Phrases you’d like to ban

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I’ll start

Support bubble.

I’ll happily go the rest of my life never hearing this phrase. In fact even the word bubble has exceeded its usage quota for the entire rest of time.

What is yours?

Anything described as 'robust', especially by politicians. Used to try and convince people that what is being described was done from a position of honesty and won't completely fall apart if put under the slightest scrutiny.

Someone actually suggested on a thread the other day that the OP make ‘a robust ratatouille’ for a buffet. How can a dish of courgettes in tomato sauce be ‘robust’?

Blue sky thinking, going forward, reaching out, direction of travel....blah blah blah

Just fuck all the way and completely off with your corporate shite!

‘As a healthcare professional’.....

Literally never means dr or nurse or anyone who might actually know what they’re talking about.

Used almost exclusively by people who do admin for chiropractors but think this gives them special knowledge.

I second reach out. eugh

Also loved ones

I read a book the other day where covid isn't a thin (parallel romantic Christmas fiction universe) but it contained a reference to "social distancing". No no no - SD wasn't a thing before covid.

It had some other betes noires from this thread too - using Karen as an insult and at least two cases of "excited for" when the author meant "excited about". Not sure who the editor was!

I've thought of another one too - talking "to" something when you mean "about". Who decided that we don't use "about" anymore?

covid isn't a thing

All thr covid ones make me cringe and I don't know why!
In this current climate
In these times
Becayse of the current situation
We went for a socially distanced _
I am bubbling with...
Their bubble burst
Form a support bubble

One I see all the time on MN - ‘ferried about’. No one just gets a lift. They are ALWAYS ‘ferried about’.

How about that fantastic meaningful phrase (Not!)

"Shop the Edit"

Just makes me want to strangle some sharp-suited marketing grad who made that one up.

'Global pandemic' Those two words need to fuck of to where ever 'unprecedented' went to.

They're mostly said by dramatic or smug people to catastrophize or convey that they understand the severity of the situation so much more than the person they are talking to. It's just so fucking dramatic and unnecessary to push those words together. If it wasn't global it would just be an epidemic wouldn't it.

eg. (from a fb post) "We really enjoyed our trip to see the lights in London, but you would of (yes she said of) thought we weren't in the middle of a global pandemic with the amount of people wandering around without masks on" (accompanied by a pic of them and their smiling brood who were mask free themselves)

"Social Distancing". An vile oxymoron if ever there was one.

"New Normal".

"How are ya, ya good ?"

"Can I get"

I concur Anotheruser02

I forgot to add - "Hating on" . AAAARRGGGHHH

'All you're being asked to do is stay at home.'
Actually, I'm being asked to go to work. I'm being told I can't go to the shops to look for a birthday present for DH. I'm being told I can't go for a walk with friends. I'm being told I can't see one of my DC.

'Robust questioning.'
IME this means someone is being an arse to someone else.

I really loathe the MN phrase "how old are you, 12?"
Do people really not know how pathetic it makes them seem?

My last one is : "Called out".. I hate that so much, Can we please go back to using "Challenged"?

"Making memories"

Ugh 🤢

"Shop the Edit"

Oh god, yes! Even Marks had big signs up a while ago saying ‘The Dress Edit’, ‘The Knitwear Edit’ etc. What have they ‘edited’? It’s just the bloody dress section!

“It’s a journey”, I’m on a journey 🔫

“Girls” or even worse ... “girlies”

Context ... “night out with the girlies!” Or “wine, nibbles and my girls!”

I almost burst a blood vessel at this one ... posted by a 40 year old woman ...

“Wine, pjs, nibbles and lots of giggling girlies!” With a picture of her and her mates duck facing the camera 🤮 fuck off and grow up

“It is what it is”🤬

Yy to “can I get”

It’s normally said precisely when you cant actually get it; someone else has to get it for you....

New normal - no thank you

Diarise FFS just say you'll put it in your diary have you any idea how self important that sounds

"They'll put us in lockdown again". It makes us sound like we're not fully functioning adults with the right to make our own decisions

"Can't you take a joke?"
Usually when someone has deliberately said or done something with the intention of making you feel small or stupid.

'What about the men?'

Or any variation on that theme. Particularly when it appears (as it usually does) on a thread full of women discussing how they have been victims of verbal, emotional, domestic and sexual abuse at the hands of men.

Just take your whataboutery and fuck off, please.

I'm finding 'you sound like hard work' a trifle irritating at the moment.