To think that everything has to be a 'thing'

[Abbinob]

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

[citychick]

Read a magazine article a year or so ago about a teenage dancer/ actor/ singer.
Described herself as a " triple- threat" to those other teenage dancer/ actor/ singer types.

Ugh.

enjoying this thread.

[echt]

Thinking of the use of hero:

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2012/jun/08/sali-hughes-hero-products-under-10

I'm sooo disappointed with Sali Hughes.

Don't agree about "it's not in my gift" as an equivalent of "can't". The former means it's not part of that person's job description/pay grade; it has a precise meaning. "Can't" could mean they've run out of budget/the boss won't let me/ it's too late in the day to get this past finance, try tomorrow.

I suspect, though that the phrase is used in a pompous way, with no idea of its meaning.

[Pointlessfan]

There are a lot of annoying things at work actually like actioning things, calendarising things and flagging things up. I work in a school not an office full of Apprentice candidates!

[howsyourback]

I no longer work with colleagues, but 'internal clients'

[fieldfare]

"Can I get?" I don't know, can you? What on earth is wrong with "Please may I have?"

[FredaMayor]

On a box of chocolates:

'Enrobed in velvety chocolate and crowned with a walnut half.'
What, has it just popped out from the House of Lords for a breather?
It's lovingly crafted tosh.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Abbinob - I don't think there is nothing wrong with 'fried' and 'deep fried'/'shallow-fried' to differentiate the different ways of cooking - but people always say 'pan-fried' is a daft term, because what other way is there of frying - and forget deep frying.

Unlucky - it's funny - as a home cook, rather than a professional chef, I would assume that 'fried' on a menu would mean pan-fried, not deep-fried - to me, deep-frying is the method that needs the clarification, rather than pan-frying - maybe this explains why chefs need to put pan-frying on menus.

[HortonWho]

A powerhouse. As in this lemon is a powerhouse of vitamins. Oh just fuck off.

[Clayhead]

I love this thread. One I heard recently which I know I will probably get into trouble for is selective mute I never spoke at school even as a teenager but was just known as shy.

Surely being a selective mute and being shy are very different things?

[ItMustBeBedtimeSurely]

To be fair, some of these phrases exist to describe a specific thing and help clear up confusion. Mindfulness, for instance, is pretty much the exact opposite of having a think about things - it's being in the moment and NOT thinking about things.

And the huge choice of coffee - arguably we don't need so much choice, but they are describing specific things - just because you don't know what they mean doesn't make them nonsense terms. It's a bit like going into a restaurant and complaining because you can't just order 'meat' anymore.

I think it's just that they become so cult-like. BLW had a name because purees have been popular for the last few generations, but it's got so rigid, with people declaring you can't possibly BLW and feed purees. Or course you can.

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

I no longer work with colleagues, but 'internal clients'

Blimey, what do you do for a living?!

[howsyourback]

AnotherEffingOrangeRevel

Am a PA in an investment bank and that particular gem cropped up in our performance reviews . . .

Everyone (apart from HR whose invention it was) was baffled

[citychick]

Just had a lovely meal out.
DH asked for the pudding menu.

Last item on the list, before the cheese, described as...

Butterscotch self-saucing pudding with double cream.

A self-saucing pudding? I asked the waitress what this could possibly be. She had no idea. She asked the chef.

Sticky toffee pudding.

FGS.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I thought that a 'self-saucing pudding' was one where you mix all the ingredients, bung 'em in a dish, and when you bake it, it separates into a sponge layer and a sauce layer. I have a recipe for a lemon pudding that does that very thing.

Sticky toffee pudding is NOT a self-saucing pudding, because you make a sponge with dates in it, then pour the sticky toffee sauce over the top - if you follow the Blessed Saint Delia's recipe, anyway.

[citychick]

Upside down STPud?
Must admit I've never heard of it.
Thanks for the update!

[DownstairsMixUp]

My sil is awful with phrases, she's not even teenage young, she's 26!

She says things like sorry not sorry usually like this #sorrynotsorry so are you sorry are you not?! FFS! Just speak normal woman!

She calls her friends a squad. WTAF? #squadgoals anyone?

Everytime she has something done to her hair #newhurrdontcurr well clearly you do care as you are posting it on FB, IG and every other social networking platform in the whole fucking world.

If her boyfriend even breathes correctly #theboydidgood no he acts like a normal boyfriend does?! They have only been together since July and everything is #datenight!

[DownstairsMixUp]

Oh another one, going on holidays is not not just "going on holiday" it's "making memories" or just hashtagging the place. Infurirates me when they shorten it to. Going to see #thedam so that'll be Amsterdam yeah? screams internally

[JapaneseSlipper]

"It does make me hmm when my younger family members actually pay good money to take their babies to classes where they just bang on things with sticks, daub paint all over themselves, crumple bits of foil or crawl around because of all these 'things' they have to be doing."

I'd say that's because your family members value not having to clean up, or invest in millions of toys/objects. The little ones like the novelty of a new space and new things. That has value.

As for the rest of it - having a word for something just makes it easier to talk about. Think of it as a shortcut.

[JapaneseSlipper]

"Read a magazine article a year or so ago about a teenage dancer/ actor/ singer.
Described herself as a " triple- threat" to those other teenage dancer/ actor/ singer types."

The term "triple threat" has been around for decades.

So has self-saucing pudding - I wouldn't think of a restaurant with that on the menu as pretentious - it's quite old-fashioned actually.

[Abbinob]

On a coming up on loose women thing the other day they were going to discuss.... #galenstines day

[Clayhead]

We used to have a lovely self saucing lemon pudding in the 70s, this thread has inspired me to ask my mum for the recipe!

"It does make me hmm when my younger family members actually pay good money to take their babies to classes where they just bang on things with sticks, daub paint all over themselves, crumple bits of foil or crawl around because of all these 'things' they have to be doing."

I did these things 15 years ago - not for my dc but for me! I met some great friends and it gave me a reason to leave the house when I was feeling really low.

[malloo]

'pop' of colour
'pulled pork'

Grrrrr

[Wardy1993]

DownstairsMixUp, I blame Taylor Swift.

[FredaMayor]

Using the term 'pulled pork' a few years ago before it became a fashionable food would have had entirely different connotations. I'm always surprised they get away with it now, somebody old must know, surely?

[BassAce]

Bae.

What a fucking wank term that is. Always used by people who are just #chillinwithmybae Fucks me right off.