… to wish people would stop ‘popping’ everywhere?

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‘Pop to the shops’, ‘pop upstairs’ ‘pop out’, ‘pop in’… stop bloody popping! You can ‘go’ and ‘walk’ and all sorts of other verbs. When people say ‘pop’ I imagine them smugly teleporting with a little wink and a little bell sound and it’s infuriating. Sometimes I imagine the teleport going wrong and the popper ending up stuck halfway through the wall dying an agonising gory death to calm myself down.

I don’t like “jump in the shower” .
Nooo, don’t bloody jump in the shower, you’ll smash through the bottom of the bath!

I only ever use it to say 'pop to the loo' which is probably the most annoying, but I used to say it to the DC before we left the house: Just pop to the loo' and it became the normal phrase.

I often sling the kids in bed come to think of it.

Yabvu I pop here there and everywhere. Most evenings I pop off too bed too😂😂😂

YABU, OP, I pop and nip depending on the mood.

Not sure which area of the UK uses bob as in "I'll just bob round" but I think it sounds brilliant and I'm desperately trying to hear it in the correct accent!

It was an issue in a child abuse case in America with a British Au pair.

She said that she 'popped the baby on the bed'. To the jury 'pop' meant that she had hit him; kind of 'popped him one' I guess.

I think this was in the 80s or maybe 90s and that she was eventually released for lack of evidence because the main evidence was due to a misunderstanding of the word 'popped'.

When people say ‘pop’ I imagine them smugly teleporting with a little wink and a little bell sound and it’s infuriating

In that case, what is infuriating you is what your imagination is producing, so the remedy lies entirely with you.

"Here are the balloons you ordered."
"Great! Could you just pop them in the lounge?"

@Hecateh I remember that, it was a woman called Louise Woodward. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Woodward_case

Was I the only person who thought you ment farting in the title

Am I the only one who whizzes then? Whizz outside, whizz through the laundry, whizz to the shops, whizz to the loo...

YADNBU, OP.
I hate pop and nip.

Ha ha this made me laugh!

I pop everywhere (only if it's a quick nip to somewhere obviously) I don't ever notice anyone else popping though! I will from now on though

YANBU

The only positive thing about people saying "pop in" is that at least they're not using the goddawful "rock up" that used to be everywhere on here.

"We rocked up at school" or "He rocked up 10 minutes late."

People bob round and bob over in Yorkshire

I'm sorry op. This is the funniest thread. It's really tickling me. I pop. And now, I'll always think of this thread when I'm popping in, out, up or down!

Just popping in to say this is so funny , I'm a "popper" and it drives DP nuts tbh it does actually bug me a little bit but I can't help myself.

Anyways , off I pop

Reminds me of Rentaghost, with the ghosts popping everywhere! Loved that programme.

I pop, nip, whack, chuck, jump, race ... even been known to biff occasionally!

Arti-Aard, we whizz too as in whizz around with either the vacuum or the lawnmower.

I went to see Sean Hughes perform in 1992/93. The support was Alan Davies, who constructed a whole sketch around how people are always just "popping" here and there.
He'd over-emphasise the word (like Blackadder pronouncing "Bob.").

I don’t mind nippers and bobbers, but I cannot fucking abide the smug twee twattery of popping. In my brain all poppers wear brightly coloured 80s style leisure wear and go on holibobs with their hubsters.

You are too disproportionately bothered by this.

Rock up is much worse than pop!

I pop & nip everywhere!! I also jump in the shower and jump in the car. Where does this saying originate from - it doesn't make sense!!

@Puppiesorbabies nope I thought that too.

I dont really say pop. I say "nip to the shops" "jump in the shower" (my dd tells me I might break my neck with that one) run upstairs, grab a tea.