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… to wish people would stop ‘popping’ everywhere?

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Elision · 19/08/2019 21:50

‘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.

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Thuglife · 23/08/2019 19:10

@Labassecour. I do have a lot of hypertensive patients HmmGrin.

RiftGibbon · 24/08/2019 11:48

I can tolerate it in this context, but the use of 'pop' in relation to cosmetic application is a whole new level of nonsense:
"The zingy orange creme shadow will make your eyes pop with colour."
Makes me think of exploding eyeballs.

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