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I’ve just heard

446 replies

TheSheepofWallSt · 22/01/2020 11:30

CHESTER DRAWERS in the wild!

From a person I did not expect to hear it from...

WIBU to have thought that it was a myth?!

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NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 22/01/2020 14:07

Regularly seen on MN
"I lent money off my mum"
The verb you need here is borrowed.
"I brought all DS xmas presents with my money"
Bought please.
"Should of" etc etc

One I hear a lot spoken (but haven't seen written down) is "I ax him for it" instead of asked.

MikeUniformMike · 22/01/2020 14:07

Not RTFT but has anyone seen a request or offer for a frezzer or a duvan?

damnthatanxiety · 22/01/2020 14:10

BuzzShitbagBobbly
Chubby Cheek
Crashed walwat

What were they meaning?

damnthatanxiety · 22/01/2020 14:11

Wherearemyminions
Make hen's meat

Literally the best thing I have read all day Grin
Perhaps better still would be to 'make hen's meet'

Wherearemyminions · 22/01/2020 14:13

I'm also on a lot of home swap groups, looking for an exchange. So many "dinning rooms" "quite neighbors" "bungerlows" and "culdy sacks".

ScribblyGum · 22/01/2020 14:17

I have a horrible feeling that a royal on The Crown (think it was Margaret) said “he’s got another thing coming”.

It was quite a shock and made me doubt myself in thinking it’s think, I mean after all if a member of the royal household is saying it that way...

ScribblyGum · 22/01/2020 14:18

I do appreciate that this was a fictional tv Margaret and not the actual HRH commiting such a terrible error.

ScribblyGum · 22/01/2020 14:19

Committing

EspressoX10 · 22/01/2020 14:23

"Mike and I's relationship".

I have no words. I've noticed this increasingly in American shows and I hope it doesn't travel across the Atlantic (much like "I could care less")

Howtosupportmyfriend · 22/01/2020 14:26

I can’t help but wonder how many of you on here have something that you say incorrectly and have no idea about it. Maybe someone is chuckling about you right now...or posting on Netmums. Wink

ChipsyChopsy · 22/01/2020 14:27

A few years back Liberty were selling their very pricey, very lovely advent calendar with a description detailing individual 'draws'.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 22/01/2020 14:35

I like to say skellington on purpose.

I do too, somanysocks! - and "sammich". Grin

"Sossidge" and ""wumman" only work in print, though, which is a great disappointment to me.

tillytoodles1 · 22/01/2020 14:36

You'd all hate me as I say "the worlds my lobster" like Arthur Daly in Minder. I know it's oyster, and I get corrected ALL the time, but I just can't help it.

pinkytheunicorn · 22/01/2020 14:41

I read 'chicken pots' today Confused

SchadenfreudePersonified · 22/01/2020 14:42

The funniest one was describing a group of unfriendly women as 'clitty'. I'm sure she meant cliquey, as in they were in a clique

In some dialects (er, possibly my own Blush) "cliquey" is often pronounced "clicky" - could she have been saying that?

pinkytheunicorn · 22/01/2020 14:43

That's for chicken pox btw if that's not clear (clear as mud!). The person didn't mean pots for chicken!

Smurfy23 · 22/01/2020 14:43

Yabu everyone knows its Chester Draws

SchadenfreudePersonified · 22/01/2020 14:44

You'd all hate me as I say "the worlds my lobster" like Arthur Daly in Minder. I know it's oyster, and I get corrected ALL the time, but I just can't help it.

I used to get corrected for this , too tilly (also did it on purpose) - now I tend to say "bivalve of your choice" - and grin. (I'm such a card, me . . . )

DontCallMeShitley · 22/01/2020 14:46

*The latest one foor me is the dropping of 'ing'. On of my kids is doing and I know she's copying her bloody teacher.

Swimmin
Walkin
Singin
Rainin
Eatin
Playin*

And somefink, nuffink etc. especially when said by a certain female politician (initials PP).

I heard 'Another thing coming' while watching an old 'Call the Midwife' last week on catchup and often hear it now.

Some of these things really irritate me and some I don't mind but I do think that if someone is going for a career in the public eye they should be a bit more aware, especially if they get the chube to work.

My father used to say draws instead of drawers, he had made a good few when learning carpentry and I think it was more widely used in those days, because you draw them towards you when opening.

Taddda · 22/01/2020 14:50

Theres a 'Fridge Rater' for sale on Gumtree...😁

NearlyGranny · 22/01/2020 14:51

Is chubby cheek shabby chic?

I have heard sliver/slither confusion, as in,

"Ooh, just a slither of that cake for me, please!"

Be careful or it will be off over the edge!

NearlyGranny · 22/01/2020 14:53

Actually, you can get many a bargain searching for common misspellings online. DD2 picked up a 'daimond' ring that way!

Taddda · 22/01/2020 14:56

'2 of 1, half dozen of the other' and 'eyes like a fork' have been my recent favourites...

DisinterestedParty · 22/01/2020 14:58

I say pacific and skellington and bonefire for no reason other than it makes me laugh.

Bagminton too.

Chester drawers is mental though.

WallyDancre · 22/01/2020 14:59

You'd all hate me as I say "the worlds my lobster" like Arthur Daly in Minder.

I do this, too. I also say, "The rest is geography."