to hate the word 'up-cycling'?

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It drives me absolutely potty. What the actual fuck does it even mean? Isn't up-cycling just the same as recycling, really? Taking someone which was used up/going to be thrown out and using it for something else?

Why can't these rich fucking ponces just say up-cycling?

God, I'm in such a bad mood this morning and listening to some cunt on the radio going on about up-cycling some old shite has driven me around the bend.

...like a 'staycation'.

When we were kids and we couldn't afford to go on holiday we were just told 'no we can't afford to go on holiday so you're not going on holiday'. Now when posh people decided not to or can't afford to go on holiday it's called a 'staycation' because these aren't just your average plebs who can't rustle up the cash for a beano. Oh no, these are you're M&S plebs who can't rustle up the cash for a beano.

I think there is a lot of really irrational hatred and negativity here towards people simply for using real words that exist, in the correct context.

Some posters here say it is the words themselves they object to and yet we have most of this thread full of vicious attacking and slagging off of people simply for uttering those words and "judging them to be cunts" - fucking hell, you really want to get out more.

This kind of attacking of people you don't know and haven't met reeks of some kind of intense jealousy or insecurity or other personal esteem issues, not sure what of though.

And when has ANYONE on the Apprentice EVER been cool, let alone "uber-cool"?

And when has repeatedly "judging people to be cunts" for their speech ever been lighthearted Judging people/language to be annoying perhaps. But judging them to be utter cunts really isn't lighthearted.

Bloody hell curlyweasl did you just say "scrumping".
You really think your uber-cool don't you?

Lots of class politics in all this I think.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Oh do elaborate tell more .............

Bloody hell curlyweasl did you just say "scrumping".
You really think your uber-cool don't you?

Scrumping was a standard word when I was young and I hadn't noticed it going out of fashion. Has it gone all the way round like the clothes from the 80s?

BeCool No insecurity or jealousy issue here, thanks. Reminds me of the Audi driver comment earlier up thread!

It seems an MN double standard that judging people to be cunts because they speak naice about lovely naice things like up-cycling is not acceptable but there are plenty of threads judging not so naice people on the way that they speak.

Perhaps there's also a mismatch in our operationalization of the word 'cunt'. To me, everyone I don't particularly like is a 'cunt'. potty mouth

I think some of the words, eg "staycation" have a certain irony attached when used.

The one I hate is "travel", ie, "I travel , you go on holiday ." As someone said upthread, some words are thick with intended superiority.

BeCool Errrm, please see my post about this at 17:06 and 17:08 and earlier on today.

Brenda YY to absolute ladles of intended superiority- hence my comment about class.

pipbin that comment re scrumping was tongue in cheek!

Phew, I thought for a moment that my DH had joined MN. . I'm forcing him to watch the GreatvInterior Design Challenge and every single time they mention upcycling which is all the ruddy time he groans and moans about it.

Upcycling and recycling mean different things to me but I still refuse to use the word up-cycle. I do a lot of, umm, err, doing stuff up and I don't see a need to use the upcycle word. I usually say something like I'm going to repaint or re-varnish that piece of furniture

pops of colour And classic with a modern twist are equally annoying.

The cooking shows are just as irritatingly full of trendy phrases.

I see Becool, it's so hard to keep up.
It all seems to be clothes that I remember the first time round now.

how about 'modernise' or 'repair'?

ImTheOne Hahaha, I've got my DH into it as well- he completely loves it although he pretends not to. He's always moaning about their phrases and words as well. And his comment at the end, without fail is 'yeah but you couldn't fucking live it could you?'. Yes, DH, if you weren't living with me messing the place up then I very happily could!

I'm feeling personally judged because I like twats and cunts. Double standards!

fucking hell, you really want to get out more

becool,

so let me see if I understand this correctly

it's not ok for me and others to judge the words people use

but it is ok for judge us as people who don't get out enough?

is your twattery allowed because it is up-cycled or sourced from a free range twattery farm? or is it vintage twattery foraged from a pop up store perhaps?

wow this thread is really confusing.

So "posh" is a class?

What are the other classes called in your world mouse?

BredaBlackhead I think the grammar of "going somewhere for a jolly" is parsed:

I am a traveller
You are a tourist
They are trippers.

but it is ok for you to judge us as people who don't get out enough?

(edited to add on those two words I was busy sourcing elsewhere)

Poop YABU and you are being judged.

BeCool There are only two classes, posh and normal. Much of whether you fit into one or the other can be judged on whether you use the word 'up-cycle' to describe painting or tarting up a bit of old furniture or whether you call it, well, painting or tarting up a bit of old furnite.

can you read from down there on the floor Lemon?

My comment was about the nasty judging of PEOPLE that has gone on on this thread - but you only quoted the half that suits you. And yes, if you judge people who use words as utter twats/cunts etc simply for using a word you don't approve of, then you really could benefit from a dose of tolerance and broaden your horizons a little.

Why are you so uptight Lemon?

I have minimal to zero tolerance for other people. As Satre said, hell is other people.

In that case you should probably stay in after all mouse

BeCool I'd stay indoors for the rest of my life not interacting with anyone apart from DH if at all possible. That sounds like heaven.

I'm always a bit jealous of people under house arrest TBH