Skinny Milk instead of Skim Milk - silly pet peeves

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Annoys me when coffee shops say skinny milk/coffee instead of just skim - which is the name of the milk and a shorter word!

What silly pet peeves do you have?

But they don't say 'fat coke' Dramitical

Up here they say it all the time. But yeah I get I picked the reason up wrong. Who knew. Over 40 and only learned that now!

Maybe it's a regional thing.

Full fat coke is just a jokey way to say ‘not Diet Coke.’ We all know it’s fat free, but it’s just comparing it to full fat milk. It’s a not very funny but essentially harmless joke.

We say fat coke here

Also hate spag Bol. Thankfully that isnt said here.

I'd never heard of packup until i met my DH but i do say mash (but usually omitting the word potato - its not going tp be mashED brocolli!!😉) and pack lunch.
My pet hates are
Pacifically instead of specifically
Literally.... when they described something that actually DIDN'T happen!!!

Fat Coke annoys me too, and I don't think everyone who says it understands that it's actually fat free.

I say 'fat coke' and I think my feeble little brain can just about cope with the realisation that there's no actual lard in the drink itself.

I gave up drinking coffee 20 years ago (gave me headaches).

I genuinely wouldn't know what to do if I were to go into a coffee shop nowadays and want to order a coffee for myself (happy to go in with friends).

Back when I used to order coffee, it was black or white, sugar or not and possibly mug or cup. These days, AFAIC, the menus might as well be in Icelandic.

I also don't 'get' the whole 'barista' thing. Aside from the obvious confusion with 'barrister' that it's inevitably going to cause (unless that's the whole point - "I'm a VERY high-flying barista, you know!"), why is there a specific name for somebody who makes coffee but anybody who prepares tea, hot chocolate, squash etc is just a general cafe/tea-shop assistant?

You wouldn't refer to a clothes shop assistant as such if you wanted help with buying any other kind of garment, but specifically seek out (or be told that you need) a 'trouserista' if you're after some jeans.

Before anybody comes on to 'explain', yes I KNOW that it's an Italian word (albeit one that I believe means bartender, not specifically somebody who only makes coffee), and I'd fully expect people in Italy to use it - but why on earth do we use it in the UK? I wouldn't dream of calling a hospital in Stevenage and asking to speak to the Krankenwagenfahrer.

But I'll certainly use it with more gusto from now on knowing that it gets strange little people all het up!

I might even bellow it John Bercow stylee.

Oh and tv presenters saying "bregs-it" instead of brexit or shit show. Its bad enough hearing about it every fricking day but it hasn't got a g in it!!!

FAAAAAAT COOOOOOOKKKEE.

UNLOCK.

Fat Coke annoys me too, and I don't think everyone who says it understands that it's actually fat free.

I concur. People know that it's stuffed with sugar (as opposed to lots of more harmful sweetener chemicals that trick your body and can cause much worse health problems) and they've seen all the adverts telling you that sugar makes you fat. Therefore, their minds (not unreasonably) compute that full-sugar drinks can make you fat hence it becomes known as 'fat coke'. It's an applied attribution rather than a direct item description - a bit like a tea cosy isn't actually made of tea.

Funnily enough I manage to drink gallons of diet coke and not be fat.....

Therefore, their minds (not unreasonably) compute that full-sugar drinks can make you fat hence it becomes known as 'fat coke'.

No, not unreasonably. Because it's true.

Why insecure and bitter Wolf ? Very strange thing to conclude from me observing that “people who buy into this sort of thing are usually overweight”. I’m saying it’s a con - the diet industry as a whole and calling things skinny is part of that. Selling an idea. Skinny latte-you’ll be skinny if you choose this product.

What is bitter is the taste in my mouth after drinking a Diet Coke. If you like it tho why would you care what anyone else thinks?

I am not a coffee connoisseur and cringe whenever I have to tell anyone what coffee I want in a cafe or similar. It used to just be white or black.

Now it's latte, cafe au lait, cappuccino, espresso, flat white, long black, caffe macchiato, americano, mocha....and more!
Then there's double or short options....
Then the milk - cow, goat, soya,
Then the fat - full, half, skimmed
And the syrups etc etc

I feel like asking for hot water and taking my own sachet of Nescafe!!!
LOL

Oh and tv presenters saying "bregs-it" instead of brexit or shit show. Its bad enough hearing about it every fricking day but it hasn't got a g in it!!!

To be fair, though, it's not like it's a long-established word in historic English usage. Most people would say 'exam' with a 'g' sound rather than a hard 'x' sound; and it's probably about 50/50 whether people commonly refer to a door as an 'eksit' or an 'eggzit'.

I feel like I need to be on this thread, Bercow’s drawers and all that.

Here’s the very old Skinny Milk ad from back in the day. It hasn’t aged at all well.

Therefore, their minds (not unreasonably) compute that full-sugar drinks can make you fat hence it becomes known as 'fat coke'.

No, not unreasonably. Because it's true.

I was using 'unreasonably' to mean 'and not without very good reason' - not to suggest that they were following some widely-held but nevertheless untrue/unproven belief.

I say full fat coke as a kind of joke as in it’s the nicer tasting one “full fat if you please” but I don’t think full fat products are fattening. Really I should say “full sugar” - the name is a left over from the belief that full fat is bad and low fat is good.

Well Dramatical if my experience tells me low cal diets don’t work and that low fat foods are unsatisfying then guess what I’m going to conclude that that is the way forward. 🤷‍♀️

However as a macro nutrient, dietary fat triggers the release of insulin the least so as someone who has suffered blood sugar issues in the past and who knows that insulin is the fat storage hormone I’m a big fan of dietary fat and not a fan at all of the industry which demonises it - I believe erroneously

"Skinny laahhhr-tay" winds me up no end. It's latte, for a start, and if you want skimmed milk just say so. People with home-counties accents trying to sound like they're in a New York deli rather than a chain store in a shopping centre sound ridiculous.

“Mashed potato” is correct, “Mash” is ok, but “Mash potato” is an abomination....just imo of course...

There’s no rule to say that the past tense of text has to be a regular -ed

I don't completely agree with you there - there IS a rule that states you naturally add -ed to make a verb past tense, unless it's a long-established irregular verb or would otherwise be very difficult to pronounce.

The phrase 'to send a text' organically streamlined and morphed into 'to text' (as with 'to Google'), which makes sense in a constantly-evolving linguistic context; but I think the fact that many people lazily used to swallow the second 't' when saying 'text message' (in the same way people frequently say 'sicth' or 'twelth') - even though nobody adds the word 'message' these days - a great many people (whether actively or subconsciously) now think that it is 'a tex' (noun) or 'to tex' (verb). They haven't stopped to wonder why it would have been called a 'tex' or to relate it to the existing word 'text', which is an obvious, simple description of the kind of message that they're sending.

People will frequently prioritise the perceived sound rather than the actual spelling of a word or phrase - and they then work backwards to spelling what they hear rather than saying what they read - much less actually thinking about the sense and the meaning of what they're actually saying. It's the same old thing with to/too, there/their/they're, your/you're etc.

This is why at least half of people (and probably many more) will write "I could of" when they clearly mean "I could've" and will genuinely not see any problem with it.

Therefore, when other people hear them saying "I text her" (ongoing present tense), they actually believe that they're saying "I texed her" (past tense).

God yes bregg-zit gives me the absolute rage. I shout at the telly every time I hear it. It's a compound word made of Britain and exit, so logically the -exit part should be pronounced like exit. Unless you say 'fire egg-zit'