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.

I have no idea what that means, though.

Exactly this

The boiling piss is safely inside, being heated by the person’s anger. No saucepans involved.

I have an autistic godson who, as a child, was made very uneasy by figures of speech because he didn't understand them and took them literally -- I remember him getting terribly agitated when I said something to his mother about someone 'leading someone up the garden path'.

I made an effort to avoid any kind of figurative language around him for a while, but it did also make me realise that I have a very specific vision of that garden path, and the house and front door it leads to. It's crazy paving, straight, and leading from a white-painted wooden gate in a picket fence, through a cottage garden towards a cheerful-looking house with gingham curtains on a square glass panel in the front door, Which is painted red. Possibly slight 'gingerbread house with a lurking witch inside' vibes.

A cup of, is worse. It's the food association.

People who describe food they're served to a bodily function. On that Come Dine With Me show, they often do it.

@70isaLimitNotaTarget I agree with you , I think of mega internal rage to boiling point.

Also , 👋 you know me from the Guinea pig days. I was Fortiedwithtea but got locked out my account and now I’m whatever this is ⬆️ it’s not a name I can easily remember but will have to do.

Phrase I can not stand is Baby Girl when people mean their daughter. But thats a phrase I hear in real life not on Mumsnet

I also picture the saucepan @PlasticAcrobat and hate the phrase because of it.

The one I really can’t deal with is “keep your eyes peeled” or “I’ll keep my eyes peeled.” I know it just means keep them open but I can’t not have the image of someone peeling back the lens off their eyes.

Oh yes, @QueenoftheTambourine , maybe that is why I do visualise it in that (evidently non-standard) way. Unconscious memories of my and/or my little brothers' stinky cloth nappies bubbling away.

And shit hitting the fan doesn't trouble me in the same way because no dirty nappies were actually thrown at air-cooling devices when I was small.

I hate 'shit eating grin'. What does it even mean?!

Isn’t it just a cruder version of ‘makes my blood boil’ ?

Yes, this is an odd one. Tom Wolfe has a possible explanation of its origin in one of his essays, that the phrase originated as a descriptor as the kind of painful grin someone adopted while forced to do something awful that they'd decided to pretend was fine (being publicly humiliated, eating shit, whatever), BUT obviously it now means almost the opposite, a grin of smugness or self-satisfaction, presumably because of drift from the original meaning..?

You possibly have hyperphantasia. I have aphantasia, so I can't picture anything in my mind, so stuff like this doesn't really bother me as viscerally.

I always heard that it originated from the kind of grin an insane person eating their own shit would have! A rather unkind expression, if true. I prefer the Tom Wolfe explanation.

how about in a shiny new kettle?

Ack. You've just ruined tea for me. 😣

I agree op. I visualise these sayings too and they really bug me. MN does seem a hotbed of disgusting phrases

For the record, I have never smelt boiling urine so I can't say one way or the other.

I do quite like the image of “ it’s like farting against thunder.”

Awww, I LOVE that saying 'it boils my piss!'

One of my fave sayings that. 😂

Oh the irony!!!!!!!!

Me too, this post stinks of classism

Personally my favourite phrase is ‘getting on my tits’ which MN generally does

😂😂 I know exactly what you mean. My friend says it. Out loud. I ask her, can’t you say, it annoys you? She says stop boiling my piss.

Like the dogs bollocks. What’s wrong with the cat’s whiskers? Etc

So yes, I agree. YANBU (if you asked I can’t remember)

😂😂

In the absence of vinegar...

It's a crass nonsensical phrase. I did however spend 10 years in a house with no heating and no double glazing, so I'd often see steam rising between my legs whilst having a piss (not literally steam).
I've yet to know it boil though.

Some people do actually drink their own don't they - not those trapped outside civilisation hoping to survive, those that think their is a health benefit. I'm sure Demi Moore was an advocate.

Sorry @PlasticAcrobat that probably hasn't helped 🤣

Ha ha. Well can you imagine Kate of William and Kate fame, saying it? 👑
Megsy might though. About Kate and William. Haz wouldn’t know what to do.