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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)

OP posts:
Overtheatlantic · 07/10/2025 14:49

“Vile” is an awful word but I don’t mind gosh although it sometimes sounds disingenuous.

LooseCanyon · 07/10/2025 14:49

Tautologies give me the ick.

An ick is either visceral, or it isn't an ick.

Howinthehelldidthishappen · 07/10/2025 14:49

ObtuseMoose · 07/10/2025 14:48

People declaring anything and everything absolutely vile gets right on my last nerve.

This!

ObtuseMoose · 07/10/2025 14:48

People declaring anything and everything absolutely vile gets right on my last nerve.

AmIAloneInThinking · 07/10/2025 14:47

Couldn't tell you the last time I heard someone use golly gosh but I certainly use gosh all the time! So do a lot of people I know-didn’t realise it was a ‘thing’ though 😂
I’m with you 100% on moist, supper, and plonk mind you!

LooseCanyon · 07/10/2025 14:46

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)

You sound like an inverted snob OP.

(Lighthearted of course)

Doggybroc · 07/10/2025 14:45

Personally I’m not keen on “Ick”!

Mrmrowlchops · 07/10/2025 14:45

Yes i'm with you for gosh. Cringeworthy and fake.

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 😊

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”

🤣