AIBU to get visceral ick from...

The13thFairy · 12/10/2025 06:28

Plump82 · 07/10/2025 14:50

I can't stand when people are describing their food and say lashings of butter, or lashings of jam. I don't think I've ever actually heard someone say it, I only ever read it but it makes my skin crawl!!

All the trimmings. Ghastly phrase.

WhatOnEarthm8 · 12/10/2025 04:08

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 14:44

my very close (and absolutely lovely) friend does.

She is a devout Christian and uses it instead “God”

I love her saying it 😊

Exactly

Letskeepitrealpeeps · 11/10/2025 15:23

😁 When in work, if things are stressful I will say Oh jolly hockey sticks" in posh voice .....this breaks it and we all laugh ....im going to start using gosh...and super cause its sooooooooo not me...😆

ThatGreatMember · 11/10/2025 15:05

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 14:45

Personally I’m not keen on “Ick”!

Me neither. Beyond stupid.

Holycowhowmuch · 11/10/2025 14:30

As a Christian I find the world and her brother saying oh God all the time is awful its one of the 10 commandments not to take name in vain ...so its blasphemous.(offensive)..to Christians...... but most secular people dont know or care and do it all the time ... it gives me the ick tho xxxx

Doyouremembergirl · 11/10/2025 14:23

I cannot stand lush, moist, stinky, hun, yummy, knickers, gusset or panties! Just typing gusset and panties makes me want to scream the house down!

CoffeeCantata · 09/10/2025 06:52

Chopbob · 07/10/2025 14:42

People using the word gosh, or golly gosh.

I have never in real life heard anyone other than MN posters and Disney princesses use gosh. It's absolutely vile.

It can get in the bin along with moist, supper and plonk (wine).

(Lighthearted of course)

I don’t know if you’re still with us, OP, but I think the consensus is : you need to get out more!🤣

YouForgotToTurnItOff · 08/10/2025 23:12

Dean from MAFS (no, I'm not Sarah).

CoffeeCantata · 08/10/2025 22:43

I sometimes say “ Gordon Bennett”. I’ve always found this intriguing.

CoffeeCantata · 08/10/2025 22:42

Ilovecheeseyah · 08/10/2025 21:55

Thoughts and prayers

this point in time

to be honest

many thanks

thanks in advance

flipping heck

gobby

bless

*as you can see, I am a highly tolerant person

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Ugh - yes!, “Thoughts and prayers” - the most shamelessly hypocritical phrase of all. I wince when politicians or the police issue a statement saying that their thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s family. It’s so cliched, empty, unoriginal and formulaic.

Ilovecheeseyah · 08/10/2025 21:55

Chopbob · 07/10/2025 14:42

People using the word gosh, or golly gosh.

I have never in real life heard anyone other than MN posters and Disney princesses use gosh. It's absolutely vile.

It can get in the bin along with moist, supper and plonk (wine).

(Lighthearted of course)

Thoughts and prayers

this point in time

to be honest

many thanks

thanks in advance

flipping heck

gobby

bless

*as you can see, I am a highly tolerant person

AInightingale · 08/10/2025 18:59

Wasn't orange juice once very expensive? It was considered a luxury - you'd go out for a meal and 'fresh orange juice' would be the starter. Before that it was probably some diluted or concentrated stuff. So it's maybe just entered common usage that way. In the same way older people will talk about cabs as 'private taxis' in cities where public hire black hacks used to whizz about.

Dollymylove · 08/10/2025 18:05

I hate the "fresh orange" thing as well. I worked in a pub years ago, and people would ask for a vodka and fresh orange. I used to smile sweetly while internally screaming "its not fresh its in a fucking bottle !!!

SwedishEdith · 08/10/2025 17:41

I remember the first time at work being asked if I'd "done the comms" and worrying I was meant to have prepared some sort of presentation. No, just send an email to someone.

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 08/10/2025 15:12

CoffeeCantata · 08/10/2025 09:33

I know 'reaching out' always comes up in these threads but it is creepy.

