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

[TwentyOneGuns]

In my office we always have to 'sit down' - not as in we're kids at primary school being told to literally sit, but just 'get together and discuss something'.

The pp who mentioned self indulgence being frowned on in the past (sorry iPad being crap so can't go back and see who) is spot on imo. I think it's what pisses me off most about modern life, everything is so 'look at me' and self absorbed. My mum would call it showing off and regularly bollocked me for it when I was young still would now given half a chance .

[eddiemairswife]

Agree about students. When I was young students were at university or college. People at school were schoolchildren.

[hal035]

Going somewhere in the car = road trip

[disappoint15]

Forever home
Four month sleep regression
NC (for No Contact, elevating it to a recognisable condition, not just a personal decision)
Duvet day/pyjama day
Date night
And all the attachment parenting, baby wearing, baby led weaning nonsense.

[Birdsgottafly]

""The one I've noticed more recently is 'high needs baby' Surely, all babies have 'high needs' drives me wild.""

Some babies will happily sleep independently and be put in a chair/pram etc.

Some are limpets and want to BF feed a lot more, be carried etc.

[mypoosmellsofroses]

Mumpreneur. RAGE RAGE RAGE .... your obstetric history has sweet fuck all to do with your commercial activities.Just stop it!

[Gileswithachainsaw]

I actually think some of it is dangerous. someone posts with a problem. they are then told it's the 7 month 2 week and 72 hour 38 minute regression/spurt/ whatever.

person leaves thread thinking quite worrying behaviour/symptoms that require medical investigation is perfectly normal.

worries me alot on sone threads

[tictactoad]

Upcycling. Painting old furniture then compounding the crime by calling it shabby chic .

Baby wearing but then being old I've never got the whole sling thing anyway. Short cut to the ortho for back problems as far as I can see.

[beelover]

Loving this thread
I work in an adult Ed college and we don't have students any more, we have
"Learners". That gives me the rage. Could be worse though, at least they are not " service users"

[redexpat]

Brunch makes sense as a thing though - you eat one meal, as a replacement for breakfast and lunch. It doesnt make sense when cafes stop serving it at noon. Then its just breakfast. I dont see why so many people dont get what is a fairly simple concept.

[eddiemairswife]

When I'm on a train I am a passenger not a customer.

[Ilovetorrentialrain]

This thread is wonderful!

All the baby ones (baby led weaning etc) and fashion singulars in particular.

I'm about to put my jeans on and won't bother with make up today. No, wait, I'll be rocking a jean and wearing a nude lip. Later on I'm going out so may go for a bold eye. Just the one.

Oh and 'statement'. Statement necklace, bag etc. what are you trying to say?!

[Notso]

I hate the 'we do' and 'us'.
Some one on a Facebook selling group posted a child's skirt age 18-24 months saying 'we' were selling as 'it just doesn't suit us'.
Us? It's a toddler skirt, for one toddler.

Unschooling is another one. I spoke to a Mum recently at a craft fair who was unschooling her four and two year old.
Surely at that age they haven't been schooled in the first place.

[IPityThePontipines]

YANBU!!!!

Lip in the singular is so bad.

No one "buys" anything anymore, it's "sourced". Arrrgh!

[CakeNinja]

Goals. Everything is about fucking goals.
Someone has nice hair? You now have #hairgoals
Appreciate someone's physique?
#bodygoals
Ooh someone's dinner looks good.
#foodgoals

Fuck off. #fuckoffgoals

[NoCapes]

CakeNinja group of people having fun? #squadgoals

[Catzpyjamas]

CakeNinja, I might write a list of #fuckoffgoals

[tictactoad]

Outside living space.

It's a garden.

[BertieBotts]

The one I can't stand is when something is described as a pop of colour. You can't say a splash of colour or a bit of colour, you can't say something stands out. It "pops". I can't help imagining somebody's neon blue vase exploding. "The necklace really makes her eyes pop!" is particularly distressing.

[NoCapes]

Lions yes, the because thing!!

I'm a bit fat at the minute. Because cake.
You don't speak proper English. Because lazy.

[MrsHathaway]

I love "because "

I do mentally add the brackets though. For me, it's a kind of shorthand:

"I'm going running today because ."
"I go to farmers' markets because ."

ARGH that reminds me: "sustainability". Buzzword of the decade.