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To hate the phrase love you to the moon and back?

175 replies

hickorydickorynurseryrhyme · 02/04/2017 21:39

Just find it irritating

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haveacupoftea · 02/04/2017 23:04

YANBU. Its watery twee shite.

conkerpods · 02/04/2017 23:04

Yanbu It makes me cringe too

OllyBJolly · 02/04/2017 23:05

I buy all little kids in my life the Nut Brown Hare books.

When DD2 was in a sulk she yelled "I only love you to the light bulb!"

dontpokethebear · 02/04/2017 23:07

Donald I came on to say I hate "love you lots, like jelly tots". Rage.

SerialReJoiner · 02/04/2017 23:08

My DD and I used to say to each other, "I love you", "I love you more", "I love you most", "I love you more than toast!", "You'd better!"

Which was just silly and a bit of fun, but our special thing. Made it quite nice actually.

ifcatscouldtalk · 02/04/2017 23:08

Worryingly although I'm not and never have been a user of "love you to the moon and back" I do quite like summers daughter's pluto version.

Grilledaubergines · 02/04/2017 23:08

YABVU it's from a lovely book, read to million of children. Children who when little can visualise love as an A to B point - as in the moon and back, and whom it means something to. I say it to my teen DC still. Don't like it, don't use it.

Stopthatdog · 02/04/2017 23:10

Not a phrase I'd normally use but DS1 invented a game a bit like the old shopping list game where we take it in turns to add something to the list.... so he says 'I love to the moon and back' and I say 'I love you to the moon and back and all the way around the Earth' and he says 'I love you to the moon and back, all the way around the Earth and out to Saturn' etc etc. It's a funny little thing we play lying in bed sometimes after stories and entirely different to proclaiming 'I love you to the moon and back' on social media which grates with me, though not quite as much as 'making memories'.

SoulAccount · 02/04/2017 23:13

Snort at ohyesiam

Grin
itsbeenaverylongweek · 02/04/2017 23:14

DonaldStott Absolutely! Who the hell loves jelly tots enough for that to be a good comparison?

itsbeenaverylongweek · 02/04/2017 23:16

OllyBJolly Grin only to the lightbulb is brilliant.

DonaldStott · 02/04/2017 23:20

But what I hate more is 'when someone describes someone else as their 'rock'.

I think it's because Paul Burrell coined that phrase. I think of him every time I hear/see that phrase.

Slimy git.

GruffaloPants · 02/04/2017 23:21

I hate how big nut brown hare can't let the little one have his moment. He has to but in and go one better. Just shut up!

HeavenOrSpace · 02/04/2017 23:25

I can't stand it either but maybe I am a bit miserable. It was in that advert a while ago, wasn't it? That's when I started seeing it everywhere.

Kiwiinkits · 02/04/2017 23:26

I love you to the lightbulb, lolz

Pottedplants · 02/04/2017 23:29

'Love you to the moon and back' irritates me too as does 'love you lots like jelly tots'. The expressions are always used by people to address it to 'hun'.

GretchenFranklin · 02/04/2017 23:35

'I love you to the front door and back' works for me

Only tossers would say to the moon shite to each other. yanbu

multivac · 02/04/2017 23:36

YADNBU. All those cunts, telling people they "love" them in such a rubbish way. And those poor, poor children - being reassured that they are adored and valued with such pathetic, twee, overused, hackneyed phrases. Everyone should just shut the fuck up.

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 02/04/2017 23:41

Yanbu. I hate, hate hate all this moon and back, jelly tot, bones of you twat talk. Its bloody everywhere Angry

Fortunatepiggy · 02/04/2017 23:41

Irritates me too along with love you all the stars in the sky as my mil says

badtime · 02/04/2017 23:43

multivac, people have every right not to like a particular phrase, just as other people have every right to like it.

FWIW, I don't dislike it because it is overused or hackneyed but because it doesn't actually make sense.

'To the moon and back' would be a measure of distance or possibly time, and I am not sure how either would be used to measure love.

multivac · 02/04/2017 23:44

Thank goodness there are so many kids, all over the world, right now, who have never, ever been told that they are loved, by anyone.

Because at least they haven't been subjected to the wrong words.

badtime · 02/04/2017 23:47

Also, the whole 'love the bones of her' (or whoever) annoys me not so much because of the weird bone fetish, but because of the weird syntax. Surely it should be 'love her bones' (which, to be fair, really brings out the creepiness).

I mean, if someone got their hair done, you would say to them 'I love your hair', not 'I love the hair of you', wouldn't you?

badtime · 02/04/2017 23:48

Yes, and some people on the internet not liking a particular phrase makes them feel so much worse, doesn't it multivac? Hmm

TinklyLittleLaugh · 02/04/2017 23:50

I love you more than ever, more than time and more than love,
I love you more than money and more than the stars above,
Love you more than madness, more than waves upon the sea,
Love you more than life itself, you mean that much to me.