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to hate when people saying 'Going out with the girls'.

73 replies

elisadoeslittle · 10/11/2011 11:16

I'm sure I probably am being unreasonable. But whenever someone says they are going out with the girls, my teeth itch! I think it's because I imagine going out with the girls to be either a nice day trip with your 5 year old daughter and her little friends, or rampant women driven wild from being released from the daily grid getting lashed and dancing on tables.

It's crazy I know. But I say 'going out with friends'. I never differentiate the sex of my friends, it seems a bit arbitrary!

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elisadoeslittle · 10/11/2011 11:17

Eurgh, my title is crap. I should have checked that....

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Itsjustafleshwound · 10/11/2011 11:18

I soo agree - I feel like boycotting Boots because of their awful ads ....

UrsulaBuffay · 10/11/2011 11:18

Me too, if only because I don't have a group of 'girls' and if I did I'd want to stab myself in the eyeballs.

Adversecamber · 10/11/2011 11:25

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MorrisZapp · 10/11/2011 11:25

YANBU of course but I love talk of 'the girls' and 'my girls' regardless of age.

I'm a girl till I die. Crap, cliched, patronising adverts about shoe and chocolate obsession are just marketing pish - don't let that besmirch the pleasure of girlhood.

Merrylegs · 10/11/2011 11:25

YANBU.

If you do 'go out with the girls' though, remember you have to link arms and stride confidently down the street 5 or 6 'abreast', making sure no other bugger can get past you, all the while swinging your hair and giggling coyly at 'cute' delivery men or hapless traffic wardens.

It would help if you had lots of designer label bags strung jauntily in the crook of your arm and perhaps some of you could be wearing sunglasses and from time to time you have to toss your head back and laugh uproariously.

TheCountessOlenska · 10/11/2011 11:26

Hmmm - I say this! I have one specific group of old friends - all girls. I don't see them very often but when we all manage to get together I call it meeting up with the "girls". We don't get wasted and dance on tables anymore though!

Agree - the Boots ads are very annoying.

knittynoodle · 10/11/2011 11:27

I am Woman.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 10/11/2011 11:28

Not as bad as girlfriends, which really boils my piss. WTF happened to plain old friends?

adamschic · 10/11/2011 11:29

Me too, pet hate. Also the fb status updates 'looking forward to going out with the girlies'.

I never say 'girls from work' but 'people I work with' sounds much better.

UrsulaBuffay · 10/11/2011 11:29

That fucking 'here come the girls' thing is such a load of patronising arsewank it makes me want to commit sins.

lesley33 · 10/11/2011 11:30

Used to hate it but I have mellowed with age. imo there are more important every day misogynist crap to get annoyed about.

Maisiethemorningsidecat · 10/11/2011 11:30

I go out with the girls - I also go out with my friends and I use the 2 terms interchangeably.

We do not talk about shoes, chocolate or makeup, we never, ever link arms or giggle at cute delivery men (are there any?) and we don't dance on tables.

SinicalSal · 10/11/2011 11:31

I do say girls...because ladies sounds like I'm going out with the Downton Abbey family, and women sounds like the next generation up. Hmm Yes I get your point alright now that I've thought about it.

It's just the informal equivelant of 'lads' though, and that doesn't sound odd either, to my ears at least.

SinicalSal · 10/11/2011 11:32

Though I do hATE the Boots ads.

Here come the girls indeed

Ifancyashandy · 10/11/2011 11:35

YANBU. It's up there with 'girlie chats' and 'a lovely girlie weekend'.

Twee beyond twee. Makes me think of 'neat' women who carry Radley handbags. And who think cake solves everything. Patronising arsewank.

Katiepoes · 10/11/2011 11:35

My Mum goes out with the girls. All of them in their sixties. My dad calls them the girlettes and it makes me wish I was adopted.

AndTheyCalledHimSantyClaws · 10/11/2011 11:36

YABU

I love my girls and when we have a night out it is a night out with the girls. When we have anight in its a night in with the girls.

Better than 'a night out/in with the cynical old bags who no longer know how to have fun'

cheekeymonkey · 10/11/2011 11:36

Well, I am going out with the biaatches! NOT REALLY, they are all very pleasant plump bossomed vicars wives....

SharrieTBGinzatome · 10/11/2011 11:37

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HandMini · 10/11/2011 11:37

Cheers to ifancyashandy

Shinyshoes1 · 10/11/2011 11:39

YANBU . I don't go out with the girls, likw Cheekymonkey said I go out with the BIATCHES Grin

mrsruffallo · 10/11/2011 11:40

YANBU
It's awful isn't it? Brings to mind hen nights with the bride to be rodeo bucking on a giant blow up penis.

ItWasABoojum · 10/11/2011 11:41

I go out with 'tha posse'. I'm street, me.

newmum001 · 10/11/2011 11:42

Me too, especially when the person going out isnt a 'girl' and neither are her mates (mil I mean you!)

I have to admit that I do do the facebook "can't wait for saturday with my girls" thing though so I can't really judge others!