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Words I hate...I AIBU I know but I want to tell you mine and hear yours.

435 replies

FortunesFave · 11/11/2020 07:22

Smellies.

What an ugly word for something as nice as beauty or bath products.

Booze.

So SLOPPY sounding. BOOZE...no...no...no.

OP posts:
flaviaritt · 11/11/2020 10:15

People who don’t use “to be” anymore. “It needs sold.”

Pardon?

HammerToFall · 11/11/2020 10:16

At the minute I hate 'I bet' teenage son and daughter say it to each other constantly to undermine what the other one is saying in a long drawn out way. Makes my hair stand on end!

flaviaritt · 11/11/2020 10:17

*StCharlotte

No, it was a thread about who should ‘make the brews’. Blush

Buddytheelf85 · 11/11/2020 10:17

I also hate 'simples' and think anyone who uses it in 2020 should lose internet privileges.

100% agree, and it’s nearly always used to give a thoughtless, usually very unkind answer about something that isn’t remotely simple.

HammerToFall · 11/11/2020 10:18

And also generally instead of genuinely. Seems to be rife on towie. (Maybe it serves me right for watching trash!)

MrGorksy · 11/11/2020 10:19

Hubby
Other half (I know not a word but makes me want to vom)
Panties
Snogging

MrGorksy · 11/11/2020 10:20

@BullshitVivienne

I hate brew as well, and also pack up. I know it's probably regional terms but it's a packed lunch!

I also hate 'simples' and think anyone who uses it in 2020 should lose internet privileges.

😄
MrGorksy · 11/11/2020 10:22

Yes to littlies too. Someone asked me on a training course if I had littlies and I looked blankly until she explained. Dreadful.

Guys
Gang
Especially in a work setting.

RonObvious · 11/11/2020 10:23

Ginormous. It’s not a word. (Yes, yes, yes, evolving language and all that).

Snap, as in “Ohhhhh snap!” My 6 year old has picked it up from somewhere. I may have to rehome him.

Lostinthevillair · 11/11/2020 10:27

Second all the peeps hating the word resilience.

How do we all feel about peeps? Halloween Wink

IntermittentParps · 11/11/2020 10:28

Fortunes, 'I note that the properly posh people I know say supper...but it's dinner if they're going out or more formal...is that it?'
I think so. And also if you give people dinner at home and eat in a more formal setting like a dining room – whereas if you ate in the kitchen, with food served on the table in its cooking pans and everyone just diving in, that's supper.
I'm guessing, anyway. I don't have a dining room and just always shove things on the kitchen table in their cooking pans

CounsellorTroi · 11/11/2020 10:30

Gifted.

Onesie.

Sawyersfishbiscuits · 11/11/2020 10:30

Nom nom 😡
Simples
Dot.com
Bae

L4uz · 11/11/2020 10:31

Holibobs
Famalam
Staycation

Confused
Clarich007 · 11/11/2020 10:32

I hate it when people say for example
The cat pissed on the floor, just sounds so crude to me

Somethingsnappy · 11/11/2020 10:32

I agree with so many on here!

My thing that irritates me no end, is when people write 'yeah' instead of yes. It's an abbreviation in speech for goodness sake! So why would people write more actual letters than they need to? Just to sound casual maybe? Gggrrrr....

L4uz · 11/11/2020 10:32

@cologne4711

"any cringey hashtags eg #blessed #holibobs #famalam or #makingmemories"

This 😂 I hate the phrase "making memories". It makes me cringe!!

Alittlelessthanuseless · 11/11/2020 10:33

Lashings....

I have no idea why but it makes me cringe when people say something like

“Oooo Christmas pudding with lashings of cream”

Yuk.

flaviaritt · 11/11/2020 10:34

Urgh, lashings!

ZoeTurtle · 11/11/2020 10:34

@Lostinthevillair

Second all the peeps hating the word resilience.

How do we all feel about peeps? Halloween Wink

Peeps? Get out! Grin
L4uz · 11/11/2020 10:36

@pjmask

Throbbing
@pjmask this has just made me laugh out loud 😂
Hiddenmnetter · 11/11/2020 10:36

What's wrong with flange? It's a perfectly normal word- "the flange of the i-beam is made from engineered timber" "the flange of the train wheel isn't what keeps the train on the tracks". Am I missing something? I mean given the context I presume something to do with knickers?

IfNotNow12 · 11/11/2020 10:41

Safe

Hailtomyteeth · 11/11/2020 10:45

I'm having a brew at the moment, because I'm from Lancashire. I'm in Leeds, so I should 'mash the tea', but I prefer to make a brew.

Moist is a lovely word. Moist cake can be delicious. Moist air is easy to breathe.

I hate hubby, hubs, bubba, bubs, boobs, boobies, breasts referred to as 'bad boys', any and all of the holibobs type adaptations, gifted instead of given, pants, panties, panty hose. And more. I'm not easy to please.

CounsellorTroi · 11/11/2020 10:47

@Alittlelessthanuseless

Lashings....

I have no idea why but it makes me cringe when people say something like

“Oooo Christmas pudding with lashings of cream”

Yuk.

Yes it’s very Famous Five!