Repulsive sick-making figure of speech (TW contains mention of said figure of speech)

[PlasticAcrobat]

The most horrible expression I ever see on MN is currently staining my eyes in Active Conversations.

"It boils my piss."

Every time I read this, I can taste the stinking caustic ammonia vapours of boiling urine on my tongue and in the back of my throat.

I can see the saucepan boiling away on my hob, pale yellow, a witches' cauldron.

<vom> <vom> <vom> <vom>

Stop it. Please, please.

Every time I read this, I can taste the stinking caustic ammonia vapours of boiling urine on my tongue and in the back of my throat

Can you really taste it? That seems dramatic!

I'm the same with visualising analogies but I think most people don't.

When people say "shit hits the fan" I actually imagine it as an unwanted visual image. Almost feel it splatter my face.

This is a silly one but whenever I hear my DH say the phrase "APIs" (it's a thing in software) I immediately get a vision of a gorilla's eyes. Every time. I've mentioned this and nope, just me apparently.

Though I hate the saying as well I also hate vom so yabu to use that whilst moaning about boils my piss🤢

It's funny, you'd think that "shit hits the fan" would be more boak*-inducing than ... the urine phrase, but it doesn't come to life for me in the same way.

*I really dislike 'boak' but I am using it as penance for discomfiting @Devilsmommy with 'vom'

I’m with you OP. It’s a horrible phrase and I also, as I type, have eyes watering from the thought of it!

🤣 thanks @PlasticAcrobat . Boak is better than vom but even that's pushing it 😂

I think your saucepan imagery is a bit odd! Surely it means you're enraged to the point of being all hot and red faced, the implication being you're overheating to the point your bladder is at boiling point?!

I hate ‘rip them a new one’. It makes me cringe every time.

"Caught feelings" 🤢🤢🤢

I find, "piss on your chips" even worse.

The American expression MF, I won't even write in full. Thankfully never seen it used on Mumsnet. Read American forums and men use it all the time.

I quite like boils my piss but in my minds eye , it;s in my bladder rather than a saucepan. Sort of inner rage that heats any body fluid to boiling point ?

Does it make your teeth itch ?

I get visual imagery at some sayings too, it can be really unsettling. (Not with the pee boiling one though, how do you cope with Piss On Your/My Chips?) My worst is when people say they "ripped out" something like a bathroom or kitchen, it just makes me think involuntarily of fingernails being ripped out. No idea why, it's irritating and I wish I didn't.

I actually find Mn generally rather crass in terms of expressions. I don’t think irl people talk like so many on here do.

One of the ones that gets me is FFS - normally followed by a string of irritable !!!!

It’s such a pointless and inarticulate contribution and generally just signals they are intolerant of someone’s view.

I hate ‘up at the crack of Dawn’ my mate is called Dawn plus we know what crack is slang for.

No idea why I see it as a saucepan rather than an overheating bladder! Perhaps I am imagining the piss to be cooking in preparation for being applied to someone's chips. After all, you wouldn't want raw piss on your chips.

Are you serious?

lol I always think of the Office as first time I watched in 2001 when I was in my 20s, spoof mocumentaries weren’t a thing and I honestly thought it was real and then when the boss David Brent referred to the receptionist Dawn with this joke, I remember being horrified and her acting is so good she just looked so mortified! So yeah, that phrase is forever tied to that scene for me! 😅

I always think of the the piss as boiling internally, rather than in a pan.

There was a Gary Larson type card that had a middle aged couple in the bedroom with a slogan “ Every morning x got up at the crack of Dawn”. The guy was getting up and “ Dawn’s” crack was on display from her unsightly tatty old knickers which were slipping down.

I think of it boiling internally but steam coming out their ears - it’s kind of vaporised pee.

Sorry that probably didn’t help anyone struggling with the image.

I hate that phrase too.

Hate it. Also hate “it makes my teeth itch”.

Yesterday I saw a thread about a mum worried her DD was going to have a threesome to please her boyfriend and a poster commented “It’s not your place to yuck her yum”.

Yuck her yum. Fucking disgusting

I think this phrase is really crass and wouldn’t use it

I agree - it goes down like a bucket of cold sick.

Yes, that's always been my vague visualisation -- a sort of school biology textbook diagram of a bladder starting to boil over, in a cartoon kind of way. But definitely with steam indicated as coming out of the ears of the annoyed diagram body.

Anyone who grew up in the era cloth nappies being boiled in a dedicated saucepan has an all-too-vivid knowledge of what a saucepan smelling of boiling ammonia is like. So thanks for that. 😀