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AIBU to get visceral ick from...

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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)

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Unorganisedchaos2 · 07/10/2025 15:57

I use gosh as a replacement for fuck, apparently it isn't appropriate to curse like a sailor once you have a small child and I couldn't think of an alternative

NotOverlypleased · 07/10/2025 15:57

Nothankyov · 07/10/2025 14:53

I use gosh all the time.

Me too 🙈

spoonbillstretford · 07/10/2025 15:56

I use a gosh, God, whoops a daisy, crumbs, crikey, Christ, shit, bugger, fuck according to the situation, the audience, and the severity of the response required.

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:55

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 15:51

Of course you don’t.

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😆

booksnbaking · 07/10/2025 15:55

Muffsies · 07/10/2025 15:53

Golly gosh is nothing. I went to a fairly posh school and some of the girls used to say "oh, thrills!" and clasp hands.

Bloody hell. Not even the Chalet School girls did that.

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:54

I shudder when I read a poster describe themself as “too nice” (thankfully no one had ever said this in front of me in RL!!)

I always think to myself…, “I wonder whether anyone in your life would agree with that self-descriptor?!”

Muffsies · 07/10/2025 15:53

Golly gosh is nothing. I went to a fairly posh school and some of the girls used to say "oh, thrills!" and clasp hands.

AbbeyGrange · 07/10/2025 15:53

Mumpreneur gives me the rage, it's twee and insulting

spoonbillstretford · 07/10/2025 15:53

I use gosh. It's a perfectly cromulent expression.

MyPeppyCat · 07/10/2025 15:52

CloudSky · 07/10/2025 14:44

It’s funny what words can trigger those reactions. I don’t mind moist, but I hate “nourish”. I also hate when people say someone “gobbled” something down or, even weirder took a “sip”

🤣

I get this! My most hated are 'scampered' for children or animals (overdone massive cringe), 'yummy' or 'non nom' (are we 5?), and 'bubbly' or 'bubbles' for champagne/prosecco/cava!

No, no, I'm not hard work at all...😂

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/10/2025 15:52

Catpiece · 07/10/2025 15:10

Gosh is fake as fuck. It’s usually people trying to pretend they’re the type that don’t swear. It sounds fake because it IS fake

I don’t think you really understand the meaning of ‘fake’. The actual meaning, not what you’d like it to be.

allmymonkeys · 07/10/2025 15:52

booksnbaking · 07/10/2025 15:45

Yes, me too! "Enjoy your meal", even worse. For some reason it makes me think of prisons and farmyards and indeterminate slop.

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Agree about meal. I hadn't realised it before but, yup, hate it. Be specific please! And anyway don't enjoin me to do something I obviously intend without your encouragement. You may wish me bon appetit if you must.

BeBluntPinkRobin · 07/10/2025 15:51

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 15:38

One of those soup mugs from the 70s/80s which had a design in orange and browns that included the recipe for specific soups.

I’m actually making myself angry just thinking about this shit.

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😂 I know what you mean!

YourBrickTiger · 07/10/2025 15:51

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!!

Me too and I don't know why!!!! And moreish, a little sliver of cake. Just say you want a piece of feking cake! I know a girl that when she finds something funny she says 'I got the giggle bubble'.

This makes NO SENSE.

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 15:51

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 15:49

I don't get it?

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Of course you don’t.

SuspiciousTimes · 07/10/2025 15:51

OriginalSkang · 07/10/2025 15:37

I will judge you as a person if you use holibobs

😂

BunnyLake · 07/10/2025 15:50

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 15:47

It's because people just parrot things and have zero original thoughts

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The word makes me think of damp, sweaty things. It’s not a word I use unironically.

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 15:50

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 07/10/2025 15:35

The very best 'toy swearword' is blimey. I bet loads of you hate it but I love it.

An American heard me say blimey once and he was thrilled - a bit like he had just met the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins in real life.

I love ‘blimey’ and say it all the time. My whole family does. We’re from a working class London background.

Linguistically, though, it’s not the same as a ‘toy swearword’. People didn’t start saying ‘Cor blimey’ to avoid saying ‘God blind me’ - they just said ‘God blind me’ so often that it got contracted into something less enunciated (a bit like ‘yes’ becoming ‘yeah’). It wasn’t ever a deliberate attempt not to swear; it was just swearing that became so ubiquitous that the pronunciation evolved into something different.

By contrast, ‘gosh’ and ‘golly’ were conscious and deliberate ways to avoid swearing - equivalent to Americans saying ‘darn’ instead of ‘damn’ or ‘heck’ instead of ‘hell’. Or people who say ‘Oh sugar’ or ‘Oh fudge’ (both of which make me want to headbutt a wall) because they don’t want to say ‘shit’ or ‘fuck’.

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 15:49

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:47

Some fresh air for you @Frankblackwife !

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I don't get it?

RoyalNight · 07/10/2025 15:49

Mis-use of the word “literally” literally drives me round the bend! (See what I did there?)
famous mis-uses include:

The New York Times: “Clinton literally shocked his audience, by criticizing Mr. Obama and his campaign.”
Sarah Palin’s spokeswoman: “The world is literally her oyster.”
Jerry Falwell: “If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way.”
Sarah Jessica Parker: “My fatal flaw is that I have to be involved literally down to splitting atoms.”
Nick Clegg: Tax avoiders are “literally in a different galaxy.”

and my favourite,,,,,,,

Access Hollywood doctor: “When you take a look at Britney Spears and her behavior, it’s very frightening. She is literally on a roller coaster to hell”

BunnyLake · 07/10/2025 15:48

CoffeeCantata · 07/10/2025 15:43

I cannot bear bum. Arse or butt I have no problem with. Bum to me is both twee and vulgar.

Belly is I think the most disgusting word on the English language. I realise there are few alternatives - tummy is twee, but I prefer children to say that rather than belly, which is so vulgar and gross and for me evokes ale or beer bellies. Pregnancy belly is awful - but then bump is the height of tweeness.

Belly literally makes me shudder. I would never on this world admit to possessing such a disgusting body-part.

Absolutely hate when someone says stuff like, after we filled our bellies, when talking about eating. 🤢🤮 a youtuber said it yesterday 😡

allmymonkeys · 07/10/2025 15:48

I'm not disagreeing, just asking - why do so many people shudder at the word "moist"? What's it done to offend?

TwinklyWrinkly · 07/10/2025 15:47

Oh no, I use gosh, golly gosh, crikey AND blimey. And I'm definitely not posh! I do swear on occasion, especially if I've spilt something or stubbed my toe, but I didn't grow up aorund swearing and in 24 years I've never heard my husband swear. I cringe when I see swear words written down as it just jars with me for some reason and feels unnecessary if you have time to think. I also feel the word "ick" is very childish. It sounds like something girls say about boys when they are about 7!

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:47

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 15:47

It's because people just parrot things and have zero original thoughts

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Some fresh air for you @Frankblackwife !

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 15:47

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 07/10/2025 15:29

Why does moist always, ALWAYS come up on threads like this? It's not that bad. I think it's just that it has been cited so many times as a disliked word that it is the one that springs most readily to mind when we try to think of words we hate.

It's because people just parrot things and have zero original thoughts