Pop this pop that-POP off! (I am irrational about this, I know)

[TheChinaBerryTree]

My manager is the worst. 'Hey Chinaberry, would you mind just popping a note on this file for this reason and then if you can, pop a call to so and so to let them know you've popped it on or pop him an email if you can't popping get through' (I am exaggerating of course but....

Why do we have to pop things everywhere!?

Is it a supposed means of sounding friendlier or less serious?

It is beginning to make me cringe.

I am probably guilty of this : {

I can sound a bit unintentionally stern so yes, I say things like this to sound a bit lighter

(And hopefully I am not your manager)

Oh but I love the word so thought I'd just pop onto this thread and let you know. 😂

Dh often pops out to the shops. That also annoys me. Can you not just go to the shop? Do you have to pop?

She's trying to sound informal and relaxed. Which is stupid - she's your manager and she's giving you instructions. Informal relaxed interactions don't involve giving a person instructions which if they fail to follow them will result in loss of livelihood.

I notice similar with other verbal sets of instructions - eg when recounting a recipe, people will instruct others to "throw" onions into a pan or "chuck" vegetables into a casserole dish. As though the country is full of folks lobbing food around their kitchens while preparing dinner. It's jarring.

You should look up Michael Rosen's poem Busy Day 😆

I'd always follow them (within reason of course and as long as I could!) without needing to go about popping things everywhere!
Yes I agree about the 'chuck 'em in'.

Less so, but I also don't like people claiming that they are about to 'jump' in the shower. Aren't they worried they'll slip?

@3ormorecharacters I came on to say that. Known in our house as the ‘pop poem’!

A pop of colour. Eww.

Maybe he has a bowl of Rice Krispies every morning, and so just can't help himself?

I guess by your experience, I am right then-it is to sound a bit friendlier.

I get it.

But what's wrong with 'Hi, could you please put a note on this file because of X, and call Y to tell him you have?'

What's wrong with that?

I'd not be so irritated if it was once in a sentence or short paragraph but sometimes it is two or three times... 'Can you pop this on that then you've got time pop this into this-pop him an email if you need to'....

Why 'pop'? 🤔

How does one 'pop' a phone call anyway?.. (I know, I know...I am a grumpy olde git)...

I have no idea what that is-I don't think I want to! 😆

Just popping this here...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlgJYiwO4E&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

TW-sexual but on-topic (and I am being lighthearted here I promise)!

I was in treatment for something not unlike vaginismus and my therapist said to me when instructing me on how to get things working again.

So yes, if you do this, use this and then when you're ready, pop a finger in!

Nope. (😖).

I have turned that video off. It was making me want to pop the screen of my laptop.

I don't mind that. I do object to make up to make your eyes pop. I don't want popped eyes, I want intact eyes.

Another way of using 'pop' that I hate.

Pop is, a carbonated drink.
Or something that happens to balloons.

On a sad and serious note, the young nanny accused of killing a baby boy in the USA was originally convicted of his murder, later reduced to manslaughter. Part of the evidence was that she described herself as having ‘…popped him on the bed’. She obviously meant briefly resting him on the bed surface, but apparently to an American person ‘popped’ meant something more like dropping, knocking or an abrupt physical contact. Tragic case.

I don't think I use it quite to that extent

I remember reading that. Quite possibly on here. It's a nebulous word in that context but yes, if someone told me they'd 'popped him on the bed' about a baby as well as cringing inwardly I'd assume they'd placed the baby there. Looks as if it can mean something very different to different cultures.

I'm a popper. Regularly pop to the shops or just popping upstairs to grab something 😂

Yes I pop, I tell my team to pop on a case note, can you pop out and visit so and so today. Are you popping round. I need to pop out.

Im a right popper.

I see it all the time on here and it makes me cringe. Just pop my washing out on the line, just pop a chicken in the oven, just pop to the shops 🤢

It seems to me a particularly English expression; I’m Scottish and I think we’d use ‘nip’ more commonly instead. Like, I’m going to nip to the loo.

Or ‘stick a note on that file’ maybe. But not pop 🤣

I 100% agree with this. (I hate the "chuck" with a passion).

In the North East It's 'hoy'?
My ex used to 'hoy' things in the bin.

'I'm just going to hoy the washing in'...

‘Pop’ induces a minor explosion of rage in me. I think it’s supposed to imply ease, fun and lack of effort, as if ‘popping’ a note on the file is a joy, and ‘popping’ to the shops and then just ‘popping’ a casserole in the oven while you ‘pop’ upstairs to ‘pop’ a bow on your hair before your DH gets home. It’s a 1950s housewife word.