To ask what Covid related words and phrases are you sick of hearing? (lighthearted)

[Rainbowb]

This is not to undermine the seriousness of the pandemic at all, this is just an observation on language use and the general mood of the public. Covid has provoked lots of new expressions that are being used over and over again and for me some of them are beginning to epitomise my feelings of weariness and are beginning to rankle. Phrases like two metres, unprecedented, bubble, social distancing- I feel like I can’t bear to hear them anymore!

Isn’t a toupee a type of wig?! What has that got to do with redundancy?
I hate “flatten the curve” for some reason, and “muzzles”. And I’m sorry; I’ve been pronouncing it with the short O sound since the beginning (COVID) not to be a dick, I actually stuck out from my colleagues etc but it’s just how it looks like it sounds in my head and I always forget!

@Augustseemsbetter

I really get aerated if I hear the government have labelled something they've just come up with on the back of a muesli packet "world beating". It just so isn't going to be.

In fact I feel anything crazily upbeat that Boris Johnson says is an affront to my critical faculties.

Also I agree 100% with this.

"New Normal" , and "Because now more than ever"

Shielding
Vulnerable
Cocooning is the most revolting of all of them.

Any slogan that comes out of Johnson's mouth.

All of them!

@Ohjustme

New normal. I dont want it to be there to be a new normal!!

I absolutely dislike the phrase and also 'together but apart' 😆

@MadameBee

“Can you hear me?” “Maureen you are on mute” “no no Maureen we can’t hear you, yes the bar in the middle, yes, press the microphone button so there is no line through it” “yes we can hear you”

🤣🤣🤣 This is me sometimes 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

The New Normal - Keeping You Safe

"Keeping you safe..." / "So that you feel safe..." really do just annoy me. I know it will be helpful to some people, but I'm a 40 year old with no underlying health conditions so I've never at any point felt personally unsafe.

@Newkitchen123

One from a while back. Anyone who posted anything on Facebook that had anything to do with them being out all had, "on our daily allowed exercise" as if they had to justify why they were out. Now, any being out is justified with, "socially distant of course"

Argh I hated that! A few people I knew referred to them as 'Boris walks', as if we needed his personal permission to leave our houses.

We had an email from school (that my DS wasn’t able to go back to despite being in reception 😐) entitled POTENTIAL BUBBLE COLLAPSE. I nearly threw up in my mouth.

@CeciledeVolanges

Isn’t a toupee a type of wig?! What has that got to do with redundancy?

It’s TUP-A, which means trade union protection agreement - I think.

@BritWifeinUSA

I listen to a UK radio shows weekly on the Internet. It’s a request show and pre-virus it was all “please can you play xxx by zzzz for Steve because it’s his birthday tomorrow”. Normal requests. Now it’s all “please play xxx by zzz for Steve who’s a key worker, keeping us all safe, working 20 hours a day on the front line, and shopping for 23 shielding relatives and making masks for the whole country in his spare time”.

Reporting. All this reporting your neighbors. People who previously were quite happy to let their neighbors do whatever they want, however dangerous, illegal, unethical etc are now reporting them for having their parents round for a cuppa. We live in an area prone to wildfires, which are a very serious problem here in the west of the USA, we have burn bans in place to prevent wildfires. People won’t report people breaking burn ban rules but will report people in grocery stores without masks.

😂😂😂 Steve is indeed a national hero! 😂

Oh, TUPE? Thanks for clarifying

Sick of hearing people saying they are going to 'bubble up' with family/friends as a way of saying they're allowed to go in their house/sleep over/hug/etc. Really dislike the phrase.

I know this is meant to be a light-hearted thread but I got really fed up with all the virtue signalling adverts during the early weeks of lockdown with advertisers telling us how to be good kids and stay at home (and use their products, obvs).

Also hated all the people posting their runs and cycle rides on Strava and making sure they said every time that it was solo and safely distanced. Yeah we know.

"Flocking" like we are all bloody geese!

Boris trying to push any new catch phrase on us. His latest being "hand, face, space" for wash your hands, cover your face and keep your space. Fuck off Boris, we're not six. You're doing a grand job in the circumstances but these shit sayings have got to go

Ramping up

Any slogan that comes out of Johnson's mouth.

I agree - not just because of the fact he said it, but also because he has this annoying way emphasising or spacing out a word/phrase - 'sheeeelding', 'flatten ... the .... curve', which sounds as though he's trying hard to remember all the special words his speech writer put in there. Awk, I know he's doing the politician's thing of reinforcing the key information, but it annoys the hell out of me.

Rather than say ‘we met up’ it’s ‘our socially distanced meet up’. Putting socially distanced I front of any human interaction.

Every fucking fear inducing thing on the news. Reporters popping up like typhoid fucking Mary in places which are 'locked down'.

It was 'green shoots' a couple of months ago but that one seems to have died out now.

Flocking" like we are all bloody geese!

Haha, that was the word that got Gordon Brown into trouble- the'bigoted woman' was asking about immigrants, he misheard.

Those idiots at work saying how hard it is working at home and looking after two kids (or however many) - how terrible it is for them and partner to have to share the load.

No one gets the challenge of being a single parent and doing that.

It's not the same as having key worker partner.

Key worker partner is still a partner you can rely on share the emotions if not the work load.