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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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Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:31

Onefortheroad25 · 07/10/2025 15:28

I think you need to be genuinely posh and really rich to get away with saying gosh or golly gosh. I don’t know anyone who says it! I think it’s popular in the royal family.
I hate when people say super in front of other words. Super-happy, super- excited, super-expensive.

I say super a lot

“super keen to catch up” for example 🤷‍♀️

CoffeeCantata · 07/10/2025 15:30

Oh yes…actually, ick gives me the ick.

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:30

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.

A bit like Shawshank Redemption and “what’s your favourite film”!!

TheFallenMadonna · 07/10/2025 15:30

Onefortheroad25 · 07/10/2025 15:28

I think you need to be genuinely posh and really rich to get away with saying gosh or golly gosh. I don’t know anyone who says it! I think it’s popular in the royal family.
I hate when people say super in front of other words. Super-happy, super- excited, super-expensive.

What do you mean, get away with it?

CoolFineDoneWicked · 07/10/2025 15:29

Question for the Christians:

Why is Gosh such a snowflake? Hasn't he got better things to do than give you black marks for swearing? And can't he tell that you're doing it in your head anyway, even if you're saying "sugar", or whatever?

CoffeeCantata · 07/10/2025 15:29

I say gosh in front of people I think might be offended by Oh God, and I say it a lot! Also, when I was teaching it was very useful.

I’ve never understood the issue with moist - I’m sure it’s the concept rather than the word which people don’t like.

i can never remember the words I don’t like until I hear them. My favourite words are : cracking (as in fabulous), critter and beast - so much more fun than ‘animal’.

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:29

TheFallenMadonna · 07/10/2025 15:27

What does this mean? Do you think people who say it are actively suppressing their preferred vocab as they do so?

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I think @Catpiece is probably best ignored on the basis of that nugget of a post.

There’ll be very little hope of getting through!

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.

Onefortheroad25 · 07/10/2025 15:28

I think you need to be genuinely posh and really rich to get away with saying gosh or golly gosh. I don’t know anyone who says it! I think it’s popular in the royal family.
I hate when people say super in front of other words. Super-happy, super- excited, super-expensive.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/10/2025 15:27

Catpiece · 07/10/2025 15:20

Because the other is more honest.

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What does this mean? Do you think people who say it are actively suppressing their preferred vocab as they do so?

abracadabra1980 · 07/10/2025 15:24

TheFallenMadonna · 07/10/2025 15:22

I say gosh. I never say ick.

Same!

OriginalUsername2 · 07/10/2025 15:24

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 15:11

Yes, I hate ‘nourish’ as well. I also hate the word ‘soup’ for some reason, so if someone refers to a nourishing soup I’m out of there.

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😂

abracadabra1980 · 07/10/2025 15:24

And hubby

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 07/10/2025 15:23

Catpiece · 07/10/2025 15:20

Because the other is more honest.

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Why would you assume that? People are as likely to ramp up their swearing (in order to feel that they are joining in with the cool gang) as they are to dampen it down. Gosh is completely authentic for some people, just as fuck me sideways might be for others.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/10/2025 15:22

I say gosh. I never say ick.

CoolFineDoneWicked · 07/10/2025 15:22

BauhausOfEliott · 07/10/2025 15:11

Yes, I hate ‘nourish’ as well. I also hate the word ‘soup’ for some reason, so if someone refers to a nourishing soup I’m out of there.

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The very worst would be a hearty nourishing soup. Ideally consumed out of a mug held with both hands, like a giant toddler.

grumpygrape · 07/10/2025 15:22

Hubby

The word is husband.

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:21

Catpiece · 07/10/2025 15:20

Because the other is more honest.

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So “cunt” is honest
and “gosh” is dishonest

how odd and strangely childlike

YouForgotToTurnItOff · 07/10/2025 15:21

Catpiece · 07/10/2025 15:20

Because the other is more honest.

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How though? Why is saying shit, fuck or cunt "honest" - they are words not judgements.

luckylavender · 07/10/2025 15:20

And very unique, quite unique etc

CoolFineDoneWicked · 07/10/2025 15:20

So many MNers write things like "goodness" and "heavens", and have supper instead of dinner or tea. I picture them all as very upper middle class and living in the naice parts of Clapham.

Them aside, why is everyone suddenly "expressing" instead of speaking? "I expressed to him that I wanted to feel special on my birthday", rather than "I told the lazy fucker he should have got me a card and made me a cake". Whenever I see it I assume the poster "expressed" themselves quite forcefully.

Catpiece · 07/10/2025 15:20

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:14

Why is one “fake” and the other isn’t?

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Because the other is more honest.

luckylavender · 07/10/2025 15:20

Oh and ick

luckylavender · 07/10/2025 15:19

I’m not posh but I sometimes say Gosh or golly. Dislike moist, preggers, hollibobs, hubby, baby Daddy, fur babies, should of, could of etc

YouForgotToTurnItOff · 07/10/2025 15:17

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 15:14

Why is one “fake” and the other isn’t?

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Exactly - the men squaring up to each other swearing in streams seem ridiculously fake to me, as if it somehow equates to being macho or strong.