I remember the first time I heard it when a colleague suggested I reach out to someone or some organisation. I remember spending the next few minutes worrying about exactly what I was expected to do. Apparently I just needed to contact them. I imagined I needed to offer some kind of help and support.

Yes, reaching out is saccharine. Ok if you are contacting a long-alienated relative with a poignant offer to forget old feuds. But nauseating if you are just asking a plumber to come and replace a tap.

YourBrickTiger · 08/10/2025 15:02

I had a boss whose favourite word was 'flex'. He was big on the flex and wanted to flex everything.

Another one I heard recently, several times in conversation was the reference to a 'piecemeal'.

Cannot stand the way people abbreviate - instead of 'the cinema' to 'da cinema'. Just write the feking word!

And why is everything now being described as a 'void'?

Gloriia · 08/10/2025 14:04

AInightingale · 08/10/2025 13:39

'Shake'n'Vac' really annoys me too, stupid name anyway, but every time you mention it everyone seems to start singing that ridiculous jingle at you as well. Aaarghh, horrible.

I have not heard mention of Shake n Vac for years let alone anyone singing the jingle to it .

AInightingale · 08/10/2025 13:39

'Shake'n'Vac' really annoys me too, stupid name anyway, but every time you mention it everyone seems to start singing that ridiculous jingle at you as well. Aaarghh, horrible.

Coffeeishot · 08/10/2025 11:08

SantiagoShaming · 08/10/2025 04:58

Luckily it’s fallen out of favour I think, but where I’m from people used to say “fresh orange” to differentiate between orange juice and orange squash. Even when I was a child it made me irrationally angry, never understood why. But I’m in solidarity with you on “fresh.”

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Yes "we" say Fresh orange juice too gets on my wick , I think it is the Shh sound i am not sure why it has an affect on me.

TorroFerney · 08/10/2025 10:27

Sandy483 · 07/10/2025 18:34

I say gosh and yikes sometimes. I also say fuck and twat.

Snap. It’s like we’ve got a wide range of vocabulary isn’t it and use different words depending on the scenario or who we are speaking to and with . We are obviously terrible people.

CoffeeCantata · 08/10/2025 09:33

I know 'reaching out' always comes up in these threads but it is creepy.

I remember the first time I heard it when a colleague suggested I reach out to someone or some organisation. I remember spending the next few minutes worrying about exactly what I was expected to do. Apparently I just needed to contact them. I imagined I needed to offer some kind of help and support.

CoffeeCantata · 08/10/2025 09:30

YouForgotToTurnItOff · 08/10/2025 08:55

I'd also like to make a bid for "at pace"
Since Labour got in everything is happening "at pace". There is so much pacing, they must be getting sore feet and wearing down multiple carpets. The speed of pacing, is being paced by the pacing that is happening at pace.

And 'at scale'.

I don't like 'prior to' instead of before. Apart from sounding a bit pompous, it has more syllables. I'm not saying it's never appropriate, but when people say or write 'let's find a toilet prior to starting the walk' (which I have heard), it's a bit ridiculous.

(A bit of topic, but it used to make me smile when people used to say Double U Double U Eff for World Wildlife Fund. The 'abbreviation has' 3 more syllables than the full name!)

AInightingale · 08/10/2025 09:00

Politicians are also very fond of the phrase 'going forward' as well as 'at pace'. And answering questions they don't want to answer with a sentence starting 'so...'. It seems to have replaced the words 'yes' and 'no'.

YouForgotToTurnItOff · 08/10/2025 08:55

I'd also like to make a bid for "at pace"
Since Labour got in everything is happening "at pace". There is so much pacing, they must be getting sore feet and wearing down multiple carpets. The speed of pacing, is being paced by the pacing that is happening at pace.

BubblePizza · 08/10/2025 08:41

"Yuck someone's yum" is the phrase that gives me a visceral violent rage. Something about it is so juvenile and repulsive coming out of an adult.

Edit: Piss on your bonfire from Peep Show Jeremy is the only option for expressing the same sentiment