… 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.

For some reason I don't mind 'pop' meaning briefly go, but I don't like it to mean 'put' (e.g. just pop it in that drawer/in the post etc.)

What about "swing by" when arranging to collect someone?
Disclaimer: i often drop by but have been known to pop, never nipped though. swing by is used by friends and DH.

Yes, that's somehow far worse, @lazy.

When it comes to putting something in the oven I always imagine Delia 'popping' and competing with Jamie Oliver 'flinging' or 'boshing' or 'whanging' it in and wondering which one I get to shoot if I only have a single shot...

Don't Australians rock up to places?
Personally, I like to crack on with stuff

Also wang things, (wang the washing in the machine) and whack things (whack the tea on).

I hate it also, but it the context of going somewhere it is helpful to denote the passage of time.

You pop out, go out or go out out surely?!

The Fay Ripley cookbooks are full of this: just pop it in the oven, just pop some sauce on, pop pop pop. They are otherwise excellent, but the overuse of popping sets my teeth on edge.

There an Orchard Game called 'pop to the shops' so you're on to a loser here.

I pop and nip everywhere 😂

I’m going to try not saying it tomorrow- my patients have probably been “seething “ in the past

I also whack and stick a lot. Whack the kettle on and stick the milk in the fridge.

I use 'nip' rather than 'pop'. I usually use 'gaan' in my broad North Eastern accent 😂

@Greeborising

It works well in hospital.
Pop your clothes off
Pop on this gown
Pop onto the bed
I’m just going to pop this up your arse.......

Why is it that men hardly ever pop or nip anywhere? It seems a very female expression.

I can just about tolerate people popping to the shops, so long as they aren't popping to the shops for a few bits and pieces.

Why is it that men hardly ever pop or nip anywhere?

This.

Popping is a feminist issue.

Had to add this photo of the most famous popper for you OP

I’m going to try not saying it tomorrow- my patients have probably been “seething “ in the past

@Thuglife, if you're a GP or a practice nurse, and you've been surprised by the high blood pressure of some patients after you've asked them to pop on the couch, and pop their sleeve up so you can pop a cuff on them, now you know!

Popping is a feminist issue.

It is! Because women are socialised to verbally minimise their own effort, particularly their 'unimportant domestic/caring efforts all that popping to the shops and popping things in the oven and popping in to check on an elderly relative and men, bluntly, are socialised not to.

In the name of checking this feminist issue, I searched my chat history between me and my boyfriend. I then checked messages between me and my ex (my son's dad). We all pop and whack and I wish we "bobbed" as that sounds funny 😂

I opened this thread expecting it to be about farting!

What about people that add a 'pop of colour' to their outfit

What about people that add a 'pop of colour' to their outfit

Obviously, they should be soundly beaten.

@Labassecour now I do hate a pop of colour!

To me it's a very old fashioned way of talking. A bit like I heard "the fridge had packed up" yesterday on the radio and thought I haven't heard that expression since my childhood.