To ask you if you 'hubby'?

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Not a thread about a thread but a thread inspired by a thread.

I've noticed a lot of 'hubby' references on MN in the last few months. This is new isn't it? I thought the average MNer was as allergic to 'hubby' as Gremlins are to water and being fed after midnight.

So do you 'hubby' or do you snub(by) 'hubby'?

I type fast on the iPad or phone and it's easier no quicker to type hubby and DH than husband. That's the only time I use those terms.

*and

Mine is my Old Man - like to leave open the possibility for a new improved version

I. Would. Sooner. Die

Nowt wrong with 'hubby' but 'Old Man'? I wouldn't want anyone to think I was referring to a penis, he's not that bad, after all.

Fluffy
My dad used to call his penis, "His Old Man".
I have vivid memories of being a child and him teaching me how to pee and such and telling my to be careful not to trap my old man in my fly. I've never heard anyone other than him call it that though.

Not my dad are you fluffy?

Now I will think of your dad's penis when I hear someone say "my old man" Seeyounearertime!

How can I un-read this?

I thought 'old man' was common parlance, same as todger, etc.?

Maybe it's an older generation thing or a Northern thing then? Oops!

I would never say Hubby. I, like Mrs Elton, prefer to say "caro sposo".

Actually don't give a toss. Might have used it on occasion, don't recall.

Some girl (she's only a couple of years older than me, so maybe 21/22) at my part time job, used this word last week.
She told me "I never wear makeup or short skirts because HUBBY wouldn't like it" I looked at her like this

gawd no
I say "my partner", although we're married, because I'm a bit of a PC knob.

A colleague of mine gets referred to as 'my man' by his wife every other bloody day on FB. That gives me the rage lots more than hubby

'My man made me dinner' usually accompanied by photo of dinner.

Oh fuck off love

This is true. Can't be doing with "my man". He's not YOUR man. He's his own man. But he might be your husband or partner.
Equally can't bear it when men refer to "my lady" or "my woman" either.

The only person I know who routinely says 'my man' is Canadian. I'd never heard it before her and I think I may have pulled an odd face the first few times she said it.

I hear it a lot here in Australia. A LOT.

Glaswegians love saying 'my man'. Usually the older women say it.

I honestly can't see the why there is so much rage for what other folk call their partners/ DH/DW/ other half, whatever.
Chill for goodness sake

Nah.

MN would grind to a halt if people chilled out.

I don't Hubby, Hun, babe or any such nonsense.
I do like a lolz though!

True Mitzy
I think I'm too laid back for MN!!

Mitzy When saying My Man in the Glaswegian style one must also convey the deep appreciation that no-one else would want to be lumbered with him.

I've heard a close relation of the Glaswegian, style, but Belfast-based:

See me, see my man, see cheese, he fucking hates it.

See me, see my man, see bacon. It makes him boak.

I don't hubby but then I don't call him Darling/Dear Husband either. But DH could stand for Dick Head . So instead of DH (Darling Husband) it could be "today I went out with Dick Head (DH). We went out for lunch and Dick Head had a salad."

Mine's not a dick head though, I love him to bits. Most of the time.

Echt, where does 'yer man' fit into this lexicon?

Chubby hubby, ironic because he's definitely not chubby.