally"
Gutted

WonderingWanda · 04/12/2024 17:53

Bubble bath is the thrush inducing work of the devil, it has no place in my life!

mamajong · 04/12/2024 17:53

LigamentBandy · 04/12/2024 17:37

@Annabella92 Did you mean to just think this to yourself? And accidently started a thread on mumsnet?!

Did you mean to scroll by a thread you're not interested in an accidentally comment/make yourself look like a bit of a wally? 🤭

mamajong · 04/12/2024 17:52

At first I thought yabu, of course it exists! But then I've checked the bathroom and all the bubble bath products actually say bath soak, bath elixir...etc so yanbu at all, however it will always be bubble bath to me! 🤣

LigamentBandy · 04/12/2024 17:49

PrincessAnne4Eva · 04/12/2024 17:47

Did you mean to be so rude? 🤔

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Wasn't a question to you ......

PrincessAnne4Eva · 04/12/2024 17:47

LigamentBandy · 04/12/2024 17:37

@Annabella92 Did you mean to just think this to yourself? And accidently started a thread on mumsnet?!

Did you mean to be so rude? 🤔