The truth is in the pudding

[LaBelleSausage]

AIBU to want to scream every time I see or hear someone say “The truth is in the pudding”

It’s not bloody truth! The pudding isn’t some sort of weird fortune cookie.

It’s proof

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”

I’ll even allow “The proof is in the pudding”, but I refuse to accept that there’s some steamed sponge of sincerity doing the rounds.

Well cheers guys. You’ve just made me wake the baby up laughing.

For your sins I give you:

clothes instead of cloths (I read a whole comments section on Facebook yesterday where people were talking about their favourite cloths (yeah, yeah, rock and roll. I can hear you all turning green with jealousy at my exciting life!). The number of people who were writing clothes is astonishing. Or at least I’m hoping it was cloths as I recommended the cheapest cotton ones you can find and the more open the weave the better for scrubbing. May have just admitted to a fashion faux pas instead....)

To be honest. Yes I know it’s not a bastardisation or a mix up, I just hate it. It’s basically an admission that anything you said previously was a lie. I therefore assume people who use it are liars and stop listening.

Draw/s rather than drawer/s- “set of draws for sale”. It makes my teeth itch

And for my final trick I give you: “not by a long short”. I presume the person who uttered this meant either “not by a long chalk” or “that’s the long and the short of it”. I never did bother to ask. It would only have ended in an exasperated eye roll and still no understanding.

Ooh, ooh - that reminds me! Why has the saying changed to ‘I could care less’?!

Overheard recently:

They ought to lock him up, and throw the key at him!

Errr....surely then he'd just let himself out?

I know this has fallen into common usage now and is probably said more than the correct phrase, but I hate it when people say "If you think I'm going to do that then you have another thing coming"

3out, it hasn't. It has always been 'I couldn't care less'.

like sheep that pass in the night

I'm crying!!

I give you chester draws and bokay.

like sheep that pass in the night

Sounds like the basis for Gary Larson "Far Side" cartoon. :o

They ought to lock him up, and throw the key at him!

That's brilliant

YouTheCat, I’ve heard it/seen it written frequently! The vast majority is on American tv though, or comments on FB/Instagram etc by Americans.

It did crack me up when he said it. Broad scottish accent, ‘See you and me, Billy - we’re like sheep that pass in the night’. I wondered if that meant they had marital liaisons 😂

I remember laughing at someone on tv saying “not that old biscuit again”

That takes the chestnut, that does ;)

Also, a colleague once “trat” herself to a new pair of shoes.

Do people who prefer to 'lay on the bed' for a rest (rather than the sofa) check for an egg when they get up again?

Swinging roundabouts instead of swings and roundabouts...

Thank you, JellySlice! I thought I was the only one.

I remember the Dave Gorman episode where he talked about this - we have adopted some of them just for a giggle. I give you 'from the gecko' instead of get go, makes me picture a small carefully wrapped gift from a lizard!

Eco, up this way people often say 'tret' instead of 'treated'.

Eco, up this way people often say 'tret' instead of 'treated'.

Around here people say "et" instead of "ate". It's really strange to me (I'm from an English speaking country, but not the UK).

I love from the gecko!

I have an Escape Goat. He's a bloody nuisance, I think he's part mouse and goes boneless to get through the smallest gap.

I really want to make a 'steamed pudding of sincerity' now. It could be like fortune cookies with little messages in it.

My lovely aunt is very fond of her 10ft bargepole too, doesn't trust many with it.

The proof of the pudding is in the lap of the gods.

My dp always says "let's agree to agree" 😡 winds me right up!!
Also have a colleague that says to every bloody patient...."do you take anything that thinnens your blood?" Thinnens??! It's not even a word!