to hate when people describe things as 'messy'?

[TidyDancer]

I'm not talking about when a house (etc) is messy, I mean:

"I'm having a messy night" (ie, big night out, lots of drinking)

"This could get messy" (as above)

When did that become the new buzzword? I'm probably being completely U as it's just a phrase, but it makes me want to beat even my DP round the head with a baseball bat when he says it.

Grrr.

This thread could get messy

That's really mean.

It's not new.

YANBU! My DSD says this ALL the time when talking about nights out, drives me up the wall. What gets me even more is when people older than me use it, obviously thinking the're "down with the kids."

*they're

I don't think that's why DP uses it, but I know exactly what you mean. It makes DP (a reasonably responsible 20-something father of two) look like a complete tool.

Oh I don't think it's a 'new' phrase at all, it's just become overused (again) lately.

I hate it.

Nodding here - I've seen it a few times on fb recently. Quite like it though.

It's been in common usage for years though.

YANBU at all I absolutely HATE that! I saw an exchange on FB this morning saying that 'tonight is gunna get messy!!!!!!!'. This was between women in their 40's. Cringe.

Could this mean that Mr Messy is not, in fact, a loveable chap who's a bit slack on the housekeeping/personal hygiene front - but instead an inverterate and hardened binge drinker; regularly seen falling out of seedy nightspots, vomiting in gutters and brawling with the local constabulary?

So sad to see such a decline.

I rather like his name in French: Monsieur Sale. I think he socialises with this dubious gentleman.