Popping up and popping down

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I say 'I'm popping up to Tesco' as its North of our house.

But Dh says 'I'm popping down to Tesco'. It messes with my head as I think 'down' should mean South.

Aibu to think you need to either pop up or pop down depending on the direction of the destination? Obviously that would become complicated in an East/West scenario but in that case 'I'm popping to..' would do.

I know 'popping' is annoying but it's how we talk. It even annoys me as I'm saying it, but I can't stop.

Vote Yes: You pop out to the direction of the destination, so Northerly is pop up. Southerly is pop down.

Vote No: It doesn't matter and it's unreasonable to say 'popping'.

I would say "popping to..."

But I think popping down sounds less weird than popping up.

Although I wouldn't actually say popping I'd say "nipping to"

Vote Yes: You pop out to the direction of the destination, so Northerly is pop up. Southerly is pop down.

Vote No: It doesn't matter and it's unreasonable to say 'popping'.

YABU for having voting options which don’t correspond to YABU and YANBU.

@waltzeswithsnobs

Where we live everything is 'around the corner'. There are loads of bloody corners! But it's confusing when you're trying to describe where something is!

Are they the type of people who say “so I turned around and said” and “then he turned around and said” and everyone in a conversation gets dizzy from all the turning around?

YA both BU - it's 'popping to Tesco'

My nearest Tesco is 0.4 miles due West of my house. How should I pop there?

Where are you from, OP?

South East UK.

@MaskingForIt

Vote Yes: You pop out to the direction of the destination, so Northerly is pop up. Southerly is pop down.

Vote No: It doesn't matter and it's unreasonable to say 'popping'.

YABU for having voting options which don’t correspond to YABU and YANBU.

I know. I've done it before. The YES and NO to enable voting buttons confuse me

Totally agree, I have family who when they suggest I visit say come 'down' to Lincolnshire. I live on the South Coast and it just sounds really strange.

@WildCherryBlossom

My nearest Tesco is 0.4 miles due West of my house. How should I pop there?

The World's your oyster here. You could pop to Tesco, pop out to Tesco, pop in to Tesco, pop over to Tesco or even pop across to Tesco.

Thanks OP, I shall try them all (and see if DH notices 😂)

I'm with you on this OP!! Up for north of location and down for south. Popping "over to" for east or west.

Although I'm currently opting to do my popping in the opposite direction to Sainsbury's (approx 0.5 miles due East of my house) as its Lego card season and the DC are obsessed.

I love this thread. I also love poppers, nippers and jumpers

CBA to check my compass every time I leave the house so I just nip in a mysterious fashion, surrendering no further information.

Anyone else find “through” annoying? Is it a Scottish thing? My friend works “through” in Edinburgh. Through what? A fucking stargate? He wishes, the M8 is a nightmare...

I live between 4 Tescos. One to the East and one to the West and one to the North and one to the South.

North is popping up.
South is popping down
East and West are popping over.

@WildCherryBlossom

My nearest Tesco is 0.4 miles due West of my house. How should I pop there?

Well clearly you would be popping over to...

We live between the sea and the hills. “Up” for us is literally uphill and towards the hills. It also happens to be south

@Giespeace

I love this thread. I also love poppers, nippers and jumpers

CBA to check my compass every time I leave the house so I just nip in a mysterious fashion, surrendering no further information.

Anyone else find “through” annoying? Is it a Scottish thing? My friend works “through” in Edinburgh. Through what? A fucking stargate? He wishes, the M8 is a nightmare...

Lol. We say “going through to glasgow”. No idea why - it’s like the central bit is a big tunnel you go through between the two cities 😂

Growing up in a london suburb my gran used to pop up to "town" (get the Tube into London) and pop down the "village" (shop on our high street). The whole up and down was confusing but so too was calling our capital city a town and calling our town a village!

I pop up to town as it's up a hill but it's in a southerly direction. I pop down to Sainsbury's as it's downhill but in a northerly one. A completely pointless contribution as I am unable to vote for either option 😁

I "pop to", I'd be confused with the ups and downs otherwise!

Ahem, you are all completely batshit unless your local Tesco is more than an hours drive on the motorway (more specifically the M6, M1, M74, M5 and at a push the M40). Only then would anyone in their right mind be able to pop up (northerly) or pop down (southerly) to go anywhere.
Shopping locations within the local vicinity always require being popped ‘to’. You may however pop over to someone’s house or place of work (as long as it is informal, if it is formal it requires a ‘to’).
Furthermore, you may only ‘nip’ on the spare of the moment.

By a weird coincidence I was discussing this with my Dc just yesterday. I use both up and down completely at random. It came up because my Ds uses the term 'popping off' when he's gaming and I was wondering what he meant.

I would say I'm going to pop down to tesco because it is down hill from here (its also south but I wouldn't take this into account) I pop up to homebase because it is uphill from here.

Tesco is literally down for me on top of my hill in Yorkshire 😆 no matter if that’s North or South. North and south would never come in to it for me.

@IHateCoronavirus

Ahem, you are all completely batshit unless your local Tesco is more than an hours drive on the motorway (more specifically the M6, M1, M74, M5 and at a push the M40). Only then would anyone in their right mind be able to pop up (northerly) or pop down (southerly) to go anywhere. Shopping locations within the local vicinity always require being popped ‘to’. You may however pop over to someone’s house or place of work (as long as it is informal, if it is formal it requires a ‘to’). Furthermore, you may only ‘nip’ on the spare of the moment.

Yes a nip is generally an unplanned occasion. It has to be close by. You can nip (down ) to the shed, nip round to the neighbours, or nip to the corner shop. Nipping is always on foot. You can never nip anywhere by car.