to want to kill anyone that uses the word hygge

[roseshippy]

Just browsing books on Amazon. All this fucking hygge bollocks.

Fuck the fuck off.

Absolutely bollocks.

Also scandiwegia isn't the fabulous paradise that's endlessly pushed in the media in the uk. It's got some great things going for it but let's just say there's a reason for all that scandi noir shit.

hygge is byllshytte

YANBU. The Norwegian "hyggelig" is a much better word. Sounds a bit like "higgeley"

It's gezellig where I live.
Thing is, with the right people, it can even be gezellig waiting for a bus in the cold. And that's not cosy.

Couldn't agree more and if I see another fucking elf on FB I may actually be rude.

YADNBU.......it's certainly not all hygge in the Danish Faroe Isles where they still needlessly torture and slaughter hundreds of wales and their calves for fun! That's not hygge!!!

I'm very much against the death penalty, however people using "holibobs" do make me challenge this

What? They are killing the Welsh?

They have hygge tea. They have hygge fucking tea How is it hygge? It's just tea.

www.hyggetea.com/?gclid=CIrkxMyu4tACFUO-7Qod5jUL6w

Anyone hearing the creaking wheels of an overloaded bandwagon?

holibobs

KILL THEM ALL NOW.

I can handle hygge; in relation to holibobs it's harmless.

Cwtch is one of the beat Welsh words around, along with Cariad( love), Panad( as in cup of tea) and hiraeth( longing).....

I've heard this word about 20 times in the last week alone...thanks to this thread I do at least now know what it's meant to mean.

Sorry to derail, but how does one say "cwtch"? I like it.

This is interesting www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/22/hygge-conspiracy-denmark-cosiness-trend

Seems that it can be used to repress too.

I suppose it's like feng shui, it'll be next seasons chip paper.

Oh good, I'm not alone. [settles down all gemütlich]

Damn...I heard them talk about it on Women's Hour. I thought I was all wise and knowledgeable.

"Getting so into hygge this crimbo. Then in January we're off on holibobs with the famalam, hun! #lovinlife"

I feel dirty.

Hygge. It's just another marketing ploy to make money and the more gullible idiots will fall for it.

Ahhh! Been lurking for a while and it is my rage about hygge that's finally got me to post. But the sign up process took a while and my rant went slightly off the boil (though did give me a username)

Suffice to say that hygge falls under self-care in my bracket, a media led way to push us into spending more, feeling guilty that we aren't living the perfect life. Why do we need to constantly label and hashtag ourway around our lives? I'm not saying for one second that looking after ourselves and indulging ourselves isn't important - far from it - but it needs to be authentic, not cos a £79 M&S fwuffee bwankee, an overpriced candle (probably called riverside dawn or somesuch nonsense) and a tub of bath foam containing essence of eternal happiness have been sent to a journo.

Also hello everyone

Well 'mysigt' is our word for it (Sweden) and it's really not quite what the media seems to have turned it into. it's not really about sodding cushions

Anatidae, could you elaborate? What's it really about?

I think cwtch rhymes with butch, AFAIK.

I have no strong feelings on hygge but holibobs can fuck right off.

There was a thread of hygge rage a couple of weeks back.

As someone who is almost Danish I can tell you that the guardian oiece is by far the most accurate i have seen in the british press, but there seems to be this weird vacuum that allows you to say anything about denmark and brits will absorb it. Helen Russell lived 15 km from me when she was here. I dont recognise anything she writes. Thats not to say her experiences arent true, but it annoys me that she has become this authority on all things Danish.

Thanks Thora

Yanbu

It's just wearing a cardigan and putting the fire on, innit? Grannies have been hygge-ing for years