Hot Choccy.....

[dontticklethetoad]

I know ianbu. Although maybe slightly U as I know these type of threads have been done to death.

Ive just been on Facebook for the first time in ages and the first two words I see are 'hot choccy'. I can't stand it.

That is all.

Holibobs, anyone? I, too, have found my tribe.

Was it in Costa? Because I swear their over-priced, over-sugared, under-taste drinks are responsible for a public health decline.

I don't know whether I've tried Costa. I think I've had something from most of the other chains. (I even have a loyalty card for one of them, although I can't remember what it's called: Café Nero or Caffe Nerro or something along those lines. I've had one "free" cup of coffee out of them in about 3 years). I remember once reading something about Starbucks' profits being affected by a global jump in the price of coffee beans, and wondering how a company that seems only to need about one sack of coffee beans per year to turn its hot water slightly brown could be affected significantly by this.

Does anyone know men who use this infantile language?

DP has been banned from saying 'din dins', unless he's specifically talking to the cats about their own dinners.

I give him a withering look every time he says biccie and he rarely says it anymore.

Someone I know on FB posts photos every week of her and her "bestie" having coffee and cake etc. They both take a photo of each other holding the cup of coffee, smiling then post it for us all to see.

Oh the use of 'baby' words to small children!

Why would anyone think it's easier for them to learn to say 'choo choo' than to say 'train'?

And don't get me started on 'ta'... It's THANK YOU, for fuck's sake! And no, it's not cute when a small child says it either!

Is it the drink itself you can't stand or the words? I must say that I'm not terribly keen on either. Just once I tried the drink and no matter now much I stirred it there was still a horrible thick mucky sludge at the base of the cup which looked foul. Give me tea any time.

I JUST heard some people at work discussing how many 'shugs' they require in their tea.

SHUGS!

I do (temporarily) work in reality TV but STILL.

Holibobs, anyone?

I foolishly followed a link to a story in The Sun about an antisocial woman putting a note on the windscreen of an ambulance to tell the driver not to park in front of her house. Throughout the article people were referring to an "ambo". How lazy -and irritating - can some people get? "Uni" (for university) grinds my synchromesh, too.

I hate that too

I hate when people say to you on maternity leave oh you’re a full time Mummy now

Not really what the threads about but a local bar has started doing a range of premium hot chocolates. I would be unbelievably pissed off if I ordered a drink and this they brought out this undrinkable mess.

@DarkDarkNight and what shoddy service I mean where is the dessert spoon?

Caffiene, I suppose it's reassuring that it's not just women. But poor you having to endure 'din dins' and biccies.

I see your infantilising words and I raise you people who use babyish names as their proper (even at work) names as adults, I know a Beezee, Pookie and a Weezie.

I do live in the US, but it is so cringe inducing

Dear God, that "drink" is disgusting.

Dippy egg?! That's right up there with "picky bits/tea" for phrases that set my teeth on edge.

(Choc/choccy is annoying too!!)

@dontticklethetoad aw don't do that you makey me sad in my face

Didn't Joe Dolce come up with that line originally?

sorry not sorry for the earworm

DS (2 next month) calls it 'choccy'... he has just realised chocolate is a treat and other people like it, so if ever he sees me eat some he wants it....I duly break him off a square...and he spits it all out because he hates it and it's 'yucky'

So many little bits of 'choccy' have been wasted ( sad )

Oh I remember that song!
Maybe, but imagine it said in a singsong baby voice

Cigaroonie?!!! Oh good lord!

They’re the same people that frequent the terms ‘Primarni’ and ‘Markies’

People using infantilised words should be punished accordingly.

@Zaphodsotherhead "Ta" really pisses me off. It makes me cringe. My entire family say it when my son passes them something and everytime I shout "THANK YOU".

What the fuck is it with people putting loads of cream and marshmallows on top of hot chocolate?! I made the mistake of ordering a 'Luxury Hot Chocolate' from M&S the other day and was appalled when it arrived looking like something from RuPaul's Drag Race.

Marksies*

My MIL is an offender with this sort of word.

Lappy = laptop - makes me feel sick, which is ridiculous.
But the worst is 'boe-boes' for bed time. WTF, that is not a thing. And it is even more not a thing when she is texting her 70 year old partner goodnight. 'Just texting him boe-boes'. NO! Unacceptable.

Good job I love her anyway.