Just for fun - words or phrases that should be banned

[ItsABrandNewDay]

Just that really, does anyone have any they'd like to ban? 😂

"Living their best life"
"Burgeoning baby bump"
Selfie - mainly when it's not a self photograph!
Quaint
"We're pregnant"
Any form of estate agent speak that makes a property sound nicer than it is
Furbaby
Baby mama/daddy

Any insisting on repeating cliched phrases over and over. I was watching a family of a dad and a little boy playing with a football the other day and thinking the dad will insist on saying 'on me 'ead son' in a minute. Which the dad did say moments later. Yes obviously I was listening to a private chat and it's nothing to do with me but this constant repetition and weird expectation these boring phrases and used all the time is so cringey,

Oh and ‘you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off’.

Under any circumstances, but you get the room 101 chair immediately if it includes a Michael Caine impression

Moist
Gifted instead of given
Repurposed - wtf's wrong with re-used
Panties
Novels written for the US market, set in the UK and using detective Smith instead of DS, DC and DI etc
Gusset
there are probably more

"He/she/they medalled" - I, he/she/they won a medal. Medalling at a sporting event gets you arrested!

"Going forward" - in the future!

Another aaahhhh for furbaby & holibobs.

"like" when used as punctuation - just stop taking until you've decided what you actually want to say.

"I know!" said by DC, esp DD2 - no you don't, that's why you asked me the question, so at least do the courtesy of listening to the full answer!

"I'm being good." No, you're attempting to restrict your calorie intake - which is fine but very few foods are actually bad.

Could of …
Should of …
Would of …

Wifey
Bye now
Can't be bothered
Lolling around

Taking it to the next level.

I’ll circle back with you tomorrow.

Let’s unpack this.

Gotten
We are not in the US

'Smashed it'. Everywhere at the moment. 'Go and smash year 4' 'Good luck at college, I know you'll smash it'.

“I’m not being funny, but…”

Oh but you are ‘being funny.

this thread is strangely cathartic.

Shabby chic and upcycled.

Used most often when someone on Facebook marketplace has chucked a bit of paint on an argos wardrobe that really should have gone to the tip, and claims that it's now worth a fortune.

"Ok girl" "hey girl"

Grown arsed women calling each other "girl"

Ick.

Yes my DH uses “cheeky” in respect to wine. Not around me though if he wants to actually drink it. Also “swimmers” for his swimming shorts does my head in.

“Vile” on MN. Usually by someone complaining about how judgemental I am.

Not sure it’s made it to the U.K. yet but Australian reality shows use the word “confronting”. As in something that’s hard to take, ie “ your behaviour is confronting”. WTF. Just nonsense.

Reaching out
Gotten
Making Memories
Bubba
Hun/Hunni
Let’s see the ‘art of the possible ‘

Any kind of text speak E.g. on here the other day a poster wrote some words in some kind of text speak including the word ‘because’ spelled ‘bcos’

Another one that bugs me is ‘Gurney’ instead of hospital trolley ( in Uk programmes clearly written for US TV consumption - see also books)

Furbaby/furbabies, making memories, YOLO, often accompanying a filter-heavy photo of a duck-faced woman.

One Life Live It when stuck to back of unfeasibly large 4x4 in shopping centre carpark.

Basically.......
Hun 😡
Using "awesome" to describe something mediocre
Gotten

Going forward. Welll yes you total fuckwit, unless you have invented time travel we are all going forward, I. e., the future. Also, when asking for directions, the moment I hear "you can't miss it" I might as well go home because the one sure thing, after death and taxes is that you will, without a doubt, miss it

I was sat or I was stood etc. No you were sitting or standing!