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

[BlueBlueBelles]

Showme I'm an august baby, and know I was in infants (went to juniors in 89) so presumed I was 5. I may have been six, it did national curriculum exist then?! Ha ha

[BlueBlueBelles]

Wtf is unschooling?!

[Decanter]

Haha to staycation. We all did that when we were wee, but would tell each other we were going to Hameuldaemey

We all thought we were hilarious!

[Ilovetorrentialrain]

Do we all blame social media for this?

E.g. Nobody ever says "I'm fat at the minute because cake", so is it just a written thing for social media?

[Jw35]

I literally agree with all of those!
You are all my kind of people! Baby ones do my head in the most and corporate bollocks.

Attachment parenting really annoys me as it implies they care more. I don't think so, they just are obsessive types who can't just 'parent'.
Blw is a crock of shite. Pre loaded spoons is also stupid. You don't have to feed yourself at 6 months old I think these parents are lazy!

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

eddiemairs I've just had that argument with a train franchise. (I'm a copywriter). They have insisted on customers, I hate it. passengers all the way!

[MrsHathaway]

Nobody ever says "I'm fat at the minute because cake"

Ya they do - maybe only ironically but we do.

People say "lol" (to rhyme with doll). Why wouldn't they say "because cake"?

I know it should be "because of cake" but that's the fun of playing with language.

[Ilovetorrentialrain]

Ah ok MrsHathaway, I've just never heard it. My son (12) and his mates say 'lol' though which I do find funny.

Feeling old now!

[kungfupannda]

I have an irrational hatred for 'baby wearing', 'cloth bumming' and 'baby led weaning'.

I use slings, prefer cloth nappies and allow the DCs to feed themselves. It's not some kind of high-concept lifestyle choice.

Someone once told me they were going beyond baby led weaning with 'unfooding'. My head nearly exploded. She was also planning on 'unschooling.'

[seafoodeatit]

Yes to the goals crap, makes me want to pull my hair out and eat it.

Hashtagging - why? why? why? who the fuck cares?

Plebgate - every kind of problem in the media is a bloody gate.

The obsession with fads but now pushed as 'healthy' fads, it seems every week is a new fecking 'healthy diet', the 5 2, the 4 2, the 8 hour diet etc etc, are we so dense we can't see the trend?

Miss use of language - stop calling everything fucking lush unless you really do mean alcoholic or greenery. See also calling people #legend and the word cheeky to follow any ordinary activity.

running - which has to then be shared with the world, you know the route you took, how long etc normally linked with the above GOALS. hashtags, and #goals.

Yes, yes, yes to the baby labels, BLW is a nonsense phrase but so is the reaction from some when you give your baby something a bit solid;we gave DS chopped strawberries/bananas as a snack when he around 7 months and the reaction from MIL was priceless, OMG he'll choke, what are you doing bla bla bla.


Upcycling - yes! what a load of bollocks, there was an article in our local paper about a woman and how amazing her home looked with all the 'cheap' and free upcycled furniture - the fact that said furniture sat in a huge £million plus townhouse didn't feature. It's a big period property with huge windows, it will look just as nice empty.

The huge increase in people taking part in 'lifestyle' pyramid schemes, no sorry, cooperative marketing, whatever the acceptable phrase is. I used to know nobody involved in this and now know quite a few - a particular friend is frequently on facebook to say how aloe vera has LITERALLY changed her life.

[Notsoaccidentproneanymore]

'Enjoy'

Gives me the rage 😡

[Wardy1993]

Sorry if it's been said but one thing I can't STAND?

squadgoals

Thanks Taylor swift you annoying parasite

[Wardy1993]

Oh it has been said !! You legends ! Glad I'm not the only one

[Jw35]

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I use slings, prefer cloth nappies and allow the DCs to feed themselves. It's not some kind of high-concept lifestyle choice.

It is when you have to use the jargon to describe it! Nothing wrong with any of it until then I used a sling but I also used a buggy, I tried cloth nappies but they weren't for me. My dd fed herself some of the time but I didn't call it blw. It's the language and superior attitude that annoys me not normal parenting.

[terrweath]

Well, I'm considering going, put it that way :)

Yesterday was exceptionally 'mopey.'

I need to explain, though, that I am very used to being single and therein lies the problem! These posters cheerfully saying 'ooh, I'd love two weeks alone!' are missing the point that I always have time alone - it isn't anything new or special!

I have lived abroad, travelled abroad (not this far though) and I do find there's a certain amount of unwarranted attention this elicits. I don't think for a moment this is meant unkindly - just the opposite - but there's a certain condescending feel to it just so. I come from a very health-conscious family and remember eating a salad during a meal out just because that was what I fancied and had a chorus of 'oh, good for YOUs!' and I smiled politely whilst gnashing my teeth! My salad wasn't a health related decision, just what I wanted to do. Going abroad alone can feel like that. People want you to Become Independent, Have An Adventure - you just want a suntan and a wander.

I do know eating alone would depress me, and so I'd have to give that a miss but I'll consider the rest. Looking at hotels on booking.com and trying to get excited :)

[terrweath]

Gosh, sorry

Wrong thread, if you hadn't worked that out for yourselves!

[Leviticus]

Shops advertising 'the jacket' and 'the skirt' as though they only sell the one of each. Editty bollocks indeed.

At work being told to 'link in' with X from X department. SPEAK to them you mean? Fucking SPEAK to them....

rage...

[QueenOfThorns]

Love this thread. Because old & grumpy.

[emilybohemia]

Mine is an instagram one, when people refer to themselves as 'Mama', when they're not French. No. You are a fucking mum you pretentious bellend.

Also, 'curated' collections of things.

[QueenOfThorns]

Don't you mean 'touch base', Leviticus?

[Wardy1993]

Another one I hate

WINNING!


WINNING AT LIFE!!!




What does that even mean

[Leviticus]

Oh don't!

[unlucky83]

liz he didn't even use the right word then .... its was a double expresso in a cup - no watering down. (They don't even do filter coffee afaik)
And yes to educational jargon - I'm involved in a preschool (not with the children) and there is so much bollocks...and it is getting worse. Things like area of the curriculum we will concentrate on this week is literacy. The children will have an opportunity to develop their visual recognition skills using the provision of various literary resources. (So they'll make sure the alphabet blocks are out)
And (I'm in Scotland) school progress is now measured as levels - so on reports it will say level X - developing or consolidating or secure.
Reports come with a 2 page booklet explaining what it means. And the levels are (iirc) pretty wishywashy - it should take 3 years to get from level 1 to level 2 (with of course the usual all children are different, the levels may be achieved earlier by some pupils...) so if they are level 2 developing at the end of the first year - is that ok -are they nearly ready for consolidating or miles away...
It is all bollocks...

[ComposHatComesBack]

In my office, everyone is constantly banging on about beating their PB (personal best) times for things.

Yeah, twats who go for a jog or play five a side and then talk as if they were Mo Farah/Lionel Messi. Fot fuck's sake, no one cares. Although I made a similar point on here a few years ago and a weekend jogger told me quite earnestly told me that 'they took their training every bit as seriously as Paula Radcliffe does'.

[MrsHathaway]

ARGH and when news organisations "reach out to" someone instead of "contacting" them.