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To think that everything has to be a 'thing'

385 replies

Abbinob · 07/02/2016 09:16

These days?
E.g
Going to a mates house to play = play date
Feeding baby bits off your plate = baby led weaning.
Baby playing with bowl of rice = sensory play
No one goes on a diet anymore they make a "lifestyle change"
A coffee can't even be a coffee anymore it has to be a mochalattaoohlala. At home! At home!! Wheres the nescafe!?

Maybe Im uneducated or something but jeez

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FredaMayor · 08/02/2016 10:01

"Can I get a latte?" I don't know, can you? You will have to order it first.

FredaMayor · 08/02/2016 10:07

Bumps, spot on, and can I add that it's up to you to decide what a serving (I think serving means portion in this context) is, not the manufacturer?

There's a great scene in To the Manor Born where Audrey is in a grocer's shop and asks for a pound of apples. The grocer weighs them out and says
"Just over, 75p, is that alright?"

"Here you are, 70p, just under, that alright?"

Chocolate1985 · 08/02/2016 10:27

My hated expressions are all food related like 'freshly sourced organic local produce ' the way every little cafe round our way can't just serve a cheese roll it has to have about twenty words to describe it and when rolled write on said establishments Facebook page things like coffee and cakes to die for . Where I work to we can't refer to someone's parent as e.g Mrs White we have to refer to her as 'mum' . Drives me mad !

Chocolate1985 · 08/02/2016 10:33

On a roll here but also dislike ' the boy done good' on Facebook cue 35 year old man buying his wife flowers , ' dinner with the faves' ' lunch with mama bear ' (coming from 39 year old woman ) everyone referring to their families as 'the sister' or ' the mother' Ugh

CoffeeAndOranges · 08/02/2016 10:46

Geeka I think the sense of the word 'mama' being used here is best demonstrated by this blog:

www.naturalmamas.co.uk

They could have called it 'Natural Mums' but that would be far too pedestrian. Or even 'Natural Parents' given that they deign to let dads join in too.

Infuriatingly I like a lot of what they are saying and do a lot of the things they promote myself. It's just the word mama that grates. Like it's setting yourself apart from being a run of the mill mum.

I know it is dialectal in many areas, and that's obviously fine but in this sort of case I would very much doubt it.

monkeymamma · 08/02/2016 11:10

My favourite is such and such a thing has 'broken the Internet.' Erm, no, it hasn't!

ComposHatComesBack · 08/02/2016 11:18

Alice thanks for the links, I'll have a look when I've got a decent sized screen to view them on.

Coffee Mama should only be used if followed by 'cass' and 'weer all crazee now'.

BaconAndAvocado · 08/02/2016 11:18

At DCs' school the end of Year 6 event is called the "Year 6 Celebration Evening" and NOT the Prom!! We are NOT American!!

vladthedisorganised · 08/02/2016 11:33

"Curated" is amusing me at the moment. "Our unique homeware products have been lovingly curated by British experts to showcase the best of modern home design" = "purchasing department for XY Home is still based in Birmingham even if everything is made in China."

I find "support your child's learning" a little insidious. Yes, this dice game / phonics bingo seems boring and pointless and your child will hate it, but you're 'supporting your child's learning' by doing it (rather than 'doing homework with them') so what sort of heartless bastard could refuse?

Theresadogonyourballs · 08/02/2016 12:02

Mine is "reach/reached out"

As in:
"Can you email Janice in marketing, I reached out to her three days ago, but she hasn't replied yet"
"I need to reach out to the tennis club about rebooking my lessons"
"I'm going to reach out to your friend's mum about your party"

Arrrrggghhhh - just fucking CALL them!!!

snowymountaintops · 08/02/2016 12:33

Naming of the storms is awful but omg the worst offender is the storms being called weather 'events' I just can't stand that stupid expression! It's not an event it's weather fgs...

snowymountaintops · 08/02/2016 12:33

are the storms not is the storms Blush

QuizteamBleakley · 08/02/2016 13:25

Agree with EVERYTHING. Curating my rage at some of these.

geekaMaxima · 08/02/2016 13:32

Coffee yes, that site has a hint of patchouli about it alright. Unless the founder was American...! I get the point Smile

It's just that I'd hate to think that my American and Irish friends in the UK, some of whose kids call/called them Mama (as in Momma and Mamma), were the subject of school gate eye rolling just because they weren't another "Mummy"Sad

redshoeblueshoe · 08/02/2016 13:55

I'm still baffled by shop the edit this thread has really cheered me up Smile

snowymountaintops · 08/02/2016 14:34

Red magazine has The Spring Fashion Edit sprawled across the front fgs, why can't it say Edition? Not Normal.

LauraMipsum · 08/02/2016 15:53

Sad at people not liking mama - I'm a Mama, DP is a Mummy. I think it's rather nice and lots better than the alternatives, it doesn't have to be all yoghurt-weaving. Although I'm probably guilty of that too.

My hated word of the moment is "problematic" to mean "heretical but I can't give you a sensible explanation as to why."

AliceScarlett · 08/02/2016 16:16

Today I saw sweets marketed ad "Lifestyle Candy" vom

IPityThePontipines · 08/02/2016 16:27

Problematic is lazy writing, imo. Problematic to whom? Why?

Another massive annoyance is the constant "We-ing" clickbait pieces are so fond of.

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 08/02/2016 16:34

I think I just hate people. People are annoying. Swanning around all trendy and plugged into their do dahs talking about how they 'roll'. Hmm

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/02/2016 16:36

"Anything which is "pan fried". What the fuck else would you fry it in?"

Missbishi and MrsJayy - I think the alternative to pan-frying is deep-frying - and you could argue that shallow-frying is a third option. But I do agree that pan fried is a very wanky phrase.

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Abbinob · 08/02/2016 16:37

Mama is fine when its what children call their mum DS used to call me mama actually, its annoying when its what adult mothers call themselves, to other adults. E.g " I'm a baby wearing, attachment parenting mama"

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Abbinob · 08/02/2016 16:39

Pan fried, well then why not have saucepan simmered. Saucepan simmered bolognaise. Toaster toasted toast. Wok fried stir fry. Kettle boiled tea.

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Namechange02 · 08/02/2016 16:58

Well we're 13 pages in so I think mine have already been mentioned a few times but here goes:

You don't select things anymore, you curate them.

You don't contact someone, you reach out to them.

Things are not affected by something, they are impacted.

AAAGH!

FredaMayor · 08/02/2016 17:02

Going back to 'guys', heard in Fife "are you's guys ready to order?" DH reminds me.

Another: "It is what it is". I KNOW. We all know. (I once paid an arm and a leg for a lawyer to tell me that)

And: "Wood is a living thing" to a fencing firm that had left a knot hole in a panel. No, a tree may be living, timber is most definitely not. I think the steaming and chemical treatment will have seen to that. Not to mention the sawing into a hundred planks. Which reminds me....