To hate the phrase Wine O'Clock?

[Bambambini]

Just that really, makes my teeth itch. Why do I imagine a crowd of middling aged, middle class women sitting with their glasses of wine who would look down their noses at other women gaily gushing about how they can't wait to get the kids home from school for Buckie O'Clock or White Lightening O'Clock.

I fall way more into the former description and no doubt drink too much wine at times but I just hate the phrase and proud clamouring to be the one start wine o'clock earliest in the day.

YABU!

I personally love the phrase.
Don't plaster it all over Facebook but it certainly makes me smile

Well it was "cupcake o'clock" in my house at 5.30.
Is that allowed?

Gin o clock is another personal favourite!

On a more serious note, I just wonder if folk who could possibly be drinking too much or have an unhealthy drink habit use the whole jokey camaraderie of it to feel that how much and how often they drink is ok and acceptable and just a bit of a giggle - all backed up by all the wine o'clock banter.

YABU

Mintyy you are vv U.

Coffee-o'clock is at 7.30am.
I wouldn't see 10.30am if I hadn't had coffee by then. Neither would DS.

NO! Yabu!

7.00am is tea o'clock.

Yoohooo, I'm the dastardly culprit that dared to post the other thread about WINE O CLOCK!! Soz if my turn of phrase offended you OP! I am not middle-aged, I'm 31, and I am certainly not middle-class!!! However, I don't use the phrase often, I simply used it 'cos everyone knows what it means and can recognise the nature of my thread with one glance at the title. And look what happened - you clearly clocked my thread title, knew what it meant, clicked on it and responded- mission accomplished :)

Well ThatsHandy innit?

Hollyoaks o'clock here.

OP I REFUSE to joke about my Hollyoaks habit.

Gimme your gin usual.

I wish I could afford a drink habit BamBam...!! eeek there goes my camaraderie again covering up my habit ...!!

I hear this frequently among women who clearly need a way to distress from lives they've failed to organise properly and lurch from one not-important and self-induced 'crisis' to another until they can get pissed, eat shit to forget they meant to cook something healthy and fall asleep/pass out without having to think any more.

I used to be one of them.

Now I have water, my life is structured, my supper sensible and I meditate before bed.

Even typing it out makes me nostalgic...

Jeez, SilverBangle, sorry your life was so empty that you resorted to this!
After my ONE glass of wine at 4.05pm, we had a turkey roast dinner ( I cooked it myself; the gravy and everything!) and my two children are now settled happily in bed while I watch TV and browse the MN Hub...
Flippin' heck @ people thinking I'm an unorganised pisshead who's about to pass out (??) after a glass of vino...!!

I call it the 6 o'clock Sober Shed.

SilverBangle, I don't think you're meditating enough. I'm fairly certain truly centred people don't pontificate in a smug fashion on the interwebs

I'm an unorganised pisshead, I forgot to buy some tonic.

Wineoclock nooooo
Pimms o'clock (very occasionally, on the odd really hot day we get in the UK)Yeeeeees

I rather like the idea of Cappuccin-oclock (with sprinkles of course)

I've never felt the urge to NC before but if I did I would definitely want to be

wankeredonwine

I take it you had the guts to challenge the op on that thread

I thought about it. It's the ineffable tweeness which irritates me rather than it being middle class.

If we're going to be classist about it I could say a lot more but probably shouldn't.

I do agree that wine is absolutely the acceptable fave of alcohol abuse.

One of the o'clock crew used to ask for a vodka and orange juice.

They used to hiss about her drinking problem when she'd gone to the loo.

Across the empty wine bottles

Fave? Face FFS...

We only have the glass smiley on here.

I'd use a Smirnoff smiley if we had one.

Does any one in real life say it? I've never heard it.