to loathe the word "manshape"

[OhdearNigel]

It makes my teeth bleed.

I think we should take this back to the topic of Nigel's teeth. They must be extraordinarily sensitive if words can make them bleed.

And why teeth??? Why doesn't seeing / hearing the word make Nigel's eyes / ears bleed?

Something weird here. Or perhaps Nigel has gum disease and is in denial.

*deemented Sat 22-Jan-11 14:03:43
Ohhh.. this old chesnut.

Yes, i call manshape Manshape because that's what he is. When my husband died... well.. he was my partner, we were a unit.. and manshape... well... it felt wrong to call him DP, although i did for a while. Then i found a word to dicribe him that i felt more comfortable using, so i do.

It's never meant as a derogatory term at all. He knows i call him that and he's fine with it - it amuses him greatly.

If people don't like it, then i'm sorry, but it's their problem. I'm not going to stop using it.

samstown - Manshape and i were together for a year when i was sixteen. He was my first love, and then life took us our seperate ways, and i met and married DH.

TBH - if people have a problem with anything i write i'd much rather they PM'd me or used the search facility then start yet another thread about it.

Gets a bit boring after a while.*

I would recommend Listerine and an avoidance of the written word until the problem is resolved. If the spoken word also causes untoward symptoms such as bleeding gums, then isolation is the way to go until a cure can be found for Norman.

I thought you'd like to know we solved the cupcake problem by bringing in a cloning machine. Unlimited supplies now. And several glittery cows.

It only seems to be used by that one particular poster, and doesn't bother me at all.
I'd never heard the expression before until I came on Mn, though I am very nosey about the 'very good reasons' behind it which everybody keeps hinting about. Why is everybody so mysterious?

If we chant 'manshape, manshape, MANSHAPE' at Nigel, will his/her teeth explode?

I hate the word moist.

YABU

lady, I hardly dare bring this to your attention, but look just a teeeny tiny bit up-thread...

lady see a couple of posts above yours

I hate the word kiosk. And moist. And pamphlet, particularly when people spell it "pan flit".

BURN THEM ALL.

Angry, MOIST makes me giggle...

Maybe Kenobi, we could try it and see.

If it worked on other people as well as Nigel it could be pretty revolutionary. Of course it's always possible that it needs to be a specific word for each person.... I think mine might be 'hunnie' but I'm not going to invite anyone to try it.

I hate "24/7"

and "At the end of the day"

My teeth aren't bleeding though.

Who the jeff spells pamphlet 'pan flit'?????

Empress I shall be round to thread soon for cake and Bert bombs

Crikey, is the occurrence of this thread linked to the phases of the moon or something? I must have read the same OP (or similar) a dozen times and I've only been here a year.

Perhaps Nigel's teeth are bleeding in a Halloween-stylee bid to make the thread appear topical? November's version will be "the word Manshape turns my fireworks into damp squibs" and in December we will get "the word Manshape makes the needles fall off my Christmas tree."

And every time the poster in question is extraordinarily gracious in patiently explaining, again, her reasons for using this particular word.

swizzle and gusset

Are the worst words in the world

Oh and girdle

If in January it makes the snow melt can we all start using it, pleeeeease?

Moist

Titties

Flange.... Now there's another one!

Maybe Nigel's turning into a zombie. He'd better watch his teeth don't start disintegrating and stay away from MNHQ because I had enough trouble getting the zombie flesh off the carpet last time.

empress - in the birth clubs on BabyCentre. I was sad.

inertia

Who Said this was about 'dee' and her use of the word manshape

It's not used exclusively by one poster!

Barf, boak, burp, fart, nuggets, womb